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25 hoursMerge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools 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/<N>". $ 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/<N> 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 ...
2 daysMerge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
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->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->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->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT instead of vmcb02->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->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 ...
3 daysMerge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 ...
5 daysMerge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.mount.v2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 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->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
5 daysMerge tag 'net-next-7.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023) - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection Cross-tree stuff: - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it Netfilter: - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU. Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable Wireless: - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth - Radar detection improvements - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware Driver API: - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic) - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana) - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x) - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5) Misc: - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter Drivers - Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling - Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration - Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics - Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs - Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support" * tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...
5 daysMerge tag 'bpf-next-7.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Welcome new BPF maintainers: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Eduard Zingerman while Martin KaFai Lau reduced his load to Reviwer. - Lots of fixes everywhere from many first time contributors. Thank you All. - Diff stat is dominated by mechanical split of verifier.c into multiple components: - backtrack.c: backtracking logic and jump history - states.c: state equivalence - cfg.c: control flow graph, postorder, strongly connected components - liveness.c: register and stack liveness - fixups.c: post-verification passes: instruction patching, dead code removal, bpf_loop inlining, finalize fastcall 8k line were moved. verifier.c still stands at 20k lines. Further refactoring is planned for the next release. - Replace dynamic stack liveness with static stack liveness based on data flow analysis. This improved the verification time by 2x for some programs and equally reduced memory consumption. New logic is in liveness.c and supported by constant folding in const_fold.c (Eduard Zingerman, Alexei Starovoitov) - Introduce BTF layout to ease addition of new BTF kinds (Alan Maguire) - Use kmalloc_nolock() universally in BPF local storage (Amery Hung) - Fix several bugs in linked registers delta tracking (Daniel Borkmann) - Improve verifier support of arena pointers (Emil Tsalapatis) - Improve verifier tracking of register bounds in min/max and tnum domains (Harishankar Vishwanathan, Paul Chaignon, Hao Sun) - Further extend support for implicit arguments in the verifier (Ihor Solodrai) - Add support for nop,nop5 instruction combo for USDT probes in libbpf (Jiri Olsa) - Support merging multiple module BTFs (Josef Bacik) - Extend applicability of bpf_kptr_xchg (Kaitao Cheng) - Retire rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Support variable offset context access for 'syscall' programs (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Migrate bpf_task_work and dynptr to kmalloc_nolock() (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Fix UAF in in open-coded task_vma iterator (Puranjay Mohan) * tag 'bpf-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (241 commits) selftests/bpf: cover short IPv4/IPv6 inputs with adjust_room bpf: reject short IPv4/IPv6 inputs in bpf_prog_test_run_skb selftests/bpf: Use memfd_create instead of shm_open in cgroup_iter_memcg selftests/bpf: Add test for cgroup storage OOB read bpf: Fix OOB in pcpu_init_value selftests/bpf: Fix reg_bounds to match new tnum-based refinement selftests/bpf: Add tests for non-arena/arena operations bpf: Allow instructions with arena source and non-arena dest registers bpftool: add missing fsession to the usage and docs of bpftool docs/bpf: add missing fsession attach type to docs bpf: add missing fsession to the verifier log bpf: Move BTF checking logic into check_btf.c bpf: Move backtracking logic to backtrack.c bpf: Move state equivalence logic to states.c bpf: Move check_cfg() into cfg.c bpf: Move compute_insn_live_regs() into liveness.c bpf: Move fixup/post-processing logic from verifier.c into fixups.c bpf: Simplify do_check_insn() bpf: Move checks for reserved fields out of the main pass bpf: Delete unused variable ...
5 daysMerge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen: "Kernel symbol flags: - Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and __kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new __kflagstab section. This section stores symbol flags, such as the GPL-only flag, as an 8-bit bitset for each exported symbol. This is a cleanup that simplifies symbol lookup in the module loader by avoiding table fragmentation and will allow a cleaner way to add more flags later if needed. Module signature UAPI: - Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse by tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and scripts/sign-file. This also renames a few constants for clarity and drops unused signature types as preparation for hash-based module integrity checking work that's in progress. Sysfs: - Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show the symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules. This makes it easier to verify driver API access at runtime on systems that care about such things (e.g. Android). Cleanups and fixes: - Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents non-zero section addresses when linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r', which confused elfutils. - Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n. - Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by the module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded. - Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive returns from module_init(). - Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation" * tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (23 commits) module: Simplify warning on positive returns from module_init() module: Override -EEXIST module return documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections module: populate kflagstab in modpost module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.h module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name module: Drop unused signature types extract-cert: drop unused definition of PKEY_ID_PKCS7 docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs module: Remove extern keyword from param prototypes ...
6 daysMerge tag 'kvmarm-7.1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 updates for 7.1 * New features: - Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code, which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This comes with a full infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware. - 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, with anonymous memory being used as a backing store. About time! * Improvements and bug fixes: - 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.
10 daysnet: Add queue-create operationDaniel Borkmann
Add a ynl netdev family operation called queue-create that creates a new queue on a netdevice: name: queue-create attribute-set: queue flags: [admin-perm] do: request: attributes: - ifindex - type - lease reply: &queue-create-op attributes: - id This is a generic operation such that it can be extended for various use cases in future. Right now it is mandatory to specify ifindex, the queue type which is enforced to rx and a lease. The newly created queue id is returned to the caller. A queue from a virtual device can have a lease which refers to another queue from a physical device. This is useful for memory providers and AF_XDP operations which take an ifindex and queue id to allow applications to bind against virtual devices in containers. The lease couples both queues together and allows to proxy the operations from a virtual device in a container to the physical device. In future, the nested lease attribute can be lifted and made optional for other use-cases such as dynamic queue creation for physical netdevs. The lack of lease and the specification of the physical device as an ifindex will imply that we need a real queue to be allocated. Similarly, the queue type enforcement to rx can then be lifted as well to support tx. An early implementation had only driver-specific integration [0], but in order for other virtual devices to reuse, it makes sense to have this as a generic API in core net. For leasing queues, the virtual netdev must have real_num_rx_queues less than num_rx_queues at the time of calling queue-create. The queue-type must be rx as only rx queues are supported for leasing for now. We also enforce that the queue-create ifindex must point to a virtual device, and that the nested lease attribute's ifindex must point to a physical device. The nested lease attribute set contains a netns-id attribute which is optional and can specify a netns-id relative to the caller's netns. It requires cap_net_admin and if the netns-id attribute is not specified, the lease ifindex will be retrieved from the current netns. Also, it is modeled as an s32 type similarly as done elsewhere in the stack. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Co-developed-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk> Signed-off-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://bpfconf.ebpf.io/bpfconf2025/bpfconf2025_material/lsfmmbpf_2025_netkit_borkmann.pdf [0] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402231031.447597-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.0-rc6+Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Minor conflict in kernel/bpf/verifier.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-03-31perf beauty: Move copy of fadvise.h from tools/include/ to ↵Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/ As it is not really used when compiling anything, just being parsed to collect number->string tables for 'perf trace'. $ git grep fadvise.h tools/ tools/perf/Makefile.perf:$(fadvise_advice_array): $(beauty_uapi_linux_dir)/fadvise.h $(fadvise_advice_tbl) tools/perf/check-headers.sh: "include/uapi/linux/fadvise.h" tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh:grep -E $regex ${header_dir}/fadvise.h | \ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh:# tools/include/uapi/linux/fadvise.h for details. $ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAP-5=fVBNQVF8k3JUQjH1nkP69ZVp8BqP+uwygcx=xO0zC4xrg@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-03-31bpf: Clarify BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP behavior for bpf_ringbuf_discard()Eyal Birger
Clarify bpf_ringbuf_discard() documentation for BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP. Discarded ring buffer records are still left in the ring buffer and are only skipped when user space consumes them. This can matter when BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP is used: a later submit relying on adaptive wakeup might not wake the consumer, because the discarded record still needs to be consumed first. Scenario: epoll_wait(rb_fd); // blocks rec = bpf_ringbuf_reserve(&rb, ...); bpf_ringbuf_discard(rec, BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP); rec = bpf_ringbuf_reserve(&rb, ...); bpf_ringbuf_submit(rec, 0); // valid record, but no wakeup Document this in bpf_ringbuf_discard() to make the interaction between discarded records, user-space consumption, and adaptive wakeups explicit. Reported-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260331130612.3762433-1-eyal.birger@gmail.com ---- v2: adapt wording per feedback from Andrii.
2026-03-27tools headers UAPI: sync linux/taskstats.hThomas Weißschuh
Patch series "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from tools/include/uapi". The include directory ../../usr/include is only present if an in-tree kernel build with CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL was done before. Otherwise the system UAPI headers are used, which most likely are not the most recent ones. To make sure to always have access to up-to-date UAPI headers, use the static copy in tools/include/uapi. This patch (of 2): To give the accounting tools access to the new fields introduced in commit 503efe850c74 ("delayacct: add timestamp of delay max") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260307-accounting-taskstats-h-v1-0-0b75915c6ce5@weissschuh.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260307-accounting-taskstats-h-v1-1-0b75915c6ce5@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Jiang Kun <jiang.kun2@zte.com.cn> Cc: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-03-26btf: Add BTF kind layout encoding to UAPIAlan Maguire
BTF kind layouts provide information to parse BTF kinds. By separating parsing BTF from using all the information it provides, we allow BTF to encode new features even if they cannot be used by readers. This will be helpful in particular for cases where older tools are used to parse newer BTF with kinds the older tools do not recognize; the BTF can still be parsed in such cases using kind layout. The intent is to support encoding of kind layouts optionally so that tools like pahole can add this information. For each kind, we record - length of singular element following struct btf_type - length of each of the btf_vlen() elements following - a (currently unused) flags field The ideas here were discussed at [1], [2]; hence Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-2-alan.maguire@oracle.com [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzYjWHRdNNw4B=eOXOs_ONrDwrgX4bn=Nuc1g8JPFC34MA@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230531201936.1992188-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com/
2026-03-24tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.hThomas Weißschuh
This header is going to be used from scripts/sign-file. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-22tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sourcesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To pick the changes in: da142f3d373a6dda ("KVM: Remove subtle "struct kvm_stats_desc" pseudo-overlay") That just rebuilds perf, as these patches don't add any new KVM ioctl to be harvested for the 'perf trace' ioctl syscall argument beautifiers. This addresses this perf build warning: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-03-19KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Add ARM_VGIC_V5 device to KVM headersSascha Bischoff
This is the base GICv5 device which is to be used with the KVM_CREATE_DEVICE ioctl to create a GICv5-based vgic. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-9-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-12tools: update mount.h headerChristian Brauner
Update the mount.h header so we can rely on it in the selftests. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122-work-fsmount-namespace-v1-4-5ef0a886e646@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-04tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sourcesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To pick the changes in: f7ab71f178d56447 ("KVM: s390: Add explicit padding to struct kvm_s390_keyop") 0ee4ddc1647b8b3b ("KVM: s390: Storage key manipulation IOCTL") fa9893fadbc245e1 ("KVM: Introduce KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS for SNP certificate-fetching") f174a9ffcd48d78a ("KVM: arm64: Add exit to userspace on {LD,ST}64B* outside of memslots") That just rebuilds perf, as these patches add just one new KVM ioctl, but for S390, that is not being considered by tools/perf/trace/beauty/kvm_ioctl.sh so far. This addresses this perf build warning: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-03-04perf beauty: Update the linux/perf_event.h copy with the kernel sourcesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Update it as one comment got realigned, probably in a merge, so no changes in perf tooling, just silences this build warning: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2026-02-10Merge tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull performance event updates from Ingo Molnar: "x86 PMU driver updates: - Add support for the core PMU for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs (Dapeng Mi) Compared to previous iterations of the Intel PMU code, there's been a lot of changes, which center around three main areas: - Introduce the OFF-MODULE RESPONSE (OMR) facility to replace the Off-Core Response (OCR) facility - New PEBS data source encoding layout - Support the new "RDPMC user disable" feature - Likewise, a large series adds uncore PMU support for Intel Diamond Rapids (DMR) CPUs (Zide Chen) This centers around these four main areas: - DMR may have two Integrated I/O and Memory Hub (IMH) dies, separate from the compute tile (CBB) dies. Each CBB and each IMH die has its own discovery domain. - Unlike prior CPUs that retrieve the global discovery table portal exclusively via PCI or MSR, DMR uses PCI for IMH PMON discovery and MSR for CBB PMON discovery. - DMR introduces several new PMON types: SCA, HAMVF, D2D_ULA, UBR, PCIE4, CRS, CPC, ITC, OTC, CMS, and PCIE6. - IIO free-running counters in DMR are MMIO-based, unlike SPR. - Also add support for Add missing PMON units for Intel Panther Lake, and support Nova Lake (NVL), which largely maps to Panther Lake. (Zide Chen) - KVM integration: Add support for mediated vPMUs (by Kan Liang and Sean Christopherson, with fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra, Sandipan Das and Mingwei Zhang) - Add Intel cstate driver to support for Wildcat Lake (WCL) CPUs, which are a low-power variant of Panther Lake (Zide Chen) - Add core, cstate and MSR PMU support for the Airmont NP Intel CPU (aka MaxLinear Lightning Mountain), which maps to the existing Airmont code (Martin Schiller) Performance enhancements: - Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls (Jan H. Schönherr) - Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks (Namhyung Kim) User-space stack unwinding support: - Various cleanups and refactorings in preparation to generalize the unwinding code for other architectures (Jens Remus) Uprobes updates: - Transition from kmap_atomic to kmap_local_page (Keke Ming) - Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() (Breno Leitao) - Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks (Oleg Nesterov) Misc fixes and cleanups: - s390: Remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild (Randy Dunlap) - x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon (Chen Ni) - x86/uncore: Clean up const mismatch (Greg Kroah-Hartman) - x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment (Xiang-Bin Shi)" * tag 'perf-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits) s390: remove kvm_types.h from Kbuild uprobes: Fix incorrect lockdep condition in filter_chain() x86/ibs: Fix typo in dc_l2tlb_miss comment x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks perf/x86/intel/uncore: Convert comma to semicolon perf/x86/intel: Add support for rdpmc user disable feature perf/x86: Use macros to replace magic numbers in attr_rdpmc perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for Novalake perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in NVL perf/x86/intel: Add core PMU support for DMR perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in DMR perf/x86/intel: Support the 4 new OMR MSRs introduced in DMR and NVL perf/core: Fix slow perf_event_task_exit() with LBR callstacks perf/core: Speed up kexec shutdown by avoiding unnecessary cross CPU calls uprobes: use kmap_local_page() for temporary page mappings arm/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() mips/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() arm64/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() riscv/uprobes: use kmap_local_page() in arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Nova Lake support ...
2026-01-27bpf: add new BPF_CGROUP_ITER_CHILDREN control optionMatt Bobrowski
Currently, the BPF cgroup iterator supports walking descendants in either pre-order (BPF_CGROUP_ITER_DESCENDANTS_PRE) or post-order (BPF_CGROUP_ITER_DESCENDANTS_POST). These modes perform an exhaustive depth-first search (DFS) of the hierarchy. In scenarios where a BPF program may need to inspect only the direct children of a given parent cgroup, a full DFS is unnecessarily expensive. This patch introduces a new BPF cgroup iterator control option, BPF_CGROUP_ITER_CHILDREN. This control option restricts the traversal to the immediate children of a specified parent cgroup, allowing for more targeted and efficient iteration, particularly when exhaustive depth-first search (DFS) traversal is not required. Signed-off-by: Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260127085112.3608687-1-mattbobrowski@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-01-24bpf: add fsession supportMenglong Dong
The fsession is something that similar to kprobe session. It allow to attach a single BPF program to both the entry and the exit of the target functions. Introduce the struct bpf_fsession_link, which allows to add the link to both the fentry and fexit progs_hlist of the trampoline. Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@chinatelecom.cn> Co-developed-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124062008.8657-2-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-01-15perf/x86/intel: Add support for PEBS memory auxiliary info field in DMRDapeng Mi
With the introduction of the OMR feature, the PEBS memory auxiliary info field for load and store latency events has been restructured for DMR. The memory auxiliary info field's bit[8] indicates whether a L2 cache miss occurred for a memory load or store instruction. If bit[8] is 0, it signifies no L2 cache miss, and bits[7:0] specify the exact cache data source (up to the L2 cache level). If bit[8] is 1, bits[7:0] represent the OMR encoding, indicating the specific L3 cache or memory region involved in the memory access. A significant enhancement is OMR encoding provides up to 8 fine-grained memory regions besides the cache region. A significant enhancement for OMR encoding is the ability to provide up to 8 fine-grained memory regions in addition to the cache region, offering more detailed insights into memory access regions. For detailed information on the memory auxiliary info encoding, please refer to section 16.2 "PEBS LOAD LATENCY AND STORE LATENCY FACILITY" in the ISE documentation. This patch ensures that the PEBS memory auxiliary info field is correctly interpreted and utilized in DMR. Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114011750.350569-3-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
2026-01-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after rc5Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts. Adjacent: Auto-merging MAINTAINERS Auto-merging Makefile Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c Auto-merging kernel/sched/ext.c Auto-merging mm/memcontrol.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-01-11treewide: Update email addressThomas Gleixner
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the kernel.org account. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-06bpf: Introduce BPF_F_CPU and BPF_F_ALL_CPUS flagsLeon Hwang
Introduce BPF_F_CPU and BPF_F_ALL_CPUS flags and check them for following APIs: * 'map_lookup_elem()' * 'map_update_elem()' * 'generic_map_lookup_batch()' * 'generic_map_update_batch()' And, get the correct value size for these APIs. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260107022022.12843-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-12-24tools headers: Sync UAPI KVM headers with kernel sourcesNamhyung Kim
To pick up changes from: ad9c62bd8946621e ("KVM: arm64: VM exit to userspace to handle SEA") 8e8678e740ecde2a ("KVM: s390: Add capability that forwards operation exceptions") e0c26d47def7382d ("Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-6.19-1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD") 7a61d61396b97fd6 ("KVM: SEV: Publish supported SEV-SNP policy bits") This should be used to beautify DRM syscall arguments and it addresses these tools/perf build warnings: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README. Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after 6.19-rc1Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-12-07Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim: "Perf event/metric description: Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that. From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information about hardware events like the following. $ perf list hw List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M): legacy hardware: branch-instructions [Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu] branch-misses [Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu] branches [Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu] bus-cycles [Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu] cache-misses [Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu] cache-references [Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu] cpu-cycles [Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu] cycles [Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu] instructions [Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu] ref-cycles [Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu] But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side, the default metrics are better named and aligned. :) $ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop': 11 context-switches # 10.8 cs/sec cs_per_second 0 cpu-migrations # 0.0 migrations/sec migrations_per_second 3,612 page-faults # 3532.5 faults/sec page_faults_per_second 1,022.51 msec task-clock # 1.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized 110,466 branch-misses # 0.0 % branch_miss_rate (88.66%) 6,934,452,104 branches # 6781.8 M/sec branch_frequency (88.66%) 4,657,032,590 cpu-cycles # 4.6 GHz cycles_frequency (88.65%) 27,755,874,218 instructions # 6.0 instructions insn_per_cycle (89.03%) TopdownL1 # 0.3 % tma_backend_bound # 9.3 % tma_bad_speculation (89.05%) # 9.7 % tma_frontend_bound (77.86%) # 80.7 % tma_retiring (88.81%) 1.025318171 seconds time elapsed 1.013248000 seconds user 0.012014000 seconds sys Deferred unwinding support: With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd4d: "perf: Support deferred user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack trace with frame pointers like below: $ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ... This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains to the previous samples as if they were collected together. ARM SPE updates - Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset, register access, and SIMD operations. - Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to exclude certain data sources. - Improve documentation. Vendor event updates: - Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others. - Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE definitions. - RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2. Misc: - Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type. - Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show which instruction is causing the cacheline contention. - Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!" * tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits) libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths ...
2025-12-05bpf: Support associating BPF program with struct_opsAmery Hung
Add a new BPF command BPF_PROG_ASSOC_STRUCT_OPS to allow associating a BPF program with a struct_ops map. This command takes a file descriptor of a struct_ops map and a BPF program and set prog->aux->st_ops_assoc to the kdata of the struct_ops map. The command does not accept a struct_ops program nor a non-struct_ops map. Programs of a struct_ops map is automatically associated with the map during map update. If a program is shared between two struct_ops maps, prog->aux->st_ops_assoc will be poisoned to indicate that the associated struct_ops is ambiguous. The pointer, once poisoned, cannot be reset since we have lost track of associated struct_ops. For other program types, the associated struct_ops map, once set, cannot be changed later. This restriction may be lifted in the future if there is a use case. A kernel helper bpf_prog_get_assoc_struct_ops() can be used to retrieve the associated struct_ops pointer. The returned pointer, if not NULL, is guaranteed to be valid and point to a fully updated struct_ops struct. For struct_ops program reused in multiple struct_ops map, the return will be NULL. prog->aux->st_ops_assoc is protected by bumping the refcount for non-struct_ops programs and RCU for struct_ops programs. Since it would be inefficient to track programs associated with a struct_ops map, every non-struct_ops program will bump the refcount of the map to make sure st_ops_assoc stays valid. For a struct_ops program, it is protected by RCU as map_free will wait for an RCU grace period before disassociating the program with the map. The helper must be called in BPF program context or RCU read-side critical section. struct_ops implementers should note that the struct_ops returned may not be initialized nor attached yet. The struct_ops implementer will be responsible for tracking and checking the state of the associated struct_ops map if the use case expects an initialized or attached struct_ops. Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251203233748.668365-3-ameryhung@gmail.com
2025-12-03Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list. Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles. - Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC queue. Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle, but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy. Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet reordering. - Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths. - Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already did for Rx skbs). - Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric. - Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines. - Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for packets. - Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock pressure, improving the Rx performance. - Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory. - Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting (using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using cgroups. - Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection. - Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of RTT. - Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the connection RTT is low. - Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations. - Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload. - Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC 5837). - Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449). - Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL. - Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock. - Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC. - Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length, from Kees. - Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers. - Some preparations for slimming down struct page. - YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard. - Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly computed derived statistics and summarized system state. Driver API: - Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface. - Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for 100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification. - Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in zl3073x). - Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads IPsec and performs RSS. - Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default. - Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload. - Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload. - Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes. Device drivers: - Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support. - Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series. - Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control, and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET operations for PHY timestamping. - Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for reading the Rx ring count. - Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - support PPS in/out on all pins - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats - i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF - iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration - disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is unused - Meta (fbnic): - add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links - Wangxun: - support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback - support Rx coalescing offload - support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules - Ethernet virtual: - Google (gve): - allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len - implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor format - Microsoft vNIC (mana): - support HW link state events - handle hardware recovery events when probing the device - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL) - AMD (amd-xgbe): - add device selftests - NXP (enetc): - add i.MX94 support - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp): - bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN - Broadcom switches (b53): - support port isolation - support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats - Lantiq/MaxLinear switches: - support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port - use regmap for register access - allow user to enable/disable learning - support Energy Efficient Ethernet - support configuring RMII clock delays - add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches - Synopsys (stmmac): - support using the HW clock in free running mode - add Eswin EIC7700 support - add Rockchip RK3506 support - add Altera Agilex5 support - Cadence (macb): - cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling - add EyeQ5 support - TI: - icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP - Airoha access points: - add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback - add AN7583 support - support out-of-order Tx completion processing - Power over Ethernet: - pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots - add support for TPS23881B devices - Ethernet PHYs: - Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support - Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs - micrel: - support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814 - enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814 - realtek: - cable testing support on RTL8224 - interrupt support on RTL8221B - motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853 - microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag - mscc: support for PHY LED control - CAN drivers: - m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up - remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling - mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality - Bluetooth: - add initial support for PASTa - WiFi: - split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big - improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks - improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211 debugfs interface for it - HT action frame handling on 6 GHz - initial chanctx work towards NAN - MU-MIMO sniffer improvements - WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw89): - support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU - initial work for RTL8922DE - improved injection support - Intel: - iwlwifi: new sniffer API support - MediaTek (mt76): - WED support for >32-bit DMA - airoha NPU support - regdomain improvements - continued WiFi7/MLO work - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath10k: factory test support - ath11k: TX power insertion support - ath12k: BSS color change support - ath12k: statistics improvements - brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk - rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support" * tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits) net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen wireguard: uapi: move flag enums wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive() Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox ...
2025-12-03Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré) - Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien Curutchet) - Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree (Puranjay Mohan) - Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT (Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan) - Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee) - Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports (Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan) - Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong) - Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul Chaignon) - Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel Borkmann) - Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma) - Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai) * tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits) bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions bpf: Remove runqslower tool selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test ...
2025-12-02tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h for deferred callchainsNamhyung Kim
It needs to sync with the kernel to support user space changes for the deferred callchains. Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-12-01Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-12-01' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar: "Callchain support: - Add support for deferred user-space stack unwinding for perf, enabled on x86. (Peter Zijlstra, Steven Rostedt) - unwind_user/x86: Enable frame pointer unwinding on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf) x86 PMU support and infrastructure: - x86/insn: Simplify for_each_insn_prefix() (Peter Zijlstra) - x86/insn,uprobes,alternative: Unify insn_is_nop() (Peter Zijlstra) Intel PMU driver: - Large series to prepare for and implement architectural PEBS support for Intel platforms such as Clearwater Forest (CWF) and Panther Lake (PTL). (Dapeng Mi, Kan Liang) - Check dynamic constraints (Kan Liang) - Optimize PEBS extended config (Peter Zijlstra) - cstates: - Remove PC3 support from LunarLake (Zhang Rui) - Add Pantherlake support (Zhang Rui) - Clearwater Forest support (Zide Chen) AMD PMU driver: - x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF (George Kennedy) Fixes and cleanups: - task_work: Fix NMI race condition (Peter Zijlstra) - perf/x86: Fix NULL event access and potential PEBS record loss (Dapeng Mi) - Misc other fixes and cleanups (Dapeng Mi, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra)" * tag 'perf-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits) perf/x86/intel: Fix and clean up intel_pmu_drain_arch_pebs() type use perf/x86/intel: Optimize PEBS extended config perf/x86/intel: Check PEBS dyn_constraints perf/x86/intel: Add a check for dynamic constraints perf/x86/intel: Add counter group support for arch-PEBS perf/x86/intel: Setup PEBS data configuration and enable legacy groups perf/x86/intel: Update dyn_constraint base on PEBS event precise level perf/x86/intel: Allocate arch-PEBS buffer and initialize PEBS_BASE MSR perf/x86/intel: Process arch-PEBS records or record fragments perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS group processing code to functions perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS record processing code to functions perf/x86/intel: Initialize architectural PEBS perf/x86/intel: Correct large PEBS flag check perf/x86/intel: Replace x86_pmu.drain_pebs calling with static call perf/x86: Fix NULL event access and potential PEBS record loss perf/x86: Remove redundant is_x86_event() prototype entry,unwind/deferred: Fix unwind_reset_info() placement unwind_user/x86: Fix arch=um build perf: Support deferred user unwind unwind_user/x86: Teach FP unwind about start of function ...
2025-12-01Merge tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains substantial namespace infrastructure changes including a new system call, active reference counting, and extensive header cleanups. The branch depends on the shared kbuild branch for -fms-extensions support. Features: - listns() system call Add a new listns() system call that allows userspace to iterate through namespaces in the system. This provides a programmatic interface to discover and inspect namespaces, addressing longstanding limitations: Currently, there is no direct way for userspace to enumerate namespaces. Applications must resort to scanning /proc/*/ns/ across all processes, which is: - Inefficient - requires iterating over all processes - Incomplete - misses namespaces not attached to any running process but kept alive by file descriptors, bind mounts, or parent references - Permission-heavy - requires access to /proc for many processes - No ordering or ownership information - No filtering per namespace type The listns() system call solves these problems: ssize_t listns(const struct ns_id_req *req, u64 *ns_ids, size_t nr_ns_ids, unsigned int flags); struct ns_id_req { __u32 size; __u32 spare; __u64 ns_id; struct /* listns */ { __u32 ns_type; __u32 spare2; __u64 user_ns_id; }; }; Features include: - Pagination support for large namespace sets - Filtering by namespace type (MNT_NS, NET_NS, USER_NS, etc.) - Filtering by owning user namespace - Permission checks respecting namespace isolation - Active Reference Counting Introduce an active reference count that tracks namespace visibility to userspace. A namespace is visible in the following cases: - The namespace is in use by a task - The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file descriptor or bind-mount) - The namespace is a hierarchical type and is the parent of child namespaces The active reference count does not regulate lifetime (that's still done by the normal reference count) - it only regulates visibility to namespace file handles and listns(). This prevents resurrection of namespaces that are pinned only for internal kernel reasons (e.g., user namespaces held by file->f_cred, lazy TLB references on idle CPUs, etc.) which should not be accessible via (1)-(3). - Unified Namespace Tree Introduce a unified tree structure for all namespaces with: - Fixed IDs assigned to initial namespaces - Lookup based solely on inode number - Maintained list of owned namespaces per user namespace - Simplified rbtree comparison helpers Cleanups - Header Reorganization: - Move namespace types into separate header (ns_common_types.h) - Decouple nstree from ns_common header - Move nstree types into separate header - Switch to new ns_tree_{node,root} structures with helper functions - Use guards for ns_tree_lock - Initial Namespace Reference Count Optimization - Make all reference counts on initial namespaces a nop to avoid pointless cacheline ping-pong for namespaces that can never go away - Drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces - Add NS_COMMON_INIT() macro and use it for all namespaces - pid: rely on common reference count behavior - Miscellaneous Cleanups - Rename exit_task_namespaces() to exit_nsproxy_namespaces() - Rename is_initial_namespace() and make argument const - Use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace - Simplify owner list iteration in nstree - nsfs: raise SB_I_NODEV, SB_I_NOEXEC, and DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly - nsfs: use inode_just_drop() - pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly - pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET__NAMESPACE ioctls - libfs: allow to specify s_d_flags - cgroup: add cgroup namespace to tree after owner is set - nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces() Fixes: - setns(pidfd, ...) race condition Fix a subtle race when using pidfds with setns(). When the target task exits after prepare_nsset() but before commit_nsset(), the namespace's active reference count might have been dropped. If setns() then installs the namespaces, it would bump the active reference count from zero without taking the required reference on the owner namespace, leading to underflow when later decremented. The fix resurrects the ownership chain if necessary - if the caller succeeded in grabbing passive references, the setns() should succeed even if the target task exits or gets reaped. - Return EFAULT on put_user() error instead of success - Make sure references are dropped outside of RCU lock (some namespaces like mount namespace sleep when putting the last reference) - Don't skip active reference count initialization for network namespace - Add asserts for active refcount underflow - Add asserts for initial namespace reference counts (both passive and active) - ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions - Fix kernel-doc comments for internal nstree functions - Selftests - 15 active reference count tests - 9 listns() functionality tests - 7 listns() permission tests - 12 inactive namespace resurrection tests - 3 threaded active reference count tests - commit_creds() active reference tests - Pagination and stress tests - EFAULT handling test - nsid tests fixes" * tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (103 commits) pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces() selftests/namespaces: fix nsid tests ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces pid: rely on common reference count behavior ns: add asserts for initial namespace active reference counts ns: add asserts for initial namespace reference counts ns: make all reference counts on initial namespace a nop ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace ns: rename is_initial_namespace() ns: make is_initial_namespace() argument const nstree: use guards for ns_tree_lock nstree: simplify owner list iteration nstree: switch to new structures nstree: add helper to operate on struct ns_tree_{node,root} nstree: move nstree types into separate header nstree: decouple from ns_common header ns: move namespace types into separate header ...
2025-11-25tools: ynl-gen: add regeneration commentAsbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
Add a comment on regeneration to the generated files. The comment is placed after the YNL-GEN line[1], as to not interfere with ynl-regen.sh's detection logic. [1] and after the optional YNL-ARG line. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aR5m174O7pklKrMR@zx2c4.com/ Suggested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@fiberby.net> Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120174429.390574-3-ast@fiberby.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-24tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h with the kernel sourcesJames Clark
To pickup config4 changes. Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2025-11-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after 6.18-rc5+Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Minor conflict in kernel/bpf/helpers.c Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc6). No conflicts, adjacent changes in: drivers/net/phy/micrel.c 96a9178a29a6 ("net: phy: micrel: lan8814 fix reset of the QSGMII interface") 61b7ade9ba8c ("net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs for lan8814") and a trivial one in tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-05bpf, x86: add new map type: instructions arrayAnton Protopopov
On bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD) syscall user-supplied BPF programs are translated by the verifier into "xlated" BPF programs. During this process the original instructions offsets might be adjusted and/or individual instructions might be replaced by new sets of instructions, or deleted. Add a new BPF map type which is aimed to keep track of how, for a given program, the original instructions were relocated during the verification. Also, besides keeping track of the original -> xlated mapping, make x86 JIT to build the xlated -> jitted mapping for every instruction listed in an instruction array. This is required for every future application of instruction arrays: static keys, indirect jumps and indirect calls. A map of the BPF_MAP_TYPE_INSN_ARRAY type must be created with a u32 keys and value of size 8. The values have different semantics for userspace and for BPF space. For userspace a value consists of two u32 values – xlated and jitted offsets. For BPF side the value is a real pointer to a jitted instruction. On map creation/initialization, before loading the program, each element of the map should be initialized to point to an instruction offset within the program. Before the program load such maps should be made frozen. After the program verification xlated and jitted offsets can be read via the bpf(2) syscall. If a tracked instruction is removed by the verifier, then the xlated offset is set to (u32)-1 which is considered to be too big for a valid BPF program offset. One such a map can, obviously, be used to track one and only one BPF program. If the verification process was unsuccessful, then the same map can be re-used to verify the program with a different log level. However, if the program was loaded fine, then such a map, being frozen in any case, can't be reused by other programs even after the program release. Example. Consider the following original and xlated programs: Original prog: Xlated prog: 0: r1 = 0x0 0: r1 = 0 1: *(u32 *)(r10 - 0x4) = r1 1: *(u32 *)(r10 -4) = r1 2: r2 = r10 2: r2 = r10 3: r2 += -0x4 3: r2 += -4 4: r1 = 0x0 ll 4: r1 = map[id:88] 6: call 0x1 6: r1 += 272 7: r0 = *(u32 *)(r2 +0) 8: if r0 >= 0x1 goto pc+3 9: r0 <<= 3 10: r0 += r1 11: goto pc+1 12: r0 = 0 7: r6 = r0 13: r6 = r0 8: if r6 == 0x0 goto +0x2 14: if r6 == 0x0 goto pc+4 9: call 0x76 15: r0 = 0xffffffff8d2079c0 17: r0 = *(u64 *)(r0 +0) 10: *(u64 *)(r6 + 0x0) = r0 18: *(u64 *)(r6 +0) = r0 11: r0 = 0x0 19: r0 = 0x0 12: exit 20: exit An instruction array map, containing, e.g., instructions [0,4,7,12] will be translated by the verifier to [0,4,13,20]. A map with index 5 (the middle of 16-byte instruction) or indexes greater than 12 (outside the program boundaries) would be rejected. The functionality provided by this patch will be extended in consequent patches to implement BPF Static Keys, indirect jumps, and indirect calls. Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251105090410.1250500-2-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-03net: Extend NAPI threaded polling to allow kthread based busy pollingSamiullah Khawaja
Add a new state NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL to the NAPI state enum to enable and disable threaded busy polling. When threaded busy polling is enabled for a NAPI, enable NAPI_STATE_THREADED also. When the threaded NAPI is scheduled, set NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL to signal napi_complete_done not to rearm interrupts. Whenever NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL is unset, the NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL will be unset, napi_complete_done unsets the NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED bit also, which in turn will make the kthread go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca> Tested-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028203007.575686-2-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03nsfs: update tools headerChristian Brauner
Ensure all the new uapi bits are visible for the selftests. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-21-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-03tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sourcesArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To pick the changes in: fe2bf6234e947bf5 ("KVM: guest_memfd: Add INIT_SHARED flag, reject user page faults if not set") d2042d8f96ddefde ("KVM: Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS") 3d3a04fad25a6621 ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files") That just rebuilds perf, as these patches don't add any new KVM ioctl to be harvested for the 'perf trace' ioctl syscall argument beautifiers. This addresses this perf build warning: Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details. Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2025-10-29perf: Support deferred user unwindPeter Zijlstra
Add support for deferred userspace unwind to perf. Where perf currently relies on in-place stack unwinding; from NMI context and all that. This moves the userspace part of the unwind to right before the return-to-userspace. This has two distinct benefits, the biggest is that it moves the unwind to a faultable context. It becomes possible to fault in debug info (.eh_frame, SFrame etc.) that might not otherwise be readily available. And secondly, it de-duplicates the user callchain where multiple samples happen during the same kernel entry. To facilitate this the perf interface is extended with a new record type: PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED and two new attribute flags: perf_event_attr::defer_callchain - to request the user unwind be deferred perf_event_attr::defer_output - to request PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED records The existing PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE callchain section gets a new context type: PERF_CONTEXT_USER_DEFERRED After which will come a single entry, denoting the 'cookie' of the deferred callchain that should be attached here, matching the 'cookie' field of the above mentioned PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED. The 'defer_callchain' flag is expected on all events with PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN. The 'defer_output' flag is expect on the event responsible for collecting side-band events (like mmap, comm etc.). Setting 'defer_output' on multiple events will get you duplicated PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN_DEFERRED records. Based on earlier patches by Josh and Steven. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023150002.GR4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2025-10-27bpf: Add overwrite mode for BPF ring bufferXu Kuohai
When the BPF ring buffer is full, a new event cannot be recorded until one or more old events are consumed to make enough space for it. In cases such as fault diagnostics, where recent events are more useful than older ones, this mechanism may lead to critical events being lost. So add overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer to address it. In this mode, the new event overwrites the oldest event when the buffer is full. The basic idea is as follows: 1. producer_pos tracks the next position to record new event. When there is enough free space, producer_pos is simply advanced by producer to make space for the new event. 2. To avoid waiting for consumer when the buffer is full, a new variable, overwrite_pos, is introduced for producer. It points to the oldest event committed in the buffer. It is advanced by producer to discard one or more oldest events to make space for the new event when the buffer is full. 3. pending_pos tracks the oldest event to be committed. pending_pos is never passed by producer_pos, so multiple producers never write to the same position at the same time. The following example diagrams show how it works in a 4096-byte ring buffer. 1. At first, {producer,overwrite,pending,consumer}_pos are all set to 0. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ | | producer_pos = 0 overwrite_pos = 0 pending_pos = 0 consumer_pos = 0 2. Now reserve a 512-byte event A. There is enough free space, so A is allocated at offset 0. And producer_pos is advanced to 512, the end of A. Since A is not submitted, the BUSY bit is set. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | A | | | [BUSY] | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ | | | | | producer_pos = 512 | overwrite_pos = 0 pending_pos = 0 consumer_pos = 0 3. Reserve event B, size 1024. B is allocated at offset 512 with BUSY bit set, and producer_pos is advanced to the end of B. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | A | B | | | [BUSY] | [BUSY] | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ | | | | | producer_pos = 1536 | overwrite_pos = 0 pending_pos = 0 consumer_pos = 0 4. Reserve event C, size 2048. C is allocated at offset 1536, and producer_pos is advanced to 3584. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | A | B | C | | | [BUSY] | [BUSY] | [BUSY] | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ | | | | | producer_pos = 3584 | overwrite_pos = 0 pending_pos = 0 consumer_pos = 0 5. Submit event A. The BUSY bit of A is cleared. B becomes the oldest event to be committed, so pending_pos is advanced to 512, the start of B. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | A | B | C | | | | [BUSY] | [BUSY] | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | | | pending_pos = 512 producer_pos = 3584 | overwrite_pos = 0 consumer_pos = 0 6. Submit event B. The BUSY bit of B is cleared, and pending_pos is advanced to the start of C, which is now the oldest event to be committed. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | A | B | C | | | | | [BUSY] | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | | | pending_pos = 1536 producer_pos = 3584 | overwrite_pos = 0 consumer_pos = 0 7. Reserve event D, size 1536 (3 * 512). There are 2048 bytes not being written between producer_pos (currently 3584) and pending_pos, so D is allocated at offset 3584, and producer_pos is advanced by 1536 (from 3584 to 5120). Since event D will overwrite all bytes of event A and the first 512 bytes of event B, overwrite_pos is advanced to the start of event C, the oldest event that is not overwritten. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | D End | | C | D Begin| | [BUSY] | | [BUSY] | [BUSY] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | pending_pos = 1536 | | overwrite_pos = 1536 | | | producer_pos=5120 | consumer_pos = 0 8. Reserve event E, size 1024. Although there are 512 bytes not being written between producer_pos and pending_pos, E cannot be reserved, as it would overwrite the first 512 bytes of event C, which is still being written. 9. Submit event C and D. pending_pos is advanced to the end of D. 0 512 1024 1536 2048 2560 3072 3584 4096 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | D End | | C | D Begin| | | | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | overwrite_pos = 1536 | | | producer_pos=5120 | pending_pos=5120 | consumer_pos = 0 The performance data for overwrite mode will be provided in a follow-up patch that adds overwrite-mode benchmarks. A sample of performance data for non-overwrite mode, collected on an x86_64 CPU and an arm64 CPU, before and after this patch, is shown below. As we can see, no obvious performance regression occurs. - x86_64 (AMD EPYC 9654) Before: Ringbuf, multi-producer contention ================================== rb-libbpf nr_prod 1 11.623 ± 0.027M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 2 15.812 ± 0.014M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 3 7.871 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 4 6.703 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 8 2.896 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.054 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 1.864 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 1.580 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 1.484 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 1.369 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 1.316 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 1.272 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 1.239 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 1.226 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 1.213 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.193 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) After: Ringbuf, multi-producer contention ================================== rb-libbpf nr_prod 1 11.845 ± 0.036M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 2 15.889 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 3 8.155 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 4 6.708 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 8 2.918 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.065 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 1.870 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 1.582 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 1.482 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 1.372 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 1.323 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 1.264 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 1.236 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 1.209 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 1.189 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.165 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) - arm64 (HiSilicon Kunpeng 920) Before: Ringbuf, multi-producer contention ================================== rb-libbpf nr_prod 1 11.310 ± 0.623M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 2 9.947 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 3 6.634 ± 0.011M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 4 4.502 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 8 3.888 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 3.372 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 3.189 ± 0.010M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.998 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 3.086 ± 0.018M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.845 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.815 ± 0.008M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.771 ± 0.009M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.814 ± 0.011M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.752 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.695 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 2.710 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) After: Ringbuf, multi-producer contention ================================== rb-libbpf nr_prod 1 11.283 ± 0.550M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 2 9.993 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 3 6.898 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 4 5.257 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 8 3.830 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 3.528 ± 0.013M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 3.265 ± 0.018M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.990 ± 0.007M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.929 ± 0.014M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.898 ± 0.010M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.818 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.789 ± 0.012M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.770 ± 0.006M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.651 ± 0.007M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.669 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 2.695 ± 0.009M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) Signed-off-by: Xu Kuohai <xukuohai@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251018035738.4039621-2-xukuohai@huaweicloud.com
2025-10-27bpf: widen dynptr size/offset to 64 bitMykyta Yatsenko
Dynptr currently caps size and offset at 24 bits, which isn’t sufficient for file-backed use cases; even 32 bits can be limiting. Refactor dynptr helpers/kfuncs to use 64-bit size and offset, ensuring consistency across the APIs. This change does not affect internals of xdp, skb or other dynptrs, which continue to behave as before. Also it does not break binary compatibility. The widening enables large-file access support via dynptr, implemented in the next patches. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026203853.135105-3-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-10-16bpf: Introduce SK_BPF_BYPASS_PROT_MEM.Kuniyuki Iwashima
If a socket has sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem flagged, the socket opts out of the global protocol memory accounting. This is easily controlled by net.core.bypass_prot_mem sysctl, but it lacks flexibility. Let's support flagging (and clearing) sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem via bpf_setsockopt() at the BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE hook. int val = 1; bpf_setsockopt(ctx, SOL_SOCKET, SK_BPF_BYPASS_PROT_MEM, &val, sizeof(val)); As with net.core.bypass_prot_mem, this is inherited to child sockets, and BPF always takes precedence over sysctl at socket(2) and accept(2). SK_BPF_BYPASS_PROT_MEM is only supported at BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE and not supported on other hooks for some reasons: 1. UDP charges memory under sk->sk_receive_queue.lock instead of lock_sock() 2. Modifying the flag after skb is charged to sk requires such adjustment during bpf_setsockopt() and complicates the logic unnecessarily We can support other hooks later if a real use case justifies that. Most changes are inline and hard to trace, but a microbenchmark on __sk_mem_raise_allocated() during neper/tcp_stream showed that more samples completed faster with sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem == 1. This will be more visible under tcp_mem pressure (but it's not a fair comparison). # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:__sk_mem_raise_allocated { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:__sk_mem_raise_allocated /@start[tid]/ { @end[tid] = nsecs - @start[tid]; @times = hist(@end[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }' # tcp_stream -6 -F 1000 -N -T 256 Without bpf prog: [128, 256) 3846 | | [256, 512) 1505326 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [512, 1K) 1371006 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [1K, 2K) 198207 |@@@@@@ | [2K, 4K) 31199 |@ | With bpf prog in the next patch: (must be attached before tcp_stream) # bpftool prog load sk_bypass_prot_mem.bpf.o /sys/fs/bpf/test type cgroup/sock_create # bpftool cgroup attach /sys/fs/cgroup/test cgroup_inet_sock_create pinned /sys/fs/bpf/test [128, 256) 6413 | | [256, 512) 1868425 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [512, 1K) 1101697 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [1K, 2K) 117031 |@@@@ | [2K, 4K) 11773 | | Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014235604.3057003-6-kuniyu@google.com
2025-10-11Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpfLinus Torvalds
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov: - Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path() (Rong Tao) - Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation (Alexander Lobakin) - Fix metadata_dst leak in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}() (Daniel Borkmann) - Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32() (Eric Biggers) - Use correct context to unpin bpf hash map with special types (KaFai Wan) * tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: selftests/bpf: Add test for unpinning htab with internal timer struct bpf: Avoid RCU context warning when unpinning htab with internal structs xsk: Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6} libbpf: Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32() bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path()
2025-10-08Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T' hotkey to toggle it - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control over page/chunk sizes - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported events - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic regrouping - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent failures - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log (DTL) - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop details - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across multiple processor generations - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging) - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new bindings - Various 'perf test' fixes - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer * tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits) perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading" perf docs: Document building with Clang perf build: Support build with clang perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen tools build: Align warning options with perf perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args' perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol() perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization perf check: Add libLLVM feature perf parse-events: Fix parsing of >30kb event strings ...