linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch linux-6.13.y Linux kernel stable tree ata: libata-core: Add 'external' to the libata.force kernel parameter 2025-04-20T08:17:41+00:00 Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org 2025-01-30T13:35:46+00:00 5b8a5604434fee45cb3d3b9d3a9987c8f112e07b [ Upstream commit deca423213cb33feda15e261e7b5b992077a6a08 ] Commit ae1f3db006b7 ("ata: ahci: do not enable LPM on external ports") changed so that LPM is not enabled on external ports (hotplug-capable or eSATA ports). This is because hotplug and LPM are mutually exclusive, see 7.3.1 Hot Plug Removal Detection and Power Management Interaction in AHCI 1.3.1. This does require that firmware has set the appropate bits (HPCP or ESP) in PxCMD (which is a per port register in the AHCI controller). If the firmware has failed to mark a port as hotplug-capable or eSATA in PxCMD, then there is currently not much a user can do. If LPM is enabled on the port, hotplug insertions and removals will not be detected on that port. In order to allow a user to fix up broken firmware, add 'external' to the libata.force kernel parameter. libata.force can be specified either on the kernel command line, or as a kernel module parameter. For more information, see Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250130133544.219297-4-cassel@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit deca423213cb33feda15e261e7b5b992077a6a08 ]

Commit ae1f3db006b7 ("ata: ahci: do not enable LPM on external ports")
changed so that LPM is not enabled on external ports (hotplug-capable or
eSATA ports).

This is because hotplug and LPM are mutually exclusive, see 7.3.1 Hot Plug
Removal Detection and Power Management Interaction in AHCI 1.3.1.

This does require that firmware has set the appropate bits (HPCP or ESP)
in PxCMD (which is a per port register in the AHCI controller).

If the firmware has failed to mark a port as hotplug-capable or eSATA in
PxCMD, then there is currently not much a user can do.

If LPM is enabled on the port, hotplug insertions and removals will not be
detected on that port.

In order to allow a user to fix up broken firmware, add 'external' to the
libata.force kernel parameter.

libata.force can be specified either on the kernel command line, or as a
kernel module parameter.

For more information, see Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250130133544.219297-4-cassel@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
coredump: Only sort VMAs when core_sort_vma sysctl is set 2025-03-13T12:07:52+00:00 Kees Cook kees@kernel.org 2025-02-19T19:53:16+00:00 f13a5281a3364d235974c31568c5d1c501b2109e [ Upstream commit 39ec9eaaa165d297d008d1fa385748430bd18e4d ] The sorting of VMAs by size in commit 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") breaks elfutils[1]. Instead, sort based on the setting of the new sysctl, core_sort_vma, which defaults to 0, no sorting. Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.ch> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218085407.61126-1-michael@stapelberg.de/ [1] Fixes: 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 39ec9eaaa165d297d008d1fa385748430bd18e4d ]

The sorting of VMAs by size in commit 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump
smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") breaks elfutils[1]. Instead, sort
based on the setting of the new sysctl, core_sort_vma, which defaults
to 0, no sorting.

Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.ch>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218085407.61126-1-michael@stapelberg.de/ [1]
Fixes: 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
cpuidle: menu: Update documentation after previous changes 2025-01-13T19:41:39+00:00 Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com 2025-01-10T12:46:43+00:00 56098a4505e7ba54c7942c82eeca8de522c8c2ee After commit 38f83090f515 ("cpuidle: menu: Remove iowait influence") and other previous changes, the description of the menu governor in the documentation does not match the code any more, so update it as appropriate. Fixes: 38f83090f515 ("cpuidle: menu: Remove iowait influence") Fixes: 5484e31bbbff ("cpuidle: menu: Skip tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() call in some cases") Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12589281.O9o76ZdvQC@rjwysocki.net 
After commit 38f83090f515 ("cpuidle: menu: Remove iowait influence") and
other previous changes, the description of the menu governor in the
documentation does not match the code any more, so update it as
appropriate.

Fixes: 38f83090f515 ("cpuidle: menu: Remove iowait influence")
Fixes: 5484e31bbbff ("cpuidle: menu: Skip tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() call in some cases")
Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12589281.O9o76ZdvQC@rjwysocki.net
Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-01-04-18-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 2025-01-05T18:37:45+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-01-05T18:37:45+00:00 5635d8bad221701188017a6087fbe25ab245c226 Pull hotfixes from Andrew Morton: "25 hotfixes. 16 are cc:stable. 18 are MM and 7 are non-MM. The usual bunch of singletons and two doubletons - please see the relevant changelogs for details" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-01-04-18-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (25 commits) MAINTAINERS: change Arınç _NAL's name and email address scripts/sorttable: fix orc_sort_cmp() to maintain symmetry and transitivity mm/util: make memdup_user_nul() similar to memdup_user() mm, madvise: fix potential workingset node list_lru leaks mm/damon/core: fix ignored quota goals and filters of newly committed schemes mm/damon/core: fix new damon_target objects leaks on damon_commit_targets() mm/list_lru: fix false warning of negative counter vmstat: disable vmstat_work on vmstat_cpu_down_prep() mm: shmem: fix the update of 'shmem_falloc->nr_unswapped' mm: shmem: fix incorrect index alignment for within_size policy percpu: remove intermediate variable in PERCPU_PTR() mm: zswap: fix race between [de]compression and CPU hotunplug ocfs2: fix slab-use-after-free due to dangling pointer dqi_priv fs/proc/task_mmu: fix pagemap flags with PMD THP entries on 32bit kcov: mark in_softirq_really() as __always_inline docs: mm: fix the incorrect 'FileHugeMapped' field mailmap: modify the entry for Mathieu Othacehe mm/kmemleak: fix sleeping function called from invalid context at print message mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count maple_tree: reload mas before the second call for mas_empty_area ... 
Pull hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
 "25 hotfixes.  16 are cc:stable.  18 are MM and 7 are non-MM.

  The usual bunch of singletons and two doubletons - please see the
  relevant changelogs for details"

* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-01-04-18-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (25 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: change Arınç _NAL's name and email address
  scripts/sorttable: fix orc_sort_cmp() to maintain symmetry and transitivity
  mm/util: make memdup_user_nul() similar to memdup_user()
  mm, madvise: fix potential workingset node list_lru leaks
  mm/damon/core: fix ignored quota goals and filters of newly committed schemes
  mm/damon/core: fix new damon_target objects leaks on damon_commit_targets()
  mm/list_lru: fix false warning of negative counter
  vmstat: disable vmstat_work on vmstat_cpu_down_prep()
  mm: shmem: fix the update of 'shmem_falloc->nr_unswapped'
  mm: shmem: fix incorrect index alignment for within_size policy
  percpu: remove intermediate variable in PERCPU_PTR()
  mm: zswap: fix race between [de]compression and CPU hotunplug
  ocfs2: fix slab-use-after-free due to dangling pointer dqi_priv
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix pagemap flags with PMD THP entries on 32bit
  kcov: mark in_softirq_really() as __always_inline
  docs: mm: fix the incorrect 'FileHugeMapped' field
  mailmap: modify the entry for Mathieu Othacehe
  mm/kmemleak: fix sleeping function called from invalid context at print message
  mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count
  maple_tree: reload mas before the second call for mas_empty_area
  ...
docs: mm: fix the incorrect 'FileHugeMapped' field 2024-12-31T01:59:08+00:00 Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com 2024-12-17T08:55:39+00:00 472098f23323c39cc6269d7b7bf76cba62830a4c The '/proc/PID/smaps' does not have the 'FileHugeMapped' field to count the file transparent huge pages, instead, the 'FilePmdMapped' field should be used. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d520ce3aba2b03b088be30bece732426a939049a.1734425264.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
The '/proc/PID/smaps' does not have the 'FileHugeMapped' field to count
the file transparent huge pages, instead, the 'FilePmdMapped' field should
be used.  Fix it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d520ce3aba2b03b088be30bece732426a939049a.1734425264.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86 2024-12-30T19:20:42+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2024-12-30T19:20:42+00:00 ccb98ccef0e543c2bd4ef1a72270461957f3d8d0 Pull x86 platform drivers fixes from Ilpo Järvinen: "hp-wmi: - mark 8A15 board for timed OMEN thermal profile mlx-platform: - call pci_dev_put() to balance the refcount thinkpad-acpi: - Add support for hotkey 0x1401" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: platform/x86: thinkpad-acpi: Add support for hotkey 0x1401 platform/x86: hp-wmi: mark 8A15 board for timed OMEN thermal profile platform/x86: mlx-platform: call pci_dev_put() to balance the refcount 
Pull x86 platform drivers fixes from Ilpo Järvinen:
 "hp-wmi:
   - mark 8A15 board for timed OMEN thermal profile

  mlx-platform:
   - call pci_dev_put() to balance the refcount

  thinkpad-acpi:
   - Add support for hotkey 0x1401"

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86:
  platform/x86: thinkpad-acpi: Add support for hotkey 0x1401
  platform/x86: hp-wmi: mark 8A15 board for timed OMEN thermal profile
  platform/x86: mlx-platform: call pci_dev_put() to balance the refcount
platform/x86: thinkpad-acpi: Add support for hotkey 0x1401 2024-12-29T14:55:10+00:00 Vishnu Sankar vishnuocv@gmail.com 2024-12-27T23:18:40+00:00 7e16ae558a87ac9099b6a93a43f19b42d809fd78 F8 mode key on Lenovo 2025 platforms use a different key code. Adding support for the new keycode 0x1401. Tested on X1 Carbon Gen 13 and X1 2-in-1 Gen 10. Signed-off-by: Vishnu Sankar <vishnuocv@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227231840.21334-1-vishnuocv@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> 
F8 mode key on Lenovo 2025 platforms use a different key code.
Adding support for the new keycode 0x1401.

Tested on X1 Carbon Gen 13 and X1 2-in-1 Gen 10.

Signed-off-by: Vishnu Sankar <vishnuocv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227231840.21334-1-vishnuocv@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Merge tag 'amd-pstate-v6.13-2024-12-11' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux 2024-12-18T14:38:22+00:00 Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com 2024-12-18T14:38:22+00:00 05648c2f58b3da82d304e7a449101a4545472836 Merge amd-pstate driver fixes for 6.13-rc4 from Mario Liminciello: "Fix a problem where systems without preferred cores were misdetecting preferred cores. Fix issues with with boost numerator handling leading to inconsistently programmed CPPC max performance values." * tag 'amd-pstate-v6.13-2024-12-11' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux: cpufreq/amd-pstate: Use boost numerator for upper bound of frequencies cpufreq/amd-pstate: Store the boost numerator as highest perf again cpufreq/amd-pstate: Detect preferred core support before driver registration 
Merge amd-pstate driver fixes for 6.13-rc4 from Mario Liminciello:

"Fix a problem where systems without preferred cores were
 misdetecting preferred cores.

 Fix issues with with boost numerator handling leading to
 inconsistently programmed CPPC max performance values."

* tag 'amd-pstate-v6.13-2024-12-11' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux:
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Use boost numerator for upper bound of frequencies
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Store the boost numerator as highest perf again
  cpufreq/amd-pstate: Detect preferred core support before driver registration
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Store the boost numerator as highest perf again 2024-12-10T16:17:43+00:00 Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com 2024-12-09T18:52:34+00:00 50a062a7620051c09adacd6d140ebd56881a333b commit ad4caad58d91d ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: Merge amd_pstate_highest_perf_set() into amd_get_boost_ratio_numerator()") changed the semantics for highest perf and commit 18d9b52271213 ("cpufreq/amd-pstate: Use nominal perf for limits when boost is disabled") worked around those semantic changes. This however is a confusing result and furthermore makes it awkward to change frequency limits and boost due to the scaling differences. Restore the boost numerator to highest perf again. Suggested-by: Dhananjay Ugwekar <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com> Fixes: ad4caad58d91 ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: Merge amd_pstate_highest_perf_set() into amd_get_boost_ratio_numerator()") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209185248.16301-2-mario.limonciello@amd.com Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> 
commit ad4caad58d91d ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: Merge
amd_pstate_highest_perf_set() into amd_get_boost_ratio_numerator()")
changed the semantics for highest perf and commit 18d9b52271213
("cpufreq/amd-pstate: Use nominal perf for limits when boost is disabled")
worked around those semantic changes.

This however is a confusing result and furthermore makes it awkward to
change frequency limits and boost due to the scaling differences. Restore
the boost numerator to highest perf again.

Suggested-by: Dhananjay Ugwekar <Dhananjay.Ugwekar@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Fixes: ad4caad58d91 ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: Merge amd_pstate_highest_perf_set() into amd_get_boost_ratio_numerator()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209185248.16301-2-mario.limonciello@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
sched/core: Update kernel boot parameters for LAZY preempt. 2024-12-02T11:01:28+00:00 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de 2024-11-22T17:35:57+00:00 f66e4a996582d59b6f5ce88078b0ad2a328aa532 Update the documentation for the `preempt=' parameter which now also accepts `lazy'. Fixes: 7c70cb94d29cd ("sched: Add Lazy preemption model") Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241122173557.MYOtT95Q@linutronix.de 
Update the documentation for the `preempt=' parameter which now also
accepts `lazy'.

Fixes: 7c70cb94d29cd ("sched: Add Lazy preemption model")
Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241122173557.MYOtT95Q@linutronix.de