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# 6556fde2 19-Dec-2025 Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

kcov: Enable context analysis

Enable context analysis for the KCOV subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https:

kcov: Enable context analysis

Enable context analysis for the KCOV subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-30-elver@google.com

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# 48a1b232 01-Nov-2025 Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate

Move KHO to kernel/liveupdate/ in preparation of placing all Live Update
core kernel related files to the same place.

[pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: disable

liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate

Move KHO to kernel/liveupdate/ in preparation of placing all Live Update
core kernel related files to the same place.

[pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: disable the menu when DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+CK2bAvh9Oa2SLfsbJ8zztpEjrgr_hr-uGgF1coy8yoibT39A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-8-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 03d39634 01-Nov-2025 Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

kho: make debugfs interface optional

Patch series "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users", v9.

This series refactors the KHO framework to better support in-kernel users
like the upcoming LUO.

kho: make debugfs interface optional

Patch series "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users", v9.

This series refactors the KHO framework to better support in-kernel users
like the upcoming LUO. The current design, which relies on a notifier
chain and debugfs for control, is too restrictive for direct programmatic
use.

The core of this rework is the removal of the notifier chain in favor of a
direct registration API. This decouples clients from the shutdown-time
finalization sequence, allowing them to manage their preserved state more
flexibly and at any time.

In support of this new model, this series also:
- Makes the debugfs interface optional.
- Introduces APIs to unpreserve memory and fixes a bug in the abort
path where client state was being incorrectly discarded. Note that
this is an interim step, as a more comprehensive fix is planned as
part of the stateless KHO work [1].
- Moves all KHO code into a new kernel/liveupdate/ directory to
consolidate live update components.


This patch (of 9):

Currently, KHO is controlled via debugfs interface, but once LUO is
introduced, it can control KHO, and the debug interface becomes optional.

Add a separate config CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUGFS that enables the
debugfs interface, and allows to inspect the tree.

Move all debugfs related code to a new file to keep the .c files clear of
ifdefs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251020100306.2709352-1-jasonmiu@google.com [1]
Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# e38f65d3 21-Oct-2025 Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

kho: warn and fail on metadata or preserved memory in scratch area

Patch series "KHO: kfence + KHO memory corruption fix", v3.

This series fixes a memory corruption bug in KHO that occurs when KFEN

kho: warn and fail on metadata or preserved memory in scratch area

Patch series "KHO: kfence + KHO memory corruption fix", v3.

This series fixes a memory corruption bug in KHO that occurs when KFENCE
is enabled.

The root cause is that KHO metadata, allocated via kzalloc(), can be
randomly serviced by kfence_alloc(). When a kernel boots via KHO, the
early memblock allocator is restricted to a "scratch area". This forces
the KFENCE pool to be allocated within this scratch area, creating a
conflict. If KHO metadata is subsequently placed in this pool, it gets
corrupted during the next kexec operation.

Google is using KHO and have had obscure crashes due to this memory
corruption, with stacks all over the place. I would prefer this fix to be
properly backported to stable so we can also automatically consume it once
we switch to the upstream KHO.

Patch 1/3 introduces a debug-only feature (CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG)
that adds checks to detect and fail any operation that attempts to place
KHO metadata or preserved memory within the scratch area. This serves as
a validation and diagnostic tool to confirm the problem without affecting
production builds.

Patch 2/3 Increases bitmap to PAGE_SIZE, so buddy allocator can be used.

Patch 3/3 Provides the fix by modifying KHO to allocate its metadata
directly from the buddy allocator instead of slab. This bypasses the
KFENCE interception entirely.


This patch (of 3):

It is invalid for KHO metadata or preserved memory regions to be located
within the KHO scratch area, as this area is overwritten when the next
kernel is loaded, and used early in boot by the next kernel. This can
lead to memory corruption.

Add checks to kho_preserve_* and KHO's internal metadata allocators
(xa_load_or_alloc, new_chunk) to verify that the physical address of the
memory does not overlap with any defined scratch region. If an overlap is
detected, the operation will fail and a WARN_ON is triggered. To avoid
performance overhead in production kernels, these checks are enabled only
when CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG is selected.

[rppt@kernel.org: fix KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG Kconfig dependency]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aQHUyyFtiNZhx8jo@kernel.org
[pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: build fix]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+CK2bBnorfsTymKtv4rKvqGBHs=y=MjEMMRg_tE-RME6n-zUw@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021000852.2924827-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021000852.2924827-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Fixes: fc33e4b44b27 ("kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# e406d57b 03-Oct-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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 Christop

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)
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# a5ba183b 30-Sep-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
"One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keywor

Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
"One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
support), this came up again.

The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

- Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

- lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
(Junjie Cao)

- Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

- gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16

- kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

- kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

- kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure

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# 23ef9d43 23-Sep-2025 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI

The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI,

kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI

The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).

Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

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# f74ca6da 17-Sep-2025 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

nscommon: move to separate file

It's really awkward spilling the ns common infrastructure into multiple
headers. Move it to a separate file.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chri

nscommon: move to separate file

It's really awkward spilling the ns common infrastructure into multiple
headers. Move it to a separate file.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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# 885fc8ac 12-Sep-2025 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

nstree: make iterator generic

Move the namespace iteration infrastructure originally introduced for
mount namespaces into a generic library usable by all namespace types.

Signed-off-by: Christian B

nstree: make iterator generic

Move the namespace iteration infrastructure originally introduced for
mount namespaces into a generic library usable by all namespace types.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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# 913e65a2 04-Sep-2025 Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>

crash: add KUnit tests for crash_exclude_mem_range

crash_exclude_mem_range seems to be a simple function but there have been
multiple attempts to fix it,
- commit a2e9a95d2190 ("kexec: Improve & fi

crash: add KUnit tests for crash_exclude_mem_range

crash_exclude_mem_range seems to be a simple function but there have been
multiple attempts to fix it,
- commit a2e9a95d2190 ("kexec: Improve & fix crash_exclude_mem_range()
to handle overlapping ranges")
- commit 6dff31597264 ("crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of
crash_exclude_mem_range()")

So add a set of unit tests to verify the correctness of current
implementation. Shall we change the function in the future, the unit
tests can also help prevent any regression. For example, we may make the
function smarter by allocating extra crash_mem range on demand thus there
is no need for the caller to foresee any memory range split or address
-ENOMEM failure.

The testing strategy is to verify the correctness of base case. The
base case is there is one to-be-excluded range A and one existing range
B. Then we can exhaust all possibilities of the position of A regarding
B. For example, here are two combinations,
Case: A is completely inside B (causes split)
Original: [----B----]
Exclude: {--A--}
Result: [B1] .. [B2]

Case: A overlaps B's left part
Original: [----B----]
Exclude: {---A---}
Result: [..B..]

In theory we can prove the correctness by induction,
- Base case: crash_exclude_mem_range is correct in the case where n=1
(n is the number of existing ranges).
- Inductive step: If crash_exclude_mem_range is correct for n=k
existing ranges, then the it's also correct for n=k+1 ranges.

But for the sake of simplicity, simply use unit tests to cover the base
case together with two regression tests.

Note most of the exclude_single_range_test() code is generated by Google
Gemini with some small tweaks. The function specification, function body
and the exhausting test strategy are presented as prompts.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export crash_exclude_mem_range() to modules, for kernel/crash_core_test.c]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250904093855.1180154-2-coxu@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: Google Gemini
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: fuqiang wang <fuqiang.wang@easystack.cn>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# a530a36b 06-Aug-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"This is the last pull request from me.

I'm grateful

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"This is the last pull request from me.

I'm grateful to have been able to continue as a maintainer for eight
years. From the next cycle, Nathan and Nicolas will maintain Kbuild.

- Fix a shortcut key issue in menuconfig

- Fix missing rebuild of kheaders

- Sort the symbol dump generated by gendwarfsyms

- Support zboot extraction in scripts/extract-vmlinux

- Migrate gconfig to GTK 3

- Add TAR variable to allow overriding the default tar command

- Hand over Kbuild maintainership"

* tag 'kbuild-v6.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (92 commits)
MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance
kheaders: make it possible to override TAR
kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ld
kconfig: lxdialog: replace strcpy() with strncpy() in inputbox.c
kconfig: lxdialog: replace strcpy with snprintf in print_autowrap
kconfig: gconf: refactor text_insert_help()
kconfig: gconf: remove unneeded variable in text_insert_msg
kconfig: gconf: use hyphens in signals
kconfig: gconf: replace GtkImageMenuItem with GtkMenuItem
kconfig: gconf: Fix Back button behavior
kconfig: gconf: fix single view to display dependent symbols correctly
scripts: add zboot support to extract-vmlinux
gendwarfksyms: order -T symtypes output by name
gendwarfksyms: use preferred form of sizeof for allocation
kconfig: qconf: confine {begin,end}Group to constructor and destructor
kconfig: qconf: fix ConfigList::updateListAllforAll()
kconfig: add a function to dump all menu entries in a tree-like format
kconfig: gconf: show GTK version in About dialog
kconfig: gconf: replace GtkHPaned and GtkVPaned with GtkPaned
kconfig: gconf: replace GdkColor with GdkRGBA
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# c6439bfa 01-Aug-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'trace-deferred-unwind-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull initial deferred unwind infrastructure from Steven Rostedt:
"This is the core infrast

Merge tag 'trace-deferred-unwind-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull initial deferred unwind infrastructure from Steven Rostedt:
"This is the core infrastructure for the deferred unwinder that is
required for sframes[1]. Several other patch series are based on this
work although those patch series are not dependent on each other. In
order to simplify the development, having this core series upstream
will allow the other series to be worked on in parallel. The other
series are:

- The two patches to implement x86 support [2] [3]

- The s390 work [4]

- The perf work [5]

- The ftrace work [6]

- The sframe work [7]

And more is on the way.

The core infrastructure adds the following in kernel APIs:

- int unwind_user_faultable(struct unwind_stacktrace *trace);

Performs a user space stack trace that may fault user pages in.

- int unwind_deferred_init(struct unwind_work *work, unwind_callback_t func);

Allows a tracer to register with the unwind deferred
infrastructure.

- int unwind_deferred_request(struct unwind_work *work, u64 *cookie);

Used when a tracer request a deferred trace. Can be called from
interrupt or NMI context.

- void unwind_deferred_cancel(struct unwind_work *work);

Called by a tracer to unregister from the deferred unwind
infrastructure.

- void unwind_deferred_task_exit(struct task_struct *task);

Called by task exit code to flush any pending unwind requests.

- void unwind_task_init(struct task_struct *task);

Called by do_fork() to initialize the task struct for the
deferred unwinder.

- void unwind_task_free(struct task_struct *task);

Called by do_exit() to free up any resources used by the
deferred unwinder.

None of the above is actually compiled unless an architecture enables it,
which none currently do"

Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/sframe [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250717004958.260781923@kernel.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250717004958.432327787@kernel.org/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250710163522.3195293-1-jremus@linux.ibm.com/ [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250718164119.089692174@kernel.org/ [5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250424192612.505622711@goodmis.org/ [6]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250717012848.927473176@kernel.org/ [7]

* tag 'trace-deferred-unwind-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
unwind: Finish up unwind when a task exits
unwind deferred: Use SRCU unwind_deferred_task_work()
unwind: Add USED bit to only have one conditional on way back to user space
unwind deferred: Add unwind_completed mask to stop spurious callbacks
unwind deferred: Use bitmask to determine which callbacks to call
unwind_user/deferred: Make unwind deferral requests NMI-safe
unwind_user/deferred: Add deferred unwinding interface
unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind cache
unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind_user_faultable()
unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support

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# d9104cec 30-Jul-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

- Remove usermode driver (UMD) framework (Thomas Weißschuh)

- In

Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

- Remove usermode driver (UMD) framework (Thomas Weißschuh)

- Introduce Strongly Connected Component (SCC) in the verifier to
detect loops and refine register liveness (Eduard Zingerman)

- Allow 'void *' cast using bpf_rdonly_cast() and corresponding
'__arg_untrusted' for global function parameters (Eduard Zingerman)

- Improve precision for BPF_ADD and BPF_SUB operations in the verifier
(Harishankar Vishwanathan)

- Teach the verifier that constant pointer to a map cannot be NULL
(Ihor Solodrai)

- Introduce BPF streams for error reporting of various conditions
detected by BPF runtime (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

- Teach the verifier to insert runtime speculation barrier (lfence on
x86) to mitigate speculative execution instead of rejecting the
programs (Luis Gerhorst)

- Various improvements for 'veristat' (Mykyta Yatsenko)

- For CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL config warn on internal verifier errors to
improve bug detection by syzbot (Paul Chaignon)

- Support BPF private stack on arm64 (Puranjay Mohan)

- Introduce bpf_cgroup_read_xattr() kfunc to read xattr of cgroup's
node (Song Liu)

- Introduce kfuncs for read-only string opreations (Viktor Malik)

- Implement show_fdinfo() for bpf_links (Tao Chen)

- Reduce verifier's stack consumption (Yonghong Song)

- Implement mprog API for cgroup-bpf programs (Yonghong Song)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (192 commits)
selftests/bpf: Migrate fexit_noreturns case into tracing_failure test suite
selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching tracing programs to functions in deny list
bpf: Add log for attaching tracing programs to functions in deny list
bpf: Show precise rejected function when attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions
bpf: Fix various typos in verifier.c comments
bpf: Add third round of bounds deduction
selftests/bpf: Test invariants on JSLT crossing sign
selftests/bpf: Test cross-sign 64bits range refinement
selftests/bpf: Update reg_bound range refinement logic
bpf: Improve bounds when s64 crosses sign boundary
bpf: Simplify bounds refinement from s32
selftests/bpf: Enable private stack tests for arm64
bpf, arm64: JIT support for private stack
bpf: Move bpf_jit_get_prog_name() to core.c
bpf, arm64: Fix fp initialization for exception boundary
umd: Remove usermode driver framework
bpf/preload: Don't select USERMODE_DRIVER
selftests/bpf: Fix test dynptr/test_dynptr_memset_xdp_chunks failure
selftests/bpf: Fix test dynptr/test_dynptr_copy_xdp failure
selftests/bpf: Increase xdp data size for arm64 64K page size
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# 71753c6e 29-Jul-2025 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support

Introduce a generic API for unwinding user stacks.

In order to expand user space unwinding to be able to handle more complex
sce

unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support

Introduce a generic API for unwinding user stacks.

In order to expand user space unwinding to be able to handle more complex
scenarios, such as deferred unwinding and reading user space information,
create a generic interface that all architectures can use that support the
various unwinding methods.

This is an alternative method for handling user space stack traces from
the simple stack_trace_save_user() API. This does not replace that
interface, but this interface will be used to expand the functionality of
user space stack walking.

None of the structures introduced will be exposed to user space tooling.

Support for frame pointer unwinding is added. For an architecture to
support frame pointer unwinding it needs to enable
CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP and define ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_FRAME.

By encoding the frame offsets in struct unwind_user_frame, much of this
code can also be reused for future unwinder implementations like sframe.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250729182404.975790139@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250710164301.3094-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# 6676fd3c 26-Jul-2025 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

kstack_erase: Add -mgeneral-regs-only to silence Clang warnings

Once CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE is enabled with Clang on i386, the build warns:

kernel/kstack_erase.c:168:2: warning: function with attrib

kstack_erase: Add -mgeneral-regs-only to silence Clang warnings

Once CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE is enabled with Clang on i386, the build warns:

kernel/kstack_erase.c:168:2: warning: function with attribute 'no_caller_saved_registers' should only call a function with attribute 'no_caller_saved_registers' or be compiled with '-mgeneral-regs-only' [-Wexcessive-regsave]

Add -mgeneral-regs-only for the kstack_erase handler, to make Clang feel
better (it is effectively a no-op flag for the kernel). No binary
changes encountered.

Build & boot tested with Clang 21 on x86_64, and i386.
Build tested with GCC 14.2.0 on x86_64, i386, arm64, and arm.

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250726004313.GA3650901@ax162
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

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# b7b3500b 21-Jul-2025 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>

umd: Remove usermode driver framework

The code is unused since 98e20e5e13d2 ("bpfilter: remove bpfilter"),
therefore remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Sig

umd: Remove usermode driver framework

The code is unused since 98e20e5e13d2 ("bpfilter: remove bpfilter"),
therefore remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250721-remove-usermode-driver-v1-2-0d0083334382@linutronix.de

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# 57fbad15 18-Jul-2025 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE

In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
that can support stack depth callbacks:

- Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERA

stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE

In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
that can support stack depth callbacks:

- Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be
implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang
stack depth callback support.
- Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE,
but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself.
- Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named
for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as
many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn.

While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS,
since that's the only place it is referenced from.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

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# 1a0faff2 08-Jun-2025 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

This problem is similar to commit 7f8256ae0efb ("initramfs: Encode
dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP"): kernel/gen_kh

kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

This problem is similar to commit 7f8256ae0efb ("initramfs: Encode
dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP"): kernel/gen_kheaders.sh has an
internal dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP that is not exposed to
make, so changing KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP will not trigger a rebuild
of the archive.

Move $(KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP) to the Makefile so that is is recorded
in the *.cmd file.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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# 626c54af 08-Jun-2025 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when a file is modified within a minute

When a header file is changed, kernel/gen_kheaders.sh may fail to update
kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz.

[steps to reprod

kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when a file is modified within a minute

When a header file is changed, kernel/gen_kheaders.sh may fail to update
kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz.

[steps to reproduce]

[1] Build kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz

$ make -j$(nproc) kernel/kheaders.o
DESCEND objtool
INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
GEN kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
CC kernel/kheaders.o

[2] Modify a header without changing the file size

$ sed -i s/0xdeadbeef/0xfeedbeef/ include/linux/elfnote.h

[3] Rebuild kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz

$ make -j$(nproc) kernel/kheaders.o
DESCEND objtool
INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz

kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz is not updated if steps [1] - [3] are run
within the same minute.

The headers_md5 variable stores the MD5 hash of the 'ls -l' output
for all header files. This hash value is used to determine whether
kheaders_data.tar.xz needs to be rebuilt. However, 'ls -l' prints the
modification times with minute-level granularity. If a file is modified
within the same minute and its size remains the same, the MD5 hash does
not change.

To reliably detect file modifications, this commit rewrites
kernel/gen_kheaders.sh to output header dependencies to
kernel/.kheaders_data.tar.xz.cmd. Then, Make compares the timestamps
and reruns kernel/gen_kheaders.sh when necessary. This is the standard
mechanism used by Make and Kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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# 7d4e49a7 01-Jun-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.

The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores

- "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2

- "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts

- "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.

When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
the series [0/N] cover letter

- "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
/sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
/sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count

- "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c

- "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
scripts

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
nilfs2: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling
fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
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# 180cf31a 02-May-2025 Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>

crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel

A configfs /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys is provided for user
space to make the dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel. Take

crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel

A configfs /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys is provided for user
space to make the dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel. Take the
case of dumping to a LUKS-encrypted target as an example, here is the life
cycle of the kdump copies of LUKS volume keys,

1. After the 1st kernel loads the initramfs during boot, systemd uses
an user-input passphrase to de-crypt the LUKS volume keys or simply
TPM-sealed volume keys and then save the volume keys to specified
keyring (using the --link-vk-to-keyring API) and the keys will expire
within specified time.

2. A user space tool (kdump initramfs loader like kdump-utils) create
key items inside /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys to inform
the 1st kernel which keys are needed.

3. When the kdump initramfs is loaded by the kexec_file_load
syscall, the 1st kernel will iterate created key items, save the
keys to kdump reserved memory.

4. When the 1st kernel crashes and the kdump initramfs is booted, the
kdump initramfs asks the kdump kernel to create a user key using the
key stored in kdump reserved memory by writing yes to
/sys/kernel/crash_dm_crypt_keys/restore. Then the LUKS encrypted
device is unlocked with libcryptsetup's --volume-key-keyring API.

5. The system gets rebooted to the 1st kernel after dumping vmcore to
the LUKS encrypted device is finished

Eventually the keys have to stay in the kdump reserved memory for the
kdump kernel to unlock encrypted volumes. During this process, some
measures like letting the keys expire within specified time are desirable
to reduce security risk.

This patch assumes,
1) there are 128 LUKS devices at maximum to be unlocked thus
MAX_KEY_NUM=128.

2) a key description won't exceed 128 bytes thus KEY_DESC_MAX_LEN=128.

And here is a demo on how to interact with
/sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys,

# Add key #1
mkdir /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys/7d26b7b4-e342-4d2d-b660-7426b0996720
# Add key #1's description
echo cryptsetup:7d26b7b4-e342-4d2d-b660-7426b0996720 > /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys/description

# how many keys do we have now?
cat /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys/count
1

# Add key# 2 in the same way

# how many keys do we have now?
cat /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys/count
2

# the tree structure of /crash_dm_crypt_keys configfs
tree /sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys/
/sys/kernel/config/crash_dm_crypt_keys/
├── 7d26b7b4-e342-4d2d-b660-7426b0996720
│   └── description
├── count
├── fce2cd38-4d59-4317-8ce2-1fd24d52c46a
│   └── description

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250502011246.99238-3-coxu@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@redhat.com>
Cc: Liu Pingfan <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Cc: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3dc92c31 09-May-2025 Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>

kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers

Add the infrastructure to generate Kexec HandOver metadata. Kexec
HandOver is a mechanism that allows Linux to preserve state - arbitrary
properti

kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers

Add the infrastructure to generate Kexec HandOver metadata. Kexec
HandOver is a mechanism that allows Linux to preserve state - arbitrary
properties as well as memory locations - across kexec.

It does so using 2 concepts:

1) KHO FDT - Every KHO kexec carries a KHO specific flattened device tree
blob that describes preserved memory regions. Device drivers can
register to KHO to serialize and preserve their states before kexec.

2) Scratch Regions - CMA regions that we allocate in the first kernel.
CMA gives us the guarantee that no handover pages land in those
regions, because handover pages must be at a static physical memory
location. We use these regions as the place to load future kexec
images so that they won't collide with any handover data.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-5-changyuanl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Co-developed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Gowans <jgowans@amazon.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 2cbb20b0 21-Mar-2025 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code

CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING inserts a call to ftrace_likely_update()
for each use of likely() or unlikely(). That breaks noinstr rules if
the aff

tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code

CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING inserts a call to ftrace_likely_update()
for each use of likely() or unlikely(). That breaks noinstr rules if
the affected function is annotated as noinstr.

Disable branch profiling for files with noinstr functions. In addition
to some individual files, this also includes the entire arch/x86
subtree, as well as the kernel/entry, drivers/cpuidle, and drivers/idle
directories, all of which are noinstr-heavy.

Due to the nature of how sched binaries are built by combining multiple
.c files into one, branch profiling is disabled more broadly across the
sched code than would otherwise be needed.

This fixes many warnings like the following:

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64+0x40: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __rdgsbase_inactive+0x33: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: handle_bug.isra.0+0x198: call to ftrace_likely_update() leaves .noinstr.text section
...

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fb94fc9303d48a5ed370498f54500cc4c338eb6d.1742586676.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org

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# 0e8b6798 07-Aug-2024 Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>

mm: move kernel/numa.c to mm/

Patch series "mm: introduce numa_memblks", v4.

Following the discussion about handling of CXL fixed memory windows on
arm64 [1] I decided to bite the bullet and move n

mm: move kernel/numa.c to mm/

Patch series "mm: introduce numa_memblks", v4.

Following the discussion about handling of CXL fixed memory windows on
arm64 [1] I decided to bite the bullet and move numa_memblks from x86 to
the generic code so they will be available on arm64/riscv and maybe on
loongarch sometime later.

While it could be possible to use memblock to describe CXL memory windows,
it currently lacks notion of unpopulated memory ranges and numa_memblks
does implement this.

Another reason to make numa_memblks generic is that both arch_numa (arm64
and riscv) and loongarch use trimmed copy of x86 code although there is no
fundamental reason why the same code cannot be used on all these
platforms. Having numa_memblks in mm/ will make it's interaction with
ACPI and FDT more consistent and I believe will reduce maintenance burden.

And with generic numa_memblks it is (almost) straightforward to enable
NUMA emulation on arm64 and riscv.

The first 9 commits in this series are cleanups that are not strictly
related to numa_memblks.
Commits 10-16 slightly reorder code in x86 to allow extracting numa_memblks
and NUMA emulation to the generic code.
Commits 17-19 actually move the code from arch/x86/ to mm/ and commits 20-22
does some aftermath cleanups.
Commit 23 updates of_numa_init() to return error of no NUMA nodes were
found in the device tree.
Commit 24 switches arch_numa to numa_memblks.
Commit 25 enables usage of phys_to_target_node() and
memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() with numa_memblks.
Commit 26 moves the description for numa=fake from x86 to admin-guide.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240529171236.32002-1-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com/


This patch (of 26):

The stub functions in kernel/numa.c belong to mm/ rather than to kernel/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807064110.1003856-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807064110.1003856-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> # for x86_64 and arm64
Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> [arm64 + CXL via QEMU]
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 02aff848 24-Jan-2024 Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>

crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c

Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes
need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code eve

crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c

Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes
need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code even
though the crash dumping functionality is not enabled. E.g
--------------------
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
---------------------

After splitting out crashkernel reservation code and vmcoreinfo exporting
code, there's only crash related code left in kernel/crash_core.c. Now
move crash related codes from kexec_core.c to crash_core.c and only build it
in when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y.

And also wrap up crash codes inside CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdeffery scope,
or replace inappropriate CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE ifdef with CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
ifdef in generic kernel files.

With these changes, crash_core codes are abstracted from kexec codes and
can be disabled at all if only kexec reboot feature is wanted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-5-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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