Pull treewide timer related cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Remove the leftover CLOCK_TICK_RATE which has been scheduled for
   removal more than a decade ago along with some now empty asm/timex.h
   files.

 - Consolidate delay timer calibration

   The construct of having a define in a header requires that
   architectures provided asm/timex.h for no reason. Also the function
   name for reading the delay timer is confusing at best.

   Use a config switch to enable that functionality and rename the
   function to delay_read_timer() to make the purpose clear.

   This removes some more now empty asm/timex.h files as well.

* tag 'timers-cleanups-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  calibrate: Rework delay timer calibration
  treewide: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE
  x86: Use PIT_TICK_RATE instead of CLOCK_TICK_RATE

Pull generic entry code updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Make syscall user dispatching configurable

   Not all architectures can makes use of syscall user dispatching.
   Allow them to disable the feature completely.

 - Consolidate stack randomization for the generic entry code and the
   architectures using it.

   Stack randomization on syscall entry was sprinkled throughout the
   architecture specific low level entry code and in some cases at the
   wrong points, e.g. before establishing state, which violates the
   non-instrumentable constraints of that code.

   Clean this up by integrating stack randomization into the generic
   entry code helpers so that it is invoked at the earliest possible
   point right after establishing state and converting all generic entry
   code using architecture over.

 - Clean up the syscall number handling in the generic entry code. It
   works correctly for architectures which have a separate return value
   storage in pt_regs, but fails to distinguish the case where user
   space handed in -1 as syscall number from the case where the entry
   code rejects it by returning -1 to the callers. Aside of that the
   return value functionality of those interfaces is not really
   intuitive.

   Fix this by separating the decision to reject a syscall (user
   dispatch, ptrace, seccomp ...) from the potential modification of the
   syscall number through these mechanisms.

   This solves most of the problems for architectures which do not have
   a separate return value storage in pt_regs except for the case where
   a tracepoint has a BPF script or a probe attached which overwrite
   both the syscall number and the return value. But that's a problem
   which cannot be solved in the generic code, that only can be
   addressed by separating the storage model in the affected
   architectures.

* tag 'core-entry-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  entry, treewide: Make syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() indicate syscall execution
  entry: Make return type of syscall_trace_enter() bool
  entry: Rework trace_syscall_enter()
  entry: Rework syscall_audit_enter()
  syscall_user_dispatch: Introduce ARCH_SUPPORTS_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH
  entry: Fix seccomp bypass after ptrace with TSYNC
  x86/entry: Simplify the syscall number logic
  x86/entry: Get rid of the sys_ni_syscall() indirection
  x86/entry: Make syscall functions static
  ptrace, treewide: Rename ptrace_report_syscall_entry() to ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry()
  seccomp, treewide: Rename and convert __secure_computing() to return boolean
  entry: Use syscall number instead of rereading it
  entry: Remove syscall_enter_from_user_mode()
  x86/syscall: Use [syscall_]enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()
  s390/syscall: Use enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()
  riscv/syscall: Use syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()
  powerpc/syscall: Use syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()
  loongarch/syscall: Use syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()
  entry: Provide [syscall_]enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack()
  randomize_kstack: Provide add_random_kstack_offset_irqsoff()
  ...

Pull failfs filesystem from Christian Brauner:
 "Add failfs and expose a FD_FAILFS_ROOT sentinel.

  This allows userspace to shed their filesystem state completely. A
  process with its root or working directory in failfs must anchor every
  path lookup at an explicit file descriptor. Absolute paths, absolute
  symlinks and AT_FDCWD-relative lookups simply fail.

  Failfs is the counterpart to nullfs. nullfs says adds a permanently
  empty, immutable directory whose lookups fail with ENOENT but which
  can be opened, read, stat'd and mounted upon. Failfs on the other hand
  fails every operation. The root cannot be opened at all. A single
  instance is mounted during early boot via kern_mount(), which makes it
  logically distinct from every mount namespace.

  This is accompanied by a new fchroot() system call which makes
  chrooting via a file descriptor a first class concept. It's possible
  to chroot into failfs as an unprivileged user provided the task has no
  new privileges set"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.failfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  Documentation: add failfs documentation
  selftests/filesystems: add failfs selftests
  arch: hookup fchroot() system call
  fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchroot()
  fs: add fchroot()
  fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchdir()
  fs: add failfs

microblaze handles TLB misses in software, and the handler builds the
address of the L1 entry by ORing the index into the page directory base
instead of adding it (hw_exception_handler.S):

		bsrli	r5, r3, PGDIR_SHIFT - 2
		andi	r5, r5, PAGE_SIZE - 4
	/* Assume pgdir aligned on 4K boundary, no need for
	   "andi r4,r4,0xfffff003" */
		or	r4, r4, r5
		lwi	r4, r4, 0		/* Get L1 entry */

The index is masked to the low 12 bits, so the OR only works if those bits
of the base are zero -- which is exactly the assumption the comment states
and the reason the masking of the base can be skipped.

swapper_pg_dir had no alignment directive of its own.  It was aligned
because it followed empty_zero_page in head.S, and that one carried the
.align 12:

	.section .data
	.global empty_zero_page
	.align 12
	empty_zero_page:
		.space	PAGE_SIZE
	.global swapper_pg_dir
	swapper_pg_dir:
		.space	PAGE_SIZE

Commit 6215d9f4470f ("arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page") removed
empty_zero_page from head.S, and with it the .align 12 that -- despite
sitting next to empty_zero_page -- was what page aligned swapper_pg_dir. 
Since then swapper_pg_dir lands wherever .data happens to put it, its low
bits are no longer zero, and every kernel TLB miss ORs the index into a
base with a nonzero offset.  The resulting L1 lookups read the wrong
words, no valid translation is ever installed, and the kernel spins in
exceptions long before it can print anything.  On qemu-system-microblazeel
(petalogix-s3adsp1800) the console stays completely silent at 100% CPU;
there is no oops and no guest error reported by qemu, which makes this
awkward to diagnose.

Give swapper_pg_dir the alignment it requires, rather than relying on a
neighbour to provide it.

microblaze has no noMMU variant left in mainline -- CONFIG_MMU is def_bool
y and mmu_defconfig is the only defconfig -- so this is not a corner case:
every mainline microblaze kernel since v7.1-rc1 fails to boot, including
the v7.1 release.

	v7.0:                    swapper_pg_dir = 0xc05fd000  (aligned)
	v7.1-rc1:                swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0603140  (offset 320)
	v7.1-rc1 + this fix:     swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0604000  (aligned)
	next-20260726:           swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0615140  (offset 320)
	next-20260726 + this fix: swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0616000  (aligned)

Verified on qemu-system-microblazeel (petalogix-s3adsp1800) with
mmu_defconfig and microblazeel gcc 12.5.0: v7.1-rc1 and next-20260726 both
print nothing at all without the fix, and both boot to userspace with it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727215823.1422701-1-ramin.moussavi@yacoub.de
Fixes: 6215d9f4470f ("arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page")
Signed-off-by: Ramin Moussavi <ramin.moussavi@yacoub.de>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Wire up the fchroot() system call as number 472 on (nearly) all
architectures and sync the mirrored copies of the syscall tables and
the asm-generic unistd.h under tools/.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724-work-failfs-v2-5-485dabbae185@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

This has been scheduled for removal more than a decade ago and the comments
related to it have been dutifully ignored. The last dependencies are gone.

Remove it along with various now empty asm/timex.h files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410120317.910770161@kernel.org

The return value of that function is boolean and tells the caller whether
to permit the syscall processing or not.

Rename the function so the purpose is clear and make the return type bool.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.280015701@kernel.org

The kernel allows arches to select between inline and outline
implementations of the copy_{from,to}_user() by defining individual
INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and INLINE_COPY_TO_USER, correspondingly.  However,
all arches enable or disable them always together.

Without the real use-case for one helper being inlined while the other
outlined, having independent controls is excessive and error prone.

Switch the codebase to the single unified INLINE_COPY_USER control.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260425020857.356850-3-ynorov@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache
to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a
coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer
and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the
counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the
persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded.

To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and
flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory.

Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool", v2.

This is a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check functions to
return bool, as discussed with David in the previous thread[1].  Since
callers only care about whether the young flag was set, returning bool
makes the intention clearer.  No functional changes intended.


This patch (of 6):

Callers use ptep_test_and_clear_young() to clear the young flag and check
whether it was set.  Change the return type to bool to make the intention
clearer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57e70efa9703d43959aa645246ea3cbdba14fa17.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>