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<title>Merge tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-10-11T17:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-11T17:51:14+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:

 - Simplify inline asm flag output operands now that the minimum
   compiler version supports the =@ccCOND syntax

 - Remove a bunch of AS_* Kconfig symbols which detect assembler support
   for various instruction mnemonics now that the minimum assembler
   version supports them all

 - The usual cleanups all over the place

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm: Remove code depending on __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__
  x86/sgx: Use ENCLS mnemonic in &lt;kernel/cpu/sgx/encls.h&gt;
  x86/mtrr: Remove license boilerplate text with bad FSF address
  x86/asm: Use RDPKRU and WRPKRU mnemonics in &lt;asm/special_insns.h&gt;
  x86/idle: Use MONITORX and MWAITX mnemonics in &lt;asm/mwait.h&gt;
  x86/entry/fred: Push __KERNEL_CS directly
  x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AS_AVX512
  crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VPCLMULQDQ
  crypto: X86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VAES
  crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_GFNI
  x86/kconfig: Drop unused and needless config X86_64_SMP
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Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:

 - Simplify inline asm flag output operands now that the minimum
   compiler version supports the =@ccCOND syntax

 - Remove a bunch of AS_* Kconfig symbols which detect assembler support
   for various instruction mnemonics now that the minimum assembler
   version supports them all

 - The usual cleanups all over the place

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm: Remove code depending on __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__
  x86/sgx: Use ENCLS mnemonic in &lt;kernel/cpu/sgx/encls.h&gt;
  x86/mtrr: Remove license boilerplate text with bad FSF address
  x86/asm: Use RDPKRU and WRPKRU mnemonics in &lt;asm/special_insns.h&gt;
  x86/idle: Use MONITORX and MWAITX mnemonics in &lt;asm/mwait.h&gt;
  x86/entry/fred: Push __KERNEL_CS directly
  x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AS_AVX512
  crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VPCLMULQDQ
  crypto: X86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VAES
  crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_GFNI
  x86/kconfig: Drop unused and needless config X86_64_SMP
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<title>Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T02:24:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T02:24:24+00:00</published>
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Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
   (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
   hotkey to toggle it

 - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
   over page/chunk sizes

 - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
   events

 - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

 - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

 - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
   regrouping

 - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
   failures

 - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
   (DTL)

 - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
   details

 - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
   multiple processor generations

 - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

 - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

 - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
   more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
   bindings

 - Various 'perf test' fixes

 - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
  perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
  perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
  perf docs: Document building with Clang
  perf build: Support build with clang
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
  perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
  perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
  perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
  tools build: Align warning options with perf
  perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
  perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
  perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
  perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
  perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
  perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
  perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
  perf check: Add libLLVM feature
  perf parse-events: Fix parsing of &gt;30kb event strings
  ...
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Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
   (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
   hotkey to toggle it

 - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
   over page/chunk sizes

 - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
   events

 - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

 - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

 - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
   regrouping

 - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
   failures

 - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
   (DTL)

 - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
   details

 - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
   multiple processor generations

 - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

 - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

 - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
   more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
   bindings

 - Various 'perf test' fixes

 - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
  perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
  perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
  perf docs: Document building with Clang
  perf build: Support build with clang
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
  perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
  perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
  perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
  tools build: Align warning options with perf
  perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
  perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
  perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
  perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
  perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
  perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
  perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
  perf check: Add libLLVM feature
  perf parse-events: Fix parsing of &gt;30kb event strings
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T15:24:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T15:24:54+00:00</published>
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio
   device file (Alex Mastro)

 - Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for
   vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to
   be unused (Alex Williamson)

 - Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for
   removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava)

 - VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace
   drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to
   provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David
   Matlack, Josh Hilke)

 - Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
   (Nipun Gupta)

 - Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin)

 - Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro)

 - Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin
   Guan)

 - Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and
   resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson)

 - Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave)

 - Misc:
    - Drop unnecessary ternary conversion in vfio/pci (Xichao Zhao)
    - Grammatical fix in nvgrace-gpu (Morduan Zang)
    - Update Shameer's email address (Shameer Kolothum)
    - Fix document build warning (Alex Williamson)

* tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (48 commits)
  vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add GB300 SKU to the devid table
  vfio/pci: Fix INTx handling on legacy non-PCI 2.3 devices
  vfio/pds: replace bitmap_free with vfree
  vfio: return -ENOTTY for unsupported device feature
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Fix reference leak in hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init
  vfio/platform: Mark reset drivers for removal
  vfio/amba: Mark for removal
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  docs: proc.rst: Fix VFIO Device title formatting
  vfio: selftests: Fix .gitignore for already tracked files
  vfio/cdx: update driver to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  cdx: don't select CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  MAINTAINERS: Update Shameer Kolothum's email address
  vfio: selftests: Add a script to help with running VFIO selftests
  vfio: selftests: Make iommufd the default iommu_mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd_compat_type1{,v2} modes
  vfio: selftests: Add vfio_type1v2_mode
  vfio: selftests: Replicate tests across all iommu_modes
  ...
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio
   device file (Alex Mastro)

 - Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for
   vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to
   be unused (Alex Williamson)

 - Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for
   removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava)

 - VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace
   drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to
   provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David
   Matlack, Josh Hilke)

 - Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
   (Nipun Gupta)

 - Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin)

 - Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro)

 - Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin
   Guan)

 - Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and
   resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson)

 - Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave)

 - Misc:
    - Drop unnecessary ternary conversion in vfio/pci (Xichao Zhao)
    - Grammatical fix in nvgrace-gpu (Morduan Zang)
    - Update Shameer's email address (Shameer Kolothum)
    - Fix document build warning (Alex Williamson)

* tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (48 commits)
  vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add GB300 SKU to the devid table
  vfio/pci: Fix INTx handling on legacy non-PCI 2.3 devices
  vfio/pds: replace bitmap_free with vfree
  vfio: return -ENOTTY for unsupported device feature
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Fix reference leak in hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init
  vfio/platform: Mark reset drivers for removal
  vfio/amba: Mark for removal
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
  docs: proc.rst: Fix VFIO Device title formatting
  vfio: selftests: Fix .gitignore for already tracked files
  vfio/cdx: update driver to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  cdx: don't select CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
  MAINTAINERS: Update Shameer Kolothum's email address
  vfio: selftests: Add a script to help with running VFIO selftests
  vfio: selftests: Make iommufd the default iommu_mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd mode
  vfio: selftests: Add iommufd_compat_type1{,v2} modes
  vfio: selftests: Add vfio_type1v2_mode
  vfio: selftests: Replicate tests across all iommu_modes
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T18:48:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T18:48:33+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 instruction decoder update from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add instruction decoding support for the XOP-prefixed instruction set
   present on the AMD Bulldozer uarch

[ These instructions don't normally happen, but a X86_NATIVE_CPU build
  on a bulldozer host can make the compiler then use these unusual
  instruction encodings ]

* tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/insn: Add XOP prefix instructions decoder support
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Pull x86 instruction decoder update from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add instruction decoding support for the XOP-prefixed instruction set
   present on the AMD Bulldozer uarch

[ These instructions don't normally happen, but a X86_NATIVE_CPU build
  on a bulldozer host can make the compiler then use these unusual
  instruction encodings ]

* tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/insn: Add XOP prefix instructions decoder support
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T18:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T18:11:21+00:00</published>
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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core perf code updates:

   - Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
     reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
     detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
     Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
     sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)

  Uprobes updates:

   - Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
     substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)

   - Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)

  PMU driver updates:

   - Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)

  Misc cleanups and fixes:

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
  uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
  perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
  perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
  perf: Use current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current-&gt;mm == NULL
  perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
  perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
  perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
  perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
  perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
  perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
  perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
  perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
  uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
  seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
  selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
  selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
  ...
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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core perf code updates:

   - Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
     reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
     detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
     Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
     sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)

  Uprobes updates:

   - Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
     substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)

   - Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)

  PMU driver updates:

   - Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)

  Misc cleanups and fixes:

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
  uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
  perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
  perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
  perf: Use current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current-&gt;mm == NULL
  perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
  perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
  perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
  perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
  perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
  perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
  perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
  perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
  uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
  seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
  selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
  selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T02:01:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T02:01:08+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley

 - Replacement of __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files (other
   architectures have already merged this type of cleanup)

 - The introduction of ioremap_wc() for RISC-V

 - Cleanup of the RISC-V kprobes code to use mostly-extant macros rather
   than open code

 - A RISC-V kprobes unit test

 - An architecture-specific endianness swap macro set implementation,
   leveraging some dedicated RISC-V instructions for this purpose if
   they are available

 - The ability to identity and communicate to userspace the presence
   of a MIPS P8700-specific ISA extension, and to leverage its
   MIPS-specific PAUSE implementation in cpu_relax()

 - Several other miscellaneous cleanups

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (39 commits)
  riscv: errata: Fix the PAUSE Opcode for MIPS P8700
  riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extension
  riscv: hwprobe: Add MIPS vendor extension probing
  riscv: Add xmipsexectl instructions
  riscv: Add xmipsexectl as a vendor extension
  dt-bindings: riscv: Add xmipsexectl ISA extension description
  riscv: cpufeature: add validation for zfa, zfh and zfhmin
  perf: riscv: skip empty batches in counter start
  selftests: riscv: Add README for RISC-V KSelfTest
  riscv: sbi: Switch to new sys-off handler API
  riscv: Move vendor errata definitions to new header
  RISC-V: ACPI: enable parsing the BGRT table
  riscv: Enable ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
  riscv: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
  riscv: introduce asm/swab.h
  riscv: mmap(): use unsigned offset type in riscv_sys_mmap
  drivers/perf: riscv: Remove redundant ternary operators
  riscv: mm: Use mmu-type from FDT to limit SATP mode
  riscv: mm: Return intended SATP mode for noXlvl options
  riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM
  ...
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Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley

 - Replacement of __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files (other
   architectures have already merged this type of cleanup)

 - The introduction of ioremap_wc() for RISC-V

 - Cleanup of the RISC-V kprobes code to use mostly-extant macros rather
   than open code

 - A RISC-V kprobes unit test

 - An architecture-specific endianness swap macro set implementation,
   leveraging some dedicated RISC-V instructions for this purpose if
   they are available

 - The ability to identity and communicate to userspace the presence
   of a MIPS P8700-specific ISA extension, and to leverage its
   MIPS-specific PAUSE implementation in cpu_relax()

 - Several other miscellaneous cleanups

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (39 commits)
  riscv: errata: Fix the PAUSE Opcode for MIPS P8700
  riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extension
  riscv: hwprobe: Add MIPS vendor extension probing
  riscv: Add xmipsexectl instructions
  riscv: Add xmipsexectl as a vendor extension
  dt-bindings: riscv: Add xmipsexectl ISA extension description
  riscv: cpufeature: add validation for zfa, zfh and zfhmin
  perf: riscv: skip empty batches in counter start
  selftests: riscv: Add README for RISC-V KSelfTest
  riscv: sbi: Switch to new sys-off handler API
  riscv: Move vendor errata definitions to new header
  RISC-V: ACPI: enable parsing the BGRT table
  riscv: Enable ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
  riscv: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
  riscv: introduce asm/swab.h
  riscv: mmap(): use unsigned offset type in riscv_sys_mmap
  drivers/perf: riscv: Remove redundant ternary operators
  riscv: mm: Use mmu-type from FDT to limit SATP mode
  riscv: mm: Return intended SATP mode for noXlvl options
  riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM
  ...
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<entry>
<title>objtool/LoongArch: Mark special atomic instruction as INSN_BUG type</title>
<updated>2025-09-18T11:43:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T11:43:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=539d7344d4feaea37e05863e9aa86bd31f28e46f'/>
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When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_RUST is set, there exists the
following objtool warning:

  rust/compiler_builtins.o: warning: objtool: __rust__unordsf2(): unexpected end of section .text.unlikely.

objdump shows that the end of section .text.unlikely is an atomic
instruction:

  amswap.w        $zero, $ra, $zero

According to the LoongArch Reference Manual, if the amswap.w atomic
memory access instruction has the same register number as rd and rj,
the execution will trigger an Instruction Non-defined Exception, so
mark the above instruction as INSN_BUG type to fix the warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_RUST is set, there exists the
following objtool warning:

  rust/compiler_builtins.o: warning: objtool: __rust__unordsf2(): unexpected end of section .text.unlikely.

objdump shows that the end of section .text.unlikely is an atomic
instruction:

  amswap.w        $zero, $ra, $zero

According to the LoongArch Reference Manual, if the amswap.w atomic
memory access instruction has the same register number as rd and rj,
the execution will trigger an Instruction Non-defined Exception, so
mark the above instruction as INSN_BUG type to fix the warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T22:25:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-06T07:09:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f811f58597acba9100dd61cdef052d1d1f931968'/>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.

This originally was a completely mechanical patch (done with a
simple "sed -i" statement), with some manual fixups during
rebasing of the patch later.

Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606070952.498274-3-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;pjw@kernel.org&gt;</content>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.

This originally was a completely mechanical patch (done with a
simple "sed -i" statement), with some manual fixups during
rebasing of the patch later.

Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606070952.498274-3-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;pjw@kernel.org&gt;</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools headers: Remove unused arm32 asm/kvm.h copy</title>
<updated>2025-09-11T19:58:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-10T13:30:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4589be8cd0338e6bf0f5b9aaa044442876e78894'/>
<id>4589be8cd0338e6bf0f5b9aaa044442876e78894</id>
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arm32 KVM was removed in commit 541ad0150ca4 ("arm: Remove 32bit KVM
host support").

None of the kvm selftests are compiled for arm32 and it's not indirectly
included from anywhere either, so delete it.

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250910-james-tools-header-cleanup-v1-2-7ae4bedc99e0@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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arm32 KVM was removed in commit 541ad0150ca4 ("arm: Remove 32bit KVM
host support").

None of the kvm selftests are compiled for arm32 and it's not indirectly
included from anywhere either, so delete it.

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250910-james-tools-header-cleanup-v1-2-7ae4bedc99e0@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools headers: Remove unused kvm_perf.h copies</title>
<updated>2025-09-11T19:57:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-10T13:30:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a85ac2dae6bf8050deaf9839e4c0328756b48720'/>
<id>a85ac2dae6bf8050deaf9839e4c0328756b48720</id>
<content type='text'>
These have been unused since commit 162607ea20fa ("perf kvm/{x86,s390}:
Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h") in favour of dynamic discovery.

Remove the unused headers to reduce consistency checking overhead and
noise.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250910-james-tools-header-cleanup-v1-1-7ae4bedc99e0@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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These have been unused since commit 162607ea20fa ("perf kvm/{x86,s390}:
Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h") in favour of dynamic discovery.

Remove the unused headers to reduce consistency checking overhead and
noise.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250910-james-tools-header-cleanup-v1-1-7ae4bedc99e0@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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