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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-12T18:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-12T18:50:38+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - Finish a refactor of pgprot_framebuffer() which dependend
   on some changes that were merged via the drm tree

 - Fix some kernel-doc warnings to quieten the bots

Thanks to Nathan Lynch and Thomas Zimmermann.

* tag 'powerpc-6.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/rtas: Fix ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show() kernel-doc
  powerpc/pseries/rtas-work-area: Fix rtas_work_area_reserve_arena() kernel-doc
  powerpc/fb: Call internal __phys_mem_access_prot() in fbdev code
  powerpc: Remove file parameter from phys_mem_access_prot()
  powerpc/machdep: Remove trailing whitespaces
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - Finish a refactor of pgprot_framebuffer() which dependend
   on some changes that were merged via the drm tree

 - Fix some kernel-doc warnings to quieten the bots

Thanks to Nathan Lynch and Thomas Zimmermann.

* tag 'powerpc-6.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/rtas: Fix ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show() kernel-doc
  powerpc/pseries/rtas-work-area: Fix rtas_work_area_reserve_arena() kernel-doc
  powerpc/fb: Call internal __phys_mem_access_prot() in fbdev code
  powerpc: Remove file parameter from phys_mem_access_prot()
  powerpc/machdep: Remove trailing whitespaces
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2023-11-09T21:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-09T21:37:28+00:00</published>
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Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Make default-domains mandatory for all IOMMU drivers
   - Remove group refcounting
   - Add generic_single_device_group() helper and consolidate drivers
   - Cleanup map/unmap ops
   - Scaling improvements for the IOVA rcache depot
   - Convert dart &amp; iommufd to the new domain_alloc_paging()

  ARM-SMMU:
   - Device-tree binding update:
       - Add qcom,sm7150-smmu-v2 for Adreno on SM7150 SoC
   - SMMUv2:
       - Support for Qualcomm SDM670 (MDSS) and SM7150 SoCs
   - SMMUv3:
       - Large refactoring of the context descriptor code to move the CD
         table into the master, paving the way for '-&gt;set_dev_pasid()'
         support on non-SVA domains
   - Minor cleanups to the SVA code

  Intel VT-d:
   - Enable debugfs to dump domain attached to a pasid
   - Remove an unnecessary inline function

  AMD IOMMU:
   - Initial patches for SVA support (not complete yet)

  S390 IOMMU:
   - DMA-API conversion and optimized IOTLB flushing

  And some smaller fixes and improvements"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (102 commits)
  iommu/dart: Remove the force_bypass variable
  iommu/dart: Call apple_dart_finalize_domain() as part of alloc_paging()
  iommu/dart: Convert to domain_alloc_paging()
  iommu/dart: Move the blocked domain support to a global static
  iommu/dart: Use static global identity domains
  iommufd: Convert to alloc_domain_paging()
  iommu/vt-d: Use ops-&gt;blocked_domain
  iommu/vt-d: Update the definition of the blocking domain
  iommu: Move IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED global statics to ops-&gt;blocked_domain
  Revert "iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function"
  iommu/amd: Remove DMA_FQ type from domain allocation path
  iommu: change iommu_map_sgtable to return signed values
  iommu/virtio: Add __counted_by for struct viommu_request and use struct_size()
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Support dumping a specified page table
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Create/remove debugfs file per {device, pasid}
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Dump entry pointing to huge page
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove bond refcount
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove unused iommu_sva handle
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Rename cdcfg to cd_table
  ...
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Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Make default-domains mandatory for all IOMMU drivers
   - Remove group refcounting
   - Add generic_single_device_group() helper and consolidate drivers
   - Cleanup map/unmap ops
   - Scaling improvements for the IOVA rcache depot
   - Convert dart &amp; iommufd to the new domain_alloc_paging()

  ARM-SMMU:
   - Device-tree binding update:
       - Add qcom,sm7150-smmu-v2 for Adreno on SM7150 SoC
   - SMMUv2:
       - Support for Qualcomm SDM670 (MDSS) and SM7150 SoCs
   - SMMUv3:
       - Large refactoring of the context descriptor code to move the CD
         table into the master, paving the way for '-&gt;set_dev_pasid()'
         support on non-SVA domains
   - Minor cleanups to the SVA code

  Intel VT-d:
   - Enable debugfs to dump domain attached to a pasid
   - Remove an unnecessary inline function

  AMD IOMMU:
   - Initial patches for SVA support (not complete yet)

  S390 IOMMU:
   - DMA-API conversion and optimized IOTLB flushing

  And some smaller fixes and improvements"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (102 commits)
  iommu/dart: Remove the force_bypass variable
  iommu/dart: Call apple_dart_finalize_domain() as part of alloc_paging()
  iommu/dart: Convert to domain_alloc_paging()
  iommu/dart: Move the blocked domain support to a global static
  iommu/dart: Use static global identity domains
  iommufd: Convert to alloc_domain_paging()
  iommu/vt-d: Use ops-&gt;blocked_domain
  iommu/vt-d: Update the definition of the blocking domain
  iommu: Move IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED global statics to ops-&gt;blocked_domain
  Revert "iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function"
  iommu/amd: Remove DMA_FQ type from domain allocation path
  iommu: change iommu_map_sgtable to return signed values
  iommu/virtio: Add __counted_by for struct viommu_request and use struct_size()
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Support dumping a specified page table
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Create/remove debugfs file per {device, pasid}
  iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Dump entry pointing to huge page
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove bond refcount
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove unused iommu_sva handle
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Rename cdcfg to cd_table
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: Fix ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show() kernel-doc</title>
<updated>2023-11-07T02:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-06T13:42:54+00:00</published>
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&gt;From a W=1 build:

&gt;&gt; arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-proc.c:771: warning: Function parameter or member 'm' not described in
&gt;&gt; 'ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show'
&gt;&gt; arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-proc.c:771: warning: Function parameter or member 'v' not described in
&gt;&gt; 'ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show'

Add the missing parameter descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202309211645.1Lvwmbv4-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231106-rtas-trivial-v1-2-61847655c51f@linux.ibm.com

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&gt;From a W=1 build:

&gt;&gt; arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-proc.c:771: warning: Function parameter or member 'm' not described in
&gt;&gt; 'ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show'
&gt;&gt; arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas-proc.c:771: warning: Function parameter or member 'v' not described in
&gt;&gt; 'ppc_rtas_rmo_buf_show'

Add the missing parameter descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202309211645.1Lvwmbv4-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20231106-rtas-trivial-v1-2-61847655c51f@linux.ibm.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove file parameter from phys_mem_access_prot()</title>
<updated>2023-11-06T04:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Zimmermann</name>
<email>tzimmermann@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-22T08:04:58+00:00</published>
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Remove 'file' parameter from struct machdep_calls.phys_mem_access_prot
and its implementation in pci_phys_mem_access_prot(). The file is not
used on PowerPC. By removing it, a later patch can simplify fbdev's
mmap code, which uses phys_mem_access_prot() on PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
[mpe: Rebase on unrelated changes to phys_mem_access_prot()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230922080636.26762-5-tzimmermann@suse.de
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Remove 'file' parameter from struct machdep_calls.phys_mem_access_prot
and its implementation in pci_phys_mem_access_prot(). The file is not
used on PowerPC. By removing it, a later patch can simplify fbdev's
mmap code, which uses phys_mem_access_prot() on PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
[mpe: Rebase on unrelated changes to phys_mem_access_prot()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230922080636.26762-5-tzimmermann@suse.de
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<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>
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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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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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T20:07:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T20:07:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=707df298cbde200b939c70be2577b20775fe3345'/>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for KVM running as a nested hypervisor under development
   versions of PowerVM, using the new PAPR nested virtualisation API

 - Add support for the BPF prog pack allocator

 - A rework of the non-server MMU handling to support execute-only on
   all platforms

 - Some optimisations &amp; cleanups for the powerpc qspinlock code

 - Various other small features and fixes

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Gupta, Amit Machhiwal, Benjamin
Gray, Christophe Leroy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Gaurav Batra, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kautuk Consul, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Michael
Neuling, Minjie Du, Muhammad Muzammil, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Child, Nysal Jan K.A, Peter Lafreniere, Rob Herring, Sachin Sant,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shrikanth Hegde, Srikar Dronamraju, Stanislav
Kinsburskii, Vaibhav Jain, Wang Yufen, Yang Yingliang, and Yuan Tan.

* tag 'powerpc-6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (100 commits)
  powerpc/vmcore: Add MMU information to vmcoreinfo
  Revert "powerpc: add `cur_cpu_spec` symbol to vmcoreinfo"
  powerpc/bpf: use bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]
  powerpc/bpf: rename powerpc64_jit_data to powerpc_jit_data
  powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
  powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_copy
  powerpc/code-patching: introduce patch_instructions()
  powerpc/32s: Implement local_flush_tlb_page_psize()
  powerpc/pseries: use kfree_sensitive() in plpks_gen_password()
  powerpc/code-patching: Perform hwsync in __patch_instruction() in case of failure
  powerpc/fsl_msi: Use device_get_match_data()
  powerpc: Remove cpm_dp...() macros
  powerpc/qspinlock: Rename yield_propagate_owner tunable
  powerpc/qspinlock: Propagate sleepy if previous waiter is preempted
  powerpc/qspinlock: don't propagate the not-sleepy state
  powerpc/qspinlock: propagate owner preemptedness rather than CPU number
  powerpc/qspinlock: stop queued waiters trying to set lock sleepy
  powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
  powerpc/trace: Add support for HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
  powerpc/tools: Pass -mabi=elfv2 to gcc-check-mprofile-kernel.sh
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for KVM running as a nested hypervisor under development
   versions of PowerVM, using the new PAPR nested virtualisation API

 - Add support for the BPF prog pack allocator

 - A rework of the non-server MMU handling to support execute-only on
   all platforms

 - Some optimisations &amp; cleanups for the powerpc qspinlock code

 - Various other small features and fixes

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Gupta, Amit Machhiwal, Benjamin
Gray, Christophe Leroy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Gaurav Batra, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kautuk Consul, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Michael
Neuling, Minjie Du, Muhammad Muzammil, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Child, Nysal Jan K.A, Peter Lafreniere, Rob Herring, Sachin Sant,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shrikanth Hegde, Srikar Dronamraju, Stanislav
Kinsburskii, Vaibhav Jain, Wang Yufen, Yang Yingliang, and Yuan Tan.

* tag 'powerpc-6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (100 commits)
  powerpc/vmcore: Add MMU information to vmcoreinfo
  Revert "powerpc: add `cur_cpu_spec` symbol to vmcoreinfo"
  powerpc/bpf: use bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]
  powerpc/bpf: rename powerpc64_jit_data to powerpc_jit_data
  powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
  powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_copy
  powerpc/code-patching: introduce patch_instructions()
  powerpc/32s: Implement local_flush_tlb_page_psize()
  powerpc/pseries: use kfree_sensitive() in plpks_gen_password()
  powerpc/code-patching: Perform hwsync in __patch_instruction() in case of failure
  powerpc/fsl_msi: Use device_get_match_data()
  powerpc: Remove cpm_dp...() macros
  powerpc/qspinlock: Rename yield_propagate_owner tunable
  powerpc/qspinlock: Propagate sleepy if previous waiter is preempted
  powerpc/qspinlock: don't propagate the not-sleepy state
  powerpc/qspinlock: propagate owner preemptedness rather than CPU number
  powerpc/qspinlock: stop queued waiters trying to set lock sleepy
  powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
  powerpc/trace: Add support for HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
  powerpc/tools: Pass -mabi=elfv2 to gcc-check-mprofile-kernel.sh
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T17:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T17:41:18+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Remove eventfs_file descriptor

   This is the biggest change, and the second part of making eventfs
   create its files dynamically.

   In 6.6 the first part was added, and that maintained a one to one
   mapping between eventfs meta descriptors and the directories and file
   inodes and dentries that were dynamically created. The directories
   were represented by a eventfs_inode and the files were represented by
   a eventfs_file.

   In v6.7 the eventfs_file is removed. As all events have the same
   directory make up (sched_switch has an "enable", "id", "format", etc
   files), the handing of what files are underneath each leaf eventfs
   directory is moved back to the tracing subsystem via a callback.

   When an event is added to the eventfs, it registers an array of
   evenfs_entry's. These hold the names of the files and the callbacks
   to call when the file is referenced. The callback gets the name so
   that the same callback may be used by multiple files. The callback
   then supplies the filesystem_operations structure needed to create
   this file.

   This has brought the memory footprint of creating multiple eventfs
   instances down by 2 megs each!

 - User events now has persistent events that are not associated to a
   single processes. These are privileged events that hang around even
   if no process is attached to them

 - Clean up of seq_buf

   There's talk about using seq_buf more to replace strscpy() and
   friends. But this also requires some minor modifications of seq_buf
   to be able to do this

 - Expand instance ring buffers individually

   Currently if boot up creates an instance, and a trace event is
   enabled on that instance, the ring buffer for that instance and the
   top level ring buffer are expanded (1.4 MB per CPU). This wastes
   memory as this happens when nothing is using the top level instance

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_puts()
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_putc()
  eventfs: Use simple_recursive_removal() to clean up dentries
  eventfs: Remove special processing of dput() of events directory
  eventfs: Delete eventfs_inode when the last dentry is freed
  eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex when calling callback functions
  eventfs: Save ownership and mode
  eventfs: Test for ei-&gt;is_freed when accessing ei-&gt;dentry
  eventfs: Have a free_ei() that just frees the eventfs_inode
  eventfs: Remove "is_freed" union with rcu head
  eventfs: Fix kerneldoc of eventfs_remove_rec()
  tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context
  eventfs: Remove extra dget() in eventfs_create_events_dir()
  tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters
  seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()
  eventfs: Fix typo in eventfs_inode union comment
  eventfs: Fix WARN_ON() in create_file_dentry()
  powerpc: Remove initialisation of readpos
  tracing/histograms: Simplify last_cmd_set()
  seq_buf: fix a misleading comment
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Remove eventfs_file descriptor

   This is the biggest change, and the second part of making eventfs
   create its files dynamically.

   In 6.6 the first part was added, and that maintained a one to one
   mapping between eventfs meta descriptors and the directories and file
   inodes and dentries that were dynamically created. The directories
   were represented by a eventfs_inode and the files were represented by
   a eventfs_file.

   In v6.7 the eventfs_file is removed. As all events have the same
   directory make up (sched_switch has an "enable", "id", "format", etc
   files), the handing of what files are underneath each leaf eventfs
   directory is moved back to the tracing subsystem via a callback.

   When an event is added to the eventfs, it registers an array of
   evenfs_entry's. These hold the names of the files and the callbacks
   to call when the file is referenced. The callback gets the name so
   that the same callback may be used by multiple files. The callback
   then supplies the filesystem_operations structure needed to create
   this file.

   This has brought the memory footprint of creating multiple eventfs
   instances down by 2 megs each!

 - User events now has persistent events that are not associated to a
   single processes. These are privileged events that hang around even
   if no process is attached to them

 - Clean up of seq_buf

   There's talk about using seq_buf more to replace strscpy() and
   friends. But this also requires some minor modifications of seq_buf
   to be able to do this

 - Expand instance ring buffers individually

   Currently if boot up creates an instance, and a trace event is
   enabled on that instance, the ring buffer for that instance and the
   top level ring buffer are expanded (1.4 MB per CPU). This wastes
   memory as this happens when nothing is using the top level instance

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_puts()
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_putc()
  eventfs: Use simple_recursive_removal() to clean up dentries
  eventfs: Remove special processing of dput() of events directory
  eventfs: Delete eventfs_inode when the last dentry is freed
  eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex when calling callback functions
  eventfs: Save ownership and mode
  eventfs: Test for ei-&gt;is_freed when accessing ei-&gt;dentry
  eventfs: Have a free_ei() that just frees the eventfs_inode
  eventfs: Remove "is_freed" union with rcu head
  eventfs: Fix kerneldoc of eventfs_remove_rec()
  tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context
  eventfs: Remove extra dget() in eventfs_create_events_dir()
  tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters
  seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()
  eventfs: Fix typo in eventfs_inode union comment
  eventfs: Fix WARN_ON() in create_file_dentry()
  powerpc: Remove initialisation of readpos
  tracing/histograms: Simplify last_cmd_set()
  seq_buf: fix a misleading comment
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T06:53:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T06:53:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8f6f76a6a29f36d2f3e4510d0bde5046672f6924'/>
<id>8f6f76a6a29f36d2f3e4510d0bde5046672f6924</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig-&gt;stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig-&gt;stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=426ee5196d1821d70192923e70c0f8347faade47'/>
<id>426ee5196d1821d70192923e70c0f8347faade47</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
  infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
  all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
  driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
  is worth re-iterating the value:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
  unneeded check for procname == NULL.

  The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
  which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
  to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
  to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
  cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
  this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
  might as well roll through the fixes now"

* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
  watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
  proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
  intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
  powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
  riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
  infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
  all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
  driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
  is worth re-iterating the value:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
  unneeded check for procname == NULL.

  The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
  which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
  to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
  to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
  cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
  this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
  might as well roll through the fixes now"

* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
  watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
  proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
  intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
  powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
  riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T03:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T03:11:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=babe393974de0351c0e6cca50f5f84edaf8d7fa1'/>
<id>babe393974de0351c0e6cca50f5f84edaf8d7fa1</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around,
  but there are some significant changes nonetheless:

   - Some more Spanish-language and Chinese translations

   - The much-discussed documentation of the confidential-computing
     threat model

   - Powerpc and RISCV documentation move under Documentation/arch -
     these complete this particular bit of documentation churn

   - A large traditional-Chinese documentation update

   - A new document on backporting and conflict resolution

   - Some kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes

  Plus the usual smattering of smaller updates and typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: Fix the regex for matching -Werror flag
  docs: backporting: address feedback
  Documentation: driver-api: pps: Update PPS generator documentation
  speakup: Document USB support
  doc: blk-ioprio: Bring the doc in line with the implementation
  docs: usb: fix reference to nonexistent file in UVC Gadget
  docs: doc-guide: mention 'make refcheckdocs'
  Documentation: fix typo in dynamic-debug howto
  scripts/kernel-doc: match -Werror flag strictly
  Documentation/sphinx: Remove the repeated word "the" in comments.
  docs: sparse: add SPDX-License-Identifier
  docs/zh_CN: Add subsystem-apis Chinese translation
  docs/zh_TW: update contents for zh_TW
  docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters
  docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document
  docs: move riscv under arch
  docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst
  mm/memory-hotplug: fix typo in documentation
  docs: move powerpc under arch
  PCI: Update the devres documentation regarding to pcim_*()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around,
  but there are some significant changes nonetheless:

   - Some more Spanish-language and Chinese translations

   - The much-discussed documentation of the confidential-computing
     threat model

   - Powerpc and RISCV documentation move under Documentation/arch -
     these complete this particular bit of documentation churn

   - A large traditional-Chinese documentation update

   - A new document on backporting and conflict resolution

   - Some kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes

  Plus the usual smattering of smaller updates and typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: Fix the regex for matching -Werror flag
  docs: backporting: address feedback
  Documentation: driver-api: pps: Update PPS generator documentation
  speakup: Document USB support
  doc: blk-ioprio: Bring the doc in line with the implementation
  docs: usb: fix reference to nonexistent file in UVC Gadget
  docs: doc-guide: mention 'make refcheckdocs'
  Documentation: fix typo in dynamic-debug howto
  scripts/kernel-doc: match -Werror flag strictly
  Documentation/sphinx: Remove the repeated word "the" in comments.
  docs: sparse: add SPDX-License-Identifier
  docs/zh_CN: Add subsystem-apis Chinese translation
  docs/zh_TW: update contents for zh_TW
  docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters
  docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document
  docs: move riscv under arch
  docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst
  mm/memory-hotplug: fix typo in documentation
  docs: move powerpc under arch
  PCI: Update the devres documentation regarding to pcim_*()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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