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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'soc-arm-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc</title>
<updated>2024-01-11T19:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T19:42:53+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM SoC code updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are two notable changes this time:

   - add a arch/arm/Kconfig.platforms file to simplify the platforms
     that have no code except their Kconfig file (Andrew Davis)

   - remove support for the ARM11MPCore CPU in the versatile/realview
     platform. Since this is the last remaining one after removing
     ox820, some core code can go as well (Linus Walleij)

  The other changes are minor cleanups and bugfixes"

* tag 'soc-arm-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc:
  ARM: davinci: always select CONFIG_CPU_ARM926T
  soc: pxa: ssp: fix casts
  ARM: debug: fix DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS help for !MULTIPLATFORM
  ARM: MAINTAINERS: drop empty entries for removed boards
  ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore perf leftovers
  ARM: mach-nspire: Rework support and directory structure
  ARM: mach-sunplus: Rework support and directory structure
  ARM: mach-airoha: Rework support and directory structure
  ARM: mach-moxart: Move MOXA ART support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: mach-uniphier: Move Socionext UniPhier support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: mach-rda: Move RDA Micro support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: mach-asm9260: Move ASM9260 support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: Kconfig: move platform selection into its own Kconfig file
  ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore (ARM11 ARMv6K SMP) support
  MAINTAINERS: add Marvell MBus driver to Marvell EBU SoCs support
  ARM: mxs: Do not search for "fsl,clkctrl"
  ARM: imx: Use device_get_match_data()
  MAINTAINERS: add omap bus drivers to OMAP2+ SUPPORT
  ARM: at91: pm: set soc_pm.data.mode in at91_pm_secure_init()
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Pull ARM SoC code updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are two notable changes this time:

   - add a arch/arm/Kconfig.platforms file to simplify the platforms
     that have no code except their Kconfig file (Andrew Davis)

   - remove support for the ARM11MPCore CPU in the versatile/realview
     platform. Since this is the last remaining one after removing
     ox820, some core code can go as well (Linus Walleij)

  The other changes are minor cleanups and bugfixes"

* tag 'soc-arm-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc:
  ARM: davinci: always select CONFIG_CPU_ARM926T
  soc: pxa: ssp: fix casts
  ARM: debug: fix DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS help for !MULTIPLATFORM
  ARM: MAINTAINERS: drop empty entries for removed boards
  ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore perf leftovers
  ARM: mach-nspire: Rework support and directory structure
  ARM: mach-sunplus: Rework support and directory structure
  ARM: mach-airoha: Rework support and directory structure
  ARM: mach-moxart: Move MOXA ART support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: mach-uniphier: Move Socionext UniPhier support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: mach-rda: Move RDA Micro support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: mach-asm9260: Move ASM9260 support into Kconfig.platforms
  ARM: Kconfig: move platform selection into its own Kconfig file
  ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore (ARM11 ARMv6K SMP) support
  MAINTAINERS: add Marvell MBus driver to Marvell EBU SoCs support
  ARM: mxs: Do not search for "fsl,clkctrl"
  ARM: imx: Use device_get_match_data()
  MAINTAINERS: add omap bus drivers to OMAP2+ SUPPORT
  ARM: at91: pm: set soc_pm.data.mode in at91_pm_secure_init()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2024-01-10T19:03:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-10T19:03:52+00:00</published>
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:

 - Introduce the param_unknown_fn type and other clean ups (Andy
   Shevchenko)

 - Various __counted_by annotations (Christophe JAILLET, Gustavo A. R.
   Silva, Kees Cook)

 - Add KFENCE test to LKDTM (Stephen Boyd)

 - Various strncpy() refactorings (Justin Stitt)

 - Fix qnx4 to avoid writing into the smaller of two overlapping buffers

 - Various strlcpy() refactorings

* tag 'hardening-v6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  qnx4: Use get_directory_fname() in qnx4_match()
  qnx4: Extract dir entry filename processing into helper
  atags_proc: Add __counted_by for struct buffer and use struct_size()
  tracing/uprobe: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
  params: Fix multi-line comment style
  params: Sort headers
  params: Use size_add() for kmalloc()
  params: Do not go over the limit when getting the string length
  params: Introduce the param_unknown_fn type
  lkdtm: Add kfence read after free crash type
  nvme-fc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  nvdimm/btt: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  nvme-fabrics: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  drm/modes: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  afs: Add __counted_by for struct afs_acl and use struct_size()
  VMCI: Annotate struct vmci_handle_arr with __counted_by
  i40e: Annotate struct i40e_qvlist_info with __counted_by
  HID: uhid: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  samples: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
  SUNRPC: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:

 - Introduce the param_unknown_fn type and other clean ups (Andy
   Shevchenko)

 - Various __counted_by annotations (Christophe JAILLET, Gustavo A. R.
   Silva, Kees Cook)

 - Add KFENCE test to LKDTM (Stephen Boyd)

 - Various strncpy() refactorings (Justin Stitt)

 - Fix qnx4 to avoid writing into the smaller of two overlapping buffers

 - Various strlcpy() refactorings

* tag 'hardening-v6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  qnx4: Use get_directory_fname() in qnx4_match()
  qnx4: Extract dir entry filename processing into helper
  atags_proc: Add __counted_by for struct buffer and use struct_size()
  tracing/uprobe: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
  params: Fix multi-line comment style
  params: Sort headers
  params: Use size_add() for kmalloc()
  params: Do not go over the limit when getting the string length
  params: Introduce the param_unknown_fn type
  lkdtm: Add kfence read after free crash type
  nvme-fc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  nvdimm/btt: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  nvme-fabrics: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  drm/modes: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  afs: Add __counted_by for struct afs_acl and use struct_size()
  VMCI: Annotate struct vmci_handle_arr with __counted_by
  i40e: Annotate struct i40e_qvlist_info with __counted_by
  HID: uhid: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  samples: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
  SUNRPC: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T00:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T00:32:09+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "CPU features:

   - Remove ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH copy_page() optimisation for ye
     olde Thunder-X machines

   - Avoid mapping KPTI trampoline when it is not required

   - Make CPU capability API more robust during early initialisation

  Early idreg overrides:

   - Remove dependencies on core kernel helpers from the early
     command-line parsing logic in preparation for moving this code
     before the kernel is mapped

  FPsimd:

   - Restore kernel-mode fpsimd context lazily, allowing us to run
     fpsimd code sequences in the kernel with pre-emption enabled

  KBuild:

   - Install 'vmlinuz.efi' when CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y

   - Makefile cleanups

  LPA2 prep:

   - Preparatory work for enabling the 'LPA2' extension, which will
     introduce 52-bit virtual and physical addressing even with 4KiB
     pages (including for KVM guests).

  Misc:

   - Remove dead code and fix a typo

  MM:

   - Pass NUMA node information for IRQ stack allocations

  Perf:

   - Add perf support for the Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU

   - Add support for event counting thresholds (FEAT_PMUv3_TH)
     introduced in Armv8.8

   - Add support for i.MX8DXL SoCs to the IMX DDR PMU driver.

   - Minor PMU driver fixes and optimisations

  RIP VPIPT:

   - Remove what support we had for the obsolete VPIPT I-cache policy

  Selftests:

   - Improvements to the SVE and SME selftests

  Stacktrace:

   - Refactor kernel unwind logic so that it can used by BPF unwinding
     and, eventually, reliable backtracing

  Sysregs:

   - Update a bunch of register definitions based on the latest XML drop
     from Arm"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (87 commits)
  kselftest/arm64: Don't probe the current VL for unsupported vector types
  efi/libstub: zboot: do not use $(shell ...) in cmd_copy_and_pad
  arm64: properly install vmlinuz.efi
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system instruction definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system register definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing ExtTrcBuff field definition to ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing Pauth_LR field definitions to ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1
  arm64: memory: remove duplicated include
  arm: perf: Fix ARCH=arm build with GCC
  arm64: Align boot cpucap handling with system cpucap handling
  arm64: Cleanup system cpucap handling
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  PCI: Move pci_clear_and_set_dword() helper to PCI header
  PCI: Add Alibaba Vendor ID to linux/pci_ids.h
  docs: perf: Add description for Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  arm64: irq: set the correct node for shadow call stack
  Revert "perf/arm_dmc620: Remove duplicate format attribute #defines"
  arm64: fpsimd: Implement lazy restore for kernel mode FPSIMD
  arm64: fpsimd: Preserve/restore kernel mode NEON at context switch
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "CPU features:

   - Remove ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH copy_page() optimisation for ye
     olde Thunder-X machines

   - Avoid mapping KPTI trampoline when it is not required

   - Make CPU capability API more robust during early initialisation

  Early idreg overrides:

   - Remove dependencies on core kernel helpers from the early
     command-line parsing logic in preparation for moving this code
     before the kernel is mapped

  FPsimd:

   - Restore kernel-mode fpsimd context lazily, allowing us to run
     fpsimd code sequences in the kernel with pre-emption enabled

  KBuild:

   - Install 'vmlinuz.efi' when CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y

   - Makefile cleanups

  LPA2 prep:

   - Preparatory work for enabling the 'LPA2' extension, which will
     introduce 52-bit virtual and physical addressing even with 4KiB
     pages (including for KVM guests).

  Misc:

   - Remove dead code and fix a typo

  MM:

   - Pass NUMA node information for IRQ stack allocations

  Perf:

   - Add perf support for the Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU

   - Add support for event counting thresholds (FEAT_PMUv3_TH)
     introduced in Armv8.8

   - Add support for i.MX8DXL SoCs to the IMX DDR PMU driver.

   - Minor PMU driver fixes and optimisations

  RIP VPIPT:

   - Remove what support we had for the obsolete VPIPT I-cache policy

  Selftests:

   - Improvements to the SVE and SME selftests

  Stacktrace:

   - Refactor kernel unwind logic so that it can used by BPF unwinding
     and, eventually, reliable backtracing

  Sysregs:

   - Update a bunch of register definitions based on the latest XML drop
     from Arm"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (87 commits)
  kselftest/arm64: Don't probe the current VL for unsupported vector types
  efi/libstub: zboot: do not use $(shell ...) in cmd_copy_and_pad
  arm64: properly install vmlinuz.efi
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system instruction definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system register definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing ExtTrcBuff field definition to ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing Pauth_LR field definitions to ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1
  arm64: memory: remove duplicated include
  arm: perf: Fix ARCH=arm build with GCC
  arm64: Align boot cpucap handling with system cpucap handling
  arm64: Cleanup system cpucap handling
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  PCI: Move pci_clear_and_set_dword() helper to PCI header
  PCI: Add Alibaba Vendor ID to linux/pci_ids.h
  docs: perf: Add description for Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  arm64: irq: set the correct node for shadow call stack
  Revert "perf/arm_dmc620: Remove duplicate format attribute #defines"
  arm64: fpsimd: Implement lazy restore for kernel mode FPSIMD
  arm64: fpsimd: Preserve/restore kernel mode NEON at context switch
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore perf leftovers</title>
<updated>2024-01-02T09:15:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-24T22:24:38+00:00</published>
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My commit deleting the PB11MPCore apparently left a few dangling
structs in the perf event code. Fix it up.

Fixes: 2560cffd2134 ("ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore (ARM11 ARMv6K SMP) support")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231224-drop-11mpcore-fix-v1-1-d8b16d1c1fae@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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My commit deleting the PB11MPCore apparently left a few dangling
structs in the perf event code. Fix it up.

Fixes: 2560cffd2134 ("ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore (ARM11 ARMv6K SMP) support")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231224-drop-11mpcore-fix-v1-1-d8b16d1c1fae@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Delete ARM11MPCore (ARM11 ARMv6K SMP) support</title>
<updated>2023-12-22T11:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-07T13:33:35+00:00</published>
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This ARM11 SMP configuration was one of the first SMP configurations
the ARM kernel supported, but it has the downside of odd DMA handling,
odd cache tagging, and often (as of recent) completely broken cache
handling on the ARM RealView PB11MPCore test chips. To boot the
platform it was necessary to completely disable the cache.
When it comes to the EB 11MPCore it is unclear if this ever worked.

These reference designs are now the only ARMv6K SMP platforms.

As only reference designs of purely academic interest remain, and
since the special-cased DMA and PMU code is hard to maintain and
doesn't really work, it is not really worth our time.

Delete the ARM11MPCore support along with:

- The special DMA quirk CONFIG_DMA_CACHE_RWFO that is only used
  on ARMv6K SMP, and we are the last ARMV6K system leaving the
  building and the cache handling is awkward, so good-bye.

- The special PMU handling that was only used by ARM11MPCore.

The following is left behind:

- TIMER_OF_DECLARE(arm_twd_11mp, "arm,arm11mp-twd-timer", ...)
  in arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c, this is still in use by Marvell MMP3
  arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/mmp3.dtsi

- IRQCHIP_DECLARE(arm11mp_gic, "arm,arm11mp-gic", ...)
  in drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c, this is still in use by Marvell MMP3
  arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/mmp3.dtsi

- A compatible for the arm11mpcore SCU, since this was mistakedly
  used for the Cortex-A9 version of RealView EB.

These are unfortunate but will need to be kept around for
compatibility. New Marvell-specific compatibles should however probably
be added.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231207-drop-11mpcore-v2-1-560b396f3bf5@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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This ARM11 SMP configuration was one of the first SMP configurations
the ARM kernel supported, but it has the downside of odd DMA handling,
odd cache tagging, and often (as of recent) completely broken cache
handling on the ARM RealView PB11MPCore test chips. To boot the
platform it was necessary to completely disable the cache.
When it comes to the EB 11MPCore it is unclear if this ever worked.

These reference designs are now the only ARMv6K SMP platforms.

As only reference designs of purely academic interest remain, and
since the special-cased DMA and PMU code is hard to maintain and
doesn't really work, it is not really worth our time.

Delete the ARM11MPCore support along with:

- The special DMA quirk CONFIG_DMA_CACHE_RWFO that is only used
  on ARMv6K SMP, and we are the last ARMV6K system leaving the
  building and the cache handling is awkward, so good-bye.

- The special PMU handling that was only used by ARM11MPCore.

The following is left behind:

- TIMER_OF_DECLARE(arm_twd_11mp, "arm,arm11mp-twd-timer", ...)
  in arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c, this is still in use by Marvell MMP3
  arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/mmp3.dtsi

- IRQCHIP_DECLARE(arm11mp_gic, "arm,arm11mp-gic", ...)
  in drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c, this is still in use by Marvell MMP3
  arch/arm/boot/dts/marvell/mmp3.dtsi

- A compatible for the arm11mpcore SCU, since this was mistakedly
  used for the Cortex-A9 version of RealView EB.

These are unfortunate but will need to be kept around for
compatibility. New Marvell-specific compatibles should however probably
be added.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231207-drop-11mpcore-v2-1-560b396f3bf5@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: pmu: Move error message and -EOPNOTSUPP to individual PMUs</title>
<updated>2023-12-12T09:46:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-11T16:13:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=186c91aaf54989a9c74869dcc6ba031313d8e2b8'/>
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-EPERM or -EINVAL always get converted to -EOPNOTSUPP, so replace them.
This will allow __hw_perf_event_init() to return a different code or not
print that particular message for a different error in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211161331.1277825-10-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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-EPERM or -EINVAL always get converted to -EOPNOTSUPP, so replace them.
This will allow __hw_perf_event_init() to return a different code or not
print that particular message for a different error in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231211161331.1277825-10-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP</title>
<updated>2023-12-07T00:12:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-28T05:44:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dccf78d39f1069a5ddf4328bf0c97aa5f2f4296e'/>
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Ignat Korchagin complained that a potential config regression was
introduced by commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash
options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec").  Before the commit, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
has no dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  After the commit, CRASH_DUMP selects
KEXEC.  That enforces system to have CONFIG_KEXEC=y as long as
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y which people may not want.

In Ignat's case, he sets CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y, CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC=n because kexec_load interface could have security issue if
kernel/initrd has no chance to be signed and verified.

CRASH_DUMP has select of KEXEC because Eric, author of above commit, met a
LKP report of build failure when posting patch of earlier version.  Please
see below link to get detail of the LKP report:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e8eecd1-a277-2cfb-690e-5de2eb7b988e@oracle.com/T/#u

In fact, that LKP report is triggered because arm's &lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; is
wrapped in CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope.  That is wrong.  CONFIG_KEXEC
controls the enabling/disabling of kexec_load interface, but not kexec
feature.  Removing the wrongly added CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope in
&lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; of arm allows us to drop the select KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP. 
Meanwhile, change arch/arm/kernel/Makefile to let machine_kexec.o
relocate_kernel.o depend on KEXEC_CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128054457.659452-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Ignat Korchagin complained that a potential config regression was
introduced by commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash
options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec").  Before the commit, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
has no dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  After the commit, CRASH_DUMP selects
KEXEC.  That enforces system to have CONFIG_KEXEC=y as long as
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y which people may not want.

In Ignat's case, he sets CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y, CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC=n because kexec_load interface could have security issue if
kernel/initrd has no chance to be signed and verified.

CRASH_DUMP has select of KEXEC because Eric, author of above commit, met a
LKP report of build failure when posting patch of earlier version.  Please
see below link to get detail of the LKP report:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e8eecd1-a277-2cfb-690e-5de2eb7b988e@oracle.com/T/#u

In fact, that LKP report is triggered because arm's &lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; is
wrapped in CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope.  That is wrong.  CONFIG_KEXEC
controls the enabling/disabling of kexec_load interface, but not kexec
feature.  Removing the wrongly added CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope in
&lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; of arm allows us to drop the select KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP. 
Meanwhile, change arch/arm/kernel/Makefile to let machine_kexec.o
relocate_kernel.o depend on KEXEC_CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128054457.659452-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: perf: Remove PMU locking</title>
<updated>2023-12-05T12:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-15T09:28:04+00:00</published>
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Currently the 32-bit arm PMU drivers use the pmu_hw_events::lock spinlock in
their arm_pmu::{start,stop,enable,disable}() callbacks to protect hardware
state and event data.

This locking is not necessary as the perf core code already provides mutual
exclusion, disabling interrupts to serialize against the IRQ handler, and
using perf_event_context::lock to protect against concurrent modifications of
events cross-cpu.

The locking was removed from the arm64 (now PMUv3) PMU driver in commit:

2a0e2a02e4b7 ("arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking")

... and the same reasoning applies to all the 32-bit PMU drivers.

Remove the locking from the 32-bit PMU drivers.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115092805.737822-2-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently the 32-bit arm PMU drivers use the pmu_hw_events::lock spinlock in
their arm_pmu::{start,stop,enable,disable}() callbacks to protect hardware
state and event data.

This locking is not necessary as the perf core code already provides mutual
exclusion, disabling interrupts to serialize against the IRQ handler, and
using perf_event_context::lock to protect against concurrent modifications of
events cross-cpu.

The locking was removed from the arm64 (now PMUv3) PMU driver in commit:

2a0e2a02e4b7 ("arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking")

... and the same reasoning applies to all the 32-bit PMU drivers.

Remove the locking from the 32-bit PMU drivers.

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115092805.737822-2-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>atags_proc: Add __counted_by for struct buffer and use struct_size()</title>
<updated>2023-12-02T20:32:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-10T12:46:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ac7110d883ff2a25d2b0ae45c909c02d598c33af'/>
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Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
their accesses bounds-checked at run-time via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for
array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
functions).

While there, use struct_size() helper, instead of the open-coded
version, to calculate the size for the allocation of the whole
flexible structure, including of course, the flexible-array member.

This code was found with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
fixed manually.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZSVHurzo/4aFQcT3@work
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
their accesses bounds-checked at run-time via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for
array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
functions).

While there, use struct_size() helper, instead of the open-coded
version, to calculate the size for the allocation of the whole
flexible structure, including of course, the flexible-array member.

This code was found with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
fixed manually.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZSVHurzo/4aFQcT3@work
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2023-11-04T01:44:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-04T01:44:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1f24458a1071f006e3f7449c08ae0f12af493923'/>
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Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.7-rc1. Included
  in here are:

   - console/vgacon cleanups and removals from Arnd

   - tty core and n_tty cleanups from Jiri

   - lots of 8250 driver updates and cleanups

   - sc16is7xx serial driver updates

   - dt binding updates

   - first set of port lock wrapers from Thomas for the printk fixes
     coming in future releases

   - other small serial and tty core cleanups and updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (193 commits)
  serdev: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle()
  serdev: Simplify devm_serdev_device_open() function
  serdev: Make use of device_set_node()
  tty: n_gsm: add copyright Siemens Mobility GmbH
  tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections
  serial: core: Fix runtime PM handling for pending tx
  vgacon: fix mips/sibyte build regression
  dt-bindings: serial: drop unsupported samsung bindings
  tty: serial: samsung: drop earlycon support for unsupported platforms
  tty: 8250: Add note for PX-835
  tty: 8250: Fix IS-200 PCI ID comment
  tty: 8250: Add Brainboxes Oxford Semiconductor-based quirks
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IX cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes PX cards
  tty: 8250: Fix up PX-803/PX-857
  tty: 8250: Fix port count of PX-257
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IS-100
  tty: 8250: Add support for Brainboxes UP cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes UC cards
  tty: 8250: Remove UC-257 and UC-431
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.7-rc1. Included
  in here are:

   - console/vgacon cleanups and removals from Arnd

   - tty core and n_tty cleanups from Jiri

   - lots of 8250 driver updates and cleanups

   - sc16is7xx serial driver updates

   - dt binding updates

   - first set of port lock wrapers from Thomas for the printk fixes
     coming in future releases

   - other small serial and tty core cleanups and updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (193 commits)
  serdev: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle()
  serdev: Simplify devm_serdev_device_open() function
  serdev: Make use of device_set_node()
  tty: n_gsm: add copyright Siemens Mobility GmbH
  tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections
  serial: core: Fix runtime PM handling for pending tx
  vgacon: fix mips/sibyte build regression
  dt-bindings: serial: drop unsupported samsung bindings
  tty: serial: samsung: drop earlycon support for unsupported platforms
  tty: 8250: Add note for PX-835
  tty: 8250: Fix IS-200 PCI ID comment
  tty: 8250: Add Brainboxes Oxford Semiconductor-based quirks
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IX cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes PX cards
  tty: 8250: Fix up PX-803/PX-857
  tty: 8250: Fix port count of PX-257
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IS-100
  tty: 8250: Add support for Brainboxes UP cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes UC cards
  tty: 8250: Remove UC-257 and UC-431
  ...
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