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<title>Merge tag 'trace-deferred-unwind-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-08-01T16:46:24Z</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull initial deferred unwind infrastructure from Steven Rostedt:
 "This is the core infrastructure for the deferred unwinder that is
  required for sframes[1]. Several other patch series are based on this
  work although those patch series are not dependent on each other. In
  order to simplify the development, having this core series upstream
  will allow the other series to be worked on in parallel. The other
  series are:

    - The two patches to implement x86 support [2] [3]

    - The s390 work [4]

    - The perf work [5]

    - The ftrace work [6]

    - The sframe work [7]

  And more is on the way.

  The core infrastructure adds the following in kernel APIs:

    - int unwind_user_faultable(struct unwind_stacktrace *trace);

        Performs a user space stack trace that may fault user pages in.

    - int unwind_deferred_init(struct unwind_work *work, unwind_callback_t func);

        Allows a tracer to register with the unwind deferred
        infrastructure.

    - int unwind_deferred_request(struct unwind_work *work, u64 *cookie);

        Used when a tracer request a deferred trace. Can be called from
        interrupt or NMI context.

    - void unwind_deferred_cancel(struct unwind_work *work);

        Called by a tracer to unregister from the deferred unwind
        infrastructure.

    - void unwind_deferred_task_exit(struct task_struct *task);

        Called by task exit code to flush any pending unwind requests.

    - void unwind_task_init(struct task_struct *task);

        Called by do_fork() to initialize the task struct for the
        deferred unwinder.

    - void unwind_task_free(struct task_struct *task);

        Called by do_exit() to free up any resources used by the
        deferred unwinder.

    None of the above is actually compiled unless an architecture enables it,
    which none currently do"

Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/sframe [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250717004958.260781923@kernel.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250717004958.432327787@kernel.org/ [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250710163522.3195293-1-jremus@linux.ibm.com/ [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250718164119.089692174@kernel.org/ [5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250424192612.505622711@goodmis.org/ [6]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250717012848.927473176@kernel.org/ [7]

* tag 'trace-deferred-unwind-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  unwind: Finish up unwind when a task exits
  unwind deferred: Use SRCU unwind_deferred_task_work()
  unwind: Add USED bit to only have one conditional on way back to user space
  unwind deferred: Add unwind_completed mask to stop spurious callbacks
  unwind deferred: Use bitmask to determine which callbacks to call
  unwind_user/deferred: Make unwind deferral requests NMI-safe
  unwind_user/deferred: Add deferred unwinding interface
  unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind cache
  unwind_user/deferred: Add unwind_user_faultable()
  unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T21:57:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-31T21:57:54Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T00:14:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-31T00:14:01Z</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for
     arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt
     translation and wired interrupts

   - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on
     GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface

   - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing
     userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on
     hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally

   - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on
     systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to
     perform cache maintenance on the address range

   - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the
     guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take
     traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor

   - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven
     implementation

   - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3
     system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the
     ONE_REG vCPU ioctls

   - Various cleanups and minor fixes

  LoongArch:

   - Add stat information for in-kernel irqchip

   - Add tracepoints for CPUCFG and CSR emulation exits

   - Enhance in-kernel irqchip emulation

   - Various cleanups

  RISC-V:

   - Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking

   - Improve perf kvm stat to report interrupt events

   - Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode

   - MMU improvements related to upcoming nested virtualization

  s390x

   - Fixes

  x86:

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC for x86 to allow disabling support for I/O
     APIC, PIC, and PIT emulation at compile time

   - Share device posted IRQ code between SVM and VMX and harden it
     against bugs and runtime errors

   - Use vcpu_idx, not vcpu_id, for GA log tag/metadata, to make lookups
     O(1) instead of O(n)

   - For MMIO stale data mitigation, track whether or not a vCPU has
     access to (host) MMIO based on whether the page tables have MMIO
     pfns mapped; using VFIO is prone to false negatives

   - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are
     more or less identical

   - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from scratch on MSR filter changes,
     instead of maintaining shadow bitmaps

   - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction
     that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated
     independently

   - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by setting the
     vCPU in INIT_RECEIVED state (aka wait-for-SIPI), and then putting
     the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Trying to detect every
     possible path leading to architecturally forbidden states is hard
     and even risks breaking userspace (if it goes from valid to valid
     state but passes through invalid states), so just wait until
     KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU state isn't allowed

   - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling
     interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured
     VM can access APERF/MPERF. This has many caveats (APERF/MPERF
     cannot be zeroed on vCPU creation or saved/restored on suspend and
     resume, or preserved over thread migration let alone VM migration)
     but can be useful whenever you're interested in letting Linux
     guests see the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo

   - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for vm file descriptors if vCPUs have been
     created, as there's no known use case for changing the default
     frequency for other VM types and it goes counter to the very reason
     why the ioctl was added to the vm file descriptor. And also, there
     would be no way to make it work for confidential VMs with a
     "secure" TSC, so kill two birds with one stone

   - Dynamically allocation the shadow MMU's hashed page list, and defer
     allocating the hashed list until it's actually needed (the TDP MMU
     doesn't use the list)

   - Extract many of KVM's helpers for accessing architectural local
     APIC state to common x86 so that they can be shared by guest-side
     code for Secure AVIC

   - Various cleanups and fixes

  x86 (Intel):

   - Preserve the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM when running the guest.
     Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can leak host state into guests

   - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter to
     prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support,
     e.g. BTF

  x86 (AMD):

   - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel
     if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR (which
     is pretty much a static condition and therefore should never
     happen, but still)

   - Fix a variety of flaws and bugs in the AVIC device posted IRQ code

   - Inhibit AVIC if a vCPU's ID is too big (relative to what hardware
     supports) instead of rejecting vCPU creation

   - Extend enable_ipiv module param support to SVM, by simply leaving
     IsRunning clear in the vCPU's physical ID table entry

   - Disable IPI virtualization, via enable_ipiv, if the CPU is affected
     by erratum #1235, to allow (safely) enabling AVIC on such CPUs

   - Request GA Log interrupts if and only if the target vCPU is
     blocking, i.e. only if KVM needs a notification in order to wake
     the vCPU

   - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to
     the vCPU's CPUID model

   - Accept any SNP policy that is accepted by the firmware with respect
     to SMT and single-socket restrictions. An incompatible policy
     doesn't put the kernel at risk in any way, so there's no reason for
     KVM to care

   - Drop a superfluous WBINVD (on all CPUs!) when destroying a VM and
     use WBNOINVD instead of WBINVD when possible for SEV cache
     maintenance

   - When reclaiming memory from an SEV guest, only do cache flushes on
     CPUs that have ever run a vCPU for the guest, i.e. don't flush the
     caches for CPUs that can't possibly have cache lines with dirty,
     encrypted data

  Generic:

   - Rework irqbypass to track/match producers and consumers via an
     xarray instead of a linked list. Using a linked list leads to
     O(n^2) insertion times, which is hugely problematic for use cases
     that create large numbers of VMs. Such use cases typically don't
     actually use irqbypass, but eliminating the pointless registration
     is a future problem to solve as it likely requires new uAPI

   - Track irqbypass's "token" as "struct eventfd_ctx *" instead of a
     "void *", to avoid making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult
     to understand

   - Decouple device posted IRQs from VFIO device assignment, as binding
     a VM to a VFIO group is not a requirement for enabling device
     posted IRQs

   - Clean up and document/comment the irqfd assignment code

   - Disallow binding multiple irqfds to an eventfd with a priority
     waiter, i.e. ensure an eventfd is bound to at most one irqfd
     through the entire host, and add a selftest to verify eventfd:irqfd
     bindings are globally unique

   - Add a tracepoint for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to help debug issues
     related to private &lt;=&gt; shared memory conversions

   - Drop guest_memfd's .getattr() implementation as the VFS layer will
     call generic_fillattr() if inode_operations.getattr is NULL

   - Fix issues with dirty ring harvesting where KVM doesn't bound the
     processing of entries in any way, which allows userspace to keep
     KVM in a tight loop indefinitely

   - Kill off kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and x86's associated
     tracking, now that KVM no longer uses assigned_device_count as a
     heuristic for either irqbypass usage or MDS mitigation

  Selftests:

   - Fix a comment typo

   - Verify KVM is loaded when getting any KVM module param so that
     attempting to run a selftest without kvm.ko loaded results in a
     SKIP message about KVM not being loaded/enabled (versus some random
     parameter not existing)

   - Skip tests that hit EACCES when attempting to access a file, and
     print a "Root required?" help message. In most cases, the test just
     needs to be run with elevated permissions"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (340 commits)
  Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Avoid re-acquiring memslot in kvm_riscv_gstage_map()
  RISC-V: KVM: Use find_vma_intersection() to search for intersecting VMAs
  RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events
  RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix inclusion of Smnpm in the guest ISA bitmap
  RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode
  RISC-V: KVM: Pass VMID as parameter to kvm_riscv_hfence_xyz() APIs
  RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out g-stage page table management
  RISC-V: KVM: Add vmid field to struct kvm_riscv_hfence
  RISC-V: KVM: Introduce struct kvm_gstage_mapping
  RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out MMU related declarations into separate headers
  RISC-V: KVM: Use ncsr_xyz() in kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect()
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range()
  RISC-V: KVM: Don't flush TLB when PTE is unchanged
  RISC-V: KVM: Replace KVM_REQ_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_ALL with KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH
  RISC-V: KVM: Rename and move kvm_riscv_local_tlb_sanitize()
  RISC-V: KVM: Drop the return value of kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_init()
  RISC-V: KVM: Check kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() return value
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add FEAT_RAS EL2 registers to get-reg-list
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T23:04:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T23:04:10Z</published>
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Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Keep track of when fgraph_ops are registered or not

   Keep accounting of when fgraph_ops are registered as if a fgraph_ops
   is registered twice it can mess up the accounting and it will not
   work as expected later. Trigger a warning if something registers it
   twice as to catch bugs before they are found by things just not
   working as expected.

 - Make DYNAMIC_FTRACE always enabled for architectures that support it

   As static ftrace (where all functions are always traced) is very
   expensive and only exists to help architectures support ftrace, do
   not make it an option. As soon as an architecture supports
   DYNAMIC_FTRACE make it use it. This simplifies the code.

 - Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD

   The CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT was added to help simplify the
   DYNAMIC_FTRACE work, but now every architecture that implements
   DYNAMIC_FTRACE also has HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT set too, making it
   redundant with the HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.

 - Make pid_ptr string size match the comment

   In print_graph_proc() the pid_ptr string is of size 11, but the
   comment says /* sign + log10(MAX_INT) + '\0' */ which is actually 12.

* tag 'ftrace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
  ftrace: Make DYNAMIC_FTRACE always enabled for architectures that support it
  fgraph: Keep track of when fgraph_ops are registered or not
  fgraph: Make pid_str size match the comment
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-ptp-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T21:12:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-29T21:12:52Z</published>
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Pull timekeeping and VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Introduce support for auxiliary timekeepers

   PTP clocks can be disconnected from the universal CLOCK_TAI reality
   for various reasons including regularatory requirements for
   functional safety redundancy.

   The kernel so far only supports a single notion of time, which means
   that all clocks are correlated in frequency and only differ by offset
   to each other.

   Access to non-correlated PTP clocks has been available so far only
   through the file descriptor based "POSIX clock IDs", which are
   subject to locking and have to go all the way out to the hardware.

   The access is not only horribly slow, as it has to go all the way out
   to the NIC/PTP hardware, but that also prevents the kernel to read
   the time of such clocks e.g. from the network stack, where it is
   required for TSN networking both on the transmit and receive side
   unless the hardware provides offloading.

   The auxiliary clocks provide a mechanism to support arbitrary clocks
   which are not correlated to the system clock. This is not restricted
   to the PTP use case on purpose as there is no kernel side association
   of these clocks to a particular PTP device because that's a pure user
   space configuration decision. Having them independent allows to
   utilize them for other purposes and also enables them to be tested
   without hardware dependencies.

   To avoid pointless overhead these clocks have to be enabled
   individualy via a new sysfs interface to reduce the overhead to a
   single compare in the hotpath if they are enabled at the Kconfig
   level at all.

   These clocks utilize the existing timekeeping/NTP infrastructures,
   which has been made possible over the recent releases by incrementaly
   converting these infrastructures over from a single static instance
   to a multi-instance pointer based implementation without any
   performance regression reported.

   The auxiliary clocks provide the same "emulation" of a "correct"
   clock as the existing CLOCK_* variants do with an independent
   instance of data and provide the same steering mechanism through the
   existing sys_clock_adjtime() interface, which has been confirmed to
   work by the chronyd(8) maintainer.

   That allows to provide lockless kernel internal and VDSO support so
   that applications and kernel internal functionalities can access
   these clocks without restrictions and at the same performance as the
   existing system clocks.

 - Avoid double notifications in the adjtimex() syscall. Not a big
   issue, but a trivial to avoid latency source.

* tag 'timers-ptp-2025-07-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  vdso/gettimeofday: Add support for auxiliary clocks
  vdso/vsyscall: Update auxiliary clock data in the datapage
  vdso: Introduce aux_clock_resolution_ns()
  vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_get_timestamp()
  vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_set_timespec()
  vdso/gettimeofday: Introduce vdso_clockid_valid()
  vdso/gettimeofday: Return bool from clock_gettime() helpers
  vdso/gettimeofday: Return bool from clock_getres() helpers
  vdso/helpers: Add helpers for seqlocks of single vdso_clock
  vdso/vsyscall: Split up __arch_update_vsyscall() into __arch_update_vdso_clock()
  vdso/vsyscall: Introduce a helper to fill clock configurations
  timekeeping: Remove the temporary CLOCK_AUX workaround
  timekeeping: Provide ktime_get_clock_ts64()
  timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks
  timekeeping: Provide update for auxiliary timekeepers
  timekeeping: Provide adjtimex() for auxiliary clocks
  timekeeping: Prepare do_adtimex() for auxiliary clocks
  timekeeping: Make do_adjtimex() reusable
  timekeeping: Add auxiliary clock support to __timekeeping_inject_offset()
  timekeeping: Make timekeeping_inject_offset() reusable
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>unwind_user: Add user space unwinding API with frame pointer support</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T18:46:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-29T18:23:05Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Introduce a generic API for unwinding user stacks.

In order to expand user space unwinding to be able to handle more complex
scenarios, such as deferred unwinding and reading user space information,
create a generic interface that all architectures can use that support the
various unwinding methods.

This is an alternative method for handling user space stack traces from
the simple stack_trace_save_user() API. This does not replace that
interface, but this interface will be used to expand the functionality of
user space stack walking.

None of the structures introduced will be exposed to user space tooling.

Support for frame pointer unwinding is added. For an architecture to
support frame pointer unwinding it needs to enable
CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP and define ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_FRAME.

By encoding the frame offsets in struct unwind_user_frame, much of this
code can also be reused for future unwinder implementations like sframe.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Indu Bhagat &lt;indu.bhagat@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" &lt;jemarch@gnu.org&gt;
Cc: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sam James &lt;sam@gentoo.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250729182404.975790139@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jens Remus &lt;jremus@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250710164301.3094-2-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T02:12:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anthony Yznaga</name>
<email>anthony.yznaga@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T01:26:11Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
There are no longer any callers of hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250716012611.10369-4-anthony.yznaga@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Yznaga &lt;anthony.yznaga@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD</title>
<updated>2025-07-23T00:15:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-04T14:48:38Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Ftrace is tightly coupled with architecture specific code because it
requires the use of trampolines written in assembly. This means that when
a new feature or optimization is made, it must be done for all
architectures. To simplify the approach, CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_* configs are
added to denote which architecture has the new enhancement so that other
architectures can still function until they too have been updated.

The CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT was added to help simplify the
DYNAMIC_FTRACE work, but now every architecture that implements
DYNAMIC_FTRACE also has HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT set too, making it redundant
with the HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.

Remove the HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT config and use DYNAMIC_FTRACE directly where
applicable.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250703154916.48e3ada7@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250704104838.27a18690@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: remove prepare_hugepage_range()</title>
<updated>2025-07-13T23:38:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-27T16:07:07Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Only mips and loongarch implemented this API, however what it does was
checking against stack overflow for either len or addr.  That's already
done in arch's arch_get_unmapped_area*() functions, even though it may not
be 100% identical checks.

For example, for both of the architectures, there will be a trivial
difference on how stack top was defined.  The old code uses STACK_TOP
which may be slightly smaller than TASK_SIZE on either of them, but the
hope is that shouldn't be a problem.

It means the whole API is pretty much obsolete at least now, remove it
completely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250627160707.2124580-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>codetag: avoid unused alloc_tags sections/symbols</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-18T12:50:35Z</published>
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With CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING=n, vmlinux and all modules unnecessarily
contain the symbols __start_alloc_tags and __stop_alloc_tags, which define
an empty range.  In the case of modules, the presence of these symbols
also forces the linker to create an empty .codetag.alloc_tags section.

Update codetag.lds.h to make the data conditional on
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250618125037.53182-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Casey Chen &lt;cachen@purestorage.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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