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<title>bonding: 3ad: add lacp_strict configuration knob</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Louis Scalbert</name>
<email>louis.scalbert@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T15:03:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 32b0b8953343eaceaa816a9ead3b6bb66355c64e ]

When an 802.3ad (LACP) bonding interface has no slaves in the
collecting/distributing state, the bonding master still reports
carrier as up as long as at least 'min_links' slaves have carrier.

In this situation, only one slave is effectively used for TX/RX,
while traffic received on other slaves is dropped. Upper-layer
daemons therefore consider the interface operational, even though
traffic may be blackholed if the lack of LACP negotiation means
the partner is not ready to deal with traffic.

Introduce a configuration knob to control this behavior. It allows
the bonding master to assert carrier only when at least 'min_links'
slaves are in Collecting_Distributing state.

The default mode preserves the existing behavior. This patch only
introduces the knob; its behavior is implemented in the subsequent
commit.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-4-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 32b0b8953343eaceaa816a9ead3b6bb66355c64e ]

When an 802.3ad (LACP) bonding interface has no slaves in the
collecting/distributing state, the bonding master still reports
carrier as up as long as at least 'min_links' slaves have carrier.

In this situation, only one slave is effectively used for TX/RX,
while traffic received on other slaves is dropped. Upper-layer
daemons therefore consider the interface operational, even though
traffic may be blackholed if the lack of LACP negotiation means
the partner is not ready to deal with traffic.

Introduce a configuration knob to control this behavior. It allows
the bonding master to assert carrier only when at least 'min_links'
slaves are in Collecting_Distributing state.

The default mode preserves the existing behavior. This patch only
introduces the knob; its behavior is implemented in the subsequent
commit.

Fixes: 655f8919d549 ("bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad")
Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-4-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools: missed broadcast_neigh if_link uapi header</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Louis Scalbert</name>
<email>louis.scalbert@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T15:03:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0134432215f0e0d4526544ac63dabe20e8a6951e ]

Add missing IFLA_BOND_BROADCAST_NEIGH in if_link uapi header.

Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-2-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 32b0b8953343 ("bonding: 3ad: add lacp_strict configuration knob")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0134432215f0e0d4526544ac63dabe20e8a6951e ]

Add missing IFLA_BOND_BROADCAST_NEIGH in if_link uapi header.

Signed-off-by: Louis Scalbert &lt;louis.scalbert@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jv@jvosburgh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603150331.1919611-2-louis.scalbert@6wind.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 32b0b8953343 ("bonding: 3ad: add lacp_strict configuration knob")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_prog_info</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>leon.hwang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T15:52:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 786be2b05980a5828e67fc564ad7517e2adbe9bd ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_prog_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_prog_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_prog_info {
	...
	__u32                      attach_btf_obj_id;    /*   220     4 */
	__u32                      attach_btf_id;        /*   224     4 */

	/* size: 232, cachelines: 4, members: 38 */
	/* sum members: 224 */
	/* sum bitfield members: 1 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 31 bits */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 9 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_prog_info, attach_btf_id).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_prog_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: aba64c7da983 ("bpf: Add verified_insns to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-3-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 786be2b05980a5828e67fc564ad7517e2adbe9bd ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_prog_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_prog_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_prog_info {
	...
	__u32                      attach_btf_obj_id;    /*   220     4 */
	__u32                      attach_btf_id;        /*   224     4 */

	/* size: 232, cachelines: 4, members: 38 */
	/* sum members: 224 */
	/* sum bitfield members: 1 bits, bit holes: 1, sum bit holes: 31 bits */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 9 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_prog_info, attach_btf_id).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_prog_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: aba64c7da983 ("bpf: Add verified_insns to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-3-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Check tail zero of bpf_map_info</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>leon.hwang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T15:52:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e2a49fdb1beed150125b4104c90eb2a96ec7f63a ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_map_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_map_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_map_info {
	...
	__u64                      hash __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    88     8 */
	__u32                      hash_size;            /*    96     4 */

	/* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 18 */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 1 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_map_info, hash_size).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_map_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e2a49fdb1beed150125b4104c90eb2a96ec7f63a ]

Since there're 4 bytes padding at the end of struct bpf_map_info, they
won't be checked by bpf_check_uarg_tail_zero().

pahole -C bpf_map_info ./vmlinux
struct bpf_map_info {
	...
	__u64                      hash __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    88     8 */
	__u32                      hash_size;            /*    96     4 */

	/* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 18 */
	/* padding: 4 */
	/* forced alignments: 1 */
	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

If a future kernel extension adds a new 4-byte field, older userspace
programs allocating this structure on the stack might inadvertently pass
uninitialized stack garbage into the new field, permanently breaking
backward compatibility. -- sashiko [1]

Fix it by changing sizeof(info) to
offsetofend(struct bpf_map_info, hash_size).

And, add "__u32 :32" to the tail of struct bpf_map_info.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260513224823.6494FC19425@smtp.kernel.org/

Fixes: ea2e6467ac36 ("bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD")
Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605155249.20772-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools headers UAPI: sync linux/taskstats.h for procacct.c</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T23:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Yaxin</name>
<email>wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-27T13:35:58+00:00</published>
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After commit 9b93f7e32774 ("tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers
from tools/include/uapi"), the Makefile was changed to use
-I../include/uapi/ instead of -I../../usr/include to ensure tools always
use the up-to-date UAPI headers.

However, only linux/taskstats.h was added to tools/include/uapi/ in commit
e5bbb35a07b3 ("tools headers UAPI: sync linux/taskstats.h"), but
linux/acct.h was missing.

This causes procacct.c to fail to compile with:

procacct.c:234:37: error: 'AGROUP' undeclared (first use in this function)

gcc -I../include/uapi/    getdelays.c   -o getdelays
gcc -I../include/uapi/    procacct.c   -o procacct
procacct.c: In function `print_procacct':
procacct.c:234:37: error: `AGROUP' undeclared (first use in this function)
did you mean `NOGROUP'?
  234 |  , t-&gt;version &gt;= 12 ? (t-&gt;ac_flag &amp; AGROUP ? 'P' : 'T') : '?'
      |                                     ^~~~~~
      |                                     NOGROUP
procacct.c:234:37: note: each undeclared ident

because procacct.c uses the AGROUP macro defined in linux/acct.h.

Add the missing linux/acct.h to complete the static UAPI header set.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260527213558929EhiHHy9EDTMjmg3uuDOMi@zte.com.cn
Fixes: 9b93f7e32774 ("tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from tools/include/uapi")
Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin &lt;wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Cc: Fan Yu &lt;fan.yu9@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Yang Yang &lt;yang.yang29@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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After commit 9b93f7e32774 ("tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers
from tools/include/uapi"), the Makefile was changed to use
-I../include/uapi/ instead of -I../../usr/include to ensure tools always
use the up-to-date UAPI headers.

However, only linux/taskstats.h was added to tools/include/uapi/ in commit
e5bbb35a07b3 ("tools headers UAPI: sync linux/taskstats.h"), but
linux/acct.h was missing.

This causes procacct.c to fail to compile with:

procacct.c:234:37: error: 'AGROUP' undeclared (first use in this function)

gcc -I../include/uapi/    getdelays.c   -o getdelays
gcc -I../include/uapi/    procacct.c   -o procacct
procacct.c: In function `print_procacct':
procacct.c:234:37: error: `AGROUP' undeclared (first use in this function)
did you mean `NOGROUP'?
  234 |  , t-&gt;version &gt;= 12 ? (t-&gt;ac_flag &amp; AGROUP ? 'P' : 'T') : '?'
      |                                     ^~~~~~
      |                                     NOGROUP
procacct.c:234:37: note: each undeclared ident

because procacct.c uses the AGROUP macro defined in linux/acct.h.

Add the missing linux/acct.h to complete the static UAPI header set.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260527213558929EhiHHy9EDTMjmg3uuDOMi@zte.com.cn
Fixes: 9b93f7e32774 ("tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from tools/include/uapi")
Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin &lt;wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Cc: Fan Yu &lt;fan.yu9@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Yang Yang &lt;yang.yang29@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools/headers: Regenerate stddef.h to fix BPF selftests</title>
<updated>2026-05-02T16:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Chaignon</name>
<email>paul.chaignon@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-02T10:12:40+00:00</published>
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With commit dacbfc167808 ("crypto: af_alg - Annotate struct af_alg_iv
with __counted_by"), two selftests, test_tag and crypto_sanity, now
indirectly rely on the __counted_by macro. On systems with commit
dacbfc167808 in the installed UAPI headers, the selftests build fails
with:

  In file included from tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/crypto_sanity.c:7:
  /usr/include/linux/if_alg.h:45:22: error: expected ‘:’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘}’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__counted_by’
     45 |         __u8    iv[] __counted_by(ivlen);
        |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~

This patch fixes it by regenerating stddef.h in tools/include using the
instructions from commit a778f5d46b62 ("tools/headers: Pull in stddef.h
to uapi to fix BPF selftests build in CI").

Fixes: dacbfc167808 ("crypto: af_alg - Annotate struct af_alg_iv with __counted_by")
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon &lt;paul.chaignon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ihor Solodrai &lt;ihor.solodrai@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8da8ef16055aa452d940668ed5359ce54adc6b0b.1777715500.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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With commit dacbfc167808 ("crypto: af_alg - Annotate struct af_alg_iv
with __counted_by"), two selftests, test_tag and crypto_sanity, now
indirectly rely on the __counted_by macro. On systems with commit
dacbfc167808 in the installed UAPI headers, the selftests build fails
with:

  In file included from tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/crypto_sanity.c:7:
  /usr/include/linux/if_alg.h:45:22: error: expected ‘:’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘}’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__counted_by’
     45 |         __u8    iv[] __counted_by(ivlen);
        |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~

This patch fixes it by regenerating stddef.h in tools/include using the
instructions from commit a778f5d46b62 ("tools/headers: Pull in stddef.h
to uapi to fix BPF selftests build in CI").

Fixes: dacbfc167808 ("crypto: af_alg - Annotate struct af_alg_iv with __counted_by")
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon &lt;paul.chaignon@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ihor Solodrai &lt;ihor.solodrai@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8da8ef16055aa452d940668ed5359ce54adc6b0b.1777715500.git.paul.chaignon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T16:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-18T16:24:56+00:00</published>
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Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
 "perf report:

   - Add 'comm_nodigit' sort key to combine similar threads that only
     have different numbers in the comm. In the following example, the
     'comm_nodigit' will have samples from all threads starting with
     "bpfrb/" into an entry "bpfrb/&lt;N&gt;".

        $ perf report -s comm_nodigit,comm -H
        ...
        #
        #    Overhead  CommandNoDigit / Command
        # ...........  ........................
        #
            20.30%     swapper
               20.30%     swapper
            13.37%     chrome
               13.37%     chrome
            10.07%     bpfrb/&lt;N&gt;
                7.47%     bpfrb/0
                0.70%     bpfrb/1
                0.47%     bpfrb/3
                0.46%     bpfrb/2
                0.25%     bpfrb/4
                0.23%     bpfrb/5
                0.20%     bpfrb/6
                0.14%     bpfrb/10
                0.07%     bpfrb/7

   - Support flat layout for symfs. The --symfs option is to specify the
     location of debugging symbol files. The default 'hierarchy' layout
     would search the symbol file using the same path of the original
     file under the symfs root. The new 'flat' layout would search only
     in the root directory.

   - Update 'simd' sort key for ARM SIMD flags to cover ASE/SME and more
     predicate flags.

  perf stat:

   - Add --pmu-filter option to select specific PMUs. This would be
     useful when you measure metrics from multiple instance of uncore
     PMUs with similar names.

        # perf stat -M cpa_p0_avg_bw
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

            19,417,779,115      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_cycles/      #     0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                         0      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                         0      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
            19,417,751,103      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_cycles/     #     0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                         0      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                         0      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
            19,417,730,679      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_cycles/      #     0.31 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                75,635,749      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                18,520,640      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
            19,417,674,227      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_cycles/      #     0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                         0      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                         0      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/

              19.417734480 seconds time elapsed

     With --pmu-filter, users can select only hisi_sicl2_cpa0 PMU.

        # perf stat --pmu-filter hisi_sicl2_cpa0 -M cpa_p0_avg_bw
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

             6,234,093,559      cpa_cycles                       #     0.60 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                50,548,465      cpa_p0_wr_dat
                 7,552,182      cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b
                         0      cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b

               6.234139320 seconds time elapsed

  Data type profiling:

   - Quality improvements by tracking register state more precisely

   - Ensure array members to get the type

   - Handle more cases for global variables

  Vendor event/metric updates:

   - Update various Intel events and metrics

   - Add NVIDIA Tegra 410 Olympus events

  Internal changes:

   - Verify perf.data header for maliciously crafted files

   - Update perf test to cover more usages and make them robust

   - Move a couple of copied kernel headers not to annoy objtool build

   - Fix a bug in map sorting in name order

   - Remove some unused codes

  Misc:

   - Fix module symbol resolution with non-zero text address

   - Add -t/--threads option to `perf bench mem mmap`

   - Track duration of exit*() syscall by `perf trace -s`

   - Add core.addr2line-timeout and core.addr2line-disable-warn config
     items"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (131 commits)
  perf loongarch: Fix build failure with CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND
  perf annotate: Use jump__delete when freeing LoongArch jumps
  perf test: Fixes for check branch stack sampling
  perf test: Fix inet_pton probe failure and unroll call graph
  perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location
  perf header: Add sanity checks to HEADER_BPF_BTF processing
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_CAPS
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_HYBRID_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_GROUP_DESC
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_MAPPINGS
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_MEM_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NRCPUS and HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO
  perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed
  perf header: Validate nr_domains when reading HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO
  perf sample: Fix documentation typo
  perf arm_spe: Improve SIMD flags setting
  ...
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<pre>
Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
 "perf report:

   - Add 'comm_nodigit' sort key to combine similar threads that only
     have different numbers in the comm. In the following example, the
     'comm_nodigit' will have samples from all threads starting with
     "bpfrb/" into an entry "bpfrb/&lt;N&gt;".

        $ perf report -s comm_nodigit,comm -H
        ...
        #
        #    Overhead  CommandNoDigit / Command
        # ...........  ........................
        #
            20.30%     swapper
               20.30%     swapper
            13.37%     chrome
               13.37%     chrome
            10.07%     bpfrb/&lt;N&gt;
                7.47%     bpfrb/0
                0.70%     bpfrb/1
                0.47%     bpfrb/3
                0.46%     bpfrb/2
                0.25%     bpfrb/4
                0.23%     bpfrb/5
                0.20%     bpfrb/6
                0.14%     bpfrb/10
                0.07%     bpfrb/7

   - Support flat layout for symfs. The --symfs option is to specify the
     location of debugging symbol files. The default 'hierarchy' layout
     would search the symbol file using the same path of the original
     file under the symfs root. The new 'flat' layout would search only
     in the root directory.

   - Update 'simd' sort key for ARM SIMD flags to cover ASE/SME and more
     predicate flags.

  perf stat:

   - Add --pmu-filter option to select specific PMUs. This would be
     useful when you measure metrics from multiple instance of uncore
     PMUs with similar names.

        # perf stat -M cpa_p0_avg_bw
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

            19,417,779,115      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_cycles/      #     0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                         0      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                         0      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
            19,417,751,103      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_cycles/     #     0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                         0      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                         0      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
            19,417,730,679      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_cycles/      #     0.31 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                75,635,749      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                18,520,640      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/
            19,417,674,227      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_cycles/      #     0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                         0      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/
                         0      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/
                         0      hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/

              19.417734480 seconds time elapsed

     With --pmu-filter, users can select only hisi_sicl2_cpa0 PMU.

        # perf stat --pmu-filter hisi_sicl2_cpa0 -M cpa_p0_avg_bw
         Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

             6,234,093,559      cpa_cycles                       #     0.60 cpa_p0_avg_bw
                50,548,465      cpa_p0_wr_dat
                 7,552,182      cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b
                         0      cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b

               6.234139320 seconds time elapsed

  Data type profiling:

   - Quality improvements by tracking register state more precisely

   - Ensure array members to get the type

   - Handle more cases for global variables

  Vendor event/metric updates:

   - Update various Intel events and metrics

   - Add NVIDIA Tegra 410 Olympus events

  Internal changes:

   - Verify perf.data header for maliciously crafted files

   - Update perf test to cover more usages and make them robust

   - Move a couple of copied kernel headers not to annoy objtool build

   - Fix a bug in map sorting in name order

   - Remove some unused codes

  Misc:

   - Fix module symbol resolution with non-zero text address

   - Add -t/--threads option to `perf bench mem mmap`

   - Track duration of exit*() syscall by `perf trace -s`

   - Add core.addr2line-timeout and core.addr2line-disable-warn config
     items"

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (131 commits)
  perf loongarch: Fix build failure with CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND
  perf annotate: Use jump__delete when freeing LoongArch jumps
  perf test: Fixes for check branch stack sampling
  perf test: Fix inet_pton probe failure and unroll call graph
  perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location
  perf header: Add sanity checks to HEADER_BPF_BTF processing
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_CAPS
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_HYBRID_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_GROUP_DESC
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_MAPPINGS
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_MEM_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY
  perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NRCPUS and HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO
  perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed
  perf header: Validate nr_domains when reading HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO
  perf sample: Fix documentation typo
  perf arm_spe: Improve SIMD flags setting
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T14:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-17T14:18:03+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Arm:

   - Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
     which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This
     uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be
     exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came
     through the tracing tree

   - Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the
     starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM

   - Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are
     unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can
     be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected
     guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the
     elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous
     memory is also supported

     This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for
     example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet
     isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it
     promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST +
     'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is
     created. Caveat emptor

   - Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more
     maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the
     various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state
     immutable

   - Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page
     tables on a per-VM basis

   - Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to
     follow

   - Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not
     generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead
     to very bad HW lockups

   - A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error
     cases

   - Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host
     SMCCC calls

   - The usual cleanups and other selftest churn

  LoongArch:

   - Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel()

   - Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support

  RISC-V:

   - Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks

   - Fix vector context allocation leak

   - Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi()

   - Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area()

   - Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask()

   - Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request()

   - Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging

   - Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging

   - Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core

   - Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests

   - Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources

   - Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config

   - Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources

   - Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space

  s390:

   - Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors

   - Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed
     anymore with the new gmap code

   - Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking
     event address register)

  x86:

   - Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before
     they were initialized

   - Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting
     hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in
     the page table and thus write all bytes

   - As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings
     if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage

  x86 generic:

   - Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more
     precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack
     bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to
     userspace

   - Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it
     easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier")

   - Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of
     VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O

   - Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions

   - Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one
     of KVM's headers that is included multiple times

   - Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected
     exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to
     trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from
     unintentionally crashing the VM

   - Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec

   - Misc hardening and cleanup changes

  x86 (AMD):

   - Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it
     per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple
     vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs

   - Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which
     KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple
     CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should
     usually be the same for all CPUs

   - Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains
     about a "too large" size based purely on user input

   - Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION

   - Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted
     vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an
     RMP violation page fault

   - Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped
     queries are required to hold kvm-&gt;lock, and enforce it by lockdep.
     Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for
     the whole duration of a function or ioctl

   - Convert a pile of kvm-&gt;lock SEV code to guard()

   - Play nicer with userspace that does not enable
     KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6
     as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the
     payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example).
     Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent,
     but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths
     where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6

   - Use vcpu-&gt;arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT
     instead of vmcb02-&gt;save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a
     save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2

   - Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are
     not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so
     are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE

   - Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
     and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly
     initialized after save+restore

   - Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks

   - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields
     on nested #VMEXIT

   - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or
     #GP for SVM-related instructions

   - Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM)

   - Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and
     (hopefully) make the code easier to maintain

   - Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard
     against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined
     features

   - Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when
     emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM
     doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests

   - Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails
     instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double
     down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP
     for "unsupported" addresses)

   - Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs

  x86 (Intel):

   - Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros

   - Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a
     register input when appropriate

   - Code cleanups

  guest_memfd:

   - Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't
     support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage
     to write back to

  LoongArch selftests:

   - Add KVM PMU test cases

  s390 selftests:

   - Enable more memory selftests

  x86 selftests:

   - Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests

   - Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on
     AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP

   - Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test
     for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd
     folios against KVM's will"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits)
  KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest
  x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest
  KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails
  KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req()
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region()
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl()
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update()
  KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm-&gt;lock is held when querying SEV+ support
  KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe"
  KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
  KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers
  LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU
  LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function
  LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch
  LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch
  ...
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<pre>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Arm:

   - Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
     which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This
     uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be
     exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came
     through the tracing tree

   - Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the
     starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM

   - Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are
     unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can
     be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected
     guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the
     elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous
     memory is also supported

     This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for
     example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet
     isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it
     promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST +
     'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is
     created. Caveat emptor

   - Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more
     maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the
     various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state
     immutable

   - Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page
     tables on a per-VM basis

   - Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to
     follow

   - Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not
     generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead
     to very bad HW lockups

   - A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error
     cases

   - Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host
     SMCCC calls

   - The usual cleanups and other selftest churn

  LoongArch:

   - Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel()

   - Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support

  RISC-V:

   - Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks

   - Fix vector context allocation leak

   - Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi()

   - Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area()

   - Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask()

   - Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request()

   - Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging

   - Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging

   - Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core

   - Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests

   - Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources

   - Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config

   - Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources

   - Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space

  s390:

   - Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors

   - Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed
     anymore with the new gmap code

   - Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking
     event address register)

  x86:

   - Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before
     they were initialized

   - Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting
     hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in
     the page table and thus write all bytes

   - As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings
     if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage

  x86 generic:

   - Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more
     precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack
     bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to
     userspace

   - Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it
     easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier")

   - Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of
     VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O

   - Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions

   - Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one
     of KVM's headers that is included multiple times

   - Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected
     exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to
     trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from
     unintentionally crashing the VM

   - Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec

   - Misc hardening and cleanup changes

  x86 (AMD):

   - Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it
     per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple
     vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs

   - Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which
     KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple
     CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should
     usually be the same for all CPUs

   - Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains
     about a "too large" size based purely on user input

   - Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION

   - Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted
     vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an
     RMP violation page fault

   - Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped
     queries are required to hold kvm-&gt;lock, and enforce it by lockdep.
     Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for
     the whole duration of a function or ioctl

   - Convert a pile of kvm-&gt;lock SEV code to guard()

   - Play nicer with userspace that does not enable
     KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6
     as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the
     payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example).
     Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent,
     but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths
     where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6

   - Use vcpu-&gt;arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT
     instead of vmcb02-&gt;save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a
     save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2

   - Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are
     not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so
     are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE

   - Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
     and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly
     initialized after save+restore

   - Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks

   - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields
     on nested #VMEXIT

   - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or
     #GP for SVM-related instructions

   - Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM)

   - Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and
     (hopefully) make the code easier to maintain

   - Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard
     against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined
     features

   - Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when
     emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM
     doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests

   - Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails
     instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double
     down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP
     for "unsupported" addresses)

   - Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs

  x86 (Intel):

   - Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros

   - Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a
     register input when appropriate

   - Code cleanups

  guest_memfd:

   - Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't
     support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage
     to write back to

  LoongArch selftests:

   - Add KVM PMU test cases

  s390 selftests:

   - Enable more memory selftests

  x86 selftests:

   - Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests

   - Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on
     AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP

   - Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test
     for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd
     folios against KVM's will"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits)
  KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest
  x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest
  KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails
  KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req()
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region()
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl()
  KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update()
  KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm-&gt;lock is held when querying SEV+ support
  KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe"
  KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
  KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers
  LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU
  LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function
  LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch
  LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov)

   Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away
   some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some
   documentation fixups

 - "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown)

   Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest

 - "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko)

 - "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector"
   (Aaron Tomlin)

   Give administrators the ability to zero out
   /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count

 - "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from
   tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh)

   Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the
   system-provided ones

 - "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta)

   Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its
   documentation

 - "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law)

   A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code

 - "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo)

 - "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig)

   A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to
   quote Christoph:

     "The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right
      now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography
      and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations
      sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations
      sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for
      many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into
      the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture
      code.

      Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the
      architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric
      Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After
      that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for
      smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained
      here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call
      overhead"

 - "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds"
   (Kuan-Wei Chiu)

   Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added
   for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need

 - "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt)

   Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the
   now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself

 - "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and
   PowerPC" (Coiby Xu)

   Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and
   powerpc

 - "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks"
   (Joseph Qi)

   Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent
   list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits)
  ocfs2: validate group add input before caching
  ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan
  ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full
  doc: watchdog: fix typos etc
  update Sean's email address
  ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate
  ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion
  ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path()
  ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read
  ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec()
  ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read
  ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY
  ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend
  .get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar
  ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups
  checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs
  tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages
  taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications
  ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths
  arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov)

   Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away
   some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some
   documentation fixups

 - "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown)

   Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest

 - "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko)

 - "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector"
   (Aaron Tomlin)

   Give administrators the ability to zero out
   /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count

 - "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from
   tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh)

   Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the
   system-provided ones

 - "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta)

   Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its
   documentation

 - "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law)

   A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code

 - "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo)

 - "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig)

   A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to
   quote Christoph:

     "The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right
      now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography
      and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations
      sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations
      sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for
      many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into
      the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture
      code.

      Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the
      architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric
      Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After
      that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for
      smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained
      here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call
      overhead"

 - "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds"
   (Kuan-Wei Chiu)

   Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added
   for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need

 - "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt)

   Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the
   now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself

 - "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and
   PowerPC" (Coiby Xu)

   Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and
   powerpc

 - "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks"
   (Joseph Qi)

   Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent
   list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits)
  ocfs2: validate group add input before caching
  ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan
  ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full
  doc: watchdog: fix typos etc
  update Sean's email address
  ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate
  ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion
  ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path()
  ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read
  ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec()
  ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read
  ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY
  ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend
  .get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar
  ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups
  checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs
  tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages
  taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications
  ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths
  arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.mount.v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T02:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T02:59:25+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE flag to fsmount() that creates a new mount
   namespace with the newly created filesystem attached to a copy of the
   real rootfs. This returns a namespace file descriptor instead of an
   O_PATH mount fd, similar to how OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE works for
   open_tree().

   This allows creating a new filesystem and immediately placing it in a
   new mount namespace in a single operation, which is useful for
   container runtimes and other namespace-based isolation mechanisms.

   This accompanies OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE and avoids a needless detour via
   OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE to get the same effect. Will be especially useful
   when you mount an actual filesystem to be used as the container
   rootfs.

 - Currently, creating a new mount namespace always copies the entire
   mount tree from the caller's namespace. For containers and sandboxes
   that intend to build their mount table from scratch this is wasteful:
   they inherit a potentially large mount tree only to immediately tear
   it down.

   This series adds support for creating a mount namespace that contains
   only a clone of the root mount, with none of the child mounts. Two
   new flags are introduced:

     - CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS (0x400000000) for clone3(), using the 64-bit flag space
     - UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS (0x00100000) for unshare()

   Both flags imply CLONE_NEWNS. The resulting namespace contains a
   single nullfs root mount with an immutable empty directory. The
   intended workflow is to then mount a real filesystem (e.g., tmpfs)
   over the root and build the mount table from there.

 - Allow MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH to target the caller's rootfs, allowing to
   switch out the rootfs without pivot_root(2).

   The traditional approach to switching the rootfs involves
   pivot_root(2) or a chroot_fs_refs()-based mechanism that atomically
   updates fs-&gt;root for all tasks sharing the same fs_struct. This has
   consequences for fork(), unshare(CLONE_FS), and setns().

   This series instead decomposes root-switching into individually
   atomic, locally-scoped steps:

	fd_tree = open_tree(-EBADF, "/newroot", OPEN_TREE_CLONE | OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC);
	fchdir(fd_tree);
	move_mount(fd_tree, "", AT_FDCWD, "/", MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH | MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH);
	chroot(".");
	umount2(".", MNT_DETACH);

   Since each step only modifies the caller's own state, the
   fork/unshare/setns races are eliminated by design.

   A key step to making this possible is to remove the locked mount
   restriction. Originally MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH doesn't support mounting
   beneath a mount that is locked. The locked mount protects the
   underlying mount from being revealed. This is a core mechanism of
   unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS). The mounts in the new mount
   namespace become locked. That effectively makes the new mount table
   useless as the caller cannot ever get rid of any of the mounts no
   matter how useless they are.

   We can lift this restriction though. We simply transfer the locked
   property from the top mount to the mount beneath. This works because
   what we care about is to protect the underlying mount aka the parent.
   The mount mounted between the parent and the top mount takes over the
   job of protecting the parent mount from the top mount mount. This
   leaves us free to remove the locked property from the top mount which
   can consequently be unmounted:

	unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS)

   and we inherit a clone of procfs on /proc then currently we cannot
   unmount it as:

	umount -l /proc

   will fail with EINVAL because the procfs mount is locked.

   After this series we can now do:

	mount --beneath -t tmpfs tmpfs /proc
	umount -l /proc

   after which a tmpfs mount has been placed beneath the procfs mount.
   The tmpfs mount has become locked and the procfs mount has become
   unlocked.

   This means you can safely modify an inherited mount table after
   unprivileged namespace creation.

   Afterwards we simply make it possible to move a mount beneath the
   rootfs allowing to upgrade the rootfs.

   Removing the locked restriction makes this very useful for containers
   created with unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) to reshuffle an
   inherited mount table safely and MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH makes it possible
   to switch out the rootfs instead of using the costly pivot_root(2).

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.mount.v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  selftests/namespaces: remove unused utils.h include from listns_efault_test
  selftests/fsmount_ns: add missing TARGETS and fix cap test
  selftests/empty_mntns: fix wrong CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS hex value in comment
  selftests/empty_mntns: fix statmount_alloc() signature mismatch
  selftests/statmount: remove duplicate wait_for_pid()
  mount: always duplicate mount
  selftests/filesystems: add MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH rootfs tests
  move_mount: allow MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH on the rootfs
  move_mount: transfer MNT_LOCKED
  selftests/filesystems: add clone3 tests for empty mount namespaces
  selftests/filesystems: add tests for empty mount namespaces
  namespace: allow creating empty mount namespaces
  selftests: add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE tests
  selftests/statmount: add statmount_alloc() helper
  tools: update mount.h header
  mount: add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE
  mount: simplify __do_loopback()
  mount: start iterating from start of rbtree
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Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE flag to fsmount() that creates a new mount
   namespace with the newly created filesystem attached to a copy of the
   real rootfs. This returns a namespace file descriptor instead of an
   O_PATH mount fd, similar to how OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE works for
   open_tree().

   This allows creating a new filesystem and immediately placing it in a
   new mount namespace in a single operation, which is useful for
   container runtimes and other namespace-based isolation mechanisms.

   This accompanies OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE and avoids a needless detour via
   OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE to get the same effect. Will be especially useful
   when you mount an actual filesystem to be used as the container
   rootfs.

 - Currently, creating a new mount namespace always copies the entire
   mount tree from the caller's namespace. For containers and sandboxes
   that intend to build their mount table from scratch this is wasteful:
   they inherit a potentially large mount tree only to immediately tear
   it down.

   This series adds support for creating a mount namespace that contains
   only a clone of the root mount, with none of the child mounts. Two
   new flags are introduced:

     - CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS (0x400000000) for clone3(), using the 64-bit flag space
     - UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS (0x00100000) for unshare()

   Both flags imply CLONE_NEWNS. The resulting namespace contains a
   single nullfs root mount with an immutable empty directory. The
   intended workflow is to then mount a real filesystem (e.g., tmpfs)
   over the root and build the mount table from there.

 - Allow MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH to target the caller's rootfs, allowing to
   switch out the rootfs without pivot_root(2).

   The traditional approach to switching the rootfs involves
   pivot_root(2) or a chroot_fs_refs()-based mechanism that atomically
   updates fs-&gt;root for all tasks sharing the same fs_struct. This has
   consequences for fork(), unshare(CLONE_FS), and setns().

   This series instead decomposes root-switching into individually
   atomic, locally-scoped steps:

	fd_tree = open_tree(-EBADF, "/newroot", OPEN_TREE_CLONE | OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC);
	fchdir(fd_tree);
	move_mount(fd_tree, "", AT_FDCWD, "/", MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH | MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH);
	chroot(".");
	umount2(".", MNT_DETACH);

   Since each step only modifies the caller's own state, the
   fork/unshare/setns races are eliminated by design.

   A key step to making this possible is to remove the locked mount
   restriction. Originally MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH doesn't support mounting
   beneath a mount that is locked. The locked mount protects the
   underlying mount from being revealed. This is a core mechanism of
   unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS). The mounts in the new mount
   namespace become locked. That effectively makes the new mount table
   useless as the caller cannot ever get rid of any of the mounts no
   matter how useless they are.

   We can lift this restriction though. We simply transfer the locked
   property from the top mount to the mount beneath. This works because
   what we care about is to protect the underlying mount aka the parent.
   The mount mounted between the parent and the top mount takes over the
   job of protecting the parent mount from the top mount mount. This
   leaves us free to remove the locked property from the top mount which
   can consequently be unmounted:

	unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS)

   and we inherit a clone of procfs on /proc then currently we cannot
   unmount it as:

	umount -l /proc

   will fail with EINVAL because the procfs mount is locked.

   After this series we can now do:

	mount --beneath -t tmpfs tmpfs /proc
	umount -l /proc

   after which a tmpfs mount has been placed beneath the procfs mount.
   The tmpfs mount has become locked and the procfs mount has become
   unlocked.

   This means you can safely modify an inherited mount table after
   unprivileged namespace creation.

   Afterwards we simply make it possible to move a mount beneath the
   rootfs allowing to upgrade the rootfs.

   Removing the locked restriction makes this very useful for containers
   created with unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) to reshuffle an
   inherited mount table safely and MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH makes it possible
   to switch out the rootfs instead of using the costly pivot_root(2).

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.mount.v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  selftests/namespaces: remove unused utils.h include from listns_efault_test
  selftests/fsmount_ns: add missing TARGETS and fix cap test
  selftests/empty_mntns: fix wrong CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS hex value in comment
  selftests/empty_mntns: fix statmount_alloc() signature mismatch
  selftests/statmount: remove duplicate wait_for_pid()
  mount: always duplicate mount
  selftests/filesystems: add MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH rootfs tests
  move_mount: allow MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH on the rootfs
  move_mount: transfer MNT_LOCKED
  selftests/filesystems: add clone3 tests for empty mount namespaces
  selftests/filesystems: add tests for empty mount namespaces
  namespace: allow creating empty mount namespaces
  selftests: add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE tests
  selftests/statmount: add statmount_alloc() helper
  tools: update mount.h header
  mount: add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE
  mount: simplify __do_loopback()
  mount: start iterating from start of rbtree
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