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<title>linux.git/arch/parisc/kernel, branch v7.0</title>
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<title>parisc: Flush correct cache in cacheflush() syscall</title>
<updated>2026-03-15T08:28:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T14:16:37+00:00</published>
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The assembly flush instructions were swapped for I- and D-cache flags:

SYSCALL_DEFINE3(cacheflush, ...)
{
	if (cache &amp; DCACHE) {
			"fic ...\n"
	}
	if (cache &amp; ICACHE &amp;&amp; error == 0) {
			"fdc ...\n"
	}

Fix it by using fdc for DCACHE, and fic for ICACHE flushing.

Reported-by: Felix Lechner &lt;felix.lechner@lease-up.com&gt;
Fixes: c6d96328fecd ("parisc: Add cacheflush() syscall")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.5+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The assembly flush instructions were swapped for I- and D-cache flags:

SYSCALL_DEFINE3(cacheflush, ...)
{
	if (cache &amp; DCACHE) {
			"fic ...\n"
	}
	if (cache &amp; ICACHE &amp;&amp; error == 0) {
			"fdc ...\n"
	}

Fix it by using fdc for DCACHE, and fic for ICACHE flushing.

Reported-by: Felix Lechner &lt;felix.lechner@lease-up.com&gt;
Fixes: c6d96328fecd ("parisc: Add cacheflush() syscall")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.5+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2026-03-07T20:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-07T20:38:16+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
 "While testing Sasha Levin's 'kallsyms: embed source file:line info in
  kernel stack traces' patch series, which increases the typical kernel
  image size, I found some issues with the parisc initial kernel mapping
  which may prevent the kernel to boot.

  The three small patches here fix this"

* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Fix initial page table creation for boot
  parisc: Check kernel mapping earlier at bootup
  parisc: Increase initial mapping to 64 MB with KALLSYMS
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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
 "While testing Sasha Levin's 'kallsyms: embed source file:line info in
  kernel stack traces' patch series, which increases the typical kernel
  image size, I found some issues with the parisc initial kernel mapping
  which may prevent the kernel to boot.

  The three small patches here fix this"

* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Fix initial page table creation for boot
  parisc: Check kernel mapping earlier at bootup
  parisc: Increase initial mapping to 64 MB with KALLSYMS
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<title>parisc: Fix initial page table creation for boot</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T10:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-04T21:24:18+00:00</published>
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The KERNEL_INITIAL_ORDER value defines the initial size (usually 32 or
64 MB) of the page table during bootup. Up until now the whole area was
initialized with PTE entries, but there was no check if we filled too
many entries.  Change the code to fill up with so many entries that the
"_end" symbol can be reached by the kernel, but not more entries than
actually fit into the initial PTE tables.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0+
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The KERNEL_INITIAL_ORDER value defines the initial size (usually 32 or
64 MB) of the page table during bootup. Up until now the whole area was
initialized with PTE entries, but there was no check if we filled too
many entries.  Change the code to fill up with so many entries that the
"_end" symbol can be reached by the kernel, but not more entries than
actually fit into the initial PTE tables.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0+
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<title>parisc: Check kernel mapping earlier at bootup</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T10:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-03T22:36:11+00:00</published>
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The check if the initial mapping is sufficient needs to happen much
earlier during bootup. Move this test directly to the start_parisc()
function and use native PDC iodc functions to print the warning, because
panic() and printk() are not functional yet.

This fixes boot when enabling various KALLSYSMS options which need
much more space.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0+
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The check if the initial mapping is sufficient needs to happen much
earlier during bootup. Move this test directly to the start_parisc()
function and use native PDC iodc functions to print the warning, because
panic() and printk() are not functional yet.

This fixes boot when enabling various KALLSYSMS options which need
much more space.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0+
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T05:42:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T05:42:10+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:

 - Fix device reference leak in error path

 - Check if system provides a 64-bit free running platform counter

 - Minor fixes in debug code

* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: lba_pci: Add debug code to show IO and PA ranges
  parisc: Detect 64-bit free running platform counter
  parisc: Fix minor printk issues in iosapic debug code
  parisc: Enhance debug code for PAT firmware
  parisc: Add PDC PAT call to get free running 64-bit counter
  parisc: Fix module path output in qemu tables
  parisc: Export model name for MPE/ix
  parisc: Prevent interrupts during reboot
  parisc: Print hardware IDs as 4 digit hex strings
  parisc: kernel: replace kfree() with put_device() in create_tree_node()
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:

 - Fix device reference leak in error path

 - Check if system provides a 64-bit free running platform counter

 - Minor fixes in debug code

* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: lba_pci: Add debug code to show IO and PA ranges
  parisc: Detect 64-bit free running platform counter
  parisc: Fix minor printk issues in iosapic debug code
  parisc: Enhance debug code for PAT firmware
  parisc: Add PDC PAT call to get free running 64-bit counter
  parisc: Fix module path output in qemu tables
  parisc: Export model name for MPE/ix
  parisc: Prevent interrupts during reboot
  parisc: Print hardware IDs as 4 digit hex strings
  parisc: kernel: replace kfree() with put_device() in create_tree_node()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Detect 64-bit free running platform counter</title>
<updated>2026-02-06T23:45:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-06T20:59:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Enhance debug code for PAT firmware</title>
<updated>2026-02-06T23:45:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-06T20:39:15+00:00</published>
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Enhance output when running PAT firmware, which is helpful when
developing the QEMU emulator. The added code is behind an ifdef,
so no performance overhead for normal kernels.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Enhance output when running PAT firmware, which is helpful when
developing the QEMU emulator. The added code is behind an ifdef,
so no performance overhead for normal kernels.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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