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Change 'sent' to 'send'
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/SA3PR13MB63726A746C847D7C0919C25BFD162@SA3PR13MB6372.namprd13.prod.outlook.com
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Document a new variant of the stable tag developers can use to make the
stable team's tools ignore a change[1].
That way developers can use 'Fixes:' tags without fearing the changes
might be backported in semi-automatic fashion. Such concerns are the
reason why some developers deliberately omit the 'Fixes:' tag in
changes[2] -- which somewhat undermines the reason for the existence of
that tag and might be unwise in the long term[3].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b452fd54-fdc6-47e4-8c26-6627f6b7eff3@leemhuis.info/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1712226175.git.antony.antony@secunet.com/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dfd87673-c581-4b4b-b37a-1cf5c817240d@leemhuis.info/ [3]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/35989d3b2f3f8cf23828b0c84fde9b17a74be97c.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
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Document when to use of stable@kernel.org instead of
stable@vger.kernel.org, as the two are easily mixed up and their
difference not explained anywhere[1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240422231550.3cf5f723@sal.lan/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6783b71da48aac5290756343f58591dc42da87bc.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
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Remove the 'code-block:: none' labels and switch to the shorter '::' to
reduce noise.
Remove a unneeded level of indentation, as that reduces the chance that
readers have to scroll sideways in some of the code blocks.
No text changes. Rendered html output looks like before, except for the
different level of indentation.
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/755afbeafc8e1457154cb4b30ff4397f34326679.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
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Fine-tuning:
* s/Linus' tree/Linux mainline/, as mainline is the term used elsewhere
in the document.
* Provide a better example for the 'delayed backporting' case that uses
a fixed rather than a relative reference point, which makes it easier
to handle for the stable team.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a120573ea827aee12d45e7bd802ba85c09884da.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
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Explain the general concept once in the intro to keep things somewhat
shorter in the individual points.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/106e21789e2bf02d174e1715b49cd4d30886d51f.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
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Add a script which produces a Flat Image Tree (FIT), a single file
containing the built kernel and associated devicetree files.
Compression defaults to gzip which gives a good balance of size and
performance.
The files compress from about 86MB to 24MB using this approach.
The FIT can be used by bootloaders which support it, such as U-Boot
and Linuxboot. It permits automatic selection of the correct
devicetree, matching the compatible string of the running board with
the closest compatible string in the FIT. There is no need for
filenames or other workarounds.
Add a 'make image.fit' build target for arm64, as well.
The FIT can be examined using 'dumpimage -l'.
This uses the 'dtbs-list' file but processes only .dtb files, ignoring
the overlay .dtbo files.
This features requires pylibfdt (use 'pip install libfdt'). It also
requires compression utilities for the algorithm being used. Supported
compression options are the same as the Image.xxx files. Use
FIT_COMPRESSION to select an algorithm other than gzip.
While FIT supports a ramdisk / initrd, no attempt is made to support
this here, since it must be built separately from the Linux build.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240329032836.141899-3-sjg@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Unfortunately Anton has left IBM. Add myself as the contact for Power,
until someone else volunteers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240322103840.668746-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Quoting of the '"no regressions" rule' expression differs between
occurrences, sometimes being presented as '"no regressions rule"'. Unify
the quoting using the first form which seems semantically correct or is
at least used dominantly, albeit marginally.
One of the occurrences is obviously missing the 'rule' part -- add it.
Signed-off-by: Karel Balej <balejk@matfyz.cz>
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328194342.11760-2-balejk@matfyz.cz
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There are lots of maintainers "pings" during the merge window, even
for trivial patches.
Clarify that contributors should not expect progress on *any*
non-urgent patches during the merge window. This applies to all
contributions, not just large ones.
Clarify the language around -rc1. Trees really are closed during the
merge window.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240322183403.67BAEEFE%40davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
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This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.76.0 to 1.77.1
(i.e. the latest) [1].
See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4da06e ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").
# Unstable features
The `offset_of` feature (single-field `offset_of!`) that we were using
got stabilized in Rust 1.77.0 [3].
Therefore, now the only unstable features allowed to be used outside the
`kernel` crate is `new_uninit`, though other code to be upstreamed may
increase the list.
Please see [4] for details.
# Required changes
Rust 1.77.0 merged the `unused_tuple_struct_fields` lint into `dead_code`,
thus upgrading it from `allow` to `warn` [5]. In turn, this made `rustc`
complain about the `ThisModule`'s pointer field being never read, but
the previous patch adds the `as_ptr` method to it, needed by Binder [6],
so that we do not need to locally `allow` it.
# Other changes
Rust 1.77.0 introduces the `--check-cfg` feature [7], for which there
is a Call for Testing going on [8]. We were requested to test it and
we found it useful [9] -- we will likely enable it in the future.
# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing
The vast majority of changes are due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded
at once.
There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.
Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.
Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.
To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:
# Get the difference with respect to the old version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > old.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
# Apply this patch.
git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch
# Get the difference with respect to the new version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > new.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1770-2024-03-21 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118799 [3]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118297 [5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231101-rust-binder-v1-2-08ba9197f637@google.com/#Z31rust:kernel:lib.rs [6]
Link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/compiler-flags/check-cfg.html [7]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3013#issuecomment-1936648479 [8]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/82450#issuecomment-1947462977 [9]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002717.57507-1-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Upgraded to 1.77.1. Removed `allow(dead_code)` thanks to the previous
patch. Reworded accordingly. No changes to `alloc` during the beta. ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes and enhancements"
* tag 'docs-6.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: verify/bisect: remove a level of indenting
docs: verify/bisect: drop 'v' prefix, EOL aspect, and assorted fixes
docs: verify/bisect: check taint flag
docs: verify/bisect: improve install instructions
docs: handling-regressions.rst: Update regzbot command fixed-by to fix
docs: *-regressions.rst: Add colon to regzbot commands
doc: Fix typo in admin-guide/cifs/introduction.rst
README: Fix spelling
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On the reference documentation for regzbot, the fixed-by command has
been renamed to fix. Update the kernel documentation accordingly.
Link: https://gitlab.com/knurd42/regzbot/-/blob/main/docs/reference.md
Link: https://gitlab.com/knurd42/regzbot/-/commit/6d8d30f6bda84e1b711121bb98a07a464d3f089a
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: "Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240311-regzbot-fixes-v2-2-98c1b6ec0678@collabora.com>
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Use colon as command terminator everywhere for consistency, even though
it's not strictly necessary. That way it will also match regzbot's
reference documentation.
Link: https://gitlab.com/knurd42/regzbot/-/blob/main/docs/reference.md
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: "Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240311-regzbot-fixes-v2-1-98c1b6ec0678@collabora.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has developed the well-named series "lib min_heap: Min
heap optimizations".
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has also sped up the library sorting code in the series
"lib/sort: Optimize the number of swaps and comparisons".
- Alexey Gladkov has added the ability for code running within an IPC
namespace to alter its IPC and MQ limits. The series is "Allow to
change ipc/mq sysctls inside ipc namespace".
- Geert Uytterhoeven has contributed some dhrystone maintenance work in
the series "lib: dhry: miscellaneous cleanups".
- Ryusuke Konishi continues nilfs2 maintenance work in the series
"nilfs2: eliminate kmap and kmap_atomic calls"
"nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()"
- Nathan Chancellor has updated our build tools requirements in the
series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum continues with the selftests maintenance work in
the series "selftests/mm: Improve run_vmtests.sh".
- Oleg Nesterov has done some maintenance work against the signal code
in the series "get_signal: minor cleanups and fix".
Plus the usual shower of singleton patches in various parts of the tree.
Please see the individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-03-14-09-36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
nilfs2: prevent kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()
nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings
ocfs2: enable ocfs2_listxattr for special files
ocfs2: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
assoc_array: fix the return value in assoc_array_insert_mid_shortcut()
buildid: use kmap_local_page()
watchdog/core: remove sysctl handlers from public header
nilfs2: use div64_ul() instead of do_div()
mul_u64_u64_div_u64: increase precision by conditionally swapping a and b
kexec: copy only happens before uchunk goes to zero
get_signal: don't initialize ksig->info if SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/group_exec_task
get_signal: hide_si_addr_tag_bits: fix the usage of uninitialized ksig
get_signal: don't abuse ksig->info.si_signo and ksig->sig
const_structs.checkpatch: add device_type
Normalise "name (ad@dr)" MODULE_AUTHORs to "name <ad@dr>"
dyndbg: replace kstrdup() + strchr() with kstrdup_and_replace()
list: leverage list_is_head() for list_entry_is_head()
nilfs2: MAINTAINERS: drop unreachable project mirror site
smp: make __smp_processor_id() 0-argument macro
fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around.
- Some cleanup of the main index page for easier navigation
- Rework some of the other top-level pages for better readability
and, with luck, fewer merge conflicts in the future.
- Submit-checklist improvements, hopefully the first of many.
- New Italian translations
- A fair number of kernel-doc fixes and improvements. We have also
dropped the recommendation to use an old version of Sphinx.
- A new document from Thorsten on bisection
... and lots of fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (54 commits)
docs: verify/bisect: fixes, finetuning, and support for Arch
docs: Makefile: Add dependency to $(YNL_INDEX) for targets other than htmldocs
docs: Move ja_JP/howto.rst to ja_JP/process/howto.rst
docs: submit-checklist: use subheadings
docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
docs: new text on bisecting which also covers bug validation
docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies
docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Remove code for Sphinx <2.4
docs: Restore "smart quotes" for quotes
docs/zh_CN: accurate translation of "function"
docs: Include simplified link titles in main index
docs: Correct formatting of title in admin-guide/index.rst
docs: kernel_feat.py: fix build error for missing files
MAINTAINERS: Set the field name for subsystem profile section
kasan: Add documentation for CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
Fixed case issue with 'fault-injection' in documentation
kernel-doc: handle #if in enums as well
Documentation: update mailing list addresses
doc: kerneldoc.py: fix indentation
scripts/kernel-doc: simplify signature printing
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Fix a wrong check in the function reporting whether a CPU executes
(or not) a NMI handler
- Ratelimit unknown NMIs messages in order to not potentially slow down
the machine
- Other fixlets
* tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check
Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add C++ tail comments exception
Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add Closes tag
x86/nmi: Rate limit unknown NMI messages
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add spec_rstack_overflow to mitigations=off
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Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Another routine one in terms of features. We got two version upgrades
this time, but in terms of lines, 'alloc' changes are not very large.
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Upgrade to Rust 1.76.0
This time around, due to how the kernel and Rust schedules have
aligned, there are two upgrades in fact. These allow us to remove
two more unstable features ('const_maybe_uninit_zeroed' and
'ptr_metadata') from the list, among other improvements
- Mark 'rustc' (and others) invocations as recursive, which fixes a
new warning and prepares us for the future in case we eventually
take advantage of the Make jobserver
'kernel' crate:
- Add the 'container_of!' macro
- Stop using the unstable 'ptr_metadata' feature by employing the now
stable 'byte_sub' method to implement 'Arc::from_raw()'
- Add the 'time' module with a 'msecs_to_jiffies()' conversion
function to begin with, to be used by Rust Binder
- Add 'notify_sync()' and 'wait_interruptible_timeout()' methods to
'CondVar', to be used by Rust Binder
- Update integer types for 'CondVar'
- Rename 'wait_list' field to 'wait_queue_head' in 'CondVar'
- Implement 'Display' and 'Debug' for 'BStr'
- Add the 'try_from_foreign()' method to the 'ForeignOwnable' trait
- Add reexports for macros so that they can be used from the right
module (in addition to the root)
- A series of code documentation improvements, including adding
intra-doc links, consistency improvements, typo fixes...
'macros' crate:
- Place generated 'init_module()' function in '.init.text'
Documentation:
- Add documentation on Rust doctests and how they work"
* tag 'rust-6.9' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (29 commits)
rust: upgrade to Rust 1.76.0
kbuild: mark `rustc` (and others) invocations as recursive
rust: add `container_of!` macro
rust: str: implement `Display` and `Debug` for `BStr`
rust: module: place generated init_module() function in .init.text
rust: types: add `try_from_foreign()` method
docs: rust: Add description of Rust documentation test as KUnit ones
docs: rust: Move testing to a separate page
rust: kernel: stop using ptr_metadata feature
rust: kernel: add reexports for macros
rust: locked_by: shorten doclink preview
rust: kernel: remove unneeded doclink targets
rust: kernel: add doclinks
rust: kernel: add blank lines in front of code blocks
rust: kernel: mark code fragments in docs with backticks
rust: kernel: unify spelling of refcount in docs
rust: str: move SAFETY comment in front of unsafe block
rust: str: use `NUL` instead of 0 in doc comments
rust: kernel: add srctree-relative doclinks
rust: ioctl: end top-level module docs with full stop
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During review (see Link), Jani Nikula suggested to use proper subheadings
instead of using italics to indicate the different new top-level
categories in the checklist. Further the top heading should follow the
common scheme.
Use subheadings. Adjust to common heading adornment.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/87o7c3mlwb.fsf@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240229030743.9125-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
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While going through the submit checklist, the list order seemed rather
random, probably just by historical coincidences of always adding yet the
next point someone thought of at the end of the list.
Structure and order them by the category of such activity,
reviewing, documenting, checking with tools, building and testing.
As the diff of the reordering is large:
Review code now includes previous points 1, 5 and 22.
Review Kconfig includes previous 6, 7 and 8.
Documenting includes previous 11, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 23.
Checking with tools includes previous 5, 9 and 10.
Building includes previous 2, 3, 20 and 24.
Testing includes previous 12, 13, 14, 19 and 21.
Previous point 4 (compile for ppc64) was merged into point 3 (build for
many architectures), as it was just a further note to cross-compiling.
Previous point 5 was split into one in review and one in checking
to have every previous point in the right category.
Point 11 was shortened, as building documentation is mentioned already
in Build your code, 1d.
A note that was presented visually much too aggressive in the HTML view was
turned into a simple "Note that..." sentence in the enumeration.
The recommendation to test with the -mm patchset (previous 21, now
testing, point 5) was updated to the current state of affairs to test with
a recent tag of linux-next.
Note that the previous first point still remains the first list even after
reordering. Randy confirmed that it was important to Stephen Rothwell to
keep 'include what you use' to be the first in the list.
While at it, replace the reference to the obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB with
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG.
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240229030743.9125-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
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This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].
See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4da06e ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").
# Unstable features
No unstable features that we use were stabilized in Rust 1.76.0.
The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.
Please see [3] for details.
# Required changes
`rustc` (and others) now warns when it cannot connect to the Make
jobserver, thus mark those invocations as recursive as needed. Please
see the previous commit for details.
# Other changes
Rust 1.76.0 does not emit the `.debug_pub{names,types}` sections anymore
for DWARFv4 [4][5]. For instance, in the uncompressed debug info case,
this debug information took:
samples/rust/rust_minimal.o ~64 KiB (~18% of total object size)
rust/kernel.o ~92 KiB (~15%)
rust/core.o ~114 KiB ( ~5%)
In the compressed debug info (zlib) case:
samples/rust/rust_minimal.o ~11 KiB (~6%)
rust/kernel.o ~17 KiB (~5%)
rust/core.o ~21 KiB (~1.5%)
In addition, the `rustc_codegen_gcc` backend now does not emit the
`.eh_frame` section when compiling under `-Cpanic=abort` [6], thus
removing the need for the patch in the CI to compile the kernel [7].
Moreover, it also now emits the `.comment` section too [6].
# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing
The vast majority of changes are due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded
at once.
There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.
Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.
Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.
To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:
# Get the difference with respect to the old version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > old.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
# Apply this patch.
git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch
# Get the difference with respect to the new version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > new.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1760-2024-02-08 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [3]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/688 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117962 [5]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118068 [6]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/ci-rustc_codegen_gcc [7]
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002638.57373-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Patch series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1".
This series bumps the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the
kernel to 13.0.1. The first patch does the bump and all subsequent
patches clean up all the various workarounds and checks for earlier
versions.
Quoting the first patch's commit message for those that were only on CC
for the clean ups:
When __builtin_mul_overflow() has arguments that differ in terms of
signedness and width, LLVM may generate a libcall to __muloti4 because
it performs the checks in terms of 65-bit multiplication. This issue
becomes harder to hit (but still possible) after LLVM 12.0.0, which
includes a special case for matching widths but different signs.
To gain access to this special case, which the kernel can take advantage
of when calls to __muloti4 appear, bump the minimum supported version of
LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. 13.0.1 was chosen because there
is minimal impact to distribution support while allowing a few more
workarounds to be dropped in the kernel source than if 12.0.0 were
chosen. Looking at container images of up to date distribution versions:
archlinux:latest clang version 16.0.6
debian:oldoldstable-slim clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final)
debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2
debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6
debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19)
debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19)
fedora:38 clang version 16.0.6 (Fedora 16.0.6-3.fc38)
fedora:latest clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc39)
fedora:rawhide clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc40)
opensuse/leap:latest clang version 15.0.7
opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 17.0.6
ubuntu:focal clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1
ubuntu:latest Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
ubuntu:rolling Ubuntu clang version 16.0.6 (15)
ubuntu:devel Ubuntu clang version 17.0.6 (3)
The only distribution that gets left behind is Debian Bullseye, as the
default version is 11.0.1; other distributions either have a newer
version than 13.0.1 or one older than the current minimum of 11.0.0.
Debian has easy access to more recent LLVM versions through
apt.llvm.org, so this is not as much of a concern. There are also the
kernel.org LLVM toolchains, which should work with distributions with
glibc 2.28 and newer.
Another benefit of slimming up the number of supported versions of LLVM
for building the kernel is reducing the build capacity needed to support
a matrix that builds with each supported version, which allows a matrix
to reallocate the freed up build capacity towards something else, such
as more configuration combinations.
This passes my build matrix with all supported versions.
This is based on Andrew's mm-nonmm-unstable to avoid trivial conflicts
with my series to update the LLVM links across the repository [1] but I
can easily rebase it to linux-kbuild if Masahiro would rather these
patches go through there (and defer the conflict resolution to the merge
window).
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20240109-update-llvm-links-v1-0-eb09b59db071@kernel.org/
This patch (of 11):
When __builtin_mul_overflow() has arguments that differ in terms of
signedness and width, LLVM may generate a libcall to __muloti4 because it
performs the checks in terms of 65-bit multiplication. This issue becomes
harder to hit (but still possible) after LLVM 12.0.0, which includes a
special case for matching widths but different signs.
To gain access to this special case, which the kernel can take advantage
of when calls to __muloti4 appear, bump the minimum supported version of
LLVM for building the kernel to 13.0.1. 13.0.1 was chosen because there
is minimal impact to distribution support while allowing a few more
workarounds to be dropped in the kernel source than if 12.0.0 were chosen.
Looking at container images of up to date distribution versions:
archlinux:latest clang version 16.0.6
debian:oldoldstable-slim clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final)
debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2
debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6
debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19)
debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 16.0.6 (19)
fedora:38 clang version 16.0.6 (Fedora 16.0.6-3.fc38)
fedora:latest clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc39)
fedora:rawhide clang version 17.0.6 (Fedora 17.0.6-1.fc40)
opensuse/leap:latest clang version 15.0.7
opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 17.0.6
ubuntu:focal clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1
ubuntu:latest Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
ubuntu:rolling Ubuntu clang version 16.0.6 (15)
ubuntu:devel Ubuntu clang version 17.0.6 (3)
The only distribution that gets left behind is Debian Bullseye, as the
default version is 11.0.1; other distributions either have a newer version
than 13.0.1 or one older than the current minimum of 11.0.0. Debian has
easy access to more recent LLVM versions through apt.llvm.org, so this is
not as much of a concern. There are also the kernel.org LLVM toolchains,
which should work with distributions with glibc 2.28 and newer.
Another benefit of slimming up the number of supported versions of LLVM
for building the kernel is reducing the build capacity needed to support a
matrix that builds with each supported version, which allows a matrix to
reallocate the freed up build capacity towards something else, such as
more configuration combinations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-0-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1975
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/38013
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/3203143f1356a4e4e3ada231156fc6da6e1a9f9d
Link: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-1-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni:
"Including fixes from bpf and netfilter.
Current release - regressions:
- af_unix: fix another unix GC hangup
Previous releases - regressions:
- core: fix a possible AF_UNIX deadlock
- bpf: fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready()
- netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path
is used
- bridge: switchdev: ensure MDB events are delivered exactly once
- l2tp: pass correct message length to ip6_append_data
- dccp/tcp: unhash sk from ehash for tb2 alloc failure after
check_estalblished()
- tls: fixes for record type handling with PEEK
- devlink: fix possible use-after-free and memory leaks in
devlink_init()
Previous releases - always broken:
- bpf: fix an oops when attempting to read the vsyscall page through
bpf_probe_read_kernel
- sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress
- netfilter: nft_flow_offload: fix dst refcount underflow
- ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref
- mptcp: fix several data races
- phonet: take correct lock to peek at the RX queue
Misc:
- handful of fixes and reliability improvements for selftests"
* tag 'net-6.8.0-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (72 commits)
l2tp: pass correct message length to ip6_append_data
net: phy: realtek: Fix rtl8211f_config_init() for RTL8211F(D)(I)-VD-CG PHY
selftests: ioam: refactoring to align with the fix
Fix write to cloned skb in ipv6_hop_ioam()
phonet/pep: fix racy skb_queue_empty() use
phonet: take correct lock to peek at the RX queue
net: sparx5: Add spinlock for frame transmission from CPU
net/sched: flower: Add lock protection when remove filter handle
devlink: fix port dump cmd type
net: stmmac: Fix EST offset for dwmac 5.10
tools: ynl: don't leak mcast_groups on init error
tools: ynl: make sure we always pass yarg to mnl_cb_run
net: mctp: put sock on tag allocation failure
netfilter: nf_tables: use kzalloc for hook allocation
netfilter: nf_tables: register hooks last when adding new chain/flowtable
netfilter: nft_flow_offload: release dst in case direct xmit path is used
netfilter: nft_flow_offload: reset dst in route object after setting up flow
netfilter: nf_tables: set dormant flag on hook register failure
selftests: tls: add test for peeking past a record of a different type
selftests: tls: add test for merging of same-type control messages
...
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The mailman2 server running on lists.linuxfoundation.org will be shut
down in very imminent future. Update all instances of obsolete list
addresses throughout the tree with their new destinations.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214-lf-org-list-migration-v1-1-ef1eab4b1543@linuxfoundation.org
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Netronome graciously transferred the original NIPA repo
to our new netdev umbrella org. Link to that instead of
my private fork.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240216161945.2208842-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed
issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a
CVE if one is not automatically assigned for their fixes.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024021731-essence-sadness-28fd@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The servers for the @codeaurora domain have long been retired and any
messages addressed to @codeaurora will bounce.
Trilok has an entry in .mailmap, but the raw documentation files still
list an old @codeaurora address. Update the address in the
documentation files for anyone reading them.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202164119.4090703-1-quic_jhugo@quicinc.com
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Document when C++-style, tail comments should be used.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130193102.GEZblOdor_bzoVhT0f@fat_crate.local
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sphinx.rst:
- Remove unnecessary newline
- Fix grammar s/on/in/
- Fix grammar s/check/checks/
- Capitalize heading "The C domain"
changes.rst:
- Remove colon after "pahole" to be consistent with other entries
howto.rst:
- Fix grammar s/you will/will you/
- Hyphenate "real-world problems"
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205000117.3285-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
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Use c and elisp instead of none in code-blocks
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203223926.5077-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
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- Remove spaces in C code-blocks to align error labels consistently
- Replace tab characters with spaces in emacs-lisp code blocks
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202231316.7606-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
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During review, it was suggested that drivers only emit messages when
something is wrong or it is a debug message. Document this as a formal
recommendation.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/2024012525-alienate-frown-916b@gregkh/
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Pandit-Subedi <abhishekpandit@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240125165311.1.I8d9c88e747e233917e527c7dad1feb8a18f070e2@changeid
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Document where Closes: lands in the tag ordering.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240124205442.GAZbF5EmOB8LpKqlSc@fat_crate.local
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This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.74.1 to 1.75.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].
See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4da06e ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").
# Unstable features
The `const_maybe_uninit_zeroed` unstable feature [3] was stabilized in
Rust 1.75.0, which we were using in the PHYLIB abstractions.
The only unstable features allowed to be used outside the `kernel` crate
are still `new_uninit,offset_of`, though other code to be upstreamed
may increase the list.
Please see [4] for details.
# Other improvements
Rust 1.75.0 stabilized `pointer_byte_offsets` [5] which we could
potentially use as an alternative for `ptr_metadata` in the future.
# Required changes
For this upgrade, no changes were required (i.e. on our side).
# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing
The vast majority of changes are due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded
at once.
There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.
Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.
Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.
To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:
# Get the difference with respect to the old version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > old.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
# Apply this patch.
git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch
# Get the difference with respect to the new version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > new.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1750-2023-12-28 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/91850 [3]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/96283 [5]
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231224172128.271447-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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