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Revision tags: v6.19-rc4, v6.19-rc3, v6.19-rc2
# 5add3c3c 19-Dec-2025 Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 6.19-rc1. An important upstream bugfix and
to help unblock PTL CI.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>


# b8304863 15-Dec-2025 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync-up some display code needed for Async flips refactor.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


# 7f790dd2 15-Dec-2025 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's kickstart the v6.20 (7.0?) release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# 969b5726 01-Feb-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar:

- Fix a build error on ia32-x86_64 cross builds

- Replace loca

Merge tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar:

- Fix a build error on ia32-x86_64 cross builds

- Replace locally open coded ALIGN_UP(), ALIGN_UP_POW2()
and MAX(), which, beyond being duplicates, the
ALIGN_UP_POW2() is also buggy

- Fix objtool klp-diff regression caused by a recent
change to the bug table format

- Fix klp-build vs CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL build
failure

* tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
livepatch/klp-build: Fix klp-build vs CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
objtool/klp: Fix bug table handling for __WARN_printf()
objtool: Replace custom macros in elf.c with shared ones
objtool: Print bfd_vma as unsigned long long on ia32-x86_64 cross build

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# 78c268f3 27-Jan-2026 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

livepatch/klp-build: Fix klp-build vs CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL

When building a patch to a single-file kernel module with
CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL enabled, the klp-build module link fails in

livepatch/klp-build: Fix klp-build vs CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL

When building a patch to a single-file kernel module with
CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL enabled, the klp-build module link fails in
modpost:

Diffing objects
drivers/md/raid0.o: changed function: raid0_run
Building patch module: livepatch-0001-patch-raid0_run.ko
drivers/md/raid0.c: No such file or directory
...

The problem here is that klp-build copied drivers/md/.raid0.o.cmd to the
module build directory, but it didn't also copy over the input source
file listed in the .cmd file:

source_drivers/md/raid0.o := drivers/md/raid0.c

So modpost dies due to the missing .c file which is needed for
calculating checksums for CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL.

Instead of copying the original .cmd file, just create an empty one.
Modpost only requires that it exists. The original object's build
dependencies are irrelevant for the frankenobjects used by klp-build.

Fixes: 24ebfcd65a87 ("livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c41b6629e02775e4c1015259aa36065b3fe2f0f3.1769471792.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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# 24f171c7 21-Dec-2025 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though not in
any particularly exciting ways - the standout thing is the fix for _SX
controls which were broken by a change to how we do clamping, otherwise
it's all fairly run of the mill fixes and quirks.

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# 84318277 15-Dec-2025 Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: M

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

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Revision tags: v6.19-rc1
# 63e69950 02-Dec-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

- klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)

Int

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

- klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)

Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate
livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.

This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to
generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a
complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+
years of maintaining kpatch.

Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:

- Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
graph analysis to help detect changed functions.

- Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.

- Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.

- Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.

- Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for
symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction.

- Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines
script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to
preserve the original line numbers at compile time.

- Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump
(Alexandre Chartre)

- Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre,
which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation
specials such as alternatives:

17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | <alternative.17f3> | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax
17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx

... jump table alternatives:

1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch
1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19>
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | <jump_table.189a> | JUMP
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2
189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax
18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx

... exception table alternatives:

native_read_msr:
5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4>
5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx

.... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above):

2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114>
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | <alternative.2fab5> | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5
2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax

... NOP sequence shortening:

1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7>
1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6
1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11
1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11
104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx
104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax

... and much more.

- Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre)

- Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf)

- Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support
(Josh Poimboeuf)

- Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo
Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra,
Thorsten Blum)

* tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives
objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h
objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative
objtool: Add wide output for disassembly
objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction
objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives
objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature
objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives
objtool: Fix address references in alternatives
objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives
objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives
objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions
objtool: Disassemble group alternatives
objtool: Print headers for alternatives
objtool: Preserve alternatives order
objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action
objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites
objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions
objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives
objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives
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Revision tags: v6.18, v6.18-rc7
# 2ace5271 21-Nov-2025 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge branch 'objtool/core'

Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


Revision tags: v6.18-rc6
# 2092007a 13-Nov-2025 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

objtool/klp: Only enable --checksum when needed

With CONFIG_KLP_BUILD enabled, checksums are only needed during a
klp-build run. There's no need to enable them for normal kernel builds.

This also

objtool/klp: Only enable --checksum when needed

With CONFIG_KLP_BUILD enabled, checksums are only needed during a
klp-build run. There's no need to enable them for normal kernel builds.

This also has the benefit of softening the xxhash dependency.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/edbb1ca215e4926e02edb493b68b9d6d063e902f.1762990139.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org

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Revision tags: v6.18-rc5, v6.18-rc4, v6.18-rc3, v6.18-rc2
# 00a155c6 16-Oct-2025 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge branch 'objtool/core' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux

This series introduces new objtool features and a klp-build script to
generate livepatch modules using a

Merge branch 'objtool/core' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux

This series introduces new objtool features and a klp-build script to
generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.

This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch [1]
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate
livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete
rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of
maintaining kpatch.

Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:

- Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
graph analysis to help detect changed functions.

- Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.

- Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.

- Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.

- Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc
inclusion and special section extraction.

- Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script
which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve
the original line numbers at compile time.

The primary user interface is the klp-build script which does the
following:

- Builds an original kernel with -function-sections and
-fdata-sections, plus objtool function checksumming.

- Applies the .patch file and rebuilds the kernel using the same
options.

- Runs 'objtool klp diff' to detect changed functions and generate
intermediate binary diff objects.

- Builds a kernel module which links the diff objects with some
livepatch module init code (scripts/livepatch/init.c).

- Finalizes the livepatch module (aka work around linker wreckage)
using 'objtool klp post-link'.

I've tested with a variety of patches on defconfig and Fedora-config
kernels with both GCC and Clang.

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Revision tags: v6.18-rc1, v6.17, v6.17-rc7
# 78be9fac 17-Sep-2025 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

livepatch/klp-build: Add --show-first-changed option to show function divergence

Add a --show-first-changed option to identify where changed functions
begin to diverge:

- Parse 'objtool klp diff'

livepatch/klp-build: Add --show-first-changed option to show function divergence

Add a --show-first-changed option to identify where changed functions
begin to diverge:

- Parse 'objtool klp diff' output to find changed functions.

- Run objtool again on each object with --debug-checksum=<funcs>.

- Diff the per-instruction checksum debug output to locate the first
differing instruction.

This can be useful for quickly determining where and why a function
changed.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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# 2c2f0b86 17-Sep-2025 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

livepatch/klp-build: Add --debug option to show cloning decisions

Add a --debug option which gets passed to "objtool klp diff" to enable
debug output related to cloning decisions.

Acked-by: Petr Ml

livepatch/klp-build: Add --debug option to show cloning decisions

Add a --debug option which gets passed to "objtool klp diff" to enable
debug output related to cloning decisions.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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# 24ebfcd6 17-Sep-2025 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules

Add a klp-build script which automates the generation of a livepatch
module from a source .patch file by performing t

livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules

Add a klp-build script which automates the generation of a livepatch
module from a source .patch file by performing the following steps:

- Builds an original kernel with -function-sections and
-fdata-sections, plus objtool function checksumming.

- Applies the .patch file and rebuilds the kernel using the same
options.

- Runs 'objtool klp diff' to detect changed functions and generate
intermediate binary diff objects.

- Builds a kernel module which links the diff objects with some
livepatch module init code (scripts/livepatch/init.c).

- Finalizes the livepatch module (aka work around linker wreckage)
using 'objtool klp post-link'.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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