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<title>linux-stable.git/lib/Kconfig.debug, branch v6.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Increase the default 32-bit build frame size warning limit to 1280 bytes</title>
<updated>2025-11-26T20:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-26T20:11:28+00:00</published>
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That was already the limit with KASAN enabled, and the 32-bit x86 build
ends up having a couple of drm cases that have stack frames _just_ over
1kB on my allmodconfig test.  So the minimal fix for this build issue
for now is to just bump the limit and make it independent of KASAN.

[ Side note: XTENSA already used 1.5k and PARISC uses 2k, so 1280 is
  still relatively conservative ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
That was already the limit with KASAN enabled, and the 32-bit x86 build
ends up having a couple of drm cases that have stack frames _just_ over
1kB on my allmodconfig test.  So the minimal fix for this build issue
for now is to just bump the limit and make it independent of KASAN.

[ Side note: XTENSA already used 1.5k and PARISC uses 2k, so 1280 is
  still relatively conservative ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk-&gt;group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk-&gt;group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bitmap-for-6.18' of https://github.com/norov/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T15:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T15:57:03+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:

 - FIELD_PREP_WM16() consolidation (Nicolas)

 - bitmaps for Rust (Burak)

 - __fls() fix for arc (Kees)

* tag 'bitmap-for-6.18' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (25 commits)
  rust: add dynamic ID pool abstraction for bitmap
  rust: add find_bit_benchmark_rust module.
  rust: add bitmap API.
  rust: add bindings for bitops.h
  rust: add bindings for bitmap.h
  phy: rockchip-pcie: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  clk: sp7021: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: dw-rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ASoC: rockchip: i2s-tdm: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16_CONST macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-usb: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: inno-hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi_qp: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  phy: rockchip-samsung-dcphy: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: vop2: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dsi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-emmc: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: lvds: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ...
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<pre>
Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:

 - FIELD_PREP_WM16() consolidation (Nicolas)

 - bitmaps for Rust (Burak)

 - __fls() fix for arc (Kees)

* tag 'bitmap-for-6.18' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (25 commits)
  rust: add dynamic ID pool abstraction for bitmap
  rust: add find_bit_benchmark_rust module.
  rust: add bitmap API.
  rust: add bindings for bitops.h
  rust: add bindings for bitmap.h
  phy: rockchip-pcie: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  clk: sp7021: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: dw-rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ASoC: rockchip: i2s-tdm: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16_CONST macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-usb: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: inno-hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi_qp: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  phy: rockchip-samsung-dcphy: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: vop2: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dsi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-emmc: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: lvds: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</published>
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
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<pre>
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE</title>
<updated>2025-09-28T18:36:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-24T09:43:04+00:00</published>
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There's really no need for this since it's 0 or 1 when
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS is disabled/enabled, so just use IS_ENABLED()
instead.  The extra symbol goes back to the original code adding it in
commit 2a01bb3885c9 ("panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250924094303.18521-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
There's really no need for this since it's 0 or 1 when
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS is disabled/enabled, so just use IS_ENABLED()
instead.  The extra symbol goes back to the original code adding it in
commit 2a01bb3885c9 ("panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250924094303.18521-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI</title>
<updated>2025-09-24T21:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T21:34:19+00:00</published>
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The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).

Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).

Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: add find_bit_benchmark_rust module.</title>
<updated>2025-09-22T19:52:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Burak Emir</name>
<email>bqe@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T07:21:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=38cc91db2e87ab55bfca2b194e791867b77f9e55'/>
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<content type='text'>
Microbenchmark protected by a config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK_RUST,
following `find_bit_benchmark.c` but testing the Rust Bitmap API.

We add a fill_random() method protected by the config in order to
maintain the abstraction.

The sample output from the benchmark, both C and Rust version:

find_bit_benchmark.c output:
```
Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
[  438.101937] find_next_bit:                  860188 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.109471] find_next_zero_bit:             912342 ns, 164262 iterations
[  438.116820] find_last_bit:                  726003 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.130509] find_nth_bit:                  7056993 ns,  16269 iterations
[  438.139099] find_first_bit:                1963272 ns,  16270 iterations
[  438.173043] find_first_and_bit:           27314224 ns,  32654 iterations
[  438.180065] find_next_and_bit:              398752 ns,  73705 iterations
[  438.186689]
               Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  438.193375] find_next_bit:                    9675 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.201765] find_next_zero_bit:            1766136 ns, 327025 iterations
[  438.208429] find_last_bit:                    9017 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.217816] find_nth_bit:                  2749742 ns,    655 iterations
[  438.225168] find_first_bit:                 721799 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.231797] find_first_and_bit:               2819 ns,      1 iterations
[  438.238441] find_next_and_bit:                3159 ns,      1 iterations
```

find_bit_benchmark_rust.rs output:
```
[  451.182459] find_bit_benchmark_rust:
[  451.186688] Start testing find_bit() Rust with random-filled bitmap
[  451.194450] next_bit:                       777950 ns, 163644 iterations
[  451.201997] next_zero_bit:                  918889 ns, 164036 iterations
[  451.208642] Start testing find_bit() Rust with sparse bitmap
[  451.214300] next_bit:                         9181 ns,    654 iterations
[  451.222806] next_zero_bit:                 1855504 ns, 327026 iterations
```

Here are the results from 32 samples, with 95% confidence interval.
The microbenchmark was built with RUST_BITMAP_HARDENED=n and run on a
machine that did not execute other processes.

Random-filled bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |    825.07 |        53.89 |    806.40 |    843.74 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |    870.91 |        46.29 |    854.88 |    886.95 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |    933.56 |        56.34 |    914.04 |    953.08 |
| next_zero | Rust  |    945.85 |        60.44 |    924.91 |    966.79 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 5.5% slower for next_bit, 1.3% slower for next_zero.

Sparse bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |     13.17 |         6.21 |     11.01 |     15.32 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |     14.30 |         8.27 |     11.43 |     17.17 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |   1859.31 |        82.30 |   1830.80 |   1887.83 |
| next_zero | Rust  |   1908.09 |       139.82 |   1859.65 |   1956.54 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 8.5% slower for next_bit, 2.6% slower for next_zero.

In summary, taking the arithmetic mean of all slow-downs, we can say
the Rust API has a 4.5% slowdown.

Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Burak Emir &lt;bqe@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Microbenchmark protected by a config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK_RUST,
following `find_bit_benchmark.c` but testing the Rust Bitmap API.

We add a fill_random() method protected by the config in order to
maintain the abstraction.

The sample output from the benchmark, both C and Rust version:

find_bit_benchmark.c output:
```
Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
[  438.101937] find_next_bit:                  860188 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.109471] find_next_zero_bit:             912342 ns, 164262 iterations
[  438.116820] find_last_bit:                  726003 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.130509] find_nth_bit:                  7056993 ns,  16269 iterations
[  438.139099] find_first_bit:                1963272 ns,  16270 iterations
[  438.173043] find_first_and_bit:           27314224 ns,  32654 iterations
[  438.180065] find_next_and_bit:              398752 ns,  73705 iterations
[  438.186689]
               Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  438.193375] find_next_bit:                    9675 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.201765] find_next_zero_bit:            1766136 ns, 327025 iterations
[  438.208429] find_last_bit:                    9017 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.217816] find_nth_bit:                  2749742 ns,    655 iterations
[  438.225168] find_first_bit:                 721799 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.231797] find_first_and_bit:               2819 ns,      1 iterations
[  438.238441] find_next_and_bit:                3159 ns,      1 iterations
```

find_bit_benchmark_rust.rs output:
```
[  451.182459] find_bit_benchmark_rust:
[  451.186688] Start testing find_bit() Rust with random-filled bitmap
[  451.194450] next_bit:                       777950 ns, 163644 iterations
[  451.201997] next_zero_bit:                  918889 ns, 164036 iterations
[  451.208642] Start testing find_bit() Rust with sparse bitmap
[  451.214300] next_bit:                         9181 ns,    654 iterations
[  451.222806] next_zero_bit:                 1855504 ns, 327026 iterations
```

Here are the results from 32 samples, with 95% confidence interval.
The microbenchmark was built with RUST_BITMAP_HARDENED=n and run on a
machine that did not execute other processes.

Random-filled bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |    825.07 |        53.89 |    806.40 |    843.74 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |    870.91 |        46.29 |    854.88 |    886.95 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |    933.56 |        56.34 |    914.04 |    953.08 |
| next_zero | Rust  |    945.85 |        60.44 |    924.91 |    966.79 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 5.5% slower for next_bit, 1.3% slower for next_zero.

Sparse bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |     13.17 |         6.21 |     11.01 |     15.32 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |     14.30 |         8.27 |     11.43 |     17.17 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |   1859.31 |        82.30 |   1830.80 |   1887.83 |
| next_zero | Rust  |   1908.09 |       139.82 |   1859.65 |   1956.54 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 8.5% slower for next_bit, 2.6% slower for next_zero.

In summary, taking the arithmetic mean of all slow-downs, we can say
the Rust API has a 4.5% slowdown.

Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Burak Emir &lt;bqe@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KUnit: Introduce ffs()-family tests</title>
<updated>2025-09-08T21:58:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-04T16:43:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b3a7bb71bfcd56c8266af8cf2a5dee3802e7a449'/>
<id>b3a7bb71bfcd56c8266af8cf2a5dee3802e7a449</id>
<content type='text'>
Add KUnit tests for ffs()-family bit scanning functions: ffs(), __ffs(),
fls(), __fls(), fls64(), __ffs64(), and ffz(). The tests validate
mathematical relationships (e.g. ffs(x) == __ffs(x) + 1), and test zero
values, power-of-2 patterns, maximum values, and sparse bit patterns.

Build and run tested with everything I could reach with KUnit:

$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=x86_64 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=i386 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc32 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpcle ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv32 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=s390 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=m68k ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=loongarch ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=mips --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=alpha --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=alpha-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sh --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sh4-linux-gnu-" ffs

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add KUnit tests for ffs()-family bit scanning functions: ffs(), __ffs(),
fls(), __fls(), fls64(), __ffs64(), and ffz(). The tests validate
mathematical relationships (e.g. ffs(x) == __ffs(x) + 1), and test zero
values, power-of-2 patterns, maximum values, and sparse bit patterns.

Build and run tested with everything I could reach with KUnit:

$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=x86_64 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=i386 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc32 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpcle ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv32 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=s390 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=m68k ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=loongarch ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=mips --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=alpha --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=alpha-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sh --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sh4-linux-gnu-" ffs

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T23:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-21T21:15:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a817de20091c3cf6de19d7ddf099b0e35003b7d0'/>
<id>a817de20091c3cf6de19d7ddf099b0e35003b7d0</id>
<content type='text'>
Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been bumped to 15.0.0, the CLANG_VERSION check for older than 14.0.0
is always false, so remove it.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-10-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been bumped to 15.0.0, the CLANG_VERSION check for older than 14.0.0
is always false, so remove it.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-10-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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