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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2023-05-14T16:17:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-14T16:17:32+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:

 - fix unwinder for uleb128 case

 - fix kernel-doc warnings for HP Jornada 7xx

 - fix unbalanced stack on vfp success path

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9297/1: vfp: avoid unbalanced stack on 'success' return path
  ARM: 9296/1: HP Jornada 7XX: fix kernel-doc warnings
  ARM: 9295/1: unwind:fix unwind abort for uleb128 case
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:

 - fix unwinder for uleb128 case

 - fix kernel-doc warnings for HP Jornada 7xx

 - fix unbalanced stack on vfp success path

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9297/1: vfp: avoid unbalanced stack on 'success' return path
  ARM: 9296/1: HP Jornada 7XX: fix kernel-doc warnings
  ARM: 9295/1: unwind:fix unwind abort for uleb128 case
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9295/1: unwind:fix unwind abort for uleb128 case</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T09:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haibo Li</name>
<email>haibo.li@mediatek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-17T09:17:07+00:00</published>
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When unwind instruction is 0xb2,the subsequent instructions
are uleb128 bytes.
For now,it uses only the first uleb128 byte in code.

For vsp increments of 0x204~0x400,use one uleb128 byte like below:
0xc06a00e4 &lt;unwind_test_work&gt;: 0x80b27fac
  Compact model index: 0
  0xb2 0x7f vsp = vsp + 1024
  0xac      pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r14}

For vsp increments larger than 0x400,use two uleb128 bytes like below:
0xc06a00e4 &lt;unwind_test_work&gt;: @0xc0cc9e0c
  Compact model index: 1
  0xb2 0x81 0x01 vsp = vsp + 1032
  0xac      pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r14}
The unwind works well since the decoded uleb128 byte is also 0x81.

For vsp increments larger than 0x600,use two uleb128 bytes like below:
0xc06a00e4 &lt;unwind_test_work&gt;: @0xc0cc9e0c
  Compact model index: 1
  0xb2 0x81 0x02 vsp = vsp + 1544
  0xac      pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r14}
In this case,the decoded uleb128 result is 0x101(vsp=0x204+(0x101&lt;&lt;2)).
While the uleb128 used in code is 0x81(vsp=0x204+(0x81&lt;&lt;2)).
The unwind aborts at this frame since it gets incorrect vsp.

To fix this,add uleb128 decode to cover all the above case.

Signed-off-by: Haibo Li &lt;haibo.li@mediatek.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Mergnat &lt;amergnat@baylibre.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno &lt;angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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When unwind instruction is 0xb2,the subsequent instructions
are uleb128 bytes.
For now,it uses only the first uleb128 byte in code.

For vsp increments of 0x204~0x400,use one uleb128 byte like below:
0xc06a00e4 &lt;unwind_test_work&gt;: 0x80b27fac
  Compact model index: 0
  0xb2 0x7f vsp = vsp + 1024
  0xac      pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r14}

For vsp increments larger than 0x400,use two uleb128 bytes like below:
0xc06a00e4 &lt;unwind_test_work&gt;: @0xc0cc9e0c
  Compact model index: 1
  0xb2 0x81 0x01 vsp = vsp + 1032
  0xac      pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r14}
The unwind works well since the decoded uleb128 byte is also 0x81.

For vsp increments larger than 0x600,use two uleb128 bytes like below:
0xc06a00e4 &lt;unwind_test_work&gt;: @0xc0cc9e0c
  Compact model index: 1
  0xb2 0x81 0x02 vsp = vsp + 1544
  0xac      pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r14}
In this case,the decoded uleb128 result is 0x101(vsp=0x204+(0x101&lt;&lt;2)).
While the uleb128 used in code is 0x81(vsp=0x204+(0x81&lt;&lt;2)).
The unwind aborts at this frame since it gets incorrect vsp.

To fix this,add uleb128 decode to cover all the above case.

Signed-off-by: Haibo Li &lt;haibo.li@mediatek.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Mergnat &lt;amergnat@baylibre.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno &lt;angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</published>
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Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T21:02:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T21:02:54+00:00</published>
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn, make all architectures &amp;
   drivers that did this inconsistently follow this new, common
   convention, and fix all the fallout that objtool can now detect
   statically

 - Fix/improve the ORC unwinder becoming unreliable due to
   UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ambiguity, split it into UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
   and UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED to resolve it

 - Fix noinstr violations in the KCSAN code and the lkdtm/stackleak code

 - Generate ORC data for __pfx code

 - Add more __noreturn annotations to various kernel startup/shutdown
   and panic functions

 - Misc improvements &amp; fixes

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/hyperv: Mark hv_ghcb_terminate() as noreturn
  scsi: message: fusion: Mark mpt_halt_firmware() __noreturn
  x86/cpu: Mark {hlt,resume}_play_dead() __noreturn
  btrfs: Mark btrfs_assertfail() __noreturn
  objtool: Include weak functions in global_noreturns check
  cpu: Mark nmi_panic_self_stop() __noreturn
  cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn
  arm64/cpu: Mark cpu_park_loop() and friends __noreturn
  x86/head: Mark *_start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn
  objtool: Generate ORC data for __pfx code
  x86/linkage: Fix padding for typed functions
  objtool: Separate prefix code from stack validation code
  objtool: Remove superfluous dead_end_function() check
  objtool: Add symbol iteration helpers
  objtool: Add WARN_INSN()
  scripts/objdump-func: Support multiple functions
  context_tracking: Fix KCSAN noinstr violation
  objtool: Add stackleak instrumentation to uaccess safe list
  ...
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<pre>
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn, make all architectures &amp;
   drivers that did this inconsistently follow this new, common
   convention, and fix all the fallout that objtool can now detect
   statically

 - Fix/improve the ORC unwinder becoming unreliable due to
   UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ambiguity, split it into UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
   and UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED to resolve it

 - Fix noinstr violations in the KCSAN code and the lkdtm/stackleak code

 - Generate ORC data for __pfx code

 - Add more __noreturn annotations to various kernel startup/shutdown
   and panic functions

 - Misc improvements &amp; fixes

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/hyperv: Mark hv_ghcb_terminate() as noreturn
  scsi: message: fusion: Mark mpt_halt_firmware() __noreturn
  x86/cpu: Mark {hlt,resume}_play_dead() __noreturn
  btrfs: Mark btrfs_assertfail() __noreturn
  objtool: Include weak functions in global_noreturns check
  cpu: Mark nmi_panic_self_stop() __noreturn
  cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn
  arm64/cpu: Mark cpu_park_loop() and friends __noreturn
  x86/head: Mark *_start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn
  objtool: Generate ORC data for __pfx code
  x86/linkage: Fix padding for typed functions
  objtool: Separate prefix code from stack validation code
  objtool: Remove superfluous dead_end_function() check
  objtool: Add symbol iteration helpers
  objtool: Add WARN_INSN()
  scripts/objdump-func: Support multiple functions
  context_tracking: Fix KCSAN noinstr violation
  objtool: Add stackleak instrumentation to uaccess safe list
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:52:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:52:33+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
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<pre>
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b6a7828502dc769e1a5329027bc5048222fa210a'/>
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v6.4-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T17:45:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T17:45:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=34b62f186db9614e55d021f8c58d22fc44c57911'/>
<id>34b62f186db9614e55d021f8c58d22fc44c57911</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Resource management:

   - Add pci_dev_for_each_resource() and pci_bus_for_each_resource()
     iterators

  PCIe native device hotplug:

   - Fix AB-BA deadlock between reset_lock and device_lock

  Power management:

   - Wait longer for devices to become ready after resume (as we do for
     reset) to accommodate Intel Titan Ridge xHCI devices

   - Extend D3hot delay for NVIDIA HDA controllers to avoid
     unrecoverable devices after a bus reset

  Error handling:

   - Clear PCIe Device Status after EDR since generic error recovery now
     only clears it when AER is native

  ASPM:

   - Work around Chromebook firmware defect that clobbers Capability
     list (including ASPM L1 PM Substates Cap) when returning from
     D3cold to D0

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Install imprecise external abort handler only when DT indicates
     PCIe support

  Freescale Layerscape PCIe controller driver:

   - Add ls1028a endpoint mode support

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Add SM8550 DT binding and driver support

   - Add SDX55 DT binding and driver support

   - Use bulk APIs for clocks of IP 1.0.0, 2.3.2, 2.3.3

   - Use bulk APIs for reset of IP 2.1.0, 2.3.3, 2.4.0

   - Add DT "mhi" register region for supported SoCs

   - Expose link transition counts via debugfs to help debug low power
     issues

   - Support system suspend and resume; reduce interconnect bandwidth
     and turn off clock and PHY if there are no active devices

   - Enable async probe by default to reduce boot time

  Miscellaneous:

   - Sort controller Kconfig entries by vendor"

* tag 'pci-v6.4-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (56 commits)
  PCI: xilinx: Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST
  PCI: mobiveil: Sort Kconfig entries by vendor
  PCI: dwc: Sort Kconfig entries by vendor
  PCI: Sort controller Kconfig entries by vendor
  PCI: Use consistent controller Kconfig menu entry language
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Add 'Xilinx' to Kconfig prompt
  PCI: hv: Add 'Microsoft' to Kconfig prompt
  PCI: meson: Add 'Amlogic' to Kconfig prompt
  PCI: Use of_property_present() for testing DT property presence
  PCI/PM: Extend D3hot delay for NVIDIA HDA controllers
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Document msi-map and msi-map-mask properties
  PCI: qcom: Add SM8550 PCIe support
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add SM8550 compatible
  PCI: qcom: Add support for SDX55 SoC
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom-ep: Fix the unit address used in example
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add SDX55 SoC
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Update maintainers entry
  PCI: qcom: Enable async probe by default
  PCI: qcom: Add support for system suspend and resume
  PCI/PM: Drop pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() timeout parameter
  ...
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<pre>
Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Resource management:

   - Add pci_dev_for_each_resource() and pci_bus_for_each_resource()
     iterators

  PCIe native device hotplug:

   - Fix AB-BA deadlock between reset_lock and device_lock

  Power management:

   - Wait longer for devices to become ready after resume (as we do for
     reset) to accommodate Intel Titan Ridge xHCI devices

   - Extend D3hot delay for NVIDIA HDA controllers to avoid
     unrecoverable devices after a bus reset

  Error handling:

   - Clear PCIe Device Status after EDR since generic error recovery now
     only clears it when AER is native

  ASPM:

   - Work around Chromebook firmware defect that clobbers Capability
     list (including ASPM L1 PM Substates Cap) when returning from
     D3cold to D0

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Install imprecise external abort handler only when DT indicates
     PCIe support

  Freescale Layerscape PCIe controller driver:

   - Add ls1028a endpoint mode support

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Add SM8550 DT binding and driver support

   - Add SDX55 DT binding and driver support

   - Use bulk APIs for clocks of IP 1.0.0, 2.3.2, 2.3.3

   - Use bulk APIs for reset of IP 2.1.0, 2.3.3, 2.4.0

   - Add DT "mhi" register region for supported SoCs

   - Expose link transition counts via debugfs to help debug low power
     issues

   - Support system suspend and resume; reduce interconnect bandwidth
     and turn off clock and PHY if there are no active devices

   - Enable async probe by default to reduce boot time

  Miscellaneous:

   - Sort controller Kconfig entries by vendor"

* tag 'pci-v6.4-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (56 commits)
  PCI: xilinx: Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST
  PCI: mobiveil: Sort Kconfig entries by vendor
  PCI: dwc: Sort Kconfig entries by vendor
  PCI: Sort controller Kconfig entries by vendor
  PCI: Use consistent controller Kconfig menu entry language
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Add 'Xilinx' to Kconfig prompt
  PCI: hv: Add 'Microsoft' to Kconfig prompt
  PCI: meson: Add 'Amlogic' to Kconfig prompt
  PCI: Use of_property_present() for testing DT property presence
  PCI/PM: Extend D3hot delay for NVIDIA HDA controllers
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Document msi-map and msi-map-mask properties
  PCI: qcom: Add SM8550 PCIe support
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add SM8550 compatible
  PCI: qcom: Add support for SDX55 SoC
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom-ep: Fix the unit address used in example
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Add SDX55 SoC
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Update maintainers entry
  PCI: qcom: Enable async probe by default
  PCI: qcom: Add support for system suspend and resume
  PCI/PM: Drop pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() timeout parameter
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn</title>
<updated>2023-04-14T15:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-12T23:49:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7412a60decec2a6744cf773280ff17a0f89e8395'/>
<id>7412a60decec2a6744cf773280ff17a0f89e8395</id>
<content type='text'>
In preparation for improving objtool's handling of weak noreturn
functions, mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/92d76ab5c8bf660f04fdcd3da1084519212de248.1681342859.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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<content type='xhtml'>
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<pre>
In preparation for improving objtool's handling of weak noreturn
functions, mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/92d76ab5c8bf660f04fdcd3da1084519212de248.1681342859.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: cpuidle: Drop of_device.h include</title>
<updated>2023-04-13T22:46:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-29T15:52:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ec7a7aa9a48736f4def16dc33e8ec01a49b0bfa4'/>
<id>ec7a7aa9a48736f4def16dc33e8ec01a49b0bfa4</id>
<content type='text'>
Now that of_cpu_device_node_get() is defined in of.h, of_device.h is just
implicitly including other includes, and is no longer needed. Just drop
including of_device.h as of.h is already included.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329-dt-cpu-header-cleanups-v1-7-581e2605fe47@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Now that of_cpu_device_node_get() is defined in of.h, of_device.h is just
implicitly including other includes, and is no longer needed. Just drop
including of_device.h as of.h is already included.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329-dt-cpu-header-cleanups-v1-7-581e2605fe47@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars</title>
<updated>2023-04-13T18:49:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-10T08:50:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ca14ccf310ee9d575c3bacbf1d61d9640d0025b6'/>
<id>ca14ccf310ee9d575c3bacbf1d61d9640d0025b6</id>
<content type='text'>
There is no need to declare two tables to just create directories,
this can be easily be done with a prefix path with register_sysctl().

Simplify this registration.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There is no need to declare two tables to just create directories,
this can be easily be done with a prefix path with register_sysctl().

Simplify this registration.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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