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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/compiler_types.h, branch v7.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-06-15T08:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-15T08:51:14+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Futex updates:

   - Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Large series to address the robust futex unlock race for real, by
     Thomas Gleixner:

      "The robust futex unlock mechanism is racy in respect to the
       clearing of the robust_list_head::list_op_pending pointer because
       unlock and clearing the pointer are not atomic.

       The race window is between the unlock and clearing the pending op
       pointer. If the task is forced to exit in this window, exit will
       access a potentially invalid pending op pointer when cleaning up
       the robust list.

       That happens if another task manages to unmap the object
       containing the lock before the cleanup, which results in an UAF.

       In the worst case this UAF can lead to memory corruption when
       unrelated content has been mapped to the same address by the time
       the access happens.

       User space can't solve this problem without help from the kernel.
       This series provides the kernel side infrastructure to help it
       along:

        1) Combined unlock, pointer clearing, wake-up for the
           contended case

        2) VDSO based unlock and pointer clearing helpers with a
           fix-up function in the kernel when user space was interrupted
           within the critical section.

      ... with help by André Almeida:

        - Add a note about robust list race condition (André Almeida)
        - Add self-tests for robust release operations (André Almeida)

  Context analysis updates:

   - Implement context analysis for 'struct rt_mutex'. (Bart Van Assche)
   - Bump required Clang version to 23 (Marco Elver)

  Guard infrastructure updates:

   - Series to remove NULL check from unconditional guards (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Lockdep updates:

   - Restore self-test migrate_disable() and sched_rt_mutex state on
     PREEMPT_RT (Karl Mehltretter)

  Membarriers updates:

   - Use per-CPU mutexes for targeted commands (Aniket Gattani)
   - Modernize membarrier_global_expedited with cleanup guards (Aniket
     Gattani)
   - Add rseq stress test for CFS throttle interactions (Aniket Gattani)

  percpu-rwsems updates:

   - Extract __percpu_up_read() to optimize inlining overhead (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Seqlocks updates:

   - Allow UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to fail optimizing (Heiko Carstens)

  Lock tracing:

   - Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks such as
     mutexes, percpu-rwsems, rtmutexes, rwsems and semaphores (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  MAINTAINERS updates:

   - MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry (Boqun Feng)

  Misc updates and fixes by Randy Dunlap, YE WEI-HONG, Fabricio Parra,
  Dmitry Ilvokhin and Peter Zijlstra"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  locking/percpu-rwsem: Extract __percpu_up_read()
  tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  futex: Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns
  rust: sync: completion: Mark inline complete_all and wait_for_completion
  MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry
  cleanup: Specify nonnull argument index
  selftests: futex: Add tests for robust release operations
  Documentation: futex: Add a note about robust list race condition
  x86/vdso: Implement __vdso_futex_robust_try_unlock()
  x86/vdso: Prepare for robust futex unlock support
  futex: Provide infrastructure to plug the non contended robust futex unlock race
  futex: Add robust futex unlock IP range
  futex: Add support for unlocking robust futexes
  futex: Cleanup UAPI defines
  x86: Select ARCH_MEMORY_ORDER_TSO
  uaccess: Provide unsafe_atomic_store_release_user()
  futex: Provide UABI defines for robust list entry modifiers
  futex: Move futex related mm_struct data into a struct
  futex: Make futex_mm_init() void
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Futex updates:

   - Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Large series to address the robust futex unlock race for real, by
     Thomas Gleixner:

      "The robust futex unlock mechanism is racy in respect to the
       clearing of the robust_list_head::list_op_pending pointer because
       unlock and clearing the pointer are not atomic.

       The race window is between the unlock and clearing the pending op
       pointer. If the task is forced to exit in this window, exit will
       access a potentially invalid pending op pointer when cleaning up
       the robust list.

       That happens if another task manages to unmap the object
       containing the lock before the cleanup, which results in an UAF.

       In the worst case this UAF can lead to memory corruption when
       unrelated content has been mapped to the same address by the time
       the access happens.

       User space can't solve this problem without help from the kernel.
       This series provides the kernel side infrastructure to help it
       along:

        1) Combined unlock, pointer clearing, wake-up for the
           contended case

        2) VDSO based unlock and pointer clearing helpers with a
           fix-up function in the kernel when user space was interrupted
           within the critical section.

      ... with help by André Almeida:

        - Add a note about robust list race condition (André Almeida)
        - Add self-tests for robust release operations (André Almeida)

  Context analysis updates:

   - Implement context analysis for 'struct rt_mutex'. (Bart Van Assche)
   - Bump required Clang version to 23 (Marco Elver)

  Guard infrastructure updates:

   - Series to remove NULL check from unconditional guards (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Lockdep updates:

   - Restore self-test migrate_disable() and sched_rt_mutex state on
     PREEMPT_RT (Karl Mehltretter)

  Membarriers updates:

   - Use per-CPU mutexes for targeted commands (Aniket Gattani)
   - Modernize membarrier_global_expedited with cleanup guards (Aniket
     Gattani)
   - Add rseq stress test for CFS throttle interactions (Aniket Gattani)

  percpu-rwsems updates:

   - Extract __percpu_up_read() to optimize inlining overhead (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Seqlocks updates:

   - Allow UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to fail optimizing (Heiko Carstens)

  Lock tracing:

   - Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks such as
     mutexes, percpu-rwsems, rtmutexes, rwsems and semaphores (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  MAINTAINERS updates:

   - MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry (Boqun Feng)

  Misc updates and fixes by Randy Dunlap, YE WEI-HONG, Fabricio Parra,
  Dmitry Ilvokhin and Peter Zijlstra"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  locking/percpu-rwsem: Extract __percpu_up_read()
  tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  futex: Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns
  rust: sync: completion: Mark inline complete_all and wait_for_completion
  MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry
  cleanup: Specify nonnull argument index
  selftests: futex: Add tests for robust release operations
  Documentation: futex: Add a note about robust list race condition
  x86/vdso: Implement __vdso_futex_robust_try_unlock()
  x86/vdso: Prepare for robust futex unlock support
  futex: Provide infrastructure to plug the non contended robust futex unlock race
  futex: Add robust futex unlock IP range
  futex: Add support for unlocking robust futexes
  futex: Cleanup UAPI defines
  x86: Select ARCH_MEMORY_ORDER_TSO
  uaccess: Provide unsafe_atomic_store_release_user()
  futex: Provide UABI defines for robust list entry modifiers
  futex: Move futex related mm_struct data into a struct
  futex: Make futex_mm_init() void
  ...
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<entry>
<title>percpu: Sanitize __percpu_qual include hell</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T09:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-02T09:09:21+00:00</published>
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Slapping __percpu_qual into the next available header is sloppy at best.

It's required by __percpu which is defined in compiler_types.h and that is
meant to be included without requiring a boatload of other headers so that
a struct or function declaration can contain a __percpu qualifier w/o
further prerequisites.

This implicit dependency on linux/percpu.h makes that impossible and causes
a major problem when trying to separate headers.

Create asm/percpu_types.h and move it there. Include that from
compiler_types.h and the whole recursion problem goes away.

Fix up UM so it uses the generic header and includes it in the UM_HOST
build, which pulls in compiler_types.h. The USER_CFLAGS fix was suggested
by Richard.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602090535.254874125@kernel.org
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Slapping __percpu_qual into the next available header is sloppy at best.

It's required by __percpu which is defined in compiler_types.h and that is
meant to be included without requiring a boatload of other headers so that
a struct or function declaration can contain a __percpu qualifier w/o
further prerequisites.

This implicit dependency on linux/percpu.h makes that impossible and causes
a major problem when trying to separate headers.

Create asm/percpu_types.h and move it there. Include that from
compiler_types.h and the whole recursion problem goes away.

Fix up UM so it uses the generic header and includes it in the UM_HOST
build, which pulls in compiler_types.h. The USER_CFLAGS fix was suggested
by Richard.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602090535.254874125@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disable -Wattribute-alias for clang-23 and newer</title>
<updated>2026-05-28T13:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-15T19:34:14+00:00</published>
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Clang recently added support for -Wattribute-alias [1], which results in
the same warnings that necessitated commit bee20031772a ("disable
-Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()") for GCC.

  kernel/time/itimer.c:325:1: error: alias and aliasee have different types 'long (unsigned int)' and 'long (typeof (__builtin_choose_expr((__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof ((unsigned int)0), typeof (0LL)) || __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof ((unsigned int)0), typeof (0ULL))), 0LL, 0L)))' (aka 'long (long)') [-Werror,-Wattribute-alias]
    325 | SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds)
        | ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:225:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE1'
    225 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE1(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(1, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
        |                                    ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:236:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    236 |         __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
        |         ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:251:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    251 |                 __attribute__((alias(__stringify(__se_sys##name))));    \
        |                                ^
  kernel/time/itimer.c:325:1: note: aliasee is declared here
  include/linux/syscalls.h:225:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE1'
    225 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE1(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(1, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
        |                                    ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:236:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    236 |         __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
        |         ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:255:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    255 |         asmlinkage long __se_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))  \
        |                         ^
  &lt;scratch space&gt;:16:1: note: expanded from here
     16 | __se_sys_alarm
        | ^

Disable the warnings in the same way for clang-23 and newer. Disable the
warning about unknown warning options to avoid breaking the build for
versions of clang-23 that do not have -Wattribute-alias, such as ones
deployed by vendors like Android or CI systems or when bisecting LLVM
between llvmorg-23-init and release/23.x.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2163
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/40da6920a0d71d49dfa2392b09153600b0759f5e [1]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515-syscall-disable-attribute-alias-for-clang-v1-1-9a9d95d41df6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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Clang recently added support for -Wattribute-alias [1], which results in
the same warnings that necessitated commit bee20031772a ("disable
-Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()") for GCC.

  kernel/time/itimer.c:325:1: error: alias and aliasee have different types 'long (unsigned int)' and 'long (typeof (__builtin_choose_expr((__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof ((unsigned int)0), typeof (0LL)) || __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof ((unsigned int)0), typeof (0ULL))), 0LL, 0L)))' (aka 'long (long)') [-Werror,-Wattribute-alias]
    325 | SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds)
        | ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:225:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE1'
    225 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE1(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(1, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
        |                                    ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:236:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    236 |         __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
        |         ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:251:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    251 |                 __attribute__((alias(__stringify(__se_sys##name))));    \
        |                                ^
  kernel/time/itimer.c:325:1: note: aliasee is declared here
  include/linux/syscalls.h:225:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE1'
    225 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE1(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(1, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
        |                                    ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:236:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    236 |         __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
        |         ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:255:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    255 |         asmlinkage long __se_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))  \
        |                         ^
  &lt;scratch space&gt;:16:1: note: expanded from here
     16 | __se_sys_alarm
        | ^

Disable the warnings in the same way for clang-23 and newer. Disable the
warning about unknown warning options to avoid breaking the build for
versions of clang-23 that do not have -Wattribute-alias, such as ones
deployed by vendors like Android or CI systems or when bisecting LLVM
between llvmorg-23-init and release/23.x.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2163
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/40da6920a0d71d49dfa2392b09153600b0759f5e [1]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515-syscall-disable-attribute-alias-for-clang-v1-1-9a9d95d41df6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>refcount: Remove unused __signed_wrap function annotations</title>
<updated>2026-03-31T21:41:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-31T16:37:19+00:00</published>
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With CONFIG_UBSAN_INTEGER_WRAP being replaced by Overflow Behavior
Types, remove the __signed_wrap function annotation as it is already
unused, and any future work here will use OBT annotations instead.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331163725.2765789-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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With CONFIG_UBSAN_INTEGER_WRAP being replaced by Overflow Behavior
Types, remove the __signed_wrap function annotation as it is already
unused, and any future work here will use OBT annotations instead.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331163725.2765789-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:01:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-20T21:15:58+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately, there is a corner case of __builtin_counted_by_ref()
usage that crashes[1] Clang since support was introduced in Clang 19.
Disable it prior to Clang 22. Found while tested kmalloc_obj treewide
refactoring (via kmalloc_flex() usage).

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/182575 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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Unfortunately, there is a corner case of __builtin_counted_by_ref()
usage that crashes[1] Clang since support was introduced in Clang 19.
Disable it prior to Clang 22. Found while tested kmalloc_obj treewide
refactoring (via kmalloc_flex() usage).

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/182575 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T01:02:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T01:02:23+00:00</published>
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Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Provide the missing 64-bit variant of clock_getres()

   This allows the extension of CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME to the vDSO and
   finally the removal of 32-bit time types from the kernel and UAPI.

 - Remove the useless and broken getcpu_cache from the VDSO

   The intention was to provide a trivial way to retrieve the CPU number
   from the VDSO, but as the VDSO data is per process there is no way to
   make it work.

 - Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()

   The packed struct violates strict aliasing rules which requires to
   pass -fno-strict-aliasing to the compiler. As this are scalar values
   __builtin_memcpy() turns them into simple loads and stores

 - Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()

   The get/put_unaligned() changes triggered a new sparse warning when
   __beNN types are used with get/put_unaligned() as sparse builds add a
   special 'bitwise' attribute to them which prevents sparse to evaluate
   the Generic in __unqual_scalar_typeof().

   Newer sparse versions support __typeof_unqual__() which avoids the
   problem, but requires a recent sparse install. So this adds a sanity
   check to sparse builds, which validates that sparse is available and
   capable of handling it.

 - Force inline __cvdso_clock_getres_common()

   Compilers sometimes un-inline agressively, which results in function
   call overhead and problems with automatic stack variable
   initialization.

   Interestingly enough the force inlining results in smaller code than
   the un-inlined variant produced by GCC when optimizing for size.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  vdso/gettimeofday: Force inlining of __cvdso_clock_getres_common()
  x86/percpu: Make CONFIG_USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT work with sparse
  compiler: Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()
  powerpc/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64()
  tools headers: Remove unneeded ignoring of warnings in unaligned.h
  tools headers: Update the linux/unaligned.h copy with the kernel sources
  vdso: Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()
  parisc: Inline a type punning version of get_unaligned_le32()
  vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache
  MIPS: vdso: Provide getres_time64() for 32-bit ABIs
  arm64: vdso32: Provide clock_getres_time64()
  ARM: VDSO: Provide clock_getres_time64()
  ARM: VDSO: Patch out __vdso_clock_getres() if unavailable
  x86/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64() for x86-32
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add test for clock_getres_time64()
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use UAPI system call numbers
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_config: Add configurations for clock_getres_time64()
  vdso: Add prototype for __vdso_clock_getres_time64()
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<pre>
Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Provide the missing 64-bit variant of clock_getres()

   This allows the extension of CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME to the vDSO and
   finally the removal of 32-bit time types from the kernel and UAPI.

 - Remove the useless and broken getcpu_cache from the VDSO

   The intention was to provide a trivial way to retrieve the CPU number
   from the VDSO, but as the VDSO data is per process there is no way to
   make it work.

 - Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()

   The packed struct violates strict aliasing rules which requires to
   pass -fno-strict-aliasing to the compiler. As this are scalar values
   __builtin_memcpy() turns them into simple loads and stores

 - Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()

   The get/put_unaligned() changes triggered a new sparse warning when
   __beNN types are used with get/put_unaligned() as sparse builds add a
   special 'bitwise' attribute to them which prevents sparse to evaluate
   the Generic in __unqual_scalar_typeof().

   Newer sparse versions support __typeof_unqual__() which avoids the
   problem, but requires a recent sparse install. So this adds a sanity
   check to sparse builds, which validates that sparse is available and
   capable of handling it.

 - Force inline __cvdso_clock_getres_common()

   Compilers sometimes un-inline agressively, which results in function
   call overhead and problems with automatic stack variable
   initialization.

   Interestingly enough the force inlining results in smaller code than
   the un-inlined variant produced by GCC when optimizing for size.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  vdso/gettimeofday: Force inlining of __cvdso_clock_getres_common()
  x86/percpu: Make CONFIG_USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT work with sparse
  compiler: Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()
  powerpc/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64()
  tools headers: Remove unneeded ignoring of warnings in unaligned.h
  tools headers: Update the linux/unaligned.h copy with the kernel sources
  vdso: Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()
  parisc: Inline a type punning version of get_unaligned_le32()
  vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache
  MIPS: vdso: Provide getres_time64() for 32-bit ABIs
  arm64: vdso32: Provide clock_getres_time64()
  ARM: VDSO: Provide clock_getres_time64()
  ARM: VDSO: Patch out __vdso_clock_getres() if unavailable
  x86/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64() for x86-32
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add test for clock_getres_time64()
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use UAPI system call numbers
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_config: Add configurations for clock_getres_time64()
  vdso: Add prototype for __vdso_clock_getres_time64()
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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T20:50:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=36ae1c45b2cede43ab2fc679b450060bbf119f1b'/>
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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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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T20:28:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T20:28:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0923fd0419a1a2c8846e15deacac11b619e996d9'/>
<id>0923fd0419a1a2c8846e15deacac11b619e996d9</id>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lock debugging:

   - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
     using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
     (Marco Elver)

     We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
     removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
     Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
     positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
     context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
     side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
     analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
     the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
     maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
     active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
     the annotations &amp; fixers to developers who introduce new code.

     Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
     trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
     model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
     results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
     our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
     default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
     that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
     zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
     in distribution, admittedly)

     Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
     zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
     and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
     for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
     disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.

     ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
       if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
       relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )

  Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)

    - Add support for Atomic&lt;i8/i16/bool&gt; and replace most Rust native
      AtomicBool usages with Atomic&lt;bool&gt;

    - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation

    - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce

    - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be

    - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
      helper LTO

    - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
      calls

  WW mutexes:

    - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
      Stultz)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

    - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
      Bergmann)

    - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)

    - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)

    - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
      Duberstein)"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
  locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
  rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
  compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
  tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
  crypto: Use scoped init guard
  kcov: Use scoped init guard
  compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
  seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
  tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
  rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
  rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
  rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lock debugging:

   - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
     using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
     (Marco Elver)

     We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
     removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
     Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
     positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
     context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
     side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
     analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
     the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
     maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
     active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
     the annotations &amp; fixers to developers who introduce new code.

     Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
     trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
     model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
     results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
     our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
     default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
     that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
     zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
     in distribution, admittedly)

     Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
     zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
     and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
     for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
     disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.

     ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
       if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
       relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )

  Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)

    - Add support for Atomic&lt;i8/i16/bool&gt; and replace most Rust native
      AtomicBool usages with Atomic&lt;bool&gt;

    - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation

    - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce

    - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be

    - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
      helper LTO

    - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
      calls

  WW mutexes:

    - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
      Stultz)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

    - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
      Bergmann)

    - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)

    - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)

    - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
      Duberstein)"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
  locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
  rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
  compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
  tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
  crypto: Use scoped init guard
  kcov: Use scoped init guard
  compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
  seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
  tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
  rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
  rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
  rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'kmalloc_obj-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T17:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T17:11:21+00:00</published>
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Pull kmalloc_obj updates from Kees Cook:
 "Introduce the kmalloc_obj* family of APIs for switching to type-based
  kmalloc allocations, away from purely size-based allocations.
  Discussed on lkml, with you, and at Linux Plumbers. It's been in -next
  for the entire dev cycle.

  Before the merge window closes, I'd like to send the treewide
  change (generated from the Coccinelle script included here), which
  mechanically converts almost 20k callsites from kmalloc* to
  kmalloc_obj*:

   8007 files changed, 19980 insertions(+), 20838 deletions(-)

  This change needed fixes for mismatched types (since now the return
  type from allocations is a pointer to the requested type, not "void
  *"), and I've been fixing these over the last 4 releases.

  These fixes have mostly been trivial mismatches with const qualifiers
  or accidentally identical sizes (e.g. same object size: "struct kvec"
  vs "struct iovec", or differing pointers to pointers), but I did catch
  one case of too-small allocation.

  Summary:

   - Introduce kmalloc_obj*() family of type-based allocator APIs

   - checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations

   - coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script"

* tag 'kmalloc_obj-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family
  compiler_types: Introduce __flex_counter() and family
  checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family
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Pull kmalloc_obj updates from Kees Cook:
 "Introduce the kmalloc_obj* family of APIs for switching to type-based
  kmalloc allocations, away from purely size-based allocations.
  Discussed on lkml, with you, and at Linux Plumbers. It's been in -next
  for the entire dev cycle.

  Before the merge window closes, I'd like to send the treewide
  change (generated from the Coccinelle script included here), which
  mechanically converts almost 20k callsites from kmalloc* to
  kmalloc_obj*:

   8007 files changed, 19980 insertions(+), 20838 deletions(-)

  This change needed fixes for mismatched types (since now the return
  type from allocations is a pointer to the requested type, not "void
  *"), and I've been fixing these over the last 4 releases.

  These fixes have mostly been trivial mismatches with const qualifiers
  or accidentally identical sizes (e.g. same object size: "struct kvec"
  vs "struct iovec", or differing pointers to pointers), but I did catch
  one case of too-small allocation.

  Summary:

   - Introduce kmalloc_obj*() family of type-based allocator APIs

   - checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations

   - coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script"

* tag 'kmalloc_obj-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family
  compiler_types: Introduce __flex_counter() and family
  checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family
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