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<title>fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:08:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-23T07:01:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e43dce8a0bc09083ea1145a1a0c61d83cbe72d97 ]

The "small" argument to do_sys_ftruncate indicates if &gt; 32-bit size
should be reject, but all the arch-specific compat ftruncate64
implementations get this wrong.  Merge do_sys_ftruncate and
ksys_ftruncate, replace the integer as boolean small flag with a
descriptive one about LFS semantics, and use it correctly in the
architecture-specific ftruncate64 implementations.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 3dd681d944f6 ("arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323070205.2939118-2-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e43dce8a0bc09083ea1145a1a0c61d83cbe72d97 ]

The "small" argument to do_sys_ftruncate indicates if &gt; 32-bit size
should be reject, but all the arch-specific compat ftruncate64
implementations get this wrong.  Merge do_sys_ftruncate and
ksys_ftruncate, replace the integer as boolean small flag with a
descriptive one about LFS semantics, and use it correctly in the
architecture-specific ftruncate64 implementations.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 3dd681d944f6 ("arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323070205.2939118-2-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2026-03-07T04:27:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-07T04:27:13+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild fixes from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Split out .modinfo section from ELF_DETAILS macro, as that macro may
   be used in other areas that expect to discard .modinfo, breaking
   certain image layouts

 - Adjust genksyms parser to handle optional attributes in certain
   declarations, necessary after commit 07919126ecfc ("netfilter:
   annotate NAT helper hook pointers with __rcu")

 - Include resolve_btfids in external module build created by
   scripts/package/install-extmod-build when it may be run on external
   modules

 - Avoid removing objtool binary with 'make clean', as it is required
   for external module builds

* tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
  kbuild: Leave objtool binary around with 'make clean'
  kbuild: install-extmod-build: Package resolve_btfids if necessary
  genksyms: Fix parsing a declarator with a preceding attribute
  kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS
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Pull Kbuild fixes from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Split out .modinfo section from ELF_DETAILS macro, as that macro may
   be used in other areas that expect to discard .modinfo, breaking
   certain image layouts

 - Adjust genksyms parser to handle optional attributes in certain
   declarations, necessary after commit 07919126ecfc ("netfilter:
   annotate NAT helper hook pointers with __rcu")

 - Include resolve_btfids in external module build created by
   scripts/package/install-extmod-build when it may be run on external
   modules

 - Avoid removing objtool binary with 'make clean', as it is required
   for external module builds

* tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
  kbuild: Leave objtool binary around with 'make clean'
  kbuild: install-extmod-build: Package resolve_btfids if necessary
  genksyms: Fix parsing a declarator with a preceding attribute
  kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v7.0-fixes-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T21:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-06T21:37:52+00:00</published>
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Pull pci fixes from Bjorn Helgaas:

 - Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices to fix sparc and
   powerpc probe regressions (Nilay Shroff)

 - Orphan the Altera PCIe controller driver (Dave Hansen)

* tag 'pci-v7.0-fixes-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci:
  MAINTAINERS: Orphan Altera PCIe controller driver
  sparc/PCI: Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices
  powerpc/pci: Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices
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Pull pci fixes from Bjorn Helgaas:

 - Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices to fix sparc and
   powerpc probe regressions (Nilay Shroff)

 - Orphan the Altera PCIe controller driver (Dave Hansen)

* tag 'pci-v7.0-fixes-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci:
  MAINTAINERS: Orphan Altera PCIe controller driver
  sparc/PCI: Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices
  powerpc/pci: Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc/PCI: Initialize msi_addr_mask for OF-created PCI devices</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T16:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nilay Shroff</name>
<email>nilay@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-20T07:02:28+00:00</published>
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Recent changes replaced the use of no_64bit_msi with msi_addr_mask, which
is now expected to be initialized to DMA_BIT_MASK(64) during PCI device
setup. On SPARC systems, this initialization was inadvertently missed for
devices instantiated from device tree nodes, leaving msi_addr_mask unset
for OF-created pci_dev instances. As a result, MSI address validation fails
during probe, causing affected devices to fail initialization.

Initialize pdev-&gt;msi_addr_mask to DMA_BIT_MASK(64) in of_create_pci_dev()
so that MSI address validation succeeds and PCI device probing works as
expected.

Fixes: 386ced19e9a3 ("PCI/MSI: Convert the boolean no_64bit_msi flag to a DMA address mask")
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Han Gao &lt;gaohan@iscas.ac.cn&gt; # SPARC Enterprise T5220
Tested-by: Nathaniel Roach &lt;nroach44@nroach44.id.au&gt; # SPARC T5-2
Reviewed-by: Vivian Wang &lt;wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220070239.1693303-3-nilay@linux.ibm.com
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Recent changes replaced the use of no_64bit_msi with msi_addr_mask, which
is now expected to be initialized to DMA_BIT_MASK(64) during PCI device
setup. On SPARC systems, this initialization was inadvertently missed for
devices instantiated from device tree nodes, leaving msi_addr_mask unset
for OF-created pci_dev instances. As a result, MSI address validation fails
during probe, causing affected devices to fail initialization.

Initialize pdev-&gt;msi_addr_mask to DMA_BIT_MASK(64) in of_create_pci_dev()
so that MSI address validation succeeds and PCI device probing works as
expected.

Fixes: 386ced19e9a3 ("PCI/MSI: Convert the boolean no_64bit_msi flag to a DMA address mask")
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Han Gao &lt;gaohan@iscas.ac.cn&gt; # SPARC Enterprise T5220
Tested-by: Nathaniel Roach &lt;nroach44@nroach44.id.au&gt; # SPARC T5-2
Reviewed-by: Vivian Wang &lt;wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260220070239.1693303-3-nilay@linux.ibm.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Fix page alignment in dma mapping</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T07:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stian Halseth</name>
<email>stian@itx.no</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-18T12:00:24+00:00</published>
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'phys' may include an offset within the page, while previously used
'base_paddr' was already page-aligned. This caused incorrect DMA mapping
in dma_4u_map_phys and dma_4v_map_phys.

Fix both functions by masking 'phys' with IO_PAGE_MASK, covering both
generic SPARC code and sun4v.

Fixes: 38c0d0ebf520 ("sparc: Use physical address DMA mapping")
Reported-by: Stian Halseth &lt;stian@itx.no&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/75
Suggested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stian Halseth &lt;stian@itx.no&gt;
Tested-by: Nathaniel Roach &lt;nroach44@nroach44.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Han Gao &lt;gaohan@iscas.ac.cn&gt; # on SPARC Enterprise T5220
[mszyprow: adjusted commit description a bit]
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260218120056.3366-2-stian@itx.no
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'phys' may include an offset within the page, while previously used
'base_paddr' was already page-aligned. This caused incorrect DMA mapping
in dma_4u_map_phys and dma_4v_map_phys.

Fix both functions by masking 'phys' with IO_PAGE_MASK, covering both
generic SPARC code and sun4v.

Fixes: 38c0d0ebf520 ("sparc: Use physical address DMA mapping")
Reported-by: Stian Halseth &lt;stian@itx.no&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/75
Suggested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stian Halseth &lt;stian@itx.no&gt;
Tested-by: Nathaniel Roach &lt;nroach44@nroach44.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Han Gao &lt;gaohan@iscas.ac.cn&gt; # on SPARC Enterprise T5220
[mszyprow: adjusted commit description a bit]
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260218120056.3366-2-stian@itx.no
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43'/>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f'/>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T20:50:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-10T20:50:10+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Scheduler Kconfig space updates:

   - Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra)

     Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
     PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of
     preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on
     up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390,
     x86).

     None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on
     platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't
     even support preemption.

     The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary
     preemption altogether.

  RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner
  and Peter Zijlstra):

  This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters
  a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread
  is scheduled out inside of the critical section.

   - Add fields and constants for time slice extension
   - Provide static branch for time slice extensions
   - Add statistics for time slice extensions
   - Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
   - Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
   - Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
   - Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
   - Reset slice extension when scheduled
   - Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
   - entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
   - selftests: Implement time slice extension test
   - Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
   - Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
   - Lower default slice extension
   - selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script

  Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:

   - Update rq-&gt;avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which
     improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik)

   - Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones)

   - Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde):
      - Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
      - Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
      - Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead

   - Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)

   - Cleanups (Yury Norov):
      - Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
      - Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
      - Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()

  DL scheduler updates:

   - Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel
     Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)

  RT scheduler updates:

   - Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)

  Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan)

  This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter-
  dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work:

    - Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
    - Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
    - Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
    - Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()

  Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra):

   - Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
   - Avoid rq-&gt;lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
   - Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =&gt;
            rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
   - &lt;linux/compiler_types.h&gt;: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper

  Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar):

   - Fold the sched_avg update
   - Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
   - Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
   - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
   - Limit hrtick work
   - Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
   - Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
   - Separate se-&gt;vlag from se-&gt;vprot
   - Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
   - Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime &amp; helper functions
   - Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for
     wrapped-signed aritmetics
   - Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise

  Scheduler debugging code updates:

   - Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)

   - Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
     (Fushuai Wang)

   - Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)

   - hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

   - Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled
     cgroups (Zicheng Qu)

   - Remove task_struct-&gt;faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)

   - sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
     (zenghongling)"

* tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups
  sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
  sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu()
  sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime
  selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency
  selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server
  sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions
  sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params
  sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks
  sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active
  sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops
  sched/deadline: Clear the defer params
  entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
  entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
  entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
  entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
  sched: remove task_struct-&gt;faults_disabled_mapping
  sched: Update rq-&gt;avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU
  selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
  hrtimer: Fix trace oddity
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Scheduler Kconfig space updates:

   - Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra)

     Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
     PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of
     preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on
     up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390,
     x86).

     None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on
     platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't
     even support preemption.

     The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary
     preemption altogether.

  RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner
  and Peter Zijlstra):

  This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters
  a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread
  is scheduled out inside of the critical section.

   - Add fields and constants for time slice extension
   - Provide static branch for time slice extensions
   - Add statistics for time slice extensions
   - Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
   - Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
   - Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
   - Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
   - Reset slice extension when scheduled
   - Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
   - entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
   - selftests: Implement time slice extension test
   - Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
   - Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
   - Lower default slice extension
   - selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script

  Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:

   - Update rq-&gt;avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which
     improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik)

   - Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones)

   - Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde):
      - Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
      - Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
      - Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead

   - Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)

   - Cleanups (Yury Norov):
      - Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
      - Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
      - Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()

  DL scheduler updates:

   - Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel
     Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)

  RT scheduler updates:

   - Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)

  Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan)

  This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter-
  dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work:

    - Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
    - Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
    - Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
    - Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()

  Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra):

   - Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
   - Avoid rq-&gt;lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
   - Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =&gt;
            rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
   - &lt;linux/compiler_types.h&gt;: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper

  Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar):

   - Fold the sched_avg update
   - Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
   - Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
   - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
   - Limit hrtick work
   - Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
   - Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
   - Separate se-&gt;vlag from se-&gt;vprot
   - Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
   - Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime &amp; helper functions
   - Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for
     wrapped-signed aritmetics
   - Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise

  Scheduler debugging code updates:

   - Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)

   - Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
     (Fushuai Wang)

   - Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)

   - hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

   - Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled
     cgroups (Zicheng Qu)

   - Remove task_struct-&gt;faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)

   - sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
     (zenghongling)"

* tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups
  sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
  sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu()
  sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime
  selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency
  selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server
  sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions
  sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params
  sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks
  sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active
  sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops
  sched/deadline: Clear the defer params
  entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
  entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
  entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
  entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
  sched: remove task_struct-&gt;faults_disabled_mapping
  sched: Update rq-&gt;avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU
  selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
  hrtimer: Fix trace oddity
  ...
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