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<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-06-15T08:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-15T08:51:14+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Futex updates:

   - Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Large series to address the robust futex unlock race for real, by
     Thomas Gleixner:

      "The robust futex unlock mechanism is racy in respect to the
       clearing of the robust_list_head::list_op_pending pointer because
       unlock and clearing the pointer are not atomic.

       The race window is between the unlock and clearing the pending op
       pointer. If the task is forced to exit in this window, exit will
       access a potentially invalid pending op pointer when cleaning up
       the robust list.

       That happens if another task manages to unmap the object
       containing the lock before the cleanup, which results in an UAF.

       In the worst case this UAF can lead to memory corruption when
       unrelated content has been mapped to the same address by the time
       the access happens.

       User space can't solve this problem without help from the kernel.
       This series provides the kernel side infrastructure to help it
       along:

        1) Combined unlock, pointer clearing, wake-up for the
           contended case

        2) VDSO based unlock and pointer clearing helpers with a
           fix-up function in the kernel when user space was interrupted
           within the critical section.

      ... with help by André Almeida:

        - Add a note about robust list race condition (André Almeida)
        - Add self-tests for robust release operations (André Almeida)

  Context analysis updates:

   - Implement context analysis for 'struct rt_mutex'. (Bart Van Assche)
   - Bump required Clang version to 23 (Marco Elver)

  Guard infrastructure updates:

   - Series to remove NULL check from unconditional guards (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Lockdep updates:

   - Restore self-test migrate_disable() and sched_rt_mutex state on
     PREEMPT_RT (Karl Mehltretter)

  Membarriers updates:

   - Use per-CPU mutexes for targeted commands (Aniket Gattani)
   - Modernize membarrier_global_expedited with cleanup guards (Aniket
     Gattani)
   - Add rseq stress test for CFS throttle interactions (Aniket Gattani)

  percpu-rwsems updates:

   - Extract __percpu_up_read() to optimize inlining overhead (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Seqlocks updates:

   - Allow UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to fail optimizing (Heiko Carstens)

  Lock tracing:

   - Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks such as
     mutexes, percpu-rwsems, rtmutexes, rwsems and semaphores (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  MAINTAINERS updates:

   - MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry (Boqun Feng)

  Misc updates and fixes by Randy Dunlap, YE WEI-HONG, Fabricio Parra,
  Dmitry Ilvokhin and Peter Zijlstra"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  locking/percpu-rwsem: Extract __percpu_up_read()
  tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  futex: Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns
  rust: sync: completion: Mark inline complete_all and wait_for_completion
  MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry
  cleanup: Specify nonnull argument index
  selftests: futex: Add tests for robust release operations
  Documentation: futex: Add a note about robust list race condition
  x86/vdso: Implement __vdso_futex_robust_try_unlock()
  x86/vdso: Prepare for robust futex unlock support
  futex: Provide infrastructure to plug the non contended robust futex unlock race
  futex: Add robust futex unlock IP range
  futex: Add support for unlocking robust futexes
  futex: Cleanup UAPI defines
  x86: Select ARCH_MEMORY_ORDER_TSO
  uaccess: Provide unsafe_atomic_store_release_user()
  futex: Provide UABI defines for robust list entry modifiers
  futex: Move futex related mm_struct data into a struct
  futex: Make futex_mm_init() void
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Futex updates:

   - Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Large series to address the robust futex unlock race for real, by
     Thomas Gleixner:

      "The robust futex unlock mechanism is racy in respect to the
       clearing of the robust_list_head::list_op_pending pointer because
       unlock and clearing the pointer are not atomic.

       The race window is between the unlock and clearing the pending op
       pointer. If the task is forced to exit in this window, exit will
       access a potentially invalid pending op pointer when cleaning up
       the robust list.

       That happens if another task manages to unmap the object
       containing the lock before the cleanup, which results in an UAF.

       In the worst case this UAF can lead to memory corruption when
       unrelated content has been mapped to the same address by the time
       the access happens.

       User space can't solve this problem without help from the kernel.
       This series provides the kernel side infrastructure to help it
       along:

        1) Combined unlock, pointer clearing, wake-up for the
           contended case

        2) VDSO based unlock and pointer clearing helpers with a
           fix-up function in the kernel when user space was interrupted
           within the critical section.

      ... with help by André Almeida:

        - Add a note about robust list race condition (André Almeida)
        - Add self-tests for robust release operations (André Almeida)

  Context analysis updates:

   - Implement context analysis for 'struct rt_mutex'. (Bart Van Assche)
   - Bump required Clang version to 23 (Marco Elver)

  Guard infrastructure updates:

   - Series to remove NULL check from unconditional guards (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Lockdep updates:

   - Restore self-test migrate_disable() and sched_rt_mutex state on
     PREEMPT_RT (Karl Mehltretter)

  Membarriers updates:

   - Use per-CPU mutexes for targeted commands (Aniket Gattani)
   - Modernize membarrier_global_expedited with cleanup guards (Aniket
     Gattani)
   - Add rseq stress test for CFS throttle interactions (Aniket Gattani)

  percpu-rwsems updates:

   - Extract __percpu_up_read() to optimize inlining overhead (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  Seqlocks updates:

   - Allow UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to fail optimizing (Heiko Carstens)

  Lock tracing:

   - Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks such as
     mutexes, percpu-rwsems, rtmutexes, rwsems and semaphores (Dmitry
     Ilvokhin)

  MAINTAINERS updates:

   - MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry (Boqun Feng)

  Misc updates and fixes by Randy Dunlap, YE WEI-HONG, Fabricio Parra,
  Dmitry Ilvokhin and Peter Zijlstra"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks
  locking/percpu-rwsem: Extract __percpu_up_read()
  tracing/lock: Remove unnecessary linux/sched.h include
  futex: Optimize futex hash bucket access patterns
  rust: sync: completion: Mark inline complete_all and wait_for_completion
  MAINTAINERS: Add RUST [SYNC] entry
  cleanup: Specify nonnull argument index
  selftests: futex: Add tests for robust release operations
  Documentation: futex: Add a note about robust list race condition
  x86/vdso: Implement __vdso_futex_robust_try_unlock()
  x86/vdso: Prepare for robust futex unlock support
  futex: Provide infrastructure to plug the non contended robust futex unlock race
  futex: Add robust futex unlock IP range
  futex: Add support for unlocking robust futexes
  futex: Cleanup UAPI defines
  x86: Select ARCH_MEMORY_ORDER_TSO
  uaccess: Provide unsafe_atomic_store_release_user()
  futex: Provide UABI defines for robust list entry modifiers
  futex: Move futex related mm_struct data into a struct
  futex: Make futex_mm_init() void
  ...
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<entry>
<title>cleanup: Annotate guard constructors with nonnull</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T09:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Ilvokhin</name>
<email>d@ilvokhin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-02T07:12:52+00:00</published>
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Add __nonnull_args() to unconditional guard constructors so the compiler
warns when NULL is statically known to be passed:

- DEFINE_GUARD(): re-declare the constructor with __nonnull_args().
- __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(): annotate the constructor directly.

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() needs no annotation: its constructor takes no
pointer arguments (.lock is hardcoded to (void *)1).

Define the __nonnull_args() macro in compiler_attributes.h, following
the existing convention for attribute wrappers. Deliberately not named
'__nonnull', to avoid clashing with glibc's __nonnull() when kernel and
userspace headers are combined (User Mode Linux for example).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/85fee12eec20abfcf711443518e8f0caec982a86.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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Add __nonnull_args() to unconditional guard constructors so the compiler
warns when NULL is statically known to be passed:

- DEFINE_GUARD(): re-declare the constructor with __nonnull_args().
- __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(): annotate the constructor directly.

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() needs no annotation: its constructor takes no
pointer arguments (.lock is hardcoded to (void *)1).

Define the __nonnull_args() macro in compiler_attributes.h, following
the existing convention for attribute wrappers. Deliberately not named
'__nonnull', to avoid clashing with glibc's __nonnull() when kernel and
userspace headers are combined (User Mode Linux for example).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/85fee12eec20abfcf711443518e8f0caec982a86.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iommu, debugobjects: avoid gcc-16.1 section mismatch warnings</title>
<updated>2026-05-28T07:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-13T14:53:54+00:00</published>
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gcc-16 has gained some more advanced inter-procedual optimization
techniques that enable it to inline the dummy_tlb_add_page() and
dummy_tlb_flush() function pointers into a specialized version of
__arm_v7s_unmap:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __arm_v7s_unmap+0x2cc (section: .text) -&gt; dummy_tlb_add_page (section: .init.text)
ERROR: modpost: Section mismatches detected.

&gt;From what I can tell, the transformation is correct, as this is only
called when __arm_v7s_unmap() is called from arm_v7s_do_selftests(),
which is also __init. Since __arm_v7s_unmap() however is not __init,
gcc cannot inline the inner function calls directly.

In debug_objects_selftest(), the same thing happens. Both the
caller and the leaf function are __init, but the IPA pulls
it into a non-init one:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: lookup_object_or_alloc+0x7c (section: .text.lookup_object_or_alloc) -&gt; is_static_object (section: .init.text)

Marking the affected functions as not "__init" would reliably avoid this
issue but is not a good solution because it removes an otherwise correct
annotation. I tried marking the functions as 'noinline', but that ended
up not covering all the affected configurations.

With some more experimenting, I found that marking these functions as
__attribute__((noipa)) is both logical and reliable.

In order to keep the syntax readable, add a custom macro for this in
include/linux/compiler_attributes.h next to other related macros and
use it to annotate both files.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/abRB6g-48ZX6Yl2r@willie-the-truck/
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
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gcc-16 has gained some more advanced inter-procedual optimization
techniques that enable it to inline the dummy_tlb_add_page() and
dummy_tlb_flush() function pointers into a specialized version of
__arm_v7s_unmap:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __arm_v7s_unmap+0x2cc (section: .text) -&gt; dummy_tlb_add_page (section: .init.text)
ERROR: modpost: Section mismatches detected.

&gt;From what I can tell, the transformation is correct, as this is only
called when __arm_v7s_unmap() is called from arm_v7s_do_selftests(),
which is also __init. Since __arm_v7s_unmap() however is not __init,
gcc cannot inline the inner function calls directly.

In debug_objects_selftest(), the same thing happens. Both the
caller and the leaf function are __init, but the IPA pulls
it into a non-init one:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: lookup_object_or_alloc+0x7c (section: .text.lookup_object_or_alloc) -&gt; is_static_object (section: .init.text)

Marking the affected functions as not "__init" would reliably avoid this
issue but is not a good solution because it removes an otherwise correct
annotation. I tried marking the functions as 'noinline', but that ended
up not covering all the affected configurations.

With some more experimenting, I found that marking these functions as
__attribute__((noipa)) is both logical and reliable.

In order to keep the syntax readable, add a custom macro for this in
include/linux/compiler_attributes.h next to other related macros and
use it to annotate both files.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/abRB6g-48ZX6Yl2r@willie-the-truck/
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: disable __counted_by for clang &lt; 19.1.3</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T16:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Hendrik Farr</name>
<email>kernel@jfarr.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T14:00:36+00:00</published>
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This patch disables __counted_by for clang versions &lt; 19.1.3 because
of the two issues listed below. It does this by introducing
CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY.

1. clang &lt; 19.1.2 has a bug that can lead to __bdos returning 0:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497

2. clang &lt; 19.1.3 has a bug that can lead to __bdos being off by 4:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636

Fixes: c8248faf3ca2 ("Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 16c31dd7fdf6: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: bump min gcc version
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 2993eb7a8d34: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: fixup clang URL
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 231dc3f0c936: lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913164630.GA4091534@thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409260949.a1254989-oliver.sang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zw8iawAF5W2uzGuh@archlinux/T/#m204c09f63c076586a02d194b87dffc7e81b8de7b
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Hendrik Farr &lt;kernel@jfarr.cc&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029140036.577804-2-kernel@jfarr.cc
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch disables __counted_by for clang versions &lt; 19.1.3 because
of the two issues listed below. It does this by introducing
CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY.

1. clang &lt; 19.1.2 has a bug that can lead to __bdos returning 0:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497

2. clang &lt; 19.1.3 has a bug that can lead to __bdos being off by 4:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636

Fixes: c8248faf3ca2 ("Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 16c31dd7fdf6: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: bump min gcc version
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 2993eb7a8d34: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: fixup clang URL
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 231dc3f0c936: lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913164630.GA4091534@thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409260949.a1254989-oliver.sang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zw8iawAF5W2uzGuh@archlinux/T/#m204c09f63c076586a02d194b87dffc7e81b8de7b
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Hendrik Farr &lt;kernel@jfarr.cc&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029140036.577804-2-kernel@jfarr.cc
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: Add __always_used macro</title>
<updated>2024-05-09T16:25:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yury Norov</name>
<email>yury.norov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-03T19:12:00+00:00</published>
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In some cases like performance benchmarking, we need to call a
function, but don't need to read the returned value. If compiler
recognizes the function as pure or const, it can remove the function
invocation, which is not what we want.

To prevent that, the common practice is assigning the return value to
a temporary static volatile variable. From compiler's point of view,
the variable is unused because never read back after been assigned.
To make sure the variable is always emitted, we provide a __used
attribute. This works with GCC, but clang still emits
Wunused-but-set-variable. To suppress that warning, we need to teach
clang to do that with the 'unused' attribute.

Nathan Chancellor explained that in details:

  While having used and unused attributes together might look unusual,
  reading the GCC attribute manual makes it seem like these attributes
  fulfill similar yet different roles, __unused__ prevents any unused
  warnings while __used__ forces the variable to be emitted. A strict
  reading of that does not make it seem like __used__ implies disabling
  unused warnings

The compiler documentation makes it clear what happens behind the 'used'
and 'unused' attributes, but the chosen names may confuse readers if
such combination catches an eye in a random code.

This patch adds __always_used macro, which combines both attributes
and comments on what happens for those interested in details.

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202405030808.UsoMKFNP-lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
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In some cases like performance benchmarking, we need to call a
function, but don't need to read the returned value. If compiler
recognizes the function as pure or const, it can remove the function
invocation, which is not what we want.

To prevent that, the common practice is assigning the return value to
a temporary static volatile variable. From compiler's point of view,
the variable is unused because never read back after been assigned.
To make sure the variable is always emitted, we provide a __used
attribute. This works with GCC, but clang still emits
Wunused-but-set-variable. To suppress that warning, we need to teach
clang to do that with the 'unused' attribute.

Nathan Chancellor explained that in details:

  While having used and unused attributes together might look unusual,
  reading the GCC attribute manual makes it seem like these attributes
  fulfill similar yet different roles, __unused__ prevents any unused
  warnings while __used__ forces the variable to be emitted. A strict
  reading of that does not make it seem like __used__ implies disabling
  unused warnings

The compiler documentation makes it clear what happens behind the 'used'
and 'unused' attributes, but the chosen names may confuse readers if
such combination catches an eye in a random code.

This patch adds __always_used macro, which combines both attributes
and comments on what happens for those interested in details.

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202405030808.UsoMKFNP-lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-6.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T17:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T17:14:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=691632f0e86973604678d193ccfa47b9614581aa'/>
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Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:

 - Various virtual vs physical address usage fixes

 - Fix error handling in Processor Activity Instrumentation device
   driver, and export number of counters with a sysfs file

 - Allow for multiple events when Processor Activity Instrumentation
   counters are monitored in system wide sampling

 - Change multiplier and shift values of the Time-of-Day clock source to
   improve steering precision

 - Remove a couple of unneeded GFP_DMA flags from allocations

 - Disable mmap alignment if randomize_va_space is also disabled, to
   avoid a too small heap

 - Various changes to allow s390 to be compiled with LLVM=1, since
   ld.lld and llvm-objcopy will have proper s390 support witch clang 19

 - Add __uninitialized macro to Compiler Attributes. This is helpful
   with s390's FPU code where some users have up to 520 byte stack
   frames. Clearing such stack frames (if INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or
   INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled) before they are used contradicts the
   intention (performance improvement) of such code sections.

 - Convert switch_to() to an out-of-line function, and use the generic
   switch_to header file

 - Replace the usage of s390's debug feature with pr_debug() calls
   within the zcrypt device driver

 - Improve hotplug support of the Adjunct Processor device driver

 - Improve retry handling in the zcrypt device driver

 - Various changes to the in-kernel FPU code:

     - Make in-kernel FPU sections preemptible

     - Convert various larger inline assemblies and assembler files to
       C, mainly by using singe instruction inline assemblies. This
       increases readability, but also allows makes it easier to add
       proper instrumentation hooks

     - Cleanup of the header files

 - Provide fast variants of csum_partial() and
   csum_partial_copy_nocheck() based on vector instructions

 - Introduce and use a lock to synchronize accesses to zpci device data
   structures to avoid inconsistent states caused by concurrent accesses

 - Compile the kernel without -fPIE. This addresses the following
   problems if the kernel is compiled with -fPIE:

     - It uses dynamic symbols (.dynsym), for which the linker refuses
       to allow more than 64k sections. This can break features which
       use '-ffunction-sections' and '-fdata-sections', including
       kpatch-build and function granular KASLR

     - It unnecessarily uses GOT relocations, adding an extra layer of
       indirection for many memory accesses

 - Fix shared_cpu_list for CPU private L2 caches, which incorrectly were
   reported as globally shared

* tag 's390-6.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (117 commits)
  s390/tools: handle rela R_390_GOTPCDBL/R_390_GOTOFF64
  s390/cache: prevent rebuild of shared_cpu_list
  s390/crypto: remove retry loop with sleep from PAES pkey invocation
  s390/pkey: improve pkey retry behavior
  s390/zcrypt: improve zcrypt retry behavior
  s390/zcrypt: introduce retries on in-kernel send CPRB functions
  s390/ap: introduce mutex to lock the AP bus scan
  s390/ap: rework ap_scan_bus() to return true on config change
  s390/ap: clarify AP scan bus related functions and variables
  s390/ap: rearm APQNs bindings complete completion
  s390/configs: increase number of LOCKDEP_BITS
  s390/vfio-ap: handle hardware checkstop state on queue reset operation
  s390/pai: change sampling event assignment for PMU device driver
  s390/boot: fix minor comment style damages
  s390/boot: do not check for zero-termination relocation entry
  s390/boot: make type of __vmlinux_relocs_64_start|end consistent
  s390/boot: sanitize kaslr_adjust_relocs() function prototype
  s390/boot: simplify GOT handling
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: fix .got.plt assertion
  s390/boot: workaround current 'llvm-objdump -t -j ...' behavior
  ...
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<pre>
Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:

 - Various virtual vs physical address usage fixes

 - Fix error handling in Processor Activity Instrumentation device
   driver, and export number of counters with a sysfs file

 - Allow for multiple events when Processor Activity Instrumentation
   counters are monitored in system wide sampling

 - Change multiplier and shift values of the Time-of-Day clock source to
   improve steering precision

 - Remove a couple of unneeded GFP_DMA flags from allocations

 - Disable mmap alignment if randomize_va_space is also disabled, to
   avoid a too small heap

 - Various changes to allow s390 to be compiled with LLVM=1, since
   ld.lld and llvm-objcopy will have proper s390 support witch clang 19

 - Add __uninitialized macro to Compiler Attributes. This is helpful
   with s390's FPU code where some users have up to 520 byte stack
   frames. Clearing such stack frames (if INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or
   INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled) before they are used contradicts the
   intention (performance improvement) of such code sections.

 - Convert switch_to() to an out-of-line function, and use the generic
   switch_to header file

 - Replace the usage of s390's debug feature with pr_debug() calls
   within the zcrypt device driver

 - Improve hotplug support of the Adjunct Processor device driver

 - Improve retry handling in the zcrypt device driver

 - Various changes to the in-kernel FPU code:

     - Make in-kernel FPU sections preemptible

     - Convert various larger inline assemblies and assembler files to
       C, mainly by using singe instruction inline assemblies. This
       increases readability, but also allows makes it easier to add
       proper instrumentation hooks

     - Cleanup of the header files

 - Provide fast variants of csum_partial() and
   csum_partial_copy_nocheck() based on vector instructions

 - Introduce and use a lock to synchronize accesses to zpci device data
   structures to avoid inconsistent states caused by concurrent accesses

 - Compile the kernel without -fPIE. This addresses the following
   problems if the kernel is compiled with -fPIE:

     - It uses dynamic symbols (.dynsym), for which the linker refuses
       to allow more than 64k sections. This can break features which
       use '-ffunction-sections' and '-fdata-sections', including
       kpatch-build and function granular KASLR

     - It unnecessarily uses GOT relocations, adding an extra layer of
       indirection for many memory accesses

 - Fix shared_cpu_list for CPU private L2 caches, which incorrectly were
   reported as globally shared

* tag 's390-6.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (117 commits)
  s390/tools: handle rela R_390_GOTPCDBL/R_390_GOTOFF64
  s390/cache: prevent rebuild of shared_cpu_list
  s390/crypto: remove retry loop with sleep from PAES pkey invocation
  s390/pkey: improve pkey retry behavior
  s390/zcrypt: improve zcrypt retry behavior
  s390/zcrypt: introduce retries on in-kernel send CPRB functions
  s390/ap: introduce mutex to lock the AP bus scan
  s390/ap: rework ap_scan_bus() to return true on config change
  s390/ap: clarify AP scan bus related functions and variables
  s390/ap: rearm APQNs bindings complete completion
  s390/configs: increase number of LOCKDEP_BITS
  s390/vfio-ap: handle hardware checkstop state on queue reset operation
  s390/pai: change sampling event assignment for PMU device driver
  s390/boot: fix minor comment style damages
  s390/boot: do not check for zero-termination relocation entry
  s390/boot: make type of __vmlinux_relocs_64_start|end consistent
  s390/boot: sanitize kaslr_adjust_relocs() function prototype
  s390/boot: simplify GOT handling
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: fix .got.plt assertion
  s390/boot: workaround current 'llvm-objdump -t -j ...' behavior
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: Add __uninitialized macro</title>
<updated>2024-02-09T12:58:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-05T15:48:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fd7eea27a3aed79b63b1726c00bde0d50cf207e2'/>
<id>fd7eea27a3aed79b63b1726c00bde0d50cf207e2</id>
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With INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO enabled the kernel will
be compiled with -ftrivial-auto-var-init=&lt;...&gt; which causes initialization
of stack variables at function entry time.

In order to avoid the performance impact that comes with this users can use
the "uninitialized" attribute to prevent such initialization.

Therefore provide the __uninitialized macro which can be used for cases
where INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled, but only
selected variables should not be initialized.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205154844.3757121-2-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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With INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO enabled the kernel will
be compiled with -ftrivial-auto-var-init=&lt;...&gt; which causes initialization
of stack variables at function entry time.

In order to avoid the performance impact that comes with this users can use
the "uninitialized" attribute to prevent such initialization.

Therefore provide the __uninitialized macro which can be used for cases
where INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN or INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO is enabled, but only
selected variables should not be initialized.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205154844.3757121-2-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: counted_by: fixup clang URL</title>
<updated>2024-01-23T19:38:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>senozhatsky@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-10T02:58:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2993eb7a8d34aee6165e1f6676e81cdf1d22aa62'/>
<id>2993eb7a8d34aee6165e1f6676e81cdf1d22aa62</id>
<content type='text'>
The URL in question 404 now, fix it up (and switch to github).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b7babeb9c5b14af9189f0d6225673e6e9a8f4ad3.1704855496.git.senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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The URL in question 404 now, fix it up (and switch to github).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b7babeb9c5b14af9189f0d6225673e6e9a8f4ad3.1704855496.git.senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: counted_by: bump min gcc version</title>
<updated>2024-01-23T19:38:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>senozhatsky@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-10T02:58:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=16c31dd7fdf6c7ec88370928d0baf9f45d13c5a6'/>
<id>16c31dd7fdf6c7ec88370928d0baf9f45d13c5a6</id>
<content type='text'>
GCC is expected to implement this feature in version 15,
so bump the version.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e1c27b64ae7abe2ebe647be11b71cf1bca84f677.1704855495.git.senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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GCC is expected to implement this feature in version 15,
so bump the version.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e1c27b64ae7abe2ebe647be11b71cf1bca84f677.1704855495.git.senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion</title>
<updated>2023-08-17T23:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-17T20:06:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c8248faf3ca276ebdf60f003b3e04bf764daba91'/>
<id>c8248faf3ca276ebdf60f003b3e04bf764daba91</id>
<content type='text'>
GCC and Clang's current RFCs name this attribute "counted_by", and have
moved away from using a string for the member name. Update the kernel's
macros to match. Additionally provide a UAPI no-op macro for UAPI structs
that will gain annotations.

Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Fixes: dd06e72e68bc ("Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by macro")
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817200558.never.077-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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GCC and Clang's current RFCs name this attribute "counted_by", and have
moved away from using a string for the member name. Update the kernel's
macros to match. Additionally provide a UAPI no-op macro for UAPI structs
that will gain annotations.

Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Fixes: dd06e72e68bc ("Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by macro")
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817200558.never.077-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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