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<title>linux/drivers/char, branch v6.16</title>
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<updated>2025-07-09T05:23:09Z</updated>
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<title>agp/amd64: Check AGP Capability before binding to unsupported devices</title>
<updated>2025-07-09T05:23:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Wunner</name>
<email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-02T05:02:15Z</published>
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Since commit 172efbb40333 ("AGP: Try unsupported AGP chipsets on x86-64
by default"), the AGP driver for AMD Opteron/Athlon64 CPUs has attempted
to bind to any PCI device possessing an AGP Capability.

Commit 6fd024893911 ("amd64-agp: Probe unknown AGP devices the right
way") subsequently reworked the driver to perform a bind attempt to
any PCI device (regardless of AGP Capability) and reject a device in
the driver's -&gt;probe() hook if it lacks the AGP Capability.

On modern CPUs exposing an AMD IOMMU, this subtle change results in an
annoying message with KERN_CRIT severity:

  pci 0000:00:00.2: Resources present before probing

The message is emitted by the driver core prior to invoking a driver's
-&gt;probe() hook.  The check for an AGP Capability in the -&gt;probe() hook
happens too late to prevent the message.

The message has appeared only recently with commit 3be5fa236649 (Revert
"iommu/amd: Prevent binding other PCI drivers to IOMMU PCI devices").
Prior to the commit, no driver could bind to AMD IOMMUs.

The reason for the message is that an MSI is requested early on for the
AMD IOMMU, which results in a call from msi_sysfs_create_group() to
devm_device_add_group().  A devres resource is thus attached to the
driver-less AMD IOMMU, which is normally not allowed, but presumably
cannot be avoided because requesting the MSI from a regular PCI driver
might be too late.

Avoid the message by once again checking for an AGP Capability *before*
binding to an unsupported device.  Achieve that by way of the PCI core's
dynid functionality.

pci_add_dynid() can fail only with -ENOMEM (on allocation failure) or
-EINVAL (on bus_to_subsys() failure).  It doesn't seem worth the extra
code to propagate those error codes out of the for_each_pci_dev() loop,
so simply error out with -ENODEV if there was no successful bind attempt.
In the -ENOMEM case, a splat is emitted anyway, and the -EINVAL case can
never happen because it requires failure of bus_register(&amp;pci_bus_type),
in which case there's no driver probing of PCI devices.

Hans has voiced a preference to no longer probe unsupported devices by
default (i.e. set agp_try_unsupported = 0).  In fact, the help text for
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 pretends this to be the default.  Alternatively, he
proposes probing only devices with PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_HOST.  However these
approaches risk regressing users who depend on the existing behavior.

Fixes: 3be5fa236649 (Revert "iommu/amd: Prevent binding other PCI drivers to IOMMU PCI devices")
Reported-by: Fedor Pchelkin &lt;pchelkin@ispras.ru&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/wpoivftgshz5b5aovxbkxl6ivvquinukqfvb5z6yi4mv7d25ew@edtzr2p74ckg/
Reported-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hansg@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625112411.4123-1-hansg@kernel.org/
Tested-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hansg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hansg@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b29e7fbfc6d146f947603d0ebaef44cbd2f0d754.1751468802.git.lukas@wunner.de
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<entry>
<title>treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()</title>
<updated>2025-06-08T07:07:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-09T05:51:14Z</published>
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Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2025-06-06T18:50:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-06T18:50:47Z</published>
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Pull char / misc / iio driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big char/misc/iio and other small driver subsystem pull
  request for 6.16-rc1.

  Overall, a lot of individual changes, but nothing major, just the
  normal constant forward progress of new device support and cleanups to
  existing subsystems. Highlights in here are:

   - Large IIO driver updates and additions and device tree changes

   - Android binder bugfixes and logfile fixes

   - mhi driver updates

   - comedi driver updates

   - counter driver updates and additions

   - coresight driver updates and additions

   - echo driver removal as there are no in-kernel users of it

   - nvmem driver updates

   - spmi driver updates

   - new amd-sbi driver "subsystem" and drivers added

   - rust miscdriver binding documentation fix

   - other small driver fixes and updates (uio, w1, acrn, hpet,
     xillybus, cardreader drivers, fastrpc and others)

  All of these have been in linux-next for quite a while with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (390 commits)
  binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices
  counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add watch validation support
  dt-bindings: iio: adc: Add ROHM BD79100G
  iio: adc: add support for Nuvoton NCT7201
  dt-bindings: iio: adc: add NCT7201 ADCs
  iio: chemical: Add driver for SEN0322
  dt-bindings: trivial-devices: Document SEN0322
  iio: adc: ad7768-1: reorganize driver headers
  iio: bmp280: zero-init buffer
  iio: ssp_sensors: optimalize -&gt; optimize
  HID: sensor-hub: Fix typo and improve documentation
  iio: admv1013: replace redundant ternary operator with just len
  iio: chemical: mhz19b: Fix error code in probe()
  iio: adc: at91-sama5d2: use IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: accel: sca3300: use IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: adc: ad7380: use IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: adc: ad4695: rename AD4695_MAX_VIN_CHANNELS
  iio: adc: ad4695: use IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: introduce IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS macros
  iio: make IIO_DMA_MINALIGN minimum of 8 bytes
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-6.16-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T04:37:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T04:37:11Z</published>
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Pull IPMI updates from Corey Minyard:
 "Restructure the IPMI driver.

  This is a restructure of the IPMI driver, mostly to remove SRCU. The
  locking had issues, and they were not going to be straightforward to
  fix. Plus it used tons of memory and was generally a pain.

  Most of this moves handling of messages out of bh and interrupt
  context and runs it in thread context. Then getting rid of SRCU is
  easy.

  This also has a minor cleanup to remove a warning on newer GCCs and to
  fix some documentation"

* tag 'for-linus-6.16-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi: (26 commits)
  docs: ipmi: fix spelling and grammar mistakes
  ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ipmi_create_user()
  ipmi:watchdog: Use the new interface for panic messages
  ipmi:msghandler: Export and fix panic messaging capability
  Documentation:ipmi: Remove comments about interrupt level
  ipmi:ssif: Fix a shutdown race
  ipmi:msghandler: Don't deliver messages to deleted users
  ipmi:si: Rework startup of IPMI devices
  ipmi:msghandler: Add a error return from unhandle LAN cmds
  ipmi:msghandler: Shut down lower layer first at unregister
  ipmi:msghandler: Remove proc_fs.h
  ipmi:msghandler: Don't check for shutdown when returning responses
  ipmi:msghandler: Don't acquire a user refcount for queued messages
  ipmi:msghandler: Fix locking around users and interfaces
  ipmi:msghandler: Remove some user level processing in panic mode
  ipmi: Add a note about the pretimeout callback
  ipmi:watchdog: Change lock to mutex
  ipmi:msghandler: Remove srcu for the ipmi_interfaces list
  ipmi:msghandler: Remove srcu from the ipmi user structure
  ipmi:msghandler: Use the system_wq, not system_bh_wq
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'drm-next-2025-05-28' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T16:46:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-28T16:46:39Z</published>
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "As part of building up nova-core/nova-drm pieces we've brought in some
  rust abstractions through this tree, aux bus being the main one, with
  devres changes also in the driver-core tree. Along with the drm core
  abstractions and enough nova-core/nova-drm to use them. This is still
  all stub work under construction, to build the nova driver upstream.

  The other big NVIDIA related one is nouveau adds support for
  Hopper/Blackwell GPUs, this required a new GSP firmware update to
  570.144, and a bunch of rework in order to support multiple fw
  interfaces.

  There is also the introduction of an asahi uapi header file as a
  precursor to getting the real driver in later, but to unblock
  userspace mesa packages while the driver is trapped behind rust
  enablement.

  Otherwise it's the usual mixture of stuff all over, amdgpu, i915/xe,
  and msm being the main ones, and some changes to vsprintf.

  new drivers:
   - bring in the asahi uapi header standalone
   - nova-drm: stub driver

  rust dependencies (for nova-core):
   - auxiliary
       - bus abstractions
       - driver registration
       - sample driver
   - devres changes from driver-core
   - revocable changes

  core:
   - add Apple fourcc modifiers
   - add virtio capset definitions
   - extend EXPORT_SYNC_FILE for timeline syncobjs
   - convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource
   - refactor shmem helper page pinning
   - DP powerup/down link helpers
   - extended %p4cc in vsprintf.c to support fourcc prints
   - change vsprintf %p4cn to %p4chR, remove %p4cn
   - Add drm_file_err function
   - IN_FORMATS_ASYNC property
   - move sitronix from tiny to their own subdir

  rust:
   - add drm core infrastructure rust abstractions
     (device/driver, ioctl, file, gem)

  dma-buf:
   - adjust sg handling to not cache map on attach
   - allow setting dma-device for import
   - Add a helper to sort and deduplicate dma_fence arrays

  docs:
   - updated drm scheduler docs
   - fbdev todo update
   - fb rendering
   - actual brightness

  ttm:
   - fix delayed destroy resv object

  bridge:
   - add kunit tests
   - convert tc358775 to atomic
   - convert drivers to devm_drm_bridge_alloc
   - convert rk3066_hdmi to bridge driver

  scheduler:
   - add kunit tests

  panel:
   - refcount panels to improve lifetime handling
   - Powertip PH128800T004-ZZA01
   - NLT NL13676BC25-03F, Tianma TM070JDHG34-00
   - Himax HX8279/HX8279-D DDIC
   - Visionox G2647FB105
   - Sitronix ST7571
   - ZOTAC rotation quirk

  vkms:
   - allow attaching more displays

  i915:
   - xe3lpd display updates
   - vrr refactor
   - intel_display struct conversions
   - xe2hpd memory type identification
   - add link rate/count to i915_display_info
   - cleanup VGA plane handling
   - refactor HDCP GSC
   - fix SLPC wait boosting reference counting
   - add 20ms delay to engine reset
   - fix fence release on early probe errors

  xe:
   - SRIOV updates
   - BMG PCI ID update
   - support separate firmware for each GT
   - SVM fix, prelim SVM multi-device work
   - export fan speed
   - temp disable d3cold on BMG
   - backup VRAM in PM notifier instead of suspend/freeze
   - update xe_ttm_access_memory to use GPU for non-visible access
   - fix guc_info debugfs for VFs
   - use copy_from_user instead of __copy_from_user
   - append PCIe gen5 limitations to xe_firmware document

  amdgpu:
   - DSC cleanup
   - DC Scaling updates
   - Fused I2C-over-AUX updates
   - DMUB updates
   - Use drm_file_err in amdgpu
   - Enforce isolation updates
   - Use new dma_fence helpers
   - USERQ fixes
   - Documentation updates
   - SR-IOV updates
   - RAS updates
   - PSP 12 cleanups
   - GC 9.5 updates
   - SMU 13.x updates
   - VCN / JPEG SR-IOV updates

  amdkfd:
   - Update error messages for SDMA
   - Userptr updates
   - XNACK fixes

  radeon:
   - CIK doorbell cleanup

  nouveau:
   - add support for NVIDIA r570 GSP firmware
   - enable Hopper/Blackwell support

  nova-core:
   - fix task list
   - register definition infrastructure
   - move firmware into own rust module
   - register auxiliary device for nova-drm

  nova-drm:
   - initial driver skeleton

  msm:
   - GPU:
       - ACD (adaptive clock distribution) for X1-85
       - drop fictional address_space_size
       - improve GMU HFI response time out robustness
       - fix crash when throttling during boot
   - DPU:
       - use single CTL path for flushing on DPU 5.x+
       - improve SSPP allocation code for better sharing
       - Enabled SmartDMA on SM8150, SC8180X, SC8280XP, SM8550
       - Added SAR2130P support
       - Disabled DSC support on MSM8937, MSM8917, MSM8953, SDM660
   - DP:
       - switch to new audio helpers
       - better LTTPR handling
   - DSI:
       - Added support for SA8775P
       - Added SAR2130P support
   - HDMI:
       - Switched to use new helpers for ACR data
       - Fixed old standing issue of HPD not working in some cases

  amdxdna:
   - add dma-buf support
   - allow empty command submits

  renesas:
   - add dma-buf support
   - add zpos, alpha, blend support

  panthor:
   - fail properly for NO_MMAP bos
   - add SET_LABEL ioctl
   - debugfs BO dumping support

  imagination:
   - update DT bindings
   - support TI AM68 GPU

  hibmc:
   - improve interrupt handling and HPD support

  virtio:
   - add panic handler support

  rockchip:
   - add RK3588 support
   - add DP AUX bus panel support

  ivpu:
   - add heartbeat based hangcheck

  mediatek:
   - prepares support for MT8195/99 HDMIv2/DDCv2

  anx7625:
   - improve HPD

  tegra:
   - speed up firmware loading

* tag 'drm-next-2025-05-28' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1627 commits)
  drm/nouveau/tegra: Fix error pointer vs NULL return in nvkm_device_tegra_resource_addr()
  drm/xe: Default auto_link_downgrade status to false
  drm/xe/guc: Make creation of SLPC debugfs files conditional
  drm/i915/display: Add check for alloc_ordered_workqueue() and alloc_workqueue()
  drm/i915/dp_mst: Work around Thunderbolt sink disconnect after SINK_COUNT_ESI read
  drm/i915/ptl: Use everywhere the correct DDI port clock select mask
  drm/nouveau/kms: add support for GB20x
  drm/dp: add option to disable zero sized address only transactions.
  drm/nouveau: add support for GB20x
  drm/nouveau/gsp: add hal for fifo.chan.doorbell_handle
  drm/nouveau: add support for GB10x
  drm/nouveau/gf100-: track chan progress with non-WFI semaphore release
  drm/nouveau/nv50-: separate CHANNEL_GPFIFO handling out from CHANNEL_DMA
  drm/nouveau: add helper functions for allocating pinned/cpu-mapped bos
  drm/nouveau: add support for GH100
  drm/nouveau: improve handling of 64-bit BARs
  drm/nouveau/gv100-: switch to volta semaphore methods
  drm/nouveau/gsp: support deeper page tables in COPY_SERVER_RESERVED_PDES
  drm/nouveau/gsp: init client VMMs with NV0080_CTRL_DMA_SET_PAGE_DIRECTORY
  drm/nouveau/gsp: fetch level shift and PDE from BAR2 VMM
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ratelimit.2025.05.25a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T17:48:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T17:48:36Z</published>
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Pull rate-limit updates from Paul McKenney:
 "lib/ratelimit: Reduce false-positive and silent misses:

   - Reduce open-coded use of ratelimit_state structure fields.

   - Convert the -&gt;missed field to atomic_t.

   - Count misses that are due to lock contention.

   - Eliminate jiffies=0 special case.

   - Reduce ___ratelimit() false-positive rate limiting (Petr Mladek).

   - Allow zero -&gt;burst to hard-disable rate limiting.

   - Optimize away atomic operations when a miss is guaranteed.

   - Warn if -&gt;interval or -&gt;burst are negative (Petr Mladek).

   - Simplify the resulting code.

  A smoke test and stress test have been created, but they are not yet
  ready for mainline. With luck, we will offer them for the v6.17 merge
  window"

* tag 'ratelimit.2025.05.25a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
  ratelimit: Drop redundant accesses to burst
  ratelimit: Use nolock_ret restructuring to collapse common case code
  ratelimit: Use nolock_ret label to collapse lock-failure code
  ratelimit: Use nolock_ret label to save a couple of lines of code
  ratelimit: Simplify common-case exit path
  ratelimit: Warn if -&gt;interval or -&gt;burst are negative
  ratelimit: Avoid atomic decrement under lock if already rate-limited
  ratelimit: Avoid atomic decrement if already rate-limited
  ratelimit: Don't flush misses counter if RATELIMIT_MSG_ON_RELEASE
  ratelimit: Force re-initialization when rate-limiting re-enabled
  ratelimit: Allow zero -&gt;burst to disable ratelimiting
  ratelimit: Reduce ___ratelimit() false-positive rate limiting
  ratelimit: Avoid jiffies=0 special case
  ratelimit: Count misses due to lock contention
  ratelimit: Convert the -&gt;missed field to atomic_t
  drm/amd/pm: Avoid open-coded use of ratelimit_state structure's internals
  drm/i915: Avoid open-coded use of ratelimit_state structure's -&gt;missed field
  random: Avoid open-coded use of ratelimit_state structure's -&gt;missed field
  ratelimit: Create functions to handle ratelimit_state internals
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T17:21:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T17:21:04Z</published>
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Pull AMD SEV update from Borislav Petkov:
 "Add a virtual TPM driver glue which allows a guest kernel to talk to a
  TPM device emulated by a Secure VM Service Module (SVSM) - a helper
  module of sorts which runs at a different privilege level in the
  SEV-SNP VM stack.

  The intent being that a TPM device is emulated by a trusted entity and
  not by the untrusted host which is the default assumption in the
  confidential computing scenarios"

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/sev: Register tpm-svsm platform device
  tpm: Add SNP SVSM vTPM driver
  svsm: Add header with SVSM_VTPM_CMD helpers
  x86/sev: Add SVSM vTPM probe/send_command functions
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T15:31:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T15:31:21Z</published>
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Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Another set of timer API cleanups:

    - Convert init_timer*(), try_to_del_timer_sync() and
      destroy_timer_on_stack() over to the canonical timer_*()
      namespace convention.

  There is another large conversion pending, which has not been included
  because it would have caused a gazillion of merge conflicts in next.
  The conversion scripts will be run towards the end of the merge window
  and a pull request sent once all conflict dependencies have been
  merged"

* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  treewide, timers: Rename destroy_timer_on_stack() as timer_destroy_on_stack()
  treewide, timers: Rename try_to_del_timer_sync() as timer_delete_sync_try()
  timers: Rename init_timers() as timers_init()
  timers: Rename NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA as TIMER_NEXT_MAX_DELTA
  timers: Rename __init_timer_on_stack() as __timer_init_on_stack()
  timers: Rename __init_timer() as __timer_init()
  timers: Rename init_timer_on_stack_key() as timer_init_key_on_stack()
  timers: Rename init_timer_key() as timer_init_key()
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T23:04:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T23:04:17Z</published>
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Boot code changes:

   - A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a
     better isolated and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup
     code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by Ard Biesheuvel.

     Motivation &amp; background:

  	| Since commit
  	|
  	|    c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
  	|
  	| dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way
  	| that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C
  	| code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided
  	| to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a
  	| bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and
  	| right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables)
  	| without crashing.
  	|
  	| This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP
  	| startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and
  	| grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special
  	| annotations or helpers to access global objects.

     This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86
     boot code reorganization.

  Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations:

   - Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet)

   - Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper)

  CPU features enumeration updates:

   - Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S.
     Darwish)

   - Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish,
     Thomas Gleixner)

   - Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish)

  Memory management changes:

   - Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski)

   - Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav
     Petkov)

   - Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen)

   - Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - Stop prefetching current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz
     Guzik)

   - Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik)

   - Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport)

  FPU support and vector computing:

   - Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae)

   - Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae)

   - Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar)

   - Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix
     CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y (Kees Cook)

   - Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg
     Nesterov)

   - Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean
     Christopherson)

  Microcode loader changes:

   - Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen)

   - AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary
     (Annie Li)

   - AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris
     Ostrovsky)

  Code patching (alternatives) changes:

   - Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo
     Molnar)

   - Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume
     smp_text_poke_batch_finish() (Nikolay Borisov)

   - Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra)

  Debugging support:

   - Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs
     (David Woodhouse)

   - Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen
     Ghannam)

   - Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello)

   - Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami
     Hiramatsu)

  CPU bugs and bug mitigations:

   - Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov)

   - Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov)

   - Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods
     (David Kaplan)

   - Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta)

  MSR API:

   - Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li)

   - In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar)

  PKEYS:

   - Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae)

  NMI handling code:

   - Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta)

   - Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta)

  Paravirt guests interface:

   - Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov)

  SEV support:

   - Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky)

  x86 platform changes:

   - Introduce the &lt;asm/amd/&gt; header namespace (Ingo Molnar)

   - i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to
     &lt;asm/amd/fch.h&gt; (Mario Limonciello)

  Fixes and cleanups:

   - x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy
     Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav
     Petkov, Chang S. Bae, Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David
     Kaplan, David Woodhouse, Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf,
     Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout, Mario Limonciello, Nathan
     Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Shivank
     Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak, Xin Li)"

* tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (331 commits)
  x86/bugs: Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel
  x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation
  x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err'
  x86/msr: Remove a superfluous inclusion of &lt;asm/asm.h&gt;
  x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only
  x86/mm/64: Make 5-level paging support unconditional
  x86/mm/64: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model
  x86/mm/64: Always use dynamic memory layout
  x86/bugs: Fix indentation due to ITS merge
  x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base()/for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_base_hypervisor()/for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor()
  x86/cpu/intel: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
  x86/cacheinfo: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter
  x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_get_leaf_0x2_regs() to cpuid_leaf_0x2()
  x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature()
  x86/cpuid: Set &lt;asm/cpuid/api.h&gt; as the main CPUID header
  x86/cpuid: Move CPUID(0x2) APIs into &lt;cpuid/api.h&gt;
  x86/msr: Add rdmsrl_on_cpu() compatibility wrapper
  x86/mm: Fix kernel-doc descriptions of various pgtable methods
  x86/asm-offsets: Export certain 'struct cpuinfo_x86' fields for 64-bit asm use too
  x86/boot: Defer initialization of VM space related global variables
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tpmdd-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T21:12:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T21:12:31Z</published>
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Pull tpm updates from Jarkko Sakkinen:
 "This is only a small pull request with fixes, as possible features
  moved to +1 release"

* tag 'tpmdd-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd:
  tpm_crb: ffa_tpm: fix/update comments describing the CRB over FFA ABI
  tpm_crb_ffa: use dev_xx() macro to print log
  tpm_ffa_crb: access tpm service over FF-A direct message request v2
  tpm: remove kmalloc failure error message
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