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Linus Torvalds d639d9fa16 Merge tag 'liveupdate-v7.2-rc1' of 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
  ...
2026-06-21 09:46:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0db1496dcb Merge tag 'printk-for-7.2' of 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
2026-06-17 12:05:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ba9c792c82 Merge tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of 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
  ...
2026-06-16 13:02:47 +05:30
Andy ShevchenkoandPetr Mladek 76c9ed5b81 vsprintf: Add upper case flavour to %p[mM]
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>
2026-06-12 14:20:25 +02:00
Pasha TatashinandMike Rapoport (Microsoft) 0349ff2887 kho: add support for linked-block serialization
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>
2026-06-03 21:15:46 +03:00
Costa ShulyupinandJonathan Corbet 2d5e755b06 docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text
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>
2026-06-01 13:05:55 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)andJens Axboe 11ff85db51 block: Include bvec.h kernel-doc in the htmldocs
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>
2026-05-29 05:34:25 -06:00
Chao GaoandJonathan Corbet 61579def4e Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: Remove stale cpu0_hotplug docs
Commit e59e74dc48 ("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>
2026-05-15 08:44:24 -06:00
Costa ShulyupinandJonathan Corbet 696ce7ca20 docs: housekeeping: Fix struct member access in code example
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>
2026-05-15 08:25:16 -06:00
Manuel EbnerandJonathan Corbet 7c6d969d53 Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as
suggested in commit 2932ba8d9c ("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>
2026-05-03 08:54:21 -06:00
Hyeonjin KimandJonathan Corbet 8cfbcf36f9 docs: fix typos in kernel documentation
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>
2026-04-27 04:03:52 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 334fbe734e Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of 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
  ...
2026-04-15 12:59:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7de6b4a246 Merge tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
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
  ...
2026-04-15 10:32:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 88b29f3f57 Merge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of 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
  ...
2026-04-14 17:16:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5181afcdf9 Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux
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"
  ...
2026-04-14 08:47:08 -07:00
Sukrut HeroorkarandJonathan Corbet 40a3f6c5e2 Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
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>
2026-04-12 13:11:50 -06:00
Sebastian Andrzej SiewiorandJonathan Corbet bb6a85b4b6 Documentation: Add managed interrupts
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
   b0d40d2b22 ("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>
2026-04-11 07:07:02 -06:00
Manuel CortezandJonathan Corbet 96c1f4517e docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
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>
2026-04-09 08:21:32 -06:00
Jason MiuandAndrew Morton 6b0dd42d76 kho: remove finalize state and clients
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>
2026-04-05 13:53:04 -07:00
Jason MiuandAndrew Morton 3f2ad90060 kho: adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking
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>
2026-04-05 13:53:04 -07:00
Breno LeitaoandTejun Heo 41e3ccca00 docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
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>
2026-04-01 10:24:18 -10:00
Leon RomanovskyandMarek Szyprowski e6a58fa255 dma-mapping: Introduce DMA require coherency attribute
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
2026-03-20 12:05:36 +01:00
Leon RomanovskyandMarek Szyprowski 9bb0a4d6a4 dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
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
2026-03-20 11:33:24 +01:00
Nicholas SielickiandSami Tolvanen f15dbe8a94 docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute
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>
2026-03-19 22:49:37 +00:00
Praveen Kumar SinghandJonathan Corbet d0eab64faf docs: memory-hotplug: fix typo 'fo' -> 'for' in NODE_ADDED_FIRST_MEMORY 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>
2026-03-17 08:42:05 -06:00