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<title>kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups()</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:21:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guangshuo Li</name>
<email>lgs201920130244@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T13:32:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 33c1c6d8a28a2761ac74b0380b2563cf546c2a3a ]

As kcalloc() may fail, check its return value to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference when passing it to of_property_read_u32_array().

Fixes: 790a1662d3a26 ("powerpc/smp: Parse ibm,thread-groups with multiple properties")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li &lt;lgs201920130244@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923133235.1862108-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 33c1c6d8a28a2761ac74b0380b2563cf546c2a3a ]

As kcalloc() may fail, check its return value to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference when passing it to of_property_read_u32_array().

Fixes: 790a1662d3a26 ("powerpc/smp: Parse ibm,thread-groups with multiple properties")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li &lt;lgs201920130244@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923133235.1862108-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/eeh: fix recursive pci_lock_rescan_remove locking in EEH event handling</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:59:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Narayana Murty N</name>
<email>nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-10T14:25:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 815a8d2feb5615ae7f0b5befd206af0b0160614c ]

The recent commit 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device
hotplug safe") restructured the EEH driver to improve synchronization
with the PCI hotplug layer.

However, it inadvertently moved pci_lock_rescan_remove() outside its
intended scope in eeh_handle_normal_event(), leading to broken PCI
error reporting and improper EEH event triggering. Specifically,
eeh_handle_normal_event() acquired pci_lock_rescan_remove() before
calling eeh_pe_bus_get(), but eeh_pe_bus_get() itself attempts to
acquire the same lock internally, causing nested locking and disrupting
normal EEH event handling paths.

This patch adds a boolean parameter do_lock to _eeh_pe_bus_get(),
with two public wrappers:
    eeh_pe_bus_get() with locking enabled.
    eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() that skips locking.

Callers that already hold pci_lock_rescan_remove() now use
eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() to avoid recursive lock acquisition.

Additionally, pci_lock_rescan_remove() calls are restored to the correct
position—after eeh_pe_bus_get() and immediately before iterating affected
PEs and devices. This ensures EEH-triggered PCI removes occur under proper
bus rescan locking without recursive lock contention.

The eeh_pe_loc_get() function has been split into two functions:
    eeh_pe_loc_get(struct eeh_pe *pe) which retrieves the loc for given PE.
    eeh_pe_loc_get_bus(struct pci_bus *bus) which retrieves the location
    code for given bus.

This resolves lockdep warnings such as:
&lt;snip&gt;
[   84.964298] [    T928] ============================================
[   84.964304] [    T928] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[   84.964311] [    T928] 6.18.0-rc3 #51 Not tainted
[   84.964315] [    T928] --------------------------------------------
[   84.964320] [    T928] eehd/928 is trying to acquire lock:
[   84.964324] [    T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964342] [    T928]
                       but task is already holding lock:
[   84.964347] [    T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964357] [    T928]
                       other info that might help us debug this:
[   84.964363] [    T928]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[   84.964367] [    T928]        CPU0
[   84.964370] [    T928]        ----
[   84.964373] [    T928]   lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock);
[   84.964378] [    T928]   lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock);
[   84.964383] [    T928]
                       *** DEADLOCK ***

[   84.964388] [    T928]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation

[   84.964393] [    T928] 1 lock held by eehd/928:
[   84.964397] [    T928]  #0: c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964408] [    T928]
                       stack backtrace:
[   84.964414] [    T928] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 928 Comm: eehd Not tainted 6.18.0-rc3 #51 VOLUNTARY
[   84.964417] [    T928] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (architected) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_022) hv:phyp pSeries
[   84.964419] [    T928] Call Trace:
[   84.964420] [    T928] [c0000011a7157990] [c000000001705de4] dump_stack_lvl+0xc8/0x130 (unreliable)
[   84.964424] [    T928] [c0000011a71579d0] [c0000000002f66e0] print_deadlock_bug+0x430/0x440
[   84.964428] [    T928] [c0000011a7157a70] [c0000000002fd0c0] __lock_acquire+0x1530/0x2d80
[   84.964431] [    T928] [c0000011a7157ba0] [c0000000002fea54] lock_acquire+0x144/0x410
[   84.964433] [    T928] [c0000011a7157cb0] [c0000011a7157cb0] __mutex_lock+0xf4/0x1050
[   84.964436] [    T928] [c0000011a7157e00] [c000000000de21d8] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964439] [    T928] [c0000011a7157e20] [c00000000004ed98] eeh_pe_bus_get+0x48/0xc0
[   84.964442] [    T928] [c0000011a7157e50] [c000000000050434] eeh_handle_normal_event+0x64/0xa60
[   84.964446] [    T928] [c0000011a7157f30] [c000000000051de8] eeh_event_handler+0xf8/0x190
[   84.964450] [    T928] [c0000011a7157f90] [c0000000002747ac] kthread+0x16c/0x180
[   84.964453] [    T928] [c0000011a7157fe0] [c00000000000ded8] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18
&lt;/snip&gt;

Fixes: 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe")
Signed-off-by: Narayana Murty N &lt;nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210142559.8874-1-nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 815a8d2feb5615ae7f0b5befd206af0b0160614c ]

The recent commit 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device
hotplug safe") restructured the EEH driver to improve synchronization
with the PCI hotplug layer.

However, it inadvertently moved pci_lock_rescan_remove() outside its
intended scope in eeh_handle_normal_event(), leading to broken PCI
error reporting and improper EEH event triggering. Specifically,
eeh_handle_normal_event() acquired pci_lock_rescan_remove() before
calling eeh_pe_bus_get(), but eeh_pe_bus_get() itself attempts to
acquire the same lock internally, causing nested locking and disrupting
normal EEH event handling paths.

This patch adds a boolean parameter do_lock to _eeh_pe_bus_get(),
with two public wrappers:
    eeh_pe_bus_get() with locking enabled.
    eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() that skips locking.

Callers that already hold pci_lock_rescan_remove() now use
eeh_pe_bus_get_nolock() to avoid recursive lock acquisition.

Additionally, pci_lock_rescan_remove() calls are restored to the correct
position—after eeh_pe_bus_get() and immediately before iterating affected
PEs and devices. This ensures EEH-triggered PCI removes occur under proper
bus rescan locking without recursive lock contention.

The eeh_pe_loc_get() function has been split into two functions:
    eeh_pe_loc_get(struct eeh_pe *pe) which retrieves the loc for given PE.
    eeh_pe_loc_get_bus(struct pci_bus *bus) which retrieves the location
    code for given bus.

This resolves lockdep warnings such as:
&lt;snip&gt;
[   84.964298] [    T928] ============================================
[   84.964304] [    T928] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[   84.964311] [    T928] 6.18.0-rc3 #51 Not tainted
[   84.964315] [    T928] --------------------------------------------
[   84.964320] [    T928] eehd/928 is trying to acquire lock:
[   84.964324] [    T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964342] [    T928]
                       but task is already holding lock:
[   84.964347] [    T928] c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964357] [    T928]
                       other info that might help us debug this:
[   84.964363] [    T928]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[   84.964367] [    T928]        CPU0
[   84.964370] [    T928]        ----
[   84.964373] [    T928]   lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock);
[   84.964378] [    T928]   lock(pci_rescan_remove_lock);
[   84.964383] [    T928]
                       *** DEADLOCK ***

[   84.964388] [    T928]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation

[   84.964393] [    T928] 1 lock held by eehd/928:
[   84.964397] [    T928]  #0: c000000003b29d58 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964408] [    T928]
                       stack backtrace:
[   84.964414] [    T928] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 928 Comm: eehd Not tainted 6.18.0-rc3 #51 VOLUNTARY
[   84.964417] [    T928] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (architected) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_022) hv:phyp pSeries
[   84.964419] [    T928] Call Trace:
[   84.964420] [    T928] [c0000011a7157990] [c000000001705de4] dump_stack_lvl+0xc8/0x130 (unreliable)
[   84.964424] [    T928] [c0000011a71579d0] [c0000000002f66e0] print_deadlock_bug+0x430/0x440
[   84.964428] [    T928] [c0000011a7157a70] [c0000000002fd0c0] __lock_acquire+0x1530/0x2d80
[   84.964431] [    T928] [c0000011a7157ba0] [c0000000002fea54] lock_acquire+0x144/0x410
[   84.964433] [    T928] [c0000011a7157cb0] [c0000011a7157cb0] __mutex_lock+0xf4/0x1050
[   84.964436] [    T928] [c0000011a7157e00] [c000000000de21d8] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x28/0x40
[   84.964439] [    T928] [c0000011a7157e20] [c00000000004ed98] eeh_pe_bus_get+0x48/0xc0
[   84.964442] [    T928] [c0000011a7157e50] [c000000000050434] eeh_handle_normal_event+0x64/0xa60
[   84.964446] [    T928] [c0000011a7157f30] [c000000000051de8] eeh_event_handler+0xf8/0x190
[   84.964450] [    T928] [c0000011a7157f90] [c0000000002747ac] kthread+0x16c/0x180
[   84.964453] [    T928] [c0000011a7157fe0] [c00000000000ded8] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18
&lt;/snip&gt;

Fixes: 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe")
Signed-off-by: Narayana Murty N &lt;nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210142559.8874-1-nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/slb: Fix SLB multihit issue during SLB preload</title>
<updated>2026-01-08T09:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Donet Tom</name>
<email>donettom@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-30T14:57:26+00:00</published>
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commit 00312419f0863964625d6dcda8183f96849412c6 upstream.

On systems using the hash MMU, there is a software SLB preload cache that
mirrors the entries loaded into the hardware SLB buffer. This preload
cache is subject to periodic eviction — typically after every 256 context
switches — to remove old entry.

To optimize performance, the kernel skips switch_mmu_context() in
switch_mm_irqs_off() when the prev and next mm_struct are the same.
However, on hash MMU systems, this can lead to inconsistencies between
the hardware SLB and the software preload cache.

If an SLB entry for a process is evicted from the software cache on one
CPU, and the same process later runs on another CPU without executing
switch_mmu_context(), the hardware SLB may retain stale entries. If the
kernel then attempts to reload that entry, it can trigger an SLB
multi-hit error.

The following timeline shows how stale SLB entries are created and can
cause a multi-hit error when a process moves between CPUs without a
MMU context switch.

CPU 0                                   CPU 1
-----                                    -----
Process P
exec                                    swapper/1
 load_elf_binary
  begin_new_exc
    activate_mm
     switch_mm_irqs_off
      switch_mmu_context
       switch_slb
       /*
        * This invalidates all
        * the entries in the HW
        * and setup the new HW
        * SLB entries as per the
        * preload cache.
        */
context_switch
sched_migrate_task migrates process P to cpu-1

Process swapper/0                       context switch (to process P)
(uses mm_struct of Process P)           switch_mm_irqs_off()
                                         switch_slb
                                           load_slb++
                                            /*
                                            * load_slb becomes 0 here
                                            * and we evict an entry from
                                            * the preload cache with
                                            * preload_age(). We still
                                            * keep HW SLB and preload
                                            * cache in sync, that is
                                            * because all HW SLB entries
                                            * anyways gets evicted in
                                            * switch_slb during SLBIA.
                                            * We then only add those
                                            * entries back in HW SLB,
                                            * which are currently
                                            * present in preload_cache
                                            * (after eviction).
                                            */
                                        load_elf_binary continues...
                                         setup_new_exec()
                                          slb_setup_new_exec()

                                        sched_switch event
                                        sched_migrate_task migrates
                                        process P to cpu-0

context_switch from swapper/0 to Process P
 switch_mm_irqs_off()
  /*
   * Since both prev and next mm struct are same we don't call
   * switch_mmu_context(). This will cause the HW SLB and SW preload
   * cache to go out of sync in preload_new_slb_context. Because there
   * was an SLB entry which was evicted from both HW and preload cache
   * on cpu-1. Now later in preload_new_slb_context(), when we will try
   * to add the same preload entry again, we will add this to the SW
   * preload cache and then will add it to the HW SLB. Since on cpu-0
   * this entry was never invalidated, hence adding this entry to the HW
   * SLB will cause a SLB multi-hit error.
   */
load_elf_binary continues...
 START_THREAD
  start_thread
   preload_new_slb_context
   /*
    * This tries to add a new EA to preload cache which was earlier
    * evicted from both cpu-1 HW SLB and preload cache. This caused the
    * HW SLB of cpu-0 to go out of sync with the SW preload cache. The
    * reason for this was, that when we context switched back on CPU-0,
    * we should have ideally called switch_mmu_context() which will
    * bring the HW SLB entries on CPU-0 in sync with SW preload cache
    * entries by setting up the mmu context properly. But we didn't do
    * that since the prev mm_struct running on cpu-0 was same as the
    * next mm_struct (which is true for swapper / kernel threads). So
    * now when we try to add this new entry into the HW SLB of cpu-0,
    * we hit a SLB multi-hit error.
    */

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1810970 at arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c:62
assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50(48 results) 02:47:29 [20157/42149]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1810970 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-dirty #12
VOLUNTARY
Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER8 (architected)
0x4d0200 0xf000004 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries
NIP:  c00000000015426c LR: c0000000001543b4 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000000497c77e0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.16.0-rc3-dirty)
MSR:  8000000002823033 &lt;SF,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28888482  XER: 00000000
CFAR: c0000000001543b0 IRQMASK: 3
&lt;...&gt;
NIP [c00000000015426c] assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50
LR [c0000000001543b4] slb_insert_entry+0x124/0x390
Call Trace:
  0x7fffceb5ffff (unreliable)
  preload_new_slb_context+0x100/0x1a0
  start_thread+0x26c/0x420
  load_elf_binary+0x1b04/0x1c40
  bprm_execve+0x358/0x680
  do_execveat_common+0x1f8/0x240
  sys_execve+0x58/0x70
  system_call_exception+0x114/0x300
  system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4

&gt;From the above analysis, during early exec the hardware SLB is cleared,
and entries from the software preload cache are reloaded into hardware
by switch_slb. However, preload_new_slb_context and slb_setup_new_exec
also attempt to load some of the same entries, which can trigger a
multi-hit. In most cases, these additional preloads simply hit existing
entries and add nothing new. Removing these functions avoids redundant
preloads and eliminates the multi-hit issue. This patch removes these
two functions.

We tested process switching performance using the context_switch
benchmark on POWER9/hash, and observed no regression.

Without this patch: 129041 ops/sec
With this patch:    129341 ops/sec

We also measured SLB faults during boot, and the counts are essentially
the same with and without this patch.

SLB faults without this patch: 19727
SLB faults with this patch:    19786

Fixes: 5434ae74629a ("powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom &lt;donettom@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0ac694ae683494fe8cadbd911a1a5018d5d3c541.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 00312419f0863964625d6dcda8183f96849412c6 upstream.

On systems using the hash MMU, there is a software SLB preload cache that
mirrors the entries loaded into the hardware SLB buffer. This preload
cache is subject to periodic eviction — typically after every 256 context
switches — to remove old entry.

To optimize performance, the kernel skips switch_mmu_context() in
switch_mm_irqs_off() when the prev and next mm_struct are the same.
However, on hash MMU systems, this can lead to inconsistencies between
the hardware SLB and the software preload cache.

If an SLB entry for a process is evicted from the software cache on one
CPU, and the same process later runs on another CPU without executing
switch_mmu_context(), the hardware SLB may retain stale entries. If the
kernel then attempts to reload that entry, it can trigger an SLB
multi-hit error.

The following timeline shows how stale SLB entries are created and can
cause a multi-hit error when a process moves between CPUs without a
MMU context switch.

CPU 0                                   CPU 1
-----                                    -----
Process P
exec                                    swapper/1
 load_elf_binary
  begin_new_exc
    activate_mm
     switch_mm_irqs_off
      switch_mmu_context
       switch_slb
       /*
        * This invalidates all
        * the entries in the HW
        * and setup the new HW
        * SLB entries as per the
        * preload cache.
        */
context_switch
sched_migrate_task migrates process P to cpu-1

Process swapper/0                       context switch (to process P)
(uses mm_struct of Process P)           switch_mm_irqs_off()
                                         switch_slb
                                           load_slb++
                                            /*
                                            * load_slb becomes 0 here
                                            * and we evict an entry from
                                            * the preload cache with
                                            * preload_age(). We still
                                            * keep HW SLB and preload
                                            * cache in sync, that is
                                            * because all HW SLB entries
                                            * anyways gets evicted in
                                            * switch_slb during SLBIA.
                                            * We then only add those
                                            * entries back in HW SLB,
                                            * which are currently
                                            * present in preload_cache
                                            * (after eviction).
                                            */
                                        load_elf_binary continues...
                                         setup_new_exec()
                                          slb_setup_new_exec()

                                        sched_switch event
                                        sched_migrate_task migrates
                                        process P to cpu-0

context_switch from swapper/0 to Process P
 switch_mm_irqs_off()
  /*
   * Since both prev and next mm struct are same we don't call
   * switch_mmu_context(). This will cause the HW SLB and SW preload
   * cache to go out of sync in preload_new_slb_context. Because there
   * was an SLB entry which was evicted from both HW and preload cache
   * on cpu-1. Now later in preload_new_slb_context(), when we will try
   * to add the same preload entry again, we will add this to the SW
   * preload cache and then will add it to the HW SLB. Since on cpu-0
   * this entry was never invalidated, hence adding this entry to the HW
   * SLB will cause a SLB multi-hit error.
   */
load_elf_binary continues...
 START_THREAD
  start_thread
   preload_new_slb_context
   /*
    * This tries to add a new EA to preload cache which was earlier
    * evicted from both cpu-1 HW SLB and preload cache. This caused the
    * HW SLB of cpu-0 to go out of sync with the SW preload cache. The
    * reason for this was, that when we context switched back on CPU-0,
    * we should have ideally called switch_mmu_context() which will
    * bring the HW SLB entries on CPU-0 in sync with SW preload cache
    * entries by setting up the mmu context properly. But we didn't do
    * that since the prev mm_struct running on cpu-0 was same as the
    * next mm_struct (which is true for swapper / kernel threads). So
    * now when we try to add this new entry into the HW SLB of cpu-0,
    * we hit a SLB multi-hit error.
    */

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1810970 at arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c:62
assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50(48 results) 02:47:29 [20157/42149]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1810970 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-dirty #12
VOLUNTARY
Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER8 (architected)
0x4d0200 0xf000004 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries
NIP:  c00000000015426c LR: c0000000001543b4 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000000497c77e0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.16.0-rc3-dirty)
MSR:  8000000002823033 &lt;SF,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28888482  XER: 00000000
CFAR: c0000000001543b0 IRQMASK: 3
&lt;...&gt;
NIP [c00000000015426c] assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50
LR [c0000000001543b4] slb_insert_entry+0x124/0x390
Call Trace:
  0x7fffceb5ffff (unreliable)
  preload_new_slb_context+0x100/0x1a0
  start_thread+0x26c/0x420
  load_elf_binary+0x1b04/0x1c40
  bprm_execve+0x358/0x680
  do_execveat_common+0x1f8/0x240
  sys_execve+0x58/0x70
  system_call_exception+0x114/0x300
  system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4

&gt;From the above analysis, during early exec the hardware SLB is cleared,
and entries from the software preload cache are reloaded into hardware
by switch_slb. However, preload_new_slb_context and slb_setup_new_exec
also attempt to load some of the same entries, which can trigger a
multi-hit. In most cases, these additional preloads simply hit existing
entries and add nothing new. Removing these functions avoids redundant
preloads and eliminates the multi-hit issue. This patch removes these
two functions.

We tested process switching performance using the context_switch
benchmark on POWER9/hash, and observed no regression.

Without this patch: 129041 ops/sec
With this patch:    129341 ops/sec

We also measured SLB faults during boot, and the counts are essentially
the same with and without this patch.

SLB faults without this patch: 19727
SLB faults with this patch:    19786

Fixes: 5434ae74629a ("powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom &lt;donettom@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0ac694ae683494fe8cadbd911a1a5018d5d3c541.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add reloc_offset() to font bitmap pointer used for bootx_printf()</title>
<updated>2026-01-02T11:57:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Finn Thain</name>
<email>fthain@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-09T23:30:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b3b320a900a54c48ff134131dfff962f48e7264f'/>
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commit b94b73567561642323617155bf4ee24ef0d258fe upstream.

Since Linux v6.7, booting using BootX on an Old World PowerMac produces
an early crash. Stan Johnson writes, "the symptoms are that the screen
goes blank and the backlight stays on, and the system freezes (Linux
doesn't boot)."

Further testing revealed that the failure can be avoided by disabling
CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT. Bisection revealed that the regression was caused by
a change to the font bitmap pointer that's used when btext_init() begins
painting characters on the display, early in the boot process.

Christophe Leroy explains, "before kernel text is relocated to its final
location ... data is addressed with an offset which is added to the
Global Offset Table (GOT) entries at the start of bootx_init()
by function reloc_got2(). But the pointers that are located inside a
structure are not referenced in the GOT and are therefore not updated by
reloc_got2(). It is therefore needed to apply the offset manually by using
PTRRELOC() macro."

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/10/msg00111.html
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/d81ddca8-c5ee-d583-d579-02b19ed95301@yahoo.com/
Reported-by: Cedar Maxwell &lt;cedarmaxwell@mac.com&gt;
Closes: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/09/msg00031.html
Bisected-by: Stan Johnson &lt;userm57@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stan Johnson &lt;userm57@yahoo.com&gt;
Fixes: 0ebc7feae79a ("powerpc: Use shared font data")
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/22b3b247425a052b079ab84da926706b3702c2c7.1762731022.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit b94b73567561642323617155bf4ee24ef0d258fe upstream.

Since Linux v6.7, booting using BootX on an Old World PowerMac produces
an early crash. Stan Johnson writes, "the symptoms are that the screen
goes blank and the backlight stays on, and the system freezes (Linux
doesn't boot)."

Further testing revealed that the failure can be avoided by disabling
CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT. Bisection revealed that the regression was caused by
a change to the font bitmap pointer that's used when btext_init() begins
painting characters on the display, early in the boot process.

Christophe Leroy explains, "before kernel text is relocated to its final
location ... data is addressed with an offset which is added to the
Global Offset Table (GOT) entries at the start of bootx_init()
by function reloc_got2(). But the pointers that are located inside a
structure are not referenced in the GOT and are therefore not updated by
reloc_got2(). It is therefore needed to apply the offset manually by using
PTRRELOC() macro."

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/10/msg00111.html
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/d81ddca8-c5ee-d583-d579-02b19ed95301@yahoo.com/
Reported-by: Cedar Maxwell &lt;cedarmaxwell@mac.com&gt;
Closes: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/09/msg00031.html
Bisected-by: Stan Johnson &lt;userm57@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stan Johnson &lt;userm57@yahoo.com&gt;
Fixes: 0ebc7feae79a ("powerpc: Use shared font data")
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/22b3b247425a052b079ab84da926706b3702c2c7.1762731022.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Fix unpaired stwcx. on interrupt exit</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-12T08:37:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=74e9f302f31fb5f94ba62ba8d781cbb45818692d'/>
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[ Upstream commit 10e1c77c3636d815db802ceef588522c2d2d947c ]

Commit b96bae3ae2cb ("powerpc/32: Replace ASM exception exit by C
exception exit from ppc64") erroneouly copied to powerpc/32 the logic
from powerpc/64 based on feature CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS which is
always 0 on powerpc/32.

Re-instate the logic implemented by commit b64f87c16f3c ("[POWERPC]
Avoid unpaired stwcx. on some processors") which is based on
CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX feature.

Fixes: b96bae3ae2cb ("powerpc/32: Replace ASM exception exit by C exception exit from ppc64")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6040b5dbcf5cdaa1cd919fcf0790f12974ea6e5a.1757666244.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 10e1c77c3636d815db802ceef588522c2d2d947c ]

Commit b96bae3ae2cb ("powerpc/32: Replace ASM exception exit by C
exception exit from ppc64") erroneouly copied to powerpc/32 the logic
from powerpc/64 based on feature CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS which is
always 0 on powerpc/32.

Re-instate the logic implemented by commit b64f87c16f3c ("[POWERPC]
Avoid unpaired stwcx. on some processors") which is based on
CPU_FTR_NEED_PAIRED_STWCX feature.

Fixes: b96bae3ae2cb ("powerpc/32: Replace ASM exception exit by C exception exit from ppc64")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6040b5dbcf5cdaa1cd919fcf0790f12974ea6e5a.1757666244.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: skip parameter area allocation when fadump is disabled</title>
<updated>2025-10-13T04:11:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourabh Jain</name>
<email>sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-08T03:29:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=0843ba458439f38efdc14aa359c14ad0127edb01'/>
<id>0843ba458439f38efdc14aa359c14ad0127edb01</id>
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Fadump allocates memory to pass additional kernel command-line argument
to the fadump kernel. However, this allocation is not needed when fadump
is disabled. So avoid allocating memory for the additional parameter
area in such cases.

Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional parameters early")
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional  parameters early")
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008032934.262683-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com

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Fadump allocates memory to pass additional kernel command-line argument
to the fadump kernel. However, this allocation is not needed when fadump
is disabled. So avoid allocating memory for the additional parameter
area in such cases.

Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional parameters early")
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional  parameters early")
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008032934.262683-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v6.18-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci</title>
<updated>2025-10-06T17:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-06T17:41:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2f2c7254931f41b5736e3ba12aaa9ac1bbeeeb92'/>
<id>2f2c7254931f41b5736e3ba12aaa9ac1bbeeeb92</id>
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Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Enumeration:

   - Add PCI_FIND_NEXT_CAP() and PCI_FIND_NEXT_EXT_CAP() macros that
     take config space accessor functions.

     Implement pci_find_capability(), pci_find_ext_capability(), and
     dwc, dwc endpoint, and cadence capability search interfaces with
     them (Hans Zhang)

   - Leave parent unit address 0 in 'interrupt-map' so that when we
     build devicetree nodes to describe PCI functions that contain
     multiple peripherals, we can build this property even when
     interrupt controllers lack 'reg' properties (Lorenzo Pieralisi)

   - Add a Xeon 6 quirk to disable Extended Tags and limit Max Read
     Request Size to 128B to avoid a performance issue (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Add sysfs 'serial_number' file to expose the Device Serial Number
     (Matthew Wood)

   - Fix pci_acpi_preserve_config() memory leak (Nirmoy Das)

  Resource management:

   - Align m68k pcibios_enable_device() with other arches (Ilpo
     Järvinen)

   - Remove sparc pcibios_enable_device() implementations that don't do
     anything beyond what pci_enable_resources() does (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Remove mips pcibios_enable_resources() and use
     pci_enable_resources() instead (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Clean up bridge window sizing and assignment (Ilpo Järvinen),
     including:

       - Leave non-claimed bridge windows disabled

       - Enable bridges even if a window wasn't assigned because not all
         windows are required by downstream devices

       - Preserve bridge window type when releasing the resource, since
         the type is needed for reassignment

       - Consolidate selection of bridge windows into two new
         interfaces, pbus_select_window() and
         pbus_select_window_for_type(), so this is done consistently

       - Compute bridge window start and end earlier to avoid logging
         stale information

  MSI:

   - Add quirk to disable MSI on RDC PCI to PCIe bridges (Marcos Del Sol
     Vives)

  Error handling:

   - Align AER with EEH by allowing drivers to request a Bus Reset on
     Non-Fatal Errors (in addition to the reset on Fatal Errors that we
     already do) (Lukas Wunner)

   - If error recovery fails, emit FAILED_RECOVERY uevents for the
     devices, not for the bridge leading to them.

     This makes them correspond to BEGIN_RECOVERY uevents (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by calling err_handler.error_detected()
     callbacks to notify drivers if error recovery fails (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by restoring device error_state to
     pci_channel_io_normal before the err_handler.slot_reset() callback.

     This is earlier than before the err_handler.resume() callback
     (Lukas Wunner)

   - Emit a BEGIN_RECOVERY uevent when driver's
     err_handler.error_detected() requests a reset, as well as when it
     says recovery is complete or can be done without a reset (Niklas
     Schnelle)

   - Align s390 with AER and EEH by emitting uevents during error
     recovery (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Align EEH with AER and s390 by emitting BEGIN_RECOVERY,
     SUCCESSFUL_RECOVERY, or FAILED_RECOVERY uevents depending on the
     result of err_handler.error_detected() (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Fix a NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit() when ACPI GHES
     error information identifies a device without an AER Capability
     (Breno Leitao)

   - Update error decoding and TLP Log printing for new errors in
     current PCIe base spec (Lukas Wunner)

   - Update error recovery documentation to match the current code
     and use consistent nomenclature (Lukas Wunner)

  ASPM:

   - Enable all ClockPM and ASPM states for devicetree platforms, since
     there's typically no firmware that enables ASPM

     This is a risky change that may uncover hardware or configuration
     defects at boot-time rather than when users enable ASPM via sysfs
     later. Booting with "pcie_aspm=off" prevents this enabling
     (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Remove the qcom code that enabled ASPM (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

  Power management:

   - If a device has already been disconnected, e.g., by a hotplug
     removal, don't bother trying to resume it to D0 when detaching the
     driver.

     This avoids annoying "Unable to change power state from D3cold to
     D0" messages (Mario Limonciello)

   - Ensure devices are powered up before config reads for
     'max_link_width', 'current_link_speed', 'current_link_width',
     'secondary_bus_number', and 'subordinate_bus_number' sysfs files.

     This prevents using invalid data (~0) in drivers or lspci and,
     depending on how the PCIe controller reports errors, may avoid
     error interrupts or crashes (Brian Norris)

  Virtualization:

   - Add rescan/remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV, which
     avoids list corruption on s390, where disabling SR-IOV also
     generates hotplug events (Niklas Schnelle)

  Peer-to-peer DMA:

   - Free struct p2p_pgmap, not a member within it, in the
     pci_p2pdma_add_resource() error path (Sungho Kim)

  Endpoint framework:

   - Document sysfs interface for BAR assignment of vNTB endpoint
     functions (Jerome Brunet)

   - Fix array underflow in endpoint BAR test case (Dan Carpenter)

   - Skip endpoint IRQ test if the IRQ is out of range to avoid false
     errors (Christian Bruel)

   - Fix endpoint test case for controllers with fixed-size BARs smaller
     than requested by the test (Marek Vasut)

   - Restore inbound translation when disabling doorbell so the endpoint
     doorbell test case can be run more than once (Niklas Cassel)

   - Avoid a NULL pointer dereference when releasing DMA channels in
     endpoint DMA test case (Shin'ichiro Kawasaki)

   - Convert tegra194 interrupt number to MSI vector to fix endpoint
     Kselftest MSI_TEST test case (Niklas Cassel)

   - Reset tegra194 BARs when running in endpoint mode so the BAR tests
     don't overwrite the ATU settings in BAR4 (Niklas Cassel)

   - Handle errors in tegra194 BPMP transactions so we don't mistakenly
     skip future PERST# assertion (Vidya Sagar)

  AMD MDB PCIe controller driver:

   - Update DT binding example to separate PERST# to a Root Port stanza
     to make multiple Root Ports possible in the future (Sai Krishna
     Musham)

   - Add driver support for PERST# being described in a Root Port
     stanza, falling back to the host bridge if not found there (Sai
     Krishna Musham)

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Enable the 3.3V Vaux supply if available so devices can request
     wakeup with either Beacon or WAKE# (Richard Zhu)

  MediaTek PCIe Gen3 controller driver:

   - Add optional sys clock ready time setting to avoid sys_clk_rdy
     signal glitching in MT6991 and MT8196 (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

   - Add DT binding and driver support for MT6991 and MT8196
     (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

  NVIDIA Tegra PCIe controller driver:

   - When asserting PERST#, disable the controller instead of mistakenly
     disabling the PLL twice (Nagarjuna Kristam)

   - Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Select PCI Power Control Slot driver so slot voltage rails can be
     turned on/off if described in Root Port devicetree node (Qiang Yu)

   - Parse only PCI bridge child nodes in devicetree, skipping unrelated
     nodes such as OPP (Operating Performance Points), which caused
     probe failures (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Add 8.0 GT/s and 32.0 GT/s equalization settings (Ziyue Zhang)

   - Consolidate Root Port 'phy' and 'reset' properties in struct
     qcom_pcie_port, regardless of whether we got them from the Root
     Port node or the host bridge node (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Fetch and map the ELBI register space in the DWC core rather than
     in each driver individually (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Enable ECAM mechanism in DWC core by setting up iATU with 'CFG
     Shift Feature' and use this in the qcom driver (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Add SM8750 compatible to qcom,pcie-sm8550.yaml (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Update qcom,pcie-x1e80100.yaml to allow fifth PCIe host on Qualcomm
     Glymur, which is compatible with X1E80100 but doesn't have the
     cnoc_sf_axi clock (Qiang Yu)

  Renesas R-Car PCIe controller driver:

   - Fix a typo that prevented correct PHY initialization (Marek Vasut)

   - Add a missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion as required by
     the V4H manual (Marek Vasut)

   - Assure reset has completed before DBI access to avoid SError (Marek
     Vasut)

   - Fix inverted PHY initialization check, which sometimes led to
     timeouts and failure to start the controller (Marek Vasut)

   - Pass the correct IRQ domain to generic_handle_domain_irq() to fix a
     regression when converting to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
     (Claudiu Beznea)

   - Drop the spinlock protecting the PMSR register - it's no longer
     required since pci_lock already serializes accesses (Marek Vasut)

   - Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  SOPHGO PCIe controller driver:

   - Check for existence of struct cdns_pcie.ops before using it to
     allow Cadence drivers that don't need to supply ops (Chen Wang)

   - Add DT binding and driver for the SOPHGO SG2042 PCIe controller
     (Chen Wang)

  STMicroelectronics STM32MP25 PCIe controller driver:

   - Update pinctrl documentation of initial states and use in runtime
     suspend/resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add pinctrl_pm_select_init_state() for use by stm32 driver, which
     needs it during resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add devicetree bindings and drivers for the STMicroelectronics
     STM32MP25 in host and endpoint modes (Christian Bruel)

  Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Add support for x16 in devicetree 'num-lanes' property (Konrad
     Dybcio)

   - Verify that if DT specifies a single IRQ for all eDMA channels, it
     is named 'dma' (Niklas Cassel)

  TI J721E PCIe driver:

   - Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() so driver can be autoloaded (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

   - Power controller off before configuring the glue layer so the
     controller latches the correct values on power-on (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

  TI Keystone PCIe controller driver:

   - Use devm_request_irq() so 'ks-pcie-error-irq' is freed when driver
     exits with error (Siddharth Vadapalli)

   - Add Peripheral Virtualization Unit (PVU), which restricts DMA from
     PCIe devices to specific regions of host memory, to the ti,am65
     binding (Jan Kiszka)

  Xilinx NWL PCIe controller driver:

   - Clear bootloader E_ECAM_CONTROL before merging in the new driver
     value to avoid writing invalid values (Jani Nurminen)"

* tag 'pci-v6.18-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (141 commits)
  PCI/AER: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit()
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for ST STM32MP25 PCIe drivers
  PCI: stm32-ep: Add PCIe Endpoint support for STM32MP25
  dt-bindings: PCI: Add STM32MP25 PCIe Endpoint bindings
  PCI: stm32: Add PCIe host support for STM32MP25
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Fix ECAM programming
  PCI: j721e: Fix incorrect error message in probe()
  PCI: keystone: Use devm_request_irq() to free "ks-pcie-error-irq" on exit
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-x1e80100: Set clocks minItems for the fifth Glymur PCIe Controller
  PCI: dwc: Support 16-lane operation
  PCI: Add lockdep assertion in pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device()
  PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV
  PCI: rcar-host: Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: tegra194: Rename 'root_bus' to 'root_port_bus' in tegra_pcie_downstream_dev_to_D0()
  PCI: tegra: Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Fix inverted break condition in PHY initialization
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Assure reset occurs before DBI access
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Add missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion
  PCI: Set up bridge resources earlier
  PCI: rcar-host: Drop PMSR spinlock
  ...
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Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Enumeration:

   - Add PCI_FIND_NEXT_CAP() and PCI_FIND_NEXT_EXT_CAP() macros that
     take config space accessor functions.

     Implement pci_find_capability(), pci_find_ext_capability(), and
     dwc, dwc endpoint, and cadence capability search interfaces with
     them (Hans Zhang)

   - Leave parent unit address 0 in 'interrupt-map' so that when we
     build devicetree nodes to describe PCI functions that contain
     multiple peripherals, we can build this property even when
     interrupt controllers lack 'reg' properties (Lorenzo Pieralisi)

   - Add a Xeon 6 quirk to disable Extended Tags and limit Max Read
     Request Size to 128B to avoid a performance issue (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Add sysfs 'serial_number' file to expose the Device Serial Number
     (Matthew Wood)

   - Fix pci_acpi_preserve_config() memory leak (Nirmoy Das)

  Resource management:

   - Align m68k pcibios_enable_device() with other arches (Ilpo
     Järvinen)

   - Remove sparc pcibios_enable_device() implementations that don't do
     anything beyond what pci_enable_resources() does (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Remove mips pcibios_enable_resources() and use
     pci_enable_resources() instead (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Clean up bridge window sizing and assignment (Ilpo Järvinen),
     including:

       - Leave non-claimed bridge windows disabled

       - Enable bridges even if a window wasn't assigned because not all
         windows are required by downstream devices

       - Preserve bridge window type when releasing the resource, since
         the type is needed for reassignment

       - Consolidate selection of bridge windows into two new
         interfaces, pbus_select_window() and
         pbus_select_window_for_type(), so this is done consistently

       - Compute bridge window start and end earlier to avoid logging
         stale information

  MSI:

   - Add quirk to disable MSI on RDC PCI to PCIe bridges (Marcos Del Sol
     Vives)

  Error handling:

   - Align AER with EEH by allowing drivers to request a Bus Reset on
     Non-Fatal Errors (in addition to the reset on Fatal Errors that we
     already do) (Lukas Wunner)

   - If error recovery fails, emit FAILED_RECOVERY uevents for the
     devices, not for the bridge leading to them.

     This makes them correspond to BEGIN_RECOVERY uevents (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by calling err_handler.error_detected()
     callbacks to notify drivers if error recovery fails (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by restoring device error_state to
     pci_channel_io_normal before the err_handler.slot_reset() callback.

     This is earlier than before the err_handler.resume() callback
     (Lukas Wunner)

   - Emit a BEGIN_RECOVERY uevent when driver's
     err_handler.error_detected() requests a reset, as well as when it
     says recovery is complete or can be done without a reset (Niklas
     Schnelle)

   - Align s390 with AER and EEH by emitting uevents during error
     recovery (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Align EEH with AER and s390 by emitting BEGIN_RECOVERY,
     SUCCESSFUL_RECOVERY, or FAILED_RECOVERY uevents depending on the
     result of err_handler.error_detected() (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Fix a NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit() when ACPI GHES
     error information identifies a device without an AER Capability
     (Breno Leitao)

   - Update error decoding and TLP Log printing for new errors in
     current PCIe base spec (Lukas Wunner)

   - Update error recovery documentation to match the current code
     and use consistent nomenclature (Lukas Wunner)

  ASPM:

   - Enable all ClockPM and ASPM states for devicetree platforms, since
     there's typically no firmware that enables ASPM

     This is a risky change that may uncover hardware or configuration
     defects at boot-time rather than when users enable ASPM via sysfs
     later. Booting with "pcie_aspm=off" prevents this enabling
     (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Remove the qcom code that enabled ASPM (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

  Power management:

   - If a device has already been disconnected, e.g., by a hotplug
     removal, don't bother trying to resume it to D0 when detaching the
     driver.

     This avoids annoying "Unable to change power state from D3cold to
     D0" messages (Mario Limonciello)

   - Ensure devices are powered up before config reads for
     'max_link_width', 'current_link_speed', 'current_link_width',
     'secondary_bus_number', and 'subordinate_bus_number' sysfs files.

     This prevents using invalid data (~0) in drivers or lspci and,
     depending on how the PCIe controller reports errors, may avoid
     error interrupts or crashes (Brian Norris)

  Virtualization:

   - Add rescan/remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV, which
     avoids list corruption on s390, where disabling SR-IOV also
     generates hotplug events (Niklas Schnelle)

  Peer-to-peer DMA:

   - Free struct p2p_pgmap, not a member within it, in the
     pci_p2pdma_add_resource() error path (Sungho Kim)

  Endpoint framework:

   - Document sysfs interface for BAR assignment of vNTB endpoint
     functions (Jerome Brunet)

   - Fix array underflow in endpoint BAR test case (Dan Carpenter)

   - Skip endpoint IRQ test if the IRQ is out of range to avoid false
     errors (Christian Bruel)

   - Fix endpoint test case for controllers with fixed-size BARs smaller
     than requested by the test (Marek Vasut)

   - Restore inbound translation when disabling doorbell so the endpoint
     doorbell test case can be run more than once (Niklas Cassel)

   - Avoid a NULL pointer dereference when releasing DMA channels in
     endpoint DMA test case (Shin'ichiro Kawasaki)

   - Convert tegra194 interrupt number to MSI vector to fix endpoint
     Kselftest MSI_TEST test case (Niklas Cassel)

   - Reset tegra194 BARs when running in endpoint mode so the BAR tests
     don't overwrite the ATU settings in BAR4 (Niklas Cassel)

   - Handle errors in tegra194 BPMP transactions so we don't mistakenly
     skip future PERST# assertion (Vidya Sagar)

  AMD MDB PCIe controller driver:

   - Update DT binding example to separate PERST# to a Root Port stanza
     to make multiple Root Ports possible in the future (Sai Krishna
     Musham)

   - Add driver support for PERST# being described in a Root Port
     stanza, falling back to the host bridge if not found there (Sai
     Krishna Musham)

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Enable the 3.3V Vaux supply if available so devices can request
     wakeup with either Beacon or WAKE# (Richard Zhu)

  MediaTek PCIe Gen3 controller driver:

   - Add optional sys clock ready time setting to avoid sys_clk_rdy
     signal glitching in MT6991 and MT8196 (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

   - Add DT binding and driver support for MT6991 and MT8196
     (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

  NVIDIA Tegra PCIe controller driver:

   - When asserting PERST#, disable the controller instead of mistakenly
     disabling the PLL twice (Nagarjuna Kristam)

   - Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Select PCI Power Control Slot driver so slot voltage rails can be
     turned on/off if described in Root Port devicetree node (Qiang Yu)

   - Parse only PCI bridge child nodes in devicetree, skipping unrelated
     nodes such as OPP (Operating Performance Points), which caused
     probe failures (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Add 8.0 GT/s and 32.0 GT/s equalization settings (Ziyue Zhang)

   - Consolidate Root Port 'phy' and 'reset' properties in struct
     qcom_pcie_port, regardless of whether we got them from the Root
     Port node or the host bridge node (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Fetch and map the ELBI register space in the DWC core rather than
     in each driver individually (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Enable ECAM mechanism in DWC core by setting up iATU with 'CFG
     Shift Feature' and use this in the qcom driver (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Add SM8750 compatible to qcom,pcie-sm8550.yaml (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Update qcom,pcie-x1e80100.yaml to allow fifth PCIe host on Qualcomm
     Glymur, which is compatible with X1E80100 but doesn't have the
     cnoc_sf_axi clock (Qiang Yu)

  Renesas R-Car PCIe controller driver:

   - Fix a typo that prevented correct PHY initialization (Marek Vasut)

   - Add a missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion as required by
     the V4H manual (Marek Vasut)

   - Assure reset has completed before DBI access to avoid SError (Marek
     Vasut)

   - Fix inverted PHY initialization check, which sometimes led to
     timeouts and failure to start the controller (Marek Vasut)

   - Pass the correct IRQ domain to generic_handle_domain_irq() to fix a
     regression when converting to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
     (Claudiu Beznea)

   - Drop the spinlock protecting the PMSR register - it's no longer
     required since pci_lock already serializes accesses (Marek Vasut)

   - Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  SOPHGO PCIe controller driver:

   - Check for existence of struct cdns_pcie.ops before using it to
     allow Cadence drivers that don't need to supply ops (Chen Wang)

   - Add DT binding and driver for the SOPHGO SG2042 PCIe controller
     (Chen Wang)

  STMicroelectronics STM32MP25 PCIe controller driver:

   - Update pinctrl documentation of initial states and use in runtime
     suspend/resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add pinctrl_pm_select_init_state() for use by stm32 driver, which
     needs it during resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add devicetree bindings and drivers for the STMicroelectronics
     STM32MP25 in host and endpoint modes (Christian Bruel)

  Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Add support for x16 in devicetree 'num-lanes' property (Konrad
     Dybcio)

   - Verify that if DT specifies a single IRQ for all eDMA channels, it
     is named 'dma' (Niklas Cassel)

  TI J721E PCIe driver:

   - Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() so driver can be autoloaded (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

   - Power controller off before configuring the glue layer so the
     controller latches the correct values on power-on (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

  TI Keystone PCIe controller driver:

   - Use devm_request_irq() so 'ks-pcie-error-irq' is freed when driver
     exits with error (Siddharth Vadapalli)

   - Add Peripheral Virtualization Unit (PVU), which restricts DMA from
     PCIe devices to specific regions of host memory, to the ti,am65
     binding (Jan Kiszka)

  Xilinx NWL PCIe controller driver:

   - Clear bootloader E_ECAM_CONTROL before merging in the new driver
     value to avoid writing invalid values (Jani Nurminen)"

* tag 'pci-v6.18-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (141 commits)
  PCI/AER: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit()
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for ST STM32MP25 PCIe drivers
  PCI: stm32-ep: Add PCIe Endpoint support for STM32MP25
  dt-bindings: PCI: Add STM32MP25 PCIe Endpoint bindings
  PCI: stm32: Add PCIe host support for STM32MP25
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Fix ECAM programming
  PCI: j721e: Fix incorrect error message in probe()
  PCI: keystone: Use devm_request_irq() to free "ks-pcie-error-irq" on exit
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-x1e80100: Set clocks minItems for the fifth Glymur PCIe Controller
  PCI: dwc: Support 16-lane operation
  PCI: Add lockdep assertion in pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device()
  PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV
  PCI: rcar-host: Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: tegra194: Rename 'root_bus' to 'root_port_bus' in tegra_pcie_downstream_dev_to_D0()
  PCI: tegra: Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Fix inverted break condition in PHY initialization
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Assure reset occurs before DBI access
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Add missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion
  PCI: Set up bridge resources earlier
  PCI: rcar-host: Drop PMSR spinlock
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T00:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torva