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2026-06-21Merge tag 'liveupdate-v7.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/liveupdate/linux Pull liveupdate updates from Mike Rapoport: "Kexec Handover (KHO): - make memory preservation compatible with deferred initialization of the memory map Live Update Orchestrator (LUO): - add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl and parameter verification for LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION ioctl - documentation updates for liveupdate=on command line option, systemd support and the current compatibility status - remove the fixed limits on the number of files that can be preserved within a single session, and the total number of sessions managed by the LUO Misc fixes: - reference count incoming File-Lifecycle-Bound (FLB) data so it cannot be freed while a subsystem is still using it - fixes for a TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve(), a use- after-free in the file finish and unpreserve paths, concurrent session mutations during reboot and serialization on preserve_context kexec - make sure ioctls for incoming LUO sessions are blocked for outgoing sessions and vice versa - make sure KHO scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES - fix memblock tests build issue introduced by KHO changes" * tag 'liveupdate-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/liveupdate/linux: (36 commits) liveupdate: Document that retrieve failure is permanent docs: memfd_preservation: fix rendering of ABI documentation selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-files kexec test selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-sessions kexec test selftests/liveupdate: Test session and file limit removal liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of files per session liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of sessions liveupdate: defer session block allocation and physical address setting kho: add support for linked-block serialization liveupdate: Extract luo_session_deserialize_one helper liveupdate: Extract luo_file_deserialize_one helper liveupdate: register luo_ser as KHO subtree liveupdate: centralize state management into struct luo_ser liveupdate: avoid mixing cleanup guards with goto in luo_session_retrieve_fd liveupdate: change file_set->count type to u64 for type safety liveupdate: Remove unused ser field from struct luo_session liveupdate: fix u-a-f in luo_file_unpreserve_files() and luo_file_finish() liveupdate: block session mutations during reboot liveupdate: fix TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve() liveupdate: skip serialization for context-preserving kexec ...
2026-06-17Merge tag 'printk-for-7.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Add upper case flavor for printing MAC addresses (%p[mM][U]) and use it in the nintendo driver - Fix matching of hash_pointers= parameter modes - Fix size check of vsprintf() field_width and precision values - Add check of size returned by vsprintf() - Add KUnit test for restricted pointer printing (%pK) - Some code cleanup * tag 'printk-for-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: HID: nintendo: Use %pM format specifier for MAC addresses vsprintf: Add upper case flavour to %p[mM] lib/vsprintf: replace min_t/max_t with min/max printk: fix typos in comments lib/vsprintf: Require exact hash_pointers mode matches vsprintf: Add test for restricted kernel pointers vsprintf: Only export no_hash_pointers to test module lib/vsprintf: Limit the returning size to INT_MAX lib/vsprintf: Fix to check field_width and precision
2026-06-16Merge tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - NVMe pull request via Keith: - Per-controller admin and IO timeout sysfs attributes, and letting the block layer set request timeouts (Maurizio, Maximilian) - Multipath passthrough iostats, and PCI P2PDMA enablement for multipath devices (Keith, Kiran) - A new diag sysfs attribute group exporting per-controller counters (retries, multipath failover, error counters, requeue and failure counts, reset and reconnect events) (Nilay) - FDP configuration validation and bounds check fixes (liuxixin) - Various nvmet fixes, including a pre-auth out-of-bounds read in the Discovery Get Log Page handler, auth payload bounds validation, and tcp error-path leak fixes (Bryam, Tianchu, Geliang) - nvme-tcp lockdep and workqueue fixes (Shin'ichiro, Kuniyuki, Eric) - Assorted other fixes and cleanups (John, Yao, Chao, Mateusz, Achkinazi, Wentao) - MD pull request via Yu Kuai: - raid1/raid10 fixes for a deadlock in the read error recovery path, error-path detection and bio accounting with cloned bios, and an nr_pending leak in the REQ_ATOMIC bad-block error path (Abd-Alrhman) - PCI P2PDMA propagation from member devices to the RAID device (Kiran) - dm-raid bio requeue fix, and various smaller fixes and cleanups (Benjamin, Chen, Li, Thorsten) - Enable Clang lock context analysis for the block layer, with the accompanying annotations across queue limits, the blk_holder_ops callbacks, crypto, cgroup, iocost, kyber and mq-deadline (Bart) - Block status code infrastructure work: a tagged status table, a str_to_blk_op() helper, a bio_endio_status() helper, and on top of that a new configurable block-layer error injection facility (Christoph) - DRBD netlink rework, replacing the genl_magic machinery with explicit netlink serialization and moving the DRBD UAPI headers to include/uapi/linux/ (Christoph Böhmwalder) - bvec improvements: a bvec_folio() helper and making the bvec_iter helpers proper inline functions (Willy, Christoph) - ublk cleanups and a canceling-flag fix for the disk-not-allocated case (Caleb, Ming) - Partition handling fixes: bound the AIX pp_count scan, fix an of_node refcount leak, and replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() (Bryam, Wentao, Mike) - Convert numa_node to int in blk_mq_hw_ctx and ->init_request, and add WQ_PERCPU to the block workqueue users (Mateusz, Marco) - Block statistics and tracing: propagate in-flight to the whole disk on partition IO, export passthrough stats, and a new block_rq_tag_wait tracepoint (Tang, Keith, Aaron) - A round of removals, unexports and cleanups across bio, direct-io and the bvec helpers (Christoph) - Various driver fixes (mtip32xx use-after-free, rbd snap_count validation and strscpy conversion, nbd socket lockdep reclassify, virtio-blk zone report clamp, floppy) and a batch of MAINTAINERS email/list updates (Coly, Li, Yu, Christoph Böhmwalder) - Other little fixes and cleanups all over * tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (117 commits) MAINTAINERS: Update Coly Li's email address block: check bio split for unaligned bvec nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency block: add configurable error injection block: add a str_to_blk_op helper block: add a "tag" for block status codes block: add a macro to initialize the status table floppy: Drop unused pnp driver data block: propagate in_flight to whole disk on partition I/O virtio-blk: clamp zone report to the report buffer capacity block: optimize I/O merge hot path with unlikely() hints drivers/block/rbd: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array block: Enable lock context analysis block/mq-deadline: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang block/Kyber: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang block/blk-mq-debugfs: Improve lock context annotations block/blk-iocost: Inline iocg_lock() and iocg_unlock() block/blk-iocost: Split ioc_rqos_throttle() block/crypto: Annotate the crypto functions ...
2026-06-12vsprintf: Add upper case flavour to %p[mM]Andy Shevchenko1-0/+3
Some of the (ABI aware) code needs an upper case when printing MAC addresses. Introduce an extension for that into the existing %p[mM]. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603104351.152085-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2026-06-03kho: add support for linked-block serializationPasha Tatashin2-0/+16
Introduce a linked-block serialization mechanism for state handover. Previously, LUO used contiguous memory blocks for serializing sessions and files, which imposed limits on the total number of items that could be preserved across a live update. This commit adds the infrastructure for a more flexible, block-based approach where serialized data is stored in a chain of linked blocks. This is a generic KHO serialization block infrastructure that can be used by multiple subsystems. Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-8-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-06-01docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) textCosta Shulyupin1-1/+1
The man page reference appeared twice - once as plain text and once as a hyperlink. Remove the plain text duplicate. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260531141823.4118954-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-05-29block: Include bvec.h kernel-doc in the htmldocsMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-0/+1
People have gone to the trouble of writing this kernel-doc; the least we can do is publish it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528175905.1102280-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2026-05-15Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: Remove stale cpu0_hotplug docsChao Gao1-5/+0
Commit e59e74dc48a3 ("x86/topology: Remove CPU0 hotplug option") removed the 'cpu0_hotplug' option, but its documentation remained in cpu_hotplug.rst. Remove the stale entry. Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Message-ID: <20260507134732.254617-1-chao.gao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2026-05-15docs: housekeeping: Fix struct member access in code exampleCosta Shulyupin1-1/+1
No such array housekeeping_cpumasks Fix to housekeeping.cpumasks. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260501043855.980567-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-05-03Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-familyManuel Ebner2-4/+4
Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c99 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family") ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct some_obj_name), gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); ptr = kzalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kzalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp); ptr = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp); ptr = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp); -> ptr = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp); Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260429071445.309733-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>
2026-04-27docs: fix typos in kernel documentationHyeonjin Kim1-1/+1
reinitalizes => reinitializes unpriviledged => unprivileged sub-struture => sub-structure Signed-off-by: Hyeonjin Kim <fruitworld.planet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260415001204.6428-1-fruitworld.planet@gmail.com>
2026-04-15Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-9/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...
2026-04-15Merge tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds1-4/+10
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - New default WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope subdivides LLCs into smaller shards to improve scalability on machines with many CPUs per LLC - Misc: - system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works - devm_alloc_workqueue() for device-managed allocation - sysfs exposure for ordered workqueues and the EFI workqueue - removal of HK_TYPE_WQ from wq_unbound_cpumask - various small fixes * tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (21 commits) workqueue: validate cpumask_first() result in llc_populate_cpu_shard_id() workqueue: use NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS instead of hardcoded value workqueue: avoid unguarded 64-bit division docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope workqueue: add test_workqueue benchmark module tools/workqueue: add CACHE_SHARD support to wq_dump.py workqueue: set WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD as the default affinity scope workqueue: add WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope workqueue: fix typo in WQ_AFFN_SMT comment workqueue: Remove HK_TYPE_WQ from affecting wq_unbound_cpumask workqueue: unlink pwqs from wq->pwqs list in alloc_and_link_pwqs() error path workqueue: Remove NULL wq WARN in __queue_delayed_work() workqueue: fix parse_affn_scope() prefix matching bug workqueue: devres: Add device-managed allocate workqueue workqueue: Add system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: add NODE prefix to all node columns tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: fix column alignment in node_nr/max_active section tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: remove backslash separator from node_nr/max_active header efi: Allow to expose the workqueue via sysfs workqueue: Allow to expose ordered workqueues via sysfs ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen: "Kernel symbol flags: - Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and __kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new __kflagstab section. This section stores symbol flags, such as the GPL-only flag, as an 8-bit bitset for each exported symbol. This is a cleanup that simplifies symbol lookup in the module loader by avoiding table fragmentation and will allow a cleaner way to add more flags later if needed. Module signature UAPI: - Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse by tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and scripts/sign-file. This also renames a few constants for clarity and drops unused signature types as preparation for hash-based module integrity checking work that's in progress. Sysfs: - Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show the symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules. This makes it easier to verify driver API access at runtime on systems that care about such things (e.g. Android). Cleanups and fixes: - Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents non-zero section addresses when linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r', which confused elfutils. - Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n. - Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by the module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded. - Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive returns from module_init(). - Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation" * tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (23 commits) module: Simplify warning on positive returns from module_init() module: Override -EEXIST module return documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections module: populate kflagstab in modpost module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.h module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name module: Drop unused signature types extract-cert: drop unused definition of PKEY_ID_PKCS7 docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs module: Remove extern keyword from param prototypes ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds7-4/+157
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including: - Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations, Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the beginnings of a Portuguese translation. - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging Python gbb scripts, and more. - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and more. - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put both into alphabetical order. ... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general improvements" * tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits) Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation Documentation: Add managed interrupts Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/ Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation" ...
2026-04-12Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spellingSukrut Heroorkar1-1/+1
Fix typo "excpetion" with "exception". Signed-off-by: Sukrut Heroorkar <hsukrut3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260411155120.233357-1-hsukrut3@gmail.com>
2026-04-11Documentation: Add managed interruptsSebastian Andrzej Siewior2-0/+117
I stumbled upon "isolcpus=managed_irq" which is the last piece which can only be handled by isolcpus= and has no runtime knob. I knew roughly what managed interrupts should do but I lacked some details how it is used and what the managed_irq sub parameter means in practise. This documents what we have as of today and how it works. I added some examples how the parameter affects the configuration. Did I miss something? Given that the spreading as computed group_cpus_evenly() does not take the mask of isolated CPUs into account I'm not sure how relevant the managed_irq argument is. The virtio_scsi driver has no way to limit the interrupts and I don't see this for the nvme. Even if the number of queues can be reduced to two (as in the example) it is still spread evenly in the system instead and the isolated CPUs are not taken into account. To make this worse, you can even argue further whether or not the application on the isolated CPU wants to receive the interrupt directly or would prefer not to. Given all this, I am not sure if it makes sense to add 'io_queue' to the mix or if it could be incorporated into 'managed_irq'. One more point: Given that isolcpus= is marked deprecated as of commit b0d40d2b22fe4 ("sched/isolation: Document isolcpus= boot parameter flags, mark it deprecated") and the 'managed_irq' is evaluated at device's probe time it would require additional callbacks to re-evaluate the situation. Probably for 'io_queue', too. Does is make sense or should we simply drop the "deprecation" notice and allowing using it long term? Dynamic partitions work with cpusets, there this (managed_irq) limitation but is it really? And if static partition is the use case why bother. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260401110232.ET5RxZfl@linutronix.de>
2026-04-09docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentationManuel Cortez1-1/+1
Fix the following typos and duplicated words: - admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst: "weather" -> "whether" - core-api/real-time/differences.rst: "the the" -> "the" - admin-guide/bcache.rst: "to to" -> "to" Signed-off-by: Manuel Cortez <mdjesuscv@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260406030323.1196-1-mdjesuscv@gmail.com>
2026-04-05kho: remove finalize state and clientsJason Miu1-12/+0
Eliminate the `kho_finalize()` function and its associated state from the KHO subsystem. The transition to a radix tree for memory tracking makes the explicit "finalize" state and its serialization step obsolete. Remove the `kho_finalize()` and `kho_finalized()` APIs and their stub implementations. Update KHO client code and the debugfs interface to no longer call or depend on the `kho_finalize()` mechanism. Complete the move towards a stateless KHO, simplifying the overall design by removing unnecessary state management. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260206021428.3386442-3-jasonmiu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05kho: adopt radix tree for preserved memory trackingJason Miu2-0/+18
Patch series "Make KHO Stateless", v9. This series transitions KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel. The key motivations for this change are to: - Eliminate the need for data serialization before kexec. - Remove the KHO finalize state. - Pass preservation metadata more directly to the next kernel via the FDT. The new approach uses a radix tree to mark preserved pages. A page's physical address and its order are encoded into a single value. The tree is composed of multiple levels of page-sized tables, with leaf nodes being bitmaps where each set bit represents a preserved page. The physical address of the radix tree's root is passed in the FDT, allowing the next kernel to reconstruct the preserved memory map. This series is broken down into the following patches: 1. kho: Adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking: Replaces the xarray-based tracker with the new radix tree implementation and increments the ABI version. 2. kho: Remove finalize state and clients: Removes the now-obsolete kho_finalize() function and its usage from client code and debugfs. This patch (of 2): Introduce a radix tree implementation for tracking preserved memory pages and switch the KHO memory tracking mechanism to use it. This lays the groundwork for a stateless KHO implementation that eliminates the need for serialization and the associated "finalize" state. This patch introduces the core radix tree data structures and constants to the KHO ABI. It adds the radix tree node and leaf structures, along with documentation for the radix tree key encoding scheme that combines a page's physical address and order. To support broader use by other kernel subsystems, such as hugetlb preservation, the core radix tree manipulation functions are exported as a public API. The xarray-based memory tracking is replaced with this new radix tree implementation. The core KHO preservation and unpreservation functions are wired up to use the radix tree helpers. On boot, the second kernel restores the preserved memory map by walking the radix tree whose root physical address is passed via the FDT. The ABI `compatible` version is bumped to "kho-v2" to reflect the structural changes in the preserved memory map and sub-FDT property names. This includes renaming "fdt" to "preserved-data" to better reflect that preserved state may use formats other than FDT. [ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn: fix child node parsing for debugfs in/sub_fdts] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260309033530.244508-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260206021428.3386442-1-jasonmiu@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260206021428.3386442-2-jasonmiu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-01docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scopeBreno Leitao1-4/+10
Update kernel-parameters.txt and workqueue.rst to reflect the new cache_shard affinity scope and the default change from cache to cache_shard. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-20dma-mapping: Introduce DMA require coherency attributeLeon Romanovsky1-0/+16
The mapping buffers which carry this attribute require DMA coherent system. This means that they can't take SWIOTLB path, can perform CPU cache overlap and doesn't perform cache flushing. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260316-dma-debug-overlap-v3-4-1dde90a7f08b@nvidia.com
2026-03-20dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlapLeon Romanovsky1-8/+14
Rename the DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN attribute to better reflect that it is debugging aid to inform DMA core code that CPU cache line overlaps are allowed, and refine the documentation describing its use. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260316-dma-debug-overlap-v3-3-1dde90a7f08b@nvidia.com
2026-03-19docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attributeNicholas Sielicki1-0/+5
Reference the new /sys/module/*/import_ns sysfs attribute in docs as an alternative to modinfo for inspecting imported namespaces of loaded modules. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Sielicki <linux@opensource.nslick.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-17docs: memory-hotplug: fix typo 'fo' -> 'for' in NODE_ADDED_FIRST_MEMORY ↵Praveen Kumar Singh1-1/+1
description The description of NODE_ADDED_FIRST_MEMORY notification contains a missing 'r' in the word 'for'. Fix the typo. Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar Singh <pr4veensingh@proton.me> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <by7jSPCep0WcWKD6nntH0wGbcN59hRhsEOc2lHBps2QizxRtedH25CdW8DO33YiqJU3Y7kGWesJnBts-jvgMzNqDvLWH3cTDYpJPuNed9hU=@proton.me>
2026-03-17Documentation: printk: Add section about avoiding lockupsh32888249631-0/+36
Add a section 'Avoiding lockups from excessive printk() use' to printk-basics.rst, explaining the risk of calling printk() in hot paths with legacy consoles and suggesting alternatives. The section covers: - Rate-limited and one-time printing variants - Log level filtering - printk_deferred() for legacy consoles - Porting to nbcon API (preferred solution) - Using tracepoints for permanent debugging This documentation is relevant only for legacy console drivers and !PREEMPT_RT kernels. Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Suggested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: h3288824963 <3288824963@qq.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <tencent_FB5B7DCFFB10BCDE325397D1202226779D09@qq.com>
2026-03-09docs: fix typo in housekeepingRyan Cheevers1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ryan Cheevers <cheeversr0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260309060015.2349939-1-cheeversr0@gmail.com>
2026-02-15Merge tag 'docs-7.0-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of small, late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: docs: toshiba_haps: fix grammar error in SSD warning Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst Docs/core-api: fix typos in rbtree.rst docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst docs: process: maintainer-pgp-guide: update kernel.org docs link docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes
2026-02-14Docs/core-api: fix typos in rbtree.rstMin-Hsun Chang1-3/+3
Correct minor typographical errors in the red-black tree documentation: - Remove redundant "a" in the cached rbtrees section. - Fix "updated" to "update" in the augmented rbtrees section. - Fix "be looking" to "by looking" in the interval tree sample usage. Signed-off-by: Min-Hsun Chang <chmh0624@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260210060829.42975-1-chmh0624@gmail.com>
2026-02-13Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhostLinus Torvalds2-0/+61
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: - in-order support in virtio core - multiple address space support in vduse - fixes, cleanups all over the place, notably dma alignment fixes for non-cache-coherent systems * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (59 commits) vduse: avoid adding implicit padding vhost: fix caching attributes of MMIO regions by setting them explicitly vdpa/mlx5: update MAC address handling in mlx5_vdpa_set_attr() vdpa/mlx5: reuse common function for MAC address updates vdpa/mlx5: update mlx_features with driver state check crypto: virtio: Replace package id with numa node id crypto: virtio: Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req crypto: virtio: Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs vduse: bump version number vduse: add vq group asid support vduse: merge tree search logic of IOTLB_GET_FD and IOTLB_GET_INFO ioctls vduse: take out allocations from vduse_dev_alloc_coherent vduse: remove unused vaddr parameter of vduse_domain_free_coherent vduse: refactor vdpa_dev_add for goto err handling vhost: forbid change vq groups ASID if DRIVER_OK is set vdpa: document set_group_asid thread safety vduse: return internal vq group struct as map token vduse: add vq group support vduse: add v1 API definition ...
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds10-306/+129
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) -