Document what was discussed multiple times on list and various
virtual / in-person conversations. guard() being okay in functions
<= 20 LoC is a bit of my own invention. If the function is trivial
it should be fine, but feel free to disagree :)
We'll obviously revisit this guidance as time passes and we and other
subsystems get more experience.
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240830171443.3532077-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
As we discussed in the room at netdevconf earlier this week,
drop the requirement for special comment style for netdev.
For checkpatch, the general check accepts both right now, so
simply drop the special request there as well.
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Over the past years there have been many "misunderstandings" and
"confusion" as to who is, and is not, allowed early access to the
changes created by the members of the embargoed hardware issue teams
working on a specific problem.
The current process, while it does work, is "difficult" for many
companies to understand and agree with. Because of this, there has been
numerous attempts by many companies to work around the process by lies,
subterfuge, and other side channels sometimes involving unsuspecting
lawyers. Cut all of that out, and put the responsibility of
distributing code on the silicon vendor affected, as they already have
legal agreements in place that cover this type of distribution. When
this distribution happens, the developers involved MUST be notified of
this happening, to be kept aware of the situation at all times.
The wording here has been hashed out by many different companies and
lawyers involved in the process, as well as community members and
everyone now agrees that the proposed change here should work better
than what is currently happening.
This change has been approved by a review from a large number of
different open source legal members, representing the companies involved
in this process.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024073035-bagel-vertigo-e0dd@gregkh
Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The embargoed-hardware-issues.rst file needed a bunch of minor grammar,
punctuation, and syntax cleanups based on feedback we have gotten over
the past few years. The main change here is the term "silicon" being
used over "hardware" to differentiate between companies that make a chip
(i.e. a CPU) and those that take the chip and put it into their system.
No process changes are made here at all, only clarification for the way
the current process works.
All of these changes have been approved by a review from a large number
of different open source legal members, representing the companies
involved in this process.
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024073032-outsource-sniff-e8ea@gregkh
Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"The highlight is the establishment of a minimum version for the Rust
toolchain, including 'rustc' (and bundled tools) and 'bindgen'.
The initial minimum will be the pinned version we currently have, i.e.
we are just widening the allowed versions. That covers three stable
Rust releases: 1.78.0, 1.79.0, 1.80.0 (getting released tomorrow),
plus beta, plus nightly.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions
that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch
Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux,
Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and
openSUSE Slowroll and Tumbleweed.
In addition, the kernel is now being built-tested by Rust's pre-merge
CI. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it
passes. Similarly, the bindgen tool has agreed to build the kernel in
their CI too.
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will
need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust
compiler versions should generally work.
In addition, the Rust project has proposed getting the kernel into
stable Rust (at least solving the main blockers) as one of its three
flagship goals for 2024H2 [1].
I would like to thank Niko, Sid, Emilio et al. for their help
promoting the collaboration between Rust and the kernel.
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Support several Rust toolchain versions.
- Support several bindgen versions.
- Remove 'cargo' requirement and simplify 'rusttest', thanks to
'alloc' having been dropped last cycle.
- Provide proper error reporting for the 'rust-analyzer' target.
'kernel' crate:
- Add 'uaccess' module with a safe userspace pointers abstraction.
- Add 'page' module with a 'struct page' abstraction.
- Support more complex generics in workqueue's 'impl_has_work!'
macro.
'macros' crate:
- Add 'firmware' field support to the 'module!' macro.
- Improve 'module!' macro documentation.
Documentation:
- Provide instructions on what packages should be installed to build
the kernel in some popular Linux distributions.
- Introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchains.
- Explain '#[no_std]'.
And a few other small bits"
Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/index.html#flagship-goals [1]
* tag 'rust-6.11' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (26 commits)
docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributions
rust: warn about `bindgen` versions 0.66.0 and 0.66.1
rust: start supporting several `bindgen` versions
rust: work around `bindgen` 0.69.0 issue
rust: avoid assuming a particular `bindgen` build
rust: start supporting several compiler versions
rust: simplify Clippy warning flags set
rust: relax most deny-level lints to warnings
rust: allow `dead_code` for never constructed bindings
rust: init: simplify from `map_err` to `inspect_err`
rust: macros: indent list item in `paste!`'s docs
rust: add abstraction for `struct page`
rust: uaccess: add typed accessors for userspace pointers
uaccess: always export _copy_[from|to]_user with CONFIG_RUST
rust: uaccess: add userspace pointers
kbuild: rust-analyzer: improve comment documentation
kbuild: rust-analyzer: better error handling
docs: rust: no_std is used
rust: alloc: add __GFP_HIGHMEM flag
rust: alloc: fix typo in docs for GFP_NOWAIT
...
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig
- Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script
- Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
- Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
default
- Fix warnings in RPM package builds
- Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
base DTB and overlays
- Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig
- Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig
- Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
package builds
- Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
environment variable
- Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0
- Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms
- Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/
- Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
Arch Linux
- Clean up Kconfig
* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
kbuild: Abort make on install failures
kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
around, mostly more of the usual:
- More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations
- A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
commits have touched an (English) document since a given
translation was last updated.
- A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
but I concluded they were close enough to accept.
- Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
that have not been recognized for ... a long time.
...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"
* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
...
RHEL/CentOS 7, popular distributions that install GNU Make 3.82, reached
EOM/EOL on June 30, 2024. While you may get extended support, it is a
good time to raise the minimum GNU Make version.
The new requirement, GNU Make 4.0, was released in October, 2013.
I did not touch the Makefiles under tools/ because I do not know the
requirements for building tools. I do not find any GNU Make version
checks under tools/.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus
establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since
there may be important features coming into the language that improve
how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make
sense to support conditionally.
We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over
time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but
instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that
provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux,
Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo
Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE
Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series.
In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge
CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes
-- thanks to the Rust project for that!
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will
need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler
versions should generally work.
For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches
work as well.
Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need
to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is
to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1]
Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.dev>
Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
'patch-acceptance' on 'Other material' section of 'process/index', which
is for unsorted documents, is actually well organized under
'arch/riscv/' directory, and linked on the index document of the
directory. Remove it from the 'Other material' section.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-3-sj@kernel.org
'unaligned-memory-access document' is linked on 'Other material' section
of 'core-api/index', which is for unsorted documents. But it is
actually well organized under 'core-api/' directory, and linked on the
'core-api/index'. Remove it from 'Other material' section of
'process/index' document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-2-sj@kernel.org
Update the handling-regressions guide to recommend using "Closes:" tags
rather than "Link:" when referencing fixed reports. The latter was used
originally but now is only recommended when the given patch only fixes
part of the issue, as described in submitting-patches. Briefly mention
that and also note that regzbot currently doesn't make a distinction.
Also fix a typo.
Acked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Karel Balej <balejk@matfyz.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513084145.2460-1-balejk@matfyz.cz
Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Some maintenance and performance work for ocfs2 in Heming Zhao's
series "improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high".
- Some ocfs2 bugfixes from Su Yue in the series "ocfs2 bugs fixes
exposed by fstests".
- kfifo header rework from Andy Shevchenko in the series "kfifo:
Clean up kfifo.h".
- GDB script fixes from Florian Rommel in the series "scripts/gdb:
Fixes for $lx_current and $lx_per_cpu".
- After much discussion, a coding-style update from Barry Song
explaining one reason why inline functions are preferred over
macros. The series is "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a
function-like macro""
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (62 commits)
fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore
nilfs2: convert BUG_ON() in nilfs_finish_roll_forward() to WARN_ON()
scripts: checkpatch: check unused parameters for function-like macro
Documentation: coding-style: ask function-like macros to evaluate parameters
nilfs2: use __field_struct() for a bitwise field
selftests/kcmp: remove unused open mode
nilfs2: remove calls to folio_set_error() and folio_clear_error()
kernel/watchdog_perf.c: tidy up kerneldoc
watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf event
watchdog: handle comma separated nmi_watchdog command line
nilfs2: make superblock data array index computation sparse friendly
squashfs: remove calls to set the folio error flag
squashfs: convert squashfs_symlink_read_folio to use folio APIs
scripts/gdb: fix detection of current CPU in KGDB
scripts/gdb: make get_thread_info accept pointers
scripts/gdb: fix parameter handling in $lx_per_cpu
scripts/gdb: fix failing KGDB detection during probe
kfifo: don't use "proxy" headers
media: stih-cec: add missing io.h
media: rc: add missing io.h
...
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"The most interesting parts are probably the mm changes from Ryan which
optimise the creation of the linear mapping at boot and (separately)
implement write-protect support for userfaultfd.
Outside of our usual directories, the Kbuild-related changes under
scripts/ have been acked by Masahiro whilst the drivers/acpi/ parts
have been acked by Rafael and the addition of cpumask_any_and_but()
has been acked by Yury.
ACPI:
- Support for the Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) signature
feature which is used to reboot out of hibernation on some systems
Kbuild:
- Support for building Flat Image Tree (FIT) images, where the kernel
Image is compressed alongside a set of devicetree blobs
Memory management:
- Optimisation of our early page-table manipulation for creation of
the linear mapping
- Support for userfaultfd write protection, which brings along some
nice cleanups to our handling of invalid but present ptes
- Extend our use of range TLBI invalidation at EL1
Perf and PMUs:
- Ensure that the 'pmu->parent' pointer is correctly initialised by
PMU drivers
- Avoid allocating 'cpumask_t' types on the stack in some PMU drivers
- Fix parsing of the CPU PMU "version" field in assembly code, as it
doesn't follow the usual architectural rules
- Add best-effort unwinding support for USER_STACKTRACE
- Minor driver fixes and cleanups
Selftests:
- Minor cleanups to the arm64 selftests (missing NULL check, unused
variable)
Miscellaneous:
- Add a command-line alias for disabling 32-bit application support
- Add part number for Neoverse-V2 CPUs
- Minor fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (64 commits)
arm64/mm: Fix pud_user_accessible_page() for PGTABLE_LEVELS <= 2
arm64/mm: Add uffd write-protect support
arm64/mm: Move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to overlay PTE_NG
arm64/mm: Remove PTE_PROT_NONE bit
arm64/mm: generalize PMD_PRESENT_INVALID for all levels
arm64: simplify arch_static_branch/_jump function
arm64: Add USER_STACKTRACE support
arm64: Add the arm64.no32bit_el0 command line option
drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Actually use devm_add_action_or_reset()
drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group
drivers/perf: hisi_pcie: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group
kselftest: arm64: Add a null pointer check
arm64: defer clearing DAIF.D
arm64: assembler: update stale comment for disable_step_tsk
arm64/sysreg: Update PIE permission encodings
kselftest/arm64: Remove unused parameters in abi test
perf/arm-spe: Assign parents for event_source device
perf/arm-smmuv3: Assign parents for event_source device
perf/arm-dsu: Assign parents for event_source device
perf/arm-dmc620: Assign parents for event_source device
...
