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<title>powerpc/fadump: skip parameter area allocation when fadump is disabled</title>
<updated>2025-10-13T04:11:31+00:00</updated>
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Fadump allocates memory to pass additional kernel command-line argument
to the fadump kernel. However, this allocation is not needed when fadump
is disabled. So avoid allocating memory for the additional parameter
area in such cases.

Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional parameters early")
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional  parameters early")
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008032934.262683-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com

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Fadump allocates memory to pass additional kernel command-line argument
to the fadump kernel. However, this allocation is not needed when fadump
is disabled. So avoid allocating memory for the additional parameter
area in such cases.

Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional parameters early")
Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: f4892c68ecc1 ("powerpc/fadump: allocate memory for additional  parameters early")
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008032934.262683-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com

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<title>Merge tag 'pci-v6.18-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci</title>
<updated>2025-10-06T17:41:03+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-06T17:41:03+00:00</published>
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Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Enumeration:

   - Add PCI_FIND_NEXT_CAP() and PCI_FIND_NEXT_EXT_CAP() macros that
     take config space accessor functions.

     Implement pci_find_capability(), pci_find_ext_capability(), and
     dwc, dwc endpoint, and cadence capability search interfaces with
     them (Hans Zhang)

   - Leave parent unit address 0 in 'interrupt-map' so that when we
     build devicetree nodes to describe PCI functions that contain
     multiple peripherals, we can build this property even when
     interrupt controllers lack 'reg' properties (Lorenzo Pieralisi)

   - Add a Xeon 6 quirk to disable Extended Tags and limit Max Read
     Request Size to 128B to avoid a performance issue (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Add sysfs 'serial_number' file to expose the Device Serial Number
     (Matthew Wood)

   - Fix pci_acpi_preserve_config() memory leak (Nirmoy Das)

  Resource management:

   - Align m68k pcibios_enable_device() with other arches (Ilpo
     Järvinen)

   - Remove sparc pcibios_enable_device() implementations that don't do
     anything beyond what pci_enable_resources() does (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Remove mips pcibios_enable_resources() and use
     pci_enable_resources() instead (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Clean up bridge window sizing and assignment (Ilpo Järvinen),
     including:

       - Leave non-claimed bridge windows disabled

       - Enable bridges even if a window wasn't assigned because not all
         windows are required by downstream devices

       - Preserve bridge window type when releasing the resource, since
         the type is needed for reassignment

       - Consolidate selection of bridge windows into two new
         interfaces, pbus_select_window() and
         pbus_select_window_for_type(), so this is done consistently

       - Compute bridge window start and end earlier to avoid logging
         stale information

  MSI:

   - Add quirk to disable MSI on RDC PCI to PCIe bridges (Marcos Del Sol
     Vives)

  Error handling:

   - Align AER with EEH by allowing drivers to request a Bus Reset on
     Non-Fatal Errors (in addition to the reset on Fatal Errors that we
     already do) (Lukas Wunner)

   - If error recovery fails, emit FAILED_RECOVERY uevents for the
     devices, not for the bridge leading to them.

     This makes them correspond to BEGIN_RECOVERY uevents (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by calling err_handler.error_detected()
     callbacks to notify drivers if error recovery fails (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by restoring device error_state to
     pci_channel_io_normal before the err_handler.slot_reset() callback.

     This is earlier than before the err_handler.resume() callback
     (Lukas Wunner)

   - Emit a BEGIN_RECOVERY uevent when driver's
     err_handler.error_detected() requests a reset, as well as when it
     says recovery is complete or can be done without a reset (Niklas
     Schnelle)

   - Align s390 with AER and EEH by emitting uevents during error
     recovery (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Align EEH with AER and s390 by emitting BEGIN_RECOVERY,
     SUCCESSFUL_RECOVERY, or FAILED_RECOVERY uevents depending on the
     result of err_handler.error_detected() (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Fix a NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit() when ACPI GHES
     error information identifies a device without an AER Capability
     (Breno Leitao)

   - Update error decoding and TLP Log printing for new errors in
     current PCIe base spec (Lukas Wunner)

   - Update error recovery documentation to match the current code
     and use consistent nomenclature (Lukas Wunner)

  ASPM:

   - Enable all ClockPM and ASPM states for devicetree platforms, since
     there's typically no firmware that enables ASPM

     This is a risky change that may uncover hardware or configuration
     defects at boot-time rather than when users enable ASPM via sysfs
     later. Booting with "pcie_aspm=off" prevents this enabling
     (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Remove the qcom code that enabled ASPM (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

  Power management:

   - If a device has already been disconnected, e.g., by a hotplug
     removal, don't bother trying to resume it to D0 when detaching the
     driver.

     This avoids annoying "Unable to change power state from D3cold to
     D0" messages (Mario Limonciello)

   - Ensure devices are powered up before config reads for
     'max_link_width', 'current_link_speed', 'current_link_width',
     'secondary_bus_number', and 'subordinate_bus_number' sysfs files.

     This prevents using invalid data (~0) in drivers or lspci and,
     depending on how the PCIe controller reports errors, may avoid
     error interrupts or crashes (Brian Norris)

  Virtualization:

   - Add rescan/remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV, which
     avoids list corruption on s390, where disabling SR-IOV also
     generates hotplug events (Niklas Schnelle)

  Peer-to-peer DMA:

   - Free struct p2p_pgmap, not a member within it, in the
     pci_p2pdma_add_resource() error path (Sungho Kim)

  Endpoint framework:

   - Document sysfs interface for BAR assignment of vNTB endpoint
     functions (Jerome Brunet)

   - Fix array underflow in endpoint BAR test case (Dan Carpenter)

   - Skip endpoint IRQ test if the IRQ is out of range to avoid false
     errors (Christian Bruel)

   - Fix endpoint test case for controllers with fixed-size BARs smaller
     than requested by the test (Marek Vasut)

   - Restore inbound translation when disabling doorbell so the endpoint
     doorbell test case can be run more than once (Niklas Cassel)

   - Avoid a NULL pointer dereference when releasing DMA channels in
     endpoint DMA test case (Shin'ichiro Kawasaki)

   - Convert tegra194 interrupt number to MSI vector to fix endpoint
     Kselftest MSI_TEST test case (Niklas Cassel)

   - Reset tegra194 BARs when running in endpoint mode so the BAR tests
     don't overwrite the ATU settings in BAR4 (Niklas Cassel)

   - Handle errors in tegra194 BPMP transactions so we don't mistakenly
     skip future PERST# assertion (Vidya Sagar)

  AMD MDB PCIe controller driver:

   - Update DT binding example to separate PERST# to a Root Port stanza
     to make multiple Root Ports possible in the future (Sai Krishna
     Musham)

   - Add driver support for PERST# being described in a Root Port
     stanza, falling back to the host bridge if not found there (Sai
     Krishna Musham)

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Enable the 3.3V Vaux supply if available so devices can request
     wakeup with either Beacon or WAKE# (Richard Zhu)

  MediaTek PCIe Gen3 controller driver:

   - Add optional sys clock ready time setting to avoid sys_clk_rdy
     signal glitching in MT6991 and MT8196 (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

   - Add DT binding and driver support for MT6991 and MT8196
     (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

  NVIDIA Tegra PCIe controller driver:

   - When asserting PERST#, disable the controller instead of mistakenly
     disabling the PLL twice (Nagarjuna Kristam)

   - Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Select PCI Power Control Slot driver so slot voltage rails can be
     turned on/off if described in Root Port devicetree node (Qiang Yu)

   - Parse only PCI bridge child nodes in devicetree, skipping unrelated
     nodes such as OPP (Operating Performance Points), which caused
     probe failures (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Add 8.0 GT/s and 32.0 GT/s equalization settings (Ziyue Zhang)

   - Consolidate Root Port 'phy' and 'reset' properties in struct
     qcom_pcie_port, regardless of whether we got them from the Root
     Port node or the host bridge node (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Fetch and map the ELBI register space in the DWC core rather than
     in each driver individually (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Enable ECAM mechanism in DWC core by setting up iATU with 'CFG
     Shift Feature' and use this in the qcom driver (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Add SM8750 compatible to qcom,pcie-sm8550.yaml (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Update qcom,pcie-x1e80100.yaml to allow fifth PCIe host on Qualcomm
     Glymur, which is compatible with X1E80100 but doesn't have the
     cnoc_sf_axi clock (Qiang Yu)

  Renesas R-Car PCIe controller driver:

   - Fix a typo that prevented correct PHY initialization (Marek Vasut)

   - Add a missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion as required by
     the V4H manual (Marek Vasut)

   - Assure reset has completed before DBI access to avoid SError (Marek
     Vasut)

   - Fix inverted PHY initialization check, which sometimes led to
     timeouts and failure to start the controller (Marek Vasut)

   - Pass the correct IRQ domain to generic_handle_domain_irq() to fix a
     regression when converting to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
     (Claudiu Beznea)

   - Drop the spinlock protecting the PMSR register - it's no longer
     required since pci_lock already serializes accesses (Marek Vasut)

   - Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  SOPHGO PCIe controller driver:

   - Check for existence of struct cdns_pcie.ops before using it to
     allow Cadence drivers that don't need to supply ops (Chen Wang)

   - Add DT binding and driver for the SOPHGO SG2042 PCIe controller
     (Chen Wang)

  STMicroelectronics STM32MP25 PCIe controller driver:

   - Update pinctrl documentation of initial states and use in runtime
     suspend/resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add pinctrl_pm_select_init_state() for use by stm32 driver, which
     needs it during resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add devicetree bindings and drivers for the STMicroelectronics
     STM32MP25 in host and endpoint modes (Christian Bruel)

  Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Add support for x16 in devicetree 'num-lanes' property (Konrad
     Dybcio)

   - Verify that if DT specifies a single IRQ for all eDMA channels, it
     is named 'dma' (Niklas Cassel)

  TI J721E PCIe driver:

   - Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() so driver can be autoloaded (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

   - Power controller off before configuring the glue layer so the
     controller latches the correct values on power-on (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

  TI Keystone PCIe controller driver:

   - Use devm_request_irq() so 'ks-pcie-error-irq' is freed when driver
     exits with error (Siddharth Vadapalli)

   - Add Peripheral Virtualization Unit (PVU), which restricts DMA from
     PCIe devices to specific regions of host memory, to the ti,am65
     binding (Jan Kiszka)

  Xilinx NWL PCIe controller driver:

   - Clear bootloader E_ECAM_CONTROL before merging in the new driver
     value to avoid writing invalid values (Jani Nurminen)"

* tag 'pci-v6.18-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (141 commits)
  PCI/AER: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit()
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for ST STM32MP25 PCIe drivers
  PCI: stm32-ep: Add PCIe Endpoint support for STM32MP25
  dt-bindings: PCI: Add STM32MP25 PCIe Endpoint bindings
  PCI: stm32: Add PCIe host support for STM32MP25
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Fix ECAM programming
  PCI: j721e: Fix incorrect error message in probe()
  PCI: keystone: Use devm_request_irq() to free "ks-pcie-error-irq" on exit
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-x1e80100: Set clocks minItems for the fifth Glymur PCIe Controller
  PCI: dwc: Support 16-lane operation
  PCI: Add lockdep assertion in pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device()
  PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV
  PCI: rcar-host: Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: tegra194: Rename 'root_bus' to 'root_port_bus' in tegra_pcie_downstream_dev_to_D0()
  PCI: tegra: Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Fix inverted break condition in PHY initialization
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Assure reset occurs before DBI access
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Add missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion
  PCI: Set up bridge resources earlier
  PCI: rcar-host: Drop PMSR spinlock
  ...
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Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Enumeration:

   - Add PCI_FIND_NEXT_CAP() and PCI_FIND_NEXT_EXT_CAP() macros that
     take config space accessor functions.

     Implement pci_find_capability(), pci_find_ext_capability(), and
     dwc, dwc endpoint, and cadence capability search interfaces with
     them (Hans Zhang)

   - Leave parent unit address 0 in 'interrupt-map' so that when we
     build devicetree nodes to describe PCI functions that contain
     multiple peripherals, we can build this property even when
     interrupt controllers lack 'reg' properties (Lorenzo Pieralisi)

   - Add a Xeon 6 quirk to disable Extended Tags and limit Max Read
     Request Size to 128B to avoid a performance issue (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Add sysfs 'serial_number' file to expose the Device Serial Number
     (Matthew Wood)

   - Fix pci_acpi_preserve_config() memory leak (Nirmoy Das)

  Resource management:

   - Align m68k pcibios_enable_device() with other arches (Ilpo
     Järvinen)

   - Remove sparc pcibios_enable_device() implementations that don't do
     anything beyond what pci_enable_resources() does (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Remove mips pcibios_enable_resources() and use
     pci_enable_resources() instead (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Clean up bridge window sizing and assignment (Ilpo Järvinen),
     including:

       - Leave non-claimed bridge windows disabled

       - Enable bridges even if a window wasn't assigned because not all
         windows are required by downstream devices

       - Preserve bridge window type when releasing the resource, since
         the type is needed for reassignment

       - Consolidate selection of bridge windows into two new
         interfaces, pbus_select_window() and
         pbus_select_window_for_type(), so this is done consistently

       - Compute bridge window start and end earlier to avoid logging
         stale information

  MSI:

   - Add quirk to disable MSI on RDC PCI to PCIe bridges (Marcos Del Sol
     Vives)

  Error handling:

   - Align AER with EEH by allowing drivers to request a Bus Reset on
     Non-Fatal Errors (in addition to the reset on Fatal Errors that we
     already do) (Lukas Wunner)

   - If error recovery fails, emit FAILED_RECOVERY uevents for the
     devices, not for the bridge leading to them.

     This makes them correspond to BEGIN_RECOVERY uevents (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by calling err_handler.error_detected()
     callbacks to notify drivers if error recovery fails (Lukas Wunner)

   - Align AER with EEH by restoring device error_state to
     pci_channel_io_normal before the err_handler.slot_reset() callback.

     This is earlier than before the err_handler.resume() callback
     (Lukas Wunner)

   - Emit a BEGIN_RECOVERY uevent when driver's
     err_handler.error_detected() requests a reset, as well as when it
     says recovery is complete or can be done without a reset (Niklas
     Schnelle)

   - Align s390 with AER and EEH by emitting uevents during error
     recovery (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Align EEH with AER and s390 by emitting BEGIN_RECOVERY,
     SUCCESSFUL_RECOVERY, or FAILED_RECOVERY uevents depending on the
     result of err_handler.error_detected() (Niklas Schnelle)

   - Fix a NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit() when ACPI GHES
     error information identifies a device without an AER Capability
     (Breno Leitao)

   - Update error decoding and TLP Log printing for new errors in
     current PCIe base spec (Lukas Wunner)

   - Update error recovery documentation to match the current code
     and use consistent nomenclature (Lukas Wunner)

  ASPM:

   - Enable all ClockPM and ASPM states for devicetree platforms, since
     there's typically no firmware that enables ASPM

     This is a risky change that may uncover hardware or configuration
     defects at boot-time rather than when users enable ASPM via sysfs
     later. Booting with "pcie_aspm=off" prevents this enabling
     (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Remove the qcom code that enabled ASPM (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

  Power management:

   - If a device has already been disconnected, e.g., by a hotplug
     removal, don't bother trying to resume it to D0 when detaching the
     driver.

     This avoids annoying "Unable to change power state from D3cold to
     D0" messages (Mario Limonciello)

   - Ensure devices are powered up before config reads for
     'max_link_width', 'current_link_speed', 'current_link_width',
     'secondary_bus_number', and 'subordinate_bus_number' sysfs files.

     This prevents using invalid data (~0) in drivers or lspci and,
     depending on how the PCIe controller reports errors, may avoid
     error interrupts or crashes (Brian Norris)

  Virtualization:

   - Add rescan/remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV, which
     avoids list corruption on s390, where disabling SR-IOV also
     generates hotplug events (Niklas Schnelle)

  Peer-to-peer DMA:

   - Free struct p2p_pgmap, not a member within it, in the
     pci_p2pdma_add_resource() error path (Sungho Kim)

  Endpoint framework:

   - Document sysfs interface for BAR assignment of vNTB endpoint
     functions (Jerome Brunet)

   - Fix array underflow in endpoint BAR test case (Dan Carpenter)

   - Skip endpoint IRQ test if the IRQ is out of range to avoid false
     errors (Christian Bruel)

   - Fix endpoint test case for controllers with fixed-size BARs smaller
     than requested by the test (Marek Vasut)

   - Restore inbound translation when disabling doorbell so the endpoint
     doorbell test case can be run more than once (Niklas Cassel)

   - Avoid a NULL pointer dereference when releasing DMA channels in
     endpoint DMA test case (Shin'ichiro Kawasaki)

   - Convert tegra194 interrupt number to MSI vector to fix endpoint
     Kselftest MSI_TEST test case (Niklas Cassel)

   - Reset tegra194 BARs when running in endpoint mode so the BAR tests
     don't overwrite the ATU settings in BAR4 (Niklas Cassel)

   - Handle errors in tegra194 BPMP transactions so we don't mistakenly
     skip future PERST# assertion (Vidya Sagar)

  AMD MDB PCIe controller driver:

   - Update DT binding example to separate PERST# to a Root Port stanza
     to make multiple Root Ports possible in the future (Sai Krishna
     Musham)

   - Add driver support for PERST# being described in a Root Port
     stanza, falling back to the host bridge if not found there (Sai
     Krishna Musham)

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Enable the 3.3V Vaux supply if available so devices can request
     wakeup with either Beacon or WAKE# (Richard Zhu)

  MediaTek PCIe Gen3 controller driver:

   - Add optional sys clock ready time setting to avoid sys_clk_rdy
     signal glitching in MT6991 and MT8196 (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

   - Add DT binding and driver support for MT6991 and MT8196
     (AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)

  NVIDIA Tegra PCIe controller driver:

   - When asserting PERST#, disable the controller instead of mistakenly
     disabling the PLL twice (Nagarjuna Kristam)

   - Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Select PCI Power Control Slot driver so slot voltage rails can be
     turned on/off if described in Root Port devicetree node (Qiang Yu)

   - Parse only PCI bridge child nodes in devicetree, skipping unrelated
     nodes such as OPP (Operating Performance Points), which caused
     probe failures (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Add 8.0 GT/s and 32.0 GT/s equalization settings (Ziyue Zhang)

   - Consolidate Root Port 'phy' and 'reset' properties in struct
     qcom_pcie_port, regardless of whether we got them from the Root
     Port node or the host bridge node (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Fetch and map the ELBI register space in the DWC core rather than
     in each driver individually (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

   - Enable ECAM mechanism in DWC core by setting up iATU with 'CFG
     Shift Feature' and use this in the qcom driver (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Add SM8750 compatible to qcom,pcie-sm8550.yaml (Krishna Chaitanya
     Chundru)

   - Update qcom,pcie-x1e80100.yaml to allow fifth PCIe host on Qualcomm
     Glymur, which is compatible with X1E80100 but doesn't have the
     cnoc_sf_axi clock (Qiang Yu)

  Renesas R-Car PCIe controller driver:

   - Fix a typo that prevented correct PHY initialization (Marek Vasut)

   - Add a missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion as required by
     the V4H manual (Marek Vasut)

   - Assure reset has completed before DBI access to avoid SError (Marek
     Vasut)

   - Fix inverted PHY initialization check, which sometimes led to
     timeouts and failure to start the controller (Marek Vasut)

   - Pass the correct IRQ domain to generic_handle_domain_irq() to fix a
     regression when converting to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
     (Claudiu Beznea)

   - Drop the spinlock protecting the PMSR register - it's no longer
     required since pci_lock already serializes accesses (Marek Vasut)

   - Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock to raw spinlock to avoid a lock
     nesting error (Marek Vasut)

  SOPHGO PCIe controller driver:

   - Check for existence of struct cdns_pcie.ops before using it to
     allow Cadence drivers that don't need to supply ops (Chen Wang)

   - Add DT binding and driver for the SOPHGO SG2042 PCIe controller
     (Chen Wang)

  STMicroelectronics STM32MP25 PCIe controller driver:

   - Update pinctrl documentation of initial states and use in runtime
     suspend/resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add pinctrl_pm_select_init_state() for use by stm32 driver, which
     needs it during resume (Christian Bruel)

   - Add devicetree bindings and drivers for the STMicroelectronics
     STM32MP25 in host and endpoint modes (Christian Bruel)

  Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Add support for x16 in devicetree 'num-lanes' property (Konrad
     Dybcio)

   - Verify that if DT specifies a single IRQ for all eDMA channels, it
     is named 'dma' (Niklas Cassel)

  TI J721E PCIe driver:

   - Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() so driver can be autoloaded (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

   - Power controller off before configuring the glue layer so the
     controller latches the correct values on power-on (Siddharth
     Vadapalli)

  TI Keystone PCIe controller driver:

   - Use devm_request_irq() so 'ks-pcie-error-irq' is freed when driver
     exits with error (Siddharth Vadapalli)

   - Add Peripheral Virtualization Unit (PVU), which restricts DMA from
     PCIe devices to specific regions of host memory, to the ti,am65
     binding (Jan Kiszka)

  Xilinx NWL PCIe controller driver:

   - Clear bootloader E_ECAM_CONTROL before merging in the new driver
     value to avoid writing invalid values (Jani Nurminen)"

* tag 'pci-v6.18-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (141 commits)
  PCI/AER: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit()
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for ST STM32MP25 PCIe drivers
  PCI: stm32-ep: Add PCIe Endpoint support for STM32MP25
  dt-bindings: PCI: Add STM32MP25 PCIe Endpoint bindings
  PCI: stm32: Add PCIe host support for STM32MP25
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Fix ECAM programming
  PCI: j721e: Fix incorrect error message in probe()
  PCI: keystone: Use devm_request_irq() to free "ks-pcie-error-irq" on exit
  dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-x1e80100: Set clocks minItems for the fifth Glymur PCIe Controller
  PCI: dwc: Support 16-lane operation
  PCI: Add lockdep assertion in pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device()
  PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV
  PCI: rcar-host: Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: tegra194: Rename 'root_bus' to 'root_port_bus' in tegra_pcie_downstream_dev_to_D0()
  PCI: tegra: Convert struct tegra_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Fix inverted break condition in PHY initialization
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Assure reset occurs before DBI access
  PCI: rcar-gen4: Add missing 1ms delay after PWR reset assertion
  PCI: Set up bridge resources earlier
  PCI: rcar-host: Drop PMSR spinlock
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T00:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T00:41:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a498d59c469bf1cab2710ffeb34050f475de28ce'/>
<id>a498d59c469bf1cab2710ffeb34050f475de28ce</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:

 - Refactoring of DMA mapping API to physical addresses as the primary
   interface instead of page+offset parameters

   This gets much closer to Matthew Wilcox's long term wish for
   struct-pageless IO to cacheable DRAM and is supporting memdesc
   project which seeks to substantially transform how struct page works.

   An advantage of this approach is the possibility of introducing
   DMA_ATTR_MMIO, which covers existing 'dma_map_resource' flow in the
   common paths, what in turn lets to use recently introduced
   dma_iova_link() API to map PCI P2P MMIO without creating struct page

   Developped by Leon Romanovsky and Jason Gunthorpe

 - Minor clean-up by Petr Tesarik and Qianfeng Rong

* tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux:
  kmsan: fix missed kmsan_handle_dma() signature conversion
  mm/hmm: properly take MMIO path
  mm/hmm: migrate to physical address-based DMA mapping API
  dma-mapping: export new dma_*map_phys() interface
  xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback
  dma-mapping: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_(un)map_page_attrs()
  kmsan: convert kmsan_handle_dma to use physical addresses
  dma-mapping: convert dma_direct_*map_page to be phys_addr_t based
  iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for iommu_dma_(un)map_phys()
  iommu/dma: rename iommu_dma_*map_page to iommu_dma_*map_phys
  dma-mapping: rename trace_dma_*map_page to trace_dma_*map_phys
  dma-debug: refactor to use physical addresses for page mapping
  iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_iova_link().
  dma-mapping: introduce new DMA attribute to indicate MMIO memory
  swiotlb: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  dma-direct: clean up the logic in __dma_direct_alloc_pages()
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:

 - Refactoring of DMA mapping API to physical addresses as the primary
   interface instead of page+offset parameters

   This gets much closer to Matthew Wilcox's long term wish for
   struct-pageless IO to cacheable DRAM and is supporting memdesc
   project which seeks to substantially transform how struct page works.

   An advantage of this approach is the possibility of introducing
   DMA_ATTR_MMIO, which covers existing 'dma_map_resource' flow in the
   common paths, what in turn lets to use recently introduced
   dma_iova_link() API to map PCI P2P MMIO without creating struct page

   Developped by Leon Romanovsky and Jason Gunthorpe

 - Minor clean-up by Petr Tesarik and Qianfeng Rong

* tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux:
  kmsan: fix missed kmsan_handle_dma() signature conversion
  mm/hmm: properly take MMIO path
  mm/hmm: migrate to physical address-based DMA mapping API
  dma-mapping: export new dma_*map_phys() interface
  xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback
  dma-mapping: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_(un)map_page_attrs()
  kmsan: convert kmsan_handle_dma to use physical addresses
  dma-mapping: convert dma_direct_*map_page to be phys_addr_t based
  iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for iommu_dma_(un)map_phys()
  iommu/dma: rename iommu_dma_*map_page to iommu_dma_*map_phys
  dma-mapping: rename trace_dma_*map_page to trace_dma_*map_phys
  dma-debug: refactor to use physical addresses for page mapping
  iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_iova_link().
  dma-mapping: introduce new DMA attribute to indicate MMIO memory
  swiotlb: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  dma-direct: clean up the logic in __dma_direct_alloc_pages()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6c7340a7a8d2b6ecad1ad108f6daa73ba1dc082f'/>
<id>6c7340a7a8d2b6ecad1ad108f6daa73ba1dc082f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T02:28:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T02:28:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=417552999d0b6681ac30e117ae890828ca7e46b3'/>
<id>417552999d0b6681ac30e117ae890828ca7e46b3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics

 - Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains)

 - Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath

 - Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths

 - Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver

 - Fixes for handling TLB misses

 - Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe

 - Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira
Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence,
Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao,
Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters,
Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas
Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao
Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct
  genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free()
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data
  docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu
  powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf
  powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor
  powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
  powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer
  powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
  powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter
  powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs
  powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs
  powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs
  powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler
  powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration
  powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS
  powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics

 - Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains)

 - Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath

 - Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths

 - Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver

 - Fixes for handling TLB misses

 - Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe

 - Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira
Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence,
Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao,
Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters,
Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas
Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao
Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct
  genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free()
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data
  docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu
  powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf
  powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor
  powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
  powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer
  powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
  powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter
  powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs
  powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs
  powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs
  powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler
  powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration
  powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS
  powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T17:36:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T17:36:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=722df25ddf4f13e303dcc4cd65b3df5b197a79e6'/>
<id>722df25ddf4f13e303dcc4cd65b3df5b197a79e6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) &lt; sizeof(u64)
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) &lt; sizeof(u64)
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T07:57:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-17T06:09:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=35561bab768977c9e05f1f1a9bc00134c85f3e28'/>
<id>35561bab768977c9e05f1f1a9bc00134c85f3e28</id>
<content type='text'>
The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during
compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to
generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can
happen.

For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h,
which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h
first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c
and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first,
it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included
by it.

In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular
dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the
COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h".

And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<pre>
The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during
compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to
generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can
happen.

For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h,
which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h
first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c
and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first,
it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included
by it.

In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular
dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the
COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h".

And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor</title>
<updated>2025-09-22T09:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aboorva Devarajan</name>
<email>aboorvad@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-15T10:29:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2dc019ca39347f76891d34a992b67258078aa45d'/>
<id>2dc019ca39347f76891d34a992b67258078aa45d</id>
<content type='text'>
- Define accessor function get_boot_tb() to safely return boot_tb value,
  this is only needed when running in SPLPAR environments, so the
  accessor is built conditionally under CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR.

- Tag boot_tb as __ro_after_init since it is written once at initialized
  and never updated afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas &lt;tejas05@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-2-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
- Define accessor function get_boot_tb() to safely return boot_tb value,
  this is only needed when running in SPLPAR environments, so the
  accessor is built conditionally under CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR.

- Tag boot_tb as __ro_after_init since it is written once at initialized
  and never updated afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas &lt;tejas05@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-2-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T10:43:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aditya Bodkhe</name>
<email>adityab1@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-16T04:40:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d733f18a6da6fb719450d5122162556d785ed580'/>
<id>d733f18a6da6fb719450d5122162556d785ed580</id>
<content type='text'>
commit a1be9ccc57f0 ("function_graph: Support recording and printing the
return value of function") introduced support for function graph return
value tracing.

Additionally, commit a3ed4157b7d8 ("fgraph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with
ftrace_regs") further refactored and optimized the implementation,
making `struct fgraph_ret_regs` unnecessary.

This patch enables the above modifications for powerpc all, ensuring that
function graph return value tracing is available on this architecture.

In this patch we have redefined two functions:
- 'ftrace_regs_get_return_value()' - the existing implementation on
ppc returns -ve of return value based on some conditions not
relevant to our patch.
- 'ftrace_regs_get_frame_pointer()' - always returns 0 in current code .

We also allocate stack space to equivalent of 'SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE',
allowing us to directly use predefined offsets like 'GPR3' and 'GPR4'
this keeps code clean and consistent with already defined offsets .

After this patch, v6.14+ kernel can also be built with FPROBE on powerpc
but there are a few other build and runtime dependencies for FPROBE to
work properly. The next patch addresses them.

Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aditya Bodkhe &lt;adityab1@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916044035.29033-1-adityab1@linux.ibm.com

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commit a1be9ccc57f0 ("function_graph: Support recording and printing the
return value of function") introduced support for function graph return
value tracing.

Additionally, commit a3ed4157b7d8 ("fgraph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with
ftrace_regs") further refactored and optimized the implementation,
making `struct fgraph_ret_regs` unnecessary.

This patch enables the above modifications for powerpc all, ensuring that
function graph return value tracing is available on this architecture.

In this patch we have redefined two functions:
- 'ftrace_regs_get_return_value()' - the existing implementation on
ppc returns -ve of return value based on some conditions not
relevant to our patch.
- 'ftrace_regs_get_frame_pointer()' - always returns 0 in current code .

We also allocate stack space to equivalent of 'SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE',
allowing us to directly use predefined offsets like 'GPR3' and 'GPR4'
this keeps code clean and consistent with already defined offsets .

After this patch, v6.14+ kernel can also be built with FPROBE on powerpc
but there are a few other build and runtime dependencies for FPROBE to
work properly. The next patch addresses them.

Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aditya Bodkhe &lt;adityab1@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916044035.29033-1-adityab1@linux.ibm.com

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<title>powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter</title>
<updated>2025-09-15T11:10:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Lawrence</name>
<email>joe.lawrence@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-09-12T14:27:40+00:00</published>
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The logic for allocating ppc64_stub_entry trampolines in the .stubs
section relies on an inline sentinel, where a NULL .funcdata member
indicates an available slot.

While preceding commits fixed the initialization bugs that led to ftrace
stub corruption, the sentinel-based approach remains fragile: it depends
on an implicit convention between subsystems modifying different
struct types in the same memory area.

Replace the sentinel with an explicit counter, module-&gt;arch.num_stubs.
Instead of iterating through memory to find a NULL marker, the module
loader uses this counter as the boundary for the next free slot.

This simplifies the allocation code, hardens it against future changes
to stub structures, and removes the need for an extra relocation slot
previously reserved to terminate the sentinel search.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912142740.3581368-4-joe.lawrence@redhat.com

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The logic for allocating ppc64_stub_entry trampolines in the .stubs
section relies on an inline sentinel, where a NULL .funcdata member
indicates an available slot.

While preceding commits fixed the initialization bugs that led to ftrace
stub corruption, the sentinel-based approach remains fragile: it depends
on an implicit convention between subsystems modifying different
struct types in the same memory area.

Replace the sentinel with an explicit counter, module-&gt;arch.num_stubs.
Instead of iterating through memory to find a NULL marker, the module
loader uses this counter as the boundary for the next free slot.

This simplifies the allocation code, hardens it against future changes
to stub structures, and removes the need for an extra relocation slot
previously reserved to terminate the sentinel search.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912142740.3581368-4-joe.lawrence@redhat.com

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