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<title>linux-stable.git/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, branch linux-6.17.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat</title>
<updated>2025-11-13T20:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dimitri John Ledkov</name>
<email>dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-26T20:21:00+00:00</published>
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commit d50f21091358b2b29dc06c2061106cdb0f030d03 upstream.

Previously linker scripts would always generate vmlinuz that has sections
aligned. And thus padded (correct Authenticode calculation) and unpadded
calculation would be same. As in https://github.com/rhboot/pesign userspace
tool would produce the same authenticode digest for both of the following
commands:

    pesign --padding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
    pesign --nopadding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage

The commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo section of variable length. Depending
on kernel configuration it may or may not be aligned.

All userspace signing tooling correctly pads such section to calculation
spec compliant authenticode digest.

However, if bzImage is not further processed and is attempted to be loaded
directly by EDK2 firmware, it calculates unpadded Authenticode digest and
fails to correct accept/reject such kernel builds even when propoer
Authenticode values are enrolled in db/dbx. One can say EDK2 requires
aligned/padded kernels in Secureboot.

Thus add ALIGN(8) to the .modinfo section, to esure kernels irrespective of
modinfo contents can be loaded by all existing EDK2 firmware builds.

Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov &lt;dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d50f21091358b2b29dc06c2061106cdb0f030d03 upstream.

Previously linker scripts would always generate vmlinuz that has sections
aligned. And thus padded (correct Authenticode calculation) and unpadded
calculation would be same. As in https://github.com/rhboot/pesign userspace
tool would produce the same authenticode digest for both of the following
commands:

    pesign --padding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
    pesign --nopadding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage

The commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo section of variable length. Depending
on kernel configuration it may or may not be aligned.

All userspace signing tooling correctly pads such section to calculation
spec compliant authenticode digest.

However, if bzImage is not further processed and is attempted to be loaded
directly by EDK2 firmware, it calculates unpadded Authenticode digest and
fails to correct accept/reject such kernel builds even when propoer
Authenticode values are enrolled in db/dbx. One can say EDK2 requires
aligned/padded kernels in Secureboot.

Thus add ALIGN(8) to the .modinfo section, to esure kernels irrespective of
modinfo contents can be loaded by all existing EDK2 firmware builds.

Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov &lt;dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped</title>
<updated>2025-10-19T14:37:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T08:05:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3e86e4d74c0490e5fc5a7f8de8f29e7579c9ffe5 ]

Keep the .modinfo section during linking, but strip it from the final
vmlinux.

Adjust scripts/mksysmap to exclude modinfo symbols from kallsyms.

This change will allow the next commit to extract the .modinfo section
from the vmlinux.unstripped intermediate.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aaf67c07447215463300fccaa758904bac42f992.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 8ec3af916fe3 ("kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3e86e4d74c0490e5fc5a7f8de8f29e7579c9ffe5 ]

Keep the .modinfo section during linking, but strip it from the final
vmlinux.

Adjust scripts/mksysmap to exclude modinfo symbols from kallsyms.

This change will allow the next commit to extract the .modinfo section
from the vmlinux.unstripped intermediate.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aaf67c07447215463300fccaa758904bac42f992.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 8ec3af916fe3 ("kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>once: fix race by moving DO_ONCE to separate section</title>
<updated>2025-10-15T10:03:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qi Xi</name>
<email>xiqi2@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-09T11:29:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit edcc8a38b5ac1a3dbd05e113a38a25b937ebefe5 ]

The commit c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")") moved
DO_ONCE's ___done variable to .data.once section, which conflicts with
DO_ONCE_LITE() that also uses the same section.

This creates a race condition when clear_warn_once is used:

Thread 1 (DO_ONCE)             Thread 2 (DO_ONCE)
__do_once_start
    read ___done (false)
    acquire once_lock
execute func
__do_once_done
    write ___done (true)      __do_once_start
    release once_lock             // Thread 3 clear_warn_once reset ___done
                                  read ___done (false)
                                  acquire once_lock
                              execute func
schedule once_work            __do_once_done
once_deferred: OK             write ___done (true)
static_branch_disable         release once_lock
                              schedule once_work
                              once_deferred:
                                  BUG_ON(!static_key_enabled)

DO_ONCE_LITE() in once_lite.h is used by WARN_ON_ONCE() and other warning
macros. Keep its ___done flag in the .data..once section and allow resetting
by clear_warn_once, as originally intended.

In contrast, DO_ONCE() is used for functions like get_random_once() and
relies on its ___done flag for internal synchronization. We should not reset
DO_ONCE() by clear_warn_once.

Fix it by isolating DO_ONCE's ___done into a separate .data..do_once section,
shielding it from clear_warn_once.

Fixes: c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qi Xi &lt;xiqi2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
[ Upstream commit edcc8a38b5ac1a3dbd05e113a38a25b937ebefe5 ]

The commit c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")") moved
DO_ONCE's ___done variable to .data.once section, which conflicts with
DO_ONCE_LITE() that also uses the same section.

This creates a race condition when clear_warn_once is used:

Thread 1 (DO_ONCE)             Thread 2 (DO_ONCE)
__do_once_start
    read ___done (false)
    acquire once_lock
execute func
__do_once_done
    write ___done (true)      __do_once_start
    release once_lock             // Thread 3 clear_warn_once reset ___done
                                  read ___done (false)
                                  acquire once_lock
                              execute func
schedule once_work            __do_once_done
once_deferred: OK             write ___done (true)
static_branch_disable         release once_lock
                              schedule once_work
                              once_deferred:
                                  BUG_ON(!static_key_enabled)

DO_ONCE_LITE() in once_lite.h is used by WARN_ON_ONCE() and other warning
macros. Keep its ___done flag in the .data..once section and allow resetting
by clear_warn_once, as originally intended.

In contrast, DO_ONCE() is used for functions like get_random_once() and
relies on its ___done flag for internal synchronization. We should not reset
DO_ONCE() by clear_warn_once.

Fix it by isolating DO_ONCE's ___done into a separate .data..do_once section,
shielding it from clear_warn_once.

Fixes: c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qi Xi &lt;xiqi2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD</title>
<updated>2025-07-23T00:15:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-04T14:48:38+00:00</published>
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Ftrace is tightly coupled with architecture specific code because it
requires the use of trampolines written in assembly. This means that when
a new feature or optimization is made, it must be done for all
architectures. To simplify the approach, CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_* configs are
added to denote which architecture has the new enhancement so that other
architectures can still function until they too have been updated.

The CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT was added to help simplify the
DYNAMIC_FTRACE work, but now every architecture that implements
DYNAMIC_FTRACE also has HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT set too, making it redundant
with the HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.

Remove the HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT config and use DYNAMIC_FTRACE directly where
applicable.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250703154916.48e3ada7@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250704104838.27a18690@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Ftrace is tightly coupled with architecture specific code because it
requires the use of trampolines written in assembly. This means that when
a new feature or optimization is made, it must be done for all
architectures. To simplify the approach, CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_* configs are
added to denote which architecture has the new enhancement so that other
architectures can still function until they too have been updated.

The CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT was added to help simplify the
DYNAMIC_FTRACE work, but now every architecture that implements
DYNAMIC_FTRACE also has HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT set too, making it redundant
with the HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.

Remove the HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT config and use DYNAMIC_FTRACE directly where
applicable.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250703154916.48e3ada7@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250704104838.27a18690@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T22:52:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-28T22:52:42+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Fix and improve BTF deduplication of identical BTF types (Alan
   Maguire and Andrii Nakryiko)

 - Support up to 12 arguments in BPF trampoline on arm64 (Xu Kuohai and
   Alexis Lothoré)

 - Support load-acquire and store-release instructions in BPF JIT on
   riscv64 (Andrea Parri)

 - Fix uninitialized values in BPF_{CORE,PROBE}_READ macros (Anton
   Protopopov)

 - Streamline allowed helpers across program types (Feng Yang)

 - Support atomic update for hashtab of BPF maps (Hou Tao)

 - Implement json output for BPF helpers (Ihor Solodrai)

 - Several s390 JIT fixes (Ilya Leoshkevich)

 - Various sockmap fixes (Jiayuan Chen)

 - Support mmap of vmlinux BTF data (Lorenz Bauer)

 - Support BPF rbtree traversal and list peeking (Martin KaFai Lau)

 - Tests for sockmap/sockhash redirection (Michal Luczaj)

 - Introduce kfuncs for memory reads into dynptrs (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Add support for dma-buf iterators in BPF (T.J. Mercier)

 - The verifier support for __bpf_trap() (Yonghong Song)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (135 commits)
  bpf, arm64: Remove unused-but-set function and variable.
  selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp
  bpf: Do not include stack ptr register in precision backtracking bookkeeping
  selftests/bpf: enable many-args tests for arm64
  bpf, arm64: Support up to 12 function arguments
  bpf: Check rcu_read_lock_trace_held() in bpf_map_lookup_percpu_elem()
  bpf: Avoid __bpf_prog_ret0_warn when jit fails
  bpftool: Add support for custom BTF path in prog load/loadall
  selftests/bpf: Add unit tests with __bpf_trap() kfunc
  bpf: Warn with __bpf_trap() kfunc maybe due to uninitialized variable
  bpf: Remove special_kfunc_set from verifier
  selftests/bpf: Add test for open coded dmabuf_iter
  selftests/bpf: Add test for dmabuf_iter
  bpf: Add open coded dmabuf iterator
  bpf: Add dmabuf iterator
  dma-buf: Rename debugfs symbols
  bpf: Fix error return value in bpf_copy_from_user_dynptr
  libbpf: Use mmap to parse vmlinux BTF from sysfs
  selftests: bpf: Add a test for mmapable vmlinux BTF
  btf: Allow mmap of vmlinux btf
  ...
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Fix and improve BTF deduplication of identical BTF types (Alan
   Maguire and Andrii Nakryiko)

 - Support up to 12 arguments in BPF trampoline on arm64 (Xu Kuohai and
   Alexis Lothoré)

 - Support load-acquire and store-release instructions in BPF JIT on
   riscv64 (Andrea Parri)

 - Fix uninitialized values in BPF_{CORE,PROBE}_READ macros (Anton
   Protopopov)

 - Streamline allowed helpers across program types (Feng Yang)

 - Support atomic update for hashtab of BPF maps (Hou Tao)

 - Implement json output for BPF helpers (Ihor Solodrai)

 - Several s390 JIT fixes (Ilya Leoshkevich)

 - Various sockmap fixes (Jiayuan Chen)

 - Support mmap of vmlinux BTF data (Lorenz Bauer)

 - Support BPF rbtree traversal and list peeking (Martin KaFai Lau)

 - Tests for sockmap/sockhash redirection (Michal Luczaj)

 - Introduce kfuncs for memory reads into dynptrs (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Add support for dma-buf iterators in BPF (T.J. Mercier)

 - The verifier support for __bpf_trap() (Yonghong Song)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (135 commits)
  bpf, arm64: Remove unused-but-set function and variable.
  selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp
  bpf: Do not include stack ptr register in precision backtracking bookkeeping
  selftests/bpf: enable many-args tests for arm64
  bpf, arm64: Support up to 12 function arguments
  bpf: Check rcu_read_lock_trace_held() in bpf_map_lookup_percpu_elem()
  bpf: Avoid __bpf_prog_ret0_warn when jit fails
  bpftool: Add support for custom BTF path in prog load/loadall
  selftests/bpf: Add unit tests with __bpf_trap() kfunc
  bpf: Warn with __bpf_trap() kfunc maybe due to uninitialized variable
  bpf: Remove special_kfunc_set from verifier
  selftests/bpf: Add test for open coded dmabuf_iter
  selftests/bpf: Add test for dmabuf_iter
  bpf: Add open coded dmabuf iterator
  bpf: Add dmabuf iterator
  dma-buf: Rename debugfs symbols
  bpf: Fix error return value in bpf_copy_from_user_dynptr
  libbpf: Use mmap to parse vmlinux BTF from sysfs
  selftests: bpf: Add a test for mmapable vmlinux BTF
  btf: Allow mmap of vmlinux btf
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btf: Allow mmap of vmlinux btf</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T17:06:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenz Bauer</name>
<email>lmb@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-20T13:01:17+00:00</published>
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User space needs access to kernel BTF for many modern features of BPF.
Right now each process needs to read the BTF blob either in pieces or
as a whole. Allow mmaping the sysfs file so that processes can directly
access the memory allocated for it in the kernel.

remap_pfn_range is used instead of vm_insert_page due to aarch64
compatibility issues.

Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250520-vmlinux-mmap-v5-1-e8c941acc414@isovalent.com
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User space needs access to kernel BTF for many modern features of BPF.
Right now each process needs to read the BTF blob either in pieces or
as a whole. Allow mmaping the sysfs file so that processes can directly
access the memory allocated for it in the kernel.

remap_pfn_range is used instead of vm_insert_page due to aarch64
compatibility issues.

Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250520-vmlinux-mmap-v5-1-e8c941acc414@isovalent.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds: Include .data.rel[.local] into .data section</title>
<updated>2025-04-22T07:12:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-18T14:12:55+00:00</published>
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When running in -fPIC mode, the compiler may decide to emit statically
initialized data objects into .data.rel or .data.rel.local if they
contain absolute references to global or local objects, respectively,
which require fixing up at load time.

This distinction is irrelevant for the kernel, so fold .data.rel and
.data.rel.local into .data.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250418141253.2601348-9-ardb+git@google.com
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When running in -fPIC mode, the compiler may decide to emit statically
initialized data objects into .data.rel or .data.rel.local if they
contain absolute references to global or local objects, respectively,
which require fixing up at load time.

This distinction is irrelevant for the kernel, so fold .data.rel and
.data.rel.local into .data.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250418141253.2601348-9-ardb+git@google.com
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<title>Merge tag 'x86-fpu-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T05:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T05:27:18+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable
   in softirqs ((Eric Biggers)

 - Fully optimize out WARN_ON_FPU() (Eric Biggers)

 - Initial steps to support Support Intel APX (Advanced Performance
   Extensions) (Chang S. Bae)

 - Fix KASAN for arch_dup_task_struct() (Benjamin Berg)

 - Refine and simplify the FPU magic number check during signal return
   (Chang S. Bae)

 - Fix inconsistencies in guest FPU xfeatures (Chao Gao, Stanislav
   Spassov)

 - selftests/x86/xstate: Introduce common code for testing extended
   states (Chang S. Bae)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Colin Ian King, Uros
   Bizjak)

* tag 'x86-fpu-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix inconsistencies in guest FPU xfeatures
  x86/fpu: Clarify the "xa" symbolic name used in the XSTATE* macros
  x86/fpu: Use XSAVE{,OPT,C,S} and XRSTOR{,S} mnemonics in xstate.h
  x86/fpu: Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable in softirqs
  x86/fpu/xstate: Simplify print_xstate_features()
  x86/fpu: Refine and simplify the magic number check during signal return
  selftests/x86/xstate: Fix spelling mistake "hader" -&gt; "header"
  x86/fpu: Avoid copying dynamic FP state from init_task in arch_dup_task_struct()
  vmlinux.lds.h: Remove entry to place init_task onto init_stack
  selftests/x86/avx: Add AVX tests
  selftests/x86/xstate: Clarify supported xstates
  selftests/x86/xstate: Consolidate test invocations into a single entry
  selftests/x86/xstate: Introduce signal ABI test
  selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor ptrace ABI test
  selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor context switching test
  selftests/x86/xstate: Enumerate and name xstate components
  selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor XSAVE helpers for general use
  selftests/x86: Consolidate redundant signal helper functions
  x86/fpu: Fix guest FPU state buffer allocation size
  x86/fpu: Fully optimize out WARN_ON_FPU()
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Pull x86/fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable
   in softirqs ((Eric Biggers)

 - Fully optimize out WARN_ON_FPU() (Eric Biggers)

 - Initial steps to support Support Intel APX (Advanced Performance
   Extensions) (Chang S. Bae)

 - Fix KASAN for arch_dup_task_struct() (Benjamin Berg)

 - Refine and simplify the FPU magic number check during signal return
   (Chang S. Bae)

 - Fix inconsistencies in guest FPU xfeatures (Chao Gao, Stanislav
   Spassov)

 - selftests/x86/xstate: Introduce common code for testing extended
   states (Chang S. Bae)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Colin Ian King, Uros
   Bizjak)

* tag 'x86-fpu-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix inconsistencies in guest FPU xfeatures
  x86/fpu: Clarify the "xa" symbolic name used in the XSTATE* macros
  x86/fpu: Use XSAVE{,OPT,C,S} and XRSTOR{,S} mnemonics in xstate.h
  x86/fpu: Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable in softirqs
  x86/fpu/xstate: Simplify print_xstate_features()
  x86/fpu: Refine and simplify the magic number check during signal return
  selftests/x86/xstate: Fix spelling mistake "hader" -&gt; "header"
  x86/fpu: Avoid copying dynamic FP state from init_task in arch_dup_task_struct()
  vmlinux.lds.h: Remove entry to place init_task onto init_stack
  selftests/x86/avx: Add AVX tests
  selftests/x86/xstate: Clarify supported xstates
  selftests/x86/xstate: Consolidate test invocations into a single entry
  selftests/x86/xstate: Introduce signal ABI test
  selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor ptrace ABI test
  selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor context switching test
  selftests/x86/xstate: Enumerate and name xstate components
  selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor XSAVE helpers for general use
  selftests/x86: Consolidate redundant signal helper functions
  x86/fpu: Fix guest FPU state buffer allocation size
  x86/fpu: Fully optimize out WARN_ON_FPU()
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<entry>
<title>x86/percpu: Fix __per_cpu_hot_end marker</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T19:30:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-04T17:34:36+00:00</published>
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Make __per_cpu_hot_end marker point to the end of the percpu cache
hot data, not to the end of the percpu cache hot section.

This fixes CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 case where X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
is set to 7 (128 bytes).

Also update assert message accordingly.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304173455.89361-1-ubizjak@gmail.com

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z8a-NVJs-pm5W-mG@gmail.com/
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Make __per_cpu_hot_end marker point to the end of the percpu cache
hot data, not to the end of the percpu cache hot section.

This fixes CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 case where X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
is set to 7 (128 bytes).

Also update assert message accordingly.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304173455.89361-1-ubizjak@gmail.com

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z8a-NVJs-pm5W-mG@gmail.com/
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<entry>
<title>percpu: Introduce percpu hot section</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T19:30:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Gerst</name>
<email>brgerst@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-03T16:52:36+00:00</published>
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Add a subsection to the percpu data for frequently accessed variables
that should remain cached on each processor.  These varables should not
be accessed from other processors to avoid cacheline bouncing.

This will replace the pcpu_hot struct on x86, and open up similar
functionality to other architectures and the kernel core.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303165246.2175811-2-brgerst@gmail.com
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Add a subsection to the percpu data for frequently accessed variables
that should remain cached on each processor.  These varables should not
be accessed from other processors to avoid cacheline bouncing.

This will replace the pcpu_hot struct on x86, and open up similar
functionality to other architectures and the kernel core.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250303165246.2175811-2-brgerst@gmail.com
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