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<title>Merge tag 'core-entry-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-08-18T22:00:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-08-18T22:00:56+00:00</published>
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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()
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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()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch: hookup fchroot() system call</title>
<updated>2026-07-27T15:18:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-24T13:41:21+00:00</published>
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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) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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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) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ptrace, treewide: Rename ptrace_report_syscall_entry() to ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry()</title>
<updated>2026-07-12T10:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-07T19:06:44+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec &lt;radu@rendec.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.280015701@kernel.org
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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 &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec &lt;radu@rendec.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.280015701@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>seccomp, treewide: Rename and convert __secure_computing() to return boolean</title>
<updated>2026-07-12T10:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jinjie Ruan</name>
<email>ruanjinjie@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-07T19:06:40+00:00</published>
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The return value of __secure_computing() currently uses 0 to indicate
that a system call should be allowed, and -1 to indicate that it should
be blocked/killed. This 0/-1 pattern is non-intuitive for a security
check function and makes the control flow at the call sites less readable.

Furthermore, any potential future changes to these return values would
require a high-risk, error-prone audit of all its users across different
architectures.

Sanitize this logic by converting the return type of __secure_computing()
to a proper boolean, where 'true' explicitly means 'allow' and 'false'
means 'fail/deny'.

Update all the two dozen or so call sites across the tree to align with
this new boolean semantic. No functional changes are intended, as the
callers still return -1 to the lower-level assembly entry code upon
seccomp denial.

Rename the function to __seccomp_permit_syscall() so that the purpose is
entirely clear.

[ tglx: Rename the function ]

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.230735780@kernel.org
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The return value of __secure_computing() currently uses 0 to indicate
that a system call should be allowed, and -1 to indicate that it should
be blocked/killed. This 0/-1 pattern is non-intuitive for a security
check function and makes the control flow at the call sites less readable.

Furthermore, any potential future changes to these return values would
require a high-risk, error-prone audit of all its users across different
architectures.

Sanitize this logic by converting the return type of __secure_computing()
to a proper boolean, where 'true' explicitly means 'allow' and 'false'
means 'fail/deny'.

Update all the two dozen or so call sites across the tree to align with
this new boolean semantic. No functional changes are intended, as the
callers still return -1 to the lower-level assembly entry code upon
seccomp denial.

Rename the function to __seccomp_permit_syscall() so that the purpose is
entirely clear.

[ tglx: Rename the function ]

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) &lt;mkchauras@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.230735780@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>genirq/proc: Increase default interrupt number precision to four</title>
<updated>2026-05-26T14:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-17T20:02:29+00:00</published>
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Quite some architectures have four character wide acronyms for architecture
specific interrupts like IPI, NMI, etc.

The default precision of printing the Linux device interrupt numbers is
three, which causes quite some code to play games with adding or omitting
space after the acronym and the colon in order to keep the per CPU numbers
properly aligned.

Increase the default number precision to four in the core code and get rid
of the space games all over the place. At the same time align all
architecture specific descriptor texts left so that they show up in the
same column as the interrupt chip names, which makes the output more
uniform accross architectures. Fix up the GDB script to this new scheme as
well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.839482411@kernel.org
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Quite some architectures have four character wide acronyms for architecture
specific interrupts like IPI, NMI, etc.

The default precision of printing the Linux device interrupt numbers is
three, which causes quite some code to play games with adding or omitting
space after the acronym and the colon in order to keep the per CPU numbers
properly aligned.

Increase the default number precision to four in the core code and get rid
of the space games all over the place. At the same time align all
architecture specific descriptor texts left so that they show up in the
same column as the interrupt chip names, which makes the output more
uniform accross architectures. Fix up the GDB script to this new scheme as
well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.839482411@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v7.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T21:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T21:41:21+00:00</published>
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Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Enumeration:

   - Allow TLP Processing Hints to be enabled for RCiEPs (George Abraham
     P)

   - Enable AtomicOps only if we know the Root Port supports them (Gerd
     Bayer)

   - Don't enable AtomicOps for RCiEPs since none of them need Atomic
     Ops and we can't tell whether the Root Complex would support them
     (Gerd Bayer)

   - Leave Precision Time Measurement disabled until a driver enables it
     to avoid PCIe errors (Mika Westerberg)

   - Make pci_set_vga_state() fail if bridge doesn't support VGA
     routing, i.e., PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA is not writable, and return
     errors to vga_get() callers including userspace via
     /dev/vga_arbiter (Simon Richter)

   - Validate max-link-speed from DT in j721e, brcmstb, mediatek-gen3,
     rzg3s drivers (where the actual controller constraints are known),
     and remove validation from the generic OF DT accessor (Hans Zhang)

   - Remove pc110pad driver (no longer useful after 486 CPU support
     removed) and no_pci_devices() (pc110pad was the last user) (Dmitry
     Torokhov, Heiner Kallweit)

  Resource management:

   - Prevent assigning space to unimplemented bridge windows; previously
     we mistakenly assumed prefetchable window existed and assigned
     space and put a BAR there (Ahmed Naseef)

   - Avoid shrinking bridge windows to fit in the initial Root Port
     window; fixes one problem with devices with large BARs connected
     via switches, e.g., Thunderbolt (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Pass full extent of empty space, not just the aligned space, to
     resource_alignf callback so free space before the requested
     alignment can be used (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Place small resources before larger ones for better utilization of
     address space (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Fix alignment calculation for resource size larger than align,
     e.g., bridge windows larger than the 1MB required alignment (Ilpo
     Järvinen)

  Reset:

   - Update slot handling so all ARI functions are treated as being in
     the same slot. They're all reset by Secondary Bus Reset, but
     previously drivers of ARI functions that appeared to be on a
     non-zero device weren't notified and fatal hardware errors could
     result (Keith Busch)

   - Make sysfs reset_subordinate hotplug safe to avoid spurious hotplug
     events (Keith Busch)

   - Hide Secondary Bus Reset ('bus') from sysfs reset_methods if masked
     by CXL because it has no effect (Vidya Sagar)

   - Avoid FLR for AMD NPU device, where it causes the device to hang
     (Lizhi Hou)

  Error handling:

   - Clear only error bits in PCIe Device Status to avoid accidentally
     clearing Emergency Power Reduction Detected (Shuai Xue)

   - Check for AER errors even in devices without drivers (Lukas Wunner)

   - Initialize ratelimit info so DPC and EDR paths log AER error
     information (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan)

  Power control:

   - Add UPD720201/UPD720202 USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller .compatible so
     generic pwrctrl driver can control it (Neil Armstrong)

  Hotplug:

   - Set LED_HW_PLUGGABLE for NPEM hotplug-capable ports so LED core
     doesn't complain when setting brightness fails because the endpoint
     is gone (Richard Cheng)

  Peer-to-peer DMA:

   - Allow wildcards in list of host bridges that support peer-to-peer
     DMA between hierarchy domains and add all Google SoCs (Jacob
     Moroni)

  Endpoint framework:

   - Advertise dynamic inbound mapping support in pci-epf-test and
     update host pci_endpoint_test to skip doorbell testing if not
     advertised by endpoint (Koichiro Den)

   - Return 0, not remaining timeout, when MHI eDMA ops complete so
     mhi_ep_ring_add_element() doesn't interpret non-zero as failure
     (Daniel Hodges)

   - Remove vntb and ntb duplicate resource teardown that leads to oops
     when .allow_link() fails or .drop_link() is called (Koichiro Den)

   - Disable vntb delayed work before clearing BAR mappings and
     doorbells to avoid oops caused by doing the work after resources
     have been torn down (Koichiro Den)

   - Add a way to describe reserved subregions within BARs, e.g.,
     platform-owned fixed register windows, and use it for the RK3588
     BAR4 DMA ctrl window (Koichiro Den)

   - Add BAR_DISABLED for BARs that will never be available to an EPF
     driver, and change some BAR_RESERVED annotations to BAR_DISABLED
     (Niklas Cassel)

   - Add NTB .get_dma_dev() callback for cases where DMA API requires a
     different device, e.g., vNTB devices (Koichiro Den)

   - Add reserved region types for MSI-X Table and PBA so Endpoint
     controllers can them as describe hardware-owned regions in a
     BAR_RESERVED BAR (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Make Tegra194/234 BAR0 programmable and remove 1MB size limit
     (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Expose Tegra BAR2 (MSI-X) and BAR4 (DMA) as 64-bit BAR_RESERVED
     (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Add Tegra194 and Tegra234 device table entries to pci_endpoint_test
     (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Skip the BAR subrange selftest if there are not enough inbound
     window resources to run the test (Christian Bruel)

  New native PCIe controller drivers:

   - Add DT binding and driver for Andes QiLai SoC PCIe host controller
     (Randolph Lin)

   - Add DT binding and driver for ESWIN PCIe Root Complex (Senchuan
     Zhang)

  Baikal T-1 PCIe controller driver:

   - Remove driver since it never quite became usable (Andy Shevchenko)

  Cadence PCIe controller driver:

   - Implement byte/word config reads with dword (32-bit) reads because
     some Cadence controllers don't support sub-dword accesses (Aksh
     Garg)

  CIX Sky1 PCIe controller driver:

   - Add 'power-domains' to DT binding for SCMI power domain (Gary Yang)

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Add i.MX94 and i.MX943 to fsl,imx6q-pcie-ep DT binding (Richard
     Zhu)

   - Delay instead of polling for L2/L3 Ready after PME_Turn_off when
     suspending i.MX6SX because LTSSM registers are inaccessible
     (Richard Zhu)

   - Separate PERST# assertion (for resetting endpoints) from core reset
     (for resetting the RC itself) to prepare for new DTs with PERST#
     GPIO in per-Root Port nodes (Sherry Sun)

   - Retain Root Port MSI capability on i.MX7D, i.MX8MM, and i.MX8MQ so
     MSI from downstream devices will work (Richard Zhu)

   - Fix i.MX95 reference clock source selection when internal refclk is
     used (Franz Schnyder)

  Freescale Layerscape PCIe controller driver:

   - Allow building as a removable module (Sascha Hauer)

  MediaTek PCIe Gen3 controller driver:

   - Use dev_err_probe() to simplify error paths and make deferred probe
     messages visible in /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred (Chen-Yu
     Tsai)

   - Power off device if setup fails (Chen-Yu Tsai)

   - Integrate new pwrctrl API to enable power control for WiFi/BT
     adapters on mainboard or in PCIe or M.2 slots (Chen-Yu Tsai)

  NVIDIA Tegra194 PCIe controller driver:

   - Poll less aggressively and non-atomically for PME_TO_Ack during
     transition to L2 (Vidya Sagar)

   - Disable LTSSM after transition to Detect on surprise link down to
     stop toggling between Polling and Detect (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Don't force the device into the D0 state before L2 when suspending
     or shutting down the controller (Vidya Sagar)

   - Disable PERST# IRQ only in Endpoint mode because it's not
     registered in Root Port mode (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Handle 'nvidia,refclk-select' as optional (Vidya Sagar)

   - Disable direct speed change in Endpoint mode so link speed change
     is controlled by the host (Vidya Sagar)

   - Set LTR values before link up to avoid bogus LTR messages with 0
     latency (Vidya Sagar)

   - Allow system suspend when the Endpoint link is down (Vidya Sagar)

   - Use DWC IP core version, not Tegra custom values, to avoid DWC core
     version check warnings (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Apply ECRC workaround to devices based on DesignWare 5.00a as well
     as 4.90a (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Disable PM Substate L1.2 in Endpoint mode to work around Tegra234
     erratum (Vidya Sagar)

   - Delay post-PERST# cleanup until core is powered on to avoid CBB
     timeout (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Assert CLKREQ# so switches that forward it to their downstream side
     can bring up those links successfully (Vidya Sagar)

   - Calibrate pipe to UPHY for Endpoint mode to reset stale PLL state
     from any previous bad link state (Vidya Sagar)

   - Remove IRQF_ONESHOT flag from Endpoint interrupt registration so
     DMA driver and Endpoint controller driver can share the interrupt
     line (Vidya Sagar)

   - Enable DMA interrupt to support DMA in both Root Port and Endpoint
     modes (Vidya Sagar)

   - Enable hardware link retraining after link goes down in Endpoint
     mode (Vidya Sagar)

   - Add DT binding and driver support for core clock monitoring (Vidya
     Sagar)

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Advertise 'Hot-Plug Capable' and set 'No Command Completed Support'
     since Qcom Root Ports support hotplug events like DL_Up/Down and
     can accept writes to Slot Control without delays between writes
     (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

  Renesas R-Car PCIe controller driver:

   - Mark Endpoint BAR0 and BAR2 as Resizable (Koichiro Den)

   - Reduce EPC BAR alignment requirement to 4K (Koichiro Den)

  Renesas RZ/G3S PCIe controller driver:

   - Add RZ/G3E to DT binding and to driver (John Madieu)

   - Assert (not deassert) resets in probe error path (John Madieu)

   - Assert resets in suspend path in reverse order they were deasserted
     during probe (John Madieu)

   - Rework inbound window algorithm to prevent mapping more than
     intended region and enforce alignment on size, to prepare for
     RZ/G3E support (John Madieu)

  Rockchip DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Add tracepoints for PCIe controller LTSSM transitions and link rate
     changes (Shawn Lin)

   - Trace LTSSM events collected by the dw-rockchip debug FIFO (Shawn
     Lin)

  SOPHGO PCIe controller driver:

   - Disable ASPM L0s and L1 on Sophgo 2042 PCIe Root Ports that
     advertise support for them (Yao Zi)

  Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Continue with system suspend even if an Endpoint doesn't respond
     with PME_TO_Ack message (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Set Endpoint MSI-X Table Size in the correct function of a
     multi-function device when configuring MSI-X, not in Function 0
     (Aksh Garg)

   - Set Max Link Width and Max Link Speed for all functions of a
     multi-function device, not just Function 0 (Aksh Garg)

   - Expose PCIe event counters in groups 5-7 in debugfs (Hans Zhang)

  Miscellaneous:

   - Warn only once about invalid ACS kernel parameter format (Richard
     Cheng)

   - Suppress FW_BUG warning when writing sysfs 'numa_node' with the
     current value (Li RongQing)

   - Drop redundant 'depends on PCI' from Kconfig (Julian Braha)"

* tag 'pci-v7.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (165 commits)
  PCI/P2PDMA: Add Google SoCs to the P2P DMA host bridge list
  PCI/P2PDMA: Allow wildcard Device IDs in host bridge list
  PCI: sg2042: Avoid L0s and L1 on Sophgo 2042 PCIe Root Ports
  PCI: cadence: Add flags for disabling ASPM capability for broken Root Ports
  PCI: tegra194: Add core monitor clock support
  dt-bindings: PCI: tegra194: Add monitor clock support
  PCI: tegra194: Enable hardware hot reset mode in Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Enable DMA interrupt
  PCI: tegra194: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT flag during Endpoint interrupt registration
  PCI: tegra194: Calibrate pipe to UPHY for Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Assert CLKREQ# explicitly by default
  PCI: tegra194: Fix CBB timeout caused by DBI access before core power-on
  PCI: tegra194: Disable L1.2 capability of Tegra234 EP
  PCI: dwc: Apply ECRC workaround to DesignWare 5.00a as well
  PCI: tegra194: Use DWC IP core version
  PCI: tegra194: Free up Endpoint resources during remove()
  PCI: tegra194: Allow system suspend when the Endpoint link is not up
  PCI: tegra194: Set LTR message request before PCIe link up in Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Disable direct speed change for Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Use devm_gpiod_get_optional() to parse "nvidia,refclk-select"
  ...
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<pre>
Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Enumeration:

   - Allow TLP Processing Hints to be enabled for RCiEPs (George Abraham
     P)

   - Enable AtomicOps only if we know the Root Port supports them (Gerd
     Bayer)

   - Don't enable AtomicOps for RCiEPs since none of them need Atomic
     Ops and we can't tell whether the Root Complex would support them
     (Gerd Bayer)

   - Leave Precision Time Measurement disabled until a driver enables it
     to avoid PCIe errors (Mika Westerberg)

   - Make pci_set_vga_state() fail if bridge doesn't support VGA
     routing, i.e., PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA is not writable, and return
     errors to vga_get() callers including userspace via
     /dev/vga_arbiter (Simon Richter)

   - Validate max-link-speed from DT in j721e, brcmstb, mediatek-gen3,
     rzg3s drivers (where the actual controller constraints are known),
     and remove validation from the generic OF DT accessor (Hans Zhang)

   - Remove pc110pad driver (no longer useful after 486 CPU support
     removed) and no_pci_devices() (pc110pad was the last user) (Dmitry
     Torokhov, Heiner Kallweit)

  Resource management:

   - Prevent assigning space to unimplemented bridge windows; previously
     we mistakenly assumed prefetchable window existed and assigned
     space and put a BAR there (Ahmed Naseef)

   - Avoid shrinking bridge windows to fit in the initial Root Port
     window; fixes one problem with devices with large BARs connected
     via switches, e.g., Thunderbolt (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Pass full extent of empty space, not just the aligned space, to
     resource_alignf callback so free space before the requested
     alignment can be used (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Place small resources before larger ones for better utilization of
     address space (Ilpo Järvinen)

   - Fix alignment calculation for resource size larger than align,
     e.g., bridge windows larger than the 1MB required alignment (Ilpo
     Järvinen)

  Reset:

   - Update slot handling so all ARI functions are treated as being in
     the same slot. They're all reset by Secondary Bus Reset, but
     previously drivers of ARI functions that appeared to be on a
     non-zero device weren't notified and fatal hardware errors could
     result (Keith Busch)

   - Make sysfs reset_subordinate hotplug safe to avoid spurious hotplug
     events (Keith Busch)

   - Hide Secondary Bus Reset ('bus') from sysfs reset_methods if masked
     by CXL because it has no effect (Vidya Sagar)

   - Avoid FLR for AMD NPU device, where it causes the device to hang
     (Lizhi Hou)

  Error handling:

   - Clear only error bits in PCIe Device Status to avoid accidentally
     clearing Emergency Power Reduction Detected (Shuai Xue)

   - Check for AER errors even in devices without drivers (Lukas Wunner)

   - Initialize ratelimit info so DPC and EDR paths log AER error
     information (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan)

  Power control:

   - Add UPD720201/UPD720202 USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller .compatible so
     generic pwrctrl driver can control it (Neil Armstrong)

  Hotplug:

   - Set LED_HW_PLUGGABLE for NPEM hotplug-capable ports so LED core
     doesn't complain when setting brightness fails because the endpoint
     is gone (Richard Cheng)

  Peer-to-peer DMA:

   - Allow wildcards in list of host bridges that support peer-to-peer
     DMA between hierarchy domains and add all Google SoCs (Jacob
     Moroni)

  Endpoint framework:

   - Advertise dynamic inbound mapping support in pci-epf-test and
     update host pci_endpoint_test to skip doorbell testing if not
     advertised by endpoint (Koichiro Den)

   - Return 0, not remaining timeout, when MHI eDMA ops complete so
     mhi_ep_ring_add_element() doesn't interpret non-zero as failure
     (Daniel Hodges)

   - Remove vntb and ntb duplicate resource teardown that leads to oops
     when .allow_link() fails or .drop_link() is called (Koichiro Den)

   - Disable vntb delayed work before clearing BAR mappings and
     doorbells to avoid oops caused by doing the work after resources
     have been torn down (Koichiro Den)

   - Add a way to describe reserved subregions within BARs, e.g.,
     platform-owned fixed register windows, and use it for the RK3588
     BAR4 DMA ctrl window (Koichiro Den)

   - Add BAR_DISABLED for BARs that will never be available to an EPF
     driver, and change some BAR_RESERVED annotations to BAR_DISABLED
     (Niklas Cassel)

   - Add NTB .get_dma_dev() callback for cases where DMA API requires a
     different device, e.g., vNTB devices (Koichiro Den)

   - Add reserved region types for MSI-X Table and PBA so Endpoint
     controllers can them as describe hardware-owned regions in a
     BAR_RESERVED BAR (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Make Tegra194/234 BAR0 programmable and remove 1MB size limit
     (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Expose Tegra BAR2 (MSI-X) and BAR4 (DMA) as 64-bit BAR_RESERVED
     (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Add Tegra194 and Tegra234 device table entries to pci_endpoint_test
     (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Skip the BAR subrange selftest if there are not enough inbound
     window resources to run the test (Christian Bruel)

  New native PCIe controller drivers:

   - Add DT binding and driver for Andes QiLai SoC PCIe host controller
     (Randolph Lin)

   - Add DT binding and driver for ESWIN PCIe Root Complex (Senchuan
     Zhang)

  Baikal T-1 PCIe controller driver:

   - Remove driver since it never quite became usable (Andy Shevchenko)

  Cadence PCIe controller driver:

   - Implement byte/word config reads with dword (32-bit) reads because
     some Cadence controllers don't support sub-dword accesses (Aksh
     Garg)

  CIX Sky1 PCIe controller driver:

   - Add 'power-domains' to DT binding for SCMI power domain (Gary Yang)

  Freescale i.MX6 PCIe controller driver:

   - Add i.MX94 and i.MX943 to fsl,imx6q-pcie-ep DT binding (Richard
     Zhu)

   - Delay instead of polling for L2/L3 Ready after PME_Turn_off when
     suspending i.MX6SX because LTSSM registers are inaccessible
     (Richard Zhu)

   - Separate PERST# assertion (for resetting endpoints) from core reset
     (for resetting the RC itself) to prepare for new DTs with PERST#
     GPIO in per-Root Port nodes (Sherry Sun)

   - Retain Root Port MSI capability on i.MX7D, i.MX8MM, and i.MX8MQ so
     MSI from downstream devices will work (Richard Zhu)

   - Fix i.MX95 reference clock source selection when internal refclk is
     used (Franz Schnyder)

  Freescale Layerscape PCIe controller driver:

   - Allow building as a removable module (Sascha Hauer)

  MediaTek PCIe Gen3 controller driver:

   - Use dev_err_probe() to simplify error paths and make deferred probe
     messages visible in /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred (Chen-Yu
     Tsai)

   - Power off device if setup fails (Chen-Yu Tsai)

   - Integrate new pwrctrl API to enable power control for WiFi/BT
     adapters on mainboard or in PCIe or M.2 slots (Chen-Yu Tsai)

  NVIDIA Tegra194 PCIe controller driver:

   - Poll less aggressively and non-atomically for PME_TO_Ack during
     transition to L2 (Vidya Sagar)

   - Disable LTSSM after transition to Detect on surprise link down to
     stop toggling between Polling and Detect (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Don't force the device into the D0 state before L2 when suspending
     or shutting down the controller (Vidya Sagar)

   - Disable PERST# IRQ only in Endpoint mode because it's not
     registered in Root Port mode (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Handle 'nvidia,refclk-select' as optional (Vidya Sagar)

   - Disable direct speed change in Endpoint mode so link speed change
     is controlled by the host (Vidya Sagar)

   - Set LTR values before link up to avoid bogus LTR messages with 0
     latency (Vidya Sagar)

   - Allow system suspend when the Endpoint link is down (Vidya Sagar)

   - Use DWC IP core version, not Tegra custom values, to avoid DWC core
     version check warnings (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Apply ECRC workaround to devices based on DesignWare 5.00a as well
     as 4.90a (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Disable PM Substate L1.2 in Endpoint mode to work around Tegra234
     erratum (Vidya Sagar)

   - Delay post-PERST# cleanup until core is powered on to avoid CBB
     timeout (Manikanta Maddireddy)

   - Assert CLKREQ# so switches that forward it to their downstream side
     can bring up those links successfully (Vidya Sagar)

   - Calibrate pipe to UPHY for Endpoint mode to reset stale PLL state
     from any previous bad link state (Vidya Sagar)

   - Remove IRQF_ONESHOT flag from Endpoint interrupt registration so
     DMA driver and Endpoint controller driver can share the interrupt
     line (Vidya Sagar)

   - Enable DMA interrupt to support DMA in both Root Port and Endpoint
     modes (Vidya Sagar)

   - Enable hardware link retraining after link goes down in Endpoint
     mode (Vidya Sagar)

   - Add DT binding and driver support for core clock monitoring (Vidya
     Sagar)

  Qualcomm PCIe controller driver:

   - Advertise 'Hot-Plug Capable' and set 'No Command Completed Support'
     since Qcom Root Ports support hotplug events like DL_Up/Down and
     can accept writes to Slot Control without delays between writes
     (Krishna Chaitanya Chundru)

  Renesas R-Car PCIe controller driver:

   - Mark Endpoint BAR0 and BAR2 as Resizable (Koichiro Den)

   - Reduce EPC BAR alignment requirement to 4K (Koichiro Den)

  Renesas RZ/G3S PCIe controller driver:

   - Add RZ/G3E to DT binding and to driver (John Madieu)

   - Assert (not deassert) resets in probe error path (John Madieu)

   - Assert resets in suspend path in reverse order they were deasserted
     during probe (John Madieu)

   - Rework inbound window algorithm to prevent mapping more than
     intended region and enforce alignment on size, to prepare for
     RZ/G3E support (John Madieu)

  Rockchip DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Add tracepoints for PCIe controller LTSSM transitions and link rate
     changes (Shawn Lin)

   - Trace LTSSM events collected by the dw-rockchip debug FIFO (Shawn
     Lin)

  SOPHGO PCIe controller driver:

   - Disable ASPM L0s and L1 on Sophgo 2042 PCIe Root Ports that
     advertise support for them (Yao Zi)

  Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controller driver:

   - Continue with system suspend even if an Endpoint doesn't respond
     with PME_TO_Ack message (Manivannan Sadhasivam)

   - Set Endpoint MSI-X Table Size in the correct function of a
     multi-function device when configuring MSI-X, not in Function 0
     (Aksh Garg)

   - Set Max Link Width and Max Link Speed for all functions of a
     multi-function device, not just Function 0 (Aksh Garg)

   - Expose PCIe event counters in groups 5-7 in debugfs (Hans Zhang)

  Miscellaneous:

   - Warn only once about invalid ACS kernel parameter format (Richard
     Cheng)

   - Suppress FW_BUG warning when writing sysfs 'numa_node' with the
     current value (Li RongQing)

   - Drop redundant 'depends on PCI' from Kconfig (Julian Braha)"

* tag 'pci-v7.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: (165 commits)
  PCI/P2PDMA: Add Google SoCs to the P2P DMA host bridge list
  PCI/P2PDMA: Allow wildcard Device IDs in host bridge list
  PCI: sg2042: Avoid L0s and L1 on Sophgo 2042 PCIe Root Ports
  PCI: cadence: Add flags for disabling ASPM capability for broken Root Ports
  PCI: tegra194: Add core monitor clock support
  dt-bindings: PCI: tegra194: Add monitor clock support
  PCI: tegra194: Enable hardware hot reset mode in Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Enable DMA interrupt
  PCI: tegra194: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT flag during Endpoint interrupt registration
  PCI: tegra194: Calibrate pipe to UPHY for Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Assert CLKREQ# explicitly by default
  PCI: tegra194: Fix CBB timeout caused by DBI access before core power-on
  PCI: tegra194: Disable L1.2 capability of Tegra234 EP
  PCI: dwc: Apply ECRC workaround to DesignWare 5.00a as well
  PCI: tegra194: Use DWC IP core version
  PCI: tegra194: Free up Endpoint resources during remove()
  PCI: tegra194: Allow system suspend when the Endpoint link is not up
  PCI: tegra194: Set LTR message request before PCIe link up in Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Disable direct speed change for Endpoint mode
  PCI: tegra194: Use devm_gpiod_get_optional() to parse "nvidia,refclk-select"
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T10:31:40+00:00</published>
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Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of
ZERO_PAGE() to 4.

Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the
most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions
of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).

Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the
core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement
colored zero page (MIPS and s390).

ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static
inline causes severe pain in header dependencies.

For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy:

* alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot
  parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing
  and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only
* arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of
  ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact.
* m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock,
  although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS
  will work fine.
* sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it
  can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE()
  but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to
  empty_zero_page.
* sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot.
  Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic
  empty_zero_page.
* hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page

	/* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */

  that unfortunately had to go :)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;		[parisc]
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;		[parisc]
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;	[alpha]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;	[nios2]
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;	[sparc]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of
ZERO_PAGE() to 4.

Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the
most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions
of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).

Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the
core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement
colored zero page (MIPS and s390).

ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static
inline causes severe pain in header dependencies.

For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy:

* alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot
  parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing
  and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only
* arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of
  ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact.
* m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock,
  although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS
  will work fine.
* sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it
  can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE()
  but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to
  empty_zero_page.
* sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot.
  Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic
  empty_zero_page.
* hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page

	/* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */

  that unfortunately had to go :)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;		[parisc]
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;		[parisc]
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;	[alpha]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;	[nios2]
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;	[sparc]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: Align head space better</title>
<updated>2026-03-27T15:19:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-24T16:56:32+00:00</published>
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When a bridge window contains big and small resource(s), the small
resource(s) may not amount to the half of the size of the big resource
which would allow calculate_head_align() to shrink the head alignment.
This results in always placing the small resource(s) after the big
resource.

In general, it would be good to be able to place the small resource(s)
before the big resource to achieve better utilization of the address space.
In the cases where the large resource can only fit at the end of the
window, it is even required.

However, carrying the information over from pbus_size_mem() and
calculate_head_align() to __pci_assign_resource() and
pcibios_align_resource() is not easy with the current data structures.

A somewhat hacky way to move the non-aligning tail part to the head is
possible within pcibios_align_resource(). The free space between the start
of the free space span and the aligned start address can be compared with
the non-aligning remainder of the size. If the free space is larger than
the remainder, placing the remainder before the start address is possible.
This relocation should generally work, because PCI resources consist only
power-of-2 atoms.

Various arch requirements may still need to override the relocation, so the
relocation is only applied selectively in such cases.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221205
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xifer &lt;xiferdev@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324165633.4583-10-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
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When a bridge window contains big and small resource(s), the small
resource(s) may not amount to the half of the size of the big resource
which would allow calculate_head_align() to shrink the head alignment.
This results in always placing the small resource(s) after the big
resource.

In general, it would be good to be able to place the small resource(s)
before the big resource to achieve better utilization of the address space.
In the cases where the large resource can only fit at the end of the
window, it is even required.

However, carrying the information over from pbus_size_mem() and
calculate_head_align() to __pci_assign_resource() and
pcibios_align_resource() is not easy with the current data structures.

A somewhat hacky way to move the non-aligning tail part to the head is
possible within pcibios_align_resource(). The free space between the start
of the free space span and the aligned start address can be compared with
the non-aligning remainder of the size. If the free space is larger than
the remainder, placing the remainder before the start address is possible.
This relocation should generally work, because PCI resources consist only
power-of-2 atoms.

Various arch requirements may still need to override the relocation, so the
relocation is only applied selectively in such cases.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221205
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xifer &lt;xiferdev@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324165633.4583-10-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>resource: Pass full extent of empty space to resource_alignf callback</title>
<updated>2026-03-27T15:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-24T16:56:25+00:00</published>
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__find_resource_space() calculates the full extent of empty space but only
passes the aligned space to resource_alignf callback. In some situations,
the callback may choose take advantage of the free space before the
requested alignment.

Pass the full extent of the calculated empty space to resource_alignf
callback as an additional parameter.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xifer &lt;xiferdev@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324165633.4583-3-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
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__find_resource_space() calculates the full extent of empty space but only
passes the aligned space to resource_alignf callback. In some situations,
the callback may choose take advantage of the free space before the
requested alignment.

Pass the full extent of the calculated empty space to resource_alignf
callback as an additional parameter.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xifer &lt;xiferdev@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324165633.4583-3-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
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</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>
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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;
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