Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.
- Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
faster.
- Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
scalability.
- Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
micro-benchmarks.
- Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
performance improvement in related stream tests.
- Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
on PREMPT_RT.
- Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.
Netfilter:
- Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
use this interface.
- Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
flowtables.
- Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.
- Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
introspection.
BPF:
- BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
using the "tc qdisc" command.
- Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.
Protocols:
- Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.
- Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.
- Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
matches the nexthop device.
- Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.
- Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
in the fast path.
- Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.
Driver API:
- Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
unsupported flags.
- Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.
- Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
dump operations targeting PHYs.
Tests and tooling:
- Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
qdisc layer configuration.
- Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
netlink output.
- Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.
- Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.
New hardware / drivers:
- OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
user-space implementation.
- Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.
- Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.
- AMD Renoir ethernet device.
- ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.
- Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.
Drivers:
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- refactor the steering table handling to significantly
reduce the amount of memory used
- add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
- improve flow streeing error handling
- convert to netdev instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
- ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
- ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
- igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
- igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
- idpf: introduce RDMA support
- idpf: add initial PTP support
- Meta (fbnic):
- extend hardware stats coverage
- add devlink dev flash support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add support for RX-side device memory TCP
- Wangxun (txgbe):
- implement support for udp tunnel offload
- complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google (gve):
- add device memory TCP TX support
- Amazon (ena):
- support persistent per-NAPI config
- Airoha:
- add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
- add per flow stats for flow offloading
- RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
- add Loongson-2K3000 support
- introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
- Broadcom (bcmgenet):
- expose more H/W stats
- Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
- enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
- dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
- vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
- veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops
- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- RealTek (rtl8211):
- add support for WoL magic packet
- add support for PHY LEDs
- CAN:
- Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
- Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
- Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.
- WiFi:
- mac80211:
- scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- enable AHB support for IPQ5332
- add monitor interface support to QCN9274
- add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
- add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
- monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- restore hibernation support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WiFi-7 improvements
- implement support for mt7990
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
- rework device configuration
- RealTek (rtw88):
- improve throughput for RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- add multi-link operation support
- STA/P2P concurrency improvements
- support different SAR configs by antenna
- Bluetooth:
- introduce HCI Driver protocol
- btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
- btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
- btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
- btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"
* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
...
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- v4l2-core fix: V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OVERLAY is capture, not output
- New driver: Amlogic C3 ISP
- New sensor drivers: ST VD55G1 and VD56G3, OmniVision OV02C10
- amlogic: c3-mipi-csi2: Handle 64-bits division
- a fix for 64-bits division at the amlogic c3-mipi-csi2 driver
- Changes at atomisp to support mainline mt9m114 driver and remove
deprecated GPIO APIs
- various cleanups, fixes and enhancements
* tag 'media/v6.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (314 commits)
media: rkvdec: h264: Support High 10 and 4:2:2 profiles
media: rkvdec: Add get_image_fmt ops
media: rkvdec: Initialize the m2m context before the controls
media: rkvdec: h264: Limit minimum profile to constrained baseline
media: mediatek: jpeg: support 34bits
media: verisilicon: Free post processor buffers on error
media: platform: mtk-mdp3: Remove unused mdp_get_plat_device
media: amlogic: c3-mipi-csi2: Handle 64-bits division
media: uvcvideo: Use dev_err_probe for devm_gpiod_get_optional
media: uvcvideo: Fix deferred probing error
media: uvcvideo: Rollback non processed entities on error
media: uvcvideo: Send control events for partial succeeds
media: uvcvideo: Return the number of processed controls
media: uvcvideo: Do not turn on the camera for some ioctls
media: uvcvideo: Make power management granular
media: uvcvideo: Increase/decrease the PM counter per IOCTL
media: uvcvideo: Create uvc_pm_(get|put) functions
media: uvcvideo: Keep streaming state in the file handle
Documentation: media: Add documentation file c3-isp.rst
Documentation: media: Add documentation file metafmt-c3-isp.rst
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- cgroup rstat shared the tracking tree across all controllers with the
rationale being that a cgroup which is using one resource is likely
to be using other resources at the same time (ie. if something is
allocating memory, it's probably consuming CPU cycles).
However, this turned out to not scale very well especially with memcg
using rstat for internal operations which made memcg stat read and
flush patterns substantially different from other controllers. JP
Kobryn split the rstat tree per controller.
- cgroup BPF support was hooking into cgroup init/exit paths directly.
Convert them to use a notifier chain instead so that other usages can
be added easily. The two of the patches which implement this are
mislabeled as belonging to sched_ext instead of cgroup. Sorry.
- Relatively minor cpuset updates
- Documentation updates
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (23 commits)
sched_ext: Convert cgroup BPF support to use cgroup_lifetime_notifier
sched_ext: Introduce cgroup_lifetime_notifier
cgroup: Minor reorganization of cgroup_create()
cgroup, docs: cpu controller's interaction with various scheduling policies
cgroup, docs: convert space indentation to tab indentation
cgroup: avoid per-cpu allocation of size zero rstat cpu locks
cgroup, docs: be specific about bandwidth control of rt processes
cgroup: document the rstat per-cpu initialization
cgroup: helper for checking rstat participation of css
cgroup: use subsystem-specific rstat locks to avoid contention
cgroup: use separate rstat trees for each subsystem
cgroup: compare css to cgroup::self in helper for distingushing css
cgroup: warn on rstat usage by early init subsystems
cgroup/cpuset: drop useless cpumask_empty() in compute_effective_exclusive_cpumask()
cgroup/rstat: Improve cgroup_rstat_push_children() documentation
cgroup: fix goto ordering in cgroup_init()
cgroup: fix pointer check in css_rstat_init()
cgroup/cpuset: Add warnings to catch inconsistency in exclusive CPUs
cgroup/cpuset: Fix obsolete comment in cpuset_css_offline()
cgroup/cpuset: Always use cpu_active_mask
...
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Once again, the changes are dominated by cpufreq updates, but this
time the majority of them are cpufreq core changes, mostly related to
the introduction of policy locking guards and __free() usage, and
fixes related to boost handling.
Still, there is also a significant update of the intel_pstate driver
making it register an energy model when running on a hybrid platform
which is used for enabling energy-aware scheduling (EAS) if the driver
operates in the passive mode (and schedutil is used as the cpufreq
governor for all CPUs which is the passive mode default).
There are some amd-pstate driver updates too, for a good measure,
including the "Requested CPU Min frequency" BIOS option support and
new online/offline callbacks.
In the cpuidle space, the most significant change is the addition of a
C1 demotion on/off sysfs knob to intel_idle which should help some
users to configure their systems more precisely. There is also the
conversion of the PSCI cpuidle driver to a faux device one and there
are two small updates of cpuidle governors.
Device power management is also modified quite a bit, especially the
handling of devices with asynchronous suspend and resume enabled
during system transitions. They are now going to be handled more
asynchronously during suspend transitions and somewhat less
aggressively during resume transitions.
Apart from the above, the operating performance points (OPP) library
is now going to use mutex locking guards and scope-based cleanup
helpers and there is the usual bunch of assorted fixes and code
cleanups.
Specifics:
- Fix potential division-by-zero error in em_compute_costs() (Yaxiong
Tian)
- Fix typos in energy model documentation and example driver code
(Moon Hee Lee, Atul Kumar Pant)
- Rearrange the energy model management code and add a new function
for adjusting a CPU energy model after adjusting the capacity of
the given CPU to it (Rafael Wysocki)
- Refactor cpufreq_online(), add and use cpufreq policy locking
guards, use __free() in policy reference counting, and clean up
core cpufreq code on top of that (Rafael Wysocki)
- Fix boost handling on CPU suspend/resume and sysfs updates (Viresh
Kumar)
- Fix des_perf clamping with max_perf in amd_pstate_update()
(Dhananjay Ugwekar)
- Add offline, online and suspend callbacks to the amd-pstate driver,
rename and use the existing amd_pstate_epp callbacks in it
(Dhananjay Ugwekar)
- Add support for the "Requested CPU Min frequency" BIOS option to
the amd-pstate driver (Dhananjay Ugwekar)
- Reset amd-pstate driver mode after running selftests (Swapnil
Sapkal)
- Avoid shadowing ret in amd_pstate_ut_check_driver() (Nathan
Chancellor)
- Add helper for governor checks to the schedutil cpufreq governor
and move cpufreq-specific EAS checks to cpufreq (Rafael Wysocki)
- Populate the cpu_capacity sysfs entries from the intel_pstate
driver after registering asym capacity support (Ricardo Neri)
- Add support for enabling Energy-aware scheduling (EAS) to the
intel_pstate driver when operating in the passive mode on a hybrid
platform (Rafael Wysocki)
- Drop redundant cpus_read_lock() from store_local_boost() in the
cpufreq core (Seyediman Seyedarab)
- Replace sscanf() with kstrtouint() in the cpufreq code and use a
symbol instead of a raw number in it (Bowen Yu)
- Add support for autonomous CPU performance state selection to the
CPPC cpufreq driver (Lifeng Zheng)
- OPP: Add dev_pm_opp_set_level() (Praveen Talari)
- Introduce scope-based cleanup headers and mutex locking guards in
OPP core (Viresh Kumar)
- Switch OPP to use kmemdup_array() (Zhang Enpei)
- Optimize bucket assignment when next_timer_ns equals KTIME_MAX in
the menu cpuidle governor (Zhongqiu Han)
- Convert the cpuidle PSCI driver to a faux device one (Sudeep Holla)
- Add C1 demotion on/off sysfs knob to the intel_idle driver (Artem
Bityutskiy)
- Fix typos in two comments in the teo cpuidle governor (Atul Kumar
Pant)
- Fix denying of auto suspend in pm_suspend_timer_fn() (Charan Teja
Kalla)
- Move debug runtime PM attributes to runtime_attrs[] (Rafael
Wysocki)
- Add new devm_ functions for enabling runtime PM and runtime PM
reference counting (Bence Csókás)
- Remove size arguments from strscpy() calls in the hibernation core
code (Thorsten Blum)
- Adjust the handling of devices with asynchronous suspend enabled
during system suspend and resume to start resuming them immediately
after resuming their parents and to start suspending such a device
immediately after suspending its first child (Rafael Wysocki)
- Adjust messages printed during tasks freezing to avoid using
pr_cont() (Andrew Sayers, Paul Menzel)
- Clean up unnecessary usage of !! in pm_print_times_init() (Zihuan
Zhang)
- Add missing wakeup source attribute relax_count to sysfs and remove
the space character at the end ofi the string produced by
pm_show_wakelocks() (Zijun Hu)
- Add configurable pm_test delay for hibernation (Zihuan Zhang)
- Disable asynchronous suspend in ucsi_ccg_probe() to prevent the
cypd4226 device on Tegra boards from suspending prematurely (Jon
Hunter)
- Unbreak printing PM debug messages during hibernation and clean up
some related code (Rafael Wysocki)
- Add a systemd service to run cpupower and change cpupower binding's
Makefile to use -lcpupower (John B. Wyatt IV, Francesco Poli)"
* tag 'pm-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (72 commits)
cpufreq: CPPC: Add support for autonomous selection
cpufreq: Update sscanf() to kstrtouint()
cpufreq: Replace magic number
OPP: switch to use kmemdup_array()
PM: freezer: Rewrite restarting tasks log to remove stray *done.*
PM: runtime: fix denying of auto suspend in pm_suspend_timer_fn()
cpufreq: drop redundant cpus_read_lock() from store_local_boost()
cpupower: do not install files to /etc/default/
cpupower: do not call systemctl at install time
cpupower: do not write DESTDIR to cpupower.service
PM: sleep: Introduce pm_sleep_transition_in_progress()
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Avoid shadowing ret in amd_pstate_ut_check_driver()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document hybrid processor support
cpufreq: intel_pstate: EAS: Increase cost for CPUs using L3 cache
cpufreq: intel_pstate: EAS support for hybrid platforms
PM: EM: Introduce em_adjust_cpu_capacity()
PM: EM: Move CPU capacity check to em_adjust_new_capacity()
PM: EM: Documentation: Fix typos in example driver code
cpufreq: Drop policy locking from cpufreq_policy_is_good_for_eas()
PM: sleep: Introduce pm_suspend_in_progress()
...
Pull gpio updates from Bartosz Golaszewski:
"We have three new drivers, some refactoring in the GPIO core, lots of
various changes across many drivers, new configfs interface for the
virtual gpio-aggregator module and DT-bindings updates.
The treewide conversion of GPIO drivers to using the new value setter
callbacks is ongoing with another round of GPIO drivers updated. You
will also see these commits coming in from other subsystems as with
the relevant changes merged into mainline last cycle, I've started
converting GPIO providers located elsewhere than drivers/gpio/.
GPIO core:
- use more lock guards where applicable
- refactor GPIO ACPI code and shrink it in the process by 8%
- move GPIO ACPI quirks into a separate file
- remove unneeded #ifdef
- convert GPIO devres helpers to using devm_add_action() where
applicable which shrinks and simplifies the code
- refactor GPIO descriptor validation in GPIO consumer interfaces
- don't allow setting values on input lines in the GPIO core which
will take off the burden from GPIO drivers of checking this down
the line
- provide gpiod_is_equal() as a way of safely comparing two GPIO
descriptors (the only current user is in regulator core)
New drivers:
- add the GPIO module for the max77759 multifunction device
- add the GPIO driver for the VeriSilicon BLZP1600 GPIO controller
- add the GPIO driver for the Spacemit K1 SoC
Driver improvements:
- convert more drivers to using the new GPIO line value setter
callbacks
- convert more drivers to making the irq_chip immutable as is
recommended by the interrupt subsystem
- extend build testing coverage by enabling more modules to be built
with COMPILE_TEST=y
- extend the gpio-aggregator module with a configfs interface that
makes the setup easier for user-space than the existing
driver-level sysfs attributes and also adds more advanced
configuration features (such as referring to aggregated lines by
their original names or modifying their names as exposed by the
aggregated chip)
- add a missing mutex_destroy() in gpio-imx-scu
- add an OF polarity quirk for s5m8767
- allow building gpio-vf610 as a loadable module
- make gpio-mxc not hardcode its GPIO base number with GPIO SYSFS
interface disabled (another small step towards getting rid of the
global GPIO numberspace)
- add support for level-triggered interrupts to gpio-pca953x
- don't double-check the ngpios property in gpio-ds4520 as GPIO core
already does it
- don't double-check the number of GPIOs in gpio-imx-scu as GPIO core
already does it
- remove unused callbacks from gpio-max3191x
DT bindings:
- add device-tree bindings for max77759, spacemit,k1 and blzp1600
(new drivers added this cycle)
- document more properties for gpio-vf610 and gpio-tegra186
- document a new pca95xx variant
- fix style of examples in several GPIO DT-binding documents
Misc:
- TODO list updates"
* tag 'gpio-updates-for-v6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux: (123 commits)
gpio: timberdale: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
gpio: lpc18xx: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
gpio: grgpio: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
gpio: bcm-kona: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
dt-bindings: gpio: vf610: add ngpios and gpio-reserved-ranges
gpio: davinci: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
gpiolib-acpi: Update file references in the Documentation and MAINTAINERS
gpiolib: acpi: Move quirks to a separate file
gpiolib: acpi: Add acpi_gpio_need_run_edge_events_on_boot() getter
gpiolib: acpi: Handle deferred list via new API
gpiolib: acpi: Make sure we fill struct acpi_gpio_info
gpiolib: acpi: Switch to use enum in acpi_gpio_in_ignore_list()
gpiolib: acpi: Use temporary variable for struct acpi_gpio_info
gpiolib: remove unneeded #ifdef
gpio: mpc8xxx: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
gpio: pxa: select GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
gpio: pxa: Make irq_chip immutable
gpio: timberdale: Make irq_chip immutable
gpio: xgene-sb: Make irq_chip immutable
gpio: davinci: Make irq_chip immutable
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A moderately busy cycle for documentation this time around:
- The most significant change is the replacement of the old
kernel-doc script (a monstrous collection of Perl regexes that
predates the Git era) with a Python reimplementation. That, too, is
a horrifying collection of regexes, but in a much cleaner and more
maintainable structure that integrates far better with the Sphinx
build system.
This change has been in linux-next for the full 6.15 cycle; the
small number of problems that turned up have been addressed,
seemingly to everybody's satisfaction. The Perl kernel-doc script
remains in tree (as scripts/kernel-doc.pl) and can be used with a
command-line option if need be. Unless some reason to keep it
around materializes, it will probably go away in 6.17.
Credit goes to Mauro Carvalho Chehab for doing all this work.
- Some RTLA documentation updates
- A handful of Chinese translations
- The usual collection of typo fixes, general updates, etc"
* tag 'docs-6.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (85 commits)
Docs: doc-guide: update sphinx.rst Sphinx version number
docs: doc-guide: clarify latest theme usage
Documentation/scheduler: Fix typo in sched-stats domain field description
scripts: kernel-doc: prevent a KeyError when checking output
docs: kerneldoc.py: simplify exception handling logic
MAINTAINERS: update linux-doc entry to cover new Python scripts
docs: align with scripts/syscall.tbl migration
Documentation: NTB: Fix typo
Documentation: ioctl-number: Update table intro
docs: conf.py: drop backward support for old Sphinx versions
Docs: driver-api/basics: add kobject_event interfaces
Docs: relay: editing cleanups
docs: fix "incase" typo in coresight/panic.rst
Fix spelling error for 'parallel'
docs: admin-guide: fix typos in reporting-issues.rst
docs: dmaengine: add explanation for DMA_ASYNC_TX capability
Documentation: leds: improve readibility of multicolor doc
docs: fix typo in firmware-related section
docs: Makefile: Inherit PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX setting as env variable
Documentation: ioctl-number: Update outdated submission info
...
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Boot code changes:
- A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a
better isolated and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup
code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by Ard Biesheuvel.
Motivation & background:
| Since commit
|
| c88d71508e ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
|
| dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way
| that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C
| code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided
| to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a
| bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and
| right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables)
| without crashing.
|
| This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP
| startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and
| grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special
| annotations or helpers to access global objects.
This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86
boot code reorganization.
Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations:
- Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet)
- Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper)
CPU features enumeration updates:
- Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S.
Darwish)
- Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish,
Thomas Gleixner)
- Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish)
Memory management changes:
- Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski)
- Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski)
- Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav
Petkov)
- Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen)
- Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Stop prefetching current->mm->mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz
Guzik)
- Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik)
- Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport)
FPU support and vector computing:
- Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae)
- Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae)
- Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar)
- Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix
CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y (Kees Cook)
- Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg
Nesterov)
- Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean
Christopherson)
Microcode loader changes:
- Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen)
- AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary
(Annie Li)
- AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris
Ostrovsky)
Code patching (alternatives) changes:
- Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo
Molnar)
- Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume
smp_text_poke_batch_finish() (Nikolay Borisov)
- Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra)
Debugging support:
- Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs
(David Woodhouse)
- Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen
Ghannam)
- Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello)
- Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami
Hiramatsu)
CPU bugs and bug mitigations:
- Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov)
- Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov)
- Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods
(David Kaplan)
- Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta)
MSR API:
- Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li)
- In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar)
PKEYS:
- Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae)
NMI handling code:
- Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta)
- Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta)
Paravirt guests interface:
- Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov)
SEV support:
- Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky)
x86 platform changes:
- Introduce the <asm/amd/> header namespace (Ingo Molnar)
- i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to
<asm/amd/fch.h> (Mario Limonciello)
Fixes and cleanups:
- x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy
Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav
Petkov, Chang S. Bae, Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David
Kaplan, David Woodhouse, Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf,
Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout, Mario Limonciello, Nathan
Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Shivank
Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak, Xin Li)"
* tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (331 commits)
x86/bugs: Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel
x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation
x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err'
x86/msr: Remove a superfluous inclusion of <asm/asm.h>
x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only
x86/mm/64: Make 5-level paging support unconditional
x86/mm/64: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model
x86/mm/64: Always use dynamic memory layout
x86/bugs: Fix indentation due to ITS merge
x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base()/for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_base_hypervisor()/for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor()
x86/cpu/intel: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
x86/cacheinfo: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_get_leaf_0x2_regs() to cpuid_leaf_0x2()
x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature()
x86/cpuid: Set <asm/cpuid/api.h> as the main CPUID header
x86/cpuid: Move CPUID(0x2) APIs into <cpuid/api.h>
x86/msr: Add rdmsrl_on_cpu() compatibility wrapper
x86/mm: Fix kernel-doc descriptions of various pgtable methods
x86/asm-offsets: Export certain 'struct cpuinfo_x86' fields for 64-bit asm use too
x86/boot: Defer initialization of VM space related global variables
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core & fair scheduler changes:
- Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks
(John Stultz)
- Adhere to place_entity() constraints (Peter Zijlstra)
- Allow decaying util_est when util_avg > CPU capacity (Pierre
Gondois)
- Fix up wake_up_sync() vs DELAYED_DEQUEUE (Xuewen Yan)
Energy management:
- Introduce sched_update_asym_prefer_cpu() (K Prateek Nayak)
- cpufreq/amd-pstate: Update asym_prefer_cpu when core rankings
change (K Prateek Nayak)
- Align uclamp and util_est and call before freq update (Xuewen Yan)
CPU isolation:
- Make use of more than one housekeeping CPU (Phil Auld)
RT scheduler:
- Fix race in push_rt_task() (Harshit Agarwal)
- Add kernel cmdline option for rt_group_sched (Michal Koutný)
Scheduler topology support:
- Improve topology_span_sane speed (Steve Wahl)
Scheduler debugging:
- Move and extend the sched_process_exit() tracepoint (Andrii
Nakryiko)
- Add RT_GROUP WARN checks for non-root task_groups (Michal Koutný)
- Fix trace_sched_switch(.prev_state) (Peter Zijlstra)
- Untangle cond_resched() and live-patching (Peter Zijlstra)
Fixes and cleanups:
- Misc fixes and cleanups (K Prateek Nayak, Michal Koutný, Peter
Zijlstra, Xuewen Yan)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
sched/uclamp: Align uclamp and util_est and call before freq update
sched/util_est: Simplify condition for util_est_{en,de}queue()
sched/fair: Fixup wake_up_sync() vs DELAYED_DEQUEUE
sched,livepatch: Untangle cond_resched() and live-patching
sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks
sched/fair: Adhere to place_entity() constraints
sched/debug: Print the local group's asym_prefer_cpu
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Update asym_prefer_cpu when core rankings change
sched/topology: Introduce sched_update_asym_prefer_cpu()
sched/fair: Use READ_ONCE() to read sg->asym_prefer_cpu
sched/isolation: Make use of more than one housekeeping cpu
sched/rt: Fix race in push_rt_task
sched: Add annotations to RT_GROUP_SCHED fields
sched: Add RT_GROUP WARN checks for non-root task_groups
sched: Do not construct nor expose RT_GROUP_SCHED structures if disabled
sched: Bypass bandwitdh checks with runtime disabled RT_GROUP_SCHED
sched: Skip non-root task_groups with disabled RT_GROUP_SCHED
sched: Add commadline option for RT_GROUP_SCHED toggling
sched: Always initialize rt_rq's task_group
sched: Remove unneeed macro wrap
...
Pull RCU updates from Joel Fernandes:
- Removed swake_up_one_online() workaround
- Reverted an incorrect rcuog wake-up fix from offline softirq
- Rust RCU Guard methods marked as inline
- Updated MAINTAINERS with Joel’s and Zqiang's new email address
- Replaced magic constant in rcu_seq_done_exact() with named constant
- Added warning mechanism to validate rcu_seq_done_exact()
- Switched SRCU polling API to use rcu_seq_done_exact()
- Commented on redundant delta check in rcu_seq_done_exact()
- Made ->gpwrap tests in rcutorture more frequent
- Fixed reuse of ARM64 images in rcutorture
- rcutorture improved to check Kconfig and reader conflict handling
- Extracted logic from rcu_torture_one_read() for clarity
- Updated LWN RCU API documentation links
- Enabled --do-rt in torture.sh for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
- Added tests for SRCU up/down reader primitives
- Added comments and delays checks in rcutorture
- Deprecated srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite() via checkpatch
- Added --do-normal and --do-no-normal to torture.sh
- Added RCU Rust binding tests to torture.sh
- Reduced CPU overcommit and removed MAXSMP/CPUMASK_OFFSTACK in TREE01
- Replaced kmalloc() with kcalloc() in rcuscale
- Refined listRCU example code for stale data elimination
- Fixed hardirq count bug for x86 in cpu_stall_cputime
- Added safety checks in rcu/nocb for offloaded rdp access
- Other miscellaneous changes
* tag 'next.2025.05.17a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (27 commits)
rcutorture: Fix issue with re-using old images on ARM64
rcutorture: Remove MAXSMP and CPUMASK_OFFSTACK from TREE01
rcutorture: Reduce TREE01 CPU overcommit
torture: Check for "Call trace:" as well as "Call Trace:"
rcutorture: Perform more frequent testing of ->gpwrap
torture: Add testing of RCU's Rust bindings to torture.sh
torture: Add --do-{,no-}normal to torture.sh
checkpatch: Deprecate srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite()
rcutorture: Comment invocations of tick_dep_set_task()
rcu/nocb: Add Safe checks for access offloaded rdp
rcuscale: using kcalloc() to relpace kmalloc()
doc/RCU/listRCU: refine example code for eliminating stale data
doc: Update LWN RCU API links in whatisRCU.rst
Revert "rcu/nocb: Fix rcuog wake-up from offline softirq"
rust: sync: rcu: Mark Guard methods as inline
rcu/cpu_stall_cputime: fix the hardirq count for x86 architecture
rcu: Remove swake_up_one_online() bandaid
MAINTAINERS: Update Zqiang's email address
rcutorture: Make torture.sh --do-rt use CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
srcu: Use rcu_seq_done_exact() for polling API
...
Pull xfs updates from Carlos Maiolino:
- Atomic writes for XFS
- Remove experimental warnings for pNFS, scrub and parent pointers
* tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
xfs: add inode to zone caching for data placement
xfs: free the item in xfs_mru_cache_insert on failure
xfs: remove the EXPERIMENTAL warning for pNFS
xfs: remove some EXPERIMENTAL warnings
xfs: Remove deprecated xfs_bufd sysctl parameters
xfs: stop using set_blocksize
xfs: allow sysadmins to specify a maximum atomic write limit at mount time
xfs: update atomic write limits
xfs: add xfs_calc_atomic_write_unit_max()
xfs: add xfs_file_dio_write_atomic()
xfs: commit CoW-based atomic writes atomically
xfs: add large atomic writes checks in xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin()
xfs: add xfs_atomic_write_cow_iomap_begin()
xfs: refine atomic write size check in xfs_file_write_iter()
xfs: refactor xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent()
xfs: allow block allocator to take an alignment hint
xfs: ignore HW which cannot atomic write a single block
xfs: add helpers to compute transaction reservation for finishing intent items
xfs: add helpers to compute log item overhead
xfs: separate out setting buftarg atomic writes limits
...
Merge updates related to system sleep handling and runtime PM for 6.16-rc1:
- Fix denying of auto suspend in pm_suspend_timer_fn() (Charan Teja
Kalla).
- Move debug runtime PM attributes to runtime_attrs[] (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add new devm_ functions for enabling runtime PM and runtime PM
reference counting (Bence Csókás).
- Remove size arguments from strscpy() calls in the hibernation core
code (Thorsten Blum).
- Adjust the handling of devices with asynchronous suspend enabled
during system suspend and resume to start resuming them immediately
after resuming their parents and to start suspending such a device
immediately after suspending its first child (Rafael Wysocki).
- Adjust messages printed during tasks freezing to avoid using
pr_cont() (Andrew Sayers, Paul Menzel).
- Clean up unnecessary usage of !! in pm_print_times_init() (Zihuan
Zhang).
- Add missing wakeup source attribute relax_count to sysfs and
remove the space character at the end ofi the string produced by
pm_show_wakelocks() (Zijun Hu).
- Add configurable pm_test delay for hibernation (Zihuan Zhang).
- Disable asynchronous suspend in ucsi_ccg_probe() to prevent the
cypd4226 device on Tegra boards from suspending prematurely (Jon
Hunter).
- Unbreak printing PM debug messages during hibernation and clean up
some related code (Rafael Wysocki).
* pm-runtime:
PM: runtime: fix denying of auto suspend in pm_suspend_timer_fn()
PM: sysfs: Move debug runtime PM attributes to runtime_attrs[]
PM: runtime: Add new devm functions
* pm-sleep:
PM: freezer: Rewrite restarting tasks log to remove stray *done.*
PM: sleep: Introduce pm_sleep_transition_in_progress()
PM: sleep: Introduce pm_suspend_in_progress()
PM: sleep: Print PM debug messages during hibernation
ucsi_ccg: Disable async suspend in ucsi_ccg_probe()
PM: hibernate: add configurable delay for pm_test
PM: wakeup: Delete space in the end of string shown by pm_show_wakelocks()
PM: wakeup: Add missing wakeup source attribute relax_count
PM: sleep: Remove unnecessary !!
PM: sleep: Use two lines for "Restarting..." / "done" messages
PM: sleep: Make suspend of devices more asynchronous
PM: sleep: Suspend async parents after suspending children
PM: sleep: Resume children after resuming the parent
PM: hibernate: Remove size arguments when calling strscpy()
Merge cpuidle updates for 6.16-rc1:
- Optimize bucket assignment when next_timer_ns equals KTIME_MAX in the
menu cpuidle governor (Zhongqiu Han).
- Convert the cpuidle PSCI driver to a faux device one (Sudeep Holla).
- Add C1 demotion on/off sysfs knob to the intel_idle driver (Artem
Bityutskiy).
- Fix typos in two comments in the teo cpuidle governor (Atul Kumar
Pant).
* pm-cpuidle:
cpuidle: psci: Avoid initializing faux device if no DT idle states are present
Documentation: ABI: testing: document the new cpuidle sysfs file
Documentation: admin-guide: pm: Document intel_idle C1 demotion
intel_idle: Add C1 demotion on/off sysfs knob
cpuidle: psci: Transition to the faux device interface
cpuidle: menu: Optimize bucket assignment when next_timer_ns equals KTIME_MAX
cpuidle: teo: Fix typos in two comments
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- ublk updates:
- Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance
- Zero-copy improvements
- Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy
- Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup
- Series adding quiesce support
- Lots of selftests additions
- Various cleanups
- NVMe updates via Christoph:
- add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations
(Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch)
- nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner)
- support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally
support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff)
- support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred
Mallawa)
- support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke)
- use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers)
- misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes
Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- MD updates via Yu:
- Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on
newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev
inflight counters
- Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking
- Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing
- Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled
- Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues
pending
- Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can
remove the per-node bounce stat as well
- Improve blk-throttle support
- Improve delay support for blk-throttle
- Improve brd discard support
- Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep
warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue
freezing/unfreezeing
- Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement)
on NVMe
- Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of
duplicated boilerplate code
- Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options
- Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace
- Various little cleanups and fixes
* tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits)
selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE
ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE
selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE
traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events
ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering
io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle()
ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback()
ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch()
selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically
ublk: convert to refcount_t
selftests: ublk: make IO & device removal test more stressful
nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk
nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param
nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node
nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits
nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev
...
Merge cpufreq updates for 6.16-rc1:
- Refactor cpufreq_online(), add and use cpufreq policy locking guards,
use __free() in policy reference counting, and clean up core cpufreq
code on top of that (Rafael Wysocki).
- Fix boost handling on CPU suspend/resume and sysfs updates (Viresh
Kumar).
- Fix des_perf clamping with max_perf in amd_pstate_update() (Dhananjay
Ugwekar).
- Add offline, online and suspend callbacks to the amd-pstate driver,
rename and use the existing amd_pstate_epp callbacks in it (Dhananjay
Ugwekar).
- Add support for the "Requested CPU Min frequency" BIOS option to the
amd-pstate driver (Dhananjay Ugwekar).
- Reset amd-pstate driver mode after running selftests (Swapnil
Sapkal).
- Add helper for governor checks to the schedutil cpufreq governor and
move cpufreq-specific EAS checks to cpufreq (Rafael Wysocki).
- Populate the cpu_capacity sysfs entries from the intel_pstate driver
after registering asym capacity support (Ricardo Neri).
- Add support for enabling Energy-aware scheduling (EAS) to the
intel_pstate driver when operating in the passive mode on a hybrid
platform (Rafael Wysocki).
- Avoid shadowing ret in amd_pstate_ut_check_driver() (Nathan
Chancellor).
- Drop redundant cpus_read_lock() from store_local_boost() in the
cpufreq core (Seyediman Seyedarab).
- Replace sscanf() with kstrtouint() in the cpufreq code and use a
symbol instead of a raw number in it (Bowen Yu).
- Add support for autonomous CPU performance state selection to the
CPPC cpufreq driver (Lifeng Zheng).
* pm-cpufreq: (31 commits)
cpufreq: CPPC: Add support for autonomous selection
cpufreq: Update sscanf() to kstrtouint()
cpufreq: Replace magic number
cpufreq: drop redundant cpus_read_lock() from store_local_boost()
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Avoid shadowing ret in amd_pstate_ut_check_driver()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document hybrid processor support
cpufreq: intel_pstate: EAS: Increase cost for CPUs using L3 cache
cpufreq: intel_pstate: EAS support for hybrid platforms
cpufreq: Drop policy locking from cpufreq_policy_is_good_for_eas()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Populate the cpu_capacity sysfs entries
arch_topology: Relocate cpu_scale to topology.[h|c]
cpufreq/sched: Move cpufreq-specific EAS checks to cpufreq
cpufreq/sched: schedutil: Add helper for governor checks
amd-pstate-ut: Reset amd-pstate driver mode after running selftests
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for the "Requested CPU Min frequency" BIOS option
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add offline, online and suspend callbacks for amd_pstate_driver
cpufreq: Force sync policy boost with global boost on sysfs update
cpufreq: Preserve policy's boost state after resume
cpufreq: Introduce policy_set_boost()
cpufreq: Don't unnecessarily call set_boost()
...
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Use folios for symlinks in the page cache
FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
folio->page->folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()
- Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
inode->i_mutex level
- Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
allow through out sysctl interface
A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
after initialization
To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
recovery completes
To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
pressure control
The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
restart performance degradation
- Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()
- Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()
- Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()
- Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode
- Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op->setattr isn't
implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
own private superblock
- Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock
- Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior
- Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()
Cleanups:
- Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers
- Try to remove the uselib() system call
- Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll
- Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select
- Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse
- Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()
- Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
- Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
documentation
- Update main netfs API document
- Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
- Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()
- Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases
Fixes:
- Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
- Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()
- Correct comments of fs_validate_description()
- Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()
- Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()
- Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
- Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()
- Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
fs: add S_ANON_INODE
fs: remove uselib() system call
device_cgroup: avoid access to ->i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
...
Pull final writepage conversion from Christian Brauner:
"This converts vboxfs from ->writepage() to ->writepages().
This was the last user of the ->writepage() method. So remove
->writepage() completely and all references to it"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: Remove aops->writepage
mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage()
ttm: Call shmem_writeout() from ttm_backup_backup_page()
i915: Use writeback_iter()
shmem: Add shmem_writeout()
writeback: Remove writeback_use_writepage()
migrate: Remove call to ->writepage
vboxsf: Convert to writepages
9p: Add a migrate_folio method
The cpu controller interface files account for or affect processes
differently based on their scheduling policy, and the underlying
scheduler used (fair-class vs. BPF scheduler). Document these
differences
Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji <shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The paragraphs on cpu.uclamp.{min,max} are space indented. Convert them to
tab indentation to make them uniform with the other paragraphs.
Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji <shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently, the ->gpwrap is not tested (at all per my testing) due to the
requirement of a large delta between a CPU's rdp->gp_seq and its node's
rnp->gpseq.
This results in no testing of ->gpwrap being set. This patch by default
adds 5 minutes of testing with ->gpwrap forced by lowering the delta
between rdp->gp_seq and rnp->gp_seq to just 8 GPs. All of this is
configurable, including the active time for the setting and a full
testing cycle.
By default, the first 25 minutes of a test will have the _default_
behavior there is right now (ULONG_MAX / 4) delta. Then for 5 minutes,
we switch to a smaller delta causing 1-2 wraps in 5 minutes. I believe
this is reasonable since we at least add a little bit of testing for
usecases where ->gpwrap is set.
[ Apply fix for Dan Carpenter's bug report on init path cleanup. ]
[ Apply kernel doc warning fix from Akira Yokosawa. ]
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
On our HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, a HDFS datanode[0] startup
involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including dentries
and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2 million files,
resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries after initialization.
To minimize dentry reclamation, we set vfs_cache_pressure to 1. Despite
this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still trigger
reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the cache from 20
million to approximately 10 million entries. During the subsequent cache
rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart operation incurs substantial
latency penalties until full cache recovery completes.
To maintain service stability, we need to preserve more dentries during
memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100 of total
dentries) remains too aggressive for our workload. This patch introduces
vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache pressure control. The
configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1, vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000]
effectively maintains the full 20 million dentry cache under memory
pressure, preventing datanode restart performance degradation.
Link: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/hdfs_design.html#NameNode+and+DataNodes [0]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250511083624.9305-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:
6f5bf947ba Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When retpoline mitigation is enabled for spectre-v2, enabling
call-depth-tracking and RSB stuffing also mitigates ITS. Add cmdline option
indirect_target_selection=stuff to allow enabling RSB stuffing mitigation.
When retpoline mitigation is not enabled, =stuff option is ignored, and
default mitigation for ITS is deployed.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of
ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a
new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when
CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance
overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs.
When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host
isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Indirect Target Selection (ITS) is a bug in some pre-ADL Intel CPUs with
eIBRS. It affects prediction of indirect branch and RETs in the
lower half of cacheline. Due to ITS such branches may get wrongly predicted
to a target of (direct or indirect) branch that is located in the upper
half of the cacheline.
Scope of impact
===============
Guest/host isolation
--------------------
When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches in the
VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to branches in the
guest.
Intra-mode
----------
cBPF or other native gadgets can be used for intra-mode training and
disclosure using ITS.
User/kernel isolation
---------------------
When eIBRS is enabled user/kernel isolation is not impacted.
Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)
-----------------------------------------
After an IBPB, indirect branches may be predicted with targets
corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB. This is
mitigated by a microcode update.
Add cmdline parameter indirect_target_selection=off|on|force to control the
mitigation to relocate the affected branches to an ITS-safe thunk i.e.
located in the upper half of cacheline. Also add the sysfs reporting.
When retpoline mitigation is deployed, ITS safe-thunks are not needed,
because retpoline sequence is already ITS-safe. Similarly, when call depth
tracking (CDT) mitigation is deployed (retbleed=stuff), ITS safe return
thunk is not used, as CDT prevents RSB-underflow.
To not overcomplicate things, ITS mitigation is not supported with
spectre-v2 lfence;jmp mitigation. Moreover, it is less practical to deploy
lfence;jmp mitigation on ITS affected parts anyways.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Turn the default 5 second test delay for hibernation into a
configurable module parameter, so users can determine how
long to wait in this pseudo-hibernate state before resuming
the system.
The configurable delay parameter has been added for suspend, so
add an analogous one for hibernation.
Example (wait 30 seconds);
# echo 30 > /sys/module/hibernate/parameters/pm_test_delay
# echo core > /sys/power/pm_test
Signed-off-by: Zihuan Zhang <zhangzihuan@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250507063520.419635-1-zhangzihuan@kylinos.cn
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Introduce a mount option to allow sysadmins to specify the maximum size
of an atomic write. If the filesystem can work with the supplied value,
that becomes the new guaranteed maximum.
The value mustn't be too big for the existing filesystem geometry (max
write size, max AG/rtgroup size). We dynamically recompute the
tr_atomic_write transaction reservation based on the given block size,
check that the current log size isn't less than the new minimum log size
constraints, and set a new maximum.
The actual software atomic write max is still computed based off of
tr_atomic_ioend the same way it has for the past few commits. Note also
that xfs_calc_atomic_write_log_geometry is non-static because mkfs will
need that.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
With commit dcbb01fbb7 ("x86/pci: Remove old STA2x11 support"), the
STA2X11 Video Input Port driver is not needed and cannot be built anymore.
Remove the driver and its reference in media documentation.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Remove the duplicated section and while at it, turn spaces into tabs.
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Fixes: c7b67ddc3c ("xfs: document zoned rt specifics in admin-guide")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Old microcode is bad for users and for kernel developers.
For users, it exposes them to known fixed security and/or functional
issues. These obviously rarely result in instant dumpster fires in
every environment. But it is as important to keep your microcode up
to date as it is to keep your kernel up to date.
Old microcode also makes kernels harder to debug. A developer looking
at an oops need to consider kernel bugs, known CPU issues and unknown
CPU issues as possible causes. If they know the microcode is up to
date, they can mostly eliminate known CPU issues as the cause.
Make it easier to tell if CPU microcode is out of date. Add a list
of released microcode. If the loaded microcode is older than the
release, tell users in a place that folks can find it:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/old_microcode
Tell kernel kernel developers about it with the existing taint
flag:
TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
== Discussion ==
When a user reports a potential kernel issue, it is very common
to ask them to reproduce the issue on mainline. Running mainline,
they will (independently from the distro) acquire a more up-to-date
microcode version list. If their microcode is old, they will
get a warning about the taint and kernel developers can take that
into consideration when debugging.
Just like any other entry in "vulnerabilities/", users are free to
make their own assessment of their exposure.
== Microcode Revision Discussion ==
The microcode versions in the table were generated from the Intel
microcode git repo:
8ac9378a8487 ("microcode-20241112 Release")
which as of this writing lags behind the latest microcode-20250211.
It can be argued that the versions that the kernel picks to call "old"
should be a revision or two old. Which specific version is picked is
less important to me than picking *a* version and enforcing it.
This repository contains only microcode versions that Intel has deemed
to be OS-loadable. It is quite possible that the BIOS has loaded a
newer microcode than the latest in this repo. If this happens, the
system is considered to have new microcode, not old.
Specifically, the sysfs file and taint flag answer the question:
Is the CPU running on the latest OS-loadable microcode,
or something even later that the BIOS loaded?
In other words, Intel never publishes an authoritative list of CPUs
and latest microcode revisions. Until it does, this is the best that
Linux can do.
Also note that the "intel-ucode-defs.h" file is simple, ugly and
has lots of magic numbers. That's on purpose and should allow a
single file to be shared across lots of stable kernel regardless of if
they have the new "VFM" infrastructure or not. It was generated with
a dumb script.
== FAQ ==
Q: Does this tell me if my system is secure or insecure?
A: No. It only tells you if your microcode was old when the
system booted.
Q: Should the kernel warn if the microcode list itself is too old?
A: No. New kernels will get new microcode lists, both mainline
and stable. The only way to have an old list is to be running
an old kernel in which case you have bigger problems.
Q: Is this for security or functional issues?
A: Both.
Q: If a given microcode update only has functional problems but
no security issues, will it be considered old?
A: Yes. All microcode image versions within a microcode release
are treated identically. Intel appears to make security
updates without disclosing them in the release notes. Thus,
all updates are considered to be security-relevant.
Q: Who runs old microcode?
A: Anybody with an old distro. This happens all the time inside
of Intel where there are lots of weird systems in labs that
might not be getting regular distro updates and might also
be running rather exotic microcode images.
Q: If I update my microcode after booting will it stop saying
"Vulnerable"?
A: No. Just like all the other vulnerabilies, you need to
reboot before the kernel will reassess your vulnerability.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250421195659.CF426C07%40davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
(cherry picked from commit 9127865b15eb0a1bd05ad7efe29489c44394bdc1)
Document the lifetime, nolifetime and max_open_zones mount options
added for zoned rt file systems.
Also add documentation describing the max_open_zones sysfs attribute
exposed in /sys/fs/xfs/<dev>/zoned/
Fixes: 4e4d520755 ("xfs: add the zoned space allocator")
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Presently we start garbage collection late - when we start running
out of free zones to backfill max_open_zones. This is a reasonable
default as it minimizes write amplification. The longer we wait,
the more blocks are invalidated and reclaim cost less in terms
of blocks to relocate.
Starting this late however introduces a risk of GC being outcompeted
by user writes. If GC can't keep up, user writes will be forced to
wait for free zones with high tail latencies as a result.
This is not a problem under normal circumstances, but if fragmentation
is bad and user write pressure is high (multiple full-throttle
writers) we will "bottom out" of free zones.
To mitigate this, introduce a zonegc_low_space tunable that lets the
user specify a percentage of how much of the unused space that GC
should keep available for writing. A high value will reclaim more of
the space occupied by unused blocks, creating a larger buffer against
write bursts.
This comes at a cost as write amplification is increased. To
illustrate this using a sample workload, setting zonegc_low_space to
60% avoids high (500ms) max latencies while increasing write
amplification by 15%.
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd ("MAINTAINERS: dccp:
move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer
had been inactive for five years.
In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes
to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that,
the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates
or adjustments related to TCP.
Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit
b144fcaf46 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice.").
Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0]
There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted
on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream
community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license,
the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating:
"This is not Open Source software."
The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream
the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further
communication since then.
Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden.
Therefore, it's time to remove it.
Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows
us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which
is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of
cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path.
Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> (LSM and SELinux)
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
