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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux</title>
<updated>2025-04-03T19:21:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
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Pull ARM and clkdev updates from Russell King:

 - Simplify ARM_MMU_KEEP usage

 - Add Rust support for ARM architecture version 7

 - Align IPIs reported in /proc/interrupts

 - require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY

 - add KEEP() for ARM vectors

 - add __printf() attribute for clkdev functions

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux:
  ARM: 9445/1: clkdev: Mark some functions with __printf() attribute
  ARM: 9444/1: add KEEP() keyword to ARM_VECTORS
  ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE
  ARM: 9442/1: smp: Fix IPI alignment in /proc/interrupts
  ARM: 9441/1: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv7
  ARM: 9439/1: arm32: simplify ARM_MMU_KEEP usage
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Pull ARM and clkdev updates from Russell King:

 - Simplify ARM_MMU_KEEP usage

 - Add Rust support for ARM architecture version 7

 - Align IPIs reported in /proc/interrupts

 - require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY

 - add KEEP() for ARM vectors

 - add __printf() attribute for clkdev functions

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux:
  ARM: 9445/1: clkdev: Mark some functions with __printf() attribute
  ARM: 9444/1: add KEEP() keyword to ARM_VECTORS
  ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE
  ARM: 9442/1: smp: Fix IPI alignment in /proc/interrupts
  ARM: 9441/1: rust: Enable Rust support for ARMv7
  ARM: 9439/1: arm32: simplify ARM_MMU_KEEP usage
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9444/1: add KEEP() keyword to ARM_VECTORS</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T13:31:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Eggers</name>
<email>ceggers@arri.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-20T21:33:51+00:00</published>
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Without this, the vectors are removed if LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
is enabled.  At startup, the CPU (silently) hangs in the undefined
instruction exception as soon as the first timer interrupt arrives.

On my setup, the system also boots fine without the 2nd and 3rd KEEP()
statements, so I cannot tell whether these are actually required.

[nathan: Use OVERLAY_KEEP() to avoid breaking old ld.lld versions]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ed0f94102251 ("ARM: 9404/1: arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION")
Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers &lt;ceggers@arri.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Without this, the vectors are removed if LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
is enabled.  At startup, the CPU (silently) hangs in the undefined
instruction exception as soon as the first timer interrupt arrives.

On my setup, the system also boots fine without the 2nd and 3rd KEEP()
statements, so I cannot tell whether these are actually required.

[nathan: Use OVERLAY_KEEP() to avoid breaking old ld.lld versions]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ed0f94102251 ("ARM: 9404/1: arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION")
Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers &lt;ceggers@arri.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T13:31:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-20T21:33:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e7607f7d6d81af71dcc5171278aadccc94d277cd'/>
<id>e7607f7d6d81af71dcc5171278aadccc94d277cd</id>
<content type='text'>
ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 does not support using the KEEP keyword within an
overlay description, which may be needed to avoid discarding necessary
sections within an overlay with '--gc-sections', which can be enabled
for the kernel via CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION.

Disallow CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION without support for KEEP
within OVERLAY and introduce a macro, OVERLAY_KEEP, that can be used to
conditionally add KEEP when it is properly supported to avoid breaking
old versions of ld.lld.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/381599f1fe973afad3094e55ec99b1620dba7d8c
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 does not support using the KEEP keyword within an
overlay description, which may be needed to avoid discarding necessary
sections within an overlay with '--gc-sections', which can be enabled
for the kernel via CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION.

Disallow CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION without support for KEEP
within OVERLAY and introduce a macro, OVERLAY_KEEP, that can be used to
conditionally add KEEP when it is properly supported to avoid breaking
old versions of ld.lld.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/381599f1fe973afad3094e55ec99b1620dba7d8c
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9439/1: arm32: simplify ARM_MMU_KEEP usage</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T13:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rolf Eike Beer</name>
<email>eb@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-14T13:45:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f9733aa925d99268e3c1f284d3e62e6a643dcc1d'/>
<id>f9733aa925d99268e3c1f284d3e62e6a643dcc1d</id>
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All current users need to add a KEEP() around the argument so the value is
actually kept, which doesn't feel very natural and is prone to upcoming bugs as
the name suggests that this macro alone already keeps things. Move that directly
into the definition.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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All current users need to add a KEEP() around the argument so the value is
actually kept, which doesn't feel very natural and is prone to upcoming bugs as
the name suggests that this macro alone already keeps things. Move that directly
into the definition.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T18:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T18:30:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=317a76a996043d336b85197aed5f44184b36ac4a'/>
<id>317a76a996043d336b85197aed5f44184b36ac4a</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate the VDSO storage

   The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
   specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
   effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.

   There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
   and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
   integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
   duplicated code for managing the mappings.

   Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
   infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
   specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
   provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
   functionalities without conflict and interaction.

 - Rework the timekeeping data storage

   The current implementation is designed for exposing system
   timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
   designed.

   PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
   requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
   to system timekeeping.

   Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
   allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
   both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
  sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
  vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
  powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
  vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
  vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
  arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
  ...
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<pre>
Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate the VDSO storage

   The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
   specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
   effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.

   There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
   and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
   integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
   duplicated code for managing the mappings.

   Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
   infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
   specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
   provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
   functionalities without conflict and interaction.

 - Rework the timekeeping data storage

   The current implementation is designed for exposing system
   timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
   designed.

   PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
   requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
   to system timekeeping.

   Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
   allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
   both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
  sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
  vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
  powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
  vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
  vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
  arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/pgtable: remove duplicate included header file</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T05:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-19T11:24:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2560c8c3f41d7a53e1554d1e4f207bf966e7527f'/>
<id>2560c8c3f41d7a53e1554d1e4f207bf966e7527f</id>
<content type='text'>
The header file asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h is included whether CONFIG_MMU
is defined or not.

Include it only once before the #ifndef/#else/#endif preprocessor
directives and remove the following make includecheck warning:

  asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h is included more than once

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219112403.3959-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The header file asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h is included whether CONFIG_MMU
is defined or not.

Include it only once before the #ifndef/#else/#endif preprocessor
directives and remove the following make includecheck warning:

  asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h is included more than once

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219112403.3959-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memremap: Pass down MEMREMAP_* flags to arch_memremap_wb()</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T14:05:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-17T16:38:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a9ebcb88136ca80cb53de27ca5ae77de18bbe368'/>
<id>a9ebcb88136ca80cb53de27ca5ae77de18bbe368</id>
<content type='text'>
x86 version of arch_memremap_wb() needs the flags to decide if the mapping
has to be encrypted or decrypted.

Pass down the flag to arch_memremap_wb(). All current implementations
ignore the argument.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217163822.343400-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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<pre>
x86 version of arch_memremap_wb() needs the flags to decide if the mapping
has to be encrypted or decrypted.

Pass down the flag to arch_memremap_wb(). All current implementations
ignore the argument.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217163822.343400-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T08:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-04T12:05:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=31e9fa2ba9ad64ef09eb4a8326e5cc8af3f6fa1d'/>
<id>31e9fa2ba9ad64ef09eb4a8326e5cc8af3f6fa1d</id>
<content type='text'>
The generic storage implementation provides the same features as the
custom one. However it can be shared between architectures, making
maintenance easier.

Co-developed-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-11-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de

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<pre>
The generic storage implementation provides the same features as the
custom one. However it can be shared between architectures, making
maintenance easier.

Co-developed-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-11-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T20:25:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-28T20:25:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2ab002c755bfa88777e3f2db884d531f3010736c'/>
<id>2ab002c755bfa88777e3f2db884d531f3010736c</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull driver core and debugfs updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core and debugfs updates for 6.14-rc1.

  Included in here is a bunch of driver core, PCI, OF, and platform rust
  bindings (all acked by the different subsystem maintainers), hence the
  merge conflict with the rust tree, and some driver core api updates to
  mark things as const, which will also require some fixups due to new
  stuff coming in through other trees in this merge window.

  There are also a bunch of debugfs updates from Al, and there is at
  least one user that does have a regression with these, but Al is
  working on tracking down the fix for it. In my use (and everyone
  else's linux-next use), it does not seem like a big issue at the
  moment.

  Here's a short list of the things in here:

   - driver core rust bindings for PCI, platform, OF, and some i/o
     functions.

     We are almost at the "write a real driver in rust" stage now,
     depending on what you want to do.

   - misc device rust bindings and a sample driver to show how to use
     them

   - debugfs cleanups in the fs as well as the users of the fs api for
     places where drivers got it wrong or were unnecessarily doing
     things in complex ways.

   - driver core const work, making more of the api take const * for
     different parameters to make the rust bindings easier overall.

   - other small fixes and updates

  All of these have been in linux-next with all of the aforementioned
  merge conflicts, and the one debugfs issue, which looks to be resolved
  "soon""

* tag 'driver-core-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (95 commits)
  rust: device: Use as_char_ptr() to avoid explicit cast
  rust: device: Replace CString with CStr in property_present()
  devcoredump: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  devcoredump: Define 'struct bin_attribute' through macro
  rust: device: Add property_present()
  saner replacement for debugfs_rename()
  orangefs-debugfs: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  octeontx2: don't mess with -&gt;d_parent or -&gt;d_parent-&gt;d_name
  arm_scmi: don't mess with -&gt;d_parent-&gt;d_name
  slub: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  sof-client-ipc-flood-test: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  qat: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  xhci: don't mess with -&gt;d_iname
  mtu3: don't mess wiht -&gt;d_iname
  greybus/camera - stop messing with -&gt;d_iname
  mediatek: stop messing with -&gt;d_iname
  netdevsim: don't embed file_operations into your structs
  b43legacy: make use of debugfs_get_aux()
  b43: stop embedding struct file_operations into their objects
  carl9170: stop embedding file_operations into their objects
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull driver core and debugfs updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core and debugfs updates for 6.14-rc1.

  Included in here is a bunch of driver core, PCI, OF, and platform rust
  bindings (all acked by the different subsystem maintainers), hence the
  merge conflict with the rust tree, and some driver core api updates to
  mark things as const, which will also require some fixups due to new
  stuff coming in through other trees in this merge window.

  There are also a bunch of debugfs updates from Al, and there is at
  least one user that does have a regression with these, but Al is
  working on tracking down the fix for it. In my use (and everyone
  else's linux-next use), it does not seem like a big issue at the
  moment.

  Here's a short list of the things in here:

   - driver core rust bindings for PCI, platform, OF, and some i/o
     functions.

     We are almost at the "write a real driver in rust" stage now,
     depending on what you want to do.

   - misc device rust bindings and a sample driver to show how to use
     them

   - debugfs cleanups in the fs as well as the users of the fs api for
     places where drivers got it wrong or were unnecessarily doing
     things in complex ways.

   - driver core const work, making more of the api take const * for
     different parameters to make the rust bindings easier overall.

   - other small fixes and updates

  All of these have been in linux-next with all of the aforementioned
  merge conflicts, and the one debugfs issue, which looks to be resolved
  "soon""

* tag 'driver-core-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (95 commits)
  rust: device: Use as_char_ptr() to avoid explicit cast
  rust: device: Replace CString with CStr in property_present()
  devcoredump: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  devcoredump: Define 'struct bin_attribute' through macro
  rust: device: Add property_present()
  saner replacement for debugfs_rename()
  orangefs-debugfs: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  octeontx2: don't mess with -&gt;d_parent or -&gt;d_parent-&gt;d_name
  arm_scmi: don't mess with -&gt;d_parent-&gt;d_name
  slub: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  sof-client-ipc-flood-test: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  qat: don't mess with -&gt;d_name
  xhci: don't mess with -&gt;d_iname
  mtu3: don't mess wiht -&gt;d_iname
  greybus/camera - stop messing with -&gt;d_iname
  mediatek: stop messing with -&gt;d_iname
  netdevsim: don't embed file_operations into your structs
  b43legacy: make use of debugfs_get_aux()
  b43: stop embedding struct file_operations into their objects
  carl9170: stop embedding file_operations into their objects
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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