user/sven/linux.git/arch/arc/kernel, branch master

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-02-26T18:50:19Z

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390 and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader failing to load the compressed kernel [1]. Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition. Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has never been necessary in those uses. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Reported-by: Ed W Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-09-30T17:35:11Z

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core scheduler changes: - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance (Menglong Dong) - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra) - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra) Fair scheduling: - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider) - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter Zijlstra) Misc cleanups & fixes: - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong) - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)" * tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair() sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask() sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()

arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c

2025-09-25T07:57:15Z

The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can happen. For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h, which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first, it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included by it. In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h". And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)

arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64

2025-09-01T13:31:34Z

With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags. However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not changed from the previous type of unsigned long. While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits (CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise. Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Fixes: c5febea0956fd387 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread") Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) Acked-by: Andreas Larsson # sparc Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ARC: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names

2025-07-15T05:27:46Z

Instead of having the core code guess the note name for each regset, use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to pick the correct name from elf.h. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Akihiko Odaki Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701135616.29630-5-Dave.Martin@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

ARC: unwind: Use built-in sort swap to reduce code size and improve performance

2025-06-09T16:18:12Z

The custom swap function used in sort() was identical to the default built-in sort swap. Remove the custom swap function and passes NULL to sort(), allowing it to use the default swap function. This change reduces code size and improves performance, particularly when CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE is enabled. With RETPOLINE mitigation, indirect function calls incur significant overhead, and using the default swap function avoids this cost. $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ./unwind.o.old ./unwind.o.new add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-22 (-22) Function old new delta init_unwind_hdr.constprop 544 540 -4 swap_eh_frame_hdr_table_entries 18 - -18 Total: Before=4410, After=4388, chg -0.50% Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-06-07T17:05:35Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which exports a symbol only to specified modules - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n - Add checkers for redundant or missing inclusion - Deprecate the extra-y syntax - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files * tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits) genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES} efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: check missing #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation kconfig: introduce menu type enum docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers ...

arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds

2025-06-07T05:38:07Z

The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN), which behaves equivalently. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier