linux/arch/arm64/kernel/pi, branch master

arm64/scs: Fix handling of advance_loc4

2026-03-13T14:15:34Z

DW_CFA_advance_loc4 is defined but no handler is implemented. Its CFA opcode defaults to EDYNSCS_INVALID_CFA_OPCODE triggering an error which wrongfully prevents modules from loading. Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/971060 Signed-off-by: Pepper Gray Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-12-03T01:03:55Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19. The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/. There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and several cleanups/typos. Summary: Core features: - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring) driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API Perf and PMU: - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support for NVIDIA implementations - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver Memory managemennt: - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping() - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common() ACPI and EFI: - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption - Remove unused ACPI function Miscellaneous: - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test - Remove some no longer used macros/functions - Various spelling corrections" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits) arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state ...

arm64/sysreg: Replace TCR_EL1 field macros

2025-11-13T15:58:30Z

This just replaces all used TCR_EL1 field macros with tools sysreg variant based fields and subsequently drops them from the header (pgtable-hwdef.h), although while retaining the ones used for KVM (represented via the sysreg tools format). Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mark Brown Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64: Fail module loading if dynamic SCS patching fails

2025-11-07T15:00:09Z

Disallow a module to load if SCS dynamic patching fails for its code. For module loading, instead of running a dry-run to check for patching errors, try to run patching in the first run and propagate any errors so module loading will fail. Signed-off-by: Adrian Barnaś Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: map [_text, _stext) virtual address range non-executable+read-only

2025-09-22T10:58:17Z

Since the referenced fixes commit, the kernel's .text section is only mapped starting from _stext; the region [_text, _stext) is omitted. As a result, other vmalloc/vmap allocations may use the virtual addresses nominally in the range [_text, _stext). This address reuse confuses multiple things: 1. crash_prepare_elf64_headers() sets up a segment in /proc/vmcore mapping the entire range [_text, _end) to [__pa_symbol(_text), __pa_symbol(_end)). Reading an address in [_text, _stext) from /proc/vmcore therefore gives the incorrect result. 2. Tools doing symbolization (either by reading /proc/kallsyms or based on the vmlinux ELF file) will incorrectly identify vmalloc/vmap allocations in [_text, _stext) as kernel symbols. In practice, both of these issues affect the drgn debugger. Specifically, there were cases where the vmap IRQ stacks for some CPUs were allocated in [_text, _stext). As a result, drgn could not get the stack trace for a crash in an IRQ handler because the core dump contained invalid data for the IRQ stack address. The stack addresses were also symbolized as being in the _text symbol. Fix this by bringing back the mapping of [_text, _stext), but now make it non-executable and read-only. This prevents other allocations from using it while still achieving the original goal of not mapping unpredictable data as executable. Other than the changed protection, this is effectively a revert of the fixes commit. Fixes: e2a073dde921 ("arm64: omit [_text, _stext) from permanent kernel mapping") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: mm: Represent physical memory with phys_addr_t and resource_size_t

2025-09-16T19:39:49Z

This is a type-correctness cleanup to MMU/boot code that replaces several instances of void * and u64 with phys_addr_t (to represent addresses) and resource_size_t (to represent sizes) to emphasize that the code in question concerns physical memory specifically. The rationale for this change is to improve clarity and readability in a few modules that handle both types (physical and virtual) of address and differentiation is essential. I have left u64 in cases where the address may be either physical or virtual, where the address is exclusively virtual but used in heavy pointer arithmetic, and in cases I may have overlooked. I do not necessarily consider u64 the ideal type in those situations, but it avoids breaking existing semantics in this cleanup. This patch provably has no effect at runtime: I have verified that .text of vmlinux is identical after this change. Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: mm: Make map_fdt() return mapped pointer

2025-09-16T19:39:49Z

Currently map_fdt() accepts a physical address and relies on the caller to keep using the same value after mapping, since the implementation happens to install an identity mapping. This obscures the fact that the usable pointer is defined by the mapping, not by the input value. Since the mapping determines pointer validity, it is more natural to produce the pointer at mapping time. Change map_fdt() to return a void * pointing to the mapped FDT. This clarifies the data flow, removes the implicit identity assumption, and prepares for making map_fdt() accept a phys_addr_t in a follow-up change. Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: mm: Cast start/end markers to char *, not u64

2025-09-16T19:39:49Z

There are a few memset() calls in map_kernel.c that cast marker-symbol addresses to u64 in order to perform pointer subtraction (range size computation). Cast them with (char *) instead, aligning with idiomatic C pointer arithmetic. This patch provably has no effect at runtime: I have verified that .text of vmlinux is identical after this change. Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-07-30T03:21:54Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on. There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and non-contiguous. More details: Perf and PMU updates: - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts between clock domains within a given instance - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE) - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes - Minor driver fixes and cleanups Hardware features: - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY) - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR) - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB conflict aborts Software features: - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable() and using the text-poke API for late module relocations - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives ACPI: - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR table Debug: - Simplify the debug exception entry path - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros Kselftests: - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests Miscellaneous: - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get() - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic - Remove redundant gcs_free() call" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits) arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at() kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3 arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling ...

stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE

2025-07-22T04:35:01Z

In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking that can support stack depth callbacks: - Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang stack depth callback support. - Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE, but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself. - Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn. While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS, since that's the only place it is referenced from. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook