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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2026-06-15T23:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-15T23:48:04+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "It feels like the new world of AI tooling has slowed us down a little
  on the feature side when compared to the fixes side. The extra rounds
  of Sashiko review have also pushed a few things out until next time.

  Still, there's some good foundational stuff here for the fpsimd code
  and hardening work towards removing the predictable linear alias of
  the kernel image.

  CPU errata handling:
   - Extend CnP disabling workaround to HiSilicon HIP09 hardware.
   - Work around eternally broken broadcast TLB invalidation on more
     CPUs.
   - Documentation and code cleanups.

  CPU features:
   - Add new hwcaps for the 2025 dpISA extensions.

  Floating point / SVE / SME:
   - Significant cleanup to the low-level state management code in the
     core architecture code and KVM.
   - Use correct register widths during SVE/SME save/restore assembly.
   - Expose SVE/SME save/restore memory accesses to sanitisers.

  Memory management:
   - Preparatory work for unmapping the kernel data and bss sections
     from the linear map.

  Miscellaneous:
   - Inline DAIF manipulation helpers so they can be used safely from
     non-instrumentable code.
   - Fix handling of the 'nosmp' cmdline option to avoid marking
     secondary cores as "possible".

  MPAM:
   - Add support for v0.1 of the MPAM architecture.

  Perf:
   - Update HiSilicon PMU MAINTAINERS entry.
   - Fix event encodings for the DVM node in the CMN driver.

  Selftests:
   - Extend sigframe tests to cover POE context.
   - Add coverage for the newly added 2025 dpISA hwcaps.

  System registers:
   - Add new registers and ESR encodings for the HDBSS feature.

  Plus minor fixes and cleanups across the board"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (73 commits)
  arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 CPU
  arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on NVIDIA Olympus CPU
  arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on various Arm CPUs
  arm64: cputype: Add C1-Premium definitions
  arm64: cputype: Add C1-Ultra definitions
  Revert "arm64: mm: Unmap kernel data/bss entirely from the linear map"
  Revert "arm64: mm: Defer remap of linear alias of data/bss"
  arm64: arch_timer: reuse arch_timer_read_cnt{p,v}ct_el0() helpers
  arm64/mm: Rename ptdesc_t
  arm64: mm: Defer remap of linear alias of data/bss
  KVM: arm64: Omit tag sync on stage-2 mappings of the zero page
  arm64: Avoid double evaluation of __ptep_get()
  kasan: Move generic KASAN page tables out of BSS too
  arm64: Rename page table BSS section to .bss..pgtbl
  arm64: patching: replace min_t with min in __text_poke
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix DVM node events
  arm64: fpsimd: Remove &lt;asm/fpsimdmacros.h&gt;
  arm64: fpsimd: Move SME save/restore inline
  arm64: fpsimd: Move sve_flush_live() inline
  arm64: fpsimd: Move SVE save/restore inline
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "It feels like the new world of AI tooling has slowed us down a little
  on the feature side when compared to the fixes side. The extra rounds
  of Sashiko review have also pushed a few things out until next time.

  Still, there's some good foundational stuff here for the fpsimd code
  and hardening work towards removing the predictable linear alias of
  the kernel image.

  CPU errata handling:
   - Extend CnP disabling workaround to HiSilicon HIP09 hardware.
   - Work around eternally broken broadcast TLB invalidation on more
     CPUs.
   - Documentation and code cleanups.

  CPU features:
   - Add new hwcaps for the 2025 dpISA extensions.

  Floating point / SVE / SME:
   - Significant cleanup to the low-level state management code in the
     core architecture code and KVM.
   - Use correct register widths during SVE/SME save/restore assembly.
   - Expose SVE/SME save/restore memory accesses to sanitisers.

  Memory management:
   - Preparatory work for unmapping the kernel data and bss sections
     from the linear map.

  Miscellaneous:
   - Inline DAIF manipulation helpers so they can be used safely from
     non-instrumentable code.
   - Fix handling of the 'nosmp' cmdline option to avoid marking
     secondary cores as "possible".

  MPAM:
   - Add support for v0.1 of the MPAM architecture.

  Perf:
   - Update HiSilicon PMU MAINTAINERS entry.
   - Fix event encodings for the DVM node in the CMN driver.

  Selftests:
   - Extend sigframe tests to cover POE context.
   - Add coverage for the newly added 2025 dpISA hwcaps.

  System registers:
   - Add new registers and ESR encodings for the HDBSS feature.

  Plus minor fixes and cleanups across the board"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (73 commits)
  arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 CPU
  arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on NVIDIA Olympus CPU
  arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on various Arm CPUs
  arm64: cputype: Add C1-Premium definitions
  arm64: cputype: Add C1-Ultra definitions
  Revert "arm64: mm: Unmap kernel data/bss entirely from the linear map"
  Revert "arm64: mm: Defer remap of linear alias of data/bss"
  arm64: arch_timer: reuse arch_timer_read_cnt{p,v}ct_el0() helpers
  arm64/mm: Rename ptdesc_t
  arm64: mm: Defer remap of linear alias of data/bss
  KVM: arm64: Omit tag sync on stage-2 mappings of the zero page
  arm64: Avoid double evaluation of __ptep_get()
  kasan: Move generic KASAN page tables out of BSS too
  arm64: Rename page table BSS section to .bss..pgtbl
  arm64: patching: replace min_t with min in __text_poke
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix DVM node events
  arm64: fpsimd: Remove &lt;asm/fpsimdmacros.h&gt;
  arm64: fpsimd: Move SME save/restore inline
  arm64: fpsimd: Move sve_flush_live() inline
  arm64: fpsimd: Move SVE save/restore inline
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fpsimd: Move sve_flush_live() inline</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T15:50:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-03T11:06:28+00:00</published>
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Currently sve_flush_live() is written in out-of-line assembly. It would
be nice if we could move it inline such that control flow can be written
more clearly in C, and to permit the removal of otherwise unused
assembly macros.

The 'flush_ffr' argument is redundant as sve_flush_live() is always
called from non-streaming mode, and all callers pass 'true'. Remove the
argument and make it a requirement that the function is called from
non-streaming mode.

The 'vq_minus_1' argument is unnecessary, as sve_flush_live() can read
the live VL directly using the RDVL instruction (wrapped by the
sve_get_vl() helper function).

Move the function to C, with the simplifications above.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently sve_flush_live() is written in out-of-line assembly. It would
be nice if we could move it inline such that control flow can be written
more clearly in C, and to permit the removal of otherwise unused
assembly macros.

The 'flush_ffr' argument is redundant as sve_flush_live() is always
called from non-streaming mode, and all callers pass 'true'. Remove the
argument and make it a requirement that the function is called from
non-streaming mode.

The 'vq_minus_1' argument is unnecessary, as sve_flush_live() can read
the live VL directly using the RDVL instruction (wrapped by the
sve_get_vl() helper function).

Move the function to C, with the simplifications above.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/entry: Fix arm64-specific rseq brokenness</title>
<updated>2026-05-08T15:00:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-08T14:20:23+00:00</published>
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Mathias Stearn reports that since v6.19, there are two big issues
affecting rseq:

(1) On arm64 specifically, rseq critical sections aren't aborted when
    they should be.

(2) The 'cpu_id_start' field is no longer written by the kernel in all
    cases it used to be, including some cases where TCMalloc depends on
    the kernel clobbering the field.

This patch fixes issue #1. This patch DOES NOT fix issue #2, which will
need to be addressed by other patches.

The arm64-specific brokenness is a result of commits:

  2fc0e4b4126c ("rseq: Record interrupt from user space")
  39a167560a61 ("rseq: Optimize event setting")

The first commit failed to add a call to rseq_note_user_irq_entry() on
arm64. Thus arm64 never sets rseq_event::user_irq to record that it may
be necessary to abort an active rseq critical section upon return to
userspace. On its own, this commit had no functional impact as the value
of rseq_event::user_irq was not consumed.

The second commit relied upon rseq_event::user_irq to determine whether
or not to bother to perform rseq work when returning to userspace. As
rseq_event::user_irq wasn't set on arm64, this work would be skipped,
and consequently an active rseq critical section would not be aborted.

Fix this by giving arm64 syscall-specific entry/exit paths, and
performing the relevant logic in syscall and non-syscall paths,
including calling rseq_note_user_irq_entry() for non-syscall entry.

Currently arm64 cannot use syscall_enter_from_user_mode(),
syscall_exit_to_user_mode(), and irqentry_exit_to_user_mode(), due to
ordering constraints with exception masking, and risk of ABI breakage
for syscall tracing/audit/etc. For the moment the entry/exit logic is
left as arm64-specific, directly using enter_from_user_mode() and
exit_to_user_mode(), but mirroring the generic code.

I intend to follow up with refactoring/cleanup, as we did for kernel
mode entry paths in commit:

  041aa7a85390 ("entry: Split preemption from irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode()")

... which will allow arm64 to use the GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY functions directly.

Fixes: 39a167560a61 ("rseq: Optimize event setting")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn &lt;mathias@mongodb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508142023.3268622-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
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Mathias Stearn reports that since v6.19, there are two big issues
affecting rseq:

(1) On arm64 specifically, rseq critical sections aren't aborted when
    they should be.

(2) The 'cpu_id_start' field is no longer written by the kernel in all
    cases it used to be, including some cases where TCMalloc depends on
    the kernel clobbering the field.

This patch fixes issue #1. This patch DOES NOT fix issue #2, which will
need to be addressed by other patches.

The arm64-specific brokenness is a result of commits:

  2fc0e4b4126c ("rseq: Record interrupt from user space")
  39a167560a61 ("rseq: Optimize event setting")

The first commit failed to add a call to rseq_note_user_irq_entry() on
arm64. Thus arm64 never sets rseq_event::user_irq to record that it may
be necessary to abort an active rseq critical section upon return to
userspace. On its own, this commit had no functional impact as the value
of rseq_event::user_irq was not consumed.

The second commit relied upon rseq_event::user_irq to determine whether
or not to bother to perform rseq work when returning to userspace. As
rseq_event::user_irq wasn't set on arm64, this work would be skipped,
and consequently an active rseq critical section would not be aborted.

Fix this by giving arm64 syscall-specific entry/exit paths, and
performing the relevant logic in syscall and non-syscall paths,
including calling rseq_note_user_irq_entry() for non-syscall entry.

Currently arm64 cannot use syscall_enter_from_user_mode(),
syscall_exit_to_user_mode(), and irqentry_exit_to_user_mode(), due to
ordering constraints with exception masking, and risk of ABI breakage
for syscall tracing/audit/etc. For the moment the entry/exit logic is
left as arm64-specific, directly using enter_from_user_mode() and
exit_to_user_mode(), but mirroring the generic code.

I intend to follow up with refactoring/cleanup, as we did for kernel
mode entry paths in commit:

  041aa7a85390 ("entry: Split preemption from irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode()")

... which will allow arm64 to use the GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY functions directly.

Fixes: 39a167560a61 ("rseq: Optimize event setting")
Reported-by: Mathias Stearn &lt;mathias@mongodb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/CAHnCjA25b+nO2n5CeifknSKHssJpPrjnf+dtr7UgzRw4Zgu=oA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508142023.3268622-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next/c1-pro-erratum-4193714' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2026-04-20T12:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T12:12:35+00:00</published>
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* for-next/c1-pro-erratum-4193714:
  : Work around C1-Pro erratum 4193714 (CVE-2026-0995)
  arm64: errata: Work around early CME DVMSync acknowledgement
  arm64: cputype: Add C1-Pro definitions
  arm64: tlb: Pass the corresponding mm to __tlbi_sync_s1ish()
  arm64: tlb: Introduce __tlbi_sync_s1ish_{kernel,batch}() for TLB maintenance
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* for-next/c1-pro-erratum-4193714:
  : Work around C1-Pro erratum 4193714 (CVE-2026-0995)
  arm64: errata: Work around early CME DVMSync acknowledgement
  arm64: cputype: Add C1-Pro definitions
  arm64: tlb: Pass the corresponding mm to __tlbi_sync_s1ish()
  arm64: tlb: Introduce __tlbi_sync_s1ish_{kernel,batch}() for TLB maintenance
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<entry>
<title>arm64: errata: Work around early CME DVMSync acknowledgement</title>
<updated>2026-04-10T18:46:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T10:28:44+00:00</published>
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C1-Pro acknowledges DVMSync messages before completing the SME/CME
memory accesses. Work around this by issuing an IPI to the affected CPUs
if they are running in EL0 with SME enabled.

Note that we avoid the local DSB in the IPI handler as the kernel runs
with SCTLR_EL1.IESB=1. This is sufficient to complete SME memory
accesses at EL0 on taking an exception to EL1. On the return to user
path, no barrier is necessary either. See the comment in
sme_set_active() and the more detailed explanation in the link below.

To avoid a potential IPI flood from malicious applications (e.g.
madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) in a tight loop), track where a process is active
via mm_cpumask() and only interrupt those CPUs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ablEXwhfKyJW1i7l@J2N7QTR9R3
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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C1-Pro acknowledges DVMSync messages before completing the SME/CME
memory accesses. Work around this by issuing an IPI to the affected CPUs
if they are running in EL0 with SME enabled.

Note that we avoid the local DSB in the IPI handler as the kernel runs
with SCTLR_EL1.IESB=1. This is sufficient to complete SME memory
accesses at EL0 on taking an exception to EL1. On the return to user
path, no barrier is necessary either. See the comment in
sme_set_active() and the more detailed explanation in the link below.

To avoid a potential IPI flood from malicious applications (e.g.
madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) in a tight loop), track where a process is active
via mm_cpumask() and only interrupt those CPUs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ablEXwhfKyJW1i7l@J2N7QTR9R3
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: Use split preemption logic</title>
<updated>2026-04-08T16:40:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T13:16:49+00:00</published>
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The generic irqentry code now provides
irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt() and
irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_after_preempt(), which can be used
where architectures have different state requirements for involuntary
preemption and exception return, as is the case on arm64.

Use the new functions on arm64, aligning our exit to kernel mode logic
with the style of our exit to user mode logic. This removes the need for
the recently-added bodge in arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched(), and
allows preemption to occur when returning from any exception taken from
kernel mode, which is nicer for RT.

In an ideal world, we'd remove arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched(), and
fold the conditionality directly into the architecture-specific entry
code. That way all the logic necessary to avoid preempting from a
pseudo-NMI could be constrained specifically to the EL1 IRQ/FIQ paths,
avoiding redundant work for other exceptions, and making the flow a bit
clearer. At present it looks like that would require a larger
refactoring (e.g. for the PREEMPT_DYNAMIC logic), and so I've left that
as-is for now.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The generic irqentry code now provides
irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_preempt() and
irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode_after_preempt(), which can be used
where architectures have different state requirements for involuntary
preemption and exception return, as is the case on arm64.

Use the new functions on arm64, aligning our exit to kernel mode logic
with the style of our exit to user mode logic. This removes the need for
the recently-added bodge in arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched(), and
allows preemption to occur when returning from any exception taken from
kernel mode, which is nicer for RT.

In an ideal world, we'd remove arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched(), and
fold the conditionality directly into the architecture-specific entry
code. That way all the logic necessary to avoid preempting from a
pseudo-NMI could be constrained specifically to the EL1 IRQ/FIQ paths,
avoiding redundant work for other exceptions, and making the flow a bit
clearer. At present it looks like that would require a larger
refactoring (e.g. for the PREEMPT_DYNAMIC logic), and so I've left that
as-is for now.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: Use irqentry_{enter_from,exit_to}_kernel_mode()</title>
<updated>2026-04-08T16:40:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T13:16:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a07b7b214240e1bf3de7067f2f43d88aa8e50c28'/>
<id>a07b7b214240e1bf3de7067f2f43d88aa8e50c28</id>
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The generic irqentry code now provides irqentry_enter_from_kernel_mode()
and irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode(), which can be used when an exception
is known to be taken from kernel mode. These can be inlined into
architecture-specific entry code, and avoid redundant work to test
whether the exception was taken from user mode.

Use these in arm64_enter_from_kernel_mode() and
arm64_exit_to_kernel_mode(), which are only used for exceptions known to
be taken from kernel mode. This will remove a small amount of redundant
work, and will permit further changes to arm64_exit_to_kernel_mode() in
subsequent patches.

There should be no funcitonal change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The generic irqentry code now provides irqentry_enter_from_kernel_mode()
and irqentry_exit_to_kernel_mode(), which can be used when an exception
is known to be taken from kernel mode. These can be inlined into
architecture-specific entry code, and avoid redundant work to test
whether the exception was taken from user mode.

Use these in arm64_enter_from_kernel_mode() and
arm64_exit_to_kernel_mode(), which are only used for exceptions known to
be taken from kernel mode. This will remove a small amount of redundant
work, and will permit further changes to arm64_exit_to_kernel_mode() in
subsequent patches.

There should be no funcitonal change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: Consistently prefix arm64-specific wrappers</title>
<updated>2026-04-08T16:40:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T13:16:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6879ef130223f015c9a5a8a0d14d3f6d0464fa21'/>
<id>6879ef130223f015c9a5a8a0d14d3f6d0464fa21</id>
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For historical reasons, arm64's entry code has arm64-specific functions
named enter_from_kernel_mode() and exit_to_kernel_mode(), which are
wrappers for similarly-named functions from the generic irqentry code.
Other arm64-specific wrappers have an 'arm64_' prefix to clearly
distinguish them from their generic counterparts, e.g.
arm64_enter_from_user_mode() and arm64_exit_to_user_mode().

For consistency and clarity, add an 'arm64_' prefix to these functions.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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For historical reasons, arm64's entry code has arm64-specific functions
named enter_from_kernel_mode() and exit_to_kernel_mode(), which are
wrappers for similarly-named functions from the generic irqentry code.
Other arm64-specific wrappers have an 'arm64_' prefix to clearly
distinguish them from their generic counterparts, e.g.
arm64_enter_from_user_mode() and arm64_exit_to_user_mode().

For consistency and clarity, add an 'arm64_' prefix to these functions.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-12-03T01:03:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T01:03:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=44fc84337b6eae580a51cf6f7ca6a22ef1349556'/>
<id>44fc84337b6eae580a51cf6f7ca6a22ef1349556</id>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19.

  The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/.
  There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd
  (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us
  to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write
  fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with
  preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and
  several cleanups/typos.

  Summary:

  Core features:

   - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring)
     driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API

  Perf and PMU:

   - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs

   - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support
     for NVIDIA implementations

   - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect

   - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs

   - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver

   - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver

  Memory managemennt:

   - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault

   - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid

   - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros

   - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping()

   - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common()

  ACPI and EFI:

   - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption

   - Remove unused ACPI function

  Miscellaneous:

   - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems

   - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor

   - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__

   - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test

   - Remove some no longer used macros/functions

   - Various spelling corrections"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits)
  arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic
  arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common
  arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user
  arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros
  Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names
  ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init()
  perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source
  perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4
  perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects)
  perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks
  perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe()
  dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL
  arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
  arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index
  MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver
  arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch()
  arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset
  arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19.

  The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/.
  There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd
  (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us
  to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write
  fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with
  preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and
  several cleanups/typos.

  Summary:

  Core features:

   - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring)
     driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API

  Perf and PMU:

   - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs

   - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support
     for NVIDIA implementations

   - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect

   - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs

   - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver

   - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver

  Memory managemennt:

   - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault

   - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid

   - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros

   - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping()

   - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common()

  ACPI and EFI:

   - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption

   - Remove unused ACPI function

  Miscellaneous:

   - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems

   - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor

   - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__

   - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test

   - Remove some no longer used macros/functions

   - Various spelling corrections"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits)
  arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic
  arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common
  arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user
  arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros
  Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names
  ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init()
  perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source
  perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4
  perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects)
  perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks
  perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe()
  dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL
  arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
  arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index
  MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver
  arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch()
  arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset
  arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: Clean out some indirection</title>
<updated>2025-11-11T19:28:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-05T14:27:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=555827a0645641ec3fadfeb0bc3155ab79a84b11'/>
<id>555827a0645641ec3fadfeb0bc3155ab79a84b11</id>
<content type='text'>
The conversion to generic IRQ entry left some functions
in the EL1 (kernel) IRQ entry path very shallow, so drop
the __inner_functions() where appropriate, saving some
time and stack.

This is not a fix but an optimization.

Drop stale comments about irqentry_enter/exit() while we
are at it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The conversion to generic IRQ entry left some functions
in the EL1 (kernel) IRQ entry path very shallow, so drop
the __inner_functions() where appropriate, saving some
time and stack.

This is not a fix but an optimization.

Drop stale comments about irqentry_enter/exit() while we
are at it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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