linux/Documentation/core-api, branch v6.13

module: Convert default symbol namespace to string literal

2024-12-03T16:22:25Z

Commit cdd30ebb1b9f ("module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal") only converted MODULE_IMPORT_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(), leaving DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE as a macro expansion. This commit converts DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE in the same way to avoid annoyance for the default namespace as well. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: module: revert misconversions for MODULE_IMPORT_NS()

2024-12-03T16:22:25Z

This reverts the misconversions introduced by commit cdd30ebb1b9f ("module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal"). The affected descriptions refer to MODULE_IMPORT_NS() tags in general, rather than suggesting the use of the empty string ("") as the namespace. Fixes: cdd30ebb1b9f ("module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal

2024-12-02T19:34:44Z

Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself. Scripted using git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file; do awk -i inplace ' /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ { gsub(/__stringify$ns$/, "ns"); print; next; } /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ { gsub(/__stringify$ns$/, "ns"); print; next; } /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ { $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS$([^)]*)$/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g"); } /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ { if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)$([^,]+),/) { if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)$/ && $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)/ && $0 !~ /^my/) { getline line; gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, ""); gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line); $0 = $0 " " line; } $0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)$([^,]+), ([^)]+)$/, "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g"); } } { print }' $file; done Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-6.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-11-26T21:44:27Z

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A few late-arriving fixes, plus two more significant changes that were *almost* ready at the beginning of the merge window: - A new document on debugging techniques from Sebastian Fricke - A clarification on MODULE_LICENSE terms meant to head off the sort of confusion that led to the recent Tuxedo Computers mess" * tag 'docs-6.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add debugging guide for the media subsystem docs: Add debugging section to process docs/licensing: Clarify wording about "GPL" and "Proprietary" docs: core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io: indicate that vmalloc supports GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO Documentation: kernel-doc: enumerate identifier *type*s Documentation: pwrseq: Fix trivial misspellings Documentation: filesystems: update filename extensions

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-11-26T00:09:48Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko performs some cleanups in the resource management code - The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses possible race-induced overflows in the management of task_struct.comm[] - The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from {tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest - The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the min_heap library code - The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi finishes off nilfs2's folioification - The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity - Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the individual changelogs for details * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits) gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit() lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter() hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile() fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects() ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based ...

Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl

2024-11-22T20:33:52Z

Pull cxl updates from Dave Jiang: - Constify range_contains() input parameters to prevent changes - Add support for displaying RCD capabilities in sysfs to support lspci for CXL device - Downgrade warning message to debug in cxl_probe_component_regs() - Add support for adding a printf specifier '%pra' to emit 'struct range' content: - Add sanity tests for 'struct resource' - Add documentation for special case - Add %pra for 'struct range' - Add %pra usage in CXL code - Add preparation code for DCD support: - Add range_overlaps() - Add CDAT DSMAS table shared and read only flag in ACPICA - Add documentation to 'struct dev_dax_range' - Delay event buffer allocation in CXL PCI code until needed - Use guard() in cxl_dpa_set_mode() - Refactor create region code to consolidate common code * tag 'cxl-for-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: cxl/region: Refactor common create region code cxl/hdm: Use guard() in cxl_dpa_set_mode() cxl/pci: Delay event buffer allocation dax: Document struct dev_dax_range ACPI/CDAT: Add CDAT/DSMAS shared and read only flag values range: Add range_overlaps() cxl/cdat: Use %pra for dpa range outputs printf: Add print format (%pra) for struct range Documentation/printf: struct resource add start == end special case test printf: Add very basic struct resource tests cxl: downgrade a warning message to debug level in cxl_probe_component_regs() cxl/pci: Add sysfs attribute for CXL 1.1 device link status cxl/core/regs: Add rcd_pcie_cap initialization kernel/range: Const-ify range_contains parameters

docs: core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io: indicate that vmalloc supports GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO

2024-11-22T17:42:37Z

After the commit 451769ebb7e79 ("mm/vmalloc: alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc") in v5.17 it is now safe to use GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO flags in [k]vmalloc, let's reflect it in documentation. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119093922.567138-1-ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com

Merge tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2024-11-21T16:28:08Z

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained. Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be a more reliable replacement for the latter. Core: - Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising: - RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path - introduce basic per netns locking helpers - namespacified the IPv4 address hash table - remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of rtnl_register_many() - refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as possible out of RTNL lock - convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU - convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL - convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL the per-netns lock infrastructure is guarded by the CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL knob, disabled by default ad interim. - Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing. - Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN handling consistent and reliable. - Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing better introspection in case of packets drop. - Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read access. - Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable. - Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets and timestamps Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops size. - Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag API, This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag implementation. Netfilter: - Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption - Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure. - Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users the option to configure iptables without enabling any other config. - Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent CI improvements. BPF: - Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall, this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads. - Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in combination with BPF cpumap. - Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also add a batch of new BPF selftests for it. - Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb->{mark,priority} scrubbing to its BPF program. - Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF programs. Protocols: - Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up significantly connected sockets lookup. - Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after close, the socket lock contention. - Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state lookups. - Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing risks on loosing them. - Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per device neigh lists. Driver API: - Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W shaping, and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink. - Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation. Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are: nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice. - Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks. - Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core. - Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror offload. - Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on device-specific entries. - Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space. - Support master-slave PHY config via device tree. Tests and tooling: - forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify the cleanup phase Drivers: - Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic, Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better introspection. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - mlx5: - a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch scheduling - refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better - H/W GRO cleanups - Intel (100G, ice):: - add support for ethtool reset - implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping - AMD/Solarflare: - implement per device queue stats support - Broadcom (bnxt): - improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules - Marvell Octeon: - Add representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit (RVU) device. - Hisilicon: - add support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet - IBM (EMAC): - driver cleanup and modernization - Cisco (VIC): - raise the queues number limit to 256 - Ethernet virtual: - Google vNIC: - implement page pool support - macsec: - inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when offloading - virtio_net: - enable premapped mode by default - support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX - wireguard: - set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger packets. - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual: - Broadcom ASP: - enable software timestamping - Freescale: - add enetc4 PF driver - MediaTek: Airoha SoC: - implement BQL support - RealTek r8169: - enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125 - implement extended ethtool stats - Renesas AVB: - enable TX checksum offload - Synopsys (stmmac): - support header splitting for vlan tagged packets - move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE module. - add dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC - Synopsys (xpcs): - driver refactor and cleanup - TI: - icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support - Xilinx emaclite: - add clock support - Ethernet switches: - Microchip: - implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family - add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver - Ethernet PHYs: - Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation - Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2 - PTP: - Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device - Add PtP driver for s390 clocks - WiFi: - mac80211 - EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions - new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added - support radio separation of multi-band devices - move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw - Broadcom: - brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support - Microchip: - add support for Atmel WILC3000 - Qualcomm (ath12k): - firmware coredump collection support - add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics - Qualcomm (ath5k): - Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 & Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support - Realtek: - rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support - rtw89: add thermal protection - rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience - rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip - Bluetooth - add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and 0x13d3:0x3623 - add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123 - add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids - btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware - btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism - btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature" * tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1475 commits) mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is not compiled Documentation: tipc: fix formatting issue in tipc.rst selftests: nic_performance: Add selftest for performance of NIC driver selftests: nic_link_layer: Add selftest case for speed and duplex states selftests: nic_link_layer: Add link layer selftest for NIC driver bnxt_en: Add FW trace coredump segments to the coredump bnxt_en: Add a new ethtool -W dump flag bnxt_en: Add 2 parameters to bnxt_fill_coredump_seg_hdr() bnxt_en: Add functions to copy host context memory bnxt_en: Do not free FW log context memory bnxt_en: Manage the FW trace context memory bnxt_en: Allocate backing store memory for FW trace logs bnxt_en: Add a 'force' parameter to bnxt_free_ctx_mem() bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_free_ctx_mem() bnxt_en: Add mem_valid bit to struct bnxt_ctx_mem_type bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.3.85 selftests/bpf: Add some tests with sockmap SK_PASS bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SK_PASS wireguard: device: support big tcp GSO wireguard: selftests: load nf_conntrack if not present ...

Merge tag 'wq-for-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2024-11-20T17:41:11Z

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - The maximum concurrency limit of 512 which was set a long time ago is too low now. A legitimate use (BPF cgroup release) of system_wq could saturate it under stress test conditions leading to false dependencies and deadlocks. While the offending use was switched to a dedicated workqueue, use the opportunity to bump WQ_MAX_ACTIVE four fold and document that system workqueue shouldn't be saturated. Workqueue should add at least a warning mechanism for cases where system workqueues are saturated. - Recent workqueue updates to support more flexible execution topology made unbound workqueues use per-cpu worker pool frontends which pushed up workqueue flush overhead. As consecutive CPUs are likely to be pointing to the same worker pool, reduce overhead by switching locks only when necessary. * tag 'wq-for-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: Reduce expensive locks for unbound workqueue workqueue: Adjust WQ_MAX_ACTIVE from 512 to 2048 workqueue: doc: Add a note saturating the system_wq is not permitted

Merge tag 'docs-6.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-11-20T17:16:45Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Another moderately busy cycle in docsland: - Work on Chinese translations has picked up again. Happily, they are maintaining the existing translations and not just adding new ones. - Some maintenance of the Japanese and Italian translations as well. - The removal of the venerable "dontdiff" file. It has long outlived its usefulness and contained entries ("parse.*") that would actively mask actual source change. - The addition of enforcement information to the code-of-conduct documentation. Along with some build-system fixes and a lot of typo and language fixes" * tag 'docs-6.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits) Documentation/CoC: spell out enforcement for unacceptable behaviors docs: fix typos and whitespace in Documentation/process/backporting.rst docs/zh_CN: fix one sentence in llvm.rst docs: bug-bisect: add a note about bisecting -next docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/llvm.rst Documentation: Fix incorrect paths/magic in magic numbers rst Documentation/maintainer-tip: Fix typos Documentation: Improve crash_kexec_post_notifiers description Docs/zh_CN: Translate physical_memory.rst to Simplified Chinese Documentation: admin: reorganize kernel-parameters intro docs/zh_CN: update the translation of process/programming-language.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/page_owner.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/page_table_check.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/overcommit-accounting.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/admon/faq.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/active_mm.rst docs/zh_CN: update the translation of mm/hmm.rst docs: remove Documentation/dontdiff docs/zh_CN: Add a entry in Chinese glossary Docs/zh_CN: Fix the pfn calculation error in page_tables.rst ...