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<entry>
<title>tools: Fix bitfield dependency failure</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:21:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-23T13:32:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a537c0da168a08b0b6a7f7bd9e75f4cc8d45ff57 ]

A perf build failure was reported by Thomas Voegtle on stable kernel
v6.6.120:

    CC      tests/sample-parsing.o
    CC      util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.o
    CC      util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_csky.o
    CC      util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.o
    CC      util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_loongarch.o
  In file included from util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h:10,
                   from util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c:14:
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h: In function ‘le16_encode_bits’:
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:166:31: error: implicit declaration of
  function ‘cpu_to_le16’; did you mean ‘htole16’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
    ____MAKE_OP(le##size,u##size,cpu_to_le##size,le##size##_to_cpu) \
                                 ^~~~~~~~~
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:149:9: note: in definition of macro
  ‘____MAKE_OP’
    return to((v &amp; field_mask(field)) * field_multiplier(field)); \
           ^~
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:170:1: note: in expansion of macro
  ‘__MAKE_OP’
   __MAKE_OP(16)

Fix this by including linux/kernel.h, which provides the required
definitions.

The issue was not found on the mainline due to the relevant C files have
included kernel.h.  It'd be good to merge this change on mainline
as well for robustness.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/3a44500b-d7c8-179f-61f6-e51cb50d3512@lio96.de/
Fixes: 64d86c03e1441742 ("perf arm-spe: Extend branch operations")
Reported-by: Hamza Mahfooz &lt;hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
To: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a537c0da168a08b0b6a7f7bd9e75f4cc8d45ff57 ]

A perf build failure was reported by Thomas Voegtle on stable kernel
v6.6.120:

    CC      tests/sample-parsing.o
    CC      util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.o
    CC      util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_csky.o
    CC      util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.o
    CC      util/perf-regs-arch/perf_regs_loongarch.o
  In file included from util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h:10,
                   from util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.c:14:
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h: In function ‘le16_encode_bits’:
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:166:31: error: implicit declaration of
  function ‘cpu_to_le16’; did you mean ‘htole16’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
    ____MAKE_OP(le##size,u##size,cpu_to_le##size,le##size##_to_cpu) \
                                 ^~~~~~~~~
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:149:9: note: in definition of macro
  ‘____MAKE_OP’
    return to((v &amp; field_mask(field)) * field_multiplier(field)); \
           ^~
  /local/git/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/bitfield.h:170:1: note: in expansion of macro
  ‘__MAKE_OP’
   __MAKE_OP(16)

Fix this by including linux/kernel.h, which provides the required
definitions.

The issue was not found on the mainline due to the relevant C files have
included kernel.h.  It'd be good to merge this change on mainline
as well for robustness.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/3a44500b-d7c8-179f-61f6-e51cb50d3512@lio96.de/
Fixes: 64d86c03e1441742 ("perf arm-spe: Extend branch operations")
Reported-by: Hamza Mahfooz &lt;hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
To: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-10-11T18:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-11T18:19:16+00:00</published>
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Pull more x86 updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's
   emulator in favor of int3_emulate_jcc() which is written in C

 - Replace KVM fastops with C-based stubs which avoids problems with the
   fastop infra related to latter not adhering to the C ABI due to their
   special calling convention and, more importantly, bypassing compiler
   control-flow integrity checking because they're written in asm

 - Remove wrongly used static branches and other ugliness accumulated
   over time in hyperv's hypercall implementation with a proper static
   function call to the correct hypervisor call variant

 - Add some fixes and modifications to allow running FRED-enabled
   kernels in KVM even on non-FRED hardware

 - Add kCFI improvements like validating indirect calls and prepare for
   enabling kCFI with GCC. Add cmdline params documentation and other
   code cleanups

 - Use the single-byte 0xd6 insn as the official #UD single-byte
   undefined opcode instruction as agreed upon by both x86 vendors

 - Other smaller cleanups and touchups all over the place

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86,retpoline: Optimize patch_retpoline()
  x86,ibt: Use UDB instead of 0xEA
  x86/cfi: Remove __noinitretpoline and __noretpoline
  x86/cfi: Add "debug" option to "cfi=" bootparam
  x86/cfi: Standardize on common "CFI:" prefix for CFI reports
  x86/cfi: Document the "cfi=" bootparam options
  x86/traps: Clarify KCFI instruction layout
  compiler_types.h: Move __nocfi out of compiler-specific header
  objtool: Validate kCFI calls
  x86/fred: KVM: VMX: Always use FRED for IRQs when CONFIG_X86_FRED=y
  x86/fred: Play nice with invoking asm_fred_entry_from_kvm() on non-FRED hardware
  x86/fred: Install system vector handlers even if FRED isn't fully enabled
  x86/hyperv: Use direct call to hypercall-page
  x86/hyperv: Clean up hv_do_hypercall()
  KVM: x86: Remove fastops
  KVM: x86: Convert em_salc() to C
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_3WCL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_1SRC2
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2CL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2W
  ...
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Pull more x86 updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's
   emulator in favor of int3_emulate_jcc() which is written in C

 - Replace KVM fastops with C-based stubs which avoids problems with the
   fastop infra related to latter not adhering to the C ABI due to their
   special calling convention and, more importantly, bypassing compiler
   control-flow integrity checking because they're written in asm

 - Remove wrongly used static branches and other ugliness accumulated
   over time in hyperv's hypercall implementation with a proper static
   function call to the correct hypervisor call variant

 - Add some fixes and modifications to allow running FRED-enabled
   kernels in KVM even on non-FRED hardware

 - Add kCFI improvements like validating indirect calls and prepare for
   enabling kCFI with GCC. Add cmdline params documentation and other
   code cleanups

 - Use the single-byte 0xd6 insn as the official #UD single-byte
   undefined opcode instruction as agreed upon by both x86 vendors

 - Other smaller cleanups and touchups all over the place

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86,retpoline: Optimize patch_retpoline()
  x86,ibt: Use UDB instead of 0xEA
  x86/cfi: Remove __noinitretpoline and __noretpoline
  x86/cfi: Add "debug" option to "cfi=" bootparam
  x86/cfi: Standardize on common "CFI:" prefix for CFI reports
  x86/cfi: Document the "cfi=" bootparam options
  x86/traps: Clarify KCFI instruction layout
  compiler_types.h: Move __nocfi out of compiler-specific header
  objtool: Validate kCFI calls
  x86/fred: KVM: VMX: Always use FRED for IRQs when CONFIG_X86_FRED=y
  x86/fred: Play nice with invoking asm_fred_entry_from_kvm() on non-FRED hardware
  x86/fred: Install system vector handlers even if FRED isn't fully enabled
  x86/hyperv: Use direct call to hypercall-page
  x86/hyperv: Clean up hv_do_hypercall()
  KVM: x86: Remove fastops
  KVM: x86: Convert em_salc() to C
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_3WCL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_1SRC2
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2CL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2W
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T02:24:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T02:24:24+00:00</published>
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Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
   (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
   hotkey to toggle it

 - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
   over page/chunk sizes

 - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
   events

 - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

 - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

 - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
   regrouping

 - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
   failures

 - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
   (DTL)

 - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
   details

 - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
   multiple processor generations

 - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

 - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

 - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
   more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
   bindings

 - Various 'perf test' fixes

 - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
  perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
  perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
  perf docs: Document building with Clang
  perf build: Support build with clang
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
  perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
  perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
  perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
  tools build: Align warning options with perf
  perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
  perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
  perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
  perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
  perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
  perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
  perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
  perf check: Add libLLVM feature
  perf parse-events: Fix parsing of &gt;30kb event strings
  ...
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Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
   (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
   hotkey to toggle it

 - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
   over page/chunk sizes

 - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
   events

 - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

 - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

 - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
   regrouping

 - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
   failures

 - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
   (DTL)

 - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
   details

 - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
   multiple processor generations

 - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

 - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

 - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
   more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
   bindings

 - Various 'perf test' fixes

 - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
  perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
  perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
  perf docs: Document building with Clang
  perf build: Support build with clang
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
  perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
  perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
  perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
  tools build: Align warning options with perf
  perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
  perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
  perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
  perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
  perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
  perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
  perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
  perf check: Add libLLVM feature
  perf parse-events: Fix parsing of &gt;30kb event strings
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tools headers: kcfi: rename missed CONFIG_CFI_CLANG</title>
<updated>2025-10-07T15:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Llamas</name>
<email>cmllamas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-06T22:51:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 23ef9d439769 ("kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI")
missed one instance of CONFIG_CFI_CLANG. Rename it to match the original
kernel header. This addresses the following build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h include/linux/cfi_types.h

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: a5ba183bdeee ("Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux")
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006225148.1636486-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 23ef9d439769 ("kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI")
missed one instance of CONFIG_CFI_CLANG. Rename it to match the original
kernel header. This addresses the following build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h include/linux/cfi_types.h

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: a5ba183bdeee ("Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux")
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251006225148.1636486-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T15:24:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T15:24:54+00:00</published>
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio
   device file (Alex Mastro)

 - Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for
   vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to
   be unused (Alex Williamson)

 - Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for
   removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava)

 - VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace
   drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to
   provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David
   Matlack, Josh Hilke)

 - Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
   (Nipun Gupta)

 - Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin)

 - Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro)

 - Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin
   Guan)

 - Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and
   resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson)

 - Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave)

 - Misc:
    - Drop unnecessary ternary conversion in vfio/pci (Xichao Zhao)
    - Grammatical fix in nvgrace-gpu (Morduan Zang)
    - Update Shameer's email address (Shameer Kolothum)
    - Fix document build warning (Alex Williamson)

* tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (48 commits)
  vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add GB300 SKU to the devid table
  vfio/pci: Fix INTx handling on legacy non-PCI 2.3 devices
  vfio/pds: replace bitmap_free with vfree
  vfio: return -ENOTTY for unsupported device feature
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Fix reference leak in hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init
  vfio/platform: Mark reset drivers for removal
  vfio/amba: Mark for removal
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  docs: proc.rst: Fix VFIO Device title formatting
  vfio: selftests: Fix .gitignore for already tracked files
  vfio/cdx: update driver to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  cdx: don't select CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  MAINTAINERS: Update Shameer Kolothum's email address
  vfio: selftests: Add a script to help with running VFIO selftests
  vfio: selftests: Make iommufd the default iommu_mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd_compat_type1{,v2} modes
  vfio: selftests: Add vfio_type1v2_mode
  vfio: selftests: Replicate tests across all iommu_modes
  ...
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio
   device file (Alex Mastro)

 - Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for
   vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to
   be unused (Alex Williamson)

 - Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for
   removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava)

 - VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace
   drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to
   provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David
   Matlack, Josh Hilke)

 - Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
   (Nipun Gupta)

 - Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin)

 - Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro)

 - Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin
   Guan)

 - Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and
   resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson)

 - Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave)

 - Misc:
    - Drop unnecessary ternary conversion in vfio/pci (Xichao Zhao)
    - Grammatical fix in nvgrace-gpu (Morduan Zang)
    - Update Shameer's email address (Shameer Kolothum)
    - Fix document build warning (Alex Williamson)

* tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (48 commits)
  vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add GB300 SKU to the devid table
  vfio/pci: Fix INTx handling on legacy non-PCI 2.3 devices
  vfio/pds: replace bitmap_free with vfree
  vfio: return -ENOTTY for unsupported device feature
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Fix reference leak in hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init
  vfio/platform: Mark reset drivers for removal
  vfio/amba: Mark for removal
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  docs: proc.rst: Fix VFIO Device title formatting
  vfio: selftests: Fix .gitignore for already tracked files
  vfio/cdx: update driver to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  cdx: don't select CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  MAINTAINERS: Update Shameer Kolothum's email address
  vfio: selftests: Add a script to help with running VFIO selftests
  vfio: selftests: Make iommufd the default iommu_mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd_compat_type1{,v2} modes
  vfio: selftests: Add vfio_type1v2_mode
  vfio: selftests: Replicate tests across all iommu_modes
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8804d970fab45726b3c7cd7f240b31122aa94219'/>
<id>8804d970fab45726b3c7cd7f240b31122aa94219</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T22:58:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T22:58:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=24d9e8b3c9c8a6f72c8b4c196a703e144928d919'/>
<id>24d9e8b3c9c8a6f72c8b4c196a703e144928d919</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - A new layer for caching objects for allocation and free via percpu
   arrays called sheaves.

   The aim is to combine the good parts of SLAB (lower-overhead and
   simpler percpu caching, compared to SLUB) without the past issues
   with arrays for freeing remote NUMA node objects and their flushing.

   It also allows more efficient kfree_rcu(), and cheaper object
   preallocations for cases where the exact number of objects is
   unknown, but an upper bound is.

   Currently VMAs and maple nodes are using this new caching, with a
   plan to enable it for all caches and remove the complex SLUB fastpath
   based on cpu (partial) slabs and this_cpu_cmpxchg_double().
   (Vlastimil Babka, with Liam Howlett and Pedro Falcato for the maple
   tree changes)

 - Re-entrant kmalloc_nolock(), which allows opportunistic allocations
   from NMI and tracing/kprobe contexts.

   Building on prior page allocator and memcg changes, it will result in
   removing BPF-specific caches on top of slab (Alexei Starovoitov)

 - Various fixes and cleanups. (Kuan-Wei Chiu, Matthew Wilcox, Suren
   Baghdasaryan, Ye Liu)

* tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (40 commits)
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().
  slab: Reuse first bit for OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL
  slab: Make slub local_(try)lock more precise for LOCKDEP
  mm: Introduce alloc_frozen_pages_nolock()
  mm: Allow GFP_ACCOUNT to be used in alloc_pages_nolock().
  locking/local_lock: Introduce local_lock_is_locked().
  maple_tree: Convert forking to use the sheaf interface
  maple_tree: Add single node allocation support to maple state
  maple_tree: Prefilled sheaf conversion and testing
  tools/testing: Add support for prefilled slab sheafs
  maple_tree: Replace mt_free_one() with kfree()
  maple_tree: Use kfree_rcu in ma_free_rcu
  testing/radix-tree/maple: Hack around kfree_rcu not existing
  tools/testing: include maple-shim.c in maple.c
  maple_tree: use percpu sheaves for maple_node_cache
  mm, vma: use percpu sheaves for vm_area_struct cache
  tools/testing: Add support for changes to slab for sheaves
  slab: allow NUMA restricted allocations to use percpu sheaves
  tools/testing/vma: Implement vm_refcnt reset
  slab: skip percpu sheaves for remote object freeing
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - A new layer for caching objects for allocation and free via percpu
   arrays called sheaves.

   The aim is to combine the good parts of SLAB (lower-overhead and
   simpler percpu caching, compared to SLUB) without the past issues
   with arrays for freeing remote NUMA node objects and their flushing.

   It also allows more efficient kfree_rcu(), and cheaper object
   preallocations for cases where the exact number of objects is
   unknown, but an upper bound is.

   Currently VMAs and maple nodes are using this new caching, with a
   plan to enable it for all caches and remove the complex SLUB fastpath
   based on cpu (partial) slabs and this_cpu_cmpxchg_double().
   (Vlastimil Babka, with Liam Howlett and Pedro Falcato for the maple
   tree changes)

 - Re-entrant kmalloc_nolock(), which allows opportunistic allocations
   from NMI and tracing/kprobe contexts.

   Building on prior page allocator and memcg changes, it will result in
   removing BPF-specific caches on top of slab (Alexei Starovoitov)

 - Various fixes and cleanups. (Kuan-Wei Chiu, Matthew Wilcox, Suren
   Baghdasaryan, Ye Liu)

* tag 'slab-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (40 commits)
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().
  slab: Reuse first bit for OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL
  slab: Make slub local_(try)lock more precise for LOCKDEP
  mm: Introduce alloc_frozen_pages_nolock()
  mm: Allow GFP_ACCOUNT to be used in alloc_pages_nolock().
  locking/local_lock: Introduce local_lock_is_locked().
  maple_tree: Convert forking to use the sheaf interface
  maple_tree: Add single node allocation support to maple state
  maple_tree: Prefilled sheaf conversion and testing
  tools/testing: Add support for prefilled slab sheafs
  maple_tree: Replace mt_free_one() with kfree()
  maple_tree: Use kfree_rcu in ma_free_rcu
  testing/radix-tree/maple: Hack around kfree_rcu not existing
  tools/testing: include maple-shim.c in maple.c
  maple_tree: use percpu sheaves for maple_node_cache
  mm, vma: use percpu sheaves for vm_area_struct cache
  tools/testing: Add support for changes to slab for sheaves
  slab: allow NUMA restricted allocations to use percpu sheaves
  tools/testing/vma: Implement vm_refcnt reset
  slab: skip percpu sheaves for remote object freeing
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools include: Replace tools linux/gfp_types.h with kernel version</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T18:11:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-05T22:47:07+00:00</published>
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Previously the header gfp_types.h in tools points to the gfp_types.h
in include/linux. This is a problem for tools like perf, since the
tools header is supposed to be independent of the kernel
headers.

Therefore this patch copies the kernel header to the tools header and
adds a header check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gottlieb &lt;jonas.gottlieb@stackit.cloud&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maurice Lambert &lt;mauricelambert434@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Previously the header gfp_types.h in tools points to the gfp_types.h
in include/linux. This is a problem for tools like perf, since the
tools header is supposed to be independent of the kernel
headers.

Therefore this patch copies the kernel header to the tools header and
adds a header check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gottlieb &lt;jonas.gottlieb@stackit.cloud&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maurice Lambert &lt;mauricelambert434@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools bitmap: Add missing asm-generic/bitsperlong.h include</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T18:09:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-05T22:47:06+00:00</published>
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small_const_nbits is defined in asm-generic/bitsperlong.h which
bitmap.h uses but doesn't include causing build failures in some build
systems. Add the missing #include.

Note the bitmap.h in tools has diverged from that of the kernel, so no
changes are made there.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gottlieb &lt;jonas.gottlieb@stackit.cloud&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maurice Lambert &lt;mauricelambert434@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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small_const_nbits is defined in asm-generic/bitsperlong.h which
bitmap.h uses but doesn't include causing build failures in some build
systems. Add the missing #include.

Note the bitmap.h in tools has diverged from that of the kernel, so no
changes are made there.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gottlieb &lt;jonas.gottlieb@stackit.cloud&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maurice Lambert &lt;mauricelambert434@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</published>
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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 &gt;= 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 &gt;= 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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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 &gt;= 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 &gt;= 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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