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8 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 ...
2 daysMerge tag 'landlock-7.0-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux Pull landlock updates from Mickaël Salaün: - extend Landlock to enforce restrictions on a whole process, similarly to the seccomp's TSYNC flag - refactor data structures to simplify code and improve performance - add documentation to cover missing parts * tag 'landlock-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux: mailmap: Add entry for Mickaël Salaün landlock: Transpose the layer masks data structure landlock: Add access_mask_subset() helper selftests/landlock: Add filesystem access benchmark landlock: Document audit blocker field format landlock: Add errata documentation section landlock: Add backwards compatibility for restrict flags landlock: Refactor TCP socket type check landlock: Minor reword of docs for TCP access rights landlock: Document LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC selftests/landlock: Add LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC tests landlock: Multithreading support for landlock_restrict_self()
2 daysMerge tag 'media/v7.0-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - Add support for GMSL1 and GMSL‑coax modules (PCI mgb4) - Add driver for TI VIP - AV1 – first kernel support (pixel‑format, decoder, transcoder) - Three new camera‑sensor drivers (os05b10, s5k3m5, s5kjn1) - Synopsys CSI‑2 receiver driver - Verisilicon & rkvdec – major fixes and enhancements - IPU6 (and 7) fixes and preparation for metadata - omap3isp: v4l2-compliance updates - Fix DVB streaming, drop wait_prepare/finish (dvb/vb2) * tag 'media/v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (307 commits) media: uvcvideo: Pass allocation size directly to uvc_alloc_urb_buffer media: uvcvideo: Fix allocation for small frame sizes media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure media: uvcvideo: Create an ID namespace for streaming output terminals media: rkvdec: Add HEVC support for the VDPU383 variant media: rkvdec: Add HEVC support for the VDPU381 variant media: rkvdec: Add H264 support for the VDPU383 variant media: rkvdec: Add H264 support for the VDPU381 variant media: rkvdec: Disable multicore support media: rkvdec: Enable all clocks without naming them media: rkvdec: Support per-variant interrupt handler media: rkvdec: Add RCB and SRAM support media: rkvdec: Add variant specific coded formats list media: rkvdec: Move hevc functions to common file media: rkvdec: Move h264 functions to common file media: rkvdec: Use structs to represent the HW RPS media: rkvdec: Move cabac tables to their own source file media: rkvdec: Switch to using structs instead of writel media: visl: Add HEVC short and long term RPS sets media: v4l2-ctrls: Add hevc_ext_sps_[ls]t_rps controls ...
3 daysMerge tag 'x86_bugs_for_v7.0_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 bug documentation update from Borislav Petkov: - Add EPERM to the possible PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL pr_ctl() error codes to "legitimize" it * tag 'x86_bugs_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Documentation/x86: Fix PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL error codes
3 daysMerge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Scheduler Kconfig space updates: - Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra) Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390, x86). None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't even support preemption. The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary preemption altogether. RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner and Peter Zijlstra): This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread is scheduled out inside of the critical section. - Add fields and constants for time slice extension - Provide static branch for time slice extensions - Add statistics for time slice extensions - Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions - Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield() - Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions - Implement time slice extension enforcement timer - Reset slice extension when scheduled - Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension() - entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension - selftests: Implement time slice extension test - Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension - Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs - Lower default slice extension - selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script Scheduler performance/scalability improvements: - Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik) - Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones) - Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde): - Move checking for nohz cpus after time check - Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus - Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead - Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo) - Cleanups (Yury Norov): - Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu() - Simplify task_numa_find_cpu() - Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group() DL scheduler updates: - Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra) RT scheduler updates: - Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang) Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan) This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter- dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work: - Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter() - Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse - Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() - Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter() Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra): - Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*() - Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle() - Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() => rcu_dereference_sched_domain() - <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar): - Fold the sched_avg update - Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched - Switch to rcu_dereference_all() - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() - Limit hrtick work - Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks - Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq' - Separate se->vlag from se->vprot - Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight - Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions - Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for wrapped-signed aritmetics - Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise Scheduler debugging code updates: - Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco) - Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user() (Fushuai Wang) - Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra) - hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner) Misc fixes and cleanups: - Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups (Zicheng Qu) - Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig) - Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng) - sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing (zenghongling)" * tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops sched/deadline: Clear the defer params entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter() entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter() sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping sched: Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script hrtimer: Fix trace oddity ...
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 ...
7 dayslandlock: Add errata documentation sectionSamasth Norway Ananda
Add errata section with code examples for querying errata and a warning that most applications should not check errata. Use kernel-doc directives to include errata descriptions from the header files instead of manual links. Also enhance existing DOC sections in security/landlock/errata/abi-*.h files with Impact sections, and update the code comment in syscalls.c to remind developers to update errata documentation when applicable. This addresses the gap where the kernel implements errata tracking but provides no user-facing documentation on how to use it, while improving the existing technical documentation in-place rather than duplicating it. Signed-off-by: Samasth Norway Ananda <samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260128031814.2945394-3-samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com [mic: Cosmetic fix] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
7 dayslandlock: Add backwards compatibility for restrict flagsSamasth Norway Ananda
Add backwards compatibility handling for the restrict flags introduced in ABI version 7. This is shown as a separate code block (similar to the ruleset_attr handling in the switch statement) because restrict flags are passed to landlock_restrict_self() rather than being part of the ruleset attributes. Also fix misleading description of the /usr rule which incorrectly stated it "only allow[s] reading" when the code actually allows both reading and executing (LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_EXECUTE is included in allowed_access). Signed-off-by: Samasth Norway Ananda <samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260128031814.2945394-2-samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com [mic: Rebased and fixed conflict] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
7 dayslandlock: Document LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNCGünther Noack
Add documentation for LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC. It does not need to go into the main example, but it has a section in the ABI compatibility notes. In the HTML rendering, the main reference is the system call documentation, which is included from the landlock.h header file. Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251127115136.3064948-4-gnoack@google.com [mic: Update date] Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
11 daysMerge branch 'v6.19-rc8'Peter Zijlstra
Update to avoid conflicts with /urgent patches. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
11 daysdocs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rstGabriel Whigham
"userspace" was misspelled as "userpace". Signed-off-by: Gabriel Whigham <gabewhigham@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260130042131.51975-1-gabewhigham@gmail.com>
2026-01-28Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDsEugenio Pérez
Address Space IDs allows the VDUSE framework to support devices able to expose different virtqueues to different part of the drivers. For example, to let QEMU handle the net device control virtqueue, so QEMU always knows the state of the device like mac address or number of queues enabled, while leaving the dataplane passthrough to the guest intact. This enables live migration. Expands the VDUSE documentation to explain how to use the new ioctls or the new struct members of old ioctls. Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20260119143306.1818855-14-eperezma@redhat.com>
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>
2026-01-22selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram scriptPeter Zijlstra
A script that processes trace-cmd data and generates a histogram of rseq slice_ext durations for the recorded workload. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121143208.340549136@infradead.org
2026-01-22rseq: Lower default slice extensionPeter Zijlstra
Change the minimum slice extension to 5 usec. Since slice_test selftest reaches a staggering ~350 nsec extension: Task: slice_test Mean: 350.266 ns Latency (us) | Count ------------------------------ EXPIRED | 238 0 us | 143189 1 us | 167 2 us | 26 3 us | 11 4 us | 28 5 us | 31 6 us | 22 7 us | 23 8 us | 32 9 us | 16 10 us | 35 Lower the minimal (and default) value to 5 usecs -- which is still massive. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121143208.073200729@infradead.org
2026-01-22rseq: Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfsPeter Zijlstra
Move changing the slice ext duration to debugfs, a sliglty less permanent interface. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121143207.923520192@infradead.org
2026-01-22rseq: Add fields and constants for time slice extensionThomas Gleixner
Aside of a Kconfig knob add the following items: - Two flag bits for the rseq user space ABI, which allow user space to query the availability and enablement without a syscall. - A new member to the user space ABI struct rseq, which is going to be used to communicate request and grant between kernel and user space. - A rseq state struct to hold the kernel state of this - Documentation of the new mechanism Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.669472597@linutronix.de
2026-01-21media: uapi: HEVC: Add v4l2_ctrl_hevc_ext_sps_[ls]t_rps controlsDetlev Casanova
Some hardware (e.g.: Rockchip's rk3588 hevc decoder) need to fully parse the slice header, which cannot be passed with the current controls. There is also no skip method similar as to what can be found in verisilicon HW. The SPS is therefore extended through these 2 new controls, providing the long and short term reference information from the slice header for HEVC decoding. These now controls are similar as what is passed in the Vulkan Video API with the StdVideoH265ShortTermRefPicSet and StdVideoH265LongTermRefPicsSps structures embedded in the SPS struct. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-16Documentation: uAPI: media: add V4L2_CID_FLASH_{DURATION,STROBE_OE}Richard Leitner
Add the new strobe duration and hardware strobe output enable to v4l uAPI documentation. Additionally add labels for cross-referencing v4l controls. Signed-off-by: Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-14media: Documentation: Document -ENXIO for VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_ROUTINGSakari Ailus
Document that -ENXIO is returned when the user tries to set a routing configuration not supported by the hardware (or rather the driver). The documentation details the exact cases of this, besides -EINVAL that is already documented for VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_ROUTING. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-14media: Documentation: Fix routing documentation flag referencesSakari Ailus
The routing flag indicating an active route is called V4L2_SUBDEV_ROUTE_FL_ACTIVE, not V4L2_SUBDEV_STREAM_FL_ACTIVE. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-14media: Documentation: Clean up figure titlesSakari Ailus
Remove DocBook (?) conversion leftovers from figure titles, including obsolete numbering and highlighting. This aligns these titles with others. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-14media: uapi: videodev2: Add support for AV1 stateful decoderDeepa Guthyappa Madivalara
Introduce a new pixel format, V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1, to the Video4Linux2(V4L2) API. This format is intended for AV1 bitstreams in stateful decoding/encoding workflows. The fourcc code 'AV10' is used to distinguish this format from the existing V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1_FRAME, which is used for stateless AV1 decoder implementation. Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Deepa Guthyappa Madivalara <deepa.madivalara@oss.qualcomm.com> Tested-by: Val Packett <val@packett.cool> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bod@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-13media: docs: dev-decoder: Trigger dynamic source change for colorspaceMing Qian
If colorspace changes, the client needs to renegotiate the pipeline, otherwise the decoded frame may not be displayed correctly. So add colorspace as a trigger parameter for dynamic resolution change. Signed-off-by: Ming Qian <ming.qian@oss.nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2026-01-06media: Documentation: mali-c55: Use v4l2-isp version identifierJacopo Mondi
The Mali C55 driver uses the v4l2-isp framework, which defines its own versioning numbers. Do not use the Mali C55 specific version identifier in the code example in the documentation of the Mali C55 stats and params metadata formats. Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-12-29Documentation/x86: Fix PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL error codesBrendan Jackman
If you force-disable mitigations on the kernel cmdline, for SPEC_STORE_BYPASS this ends up with the prctl returning -ENXIO, but contrary to the current docs for the other controls it returns -EPERM. Fix that. Note that this return value should probably be considered a bug. But, making the behaviour consistent with the current docs seems more likely to break existing users than help anyone out in practice, so just "fix" it by specifying it as correct. Since this is getting more wordy and confusing, also be more explicit about "control is not possible" be mentioning the boot configuration, to better distinguish this case conceptually from the FORCE_DISABLE failure mode. Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-b4-prctl-docs-2-v2-1-bc9d14ec9662@google.com
2025-12-18media: vb2: drop wait_prepare/finish callbacksHans Verkuil
Drop the wait_prepare/finish callbacks. Instead require that the vb2_queue lock field is always set and use that lock when waiting for buffers to arrive. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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 ...
2025-12-04Merge tag 'drm-next-2025-12-03' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernelLinus Torvalds
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie: "There was a rather late merge of a new color pipeline feature, that some userspace projects are blocked on, and has seen a lot of work in amdgpu. This should have seen some time in -next. There is additional support for this for Intel, that if it arrives in the next day or two I'll pass it on in another pull request and you can decide if you want to take it. Highlights: - Arm Ethos NPU accelerator driver - new DRM color pipeline support - amdgpu will now run discrete SI/CIK cards instead of radeon, which enables vulkan support in userspace - msm gets gen8 gpu support - initial Xe3P support in xe Full detail summary: New driver: - Arm Ethos-U65/U85 accel driver Core: - support the drm color pipeline in vkms/amdgfx - add support for drm colorop pipeline - add COLOR PIPELINE plane property - add DRM_CLIENT_CAP_PLANE_COLOR_PIPELINE - throttle dirty worker with vblank - use drm_for_each_bridge_in_chain_scoped in drm's bridge code - Ensure drm_client_modeset tests are enabled in UML - add simulated vblank interrupt - use in drivers - dumb buffer sizing helper - move freeing of drm client memory to driver - crtc sharpness strength property - stop using system_wq in scheduler/drivers - support emergency restore in drm-client Rust: - make slice::as_flattened usable on all supported rustc - add FromBytes::from_bytes_prefix() method - remove redundant device ptr from Rust GEM object - Change how AlwaysRefCounted is implemented for GEM objects gpuvm: - Add deferred vm_bo cleanup to GPUVM (for rust) atomic: - cleanup and improve state handling interfaces buddy: - optimize block management dma-buf: - heaps: Create heap per CMA reserved location - improve userspace documentation dp: - add POST_LT_ADJ_REQ training sequence - DPCD dSC quirk for synaptics panamera devices - helpers to query branch DSC max throughput ttm: - Rename ttm_bo_put to ttm_bo_fini - allow page protection flags on risc-v - rework pipelined eviction fence handling amdgpu: - enable amdgpu by default for SI/CI dGPUs - enable DC by default on SI - refactor CIK/SI enablement - add ABM KMS property - Re-enable DM idle optimizations - DC Analog encoders support - Powerplay fixes for fiji/iceland - Enable DC on bonaire by default - HMM cleanup - Add new RAS framework - DML2.1 updates - YCbCr420 fixes - DC FP fixes - DMUB fixes - LTTPR fixes - DTBCLK fixes - DMU cursor offload handling - Userq validation improvements - Unify shutdown callback handling - Suspend improvements - Power limit code cleanup - SR-IOV fixes - AUX backlight fixes - DCN 3.5 fixes - HDMI compliance fixes - DCN 4.0.1 cursor updates - DCN interrupt fix - DC KMS full update improvements - Add additional HDCP traces - DCN 3.2 fixes - DP MST fixes - Add support for new SR-IOV mailbox interface - UQ reset support - HDP flush rework - VCE1 support amdkfd: - HMM cleanups - Relax checks on save area overallocations - Fix GPU mappings after prefetch radeon: - refactor CIK/SI enablement xe: - Initial Xe3P support - panic support on VRAM for display - fix stolen size check - Loosen used tracking restriction - New SR-IOV debugfs structure and debugfs updates - Hide the GPU madvise flag behind a VM_BIND flag - Always expose VRAM provisioning data on discrete GPUs - Allow VRAM mappings for userptr when used with SVM - Allow pinning of p2p dma-buf - Use per-tile debugfs where appropriate - Add documentation for Execution Queues - PF improvements - VF migration recovery redesign work - User / Kernel VRAM partitioning - Update Tile-based messages - Allow configfs to disable specific GT types - VF provisioning and migration improvements - use SVM range helpers in PT layer - Initial CRI support - access VF registers using dedicated MMIO view - limit number of jobs per exec queue - add sriov_admin sysfs tree - more crescent island specific support - debugfs residency counter - SRIOV migration work - runtime registers for GFX 35 i915: - add initial Xe3p_LPD display version 35 support - Enable LNL+ content adaptive sharpness filter - Use optimized VRR guardband - Enable Xe3p LT PHY - enable FBC support for Xe3p_LPD display - add display 30.02 firmware support - refactor SKL+ watermark latency setup - refactor fbdev handling - call i915/xe runtime PM via function pointers - refactor i915/xe stolen memory/display interfaces - use display version instead of gfx version in display code - extend i915_display_info with Type-C port details - lots of display cleanups/refactorings - set O_LARGEFILE in __create_shmem - skuip guc communication warning on reset - fix time conversions - defeature DRRS on LNL+ - refactor intel_frontbuffer split between i915/xe/display - convert inteL_rom interfaces to struct drm_device - unify display register polling interfaces - aovid lock inversion when pinning to GGTT on CHV/BXT+VTD panel: - Add KD116N3730A08/A12, chromebook mt8189 - JT101TM023, LQ079L1SX01, - GLD070WX3-SL01 MIPI DSI - Samsung LTL106AL0, Samsung LTL106AL01 - Raystar RFF500F-AWH-DNN - Winstar WF70A8SYJHLNGA - Wanchanglong w552946aaa - Samsung SOFEF00 - Lenovo X13s panel - ilitek-ili9881c - add rpi 5" support - visionx-rm69299 - add backlight support - edp - support AUI B116XAN02.0 bridge: - improve ref counting - ti-sn65dsi86 - add support for DP mode with HPD - synopsis: support CEC, init timer with correct freq - ASL CS5263 DP-to-HDMI bridge support nova-core: - introduce bitfield! macro - introduce safe integer converters - GSP inits to fully booted state on Ampere - Use more future-proof register for GPU identification nova-drm: - select NOVA_CORE - 64-bit only nouveau: - improve reclocking on tegra 186+ - add large page and compression support msm: - GPU: - Gen8 support: A840 (Kaanapali) and X2-85 (Glymur) - A612 support - MDSS: - Added support for Glymur and QCS8300 platforms - DPU: - Enabled Quad-Pipe support, unlocking higher resolutions support - Added support for Glymur platform - Documented DPU on QCS8300 platform as supported - DisplayPort: - Added support for Glymur platform - Added support lame remapping inside DP block - Documented DisplayPort controller on QCS8300 and SM6150/QCS615 as supported tegra: - NVJPG driver panfrost: - display JM contexts over debugfs - export JM contexts to userspace - improve error and job handling panthor: - support custom ASN_HASH for mt8196 - support mali-G1 GPU - flush shmem write before mapping buffers uncached - make timeout per-queue instead of per-job mediatek: - MT8195/88 HDMIv2/DDCv2 support rockchip: - dsi: add support for RK3368 amdxdna: - enhance runtime PM - last hardware error reading uapi - support firmware debug output - add resource and telemetry data uapi - preemption support imx: - add driver for HDMI TX Parallel audio interface ivpu: - add support for user-managed preemption buffer - add userptr support - update JSM firware API to 3.33.0 - add better alloc/free warnings - fix page fault in unbind all bos - rework bind/unbind of imported buffers - enable MCA ECC signalling - split fw runtime and global memory buffers - add fdinfo memory statistics tidss: - convert to drm logging - logging cleanup ast: - refactor generation init paths - add per chip generation detect_tx_chip - set quirks for each chip model atmel-hlcdc: - set LCDC_ATTRE register in plane disable - set correct values for plane scaler solomon: - use drm helper for get_modes and move_valid sitronix: - fix output position when clearing screens qaic: - support dma-buf exports - support new firmware's READ_DATA implementation - sahara AIC200 image table update - add sysfs support - add coredump support - add uevents support - PM support sun4i: - layer refactors to decouple plane from output - improve DE33 support vc4: - switch to generic CEC helpers komeda: - use drm_ logging functions vkms: - configfs support for display configuration vgem: - fix fence timer deadlock etnaviv: - add HWDB entry for GC8000 Nano Ultra VIP r6205" * tag 'drm-next-2025-12-03' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1869 commits) Revert "drm/amd: Skip power ungate during suspend for VPE" drm/amdgpu: use common defines for HUB faults drm/amdgpu/gmc12: add amdgpu_vm_handle_fault() handling drm/amdgpu/gmc11: add amdgpu_vm_handle_fault() handling drm/amdgpu: use static ids for ACP platform devs drm/amdgpu/sdma6: Update SDMA 6.0.3 FW version to include UMQ protected-fence fix drm/amdgpu: Forward VMID reservation errors drm/amdgpu/gmc8: Delegate VM faults to soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/gmc7: Delegate VM faults to soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/gmc6: Delegate VM faults to soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/gmc6: Cache VM fault info drm/amdgpu/gmc6: Don't print MC client as it's unknown drm/amdgpu/cz_ih: Enable soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/tonga_ih: Enable soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/iceland_ih: Enable soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/cik_ih: Enable soft IRQ handler ring drm/amdgpu/si_ih: Enable soft IRQ handler ring drm/amd/display: fix typo in display_mode_core_structs.h drm/amd/display: fix Smart Power OLED not working after S4 drm/amd/display: Move RGB-type check for audio sync to DCE HW sequence ...
2025-12-04Merge tag 'media/v6.19-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - New drivers: - Mali-C55 ISP - Rockchip VICAP (RKCIF) - RKVDEC HEVC Decoder - Renesas RZV2H IVC - Sony IMX111 CMOS sensor driver - Removed STi C8SECTPFE Driver - Added a V4L2 ISP generic framework - Usual set of cleanup, fixes and driver improvements * tag 'media/v6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (249 commits) media: rockchip: rkcif: add support for rk3568 vicap mipi capture media: rockchip: rkcif: add support for rk3568 vicap dvp capture media: rockchip: rkcif: add support for px30 vip dvp capture media: rockchip: rkcif: add abstraction for dma blocks media: rockchip: rkcif: add abstraction for interface and crop blocks media: rockchip: add driver for the rockchip camera interface media: dt-bindings: add rockchip rk3568 vicap media: dt-bindings: add rockchip px30 vip media: dt-bindings: video-interfaces: add defines for sampling modes Documentation: admin-guide: media: add rockchip camera interface media: mali-c55: Mark pm handlers as __maybe_unused media: mali-c55: Assert ISP blocks size correctness media: v4l2-isp: Rename block_info to block_type_info MAINTAINERS: Add entry for rzv2h-ivc driver media: platform: Add Renesas Input Video Control block driver dt-bindings: media: Add bindings for the RZ/V2H(P) IVC block Documentation: media: mali-c55: Document the mali-c55 parameter setting media: platform: Add mali-c55 parameters video node media: uapi: Add parameters structs to mali-c55-config.h media: mali-c55: Add image formats for Mali-C55 parameters buffer ...
2025-12-03Merge tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This has been another busy cycle for documentation, with a lot of build-system thrashing. That work should slow down from here on out. - The various scripts and tools for documentation were spread out in several directories; now they are (almost) all coalesced under tools/docs/. The holdout is the kernel-doc script, which cannot be easily moved without some further thought. - As the amount of Python code increases, we are accumulating modules that are imported by multiple programs. These modules have been pulled together under tools/lib/python/ -- at least, for documentation-related programs. There is other Python code in the tree that might eventually want to move toward this organization. - The Perl kernel-doc.pl script has been removed. It is no longer used by default, and nobody has missed it, least of all anybody who actually had to look at it. - The docs build was controlled by a complex mess of makefilese that few dared to touch. Mauro has moved that logic into a new program (tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper) that, with any luck at all, will be far easier to understand and maintain. - The get_feat.pl program, used to access information under Documentation/features/, has been rewritten in Python, bringing an end to the use of Perl in the docs subsystem. - The top-level README file has been reorganized into a more reader-friendly presentation. - A lot of Chinese translation additions - Typo fixes and documentation updates as usual" * tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (164 commits) docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapper README: restructure with role-based documentation and guidelines docs: kdoc: various fixes for grammar, spelling, punctuation docs: kdoc_parser: use '@' for Excess enum value docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that removal of Acks needs explanation too docs: kdoc_parser: add data/function attributes to ignore docs: MAINTAINERS: update Mauro's files/paths docs/zh_CN: Add wd719x.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Add libsas.rst translation get_feat.pl: remove it, as it got replaced by get_feat.py Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py: use class directly tools/docs/get_feat.py: convert get_feat.pl to Python Documentation/admin-guide: fix typo and comment in cscope example docs/zh_CN: Add data-integrity.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Add blk-mq.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Add block/index.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Update the Chinese translation of kbuild.rst docs: bring some order to our Python module hierarchy docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options ...
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: luo_core: Live Update OrchestratorPasha Tatashin
Patch series "Live Update Orchestrator", v8. 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. The other series that use LUO, are VFIO [1], IOMMU [2], and PCI [3] preservations. Github repo of this series [4]. The core of LUO is a framework for managing the lifecycle of preserved resources through a userspace-driven interface. Key features include: - Session Management Userspace agent (i.e. luod [5]) creates named sessions, each represented by a file descriptor (via centralized agent that controls /dev/liveupdate). The lifecycle of all preserved resources within a session is tied to this FD, ensuring automatic kernel cleanup if the controlling userspace agent crashes or exits unexpectedly. - File Preservation A handler-based framework allows specific file types (demonstrated here with memfd) to be preserved. Handlers manage the serialization, restoration, and lifecycle of their specific file types. - File-Lifecycle-Bound State A new mechanism for managing shared global state whose lifecycle is tied to the preservation of one or more files. This is crucial for subsystems like IOMMU or HugeTLB, where multiple file descriptors may depend on a single, shared underlying resource that must be preserved only once. - KHO Integration LUO drives the Kexec Handover framework programmatically to pass its serialized metadata to the next kernel. The LUO state is finalized and added to the kexec image just before the reboot is triggered. In the future this step will also be removed once stateless KHO is merged [6]. - Userspace Interface Control is provided via ioctl commands on /dev/liveupdate for creating and retrieving sessions, as well as on session file descriptors for managing individual files. - Testing The series includes a set of selftests, including userspace API validation, kexec-based lifecycle tests for various session and file scenarios, and a new in-kernel test module to validate the FLB logic. Introduce LUO, a mechanism intended to facilitate kernel updates while keeping designated devices operational across the transition (e.g., via kexec). The primary use case is updating hypervisors with minimal disruption to running virtual machines. For userspace side of hypervisor update we have copyless migration. LUO is for updating the kernel. This initial patch lays the groundwork for the LUO subsystem. Further functionality, including the implementation of state transition logic, integration with KHO, and hooks for subsystems and file descriptors, will be added in subsequent patches. Create a character device at /dev/liveupdate. A new uAPI header, <uapi/linux/liveupdate.h>, will define the necessary structures. The magic number for IOCTL is registered in Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251018000713.677779-1-vipinsh@google.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20250928190624.3735830-1-skhawaja@google.com [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20250916-luo-pci-v2-0-c494053c3c08@kernel.org [3] Link: https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-liveupdate/tree/luo/v8 [4] Link: https://tinyurl.com/luoddesign [5] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251020100306.2709352-1-jasonmiu@google.com [6] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251115233409.768044-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com [7] Link: https://github.com/soleen/linux/blob/luo/v8b03/diff.v7.v8 [8] Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> 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: 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: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-21Merge tag 'v6.18-rc6' into drm-nextDave Airlie
Linux 6.18-rc6 Backmerge in order to merge msm next Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2025-11-14Documentation: media: mali-c55: Document the mali-c55 parameter settingDaniel Scally
Document the mali-c55 parameter setting by expanding the relevant pages in both admin-guide/ and userspace-api/. Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Nayden Kanchev <nayden.kanchev@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-11-14Documentation: media: mali-c55: Add Statistics documentationDaniel Scally
Add documentation explaining the ability to capture statistics from the mali-c55 driver's new V4L2 device, as well as the various tap points from which those statistics can be drawn in the ISP's processing flow. Additionally add a page detailing the new V4L2 meta format for the mali-c55 statistics. Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Nayden Kanchev <nayden.kanchev@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-11-14media: uapi: Add controls for Mali-C55 ISPDaniel Scally
Add definitions and documentation for the custom control that will be needed by the Mali-C55 ISP driver. This will be a read only bitmask of the driver's capabilities, informing userspace of which blocks are fitted and which are absent. Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-11-14media: uapi: Add 20-bit bayer formatsDaniel Scally
The Mali-C55 requires input data be in 20-bit format, MSB aligned. Add some new media bus format macros to represent that input format. Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Co-developed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-11-14media: uapi: Add MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB202020_1X60 format codeDaniel Scally
The Mali-C55 ISP by ARM requires 20-bits per colour channel input on the bus. Add a new media bus format code to represent it. Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Nayden Kanchev <nayden.kanchev@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-11-14media: Documentation: uapi: Add V4L2 ISP documentationJacopo Mondi
Add userspace documentation for V4L2 ISP generic parameters and statistics formats. Reviewed-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Riesch <michael.riesch@collabora.com> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-11-06docs: netlink: Couple of intro-specs documentation fixesGal Pressman
Fix typo "handul" to "handful" and remove outdated limitation stating only generic netlink is supported (we have netlink-raw). Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105192908.686458-1-gal@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03Documentation: media: fix VIDIOC_REMOVE_BUFS typoHans Verkuil
Add missing `. The missing backtick messed up the documentation output. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
2025-10-29Documentation: clarify PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSHBrendan Jackman
For PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS and PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE means "disable the speculation bug" i.e. "enable the mitigation". For PR_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE means "disable the mitigation". This is not obvious, so document it. Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251015-l1d-flush-doc-v1-1-f8cefea3f2f2@google.com>
2025-10-18dma-buf: heaps: cma: Create CMA heap for each CMA reserved regionMaxime Ripard
Aside from the main CMA region, it can be useful to allow userspace to allocate from the other CMA reserved regions. Indeed, those regions can have specific properties that can be useful to a specific us-case. For example, one of them platform I've been with has ECC enabled on the entire memory but for a specific region. Using that region to allocate framebuffers can be particular beneficial because enabling the ECC has a performance and memory footprint cost. Thus, exposing these regions as heaps user-space can allocate from and import wherever needed allows to cover that use-case. For now, only shared-dma-pools regions with the reusable property (ie, backed by CMA) are supported, but eventually we'll want to support other DMA pools types. Since we collected all the CMA regions created during boot, we can simply iterate over all of them to create the heaps. This has a weird interaction with the recent work on the CMA name, in particular the backward compatibility code created by commit 854acbe75ff4 ("dma-buf: heaps: Give default CMA heap a fixed name"). Indeed, the old name was either 'reserved', or the name of the reserved-memory region device tree node if the linux,cma-default property was set. In both these cases, we have now collected this region during boot, and we're using the same name. So we're now largely redundant with the code to handle backward compatibility code, and we can thus remove it and the associated Kconfig option. Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> [sumits: rebased the doc to latest] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v8-5-04ce150ea3d9@kernel.org
2025-10-18doc: dma-buf: List the heaps by nameMaxime Ripard
Since we're going to introduce multiple instances of the CMA heap driver, there's no single CMA heap anymore. Let's use the heap name instead to differentiate between all the heaps available in the system. While we're at it, let's also rework the backward compatibility part to make it easier to amend later on. Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> [sumits: rebased to latest Doc] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v8-1-04ce150ea3d9@kernel.org
2025-10-17docs: media: dvb: fix dmx.h.rst.exceptionsMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are lots of broken links on dmx. Those are mostly linked to namespace handling. Yet, some symbols were pointed to the wrong locations, and there are some definitions that aren't needed. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <b2acf243771529daa925afddd2b68d07d7bbb164.1759329363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-10-17docs: media: dvb: headers: warn about broken cross referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Enable cross-reference warnings for demux header. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <8f98dde399df8b937dadf09168194bacce682c7d.1759329363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-10-17docs: media: dmx_types: place kerneldoc at the right namespaceMauro Carvalho Chehab
The DVB documentation is using DTV.dmx for all demux symbols. Use such domain for kernel-doc documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <27fcc036fb5c80bda8116029e1964ad229208095.1759329363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-10-17docs: cec: show broken xrefs and show TOC instead of cec.h contentMauro Carvalho Chehab
Enable xref broken warnings. While here, change the output to only show cross-references, as there's no need to show the entire cec.h header at the docs. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <c587872ca3685213d9f8e88277404c9e253633df.1759329363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2025-10-17docs: cec: cec.h.rst.exceptions: fix broken references from cec.hMauro Carvalho Chehab
All references there belong to CEC namespace. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <dd1270dd5d91538cdfb0b087127c53a9f4ba7885.1759329363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>