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2025-07-31Merge tag 'integrity-v6.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity Pull integrity update from Mimi Zohar: "A single commit to permit disabling IMA from the boot command line for just the kdump kernel. The exception itself sort of makes sense. My concern is that exceptions do not remain as exceptions, but somehow morph to become the norm" * tag 'integrity-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity: ima: add a knob ima= to allow disabling IMA in kdump kernel
2025-07-31Merge tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build system: - The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions. Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward that end. - A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format. - Various Chinese translations and updates. - A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing. - A new document for linked lists - A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository links. ...and lots of fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits) scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir> Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty docs: document linked lists scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7 docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link overlayfs.rst: fix typos docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections() docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration() ...
2025-07-31dm-thin: update the documentationLongPing Wei
1. convert KB/MB/GB to KiB/MiB/GiB; 2. change the number of sectors for 128MiB from 256000 to 262144 as 256000 sectors is neither 128 MB nor 128 MiB. Signed-off-by: LongPing Wei <weilongping@oppo.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
2025-07-30Merge tag 'slab-for-6.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka: - Convert struct slab to its own flags instead of referencing page flags, which is another preparation step before separating it from struct page completely. Along with that, a bunch of documentation fixes and cleanups (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert large kmalloc to use frozen pages in order to be consistent with non-large kmalloc slabs (Vlastimil Babka) - MAINTAINERS updates (Matthew Wilcox, Lorenzo Stoakes) - Restore NUMA policy support for large kmalloc, broken by mistake in v6.1 (Vlastimil Babka) * tag 'slab-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: MAINTAINERS: add missing files to slab section slab: Update MAINTAINERS entry memcg_slabinfo: Fix use of PG_slab kfence: Remove mention of PG_slab vmcoreinfo: Remove documentation of PG_slab and PG_hugetlb doc: Add slab internal kernel-doc slub: Fix a documentation build error for krealloc() slab: Add SL_pfmemalloc flag slab: Add SL_partial flag slab: Rename slab->__page_flags to slab->flags doc: Move SLUB documentation to the admin guide mm, slab: use frozen pages for large kmalloc mm, slab: restore NUMA policy support for large kmalloc
2025-07-30Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay: "Expedited grace period updates: - Protect against early RCU exp quiescent state reporting during exp grace period initialization - Remove superfluous barrier in task unblock path - Remove the CPU online quiescent state report optimization, which is error prone for certain scenarios - Add warning for unexpected pending requested expedited quiescent state on dying CPU Core: - Robustify rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() by using more accurate indicators of the actual context tracking state of a CPU - Handle ->defer_qs_iw_pending field data race - Enable rcu_normal_wake_from_gp by default on systems with <= 16 CPUs - Fix lockup in rcu_read_unlock() due to recursive irq_exit() calls - Refactor expedited handling condition in rcu_read_unlock_special() - Documentation updates for hotplug and GP init scan ordering, separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq states, quiescent state reporting for offline CPUs torture-scripts: - Cleanup and improve scripts : remove superfluous warnings for disabled tests; better handling of kvm.sh --kconfig arg; suppress some confusing diagnostics; tolerate bad kvm.sh args; add new diagnostic for build output; fail allmodconfig testing on warnings - Include RCU_TORTURE_TEST_CHK_RDR_STATE config for KCSAN kernels - Disable default RCU-tasks and clocksource-wdog testing on arm64 - Add EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN runs - Remove SRCU-lite testing rcutorture: - Start torture writer threads creation after reader threads to handle race in SRCU-P scenario - Add SRCU down_read()/up_read() test - Add diagnostics for delayed SRCU up_read(), unmatched up_read(), print number of up/down readers and the number of such readers which migrated to other CPU - Ignore certain unsupported configurations for trivial RCU test - Fix splats in RT kernels due to inaccurate checks for BH-disabled context - Enable checks and logs to capture intentionally exercised unexpected scenarios (too short readers) for BUSTED test - Remove SRCU-lite testing srcu: - Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods - Remove SRCU-lite implementation - Add guards for SRCU-fast readers rcu nocb: - Dump NOCB group leader state on stall detection - Robustify nocb_cb_kthread pointer accesses - Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks when LAZY_RCU is enabled refscale: - Fix multiplication overflow in "loops" and "nreaders" calculations" * tag 'rcu.release.v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (49 commits) rcu: Document concurrent quiescent state reporting for offline CPUs rcu: Document separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq rcu: Document GP init vs hotplug-scan ordering requirements srcu: Add guards for SRCU-fast readers rcu: Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks rcu: Refactor expedited handling check in rcu_read_unlock_special() checkpatch: Remove SRCU-lite deprecation srcu: Remove SRCU-lite implementation srcu: Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods rcutorture: Remove support for SRCU-lite rcutorture: Remove SRCU-lite scenarios torture: Remove support for SRCU-lite torture: Make torture.sh --allmodconfig testing fail on warnings torture: Add "ERROR" diagnostic for testing kernel-build output torture: Make torture.sh tolerate runs having bad kvm.sh arguments torture: Add textid.txt file to --do-allmodconfig and --do-rcu-rust runs torture: Extract testid.txt generation to separate script torture: Suppress "find" diagnostics from torture.sh --do-none run torture: Provide EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN torture.sh runs rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Move sysctls out of the kern_table array This is the final move of ctl_tables into their respective subsystems. Only 5 (out of the original 50) will remain in kernel/sysctl.c file; these handle either sysctl or common arch variables. By decentralizing sysctl registrations, subsystem maintainers regain control over their sysctl interfaces, improving maintainability and reducing the likelihood of merge conflicts. - docs: Remove false positives from check-sysctl-docs Stopped falsely identifying sysctls as undocumented or unimplemented in the check-sysctl-docs script. This script can now be used to automatically identify if documentation is missing. * tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (23 commits) docs: Downgrade arm64 & riscv from titles to comment docs: Replace spaces with tabs in check-sysctl-docs docs: Remove colon from ctltable title in vm.rst docs: Add awk section for ucount sysctl entries docs: Use skiplist when checking sysctl admin-guide docs: nixify check-sysctl-docs sysctl: rename kern_table -> sysctl_subsys_table kernel/sys.c: Move overflow{uid,gid} sysctl into kernel/sys.c uevent: mv uevent_helper into kobject_uevent.c sysctl: Removed unused variable sysctl: Nixify sysctl.sh sysctl: Remove superfluous includes from kernel/sysctl.c sysctl: Remove (very) old file changelog sysctl: Move sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow to kernel/panic.c sysctl: move cad_pid into kernel/pid.c sysctl: Move tainted ctl_table into kernel/panic.c Input: sysrq: mv sysrq into drivers/tty/sysrq.c fork: mv threads-max into kernel/fork.c parisc/power: Move soft-power into power.c mm: move randomize_va_space into memory.c ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-07-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core scheduler changes: - Better tracking of maximum lag of tasks in presence of different slices duration, for better handling of lag in the fair scheduler (Vincent Guittot) - Clean up and standardize #if/#else/#endif markers throughout the entire scheduler code base (Ingo Molnar) - Make SMP unconditional: build the SMP scheduler's data structures and logic on UP kernel too, even though they are not used, to simplify the scheduler and remove around 200 #ifdef/[#else]/#endif blocks from the scheduler (Ingo Molnar) - Reorganize cgroup bandwidth control interface handling for better interfacing with sched_ext (Tejun Heo) Balancing: - Bump sd->max_newidle_lb_cost when newidle balance fails (Chris Mason) - Remove sched_domain_topology_level::flags to simplify the code (Prateek Nayak) - Simplify and clean up build_sched_topology() (Li Chen) - Optimize build_sched_topology() on large machines (Li Chen) Real-time scheduling: - Add initial version of proxy execution: a mechanism for mutex-owning tasks to inherit the scheduling context of higher priority waiters. Currently limited to a single runqueue and conditional on CONFIG_EXPERT, and other limitations (John Stultz, Peter Zijlstra, Valentin Schneider) - Deadline scheduler (Juri Lelli): - Fix dl_servers initialization order (Juri Lelli) - Fix DL scheduler's root domain reinitialization logic (Juri Lelli) - Fix accounting bugs after global limits change (Juri Lelli) - Fix scalability regression by implementing less agressive dl_server handling (Peter Zijlstra) PSI: - Improve scalability by optimizing psi_group_change() cpu_clock() usage (Peter Zijlstra) Rust changes: - Make Task, CondVar and PollCondVar methods inline to avoid unnecessary function calls (Kunwu Chan, Panagiotis Foliadis) - Add might_sleep() support for Rust code: Rust's "#[track_caller]" mechanism is used so that Rust's might_sleep() doesn't need to be defined as a macro (Fujita Tomonori) - Introduce file_from_location() (Boqun Feng) Debugging & instrumentation: - Make clangd usable with scheduler source code files again (Peter Zijlstra) - tools: Add root_domains_dump.py which dumps root domains info (Juri Lelli) - tools: Add dl_bw_dump.py for printing bandwidth accounting info (Juri Lelli) Misc cleanups & fixes: - Remove play_idle() (Feng Lee) - Fix check_preemption_disabled() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Do not call __put_task_struct() on RT if pi_blocked_on is set (Luis Claudio R. Goncalves) - Correct the comment in place_entity() (wang wei)" * tag 'sched-core-2025-07-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (84 commits) sched/idle: Remove play_idle() sched: Do not call __put_task_struct() on rt if pi_blocked_on is set sched: Start blocked_on chain processing in find_proxy_task() sched: Fix proxy/current (push,pull)ability sched: Add an initial sketch of the find_proxy_task() function sched: Fix runtime accounting w/ split exec & sched contexts sched: Move update_curr_task logic into update_curr_se locking/mutex: Add p->blocked_on wrappers for correctness checks locking/mutex: Rework task_struct::blocked_on sched: Add CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC & boot argument to enable/disable sched/topology: Remove sched_domain_topology_level::flags x86/smpboot: avoid SMT domain attach/destroy if SMT is not enabled x86/smpboot: moves x86_topology to static initialize and truncate x86/smpboot: remove redundant CONFIG_SCHED_SMT smpboot: introduce SDTL_INIT() helper to tidy sched topology setup tools/sched: Add dl_bw_dump.py for printing bandwidth accounting info tools/sched: Add root_domains_dump.py which dumps root domains info sched/deadline: Fix accounting after global limits change sched/deadline: Reset extra_bw to max_bw when clearing root domains sched/deadline: Initialize dl_servers after SMP ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'x86_bugs_for_v6.17_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 CPU mitigation updates from Borislav Petkov: - Untangle the Retbleed from the ITS mitigation on Intel. Allow for ITS to enable stuffing independently from Retbleed, do some cleanups to simplify and streamline the code - Simplify SRSO and make mitigation types selection more versatile depending on the Retbleed mitigation selection. Simplify code some - Add the second part of the attack vector controls which provide a lot friendlier user interface to the speculation mitigations than selecting each one by one as it is now. Instead, the selection of whole attack vectors which are relevant to the system in use can be done and protection against only those vectors is enabled, thus giving back some performance to the users * tag 'x86_bugs_for_v6.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/bugs: Print enabled attack vectors x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for TSA x86/pti: Add attack vector controls for PTI x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for ITS x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for SRSO x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for L1TF x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for spectre_v2 x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for BHI x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for spectre_v2_user x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for retbleed x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for spectre_v1 x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for GDS x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for SRBDS x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for RFDS x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for MMIO x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for TAA x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for MDS x86/bugs: Define attack vectors relevant for each bug x86/Kconfig: Add arch attack vector support cpu: Define attack vectors ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'core-entry-2025-07-29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull generic entry code updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Split the code into syscall and exception/interrupt parts to ease the conversion of ARM[64] to the generic entry infrastructure - Extend syscall user dispatching to support a single intercepted range instead of the default single non-intercepted range. That allows monitoring/analysis of a specific executable range, e.g. a library, and also provides flexibility for sandboxing scenarios - Cleanup and extend the user dispatch selftest * tag 'core-entry-2025-07-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: entry: Split generic entry into generic exception and syscall entry selftests: Add tests for PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON syscall_user_dispatch: Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON selftests: Fix errno checking in syscall_user_dispatch test
2025-07-29Merge tag 'irq-drivers-2025-07-27' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull interrupt chip driver updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Add support of forced affinity setting to yet offline CPUs for the MIPS-GIC to ensure that the affinity of per CPU interrupts can be set during the early bringup phase of a secondary CPU in the hotplug code before the CPU is set online and interrupts are enabled - Add support for the MIPS (RISC-V !?!?) P8700 SoC in the ACLINT_SSWI interrupt chip - Make the interrupt routing to RISV-V harts specification compliant so it supports arbitrary hart indices - Add a command line parameter and related handling to disable the generic RISCV IMSIC mechanism on platforms which use a trap-emulated IMSIC. Unfortunatly this is required because there is no mechanism available to discover this programatically. - Enable wakeup sources on the Renesas RZV2H driver - Convert interrupt chip drivers, which use a open coded variant of msi_create_parent_irq_domain() to use the new functionality - Convert interrupt chip drivers, which use the old style two level implementation of MSI support over to the MSI parent mechanism to prepare for removing at least one of the three PCI/MSI backend variants. - The usual cleanups and improvements all over the place * tag 'irq-drivers-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits) irqchip/renesas-irqc: Convert to DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() irqchip/renesas-intc-irqpin: Convert to DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() irqchip/riscv-imsic: Add kernel parameter to disable IPIs irqchip/gic-v3: Fix GICD_CTLR register naming irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Fix NULL dereference in error handling irqchip/ls-scfg-msi: Switch to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain() irqchip/armada-370-xp: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() irqchip/alpine-msi: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() irqchip/alpine-msi: Convert to __free irqchip/alpine-msi: Convert to lock guards irqchip/alpine-msi: Clean up whitespace style irqchip/sg2042-msi: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() irqchip/loongson-pch-msi.c: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() irqchip/imx-mu-msi: Convert to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() helper irqchip/riscv-imsic: Convert to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() helper irqchip/bcm2712-mip: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() irqdomain: Add device pointer to irq_domain_info and msi_domain_info irqchip/renesas-rzv2h: Remove unneeded includes irqchip/renesas-rzv2h: Enable SKIP_SET_WAKE and MASK_ON_SUSPEND irqchip/aslint-sswi: Resolve hart index ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.17-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform drivers from Ilpo Järvinen: - alienware: Add more precise labels to fans - amd/hsmp: Improve misleading probe errors (make the legacy driver aware when HSMP is supported through the ACPI driver) - amd/pmc: Add Lenovo Yoga 6 13ALCL6 to pmc quirk list - drm/xe: Correct (D)VSEC information to support PMT crashlog feature - fujitsu: Clamp charge threshold instead of returning an error - ideapad: Expore change types - intel/pmt: - Add PMT Discovery driver - Add API to retrieve telemetry regions by feature - Fix crashlog NULL access - Support Battlemage GPU (BMG) crashlog - intel/vsec: - Add Discovery feature - Add feature dependency support using device links - lenovo: - Move lenovo drivers under drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/ - Add WMI drivers for Lenovo Gaming series - Improve DMI handling - oxpec: - Add support for OneXPlayer X1 Mini Pro (Strix Point variant) - Fix EC registers for G1 AMD - samsung-laptop: Expose change types - wmi: Fix WMI device naming issue (same GUID corner cases) - x86-android-tables: Add ovc-capacity-table to generic battery nodes - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (63 commits) platform/x86: oxpec: Add support for OneXPlayer X1 Mini Pro (Strix Point) platform/x86: oxpec: Fix turbo register for G1 AMD platform/x86/intel/pmt: support BMG crashlog platform/x86/intel/pmt: use a version struct platform/x86/intel/pmt: refactor base parameter platform/x86/intel/pmt: add register access helpers platform/x86/intel/pmt: decouple sysfs and namespace platform/x86/intel/pmt: correct types platform/x86/intel/pmt: re-order trigger logic platform/x86/intel/pmt: use guard(mutex) platform/x86/intel/pmt: mutex clean up platform/x86/intel/pmt: white space cleanup drm/xe: Correct BMG VSEC header sizing drm/xe: Correct the rev value for the DVSEC entries platform/x86/intel/pmt: fix a crashlog NULL pointer access platform/x86: samsung-laptop: Expose charge_types platform/x86/amd: pmc: Add Lenovo Yoga 6 13ALC6 to pmc quirk list platform/x86: dell-uart-backlight: Use blacklight power constant platform/x86/intel/pmt: fix build dependency for kunit test platform/x86: lenovo: gamezone needs "other mode" ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'gpio-updates-for-v6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux Pull gpio updates from Bartosz Golaszewski: "There's one new driver (Apple SMC) and extensions to existing drivers for supporting new HW models. A lot of different impovements across drivers and in core GPIO code. Details on that are in the signed tag as usual. We managed to remove some of the legacy APIs. Arnd Bergmann started to work on making the legacy bits optional so that we may compile them only for older platforms that still really need them. Rob Herring has done a lot of work to convert legacy .txt dt-bindings for GPIO controllers to YAML. There are only a few left now in the GPIO tree. A big part of the commits in this PR concern the conversion of GPIO drivers to using the new line value setter callbacks. This conversion is now complete treewide (unless I've missed something) and once all the changes from different trees land in mainline, I'll send you another PR containing a commit dropping the legacy callbacks from the tree. As the quest to pay back technical dept never really ends, we're starting another set of interface conversions, this time it's about moving fields specific to only a handful of drivers using the gpio-mmio helper out of the core gpio_chip structure that every controller implements and uses. This cycle we introduce a new set of APIs and convert a few drivers under drivers/gpio/, next cycle we'll convert remaining modules treewide (in gpio, pinctrl and mfd trees) and finally remove the old interfaces and move the gpio-mmio fields into their own structure wrapping gpio_chip. One last change I should mention here is the rework of the sysfs interface. In 2016, we introduced the GPIO character device as the preferred alternative to the sysfs class under /sys/class/gpio. While it has seen a wide adoption with the help of its user-space counterpart - libgpiod - there are still users who prefer the simplicity of sysfs. As far as the GPIO subsystem is concerned, the problem is not the existince of the GPIO class as such but rather the fact that it exposes the global GPIO numbers to the user-space, stopping us from ever being able to remove the numberspace from the kernel. To that end, this release we introduced a parallel, limited sysfs interface that doesn't expose these numbers and only implements a subset of features that are relevant to the existing users. This is a result of several discussions over the course of last year and should allow us to remove the legacy part some time in the future. Summary: GPIOLIB core: - introduce a parallel, limited sysfs user ABI that doesn't expose the global GPIO numbers to user-space while maintaining backward compatibility with the end goal of it completely replacing the existing interface, allowing us to remove it - remove the legacy devm_gpio_request() routine which has no more users - start the process of allowing to compile-out the legacy parts of the GPIO core for users who don't need it by introducing a new Kconfig option: GPIOLIB_LEGACY - don't use global GPIO numbers in debugfs output from the core code (drivers still do it, the work is ongoing) - start the process of moving the fields specific to the gpio-mmio helper out of the core struct gpio_chip into their own structure that wraps it: create a new header with modern interfaces and convert several drivers to using it - remove the platform data structure associated with the gpio-mmio helper from the kernel after having converted all remaining users to generic device properties - remove legacy struct gpio definition as it has no more users New drivers: - add the GPIO driver for the Apple System Management Controller Driver improvements: - add support for new models to gpio-adp5585, gpio-tps65219 and gpio-pca953x - extend the interrupt support in gpio-loongson-64bit - allow to mark the simulated GPIO lines as invalid in gpio-sim - convert all remaining GPIO drivers to using the new GPIO value setter callbacks - convert gpio-rcar to using simple device power management ops callbacks - don't check if current direction of a line is output before setting the value in gpio-pisosr and ti-fpc202: the GPIO core already handles that - also drop unneeded GPIO range checks in drivers, the core already makes sure we're within bounds when calling driver callbacks - use dev_fwnode() where applicable across GPIO drivers - set line value in gpio-zynqmp-modepin and gpio-twl6040 when the user wants to change direction of the pin to output even though these drivers don't need to do anything else to actually set the direction, otherwise a call like gpiod_direction_output(d, 1) will not result in the line driver high - remove the reduntant call to pm_runtime_mark_last_busy() from gpio-arizona - use lock guards in gpio-cadence and gpio-mxc - check the return values of regmap functions in gpio-wcd934x and gpio-tps65912 - use better regmap interfaces in gpio-wcove and gpio-pca953x - remove dummy GPIO chip callbacks from several drivers in cases where the GPIO core can already handle their absence - allow building gpio-palmas as a module Fixes: - use correct bit widths (according to the documentation) in gpio-virtio Device-tree bindings: - convert several of the legacy .txt documents for many different devices to YAML, improving automatic validation - create a "trivial" GPIO DT schema that covers a wide range of simple hardware that share a set of basic GPIO properties - document new HW: Apple MAC SMC GPIO block and adp5589 I/O expander - document a new model for pca95xx - add and/or remove properties in YAML documents for gpio-rockchip, fsl,qoriq-gpio, arm,pl061 and gpio-xilinx Misc: - some minor refactoring in several places, adding/removing forward declarations, moving defines to better places, constify the arguments in some functions, remove duplicate includes, etc. - documentation updates" * tag 'gpio-updates-for-v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux: (202 commits) MIPS: alchemy: gpio: use new GPIO line value setter callbacks for the remaining chips gpiolib: enable CONFIG_GPIOLIB_LEGACY even for !GPIOLIB gpio: virtio: Fix config space reading. gpiolib: make legacy interfaces optional dt-bindings: gpio: rockchip: Allow use of a power-domain gpiolib: of: add forward declaration for struct device_node power: reset: macsmc-reboot: Add driver for rebooting via Apple SMC gpio: Add new gpio-macsmc driver for Apple Macs mfd: Add Apple Silicon System Management Controller soc: apple: rtkit: Make shmem_destroy optional dt-bindings: mfd: Add Apple Mac System Management Controller dt-bindings: power: reboot: Add Apple Mac SMC Reboot Controller dt-bindings: gpio: Add Apple Mac SMC GPIO block gpio: cadence: Remove duplicated include in gpio-cadence.c gpio: tps65219: Add support for TI TPS65214 PMIC gpio: tps65219: Update _IDX & _OFFSET macro prefix gpio: sysfs: Fix an end of loop test in gpiod_unexport() dt-bindings: gpio: Convert qca,ar7100-gpio to DT schema dt-bindings: gpio: Convert maxim,max3191x to DT schema dt-bindings: gpio: fsl,qoriq-gpio: Add missing mpc8xxx compatibles ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'pm-6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "As is tradition, cpufreq is the part with the largest number of updates that include core fixes and cleanups as well as updates of several assorted drivers, but there are also quite a few updates related to system sleep, mostly focused on asynchronous suspend and resume of devices and on making the integration of system suspend and resume with runtime PM easier. Runtime PM is also updated to allow some code duplication in drivers to be eliminated going forward and to work more consistently overall in some cases. Apart from that, there are some driver core updates related to PM domains that should help to address ordering issues with devm_ cleanup routines relying on PM domains, some assorted devfreq updates including core fixes and cleanups, tooling updates, and documentation and MAINTAINERS updates. Specifics: - Fix two initialization ordering issues in the cpufreq core and a governor initialization error path in it, and clean it up (Lifeng Zheng) - Add Granite Rapids support in no-HWP mode to the intel_pstate cpufreq driver (Li RongQing) - Make intel_pstate always use HWP_DESIRED_PERF when operating in the passive mode (Rafael Wysocki) - Allow building the tegra124 cpufreq driver as a module (Aaron Kling) - Do minor cleanups for Rust cpufreq and cpumask APIs and fix MAINTAINERS entry for cpu.rs (Abhinav Ananthu, Ritvik Gupta, Lukas Bulwahn) - Clean up assorted cpufreq drivers (Arnd Bergmann, Dan Carpenter, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Sven Peter, Svyatoslav Ryhel, Lifeng Zheng) - Add the NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS flag to the CPPC cpufreq driver (Prashant Malani) - Fix minimum performance state label error in the amd-pstate driver documentation (Shouye Liu) - Add the CPUFREQ_GOV_STRICT_TARGET flag to the userspace cpufreq governor and explain HW coordination influence on it in the documentation (Shashank Balaji) - Fix opencoded for_each_cpu() in idle_state_valid() in the DT cpuidle driver (Yury Norov) - Remove info about non-existing QoS interfaces from the PM QoS documentation (Ulf Hansson) - Use c_* types via kernel prelude in Rust for OPP (Abhinav Ananthu) - Add HiSilicon uncore frequency scaling driver to devfreq (Jie Zhan) - Allow devfreq drivers to add custom sysfs ABIs (Jie Zhan) - Simplify the sun8i-a33-mbus devfreq driver by using more devm functions (Uwe Kleine-König) - Fix an index typo in trans_stat() in devfreq (Chanwoo Choi) - Check devfreq governor before using governor->name (Lifeng Zheng) - Remove a redundant devfreq_get_freq_range() call from devfreq_add_device() (Lifeng Zheng) - Limit max_freq with scaling_min_freq in devfreq (Lifeng Zheng) - Replace sscanf() with kstrtoul() in set_freq_store() (Lifeng Zheng) - Extend the asynchronous suspend and resume of devices to handle suppliers like parents and consumers like children (Rafael Wysocki) - Make pm_runtime_force_resume() work for drivers that set the DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND flag and allow PCI drivers and drivers that collaborate with the general ACPI PM domain to set it (Rafael Wysocki) - Add kernel parameter to disable asynchronous suspend/resume of devices (Tudor Ambarus) - Drop redundant might_sleep() calls from some functions in the device suspend/resume core code (Zhongqiu Han) - Fix the handling of monitors connected right before waking up the system from sleep (tuhaowen) - Clean up MAINTAINERS entries for suspend and hibernation (Rafael Wysocki) - Fix error code path in the KEXEC_JUMP flow and drop a redundant pm_restore_gfp_mask() call from it (Rafael Wysocki) - Rearrange suspend/resume error handling in the core device suspend and resume code (Rafael Wysocki) - Fix up white space that does not follow coding style in the hibernation core code (Darshan Rathod) - Document return values of suspend-related API functions in the runtime PM framework (Sakari Ailus) - Mark last busy stamp in multiple autosuspend-related functions in the runtime PM framework and update its documentation (Sakari Ailus) - Take active children into account in pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() for consistency (Rafael Wysocki) - Fix NULL pointer dereference in get_pd_power_uw() in the dtpm_cpu power capping driver (Sivan Zohar-Kotzer) - Add support for the Bartlett Lake platform to the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Qiao Wei) - Add PL4 support for Panther Lake to the intel_rapl_msr power capping driver (Zhang Rui) - Update contact information in the PM ABI docs and maintainer information in the power domains DT binding (Rafael Wysocki) - Update PM header inclusions to follow the IWYU (Include What You Use) principle (Andy Shevchenko) - Add flags to specify power on attach/detach for PM domains, make the driver core detach PM domains in device_unbind_cleanup(), and drop the dev_pm_domain_detach() call from the platform bus type (Claudiu Beznea) - Improve Python binding's Makefile for cpupower (John B. Wyatt IV) - Fix printing of CORE, CPU fields in cpupower-monitor (Gautham Shenoy)" * tag 'pm-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (75 commits) cpufreq: CPPC: Mark driver with NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS flag PM: docs: Use my kernel.org address in ABI docs and DT bindings PM: hibernate: Fix up white space that does not follow coding style PM: sleep: Rearrange suspend/resume error handling in the core Documentation: amd-pstate:fix minimum performance state label error PM: runtime: Take active children into account in pm_runtime_get_if_in_use() kexec_core: Drop redundant pm_restore_gfp_mask() call kexec_core: Fix error code path in the KEXEC_JUMP flow PM: sleep: Clean up MAINTAINERS entries for suspend and hibernation drivers: cpufreq: add Tegra114 support rust: cpumask: Replace `MaybeUninit` and `mem::zeroed` with `Opaque` APIs cpufreq: Exit governor when failed to start old governor cpufreq: Move the check of cpufreq_driver->get into cpufreq_verify_current_freq() cpufreq: Init policy->rwsem before it may be possibly used cpufreq: Initialize cpufreq-based frequency-invariance later cpufreq: Remove duplicate check in __cpufreq_offline() cpufreq: Contain scaling_cur_freq.attr in cpufreq_attrs cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add Granite Rapids support in no-HWP mode cpufreq: intel_pstate: Always use HWP_DESIRED_PERF in passive mode PM / devfreq: Add HiSilicon uncore frequency scaling driver ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20250725' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore: - Introduce the concept of a SELinux "neveraudit" type which prevents all auditing of the given type/domain. Taken by itself, the benefit of marking a SELinux domain with the "neveraudit" tag is likely not very interesting, especially given the significant overlap with the "dontaudit" tag. However, given that the "neveraudit" tag applies to *all* auditing of the tagged domain, we can do some fairly interesting optimizations when a SELinux domain is marked as both "permissive" and "dontaudit" (think of the unconfined_t domain). While this pull request includes optimized inode permission and getattr hooks, these optimizations require SELinux policy changes, therefore the improvements may not be visible on standard downstream Linux distos for a period of time. - Continue the deprecation process of /sys/fs/selinux/user. After removing the associated userspace code in 2020, we marked the /sys/fs/selinux/user interface as deprecated in Linux v6.13 with pr_warn() and the usual documention update. This adds a five second sleep after the pr_warn(), following a previous deprecation process pattern that has worked well for us in the past in helping identify any existing users that we haven't yet reached. - Add a __GFP_NOWARN flag to our initial hash table allocation. Fuzzers such a syzbot often attempt abnormally large SELinux policy loads, which the SELinux code gracefully handles by checking for allocation failures, but not before the allocator emits a warning which causes the automated fuzzing to flag this as an error and report it to the list. While we want to continue to support the work done by the fuzzing teams, we want to focus on proper issues and not an error case that is already handled safely. Add a NOWARN flag to quiet the allocator and prevent syzbot from tripping on this again. - Remove some unnecessary selinuxfs cleanup code, courtesy of Al. - Update the SELinux in-kernel documentation with pointers to additional information. * tag 'selinux-pr-20250725' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux: selinux: don't bother with selinuxfs_info_free() on failures selinux: add __GFP_NOWARN to hashtab_init() allocations selinux: optimize selinux_inode_getattr/permission() based on neveraudit|permissive selinux: introduce neveraudit types documentation: add links to SELinux resources selinux: add a 5 second sleep to /sys/fs/selinux/user
2025-07-28Merge tag 'tpmdd-next-6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd Pull tpm updates from Jarkko Sakkinen: "Quite a few commits but nothing really that would be worth of spending too much time for, or would want to emphasize in particular" * tag 'tpmdd-next-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd: tpm_crb_ffa: handle tpm busy return code tpm_crb_ffa: Remove memset usage tpm_crb_ffa: Fix typos in function name tpm: Check for completion after timeout tpm: Use of_reserved_mem_region_to_resource() for "memory-region" tpm: Replace scnprintf() with sysfs_emit() and sysfs_emit_at() in sysfs show functions tpm_crb_ffa: Remove unused export tpm: tpm_crb_ffa: try to probe tpm_crb_ffa when it's built-in firmware: arm_ffa: Change initcall level of ffa_init() to rootfs_initcall tpm/tpm_svsm: support TPM_CHIP_FLAG_SYNC tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: support TPM_CHIP_FLAG_SYNC tpm: support devices with synchronous send() tpm: add bufsiz parameter in the .send callback
2025-07-28Merge tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: - Introduce and start using TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper for fixing embedded flex array instances (Gustavo A. R. Silva) - mux: Convert mux_control_ops to a flex array member in mux_chip (Thorsten Blum) - string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() (Andy Shevchenko) - Remove KCOV instrumentation from __init and __head (Ritesh Harjani, Kees Cook) - Refactor and rename stackleak feature to support Clang - Add KUnit test for seq_buf API - Fix KUnit fortify test under LTO * tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits) sched/task_stack: Add missing const qualifier to end_of_stack() kstack_erase: Support Clang stack depth tracking kstack_erase: Add -mgeneral-regs-only to silence Clang warnings init.h: Disable sanitizer coverage for __init and __head kstack_erase: Disable kstack_erase for all of arm compressed boot code x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches arm64: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches s390: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches arm: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches mips: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatch powerpc/mm/book3s64: Move kfence and debug_pagealloc related calls to __init section configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE seq_buf: Introduce KUnit tests string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() kunit/fortify: Add back "volatile" for sizeof() constants acpi: nfit: intel: avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings ...
2025-07-24docs: update THP documentation to clarify sysfs "never" settingLorenzo Stoakes
Rather confusingly, setting all Transparent Huge Page sysfs settings to "never" does not in fact result in THP being globally disabled. Rather, it results in khugepaged being disabled, but one can still obtain THP pages using madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE). This is something that has remained poorly documented for some time, and it is likely the received wisdom of most users of THP that never does, in fact, mean never. It is therefore important to highlight, very clearly, that this is not the case. [lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: update transhuge page to mention MADV_COLLAPSE] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d54d1dfb-f06d-4979-983b-73998f05867e@lucifer.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250721155530.75944-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-24Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document refresh_ms fileSeongJae Park
Document the new DAMON sysfs file, refresh_ms, on the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250717055448.56976-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-23docs: Downgrade arm64 & riscv from titles to commentJoel Granados
Remove the title string ("====") from under arm64 & riscv and move them to a commment under the perf_user_access sysctl. They are explanations, *not* sysctls themselves This effectively removes these two strings from appearing as not implemented when the check-sysctl-docs script is run Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-07-23docs: Remove colon from ctltable title in vm.rstJoel Granados
Removing them solves an issue where they were incorrectly considered as not implemented by the check-sysctl-docs script Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-07-23tpm_crb_ffa: handle tpm busy return codePrachotan Bathi
Platforms supporting direct message request v2 [1] can support secure partitions that support multiple services. For CRB over FF-A interface, if the firmware TPM or TPM service [1] shares its Secure Partition (SP) with another service, message requests may fail with a -EBUSY error. To handle this, replace the single check and call with a retry loop that attempts the TPM message send operation until it succeeds or a configurable timeout is reached. Implement a _try_send_receive function to do a single send/receive and modify the existing send_receive to add this retry loop. The retry mechanism introduces a module parameter (`busy_timeout_ms`, default: 2000ms) to control how long to keep retrying on -EBUSY responses. Between retries, the code waits briefly (50-100 microseconds) to avoid busy-waiting and handling TPM BUSY conditions more gracefully. The parameter can be modified at run-time as such: echo 3000 | tee /sys/module/tpm_crb_ffa/parameters/busy_timeout_ms This changes the timeout from the default 2000ms to 3000ms. [1] TPM Service Command Response Buffer Interface Over FF-A https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0138/latest/ Signed-off-by: Prachotan Bathi <prachotan.bathi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
2025-07-22Merge branch 'pm-sleep'Rafael J. Wysocki
Merge updates related to system sleep for 6.17-rc1: - Extend the asynchronous suspend and resume of devices to handle suppliers like parents and consumers like children (Rafael Wysocki) - Make pm_runtime_force_resume() work for drivers that set the DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND flag and allow PCI drivers and drivers that collaborate with the general ACPI PM domain to set it (Rafael Wysocki) - Add kernel parameter to disable asynchronous suspend/resume of devices (Tudor Ambarus) - Drop redundant might_sleep() calls from some functions in the device suspend/resume core code (Zhongqiu Han) - Fix the handling of monitors connected right before waking up the system from sleep (tuhaowen) - Clean up MAINTAINERS entries for suspend and hibernation (Rafael Wysocki) - Fix error code path in the KEXEC_JUMP flow and drop a redundant pm_restore_gfp_mask() call from it (Rafael Wysocki) - Rearrange suspend/resume error handling in the core device suspend and resume code (Rafael Wysocki) - Fix up white space that does not follow coding style in the hibernation core code (Darshan Rathod) * pm-sleep: PM: hibernate: Fix up white space that does not follow coding style PM: sleep: Rearrange suspend/resume error handling in the core kexec_core: Drop redundant pm_restore_gfp_mask() call kexec_core: Fix error code path in the KEXEC_JUMP flow PM: sleep: Clean up MAINTAINERS entries for suspend and hibernation PM: sleep: add kernel parameter to disable asynchronous suspend/resume PCI/PM: Set power.strict_midlayer in pci_pm_init() ACPI: PM: Set/clear power.strict_midlayer in prepare/complete PM: sleep: Add strict_midlayer flag to struct dev_pm_info PM: runtime: Introduce __rpm_get_driver_callback() PM: Check power.needs_force_resume in pm_runtime_force_suspend() PM: runtime: Clear power.needs_force_resume in pm_runtime_reinit() PM: Make pm_runtime_force_resume() work with DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND PM: Move two sleep-related functions under CONFIG_PM_SLEEP PM: Use true/false as power.needs_force_resume values PM: sleep: Make async suspend handle suppliers like parents PM: sleep: Make async resume handle consumers like children PM: sleep: Drop superfluous might_sleep() calls PM: sleep: console: Fix the black screen issue
2025-07-21stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASEKees Cook
In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking that can support stack depth callbacks: - Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang stack depth callback support. - Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE, but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself. - Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn. While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS, since that's the only place it is referenced from. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-07-19panic: add note that panic_print sysctl interface is deprecatedFeng Tang
Add a dedicated core parameter 'panic_console_replay' for controlling console replay, and add note that 'panic_print' sysctl interface will be obsoleted by 'panic_sys_info' and 'panic_console_replay'. When it happens, the SYS_INFO_PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY can be removed as well. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-6-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19panic: add 'panic_sys_info=' setup option for kernel cmdlineFeng Tang
'panic_sys_info=' sysctl interface is already added for runtime setting. Add counterpart kernel cmdline option for boottime setting. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-5-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19panic: add 'panic_sys_info' sysctl to take human readable string parameterFeng Tang
Bitmap definition for 'panic_print' is hard to remember and decode. Add 'panic_sys_info='sysctl to take human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,..." and translate it into bitmap. The detailed mapping is: SYS_INFO_TASKS "tasks" SYS_INFO_MEM "mem" SYS_INFO_TIMERS "timers" SYS_INFO_LOCKS "locks" SYS_INFO_FTRACE "ftrace" SYS_INFO_ALL_CPU_BT "all_bt" SYS_INFO_BLOCKED_TASKS "blocked_tasks" [nathan@kernel.org: add __maybe_unused to sys_info_avail] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708-fix-clang-sys_info_avail-warning-v1-1-60d239eacd64@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-4-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19panic: clean up code for console replayFeng Tang
Patch series "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other kernel parts", v3. When working on kernel stability issues, panic, task-hung and software/hardware lockup are frequently met. And to debug them, user may need lots of system information at that time, like task call stacks, lock info, memory info etc. panic case already has panic_print_sys_info() for this purpose, and has a 'panic_print' bitmask to control what kinds of information is needed, which is also helpful to debug other task-hung and lockup cases. So this patchset extracts the function out to a new file 'lib/sys_info.c', and makes it available for other cases which also need to dump system info for debugging. Also as suggested by Petr Mladek, add 'panic_sys_info=' interface to take human readable string like "tasks,mem,locks,timers,ftrace,....", and eventually obsolete the current 'panic_print' bitmap interface. In RFC and V1 version, hung_task and SW/HW watchdog modules are enabled with the new sys_info dump interface. In v2, they are kept out for better review of current change, and will be posted later. Locally these have been used in our bug chasing for stability issues and was proven helpful. Many thanks to Petr Mladek for great suggestions on both the code and architectures! This patch (of 5): Currently the panic_print_sys_info() was called twice with different parameters to handle console replay case, which is kind of confusing. Add panic_console_replay() explicitly and rename 'PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG' to 'PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY', to make the code straightforward. The related kernel document is also updated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-2-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19kdump, documentation: describe craskernel CMA reservationJiri Bohac
Describe the new crashkernel ",cma" suffix in Documentation/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aEqpQwUy6gqSiUkV@dwarf.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document dests directorySeongJae Park
Document the newly added DAMOS action destination directory of the DAMON sysfs interface on the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250709005952.17776-7-bijan311@gmail.com Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Bijan Tabatabai <bijantabatab@micron.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Ravi Shankar Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19cgroup: Add compatibility option for content of /proc/cgroupsMichal Koutný
/proc/cgroups lists only v1 controllers by default, however, this is only enforced since the commit af000ce85293b ("cgroup: Do not report unavailable v1 controllers in /proc/cgroups") and there is software in the wild that uses content of /proc/cgroups to decide on availability of v2 (sic) controllers. Add a boottime param that can bring back the previous behavior for setups where the check in the software cannot be changed and it causes e.g. unintended OOMs. Also, this patch takes out cgrp_v1_visible from cgroup1_subsys_absent() guard since it's only important to check which hierarchy (v1 vs v2) the subsys is attached to. This has no effect on the printed message but the code is cleaner since cgrp_v1_visible is really about mounted hierarchies, not the content of /proc/cgroups. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b26b60b7d0d2a5ecfd2f3c45f95f32922ed24686.camel@decadent.org.uk Fixes: af000ce85293b ("cgroup: Do not report unavailable v1 controllers in /proc/cgroups") Fixes: a0ab1453226d8 ("cgroup: Print message when /proc/cgroups is read on v2-only system") Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-07-18irqchip/riscv-imsic: Add kernel parameter to disable IPIsAnup Patel
When injecting IPIs to a set of harts, the IMSIC IPI support will do a separate MMIO write to the SETIPNUM_LE register of each target hart. This means on a platform where IMSIC is trap-n-emulated, there will be N MMIO traps when injecting IPI to N target harts hence IMSIC IPIs will be slow on such platforms compared to the SBI IPI extension. Unfortunately, there is no DT, ACPI, or any other way of discovering whether the underlying IMSIC is trap-n-emulated. Using MMIO write to the SETIPNUM_LE register for injecting IPI is purely a software choice in the IMSIC driver hence add a kernel parameter to allow users to disable IMSIC IPIs on platforms with trap-n-emulated IMSIC. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250716123745.557585-1-apatel@ventanamicro.com
2025-07-17docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behaviorBreno Leitao
Add clarification that the printk_ratelimit_burst window resets after printk_ratelimit seconds have elapsed, allowing another burst of messages to be sent. This helps users understand that the rate limiting is not permanent but operates in periodic windows. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-docs_ratelimit-v1-1-51a6d9071f1a@debian.org
2025-07-17Merge back earlier cpufreq material for 6.17-rc1Rafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-17Merge back earlier material related to system sleepRafael J. Wysocki
2025-07-16Documentation: amd-pstate:fix minimum performance state label errorshouyeliu
In the AMD P-States Performance Scale diagram, the labels for "Max Perf" and "Lowest Perf" were incorrectly used to define the range for "Desired Perf".The "Desired performance target" should be bounded by the "Maximum requested performance" and the "Minimum requested performance", which corresponds to "Max Perf" and "Min Perf", respectively. Signed-off-by: Shouye Liu <shouyeliu@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250522070140.17557-1-shouyeliu@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
2025-07-16Documentation/kernel-parameters: Update rcu_normal_wake_from_gp docUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
Update the documentation about rcu_normal_wake_from_gp parameter. Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
2025-07-14sched: Add CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC & boot argument to enable/disableJohn Stultz
Add a CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC option, along with a boot argument sched_proxy_exec= that can be used to disable the feature at boot time if CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC was enabled. Also uses this option to allow the rq->donor to be different from rq->curr. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250712033407.2383110-2-jstultz@google.com
2025-07-12Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable to pick up changes whichAndrew Morton
are required for a merge of the series "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements".
2025-07-12Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-07-11-16-16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "19 hotfixes. A whopping 16 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels. 14 are for MM. Three gdb-script fixes and a kallsyms build fix" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-07-11-16-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: Revert "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task" mm: fix the inaccurate memory statistics issue for users mm/damon: fix divide by zero in damon_get_intervals_score() samples/damon: fix damon sample mtier for start failure samples/damon: fix damon sample wsse for start failure samples/damon: fix damon sample prcl for start failure kasan: remove kasan_find_vm_area() to prevent possible deadlock scripts: gdb: vfs: support external dentry names mm/migrate: fix do_pages_stat in compat mode mm/damon/core: handle damon_call_control as normal under kdmond deactivation mm/rmap: fix potential out-of-bounds page table access during batched unmap mm/hugetlb: don't crash when allocating a folio if there are no resv scripts/gdb: de-reference per-CPU MCE interrupts scripts/gdb: fix interrupts.py after maple tree conversion maple_tree: fix mt_destroy_walk() on root leaf node mm/vmalloc: leave lazy MMU mode on PTE mapping error scripts/gdb: fix interrupts display after MCP on x86 lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users() kallsyms: fix build without execinfo
2025-07-11Documentation/x86: Document new attack vector controlsDavid Kaplan
Document the 5 new attack vector command line options, how they interact with existing vulnerability controls, and recommendations on when they can be disabled. Note that while mitigating against untrusted userspace requires both user-to-kernel and user-to-user protection, these are kept separate. The kernel can control what code executes inside of it and that may affect the risk associated with vulnerabilities especially if new kernel mitigations are implemented. The same isn't typically true of userspace. In other words, the risk associated with user-to-user or guest-to-guest attacks is unlikely to change over time. While the risk associated with user-to-kernel or guest-to-host attacks may change. Therefore, these controls are separated. Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250709155731.3279419-1-david.kaplan@amd.com
2025-07-10PM: sleep: add kernel parameter to disable asynchronous suspend/resumeTudor Ambarus
On some platforms, device dependencies are not properly represented by device links, which can cause issues when asynchronous power management is enabled. While it is possible to disable this via sysfs, doing so at runtime can race with the first system suspend event. This patch introduces a kernel command-line parameter, "pm_async", which can be set to "off" to globally disable asynchronous suspend and resume operations from early boot. It effectively provides a way to set the initial value of the existing pm_async sysfs knob at boot time. This offers a robust method to fall back to synchronous (sequential) operation, which can stabilize platforms with problematic dependencies and also serve as a useful debugging tool. The default behavior remains unchanged (asynchronous enabled). To disable it, boot the kernel with the "pm_async=off" parameter. Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250709-pm-async-off-v3-1-cb69a6fc8d04@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-07-09Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: add DAMON_STAT usage documentSeongJae Park
Document DAMON_STAT usage and add a link to it on DAMON admin-guide page. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250604183127.13968-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09Revert "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task"Chen Yu
This reverts commit ad6b26b6a0a79166b53209df2ca1cf8636296382. This commit introduces per-memcg/task NUMA balance statistics, but unfortunately it introduced a NULL pointer exception due to the following race condition: After a swap task candidate was chosen, its mm_struct pointer was set to NULL due to task exit. Later, when performing the actual task swapping, the p->mm caused the problem. CPU0 CPU1 : ... task_numa_migrate task_numa_find_cpu task_numa_compare # a normal task p is chosen env->best_task = p # p exit: exit_signals(p); p->flags |= PF_EXITING exit_mm p->mm = NULL; migrate_swap_stop __migrate_swap_task((arg->src_task, arg->dst_cpu) count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP)# p->mm is NULL task_lock() should be held and the PF_EXITING flag needs to be checked to prevent this from happening. After discussion, the conclusion was that adding a lock is not worthwhile for some statistics calculations. Revert the change and rely on the tracepoint for this purpose. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704135620.685752-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708064917.BBD13C4CEED@smtp.kernel.org Fixes: ad6b26b6a0a7 ("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task") Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGBLJxpd=NeRJXpSCuw=REhC5LWJpC29kDy-Zh2ZDyzQZA@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal <Srikanth.Aithal@amd.com> Reported-by: Suneeth D <Suneeth.D@amd.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com> Cc: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09gpio: sim: allow to mark simulated lines as invalidBartosz Golaszewski
Add a new line-level, boolean property to the gpio-sim configfs interface called 'valid'. It's set by default and the user can unset it to make the line be included in the standard `gpio-reserved-ranges` property when the chip is registered with GPIO core. This allows users to specify which lines should not be available for requesting as GPIOs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250630130358.40352-1-brgl@bgdev.pl Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
2025-07-08Documentation: Remove duplicate word size in bootconfigSumeet Pawnikar
Remove duplicate word size in bootconfig.rst Signed-off-by: Sumeet Pawnikar <sumeet4linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250705151618.4806-1-sumeet4linux@gmail.com
2025-06-24smack: fix bug: setting task label silently ignores input garbageKonstantin Andreev
This command: # echo foo/bar >/proc/$$/attr/smack/current gives the task a label 'foo' w/o indication that label does not match input. Setting the label with lsm_set_self_attr() syscall behaves identically. This occures because: 1) smk_parse_smack() is used to convert input to a label 2) smk_parse_smack() takes only that part from the beginning of the input that looks like a label. 3) `/' is prohibited in labels, so only "foo" is taken. (2) is by design, because smk_parse_smack() is used for parsing strings which are more than just a label. Silent failure is not a good thing, and there are two indicators that this was not done intentionally: (size >= SMK_LONGLABEL) ~> invalid clause at the beginning of the do_setattr() and the "Returns the length of the smack label" claim in the do_setattr() description. So I fixed this by adding one tiny check: the taken label length == input length. Since input length is now strictly controlled, I changed the two ways of setting label smack_setselfattr(): lsm_set_self_attr() syscall smack_setprocattr(): > /proc/.../current to accommodate the divergence in what they understand by "input length": smack_setselfattr counts mandatory \0 into input length, smack_setprocattr does not. smack_setprocattr allows various trailers after label Related changes: * fixed description for smk_parse_smack * allow unprivileged tasks validate label syntax. * extract smk_parse_label_len() from smk_parse_smack() so parsing may be done w/o string allocation. * extract smk_import_valid_label() from smk_import_entry() to avoid repeated parsing. * smk_parse_smack(): scan null-terminated strings for no more than SMK_LONGLABEL(256) characters * smack_setselfattr(): require struct lsm_ctx . flags == 0 to reserve them for future. Fixes: e114e473771c ("Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev <andreev@swemel.ru> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
2025-06-22smack: fix bug: invalid label of unix socket fileKonstantin Andreev
According to [1], the label of a UNIX domain socket (UDS) file (i.e., the filesystem object representing the socket) is not supposed to participate in Smack security. To achieve this, [1] labels UDS files with "*" in smack_d_instantiate(). Before [2], smack_d_instantiate() was responsible for initializing Smack security for all inodes, except ones under /proc [2] imposed the sole responsibility for initializing inode security for newly created filesystem objects on smack_inode_init_security(). However, smack_inode_init_security() lacks some logic present in smack_d_instantiate(). In particular, it does not label UDS files with "*". This patch adds the missing labeling of UDS files with "*" to smack_inode_init_security(). Labeling UDS files with "*" in smack_d_instantiate() still works for stale UDS files that already exist on disk. Stale UDS files are useless, but I keep labeling them for consistency and maybe to make easier for user to delete them. Compared to [1], this version introduces the following improvements: * UDS file label is held inside inode only and not saved to xattrs. * relabeling UDS files (setxattr, removexattr, etc.) is blocked. [1] 2010-11-24 Casey Schaufler commit b4e0d5f0791b ("Smack: UDS revision") [2] 2023-11-16 roberto.sassu Fixes: e63d86b8b764 ("smack: Initialize the in-memory inode in smack_inode_init_security()") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20231116090125.187209-5-roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com/ Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev <andreev@swemel.ru> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
2025-06-21Documentation/sysctl: coredump: add %F for pidfd numberSalvatore Bonaccorso
In commit b5325b2a270f ("coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper") a new core_pattern specifier, %F, was added to provide a pidfs to the usermode helper process referring to the crashed process. Update the documentation to include the new core_pattern specifier. Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612060204.1159734-1-carnil@debian.org
2025-06-21Documentation: amd-pstate:fix minimum performance state label errorShouye Liu
In the AMD P-States Performance Scale diagram, the labels for "Max Perf" and "Lowest Perf" were incorrectly used to define the range for "Desired Perf".The "Desired performance target" should be bounded by the "Maximum requested performance" and the "Minimum requested performance", which corresponds to "Max Perf" and "Min Perf", respectively. Signed-off-by: Shouye Liu <shouyeliu@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620021658.92161-1-shouyeliu@gmail.com
2025-06-18cpufreq: docs: userspace: Explain HW coordination influenceShashank Balaji
Extend the "scaling_setspeed" sysfs attribute description in the userspace governor documentation to cover possible differences between the requested and actual CPU frequency. Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji <shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250527-userspace-governor-doc-v2-2-0e22c69920f2@sony.com [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>