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16 hoursMerge tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim: "perf report: - Add 'comm_nodigit' sort key to combine similar threads that only have different numbers in the comm. In the following example, the 'comm_nodigit' will have samples from all threads starting with "bpfrb/" into an entry "bpfrb/<N>". $ perf report -s comm_nodigit,comm -H ... # # Overhead CommandNoDigit / Command # ........... ........................ # 20.30% swapper 20.30% swapper 13.37% chrome 13.37% chrome 10.07% bpfrb/<N> 7.47% bpfrb/0 0.70% bpfrb/1 0.47% bpfrb/3 0.46% bpfrb/2 0.25% bpfrb/4 0.23% bpfrb/5 0.20% bpfrb/6 0.14% bpfrb/10 0.07% bpfrb/7 - Support flat layout for symfs. The --symfs option is to specify the location of debugging symbol files. The default 'hierarchy' layout would search the symbol file using the same path of the original file under the symfs root. The new 'flat' layout would search only in the root directory. - Update 'simd' sort key for ARM SIMD flags to cover ASE/SME and more predicate flags. perf stat: - Add --pmu-filter option to select specific PMUs. This would be useful when you measure metrics from multiple instance of uncore PMUs with similar names. # perf stat -M cpa_p0_avg_bw Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 19,417,779,115 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw 0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl0_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19,417,751,103 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw 0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl10_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19,417,730,679 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.31 cpa_p0_avg_bw 75,635,749 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 18,520,640 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl2_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19,417,674,227 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_cycles/ # 0.00 cpa_p0_avg_bw 0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_wr_dat/ 0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b/ 0 hisi_sicl8_cpa0/cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b/ 19.417734480 seconds time elapsed With --pmu-filter, users can select only hisi_sicl2_cpa0 PMU. # perf stat --pmu-filter hisi_sicl2_cpa0 -M cpa_p0_avg_bw Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 6,234,093,559 cpa_cycles # 0.60 cpa_p0_avg_bw 50,548,465 cpa_p0_wr_dat 7,552,182 cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b 0 cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b 6.234139320 seconds time elapsed Data type profiling: - Quality improvements by tracking register state more precisely - Ensure array members to get the type - Handle more cases for global variables Vendor event/metric updates: - Update various Intel events and metrics - Add NVIDIA Tegra 410 Olympus events Internal changes: - Verify perf.data header for maliciously crafted files - Update perf test to cover more usages and make them robust - Move a couple of copied kernel headers not to annoy objtool build - Fix a bug in map sorting in name order - Remove some unused codes Misc: - Fix module symbol resolution with non-zero text address - Add -t/--threads option to `perf bench mem mmap` - Track duration of exit*() syscall by `perf trace -s` - Add core.addr2line-timeout and core.addr2line-disable-warn config items" * tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.1-2026-04-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (131 commits) perf loongarch: Fix build failure with CONFIG_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND perf annotate: Use jump__delete when freeing LoongArch jumps perf test: Fixes for check branch stack sampling perf test: Fix inet_pton probe failure and unroll call graph perf build: fix "argument list too long" in second location perf header: Add sanity checks to HEADER_BPF_BTF processing perf header: Sanity check HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_CAPS perf header: Sanity check HEADER_HYBRID_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE perf header: Sanity check HEADER_GROUP_DESC perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_MAPPINGS perf header: Sanity check HEADER_MEM_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NRCPUS and HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed perf header: Validate nr_domains when reading HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO perf sample: Fix documentation typo perf arm_spe: Improve SIMD flags setting ...
34 hoursMerge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpfLinus Torvalds
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov: "Most of the diff stat comes from Xu Kuohai's fix to emit ENDBR/BTI, since all JITs had to be touched to move constant blinding out and pass bpf_verifier_env in. - Fix use-after-free in arena_vm_close on fork (Alexei Starovoitov) - Dissociate struct_ops program with map if map_update fails (Amery Hung) - Fix out-of-range and off-by-one bugs in arm64 JIT (Daniel Borkmann) - Fix precedence bug in convert_bpf_ld_abs alignment check (Daniel Borkmann) - Fix arg tracking for imprecise/multi-offset in BPF_ST/STX insns (Eduard Zingerman) - Copy token from main to subprogs to fix missing kallsyms (Eduard Zingerman) - Prevent double close and leak of btf objects in libbpf (Jiri Olsa) - Fix af_unix null-ptr-deref in sockmap (Michal Luczaj) - Fix NULL deref in map_kptr_match_type for scalar regs (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Avoid unnecessary IPIs. Remove redundant bpf_flush_icache() in arm64 and riscv JITs (Puranjay Mohan) - Fix out of bounds access. Validate node_id in arena_alloc_pages() (Puranjay Mohan) - Reject BPF-to-BPF calls and callbacks in arm32 JIT (Puranjay Mohan) - Refactor all JITs to pass bpf_verifier_env to emit ENDBR/BTI for indirect jump targets on x86-64, arm64 JITs (Xu Kuohai) - Allow UTF-8 literals in bpf_bprintf_prepare() (Yihan Ding)" * tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: (32 commits) bpf, arm32: Reject BPF-to-BPF calls and callbacks in the JIT bpf: Dissociate struct_ops program with map if map_update fails bpf: Validate node_id in arena_alloc_pages() libbpf: Prevent double close and leak of btf objects selftests/bpf: cover UTF-8 trace_printk output bpf: allow UTF-8 literals in bpf_bprintf_prepare() selftests/bpf: Reject scalar store into kptr slot bpf: Fix NULL deref in map_kptr_match_type for scalar regs bpf: Fix precedence bug in convert_bpf_ld_abs alignment check bpf, arm64: Emit BTI for indirect jump target bpf, x86: Emit ENDBR for indirect jump targets bpf: Add helper to detect indirect jump targets bpf: Pass bpf_verifier_env to JIT bpf: Move constants blinding out of arch-specific JITs bpf, sockmap: Take state lock for af_unix iter bpf, sockmap: Fix af_unix null-ptr-deref in proto update selftests/bpf: Extend bpf_iter_unix to attempt deadlocking bpf, sockmap: Fix af_unix iter deadlock bpf, sockmap: Annotate af_unix sock:: Sk_state data-races selftests/bpf: verify kallsyms entries for token-loaded subprograms ...
2 dayslibbpf: Prevent double close and leak of btf objectsJiri Olsa
Sashiko found possible double close of btf object fd [1], which happens when strdup in load_module_btfs fails at which point the obj->btf_module_cnt is already incremented. The error path close btf fd and so does later cleanup code in bpf_object_post_load_cleanup function. Also libbpf_ensure_mem failure leaves btf object not assigned and it's leaked. Replacing the err_out label with break to make the error path less confusing as suggested by Alan. Incrementing obj->btf_module_cnt only if there's no failure and releasing btf object in error path. Fixes: 91abb4a6d79d ("libbpf: Support attachment of BPF tracing programs to kernel modules") [1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260324081846.2334094-1-jolsa%40kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260416100034.1610852-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
4 daysMerge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...
4 daysMerge tag 'bpf-next-7.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Welcome new BPF maintainers: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Eduard Zingerman while Martin KaFai Lau reduced his load to Reviwer. - Lots of fixes everywhere from many first time contributors. Thank you All. - Diff stat is dominated by mechanical split of verifier.c into multiple components: - backtrack.c: backtracking logic and jump history - states.c: state equivalence - cfg.c: control flow graph, postorder, strongly connected components - liveness.c: register and stack liveness - fixups.c: post-verification passes: instruction patching, dead code removal, bpf_loop inlining, finalize fastcall 8k line were moved. verifier.c still stands at 20k lines. Further refactoring is planned for the next release. - Replace dynamic stack liveness with static stack liveness based on data flow analysis. This improved the verification time by 2x for some programs and equally reduced memory consumption. New logic is in liveness.c and supported by constant folding in const_fold.c (Eduard Zingerman, Alexei Starovoitov) - Introduce BTF layout to ease addition of new BTF kinds (Alan Maguire) - Use kmalloc_nolock() universally in BPF local storage (Amery Hung) - Fix several bugs in linked registers delta tracking (Daniel Borkmann) - Improve verifier support of arena pointers (Emil Tsalapatis) - Improve verifier tracking of register bounds in min/max and tnum domains (Harishankar Vishwanathan, Paul Chaignon, Hao Sun) - Further extend support for implicit arguments in the verifier (Ihor Solodrai) - Add support for nop,nop5 instruction combo for USDT probes in libbpf (Jiri Olsa) - Support merging multiple module BTFs (Josef Bacik) - Extend applicability of bpf_kptr_xchg (Kaitao Cheng) - Retire rcu_trace_implies_rcu_gp() (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Support variable offset context access for 'syscall' programs (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Migrate bpf_task_work and dynptr to kmalloc_nolock() (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Fix UAF in in open-coded task_vma iterator (Puranjay Mohan) * tag 'bpf-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (241 commits) selftests/bpf: cover short IPv4/IPv6 inputs with adjust_room bpf: reject short IPv4/IPv6 inputs in bpf_prog_test_run_skb selftests/bpf: Use memfd_create instead of shm_open in cgroup_iter_memcg selftests/bpf: Add test for cgroup storage OOB read bpf: Fix OOB in pcpu_init_value selftests/bpf: Fix reg_bounds to match new tnum-based refinement selftests/bpf: Add tests for non-arena/arena operations bpf: Allow instructions with arena source and non-arena dest registers bpftool: add missing fsession to the usage and docs of bpftool docs/bpf: add missing fsession attach type to docs bpf: add missing fsession to the verifier log bpf: Move BTF checking logic into check_btf.c bpf: Move backtracking logic to backtrack.c bpf: Move state equivalence logic to states.c bpf: Move check_cfg() into cfg.c bpf: Move compute_insn_live_regs() into liveness.c bpf: Move fixup/post-processing logic from verifier.c into fixups.c bpf: Simplify do_check_insn() bpf: Move checks for reserved fields out of the main pass bpf: Delete unused variable ...
9 dayslibbpf: Allow use of feature cache for non-token casesAlan Maguire
Allow bpf object feat_cache assignment in BPF selftests to simulate missing features via inclusion of libbpf_internal.h and use of bpf_object_set_feat_cache() and bpf_object__sanitize_btf() to test BTF sanitization for cases where missing features are simulated. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260408165735.843763-2-alan.maguire@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
12 daysbpf: reject negative CO-RE accessor indices in bpf_core_parse_spec()Weiming Shi
CO-RE accessor strings are colon-separated indices that describe a path from a root BTF type to a target field, e.g. "0:1:2" walks through nested struct members. bpf_core_parse_spec() parses each component with sscanf("%d"), so negative values like -1 are silently accepted. The subsequent bounds checks (access_idx >= btf_vlen(t)) only guard the upper bound and always pass for negative values because C integer promotion converts the __u16 btf_vlen result to int, making the comparison (int)(-1) >= (int)(N) false for any positive N. When -1 reaches btf_member_bit_offset() it gets cast to u32 0xffffffff, producing an out-of-bounds read far past the members array. A crafted BPF program with a negative CO-RE accessor on any struct that exists in vmlinux BTF (e.g. task_struct) crashes the kernel deterministically during BPF_PROG_LOAD on any system with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y (default on major distributions). The bug is reachable with CAP_BPF: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed11818b6626 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 85 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc6 #18 PREEMPT(full) RIP: 0010:bpf_core_parse_spec (tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:354) RAX: 00000000ffffffff Call Trace: <TASK> bpf_core_calc_relo_insn (tools/lib/bpf/relo_core.c:1321) bpf_core_apply (kernel/bpf/btf.c:9507) check_core_relo (kernel/bpf/verifier.c:19475) bpf_check (kernel/bpf/verifier.c:26031) bpf_prog_load (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3089) __sys_bpf (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6228) </TASK> CO-RE accessor indices are inherently non-negative (struct member index, array element index, or enumerator index), so reject them immediately after parsing. Fixes: ddc7c3042614 ("libbpf: implement BPF CO-RE offset relocation algorithm") Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Acked-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260404161221.961828-2-bestswngs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
13 daysmm/vma: add vma_flags_empty(), vma_flags_and(), vma_flags_diff_pair()Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
Patch series "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code", v4. This series converts a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. In order to do so it adds a number of additional helpers: * vma_flags_empty() - Determines whether a vma_flags_t value has no bits set. * vma_flags_and() - Performs a bitwise AND between two vma_flags_t values. * vma_flags_diff_pair() - Determines which flags are not shared between a pair of VMA flags (typically non-constant values) * append_vma_flags() - Similar to mk_vma_flags(), but allows a vma_flags_t value to be specified (typically a constant value) which will be copied and appended to to create a new vma_flags_t value, with additional flags specified to append to it. * vma_flags_same() - Determines if a vma_flags_t value is exactly equal to a set of VMA flags. * vma_flags_same_mask() - Determines if a vma_flags_t value is eactly equal to another vma_flags_t value (typically constant). * vma_flags_same_pair() - Determines if a pair of vma_flags_t values are exactly equal to one another (typically both non-constant). * vma_flags_to_legacy() - Converts a vma_flags_t value to a vm_flags_t value, used to enable more iterative introduction of the use of vma_flags_t. * legacy_to_vma_flags() - Converts a vm_flags_t value to a vma_flags-t value, for the same purpose. * vma_flags_test_single_mask() - Tests whether a vma_flags_t value contain the single flag specified in an input vma_flags_t flag mask, or if that flag mask is empty, is defined to return false. Useful for config-predicated VMA flag mask defines. * vma_test() - Tests whether a VMA's flags contain a specific singular VMA flag. * vma_test_any() - Tests whether a VMA's flags contain any of a set of VMA flags. * vma_test_any_mask() - Tests whether a VMA's flags contain any of the flags specified in another, typically constant, vma_flags_t value. * vma_test_single_mask() - Tests whether a VMA's flags contain the single flag specified in an input vma_flags_t flag mask, or if that flag mask is empty, is defined to return false. Useful for config-predicated VMA flag mask defines. * vma_clear_flags() - Clears a specific set of VMA flags from a vma_flags_t value. * vma_clear_flags_mask() - Clears those flag set in a vma_flags_t value (typically constant) from a (typically not constant) vma_flags_t value. The series mostly focuses on the the VMA specific code, especially that contained in mm/vma.c and mm/vma.h. It updates both brk() and mmap() logic to utils vma_flags_t values as much as is practiaclly possible at this point, changing surrounding logic to be able to do so. It also updates the vma_modify_xxx() functions where they interact with VMA flags directly to use vm_flags_t values where possible. There is extensive testing added in the VMA userland tests to assert that all of these new VMA flag functions work correctly. This patch (of 25): Firstly, add the ability to determine if VMA flags are empty, that is no flags are set in a vma_flags_t value. Next, add the ability to obtain the equivalent of the bitwise and of two vma_flags_t values, via vma_flags_and_mask(). Next, add the ability to obtain the difference between two sets of VMA flags, that is the equivalent to the exclusive bitwise OR of the two sets of flags, via vma_flags_diff_pair(). vma_flags_xxx_mask() typically operates on a pointer to a vma_flags_t value, which is assumed to be an lvalue of some kind (such as a field in a struct or a stack variable) and an rvalue of some kind (typically a constant set of VMA flags obtained e.g. via mk_vma_flags() or equivalent). However vma_flags_diff_pair() is intended to operate on two lvalues, so use the _pair() suffix to make this clear. Finally, update VMA userland tests to add these helpers. We also port bitmap_xor() and __bitmap_xor() to the tools/ headers and source to allow the tests to work with vma_flags_diff_pair(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/53ab55b7da91425775e42c03177498ad6de88ef4.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-02libbpf: Clarify raw-address single kprobe attach behaviorHoyeon Lee
bpf_program__attach_kprobe_opts() documents single-kprobe attach through func_name, with an optional offset. For the PMU-based path, func_name = NULL with an absolute address in offset already works as well, but that is not described in the API. This commit clarifies this existing non-legacy behavior. For PMU-based attach, callers can use func_name = NULL with an absolute address in offset as the raw-address form. For legacy tracefs/debugfs kprobes, reject this form explicitly. Signed-off-by: Hoyeon Lee <hoyeon.lee@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260401143116.185049-3-hoyeon.lee@suse.com
2026-04-02libbpf: Use direct error codes for kprobe/uprobe attachHoyeon Lee
perf_event_open_probe() and perf_event_{k,u}probe_open_legacy() helpers are returning negative error codes directly on failure. This commit changes bpf_program__attach_{k,u}probe_opts() to use those return values directly instead of re-reading possibly changed errno. Signed-off-by: Hoyeon Lee <hoyeon.lee@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260401143116.185049-2-hoyeon.lee@suse.com
2026-04-02libbpf: Fix BTF handling in bpf_program__clone()Mykyta Yatsenko
Align bpf_program__clone() with bpf_object_load_prog() by gating BTF func/line info on FEAT_BTF_FUNC kernel support, and resolve caller-provided prog_btf_fd before checking obj->btf so that callers with their own BTF can use clone() even when the object has no BTF loaded. While at it, treat func_info and line_info fields as atomic groups to prevent mismatches between pointer and count from different sources. Move bpf_program__clone() to libbpf 1.8. Fixes: 970bd2dced35 ("libbpf: Introduce bpf_program__clone()") Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260401151640.356419-1-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
2026-04-01libperf cpumap: Make index and nr types unsignedIan Rogers
The index into the cpumap array and the number of entries within the array can never be negative, so let's make them unsigned. This is prompted by reports that gcc 13 with -O6 is giving a alloc-size-larger-than errors. The change makes the cpumap changes and then updates the declaration of index variables throughout perf and libperf to be unsigned. The two things are hard to separate as compiler warnings about mixing signed and unsigned types breaks the build. Reported-by: Chingbin Li <liqb365@163.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260212025127.841090-1-liqb365@163.com/ Tested-by: Chingbin Li <liqb365@163.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-03-30tools: unittest_helper: add a quiet modeMauro Carvalho Chehab
On quiet mode, only report errors. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <27556792ff70e6267ecd19c258149d380db8d423.1774551940.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-30doc tools: better handle KBUILD_VERBOSEMauro Carvalho Chehab
As reported by Jacob, there are troubles when KBUILD_VERBOSE is set at the environment. Fix it on both kernel-doc and sphinx-build-wrapper. Reported-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/9367d899-53af-4d9c-9320-22fc4dbadca5@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <7a99788db75630fb14828d612c0fd77c45ec1891.1774591065.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-26libbpf: Support sanitization of BTF layout for older kernelsAlan Maguire
Add a FEAT_BTF_LAYOUT feature check which checks if the kernel supports BTF layout information. Also sanitize BTF if it contains layout data but the kernel does not support it. The sanitization requires rewriting raw BTF data to update the header and eliminate the layout section (since it lies between the types and strings), so refactor sanitization to do the raw BTF retrieval and creation of updated BTF, returning that new BTF on success. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-7-alan.maguire@oracle.com
2026-03-26libbpf: BTF validation can use layout for unknown kindsAlan Maguire
BTF parsing can use layout to navigate unknown kinds, so btf_validate_type() should take layout information into account to avoid failure when an unrecognized kind is met. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-6-alan.maguire@oracle.com
2026-03-26libbpf: Add layout encoding supportAlan Maguire
Support encoding of BTF layout data via btf__new_empty_opts(). Current supported opts are base_btf and add_layout. Layout information is maintained in btf.c in the layouts[] array; when BTF is created with the add_layout option it represents the current view of supported BTF kinds. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-5-alan.maguire@oracle.com
2026-03-26libbpf: Use layout to compute an unknown kind sizeAlan Maguire
This allows BTF parsing to proceed even if we do not know the kind. Fall back to base BTF layout if layout information is not in split BTF. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-4-alan.maguire@oracle.com
2026-03-26libbpf: Support layout section handling in BTFAlan Maguire
Support reading in layout fixing endian issues on reading; also support writing layout section to raw BTF object. There is not yet an API to populate the layout with meaningful information. As part of this, we need to consider multiple valid BTF header sizes; the original or the layout-extended headers. So to support this, the "struct btf" representation is modified to contain a "struct btf_header" and we copy the valid portion from the raw data to it; this means we can always safely check fields like btf->hdr.layout_len . Note if parsed-in BTF has extra header information beyond sizeof(struct btf_header) - if so we make that BTF ineligible for modification by setting btf->has_hdr_extra . Ensure that we handle endianness issues for BTF layout section, though currently only field that needs this (flags) is unused. Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-3-alan.maguire@oracle.com
2026-03-25docs: c_lex.py: store logger on its dataMauro Carvalho Chehab
By having the logger stored there, any code using CTokenizer can log messages there. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <467979dc18149e4b2a7113c178e0cb07919632f2.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25docs: kdoc_output: raise an error if full_proto not available for varMauro Carvalho Chehab
This is mandatory, but if it is missing, we need to know what symbol had problems. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <0c3d9dd25889784b999efdb354ade48264c0e03c.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25docs: kdoc_yaml_file: use a better name for the testsMauro Carvalho Chehab
Instead of always using a name with a number on it, use the name of the object directly whenever possible. When the name is already used, append a number prefix at the end. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <d1c4cd94547d843af0debf9e317e006d55d705f1.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25docs: kdoc: better handle source when producing YAML outputMauro Carvalho Chehab
The current logic was storing symbols source code on a list, not linked to the actual KdocItem. While this works fine when kernel-doc markups are OK, on places where there is a "/**" without a valid kernel-doc markup, it ends that the 1:1 match between source code and KdocItem doesn't happen, causing problems to generate the YAML output. Fix it by storing the source code directly into the KdocItem structure. This shouldn't affect performance or memory footprint, except when --yaml option is used. While here, add a __repr__() function for KdocItem, as it helps debugging it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <77902dafabb5c3250486aa2dc1568d5fafa95c5b.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25docs: kdoc_output: fix handling of simple tablesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Fix check for simple table delimiters. ReST simple tables use "=" instead of "-". I ended testing it with a table modified from a complex one, using "--- --- ---", instead of searching for a real Kernel example. Only noticed when adding an unit test and seek for an actual example from kernel-doc markups. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <dea95337c05040f95e5a95ae41d69ddef0aaa8d6.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-25docs: kdoc_yaml_file: add a representer to make strings look nicerMauro Carvalho Chehab
The strings representation is not ok, currently. Add a helper function to improve it, and drop blank lines at beginning and at the end of the dumps Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <422041a8b49b2609de5749092fe074b7948c32a6.1774256269.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kernel-doc: add support to store output on a YAML fileMauro Carvalho Chehab
Add a command line parameter and library support to optionally store: - KdocItem intermediate format after parsing; - man pages output; - rst output. inside a YAML file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <ba54277b3c909867153b9547dfa33c1831ca35d9.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: add a new file to write kernel-doc output to a YAML fileMauro Carvalho Chehab
Storing kernel-doc output is helpful to allow debugging problems on it and to preparate unit tests. Add a class to store such contents at the same format as defined at kdoc-test-schema.yaml. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <5d084ca1a91f6a620534a1135d1b8183d934319a.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_item: fix a typo on sections_start_linesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Currently, there are 15 occurrences of section?_start_lines, with 10 using the plural way. This is an issue, as, while kdoc_output works with KdocItem, the term doesn't match its init value. The variable sections_start_lines stores multiple sections, so placing it in plural is its correct way. So, ensure that, on all parts of kdoc, this will be referred as sections_start_lines. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <d1e0f1d3f80df41c11a1bbde6a12fd9468bc3813.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_item: add support to generate a KdocItem from a dictMauro Carvalho Chehab
When reading the contents on a KdocItem using YAML, the data will be imported into a dict. Add a method to create a new KdocItem from a dict to allow converting such input into a real KdocItem. While here, address an issue that, if the class is initialized with an internal parameter outside the 4 initial arguments, it would end being added inside other_stuff, which breaks initializing it from a dict. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <fafeac23d1577927e1a3c32cddfbec1e0209ac73.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_item: fix initial value for parameterdesc_start_linesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Ensure that parameterdesc_start_lines is a dict at init time, as this is how it will be set later on at the parser. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <1b4ea24dd4cd82e6711e9be80168684427d74c30.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_files: move output symbols logic to kdoc_outputMauro Carvalho Chehab
When writing unittests for kdoc_output, it became clear that the logic with handles a series of KdocItem symbols from a single file belons to kdoc_output, and not to kdoc_files. Move the code to it. While here, also ensure that self.config will be placed together with set.out_style. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <4ebc26e37a0b544c50d50b8077760f147fa6a535.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_files: use a class to group config parametersMauro Carvalho Chehab
Instead of abusing argparse.Namespace, define a class to store configuration parameters and logger. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <a66ec9872c72a3ba1a5ac567881d67dc8ee581c6.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: add c_lex to generated documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab
Do some fixes at groups() description for it to be parsed by Sphinx and add it to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <799178cf30dd4022fdb1d029ba998a458e037b52.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_re: better represent long regular expressionsMauro Carvalho Chehab
The Sphinx output from autodoc doesn't automatically break long lines, except on spaces. Change KernRe __repr__() to break the pattern on multiple strings, each one with a maximum limit of 60 characters. With that, documentation output for KernRe should now be displayable, even on long strings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <60c264a9d277fed655b1a62df2195562c8596090.1773823995.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: xforms_lists: use CMatch for all identifiersMauro Carvalho Chehab
CMatch is lexically correct and replaces only identifiers, which is exactly where macro transformations happen. Use it to make the output safer and ensure that all arguments will be parsed the right way, even on complex cases. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <86d4a07ff0e054207747fabf38d6bb261b52b5fa.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_parser: avoid tokenizing structs everytimeMauro Carvalho Chehab
Most of the rules inside CTransforms are of the type CMatch. Don't re-parse the source code every time. Doing this doesn't change the output, but makes kdoc almost as fast as before the tokenizer patches: # Before tokenizer patches $ time ./scripts/kernel-doc . -man >original 2>&1 real 0m42.933s user 0m36.523s sys 0m1.145s # After tokenizer patches $ time ./scripts/kernel-doc . -man >before 2>&1 real 1m29.853s user 1m23.974s sys 0m1.237s # After this patch $ time ./scripts/kernel-doc . -man >after 2>&1 real 0m48.579s user 0m45.938s sys 0m0.988s $ diff -s before after Files before and after are identical Manually checked the differences between original and after with: $ diff -U0 -prBw original after|grep -v Warning|grep -v "@@"|less They're due: - whitespace fixes; - struct_group are now better handled; - several badly-generated man pages from broken inline kernel-doc markups are now fixed. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <1cc2a4286ebf7d4b2d03fcaf42a1ba9fa09004b9.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: ensure that comments are dropped before calling split_struct_proto()Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Changeset 2b957decdb6c ("docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypes") revealed a hidden bug at split_struct_proto(): some comments there may break its capability of properly identifying a struct. Fixing it is as simple as stripping comments before calling it. Fixes: 2b957decdb6c ("docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypes") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <dcff37b6da5329aea415de31f543b6a1c2cbbbce.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: c_lex: setup a logger to report tokenizer issuesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Report file that has issues detected via CMatch and CTokenizer. This is done by setting up a logger that will be overriden by kdoc_parser, when used on it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <903ad83ae176196a50444e66177a4f5bcdef5199.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: xforms_lists: better evaluate struct_group macrosMauro Carvalho Chehab
The previous approach were to unwind nested structs/unions. Now that we have a logic that can handle it well, use it to ensure that struct_group macros will properly reflect the actual struct. Note that the replacemend logic still simplifies the code a little bit, as the basic build block for struct group is: union { \ struct { MEMBERS } ATTRS; \ struct __struct_group_tag(TAG) { MEMBERS } ATTRS NAME; \ } ATTRS There: - ATTRS is meant to add extra macro attributes like __packed which we already discard, as they aren't relevant to document struct members; - TAG is used only when built with __cplusplus. So, instead, convert them into just: struct { MEMBERS }; Please notice that here, we're using the greedy version of the backrefs, as MEMBERS is actually MEMBERS... on all such macros. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <24bf2c036b08814d9b4aabc27542fd3b2ff54424.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: xforms_lists: handle struct_group directlyMauro Carvalho Chehab
The previous logic was handling struct_group on two steps. Remove the previous approach, as CMatch can do it the right way on a single step. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <da7f879d90e3ffbc1f47771522f212a60df1fab6.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc_re: get rid of NestedMatch classMauro Carvalho Chehab
Now that everything was converted to CMatch, we can get rid of the previous NestedMatch implementation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <c82dd0d2c0ab330fc04925965091c448ccabb8fd.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: replace NestedMatch with CMatchMauro Carvalho Chehab
Our previous approach to solve nested structs were to use NestedMatch. It works well, but adding support to parse delimiters is very complex. Instead, use CMatch, which uses a C tokenizer, making the code more reliable and simpler. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <900bff66f8093402999f9fe055fbfa3fa33a8d8b.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: c_lex: properly implement a sub() method for CMatchMauro Carvalho Chehab
Implement a sub() method to do what it is expected, parsing backref arguments like \0, \1, \2, ... Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <dbc45b86db18783289d94cfdbba4b72792c47929.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: create a CMatch to match nested C blocksMauro Carvalho Chehab
The NextMatch code is complex, and will become even more complex if we add there support for arguments. Now that we have a tokenizer, we can use a better solution, easier to be understood. Yet, to improve performance, it is better to make it use a previously tokenized code, changing its ABI. So, reimplement NextMatch using the CTokener class. Once it is done, we can drop NestedMatch. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <fa818ea164216b17520b588e3f12b81499b76dd7.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: use tokenizer to handle comments on structsMauro Carvalho Chehab
Better handle comments inside structs. After those changes, all unittests now pass: test_private: TestPublicPrivate: test balanced_inner_private: OK test balanced_non_greddy_private: OK test balanced_private: OK test no private: OK test unbalanced_inner_private: OK test unbalanced_private: OK test unbalanced_struct_group_tagged_with_private: OK test unbalanced_two_struct_group_tagged_first_with_private: OK test unbalanced_without_end_of_line: OK Ran 9 tests This also solves a bug when handling STRUCT_GROUP() with a private comment on it: @@ -397134,7 +397134,7 @@ basic V4L2 device-level support. unsigned int max_len; unsigned int offset; struct page_pool_params_slow slow; - STRUCT_GROUP( struct net_device *netdev; + struct net_device *netdev; unsigned int queue_idx; unsigned int flags; }; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <f83ee9e8c38407eaab6ad10d4ccf155fb36683cc.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <054763260f7b5459ad0738ed906d7c358d640692.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: add a C tokenizer to be used by kernel-docMauro Carvalho Chehab
Handling C code purely using regular expressions doesn't work well. Add a C tokenizer to help doing it the right way. The tokenizer was written using as basis the Python re documentation tokenizer example from: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#writing-a-tokenizer Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <39787bb8022e10c65df40c746077f7f66d07ffed.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: properly handle empty enum argumentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
Depending on how the enum proto is written, a comma at the end may incorrectly make kernel-doc parse an arg like " ". Strip spaces before checking if arg is empty. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <4182bfb7e5f5b4bbaf05cee1bede691e56247eaf.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <640784283d52c5fc52ea597344ecd567e2fb6e22.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: kdoc: don't add broken comments inside prototypesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Parsing a file like drivers/scsi/isci/host.h, which contains broken kernel-doc markups makes it create a prototype that contains unmatched end comments. That causes, for instance, struct sci_power_control to be shown this this prototype: struct sci_power_control { * it is not. */ bool timer_started; */ struct sci_timer timer; * requesters field. */ u8 phys_waiting; */ u8 phys_granted_power; * mapped into requesters via struct sci_phy.phy_index */ struct isci_phy *requesters[SCI_MAX_PHYS]; }; as comments won't start with "/*" anymore. Fix the logic to detect such cases, and keep adding the comments inside it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <18e577dbbd538dcc22945ff139fe3638344e14f0.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <12ac4a97e2bd5a19d6537122c10098690c38d2c7.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-22docs: python: add helpers to run unit testsMauro Carvalho Chehab
While python internal libraries have support for unit tests, its output is not nice. Add a helper module to improve its output. I wrote this module last year while testing some scripts I used internally. The initial skeleton was generated with the help of LLM tools, but it was higly modified to ensure that it will work as I would expect. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <37999041f616ddef41e84cf2686c0264d1a51dc9.1773074166.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <d81be167b8cdeb003c1f8dcc7ad83a5ed2b520b6.1773770483.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2026-03-21libbpf: Introduce bpf_program__clone()Mykyta Yatsenko
Add bpf_program__clone() API that loads a single BPF program from a prepared BPF object into the kernel, returning a file descriptor owned by the caller. After bpf_object__prepare(), callers can use bpf_program__clone() to load individual programs with custom bpf_prog_load_opts, instead of loading all programs at once via bpf_object__load(). Non-zero fields in opts override the defaults derived from the program and object internals; passing NULL opts populates everything automatically. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260317-veristat_prepare-v4-1-74193d4cc9d9@meta.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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