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9 hoursMerge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhostLinus Torvalds
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: - in-order support in virtio core - multiple address space support in vduse - fixes, cleanups all over the place, notably dma alignment fixes for non-cache-coherent systems * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (59 commits) vduse: avoid adding implicit padding vhost: fix caching attributes of MMIO regions by setting them explicitly vdpa/mlx5: update MAC address handling in mlx5_vdpa_set_attr() vdpa/mlx5: reuse common function for MAC address updates vdpa/mlx5: update mlx_features with driver state check crypto: virtio: Replace package id with numa node id crypto: virtio: Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req crypto: virtio: Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs vduse: bump version number vduse: add vq group asid support vduse: merge tree search logic of IOTLB_GET_FD and IOTLB_GET_INFO ioctls vduse: take out allocations from vduse_dev_alloc_coherent vduse: remove unused vaddr parameter of vduse_domain_free_coherent vduse: refactor vdpa_dev_add for goto err handling vhost: forbid change vq groups ASID if DRIVER_OK is set vdpa: document set_group_asid thread safety vduse: return internal vq group struct as map token vduse: add vq group support vduse: add v1 API definition ...
32 hoursMerge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...
33 hoursMerge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...
4 daysMerge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a fair amount going on, including: - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by generative tools - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking scripts - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of improvements and fixes - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to the online pages in the HTML build ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits) doc: development-process: add notice on testing tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree' docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent docs: add parse_features module documentation docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements docs: add jobserver module documentation docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8 docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation docs: add kabi modules documentation ...
4 daysMerge tag 'kthread-for-7.0' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker: "The kthread code provides an infrastructure which manages the preferred affinity of unbound kthreads (node or custom cpumask) against housekeeping (CPU isolation) constraints and CPU hotplug events. One crucial missing piece is the handling of cpuset: when an isolated partition is created, deleted, or its CPUs updated, all the unbound kthreads in the top cpuset become indifferently affine to _all_ the non-isolated CPUs, possibly breaking their preferred affinity along the way. Solve this with performing the kthreads affinity update from cpuset to the kthreads consolidated relevant code instead so that preferred affinities are honoured and applied against the updated cpuset isolated partitions. The dispatch of the new isolated cpumasks to timers, workqueues and kthreads is performed by housekeeping, as per the nice Tejun's suggestion. As a welcome side effect, HK_TYPE_DOMAIN then integrates both the set from boot defined domain isolation (through isolcpus=) and cpuset isolated partitions. Housekeeping cpumasks are now modifiable with a specific RCU based synchronization. A big step toward making nohz_full= also mutable through cpuset in the future" * tag 'kthread-for-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: (33 commits) doc: Add housekeeping documentation kthread: Document kthread_affine_preferred() kthread: Comment on the purpose and placement of kthread_affine_node() call kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN sched: Switch the fallback task allowed cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity management kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list kthread: Refine naming of affinity related fields PCI: Remove superfluous HK_TYPE_WQ check sched/isolation: Remove HK_TYPE_TICK test from cpu_is_isolated() cpuset: Remove cpuset_cpu_is_isolated() timers/migration: Remove superfluous cpuset isolation test cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to timers through housekeeping cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping PCI: Flush PCI probe workqueue on cpuset isolated partition change sched/isolation: Flush vmstat workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change sched/isolation: Flush memcg workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset ...
6 daysliveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global statePasha Tatashin
Introduce a mechanism for managing global kernel state whose lifecycle is tied to the preservation of one or more files. This is necessary for subsystems where multiple preserved file descriptors depend on a single, shared underlying resource. An example is HugeTLB, where multiple file descriptors such as memfd and guest_memfd may rely on the state of a single HugeTLB subsystem. Preserving this state for each individual file would be redundant and incorrect. The state should be preserved only once when the first file is preserved, and restored/finished only once the last file is handled. This patch introduces File-Lifecycle-Bound (FLB) objects to solve this problem. An FLB is a global, reference-counted object with a defined set of operations: - A file handler (struct liveupdate_file_handler) declares a dependency on one or more FLBs via a new registration function, liveupdate_register_flb(). - When the first file depending on an FLB is preserved, the FLB's .preserve() callback is invoked to save the shared global state. The reference count is then incremented for each subsequent file. - Conversely, when the last file is unpreserved (before reboot) or finished (after reboot), the FLB's .unpreserve() or .finish() callback is invoked to clean up the global resource. The implementation includes: - A new set of ABI definitions (luo_flb_ser, luo_flb_head_ser) and a corresponding FDT node (luo-flb) to serialize the state of all active FLBs and pass them via Kexec Handover. - Core logic in luo_flb.c to manage FLB registration, reference counting, and the invocation of lifecycle callbacks. - An API (liveupdate_flb_get/_incoming/_outgoing) for other kernel subsystems to safely access the live object managed by an FLB, both before and after the live update. This framework provides the necessary infrastructure for more complex subsystems like IOMMU, VFIO, and KVM to integrate with the Live Update Orchestrator. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-5-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Cc: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
6 dayslist: add primitives for private list manipulationsPasha Tatashin
Patch series "list private v2 & luo flb", v9. This series introduces two connected infrastructure improvements: a new API for handling private linked lists, and the "File-Lifecycle-Bound" (FLB) mechanism for the Live Update Orchestrator. 1. Private List Primitives (patches 1-3) Recently, Linux introduced the ability to mark structure members as __private and access them via ACCESS_PRIVATE(). This enforces better encapsulation by ensuring internal details are only accessible by the owning subsystem. However, struct list_head is frequently used as an internal linkage mechanism within these private sections. The standard macros in <linux/list.h> do not support ACCESS_PRIVATE() natively. Consequently, subsystems using private lists are forced to implement ad-hoc workarounds or local iterator macros. This series adds <linux/list_private.h>, providing a set of primitives identical to those in <linux/list.h> but designed for private list heads. It also includes a KUnit test suite to verify that the macros correctly handle pointer offsets and qualifiers. 2. This series adds FLB (patches 4-5) support to Live Update that also internally uses private lists. FLB allows global kernel state (such as IOMMU domains or HugeTLB state) to be preserved once, shared across multiple file descriptors, and restored when needed. This is necessary for subsystems where multiple preserved file descriptors depend on a single, shared underlying resource. Preserving this state for each individual file would be redundant and incorrect. FLB uses reference counting tied to the lifecycle of preserved files. The state is preserved when the first file depending on it is preserved, and restored or cleaned up only when the last file is handled. This patch (of 5): Linux recently added an ability to add private members to structs (i.e. __private) and access them via ACCESS_PRIVATE(). This ensures that those members are only accessible by the subsystem which owns the struct type, and not to the object owner. However, struct list_head often needs to be placed into the private section to be manipulated privately by the subsystem. Add macros to support private list manipulations in <linux/list_private.h>. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Cc: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 daysdoc: Add housekeeping documentationFrederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
13 daysmm: rename balloon_compaction.(c|h) to balloon.(c|h)David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
Even without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION this infrastructure implements basic list and page management for a memory balloon. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119230133.3551867-21-david@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Jerrin Shaji George <jerrin.shaji-george@broadcom.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26kho/abi: add memblock ABI headerMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Introduce KHO ABI header describing preservation ABI for memblock's reserve_mem regions and link the relevant documentation to KHO docs. [lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com: MAINTAINERS: adjust file entry in MEMBLOCK AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT INITIALIZATION] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107090438.22901-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com [rppt@kernel.org: update reserved_mem node description, per Pratyush] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aW_M-HYZzx5SkbnZ@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-7-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26kho: relocate vmalloc preservation structure to KHO ABI headerJason Miu
The `struct kho_vmalloc` defines the in-memory layout for preserving vmalloc regions across kexec. This layout is a contract between kernels and part of the KHO ABI. To reflect this relationship, the related structs and helper macros are relocated to the ABI header, `include/linux/kho/abi/kexec_handover.h`. This move places the structure's definition under the protection of the KHO_FDT_COMPATIBLE version string. The structure and its components are now also documented within the ABI header to describe the contract and prevent ABI breaks. [rppt@kernel.org: update comment, per Pratyush] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aW_Mqp6HcqLwQImS@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-6-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26kho: introduce KHO FDT ABI headerJason Miu
Introduce the `include/linux/kho/abi/kexec_handover.h` header file, which defines the stable ABI for the KHO mechanism. This header specifies how preserved data is passed between kernels using an FDT. The ABI contract includes the FDT structure, node properties, and the "kho-v1" compatible string. By centralizing these definitions, this header serves as the foundational agreement for inter-kernel communication of preserved states, ensuring forward compatibility and preventing misinterpretation of data across kexec transitions. Since the ABI definitions are now centralized in the header files, the YAML files that previously described the FDT interfaces are redundant. These redundant files have therefore been removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-5-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26kho: docs: combine concepts and FDT documentationMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Currently index.rst in KHO documentation looks empty and sad as it only contains links to "Kexec Handover Concepts" and "KHO FDT" chapters. Inline contents of these chapters into index.rst to provide a single coherent chapter describing KHO. While on it, drop parts of the KHO FDT description that will be superseded by addition of KHO ABI documentation. [rppt@kernel.org: fix Documentation/core-api/kho/index.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aV4bnHlBXGpT_FMc@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-23Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplateJani Nikula
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't. For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst, but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a ".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html builds. This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the root document. Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py. For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> [jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
2026-01-11treewide: Update email addressThomas Gleixner
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the kernel.org account. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-31docs: dma-api: document DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEANMichael S. Tsirkin
Document DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN as implemented in the previous patch. Message-ID: <0720b4be31c1b7a38edca67fd0c97983d2a56936.1767601130.git.mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-12-31docs: dma-api: document __dma_from_device_group_begin()/end()Michael S. Tsirkin
Document the __dma_from_device_group_begin()/end() annotations. Message-ID: <01ea88055ded4d70cac70ba557680fd5fa7d9ff5.1767601130.git.mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-12-22Documentation: update config name in real-time architecture supportLukas Bulwahn
Commit 4843a45ef9fe8 ("entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs") renames the config KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK to VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK. Adjust the documentation to the current situation, and specifically refer to the new name of the config. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251127154343.292156-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2025-12-22Documentation: Add some hardware hints for real-timeSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Some thoughts on hardware that is used for real-time workload. Certainly not complete but should cover some of the import topics such as: - Main memory, caches and the possiblie control given by the hardware. - What could happen by putting critical hardware behind USB or VirtIO. - Allowing real-time tasks to consume the CPU entirely without giving the system some time to breath. - Networking with what the kernel provides. Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251127154343.292156-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2025-12-22docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.hAndy Shevchenko
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few required updates to align with that work. Do it here. Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2025-12-06Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter: This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition. As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot. Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work. - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ...
2025-12-03Merge tag 'printk-for-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Allow creaing nbcon console drivers with an unsafe write_atomic() callback that can only be called by the final nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe(). Otherwise, the driver would rely on the kthread. It is going to be used as the-best-effort approach for an experimental nbcon netconsole driver, see https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251121-nbcon-v1-2-503d17b2b4af@debian.org Note that a safe .write_atomic() callback is supposed to work in NMI context. But some networking drivers are not safe even in IRQ context: https://lore.kernel.org/r/oc46gdpmmlly5o44obvmoatfqo5bhpgv7pabpvb6sjuqioymcg@gjsma3ghoz35 In an ideal world, all networking drivers would be fixed first and the atomic flush would be blocked only in NMI context. But it brings the question how reliable networking drivers are when the system is in a bad state. They might block flushing more reliable serial consoles which are more suitable for serious debugging anyway. - Allow to use the last 4 bytes of the printk ring buffer. - Prevent queuing IRQ work and block printk kthreads when consoles are suspended. Otherwise, they create non-necessary churn or even block the suspend. - Release console_lock() between each record in the kthread used for legacy consoles on RT. It might significantly speed up the boot. - Release nbcon context between each record in the atomic flush. It prevents stalls of the related printk kthread after it has lost the ownership in the middle of a record - Add support for NBCON consoles into KDB - Add %ptsP modifier for printing struct timespec64 and use it where possible - Misc code clean up * tag 'printk-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (48 commits) printk: Use console_is_usable on console_unblank arch: um: kmsg_dump: Use console_is_usable drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for CON_ENABLED and CON_BOOT lib/vsprintf: Unify FORMAT_STATE_NUM handlers printk: Avoid irq_work for printk_deferred() on suspend printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend printk: Allow printk_trigger_flush() to flush all types tracing: Switch to use %ptSp scsi: snic: Switch to use %ptSp scsi: fnic: Switch to use %ptSp s390/dasd: Switch to use %ptSp ptp: ocp: Switch to use %ptSp pps: Switch to use %ptSp PCI: epf-test: Switch to use %ptSp net: dsa: sja1105: Switch to use %ptSp mmc: mmc_test: Switch to use %ptSp media: av7110: Switch to use %ptSp ipmi: Switch to use %ptSp igb: Switch to use %ptSp e1000e: Switch to use %ptSp ...
2025-11-27docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUOPratyush Yadav
Add the documentation under the "Preserving file descriptors" section of LUO's documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-16-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com> Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27docs: add luo documentationPasha Tatashin
Add the documentation files for the Live Update Orchestrator Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-9-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com> Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdatePasha Tatashin
Move KHO to kernel/liveupdate/ in preparation of placing all Live Update core kernel related files to the same place. [pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: disable the menu when DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+CK2bAvh9Oa2SLfsbJ8zztpEjrgr_hr-uGgF1coy8yoibT39A@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-8-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-19lib/vsprintf: Add specifier for printing struct timespec64Andy Shevchenko
A handful drivers want to print a content of the struct timespec64 in a format of %lld:%09ld. In order to make their lives easier, add the respecting specifier directly to the printf() implementation. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113150217.3030010-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2025-10-17Documentation: assoc_array: Format internal tree layout tablesBagas Sanjaya
Format tables in "Basic internal tree layout" as reST tables. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251013095630.34235-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
2025-10-17Documentation: assoc_array: Indent function explanation textBagas Sanjaya
Paragraphs of function explanation are currently not indented following their appropriate numbered list item, which causes only the first paragraph and function prototype code blocks to be indented in the numbered list in htmldocs output. Indent the explanation. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251013095630.34235-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski: - Refactoring of DMA mapping API to physical addresses as the primary interface instead of page+offset parameters This gets much closer to Matthew Wilcox's long term wish for struct-pageless IO to cacheable DRAM and is supporting memdesc project which seeks to substantially transform how struct page works. An advantage of this approach is the possibility of introducing DMA_ATTR_MMIO, which covers existing 'dma_map_resource' flow in the common paths, what in turn lets to use recently introduced dma_iova_link() API to map PCI P2P MMIO without creating struct page Developped by Leon Romanovsky and Jason Gunthorpe - Minor clean-up by Petr Tesarik and Qianfeng Rong * tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: kmsan: fix missed kmsan_handle_dma() signature conversion mm/hmm: properly take MMIO path mm/hmm: migrate to physical address-based DMA mapping API dma-mapping: export new dma_*map_phys() interface xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback dma-mapping: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_(un)map_page_attrs() kmsan: convert kmsan_handle_dma to use physical addresses dma-mapping: convert dma_direct_*map_page to be phys_addr_t based iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for iommu_dma_(un)map_phys() iommu/dma: rename iommu_dma_*map_page to iommu_dma_*map_phys dma-mapping: rename trace_dma_*map_page to trace_dma_*map_phys dma-debug: refactor to use physical addresses for page mapping iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_iova_link(). dma-mapping: introduce new DMA attribute to indicate MMIO memory swiotlb: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN dma-direct: clean up the logic in __dma_direct_alloc_pages()
2025-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...
2025-09-21mm: remove unused zpool layerJohannes Weiner
With zswap using zsmalloc directly, there are no more in-tree users of this code. Remove it. With zpool gone, zsmalloc is now always a simple dependency and no longer something the user needs to configure. Hide CONFIG_ZSMALLOC from the user and have zswap and zram pull it in as needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829162212.208258-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-12dma-debug: refactor to use physical addresses for page mappingLeon Romanovsky
Convert the DMA debug infrastructure from page-based to physical address-based mapping as a preparation to rely on physical address for DMA mapping routines. The refactoring renames debug_dma_map_page() to debug_dma_map_phys() and changes its signature to accept a phys_addr_t parameter instead of struct page and offset. Similarly, debug_dma_unmap_page() becomes debug_dma_unmap_phys(). A new dma_debug_phy type is introduced to distinguish physical address mappings from other debug entry types. All callers throughout the codebase are updated to pass physical addresses directly, eliminating the need for page-to-physical conversion in the debug layer. This refactoring eliminates the need to convert between page pointers and physical addresses in the debug layer, making the code more efficient and consistent with the DMA mapping API's physical address focus. Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> [mszyprow: added a fixup] Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/56d1a6769b68dfcbf8b26a75a7329aeb8e3c3b6a.1757423202.git.leonro@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250910052618.GH341237@unreal/
2025-09-12dma-mapping: introduce new DMA attribute to indicate MMIO memoryLeon Romanovsky
This patch introduces the DMA_ATTR_MMIO attribute to mark DMA buffers that reside in memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) regions, such as device BARs exposed through the host bridge, which are accessible for peer-to-peer (P2P) DMA. This attribute is especially useful for exporting device memory to other devices for DMA without CPU involvement, and avoids unnecessary or potentially detrimental CPU cache maintenance calls. DMA_ATTR_MMIO is supposed to provide dma_map_resource() functionality without need to call to special function and perform branching when processing generic containers like bio_vec by the callers. Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6f058ec395c5348014860dbc2eed348c17975843.1757423202.git.leonro@nvidia.com
2025-08-21Documentation: Add real-time to core-apiSebastian Andrzej Siewior
The documents explain the design concepts behind PREEMPT_RT and highlight key differences necessary to achieve it. It also include a list of requirements that must be fulfilled to support PREEMPT_RT on a given architecture. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> [jc: tweaked "how they differ" section head] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250815093858.930751-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2025-08-18Merge branch 'bjorn' into docs-mwJonathan Corbet
A big set of typo fixes from Bjorn Helgaas
2025-08-18Documentation: Fix core-api typosBjorn Helgaas
Fix typos. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250813200526.290420-5-helgaas@kernel.org
2025-08-12docs: folio_queue: Fix minor typo in folio_queue pageGopi Krishna Menon
Specifically, fix typo 'hese'-> 'these' Signed-off-by: Gopi Krishna Menon <krishnagopi487@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250810235346.4153-1-krishnagopi487@gmail.com
2025-08-11Documentation/printf: Use literal fwnode_handleGeert Uytterhoeven
When looking for fwnode_handle in the printk format documentation, it is only found in the Chinese translation: $ git grep fwnode_handle -- Documentation/*printk-formats.rst Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/printk-formats.rst:用于打印fwnode_handles的消息。默认情况下是打印完整的节点名称,包括路径。 This happens because the original documentation talks about "fwnode handles", without mentioning the actual type name. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Tested-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Fixes: 3bd32d6a2ee62db3 ("lib/vsprintf: Add %pfw conversion specifier for printing fwnode names") Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/07262c55e82fc4a3e3dbe7c45713b14955271e7f.1754552156.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
2025-08-11module: Rename EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULESVlastimil Babka
Christoph suggested that the explicit _GPL_ can be dropped from the module namespace export macro, as it's intended for in-tree modules only. It would be possible to restrict it technically, but it was pointed out [2] that some cases of using an out-of-tree build of an in-tree module with the same name are legitimate. But in that case those also have to be GPL anyway so it's unnecessary to spell it out in the macro name. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aFleJN_fE-RbSoFD@infradead.org/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK7LNATRkZHwJGpojCnvdiaoDnP%2BaeUXgdey5sb_8muzdWTMkA@mail.gmail.com/ [2] Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250808-export_modules-v4-1-426945bcc5e1@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-05Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-08-03-12-35' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Significant patch series in this pull request: - "mseal cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Some mseal cleaning with no intended functional change. - "Optimizations for khugepaged" (David Hildenbrand) Improve khugepaged throughput by batching PTE operations for large folios. This gain is mainly for arm64. - "x86: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace and kprobes" (Mike Rapoport) A bugfix, additional debug code and cleanups to the execmem code. - "mm/shmem, swap: bugfix and improvement of mTHP swap in" (Kairui Song) Bugfixes, cleanups and performance improvememnts to the mTHP swapin code" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-08-03-12-35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (38 commits) mm: mempool: fix crash in mempool_free() for zero-minimum pools mm: correct type for vmalloc vm_flags fields mm/shmem, swap: fix major fault counting mm/shmem, swap: rework swap entry and index calculation for large swapin mm/shmem, swap: simplify swapin path and result handling mm/shmem, swap: never use swap cache and readahead for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO mm/shmem, swap: tidy up swap entry splitting mm/shmem, swap: tidy up THP swapin checks mm/shmem, swap: avoid redundant Xarray lookup during swapin x86/ftrace: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace allocations x86/kprobes: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for kprobes allocations execmem: drop writable parameter from execmem_fill_trapping_insns() execmem: add fallback for failures in vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP) execmem: move execmem_force_rw() and execmem_restore_rox() before use execmem: rework execmem_cache_free() execmem: introduce execmem_alloc_rw() execmem: drop unused execmem_update_copy() mm: fix a UAF when vma->mm is freed after vma->vm_refcnt got dropped mm/rmap: add anon_vma lifetime debug check mm: remove mm/io-mapping.c ...
2025-08-02mm: remove mm/io-mapping.cLorenzo Stoakes
This is dead code, which was used from commit b739f125e4eb ("i915: use io_mapping_map_user") but reverted a month later by commit 0e4fe0c9f2f9 ("Revert "i915: use io_mapping_map_user"") back in 2021. Since then nobody has used it, so remove it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst, per Vlastimil] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250725142901.81502-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-31Merge tag 'wq-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - Prepare for defaulting to unbound workqueue. A separate branch was created to ease pulling in from other trees but none of the conversions have landed yet - Memory allocation profiling support added - Misc changes * tag 'wq-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed() in tryinc_node_nr_active() workqueue: Remove unused work_on_cpu_safe workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq workqueue: Basic memory allocation profiling support workqueue: fix opencoded cpumask_next_and_wrap() in wq_select_unbound_cpu()
2025-07-31Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...
2025-07-31Merge tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build system: - The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions. Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward that end. - A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format. - Various Chinese translations and updates. - A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing. - A new document for linked lists - A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository links. ...and lots of fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits) scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir> Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty docs: document linked lists scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7 docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link overlayfs.rst: fix typos docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections() docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration() ...
2025-07-24Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functionsAndrew Donnellan
The x86-specific functions kvm_guest_{enter,exit}_irqoff() were removed and replaced by the generic guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff() in commit ef9989afda73 ("kvm: add guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff()") and commit b2d2af7e5df3 ("kvm/x86: rework guest entry logic"). Update the references in the entry/exit handling documentation. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@amazon.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250723075134.105132-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com
2025-07-17docs: document linked listsNicolas Frattaroli
Add example-driven documentation for the kernel's generic linked list data structure. This includes discussion of situations where linked lists are likely inappropriate, and references to further reading. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-linked-list-docs-v3-1-56c461580866@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-07-15Documentation: core-api: entry: Fix typo "systcalls" -> "syscalls"Andrew Donnellan
Fix a typo: "systcalls" should be "syscalls". Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250715061529.56268-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com
2025-07-13mm,memory_hotplug: drop status_change_nid parameter from memory_notifyOscar Salvador
There no users left of status_change_nid, so drop it from memory_notify struct. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250616135158.450136-12-osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-13mm,memory_hotplug: implement numa node notifierOscar Salvador
There are at least six consumers of hotplug_memory_notifier that what they really are interested in is whether any numa node changed its state, e.g: going from having memory to not having memory and vice versa. Implement a specific notifier for numa nodes when their state gets changed, which will later be used by those consumers that are only interested in numa node state changes. Add documentation as well. [dan.carpenter@linaro.org: set failure reason in offline_pages()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/be4fd31b-7d09-46b0-8329-6d0464ffa7a5@sabinyo.mountain Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250616135158.450136-4-osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-13mm,memory_hotplug: remove status_change_nid_normal and update documentationOscar Salvador
Now that the last user of status_change_nid_normal is gone, we can remove it. Update documentation accordingly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250616135158.450136-3-osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>