The macro for_each_console_srcu iterates over all registered consoles. It's
implied that all registered consoles have CON_ENABLED flag set, making
the check for the flag unnecessary. Call console_is_usable function to
fully verify if the given console is usable before calling the ->unblank
callback.
All consoles found on for_each_console are registered, meaning that all
of them have the CON_ENABLED flag set. Since NBCON was introduced it's
important to check if a given console also implements the NBCON callbacks.
The function console_is_usable does exactly that.
drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for CON_ENABLED and CON_BOOT
The original code tried to find a console that has CON_BOOT _or_
CON_ENABLED flag set. The flag CON_ENABLED is set to all registered
consoles, so in this case this check is always true, even for the
CON_BOOT consoles.
The initial intent of the kgdboc_earlycon_init was to get a console
early (CON_BOOT) or later on in the process (CON_ENABLED). The
code was using for_each_console macro, meaning that all console structs
were previously registered on the printk() machinery. At this point,
any console found on for_each_console is safe for kgdboc_earlycon_init
to use.
Dropping the check makes the code cleaner, and avoids further confusion
by future readers of the code.
Andy Shevchenko [Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:31:40 +0000 (09:31 +0100)]
lib/vsprintf: Unify FORMAT_STATE_NUM handlers
We have two almost identical pieces that handle FORMAT_STATE_NUM case.
The differences are:
- redundant {} for one-line if-else conditional
- missing blank line after variable definitions
- inverted conditional
John Ogness [Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:20:00 +0000 (11:26 +0106)]
printk: Avoid irq_work for printk_deferred() on suspend
With commit ("printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend") the
implementation of printk_get_console_flush_type() was modified to
avoid offloading when irq_work should be blocked during suspend.
Since printk uses the returned flush type to determine what
flushing methods are used, this was thought to be sufficient for
avoiding irq_work usage during the suspend phase.
However, vprintk_emit() implements a hack to support
printk_deferred(). In this hack, the returned flush type is
adjusted to make sure no legacy direct printing occurs when
printk_deferred() was used.
Because of this hack, the legacy offloading flushing method can
still be used, causing irq_work to be queued when it should not
be.
Adjust the vprintk_emit() hack to also consider
@console_irqwork_blocked so that legacy offloading will not be
chosen when irq_work should be blocked.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fra90xv4.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Fixes: 26873e3e7f0c ("printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend") Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
John Ogness [Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:03:48 +0000 (17:09 +0106)]
printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend
Allowing irq_work to be scheduled while trying to suspend has shown
to cause problems as some architectures interpret the pending
interrupts as a reason to not suspend. This became a problem for
printk() with the introduction of NBCON consoles. With every
printk() call, NBCON console printing kthreads are woken by queueing
irq_work. This means that irq_work continues to be queued due to
printk() calls late in the suspend procedure.
Avoid this problem by preventing printk() from queueing irq_work
once console suspending has begun. This applies to triggering NBCON
and legacy deferred printing as well as klogd waiters.
Since triggering of NBCON threaded printing relies on irq_work, the
pr_flush() within console_suspend_all() is used to perform the final
flushing before suspending consoles and blocking irq_work queueing.
NBCON consoles that are not suspended (due to the usage of the
"no_console_suspend" boot argument) transition to atomic flushing.
Introduce a new global variable @console_irqwork_blocked to flag
when irq_work queueing is to be avoided. The flag is used by
printk_get_console_flush_type() to avoid allowing deferred printing
and switch NBCON consoles to atomic flushing. It is also used by
vprintk_emit() to avoid klogd waking.
Add WARN_ON_ONCE(console_irqwork_blocked) to the irq_work queuing
functions to catch any code that attempts to queue printk irq_work
during the suspending/resuming procedure.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.13.x because no drivers in 6.12.x Fixes: 6b93bb41f6ea ("printk: Add non-BKL (nbcon) console basic infrastructure") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/DB9PR04MB8429E7DDF2D93C2695DE401D92C4A@DB9PR04MB8429.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113160351.113031-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
John Ogness [Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:03:47 +0000 (17:09 +0106)]
printk: Allow printk_trigger_flush() to flush all types
Currently printk_trigger_flush() only triggers legacy offloaded
flushing, even if that may not be the appropriate method to flush
for currently registered consoles. (The function predates the
NBCON consoles.)
Since commit 6690d6b52726 ("printk: Add helper for flush type
logic") there is printk_get_console_flush_type(), which also
considers NBCON consoles and reports all the methods of flushing
appropriate based on the system state and consoles available.
Update printk_trigger_flush() to use
printk_get_console_flush_type() to appropriately flush registered
consoles.
Andy Shevchenko [Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:32:31 +0000 (15:32 +0100)]
ptp: ocp: Switch to use %ptSp
Use %ptSp instead of open coded variants to print content of
struct timespec64 in human readable format.
While at it, fix wrong use of %ptT against struct timespec64.
It's kinda lucky that it worked just because the first member
there 64-bit and it's of time64_t type. Now with %ptS it may
be used correctly.
Andy Shevchenko [Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:32:28 +0000 (15:32 +0100)]
net: dsa: sja1105: Switch to use %ptSp
Use %ptSp instead of open coded variants to print content of
struct timespec64 in human readable format.
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113150217.3030010-15-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Andy Shevchenko [Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:32:15 +0000 (15:32 +0100)]
lib/vsprintf: Add specifier for printing struct timespec64
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.
Andy Shevchenko [Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:02:59 +0000 (16:02 +0100)]
lib/vsprintf: Deduplicate special hex number specifier data
Two functions use the same specifier data for the special hex number.
Almost the same as the field width is calculated on the size of the
given type. Due to that, make a compound literal macro in order to
deduplicate the rest.
Petr Mladek [Fri, 7 Nov 2025 19:47:20 +0000 (20:47 +0100)]
printk_ringbuffer: Create a helper function to decide whether more space is needed
The decision whether some more space is needed is tricky in the printk
ring buffer code:
1. The given lpos values might overflow. A subtraction must be used
instead of a simple "lower than" check.
2. Another CPU might reuse the space in the mean time. It can be
detected when the subtraction is bigger than DATA_SIZE(data_ring).
3. There is exactly enough space when the result of the subtraction
is zero. But more space is needed when the result is exactly
DATA_SIZE(data_ring).
Add a helper function to make sure that the check is done correctly
in all situations. Also it helps to make the code consistent and
better documented.
Petr Mladek [Fri, 7 Nov 2025 19:47:19 +0000 (20:47 +0100)]
printk_ringbuffer: Fix check of valid data size when blk_lpos overflows
The commit 67e1b0052f6bb8 ("printk_ringbuffer: don't needlessly wrap
data blocks around") allows to use the last 4 bytes of the ring buffer.
But the check for the @data_size was not properly updated in get_data().
It fails when "blk_lpos->next" overflows to "0". In this case:
+ is_blk_wrapped(data_ring, blk_lpos->begin, blk_lpos->next)
returns "false" because it checks "blk_lpos->next - 1".
+ "blk_lpos->begin < blk_lpos->next" fails because "blk_lpos->next"
is already 0.
+ is_blk_wrapped(data_ring, blk_lpos->begin + DATA_SIZE(data_ring),
blk_lpos->next) returns "false" because "begin_lpos" is from
the next wrap but "next_lpos - 1" is from the previous one.
As a result, get_data() triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE() for "Illegal
block description", for example:
Solve the problem by moving and fixing the sanity check. The problematic
if-else-if-else code will just distinguish three basic scenarios:
"regular" vs. "wrapped" vs. "too many times wrapped" block.
The new sanity check is more precise. A valid "data_size" must be
lower than half of the data buffer size. Also it must not be zero at
this stage. It allows to catch problematic "data_size" even for wrapped
blocks.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69096836.a70a0220.88fb8.0006.GAE@google.com/ Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69078fb6.050a0220.29fc44.0029.GAE@google.com/ Fixes: 67e1b0052f6bb82 ("printk_ringbuffer: don't needlessly wrap data blocks around") Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107194720.1231457-2-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Lukas Bulwahn [Wed, 5 Nov 2025 10:28:32 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
MAINTAINERS: add printk core-api doc file to PRINTK
The files in Documentation/core-api/ are by virtue of their top-level
directory part of the Documentation section in MAINTAINERS. Each file in
Documentation/core-api/ should however also have a further section in
MAINTAINERS it belongs to, which fits to the technical area of the
documented API in that file.
The printk.rst provides some explanation to the printk API defined in
include/linux/printk.h, which itself is part of the PRINTK section.
Petr Mladek [Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:49:12 +0000 (14:49 +0200)]
printk/nbcon: Release nbcon consoles ownership in atomic flush after each emitted record
printk() tries to flush messages with NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY on
nbcon consoles immediately. It might take seconds to flush all
pending lines on slow serial consoles. Note that there might be
hundreds of messages, for example:
[ 3.771531][ T1] pci 0000:3e:08.1: [8086:324
** replaying previous printk message **
[ 3.771531][ T1] pci 0000:3e:08.1: [8086:3246] type 00 class 0x088000 PCIe Root Complex Integrated Endpoint
[ ... more than 2000 lines, about 200kB messages ... ]
[ 3.837752][ T1] pci 0000:20:01.0: Adding to iommu group 18
[ 3.837851][ T
** replaying previous printk message **
[ 3.837851][ T1] pci 0000:20:03.0: Adding to iommu group 19
[ 3.837946][ T1] pci 0000:20:05.0: Adding to iommu group 20
[ ... more than 500 messages for iommu groups 21-590 ...]
[ 3.912932][ T1] pci 0000:f6:00.1: Adding to iommu group 591
[ 3.913070][ T1] pci 0000:f6:00.2: Adding to iommu group 592
[ 3.913243][ T1] DMAR: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
[ 3.913245][ T1] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[ 3.913245][ T1] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x000000004f000000-0x0000000053000000] (64MB)
[ 3.913324][ T1] RAPL PMU: API unit is 2^-32 Joules, 3 fixed counters, 655360 ms ovfl timer
[ 3.913325][ T1] RAPL PMU: hw unit of domain package 2^-14 Joules
[ 3.913326][ T1] RAPL PMU: hw unit of domain dram 2^-14 Joules
[ 3.913327][ T1] RAPL PMU: hw unit of domain psys 2^-0 Joules
[ 3.933486][ T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3.933488][ T1] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c:1156 uncore_pci_pmu_register+0x15e/0x180
[ 3.930291][ C0] watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0
[ 3.930291][ C0] Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
[...]
[ 3.930291][ C0] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 18 Comm: pr/ttyS0 Not tainted...
[...]
[ 3.930291][ C0] RIP: 0010:nbcon_reacquire_nobuf+0x11/0x50
[ 3.930291][ C0] Call Trace:
[...]
[ 3.930291][ C0] <TASK>
[ 3.930291][ C0] serial8250_console_write+0x16d/0x5c0
[ 3.930291][ C0] nbcon_emit_next_record+0x22c/0x250
[ 3.930291][ C0] nbcon_emit_one+0x93/0xe0
[ 3.930291][ C0] nbcon_kthread_func+0x13c/0x1c0
The are visible two takeovers of the console ownership:
- The 1st one is triggered by the "WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at
arch/x86/..." line printed with NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY.
- The 2nd one is triggered by the "Kernel panic - not syncing:
Hard LOCKUP" line printed with NBCON_PRIO_PANIC.
There are more than 2500 lines, at about 240kB, emitted between
the takeover and the 1st "WARNING" line in the emergency context.
This amount of pending messages had to be flushed by
nbcon_atomic_flush_pending() when WARN() printed its first line.
The atomic flush was holding the nbcon console context for too long so
that it triggered hard lockup on the CPU running the printk kthread
"pr/ttyS0". The kthread needed to reacquire the console ownership
for restoring the original serial port state in serial8250_console_write().
Prevent the hardlockup by releasing the nbcon console ownership after
each emitted record.
Note that __nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con() used to hold the console
ownership all the time because it blocked the printk kthread. Otherwise
the kthread tried to flush the messages in parallel which caused repeated
takeovers and more replayed messages.
It is not longer a problem because the repeated takeovers are blocked
by the counter of emergency contexts, see nbcon_cpu_emergency_cnt.
Petr Mladek [Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:49:11 +0000 (14:49 +0200)]
printk/nbcon/panic: Allow printk kthread to sleep when the system is in panic
The printk kthread might be running when there is a panic in progress.
But it is not able to acquire the console ownership any longer.
Prevent the desperate attempts to acquire the ownership and allow sleeping
in panic. It would make it behave the same as when there is any CPU
in an emergency context.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250926124912.243464-3-pmladek@suse.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Rebased on top of 6.18-rc1 (panic_in_progress() moved to panic.c)] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Petr Mladek [Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:49:10 +0000 (14:49 +0200)]
printk/nbcon: Block printk kthreads when any CPU is in an emergency context
In emergency contexts, printk() tries to flush messages directly even
on nbcon consoles. And it is allowed to takeover the console ownership
and interrupt the printk kthread in the middle of a message.
Only one takeover and one repeated message should be enough in most
situations. The first emergency message flushes the backlog and printk
kthreads get to sleep. Next emergency messages are flushed directly
and printk() does not wake up the kthreads.
However, the one takeover is not guaranteed. Any printk() in normal
context on another CPU could wake up the kthreads. Or a new emergency
message might be added before the kthreads get to sleep. Note that
the interrupted .write_thread() callbacks usually have to call
nbcon_reacquire_nobuf() and restore the original device setting
before checking for pending messages.
The risk of the repeated takeovers will be even bigger because
__nbcon_atomic_flush_pending_con is going to release the console
ownership after each emitted record. It will be needed to prevent
hardlockup reports on other CPUs which are busy waiting for
the context ownership, for example, by nbcon_reacquire_nobuf() or
__uart_port_nbcon_acquire().
The repeated takeovers break the output, for example:
A more robust solution is to block the printk kthread entirely whenever
*any* CPU enters an emergency context. This ensures that critical messages
can be flushed without contention from the normal, non-atomic printing
path.
Oleg Nesterov [Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:07:26 +0000 (16:07 +0100)]
printk_legacy_map: use LD_WAIT_CONFIG instead of LD_WAIT_SLEEP
printk_legacy_map is used to hide lock nesting violations caused by
legacy drivers and is using the wrong override type. LD_WAIT_SLEEP is
for always sleeping lock types such as mutex_t. LD_WAIT_CONFIG is for
lock type which are sleeping while spinning on PREEMPT_RT such as
spinlock_t.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251026150726.GA23223@redhat.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Fixed indentation.] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
kdb: Adapt kdb_msg_write to work with NBCON consoles
Function kdb_msg_write was calling con->write for any found console,
but it won't work on NBCON consoles. In this case we should acquire the
ownership of the console using NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY, since printing
kdb messages should only be interrupted by a panic.
At this point, the console is required to use the atomic callback. The
console is skipped if the write_atomic callback is not set or if the
context could not be acquired. The validation of NBCON is done by the
console_is_usable helper. The context is released right after
write_atomic finishes.
The oops_in_progress handling is only needed in the legacy consoles,
so it was moved around the con->write callback.
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016-nbcon-kgdboc-v6-5-866aac60a80e@suse.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Fixed compilation with !CONFIG_PRINTK.] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
This function will be used in the next patch to allow a driver to set
both the message and message length of a nbcon_write_context. This is
necessary because the function also initializes the ->unsafe_takeover
struct member. By using this helper we ensure that the struct is
initialized correctly.
printk: nbcon: Allow KDB to acquire the NBCON context
KDB can interrupt any console to execute the "mirrored printing" at any
time, so add an exception to nbcon_context_try_acquire_direct to allow
to get the context if the current CPU is the same as kdb_printf_cpu.
This change will be necessary for the next patch, which fixes
kdb_msg_write to work with NBCON consoles by calling ->write_atomic on
such consoles. But to print it first needs to acquire the ownership of
the console, so nbcon_context_try_acquire_direct is fixed here.
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016-nbcon-kgdboc-v6-3-866aac60a80e@suse.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Fix compilation with !CONFIG_KGDB_KDB.] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
These helpers will be used when calling console->write_atomic on
KDB code in the next patch. It's basically the same implementation
as nbcon_device_try_acquire, but using NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY when
acquiring the context.
If the acquire succeeds, the message and message length are assigned to
nbcon_write_context so ->write_atomic can print the message.
After release try to flush the console since there may be a backlog of
messages in the ringbuffer. The kthread console printers do not get a
chance to run while kdb is active.
Andrew Murray [Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:38:07 +0000 (16:38 +0100)]
printk: Use console_flush_one_record for legacy printer kthread
The legacy printer kthread uses console_lock and
__console_flush_and_unlock to flush records to the console. This
approach results in the console_lock being held for the entire
duration of a flush. This can result in large waiting times for
those waiting for console_lock especially where there is a large
volume of records or where the console is slow (e.g. serial). This
contention is observed during boot, as the call to filp_open in
console_on_rootfs will delay progression to userspace until any
in-flight flush is completed.
Let's instead use console_flush_one_record and release/reacquire
the console_lock between records.
On a PocketBeagle 2, with the following boot args:
"console=ttyS2,9600 initcall_debug=1 loglevel=10"
Without this patch:
[ 5.613166] +console_on_rootfs/filp_open
[ 5.643473] mmc1: SDHCI controller on fa00000.mmc [fa00000.mmc] using ADMA 64-bit
[ 5.643823] probe of fa00000.mmc returned 0 after 258244 usecs
[ 5.710520] mmc1: new UHS-I speed SDR104 SDHC card at address 5048
[ 5.721976] mmcblk1: mmc1:5048 SD32G 29.7 GiB
[ 5.747258] mmcblk1: p1 p2
[ 5.753324] probe of mmc1:5048 returned 0 after 40002 usecs
[ 15.595240] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to 30040000.pruss
[ 15.595282] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to e010000.watchdog
[ 15.595297] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to e000000.watchdog
[ 15.595437] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to 30300000.crc
[ 146.275961] -console_on_rootfs/filp_open ...
and with:
[ 5.477122] +console_on_rootfs/filp_open
[ 5.595814] mmc1: SDHCI controller on fa00000.mmc [fa00000.mmc] using ADMA 64-bit
[ 5.596181] probe of fa00000.mmc returned 0 after 312757 usecs
[ 5.662813] mmc1: new UHS-I speed SDR104 SDHC card at address 5048
[ 5.674367] mmcblk1: mmc1:5048 SD32G 29.7 GiB
[ 5.699320] mmcblk1: p1 p2
[ 5.705494] probe of mmc1:5048 returned 0 after 39987 usecs
[ 6.418682] -console_on_rootfs/filp_open ...
...
[ 15.593509] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to 30040000.pruss
[ 15.593551] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to e010000.watchdog
[ 15.593566] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to e000000.watchdog
[ 15.593704] ti_sci_pm_domains 44043000.system-controller:power-controller: sync_state() pending due to 30300000.crc
Where I've added a printk surrounding the call in console_on_rootfs
to filp_open.
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020-printk_legacy_thread_console_lock-v3-3-00f1f0ac055a@thegoodpenguin.co.uk
[pmladek@suse.com: Fixed ordering of variable definition suggested by John.] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Petr Mladek [Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:38:06 +0000 (16:38 +0100)]
printk: console_flush_one_record() code cleanup
console_flush_one_record() and console_flush_all() duplicate several
checks. They both want to tell the caller that consoles are not
longer usable in this context because it has lost the lock or
the lock has to be reserved for the panic CPU.
Remove the duplication by changing the semantic of the function
console_flush_one_record() return value and parameters.
The function will return true when it is able to do the job. It means
that there is at least one usable console. And the flushing was
not interrupted by a takeover or panic_on_other_cpu().
Also replace the @any_usable parameter with @try_again. The @try_again
parameter will be set to true when the function could do the job
and at least one console made a progress.
Motivation:
The callers need to know when
+ they should continue flushing => @try_again
+ when the console is flushed => can_do_the_job(return) && !@try_again
+ when @next_seq is valid => same as flushed
+ when lost console_lock => @takeover
The proposed change makes it clear when the function can do
the job. It simplifies the answer for the other questions.
Also the return value from console_flush_one_record() can
be used as return value from console_flush_all().
Andrew Murray [Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:38:05 +0000 (16:38 +0100)]
printk: Introduce console_flush_one_record
console_flush_all prints all remaining records to all usable consoles
whilst its caller holds console_lock. This can result in large waiting
times for those waiting for console_lock especially where there is a
large volume of records or where the console is slow (e.g. serial).
Let's extract the parts of this function which print a single record
into a new function named console_flush_one_record. This can later
be used for functions that will release and reacquire console_lock
between records.
This commit should not change existing functionality.
printk_ringbuffer: don't needlessly wrap data blocks around
Previously, data blocks that perfectly fit the data ring buffer would
get wrapped around to the beginning for no reason since the calculated
offset of the next data block would belong to the next wrap. Since this
offset is not actually part of the data block, but rather the offset of
where the next data block is going to start, there is no reason to
include it when deciding whether the current block fits the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250905144152.9137-2-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru
[pmladek@suse.com: Updated indentation.] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 18:13:11 +0000 (11:13 -0700)]
Merge tag 'printk-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Add KUnit test for the printk ring buffer
- Fix the check of the maximal record size which is allowed to be
stored into the printk ring buffer. It prevents corruptions of the
ring buffer.
Note that printk() is on the safe side. The messages are limited by
1kB buffer and are always small enough for the minimal log buffer
size 4kB, see CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT definition.
* tag 'printk-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
printk: ringbuffer: Fix data block max size check
printk: kunit: support offstack cpumask
printk: kunit: Fix __counted_by() in struct prbtest_rbdata
printk: ringbuffer: Explain why the KUnit test ignores failed writes
printk: ringbuffer: Add KUnit test
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 18:03:10 +0000 (11:03 -0700)]
Merge tag 'memblock-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock
Pull mm-init update from Mike Rapoport:
"Simplify deferred initialization of struct pages
Refactor and simplify deferred initialization of the memory map.
Beside the negative diffstat it gives 3ms (55ms vs 58ms) reduction in
the initialization of deferred pages on single node system with 64GiB
of RAM"
* tag 'memblock-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from()
mm/mm_init: drop deferred_init_maxorder()
mm/mm_init: deferred_init_memmap: use a job per zone
mm/mm_init: use deferred_init_memmap_chunk() in deferred_grow_zone()
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 17:59:06 +0000 (10:59 -0700)]
Merge tag 'sparc-for-6.18-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alarsson/linux-sparc
Pull sparc updates from Andreas Larsson:
- Add relocation handling for R_SPARC_UA64 for sparc64 that is
generated by llvm and clarify printout on missing relocation handler
- Fix missing hugetlb tte initialization for sun4u
- Code cleanup for redundant use of __GPF_NOWARN for sparc64
- Fix prototypes of reads[bwl]() for sparc64 by adding missing const
and volatile pointer qualifiers
- Fix bugs in accurate exception reporting in multiple machine specific
sparc64 variants of copy_{from,to}_user() for sparc64
- Fix memory leak in error handling for sparc32
- Drop -ansi from asflags and replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__
in headers for all arch/sparc
- Replace strcpy() with strscpy() for all arch/sparc
* tag 'sparc-for-6.18-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alarsson/linux-sparc: (22 commits)
sparc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in handle_nextprop_quirks()
sparc64: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in build_path_component()
sparc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in prom_32.c
sparc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in domain services driver
sparc64: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in prom_nextprop()
sparc: floppy: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in sun_floppy_init()
sparc: parport: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in ecpp_probe()
sparc: PCI: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()
sparc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers
sparc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers
sparc: Drop the "-ansi" from the asflags
sparc: fix error handling in scan_one_device()
sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from,to}_user for M7
sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_to_user for Niagara 4
sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara
sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III
sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC
sparc64: fix prototypes of reads[bwl]()
sparc64: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
sparc64: fix hugetlb for sun4u
...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 17:36:22 +0000 (10:36 -0700)]
Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull more RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:
- Support for the RISC-V-standardized RPMI interface.
RPMI is a platform management communication mechanism between OSes
running on application processors, and a remote platform management
processor. Similar to ARM SCMI, TI SCI, etc. This includes irqchip,
mailbox, and clk changes.
- Support for the RISC-V-standardized MPXY SBI extension.
MPXY is a RISC-V-specific standard implementing a shared memory
mailbox between S-mode operating systems (e.g., Linux) and M-mode
firmware (e.g., OpenSBI). It is part of this PR since one of its use
cases is to enable M-mode firmware to act as a single RPMI client for
all RPMI activity on a core (including S-mode RPMI activity).
Includes a mailbox driver.
- Some ACPI-related updates to enable the use of RPMI and MPXY.
- The addition of Linux-wide memcpy_{from,to}_le32() static inline
functions, for RPMI use.
- An ACPI Kconfig change to enable boot logos on any ACPI-using
architecture (including RISC-V)
- A RISC-V defconfig change to add GPIO keyboard and event device
support, for front panel shutdown or reboot buttons
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (26 commits)
clk: COMMON_CLK_RPMI should depend on RISCV
ACPI: support BGRT table on RISC-V
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for RISC-V RPMI and MPXY drivers
RISC-V: Enable GPIO keyboard and event device in RV64 defconfig
irqchip/riscv-rpmi-sysmsi: Add ACPI support
mailbox/riscv-sbi-mpxy: Add ACPI support
irqchip/irq-riscv-imsic-early: Export imsic_acpi_get_fwnode()
ACPI: RISC-V: Add RPMI System MSI to GSI mapping
ACPI: RISC-V: Add support to update gsi range
ACPI: RISC-V: Create interrupt controller list in sorted order
ACPI: scan: Update honor list for RPMI System MSI
ACPI: Add support for nargs_prop in acpi_fwnode_get_reference_args()
ACPI: property: Refactor acpi_fwnode_get_reference_args() to support nargs_prop
irqchip: Add driver for the RPMI system MSI service group
dt-bindings: Add RPMI system MSI interrupt controller bindings
dt-bindings: Add RPMI system MSI message proxy bindings
clk: Add clock driver for the RISC-V RPMI clock service group
dt-bindings: clock: Add RPMI clock service controller bindings
dt-bindings: clock: Add RPMI clock service message proxy bindings
mailbox: Add RISC-V SBI message proxy (MPXY) based mailbox driver
...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 17:25:22 +0000 (10:25 -0700)]
Merge tag 'x86_entry_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 entry updates from Dave Hansen:
"A pair of x86/entry updates.
The FRED one adjusts the kernel to the latest spec. The spec change
prevents attackers from abusing kernel entry points.
The second one came about because of the LASS work[1]. It moves the
vsyscall emulation code away from depending on X86_PF_INSTR which is
not available on some CPUs. Those CPUs are pretty obscure these days,
but this still seems like the right thing to do. It also makes this
code consistent with some things that the LASS code is going to do.
- Use RIP instead of X86_PF_INSTR for vsyscall emulation
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 17:20:26 +0000 (10:20 -0700)]
Merge tag 'x86_mm_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm update from Dave Hansen:
"A single change to remove an open-coded TLB flush operation by using
an existing helper. This came out of Rik van Riel's work to get the
INVLPGB instruction working.
- Change cpa_flush() to call flush_kernel_range() directly"
* tag 'x86_mm_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Change cpa_flush() to call flush_kernel_range() directly
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 17:01:30 +0000 (10:01 -0700)]
Merge tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 TDX updates from Dave Hansen:
"The biggest change here is making TDX and kexec play nicely together.
Before this, the memory encryption hardware (which doesn't respect
cache coherency) could write back old cachelines on top of data in the
new kernel, so kexec and TDX were made mutually exclusive. This
removes the limitation.
There is also some work to tighten up a hardware bug workaround and
some MAINTAINERS updates.
- Make TDX and kexec work together
- Skip TDX bug workaround when the bug is not present
- Update maintainers entries"
* tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/virt/tdx: Use precalculated TDVPR page physical address
KVM/TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs
x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation
x86/virt/tdx: Remove the !KEXEC_CORE dependency
x86/kexec: Disable kexec/kdump on platforms with TDX partial write erratum
x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL
x86/sme: Use percpu boolean to control WBINVD during kexec
x86/kexec: Consolidate relocate_kernel() function parameters
x86/tdx: Skip clearing reclaimed pages unless X86_BUG_TDX_PW_MCE is present
x86/tdx: Tidy reset_pamt functions
x86/tdx: Eliminate duplicate code in tdx_clear_page()
MAINTAINERS: Add KVM mail list to the TDX entry
MAINTAINERS: Add Rick Edgecombe as a TDX reviewer
MAINTAINERS: Update the file list in the TDX entry.
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 16:59:05 +0000 (09:59 -0700)]
Merge tag 'kgdb-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux
Pull kgdb updates from Daniel Thompson:
"A collection of small cleanups this cycle.
Thorsten Blum has replaced a number strcpy() calls with safer
alternatives (fixing a pointer aliasing bug in the process).
Colin Ian King has simplified things by removing some unreachable
code"
* tag 'kgdb-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kdb: remove redundant check for scancode 0xe0
kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with helper function in kdb_defcmd()
kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in parse_grep()
kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memmove() in vkdb_printf()
kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in kdb_strdup()
kernel: debug: gdbstub: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 15:52:16 +0000 (08:52 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"This excludes the bulk of the x86 changes, which I will send
separately. They have two not complex but relatively unusual conflicts
so I will wait for other dust to settle.
guest_memfd:
- Add support for host userspace mapping of guest_memfd-backed memory
for VM types that do NOT use support KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE
(which isn't precisely the same thing as CoCo VMs, since x86's
SEV-MEM and SEV-ES have no way to detect private vs. shared).
This lays the groundwork for removal of guest memory from the
kernel direct map, as well as for limited mmap() for
guest_memfd-backed memory.
For more information see:
- commit a6ad54137af9 ("Merge branch 'guest-memfd-mmap' into HEAD")
- guest_memfd in Firecracker:
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding
- direct map removal:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/
- mmap support:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328153133.3504118-1-tabba@google.com/
ARM:
- Add support for FF-A 1.2 as the secure memory conduit for pKVM,
allowing more registers to be used as part of the message payload.
- Change the way pKVM allocates its VM handles, making sure that the
privileged hypervisor is never tricked into using uninitialised
data.
- Speed up MMIO range registration by avoiding unnecessary RCU
synchronisation, which results in VMs starting much quicker.
- Add the dump of the instruction stream when panic-ing in the EL2
payload, just like the rest of the kernel has always done. This
will hopefully help debugging non-VHE setups.
- Add 52bit PA support to the stage-1 page-table walker, and make use
of it to populate the fault level reported to the guest on failing
to translate a stage-1 walk.
- Add NV support to the GICv3-on-GICv5 emulation code, ensuring
feature parity for guests, irrespective of the host platform.
- Fix some really ugly architecture problems when dealing with debug
in a nested VM. This has some bad performance impacts, but is at
least correct.
- Add enough infrastructure to be able to disable EL2 features and
give effective values to the EL2 control registers. This then
allows a bunch of features to be turned off, which helps cross-host
migration.
- Large rework of the selftest infrastructure to allow most tests to
transparently run at EL2. This is the first step towards enabling
NV testing.
- Various fixes and improvements all over the map, including one BE
fix, just in time for the removal of the feature.
LoongArch:
- Detect page table walk feature on new hardware
- Add sign extension with kernel MMIO/IOCSR emulation
- Improve in-kernel IPI emulation
- Improve in-kernel PCH-PIC emulation
- Move kvm_iocsr tracepoint out of generic code
RISC-V:
- Added SBI FWFT extension for Guest/VM with misaligned delegation
and pointer masking PMLEN features
- Added ONE_REG interface for SBI FWFT extension
- Added Zicbop and bfloat16 extensions for Guest/VM
- Enabled more common KVM selftests for RISC-V
- Added SBI v3.0 PMU enhancements in KVM and perf driver
s390:
- Improve interrupt cpu for wakeup, in particular the heuristic to
decide which vCPU to deliver a floating interrupt to.
- Clear the PTE when discarding a swapped page because of CMMA; this
bug was introduced in 6.16 when refactoring gmap code.
x86 selftests:
- Add #DE coverage in the fastops test (the only exception that's
guest- triggerable in fastop-emulated instructions).
- Fix PMU selftests errors encountered on Granite Rapids (GNR),
Sierra Forest (SRF) and Clearwater Forest (CWF).
- Minor cleanups and improvements
x86 (guest side):
- For the legacy PCI hole (memory between TOLUD and 4GiB) to UC when
overriding guest MTRR for TDX/SNP to fix an issue where ACPI
auto-mapping could map devices as WB and prevent the device drivers
from mapping their devices with UC/UC-.
- Make kvm_async_pf_task_wake() a local static helper and remove its
export.
- Use native qspinlocks when running in a VM with dedicated
vCPU=>pCPU bindings even when PV_UNHALT is unsupported.
Generic:
- Remove a redundant __GFP_NOWARN from kvm_setup_async_pf() as
__GFP_NOWARN is now included in GFP_NOWAIT.
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (178 commits)
KVM: s390: Fix to clear PTE when discarding a swapped page
KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1 in set_id_regs
KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove a duplicate register listing in set_id_regs
KVM: arm64: selftests: Cope with arch silliness in EL2 selftest
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add basic test for running in VHE EL2
KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable EL2 by default
KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize HCR_EL2
KVM: arm64: selftests: Use the vCPU attr for setting nr of PMU counters
KVM: arm64: selftests: Use hyp timer IRQs when test runs at EL2
KVM: arm64: selftests: Select SMCCC conduit based on current EL
KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide helper for getting default vCPU target
KVM: arm64: selftests: Alias EL1 registers to EL2 counterparts
KVM: arm64: selftests: Create a VGICv3 for 'default' VMs
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add unsanitised helpers for VGICv3 creation
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add helper to check for VGICv3 support
KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize VGICv3 only once
KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide kvm_arch_vm_post_create() in library code
KVM: selftests: Add ex_str() to print human friendly name of exception vectors
selftests/kvm: remove stale TODO in xapic_state_test
KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount
...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 15:48:16 +0000 (08:48 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"Just fixes and cleanups this time around. The mapping cleanups are
preparing the ground for new features, though"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
virtio-vdpa: Drop redundant conversion to bool
vduse: Use fixed 4KB bounce pages for non-4KB page size
vduse: switch to use virtio map API instead of DMA API
vdpa: introduce map ops
vdpa: support virtio_map
virtio: introduce map ops in virtio core
virtio_ring: rename dma_handle to map_handle
virtio: introduce virtio_map container union
virtio: rename dma helpers
virtio_ring: switch to use dma_{map|unmap}_page()
virtio_ring: constify virtqueue pointer for DMA helpers
virtio_balloon: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
vhost: vringh: Fix copy_to_iter return value check
vhost: vringh: Modify the return value check
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 15:24:54 +0000 (08:24 -0700)]
Merge tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:
- Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio
device file (Alex Mastro)
- Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for
vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to
be unused (Alex Williamson)
- Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for
removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava)
- VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace
drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to
provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David
Matlack, Josh Hilke)
- Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
(Nipun Gupta)
- Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin)
- Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro)
- Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin
Guan)
- Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and
resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson)
- Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave)
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 02:38:19 +0000 (19:38 -0700)]
Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Fix selftests/bpf (typo, conflicts) and unbreak BPF CI (Jiri Olsa)
- Remove linux/unaligned.h dependency for libbpf_sha256 (Andrii
Nakryiko) and add a test (Eric Biggers)
- Reject negative offsets for ALU operations in the verifier (Yazhou
Tang) and add a test (Eduard Zingerman)
- Skip scalar adjustment for BPF_NEG operation if destination register
is a pointer (Brahmajit Das) and add a test (KaFai Wan)
* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
libbpf: Fix missing #pragma in libbpf_utils.c
selftests/bpf: Add tests for rejection of ALU ops with negative offsets
selftests/bpf: Add test for libbpf_sha256()
bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops
libbpf: remove linux/unaligned.h dependency for libbpf_sha256()
libbpf: move libbpf_sha256() implementation into libbpf_utils.c
libbpf: move libbpf_errstr() into libbpf_utils.c
libbpf: remove unused libbpf_strerror_r and STRERR_BUFSIZE
libbpf: make libbpf_errno.c into more generic libbpf_utils.c
selftests/bpf: Add test for BPF_NEG alu on CONST_PTR_TO_MAP
bpf: Skip scalar adjustment for BPF_NEG if dst is a pointer
selftests/bpf: Fix realloc size in bpf_get_addrs
selftests/bpf: Fix typo in subtest_basic_usdt after merge conflict
selftests/bpf: Fix open-coded gettid syscall in uprobe syscall tests
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 02:36:39 +0000 (19:36 -0700)]
Merge tag 'soc-fixes-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc
Pull SoC build fix from Arnd Bergmann:
"One commit for the dt bindings was missing from the dt branch, this
one is already pending in the clk tree that contains the corresponding
device driver"
* tag 'soc-fixes-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc:
dt-bindings: clock: Add ARTPEC-8 clock controller
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 02:17:48 +0000 (19:17 -0700)]
Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"Usual driver updates (ufs, mpi3mr, lpfc, pm80xx, mpt3sas) plus
assorted cleanups and fixes.
The only core update is to sd.c and is mostly cosmetic"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (105 commits)
scsi: MAINTAINERS: Update FC element owners
scsi: mpt3sas: Update driver version to 54.100.00.00
scsi: mpt3sas: Add support for 22.5 Gbps SAS link rate
scsi: mpt3sas: Suppress unnecessary IOCLogInfo on CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE
scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()
scsi: ufs: ufs-qcom: Add support for limiting HS gear and rate
scsi: ufs: pltfrm: Add DT support to limit HS gear and gear rate
scsi: ufs: ufs-qcom: Remove redundant re-assignment to hs_rate
scsi: ufs: dt-bindings: Document gear and rate limit properties
scsi: ufs: core: Fix data race in CPU latency PM QoS request handling
scsi: libfc: Fix potential buffer overflow in fc_ct_ms_fill()
scsi: storvsc: Remove redundant ternary operators
scsi: ufs: core: Change MCQ interrupt enable flow
scsi: smartpqi: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user()
scsi: hpsa: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user()
scsi: hpsa: Fix potential memory leak in hpsa_big_passthru_ioctl()
scsi: lpfc: Copyright updates for 14.4.0.11 patches
scsi: lpfc: Update lpfc version to 14.4.0.11
scsi: lpfc: Convert debugfs directory counts from atomic to unsigned int
scsi: lpfc: Clean up extraneous phba dentries
...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 01:48:02 +0000 (18:48 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-6.18/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mikulas Patocka:
- a new dm-pcache target for read/write caching on persistent memory
- fix typos in docs
- misc small refactoring
- mark dm-error with DM_TARGET_PASSES_INTEGRITY
- dm-request-based: fix NULL pointer dereference and quiesce_depth out of sync
- dm-linear: optimize REQ_PREFLUSH
- dm-vdo: return error on corrupted metadata
- dm-integrity: support asynchronous hash interface
* tag 'for-6.18/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (27 commits)
dm raid: use proper md_ro_state enumerators
dm-integrity: prefer synchronous hash interface
dm-integrity: enable asynchronous hash interface
dm-integrity: rename internal_hash
dm-integrity: add the "offset" argument
dm-integrity: allocate the recalculate buffer with kmalloc
dm-integrity: introduce integrity_kmap and integrity_kunmap
dm-integrity: replace bvec_kmap_local with kmap_local_page
dm-integrity: use internal variable for digestsize
dm vdo: return error on corrupted metadata in start_restoring_volume functions
dm vdo: Update code to use mem_is_zero
dm: optimize REQ_PREFLUSH with data when using the linear target
dm-pcache: use int type to store negative error codes
dm: fix "writen"->"written"
dm-pcache: cleanup: fix coding style report by checkpatch.pl
dm-pcache: remove ctrl_lock for pcache_cache_segment
dm: fix NULL pointer dereference in __dm_suspend()
dm: fix queue start/stop imbalance under suspend/load/resume races
dm-pcache: add persistent cache target in device-mapper
dm error: mark as DM_TARGET_PASSES_INTEGRITY
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Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 01:35:22 +0000 (18:35 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma
Pull rdma updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
"A new Pensando ionic driver, a new Gen 3 HW support for Intel irdma,
and lots of small bnxt_re improvements.
- Small bug fixes and improves to hfi1, efa, mlx5, erdma, rdmarvt,
siw
- Allow userspace access to IB service records through the rdmacm
- Optimize dma mapping for erdma
- Fix shutdown of the GSI QP in mana
- Support relaxed ordering MR and fix a corruption bug with mlx5 DMA
Data Direct
- Many improvement to bnxt_re:
- Debugging features and counters
- Improve performance of some commands
- Change flow_label reporting in completions
- Mirror vnic
- RDMA flow support
- New RDMA driver for Pensando Ethernet devices: ionic
- Gen 3 hardware support for the Intel irdma driver
- Fix rdma routing resolution with VRFs"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (85 commits)
RDMA/ionic: Fix memory leak of admin q_wr
RDMA/siw: Always report immediate post SQ errors
RDMA/bnxt_re: improve clarity in ALLOC_PAGE handler
RDMA/irdma: Remove unused struct irdma_cq fields
RDMA/irdma: Fix positive vs negative error codes in irdma_post_send()
RDMA/bnxt_re: Remove non-statistics counters from hw_counters
RDMA/bnxt_re: Add debugfs info entry for device and resource information
RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix incorrect errno used in function comments
RDMA: Use %pe format specifier for error pointers
RDMA/ionic: Use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy
RDMA/ionic: Fix build failure on SPARC due to xchg() operand size
RDMA/rxe: Fix race in do_task() when draining
IB/sa: Fix sa_local_svc_timeout_ms read race
IB/ipoib: Ignore L3 master device
RDMA/core: Use route entry flag to decide on loopback traffic
RDMA/core: Resolve MAC of next-hop device without ARP support
RDMA/core: Squash a single user static function
RDMA/irdma: Update Kconfig
RDMA/irdma: Extend CQE Error and Flush Handling for GEN3 Devices
RDMA/irdma: Add Atomic Operations support
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Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 01:18:48 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus-iommufd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgg/iommufd
Pull iommufd updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
"Two minor fixes:
- Make the selftest work again on x86 platforms with iommus enabled
- Fix a compiler warning in the userspace kselftest"
* tag 'for-linus-iommufd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgg/iommufd:
iommufd: Register iommufd mock devices with fwspec
iommu/selftest: prevent use of uninitialized variable
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 01:15:39 +0000 (18:15 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fwctl/fwctl
Pull fwctl updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
- Fix mismatched kvalloc() kfree() on error paths
- Remove NOP dev_err_probe(), shouldn't print on error paths anyhow
- For mlx5 permit:
MLX5_CMD_OP_MODIFY_CONG_STATUS
MLX5_CMD_OP_QUERY_ADJACENT_FUNCTIONS_ID
MLX5_CMD_OP_DELEGATE_VHCA_MANAGEMENT
MLX5_CMD_OP_QUERY_DELEGATED_VHCA
- Use memdup_user in pds
* tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fwctl/fwctl:
pds_fwctl: Replace kzalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user in pdsfc_fw_rpc
fwctl/mlx5: Add Adjacent function query commands and their scope
fwctl/mlx5: Allow MODIFY_CONG_STATUS command
pds_fwctl: Remove the use of dev_err_probe()
fwctl/mlx5: Fix memory alloc/free in mlx5ctl_fw_rpc()
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 01:00:11 +0000 (18:00 -0700)]
Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
- Inte VT-d:
- IOMMU driver updated to the latest VT-d specification
- Don't enable PRS if PDS isn't supported
- Replace snprintf with scnprintf
- Fix legacy mode page table dump through debugfs
- Miscellaneous cleanups
- AMD-Vi:
- Support kdump boot when SNP is enabled
- Apple-DART:
- 4-level page-table support
- RISC-V IOMMU:
- ACPI support
- Small number of miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux: (22 commits)
iommu/vt-d: Disallow dirty tracking if incoherent page walk
iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Avoid dumping context command register
iommu/vt-d: Removal of Advanced Fault Logging
iommu/vt-d: PRS isn't usable if PDS isn't supported
iommu/vt-d: Remove LPIG from page group response descriptor
iommu/vt-d: Drop unused cap_super_offset()
iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Fix legacy mode page table dump logic
iommu/vt-d: Replace snprintf with scnprintf in dmar_latency_snapshot()
iommu/io-pgtable-dart: Fix off by one error in table index check
iommu/riscv: Add ACPI support
ACPI: scan: Add support for RISC-V in acpi_iommu_configure_id()
ACPI: RISC-V: Add support for RIMT
iommu/omap: Use int type to store negative error codes
iommu/apple-dart: Clear stream error indicator bits for T8110 DARTs
iommu/amd: Skip enabling command/event buffers for kdump
crypto: ccp: Skip SEV and SNP INIT for kdump boot
iommu/amd: Reuse device table for kdump
iommu/amd: Add support to remap/unmap IOMMU buffers for kdump
iommu/apple-dart: Add 4-level page table support
iommu/io-pgtable-dart: Add 4-level page table support
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Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 00:41:12 +0000 (17:41 -0700)]
Merge tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of 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()
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 4 Oct 2025 00:16:13 +0000 (17:16 -0700)]
Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
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()
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Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 23:32:36 +0000 (16:32 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull file->f_path constification from Al Viro:
"Only one thing was modifying ->f_path of an opened file - acct(2).
Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments
in functions that might be given &file->f_path ends up with the
situation where we can turn ->f_path into an anon union of const
struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only
in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file
instances that are yet to be opened"
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 21:20:40 +0000 (14:20 -0700)]
Merge tag 'nfs-for-6.18-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client updates from Anna Schumaker:
"New Features:
- Add a Kconfig option to redirect dfprintk() to the trace buffer
- Enable use of the RWF_DONTCACHE flag on the NFS client
- Add striped layout handling to pNFS flexfiles
- Add proper localio handling for READ and WRITE O_DIRECT
Bugfixes:
- Handle NFS4ERR_GRACE errors during delegation recall
- Fix NFSv4.1 backchannel max_resp_sz verification check
- Fix mount hang after CREATE_SESSION failure
- Fix d_parent->d_inode locking in nfs4_setup_readdir()
Other Cleanups and Improvements:
- Improvements to write handling tracepoints
- Fix a few trivial spelling mistakes
- Cleanups to the rpcbind cleanup call sites
- Convert the SUNRPC xdr_buf to use a scratch folio instead of
scratch page
- Remove unused NFS_WBACK_BUSY() macro
- Remove __GFP_NOWARN flags
- Unexport rpc_malloc() and rpc_free()"
* tag 'nfs-for-6.18-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs: (46 commits)
NFS: add basic STATX_DIOALIGN and STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN support
nfs/localio: add tracepoints for misaligned DIO READ and WRITE support
nfs/localio: add proper O_DIRECT support for READ and WRITE
nfs/localio: refactor iocb initialization
nfs/localio: refactor iocb and iov_iter_bvec initialization
nfs/localio: avoid issuing misaligned IO using O_DIRECT
nfs/localio: make trace_nfs_local_open_fh more useful
NFSD: filecache: add STATX_DIOALIGN and STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN support
sunrpc: unexport rpc_malloc() and rpc_free()
NFSv4/flexfiles: Add support for striped layouts
NFSv4/flexfiles: Update layout stats & error paths for striped layouts
NFSv4/flexfiles: Write path updates for striped layouts
NFSv4/flexfiles: Commit path updates for striped layouts
NFSv4/flexfiles: Read path updates for striped layouts
NFSv4/flexfiles: Update low level helper functions to be DS stripe aware.
NFSv4/flexfiles: Add data structure support for striped layouts
NFSv4/flexfiles: Use ds_commit_idx when marking a write commit
NFSv4/flexfiles: Remove cred local variable dependency
nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing
NFS: Enable use of the RWF_DONTCACHE flag on the NFS client
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Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 21:13:23 +0000 (14:13 -0700)]
Merge tag '6.18-rc-part1-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
Pull smb client updates from Steve French:
- Fix oops in crypt message
- Remove duplicate arc4 code
- Fix potential io_uring reconnect
- Two important directory leases fixes and three perf improvements
- Three minor cleanups
- Four debug improvements (e.g. for showing more information on leases,
and one for adding more helpful information on reconnect)
* tag '6.18-rc-part1-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: client: force multichannel=off when max_channels=1
smb client: fix bug with newly created file in cached dir
smb: client: short-circuit negative lookups when parent dir is fully cached
smb: client: short-circuit in open_cached_dir_by_dentry() if !dentry
smb: client: remove pointless cfid->has_lease check
smb: client: transport: minor indentation style fix
smb: client: transport: avoid reconnects triggered by pending task work
smb: client: remove unused fid_lock
smb: client: update cfid->last_access_time in open_cached_dir_by_dentry()
smb: client: ensure open_cached_dir_by_dentry() only returns valid cfid
smb: client: account smb directory cache usage and per-tcon totals
smb: client: add drop_dir_cache module parameter to invalidate cached dirents
smb: client: show lease state as R/H/W (or NONE) in open_files
smb: client: fix crypto buffers in non-linear memory
smb: Use arc4 library instead of duplicate arc4 code
smb: client: add tcon information to smb2_reconnect() debug messages
- Fix potential hash collisions in share and session lists
- Debugging improvement - making per-connection threads easier to
identify
- Improve socket creation
- Fix return code mapping for posix query fs info
- Add support for limiting the maximum number of connections per IP
address, extending the existing connection limiting mechanism to
enforce per-IP connection limits alongside the global connection
limit
* tag 'v6.18rc1-part1-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd:
ksmbd: increase session and share hash table bits
ksmbd: replace connection list with hash table
ksmbd: add an error print when maximum IP connections limit is reached
ksmbd: add max ip connections parameter
ksmbd: fix error code overwriting in smb2_get_info_filesystem()
ksmbd: copy overlapped range within the same file
ksmbd: use sock_create_kern interface to create kernel socket
ksmbd: make ksmbd thread names distinct by client IP
ksmbd: Fix race condition in RPC handle list access
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 21:05:12 +0000 (14:05 -0700)]
Merge tag 'f2fs-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This focuses on two primary updates for Android devices.
First, it sets hash-based file name lookup as the default method to
improve performance, while retaining an option to fall back to a
linear lookup.
Second, it resolves a persistent issue with the 'checkpoint=enable'
feature.
The update further boosts performance by prefetching node blocks,
merging FUA writes more efficiently, and optimizing block allocation
policies.
The release is rounded out by a comprehensive set of bug fixes that
address memory safety, data integrity, and potential system hangs,
along with minor documentation and code clean-ups.
Enhancements:
- add mount option and sysfs entry to tune the lookup mode
- dump more information and add a timeout when enabling/disabling
checkpoints
- readahead node blocks in F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRECACHE mode
- merge FUA command with the existing writes
- allocate HOT_DATA for IPU writes
- Use allocate_section_policy to control write priority in
multi-devices setups
- add reserved nodes for privileged users
- Add bggc_io_aware to adjust the priority of BG_GC when issuing IO
- show the list of donation files
Bug fixes:
- add missing dput() when printing the donation list
- fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio()
- add sanity check on ei.len in __update_extent_tree_range()
- fix infinite loop in __insert_extent_tree()
- fix zero-sized extent for precache extents
- fix to mitigate overhead of f2fs_zero_post_eof_page()
- fix to avoid migrating empty section
- fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()
- fix to update map->m_next_extent correctly in f2fs_map_blocks()
- fix wrong layout information on 16KB page
- fix to do sanity check on node footer for non inode dnode
- fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference in
f2fs_check_quota_consistency()
- fix to detect potential corrupted nid in free_nid_list
- fix to clear unusable_cap for checkpoint=enable
- fix to zero data after EOF for compressed file correctly
- fix to avoid overflow while left shift operation
- fix condition in __allow_reserved_blocks()"
* tag 'f2fs-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (43 commits)
f2fs: add missing dput() when printing the donation list
f2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio()
f2fs: readahead node blocks in F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRECACHE mode
f2fs: add sanity check on ei.len in __update_extent_tree_range()
f2fs: fix infinite loop in __insert_extent_tree()
f2fs: fix zero-sized extent for precache extents
f2fs: fix to mitigate overhead of f2fs_zero_post_eof_page()
f2fs: fix to avoid migrating empty section
f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()
f2fs: fix to update map->m_next_extent correctly in f2fs_map_blocks()
f2fs: fix wrong layout information on 16KB page
f2fs: clean up error handing of f2fs_submit_page_read()
f2fs: avoid unnecessary folio_clear_uptodate() for cleanup
f2fs: merge FUA command with the existing writes
f2fs: allocate HOT_DATA for IPU writes
f2fs: Use allocate_section_policy to control write priority in multi-devices setups
Documentation: f2fs: Reword title
Documentation: f2fs: Indent compression_mode option list
Documentation: f2fs: Wrap snippets in literal code blocks
Documentation: f2fs: Span write hint table section rows
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Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 21:02:53 +0000 (14:02 -0700)]
Merge tag 'exfat-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/exfat
Pull exfat updates from Namjae Jeon:
- Add support for FS_IOC_{GET,SET}FSLABEL ioctl
- Two small clean-up patches
- Optimizes allocation bitmap loading time on large partitions with
small cluster sizes
- Allow changes for discard, zero_size_dir, and errors options via
remount
- Validate that the clusters used for the allocation bitmap are
correctly marked as in-use during mount, preventing potential data
corruption from reallocating the bitmap's own space
- Uses ratelimit to avoid too many error prints on I/O error path
* tag 'exfat-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/exfat:
exfat: Add support for FS_IOC_{GET,SET}FSLABEL
exfat: combine iocharset and utf8 option setup
exfat: support modifying mount options via remount
exfat: optimize allocation bitmap loading time
exfat: Remove unnecessary parentheses
exfat: drop redundant conversion to bool
exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap
exfat: limit log print for IO error
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:59:56 +0000 (13:59 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus-6.18-ofs1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux
Pull orangefs updates from Mike Marshall:
"Two cleanups and a bug fix:
- Remove unused type in macro fill_default_sys_attrs (Zhen Ni)
- Replace kzalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul (Thorsten Blum)
- Fix xattr related buffer overflow...
A message was forwarded to me from Disclosure <disclosure@aisle.com>
indicating a problem with a loop condition in our xattr code. When
I fixed the problem it exposed a related memory leak problem, and I
fixed that too"
* tag 'for-linus-6.18-ofs1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux:
fs/orangefs: Replace kzalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow...
orangefs: Remove unused type in macro fill_default_sys_attrs
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:57:33 +0000 (13:57 -0700)]
Merge tag 'ntfs3_for_6.18' of https://github.com/Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3
Pull ntfs3 updates from Konstantin Komarov:
"Added:
- support for FS_IOC_{GET,SET}FSLABEL ioctl
- reject index allocation if $BITMAP is empty but blocks exist
Fixed:
- integer overflow in run_unpack()
- resource leak bug in wnd_extend()
Changed:
- pretend $Extend records as regular files
- stop using write_cache_pages"
* tag 'ntfs3_for_6.18' of https://github.com/Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3:
ntfs3: stop using write_cache_pages
fs/ntfs3: reject index allocation if $BITMAP is empty but blocks exist
fs/ntfs3: Fix a resource leak bug in wnd_extend()
fs: ntfs3: Fix integer overflow in run_unpack()
ntfs3: pretend $Extend records as regular files
ntfs3: add FS_IOC_SETFSLABEL ioctl
ntfs3: add FS_IOC_GETFSLABEL ioctl
ntfs3: transition magic number to shared constant
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:54:23 +0000 (13:54 -0700)]
Merge tag 'jfs-6.18' of github.com:kleikamp/linux-shaggy
Pull jfs updates from Dave Kleikamp:
"A few fixes and cleanups for JFS"
* tag 'jfs-6.18' of github.com:kleikamp/linux-shaggy:
jfs: replace hardcoded magic number with DTPAGEMAXSLOT constant
JFS: Remove redundant 0 value initialization
JFS: Remove unnecessary parentheses
jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager
jfs: Verify inode mode when loading from disk
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:47:10 +0000 (13:47 -0700)]
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"New ext4 features:
- Add support so tune2fs can modify/update the superblock using an
ioctl, without needing write access to the block device
- Add support for 32-bit reserved uid's and gid's
Bug fixes:
- Fix potential warnings and other failures caused by corrupted /
fuzzed file systems
- Fail unaligned direct I/O write with EINVAL instead of silently
falling back to buffered I/O
- Correectly handle fsmap queries for metadata mappings
- Avoid journal stalls caused by writeback throttling
- Add some missing GFP_NOFAIL flags to avoid potential deadlocks
under extremem memory pressure
Cleanups:
- Remove obsolete EXT3 Kconfigs"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix checks for orphan inodes
ext4: validate ea_ino and size in check_xattrs
ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update
ext4: implemet new ioctls to set and get superblock parameters
ext4: add support for 32-bit default reserved uid and gid values
ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()
ext4: fix an off-by-one issue during moving extents
ext4: increase i_disksize to offset + len in ext4_update_disksize_before_punch()
ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big
ext4: fail unaligned direct IO write with EINVAL
ext4: correctly handle queries for metadata mappings
ext4: increase IO priority of fastcommit
ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options
jbd2: increase IO priority of checkpoint
ext4: fix potential null deref in ext4_mb_init()
ext4: add ext4_sb_bread_nofail() helper function for ext4_free_branches()
ext4: replace min/max nesting with clamp()
fs: ext4: change GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS to avoid deadlock
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:44:05 +0000 (13:44 -0700)]
Merge tag 'fs_for_v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull udf and quota updates from Jan Kara:
"A fix for UDF and quota"
* tag 'fs_for_v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling
fs: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:23:10 +0000 (13:23 -0700)]
Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
- a couple of small cleanups and fixes
- implement fanotify watchdog that reports processes that fail to
respond to fanotify permission events in a given time
* tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fanotify: add watchdog for permission events
fanotify: Validate the return value of mnt_ns_from_dentry() before dereferencing
fsnotify: fix "rewriten"->"rewritten"
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 19:48:18 +0000 (12:48 -0700)]
Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
- Extend copy_file_range interface to be fully 64bit capable (Miklos)
- Add selftest for fusectl (Chen Linxuan)
- Move fuse docs into a separate directory (Bagas Sanjaya)
- Allow fuse to enter freezable state in some cases (Sergey
Senozhatsky)
- Clean up writeback accounting after removing tmp page copies (Joanne)
- Optimize virtiofs request handling (Li RongQing)
- Add synchronous FUSE_INIT support (Miklos)
- Allow server to request prune of unused inodes (Miklos)
- Fix deadlock with AIO/sync release (Darrick)
- Add some prep patches for block/iomap support (Darrick)
- Misc fixes and cleanups
* tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (26 commits)
fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file
fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file
fuse: enable FUSE_SYNCFS for all fuseblk servers
fuse: capture the unique id of fuse commands being sent
fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers
mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
fuse: add prune notification
fuse: remove redundant calls to fuse_copy_finish() in fuse_notify()
fuse: fix possibly missing fuse_copy_finish() call in fuse_notify()
fuse: remove FUSE_NOTIFY_CODE_MAX from <uapi/linux/fuse.h>
fuse: remove fuse_readpages_end() null mapping check
fuse: fix references to fuse.rst -> fuse/fuse.rst
fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT
fuse: zero initialize inode private data
fuse: remove unused 'inode' parameter in fuse_passthrough_open
virtio_fs: fix the hash table using in virtio_fs_enqueue_req()
mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT
fuse: use default writeback accounting
virtio_fs: Remove redundant spinlock in virtio_fs_request_complete()
fuse: remove unneeded offset assignment when filling write pages
...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 19:14:24 +0000 (12:14 -0700)]
Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs
Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein:
- Work by André Almeida to support case-insensitive overlayfs
Underlying case-insensitive filesystems casefolding is per directory,
but for overlayfs it is all-or-nothing. It supports layers where all
directories are casefolded (with same encoding) or layers where no
directories are casefolded.
- A fix for a "bug" in Neil's ovl directory lock changes, which only
manifested itself with casefold enabled layers which may return an
unhashed negative dentry from lookup.
* tag 'ovl-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
ovl: make sure that ovl_create_real() returns a hashed dentry
ovl: Support mounting case-insensitive enabled layers
ovl: Check for casefold consistency when creating new dentries
ovl: Add S_CASEFOLD as part of the inode flag to be copied
ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sb
ovl: Ensure that all layers have the same encoding
ovl: Create ovl_casefold() to support casefolded strncmp()
ovl: Prepare for mounting case-insensitive enabled layers
fs: Create sb_same_encoding() helper
fs: Create sb_encoding() helper
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 18:37:50 +0000 (11:37 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc non-vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted dead code removal around asm/pgtable.h"
* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
alpha: unobfuscate _PAGE_P() definition
kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR
alpha: get rid of the remnants of BAD_PAGE and friends
SET_PAGE_DIR() users had been gone since 2.3.12pre1
PAGE_PTR() had been last used outside of arch/* in 1.1.94
csky: remove BS check for FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 18:14:02 +0000 (11:14 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull d_name audit update from Al Viro:
"Simplifying ->d_name audits, easy part.
Turn dentry->d_name into an anon union of const struct qsrt (d_name
itself) and a writable alias (__d_name).
With constification of some struct qstr * arguments of functions that
get &dentry->d_name passed to them, that ends up with all
modifications provably done only in fs/dcache.c (and a fairly small
part of it).
Any new places doing modifications will be easy to find - grep for
__d_name will suffice"
* tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
make it easier to catch those who try to modify ->d_name
generic_ci_validate_strict_name(): constify name argument
afs_dir_search: constify qstr argument
afs_edit_dir_{add,remove}(): constify qstr argument
exfat_find(): constify qstr argument
security_dentry_init_security(): constify qstr argument
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:55:35 +0000 (10:55 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pull-nfsctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull nfsctl updates from Al Viro:
"nfsctl cleanups and a fix"
* tag 'pull-nfsctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
nfsd_get_inode(): lift setting ->i_{,f}op to callers.
nfsdfs_create_files(): switch to simple_start_creating()
_nfsd_symlink(): switch to simple_start_creating()
nfsd_mkdir(): switch to simple_start_creating()
nfsctl: symlink has no business bumping link count of parent directory
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:51:44 +0000 (10:51 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull fs_context updates from Al Viro:
"Change vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions
Get rid of the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of
the string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that
do want separate length"
* tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
do_nfs4_mount(): switch to vfs_parse_fs_string()
change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:19:44 +0000 (10:19 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
"Several piles this cycle, this mount-related one being the largest and
trickiest:
- saner handling of guards in fs/namespace.c, getting rid of
needlessly strong locking in some of the users
- lock_mount() calling conventions change - have it set the
environment for attaching to given location, storing the results in
caller-supplied object, without altering the passed struct path.
Make unlock_mount() called as __cleanup for those objects. It's not
exactly guard(), but similar to it
- MNT_WRITE_HOLD done right.
mnt_hold_writers() does *not* mess with ->mnt_flags anymore, so
insertion of a new mount into ->s_mounts of underlying superblock
does not, in itself, expose ->mnt_flags of that mount to concurrent
modifications
- getting rid of pathological cases when umount() spends quadratic
time removing the victims from propagation graph - part of that had
been dealt with last cycle, this should finish it
- a bunch of stuff constified
- assorted cleanups
* tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
constify {__,}mnt_is_readonly()
WRITE_HOLD machinery: no need for to bump mount_lock seqcount
struct mount: relocate MNT_WRITE_HOLD bit
preparations to taking MNT_WRITE_HOLD out of ->mnt_flags
setup_mnt(): primitive for connecting a mount to filesystem
simplify the callers of mnt_unhold_writers()
copy_mnt_ns(): use guards
copy_mnt_ns(): use the regular mechanism for freeing empty mnt_ns on failure
open_detached_copy(): separate creation of namespace into helper
open_detached_copy(): don't bother with mount_lock_hash()
path_has_submounts(): use guard(mount_locked_reader)
fs/namespace.c: sanitize descriptions for {__,}lookup_mnt()
ecryptfs: get rid of pointless mount references in ecryptfs dentries
umount_tree(): take all victims out of propagation graph at once
do_mount(): use __free(path_put)
do_move_mount_old(): use __free(path_put)
constify can_move_mount_beneath() arguments
path_umount(): constify struct path argument
may_copy_tree(), __do_loopback(): constify struct path argument
path_mount(): constify struct path argument
...
Jaegeuk Kim [Thu, 2 Oct 2025 01:55:32 +0000 (01:55 +0000)]
f2fs: add missing dput() when printing the donation list
We missed to call dput() on the grabbed dentry.
Fixes: f1a49c1b112b ("f2fs: show the list of donation files") Reviewed-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 01:44:54 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
completes the removal of this legacy IDR API
- "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place
- "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
delaytop monitoring tool
- "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
EFI and KHO
- "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark
- plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 3 Oct 2025 01:18:33 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Oct 2025 22:58:05 +0000 (15:58 -0700)]
Merge tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- A new layer for caching objects for allocation and free via percpu
arrays called sheaves.
The aim is to combine the good parts of SLAB (lower-overhead and
simpler percpu caching, compared to SLUB) without the past issues
with arrays for freeing remote NUMA node objects and their flushing.
It also allows more efficient kfree_rcu(), and cheaper object
preallocations for cases where the exact number of objects is
unknown, but an upper bound is.
Currently VMAs and maple nodes are using this new caching, with a
plan to enable it for all caches and remove the complex SLUB fastpath
based on cpu (partial) slabs and this_cpu_cmpxchg_double().
(Vlastimil Babka, with Liam Howlett and Pedro Falcato for the maple
tree changes)
- Re-entrant kmalloc_nolock(), which allows opportunistic allocations
from NMI and tracing/kprobe contexts.
Building on prior page allocator and memcg changes, it will result in
removing BPF-specific caches on top of slab (Alexei Starovoitov)
- Various fixes and cleanups. (Kuan-Wei Chiu, Matthew Wilcox, Suren
Baghdasaryan, Ye Liu)
* tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (40 commits)
slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().
slab: Reuse first bit for OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL
slab: Make slub local_(try)lock more precise for LOCKDEP
mm: Introduce alloc_frozen_pages_nolock()
mm: Allow GFP_ACCOUNT to be used in alloc_pages_nolock().
locking/local_lock: Introduce local_lock_is_locked().
maple_tree: Convert forking to use the sheaf interface
maple_tree: Add single node allocation support to maple state
maple_tree: Prefilled sheaf conversion and testing
tools/testing: Add support for prefilled slab sheafs
maple_tree: Replace mt_free_one() with kfree()
maple_tree: Use kfree_rcu in ma_free_rcu
testing/radix-tree/maple: Hack around kfree_rcu not existing
tools/testing: include maple-shim.c in maple.c
maple_tree: use percpu sheaves for maple_node_cache
mm, vma: use percpu sheaves for vm_area_struct cache
tools/testing: Add support for changes to slab for sheaves
slab: allow NUMA restricted allocations to use percpu sheaves
tools/testing/vma: Implement vm_refcnt reset
slab: skip percpu sheaves for remote object freeing
...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Oct 2025 22:17:01 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:
- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS
- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions
- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
offloads capabilities
- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath
- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
such HW
- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds
- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
synchronize_rcu() on delete
- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
magnitude faster on large switches
- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios
- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets
- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down
- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups
- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races
- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
reducing code duplication
- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
XDP buffer
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:
- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
parser
Driver API:
- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection
- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups
- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath
- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
in RX ring queries and RSS configuration
- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause
- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
controlling the average smoothing factor
Device drivers:
- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)
- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC
- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
devices (dibps)
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts
- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
to improve memory efficiency
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4):
- support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115
- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling
- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support
- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
- GTK rekey fixes
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"
* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
net: use llist for sd->defer_list
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
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