linux/arch/alpha/kernel, branch v6.17

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-08-03T23:23:09Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Significant patch series in this pull request: - "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets us closer to being able to remove page->mapping - "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and minor feature addition work in relayfs - "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first kernel obtains extra memory - "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel splats information at the operator * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits) tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version kho: add test for kexec handover delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances" fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add() scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer" net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer" drm/xe: fix typo "notifer" cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer" KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer" MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below() ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable lib/xxhash: remove unused functions init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage docs: update docs after introducing delaytop ...

alpha: replace sprintf()/strcpy() with scnprintf()/strscpy()

2025-07-10T05:57:49Z

Replace sprintf() with the safer variant scnprintf() and use its return value instead of calculating the string length again using strlen(). Use strscpy() instead of the deprecated strcpy(). No functional changes intended. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250521121840.5653-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: guoweikang Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls

2025-07-02T15:05:17Z

Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat() semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended attributes. This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd. This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory and a path - *at() like syscall. CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37Z

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-06-07T17:05:35Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which exports a symbol only to specified modules - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n - Add checkers for redundant or missing inclusion - Deprecate the extra-y syntax - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files * tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits) genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES} efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: check missing #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation kconfig: introduce menu type enum docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers ...

arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds

2025-06-07T05:38:07Z

The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN), which behaves equivalently. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

alpha/perf: Remove driver-specific throttle support

2025-05-21T11:57:45Z

The throttle support has been added in the generic code. Remove the driver-specific throttle support. Besides the throttle, perf_event_overflow may return true because of event_limit. It already does an inatomic event disable. The pmu->stop is not required either. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520181644.2673067-11-kan.liang@linux.intel.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12Z

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'tty-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2025-04-03T01:17:33Z

Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of serial and tty driver updates for 6.15-rc1. Include in here are the following: - more great tty layer cleanups from Jiri. Someday this will be done, but that's not going to be any year soon... - kdb debug driver reverts to fix a reported issue - lots of .dts binding updates for different devices with serial devices - lots of tiny updates and tweaks and a few bugfixes for different serial drivers. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (79 commits) tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Fix unused variable 'sport' build warning serial: stm32: do not deassert RS485 RTS GPIO prematurely serial: 8250: add driver for NI UARTs dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: document RZ/N1 binding without DMA serial: icom: fix code format problems serial: sh-sci: Save and restore more registers tty: serial: pl011: remove incorrect of_match_ptr annotation dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: Add support for rk3562 tty: serial: lpuart: only disable CTS instead of overwriting the whole UARTMODIR register tty: caif: removed unused function debugfs_tx() serial: 8250_dma: terminate correct DMA in tx_dma_flush() tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: rename register variables more specifically tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: use port struct directly to simply code tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Use u32 and u8 for register variables tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: disable transmitter before changing RS485 related registers tty: serial: 8250: Add Brainboxes XC devices dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: support i.MX94 tty: serial: 8250: Add some more device IDs dt-bindings: serial: samsung: add exynos7870-uart compatible serial: 8250_dw: Comment possible corner cases in serial_out() implementation ...

Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-03-24T16:34:10Z

Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner: - Mount notifications The day has come where we finally provide a new api to listen for mount topology changes outside of /proc//mountinfo. A mount namespace file descriptor can be supplied and registered with fanotify to listen for mount topology changes. Currently notifications for mount, umount and moving mounts are generated. The generated notification record contains the unique mount id of the mount. The listmount() and statmount() api can be used to query detailed information about the mount using the received unique mount id. This allows userspace to figure out exactly how the mount topology changed without having to generating diffs of /proc//mountinfo in userspace. - Support O_PATH file descriptors with FSCONFIG_SET_FD in the new mount api - Support detached mounts in overlayfs Since last cycle we support specifying overlayfs layers via file descriptors. However, we don't allow detached mounts which means userspace cannot user file descriptors received via open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) and fsmount() directly. They have to attach them to a mount namespace via move_mount() first. This is cumbersome and means they have to undo mounts via umount(). Allow them to directly use detached mounts. - Allow to retrieve idmappings with statmount Currently it isn't possible to figure out what idmapping has been attached to an idmapped mount. Add an extension to statmount() which allows to read the idmapping from the mount. - Allow creating idmapped mounts from mounts that are already idmapped So far it isn't possible to allow the creation of idmapped mounts from already idmapped mounts as this has significant lifetime implications. Make the creation of idmapped mounts atomic by allow to pass struct mount_attr together with the open_tree_attr() system call allowing to solve these issues without complicating VFS lookup in any way. The system call has in general the benefit that creating a detached mount and applying mount attributes to it becomes an atomic operation for userspace. - Add a way to query statmount() for supported options Allow userspace to query which mount information can be retrieved through statmount(). - Allow superblock owners to force unmount * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (21 commits) umount: Allow superblock owners to force umount selftests: add tests for mount notification selinux: add FILE__WATCH_MOUNTNS samples/vfs: fix printf format string for size_t fs: allow changing idmappings fs: add kflags member to struct mount_kattr fs: add open_tree_attr() fs: add copy_mount_setattr() helper fs: add vfs_open_tree() helper statmount: add a new supported_mask field samples/vfs: add STATMOUNT_MNT_{G,U}IDMAP selftests: add tests for using detached mount with overlayfs samples/vfs: check whether flag was raised statmount: allow to retrieve idmappings uidgid: add map_id_range_up() fs: allow detached mounts in clone_private_mount() selftests/overlayfs: test specifying layers as O_PATH file descriptors fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD vfs: add notifications for mount attach and detach fanotify: notify on mount attach and detach ...