Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of small, late-arriving documentation fixes"
* tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux:
docs: toshiba_haps: fix grammar error in SSD warning
Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst
Docs/core-api: fix typos in rbtree.rst
docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst
docs: process: maintainer-pgp-guide: update kernel.org docs link
docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Highlights:
- amdgpu support for lots of new IP blocks which means newer GPUs
- xe has a lot of SR-IOV and SVM improvements
- lots of intel display refactoring across i915/xe
- msm has more support for gen8 platforms
- Given up on kgdb/kms integration, it's too hard on modern hw
core:
- drop kgdb support
- replace system workqueue with percpu
- account for property blobs in memcg
- MAINTAINERS updates for xe + buddy
rust:
- Fix documentation for Registration constructors
- Use pin_init::zeroed() for fops initialization
- Annotate DRM helpers with __rust_helper
- Improve safety documentation for gem::Object::new()
- Update AlwaysRefCounted imports
- mm: Prevent integer overflow in page_align()
atomic:
- add drm_device pointer to drm_private_obj
- introduce gamma/degamma LUT size check
buddy:
- fix free_trees memory leak
- prevent BUG_ON
bridge:
- introduce drm_bridge_unplug/enter/exit
- add connector argument to .hpd_notify
- lots of recounting conversions
- convert rockchip inno hdmi to bridge
- lontium-lt9611uxc: switch to HDMI audio helpers
- dw-hdmi-qp: add support for HPD-less setups
- Algoltek AG6311 support
panels:
- edp: CSW MNE007QB3-1, AUO B140HAN06.4, AUO B140QAX01.H
- st75751: add SPI support
- Sitronix ST7920, Samsung LTL106HL02
- LG LH546WF1-ED01, HannStar HSD156J
- BOE NV130WUM-T08
- Innolux G150XGE-L05
- Anbernic RG-DS
dma-buf:
- improve sg_table debugging
- add tracepoints
- call clear_page instead of memset
- start to introduce cgroup memory accounting in heaps
- remove sysfs stats
dma-fence:
- add new helpers
dp:
- mst: avoid oob access with vcpi=0
hdmi:
- limit infoframes exposure to userspace
gem:
- reduce page table overhead with THP
- fix leak in drm_gem_get_unmapped_area
gpuvm:
- API sanitation for rust bindings
sched:
- introduce new helpers
panic:
- report invalid panic modes
- add kunit tests
i915/xe display:
- Expose sharpness only if num_scalers is >= 2
- Add initial Xe3P_LPD for NVL
- BMG FBC support
- Add MTL+ platforms to support dpll framework
_ fix DIMM_S DRM decoding on ICL
- Return to using AUX interrupts
- PSR/Panel replay refactoring
- use consolidation HDMI tables
- Xe3_LPD CD2X dividier changes
xe:
- vfio: add vfio_pci for intel GPU
- multi queue support
- dynamic pagemaps and multi-device SVM
- expose temp attribs in hwmon
- NO_COMPRESSION bo flag
- expose MERT OA unit
- sysfs survivability refactor
- SRIOV PF: add MERT support
- enable SR-IOV VF migration
- Enable I2C/NVM on Crescent Island
- Xe3p page reclaimation support
- introduce SRIOV scheduler groups
- add SoC remappt support in system controller
- insert compiler barriers in GuC code
- define NVL GuC firmware
- handle GT resume failure
- fix drm scheduler layering violations
- enable GSC loading and PXP for PTL
- disable GuC Power DCC strategy on PTL
- unregister drm device on probe error
i915:
- move to kernel standard fault injection
- bump recommended GuC version for DG2 and MTL
amdgpu:
- SMUIO 15.x, PSP 15.x support
- IH 6.1.1/7.1 support
- MMHUB 3.4/4.2 support
- GC 11.5.4/12.1 support
- SDMA 6.1.4/7.1/7.11.4 support
- JPEG 5.3 support
- UserQ updates
- GC 9 gfx queue reset support
- TTM memory ops parallelization
- convert legacy logging to new helpers
- DC analog fixes
amdkfd:
- GC 11.5.4/12.1 suppport
- SDMA 6.1.4/7.1 support
- per context support
- increase kfd process hash table
- Reserved SDMA rework
radeon:
- convert legacy logging to new helpers
- use devm for i2c adapters
msm:
- GPU
- Document a612/RGMU dt bindings
- UBWC 6.0 support (for A840 / Kaanapali)
- a225 support
- DPU:
- Switch to use virtual planes by default
- Fix DSI CMD panels on DPU 3.x
- Rewrite format handling to remove intermediate representation
- Fix watchdog on DPU 8.x+
- Fix TE / Vsync source setting on DPU 8.x+
- Add 3D_Mux on SC7280
- Kaanapali platform support
- Fix UBWC register programming
- Make RM reserve DSPP-enabled mixers for CRTCs with LMs
- Gamma correction support
- DP:
- Enable support for eDP 1.4+ link rate tables
- Fix MDSS1 DP indices on SA8775P, making them to work
- Fix msm_dp_ctrl_config_msa() to work with LLVM 20
- DSI:
- Document QCS8300 as compatible with SA8775P
- Kaanapali platform support
- DSI PHY:
- switch to divider_determine_rate()
- MDP5:
- Drop support for MSM8998, SDM660 and SDM630 (switch over to DPU)
- MDSS:
- Kaanapali platform support
- Fixed UBWC register programming
nova-core:
- Prepare for Turing support. This includes parsing and handling
Turing-specific firmware headers and sections as well as a Turing
Falcon HAL implementation
- Get rid of the Result<impl PinInit<T, E>> anti-pattern
- Relocate initializer-specific code into the appropriate initializer
- Use CStr::from_bytes_until_nul() to remove custom helpers
- Improve handling of unexpected firmware values
- Clean up redundant debug prints
- Replace c_str!() with native Rust C-string literals
- Update nova-core task list
nova:
- Align GEM object size to system page size
tyr:
- Use generated uAPI bindings for GpuInfo
- Replace manual sleeps with read_poll_timeout()
- Replace c_str!() with native Rust C-string literals
- Suppress warnings for unread fields
- Fix incorrect register name in print statement
nouveau:
- fix big page table support races in PTE management
- improve reclocking on tegra 186+
amdxdna:
- fix suspend race conditions
- improve handling of zero tail pointers
- fix cu_idx overwritten during command setup
- enable hardware context priority
- remove NPU2 support
- update message buffer allocation requirements
- update firmware version check
ast:
- support imported cursor buffers
- big endian fixes
etnaviv:
- add PPU flop reset support
imagination:
- add AM62P support
- introduce hw version checks
ivpu:
- implement warm boot flow
panfrost:
- add bo sync ioctl
- add GPU_PM_RT support for RZ/G3E SoC
panthor:
- add bo sync ioctl
- enable timestamp propagation
- scheduler robustness improvements
- VM termination fixes
- huge page support
rockchip:
- RK3368 HDMI Support
- get rid of atomic_check fixups
- RK3506 support
- RK3576/RK3588 improved HPD handling
rz-du:
- RZ/V2H(P) MIPI-DSI Support
v3d:
- fix DMA segment size
- convert to new logging helpers
mediatek:
- move DP training to hotplug thread
- convert logging to new helpers
- add support for HS speed DSI
- Genio 510/700/1200-EVK, Radxa NIO-12L HDMI support
atmel-hlcdc:
- switch to drmm resource
- support nomodeset
- use newer helpers
hisilicon:
- fix various DP bugs
renesas:
- fix kernel panic on reboot
exynos:
- fix vidi_connection_ioctl using wrong device
- fix vidi_connection deref user ptr
- fix concurrency regression with vidi_context
vkms:
- add configfs support for display configuration
* tag 'drm-next-2026-02-11' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1610 commits)
drm/xe/pm: Disable D3Cold for BMG only on specific platforms
drm/xe: Fix kerneldoc for xe_tlb_inval_job_alloc_dep
drm/xe: Fix kerneldoc for xe_gt_tlb_inval_init_early
drm/xe: Fix kerneldoc for xe_migrate_exec_queue
drm/xe/query: Fix topology query pointer advance
drm/xe/guc: Fix kernel-doc warning in GuC scheduler ABI header
drm/xe/guc: Fix CFI violation in debugfs access.
accel/amdxdna: Move RPM resume into job run function
accel/amdxdna: Fix incorrect DPM level after suspend/resume
nouveau/vmm: start tracking if the LPT PTE is valid. (v6)
nouveau/vmm: increase size of vmm pte tracker struct to u32 (v2)
nouveau/vmm: rewrite pte tracker using a struct and bitfields.
accel/amdxdna: Fix incorrect error code returned for failed chain command
accel/amdxdna: Remove hardware context status
drm/bridge: imx8qxp-pixel-combiner: Fix bailout for imx8qxp_pc_bridge_probe()
drm/panel: ilitek-ili9882t: Remove duplicate initializers in tianma_il79900a_dsc
drm/i915/display: fix the pixel normalization handling for xe3p_lpd
drm/exynos: vidi: use ctx->lock to protect struct vidi_context member variables related to memory alloc/free
drm/exynos: vidi: fix to avoid directly dereferencing user pointer
drm/exynos: vidi: use priv->vidi_dev for ctx lookup in vidi_connection_ioctl()
...
Pull rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Add '__rust_helper' annotation to the C helpers
This is needed to inline these helpers into Rust code
- Remove imports available via the prelude, treewide
This was possible thanks to a new lint in Klint that Gary has
implemented -- more Klint-related changes, including initial
upstream support, are coming
- Deduplicate pin-init flags
'kernel' crate:
- Add support for calling a function exactly once with the new
'do_once_lite!' macro (and 'OnceLite' type)
Based on this, add 'pr_*_once!' macros to print only once
- Add 'impl_flags!' macro for defining common bitflags operations:
impl_flags!(
/// Represents multiple permissions.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Permissions(u32);
/// Represents a single permission.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum Permission {
/// Read permission.
Read = 1 << 0,
/// Write permission.
Write = 1 << 1,
/// Execute permission.
Execute = 1 << 2,
}
);
let mut f: Permissions = Permission::Read | Permission::Write;
assert!(f.contains(Permission::Read));
assert!(!f.contains(Permission::Execute));
f |= Permission::Execute;
assert!(f.contains(Permission::Execute));
let f2: Permissions = Permission::Write | Permission::Execute;
assert!((f ^ f2).contains(Permission::Read));
assert!(!(f ^ f2).contains(Permission::Write));
- 'bug' module: support 'CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED' in the
'warn_on!' macro in order to show the evaluated condition alongside
the file path:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: [val == 1] linux/samples/rust/rust_minimal.rs:27 at ...
Modules linked in: rust_minimal(+)
- Add safety module with 'unsafe_precondition_assert!' macro,
currently a wrapper for 'debug_assert!', intended to mark the
validation of safety preconditions where possible:
/// # Safety
///
/// The caller must ensure that `index` is less than `N`.
unsafe fn set_unchecked(&mut self, index: usize, value: T) {
unsafe_precondition_assert!(
index < N,
"set_unchecked() requires index ({index}) < N ({N})"
);
...
}
- Add instructions to 'build_assert!' documentation requesting to
always inline functions when used with function arguments
- 'ptr' module: replace 'build_assert!' with a 'const' one
- 'rbtree' module: reduce unsafe blocks on pointer derefs
- 'transmute' module: implement 'FromBytes' and 'AsBytes' for
inhabited ZSTs, and use it in Nova
- More treewide replacements of 'c_str!' with C string literals
'macros' crate:
- Rewrite most procedural macros ('module!', 'concat_idents!',
'#[export]', '#[vtable]', '#[kunit_tests]') to use the 'syn'
parsing library which we introduced last cycle, with better
diagnostics
This also allows to support '#[cfg]' properly in the '#[vtable]'
macro, to support arbitrary types in 'module!' macro (not just an
identifier) and to remove several custom parsing helpers we had
- Use 'quote!' from the recently vendored 'quote' library and remove
our custom one
The vendored one also allows us to avoid quoting '"' and '{}'
inside the template anymore and editors can now highlight it. In
addition, it improves robustness as it eliminates the need for
string quoting and escaping
- Use 'pin_init::zeroed()' to simplify KUnit code
'pin-init' crate:
- Rewrite all procedural macros ('[pin_]init!', '#[pin_data]',
'#[pinned_drop]', 'derive([Maybe]Zeroable)') to use the 'syn'
parsing library which we introduced last cycle, with better
diagnostics
- Implement 'InPlaceWrite' for '&'static mut MaybeUninit<T>'. This
enables users to use external allocation mechanisms such as
'static_cell'
- Support tuple structs in 'derive([Maybe]Zeroable)'
- Support attributes on fields in '[pin_]init!' (such as
'#[cfg(...)]')
- Add a '#[default_error(<type>)]' attribute to '[pin_]init!' to
override the default error (when no '? Error' is specified)
- Support packed structs in '[pin_]init!' with
'#[disable_initialized_field_access]'
- Remove 'try_[pin_]init!' in favor of merging their feature with
'[pin_]init!'. Update the kernel's own 'try_[pin_]init!' macros to
use the 'default_error' attribute
- Correct 'T: Sized' bounds to 'T: ?Sized' in the generated
'PinnedDrop' check by '#[pin_data]'
Documentation:
- Conclude the Rust experiment
MAINTAINERS:
- Add "RUST [RUST-ANALYZER]" entry for the rust-analyzer support.
Tamir and Jesung will take care of it. They have both been active
around it for a while. The new tree will flow through the Rust one
- Add Gary as maintainer for "RUST [PIN-INIT]"
- Update Boqun and Tamir emails to their kernel.org accounts
And a few other cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'rust-6.20-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (59 commits)
rust: safety: introduce `unsafe_precondition_assert!` macro
rust: add `impl_flags!` macro for defining common bitflag operations
rust: print: Add pr_*_once macros
rust: bug: Support DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED option
rust: print: Add support for calling a function exactly once
rust: kbuild: deduplicate pin-init flags
gpu: nova-core: remove imports available via prelude
rust: clk: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
MAINTAINERS: Update my email address to @kernel.org
rust: macros: support `#[cfg]` properly in `#[vtable]` macro.
rust: kunit: use `pin_init::zeroed` instead of custom null value
rust: macros: rearrange `#[doc(hidden)]` in `module!` macro
rust: macros: allow arbitrary types to be used in `module!` macro
rust: macros: convert `#[kunit_tests]` macro to use `syn`
rust: macros: convert `concat_idents!` to use `syn`
rust: macros: convert `#[export]` to use `syn`
rust: macros: use `quote!` for `module!` macro
rust: macros: use `syn` to parse `module!` macro
rust: macros: convert `#[vtable]` macro to use `syn`
rust: macros: use `quote!` from vendored crate
...
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Support associating BPF program with struct_ops (Amery Hung)
- Switch BPF local storage to rqspinlock and remove recursion detection
counters which were causing false positives (Amery Hung)
- Fix live registers marking for indirect jumps (Anton Protopopov)
- Introduce execution context detection BPF helpers (Changwoo Min)
- Improve verifier precision for 32bit sign extension pattern
(Cupertino Miranda)
- Optimize BTF type lookup by sorting vmlinux BTF and doing binary
search (Donglin Peng)
- Allow states pruning for misc/invalid slots in iterator loops (Eduard
Zingerman)
- In preparation for ASAN support in BPF arenas teach libbpf to move
global BPF variables to the end of the region and enable arena kfuncs
while holding locks (Emil Tsalapatis)
- Introduce support for implicit arguments in kfuncs and migrate a
number of them to new API. This is a prerequisite for cgroup
sub-schedulers in sched-ext (Ihor Solodrai)
- Fix incorrect copied_seq calculation in sockmap (Jiayuan Chen)
- Fix ORC stack unwind from kprobe_multi (Jiri Olsa)
- Speed up fentry attach by using single ftrace direct ops in BPF
trampolines (Jiri Olsa)
- Require frozen map for calculating map hash (KP Singh)
- Fix lock entry creation in TAS fallback in rqspinlock (Kumar
Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Allow user space to select cpu in lookup/update operations on per-cpu
array and hash maps (Leon Hwang)
- Make kfuncs return trusted pointers by default (Matt Bobrowski)
- Introduce "fsession" support where single BPF program is executed
upon entry and exit from traced kernel function (Menglong Dong)
- Allow bpf_timer and bpf_wq use in all programs types (Mykyta
Yatsenko, Andrii Nakryiko, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Alexei
Starovoitov)
- Make KF_TRUSTED_ARGS the default for all kfuncs and clean up their
definition across the tree (Puranjay Mohan)
- Allow BPF arena calls from non-sleepable context (Puranjay Mohan)
- Improve register id comparison logic in the verifier and extend
linked registers with negative offsets (Puranjay Mohan)
- In preparation for BPF-OOM introduce kfuncs to access memcg events
(Roman Gushchin)
- Use CFI compatible destructor kfunc type (Sami Tolvanen)
- Add bitwise tracking for BPF_END in the verifier (Tianci Cao)
- Add range tracking for BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD in the verifier (Yazhou
Tang)
- Make BPF selftests work with 64k page size (Yonghong Song)
* tag 'bpf-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (268 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix outdated test on storage->smap
selftests/bpf: Choose another percpu variable in bpf for btf_dump test
selftests/bpf: Remove test_task_storage_map_stress_lookup
selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/task_storage_nodeadlock test
selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/recursion test
selftests/bpf: Update sk_storage_omem_uncharge test
bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy}
bpf: Support lockless unlink when freeing map or local storage
bpf: Prepare for bpf_selem_unlink_nofail()
bpf: Remove unused percpu counter from bpf_local_storage_map_free
bpf: Remove cgroup local storage percpu counter
bpf: Remove task local storage percpu counter
bpf: Change local_storage->lock and b->lock to rqspinlock
bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink to failable
bpf: Convert bpf_selem_link_map to failable
bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink_map to failable
bpf: Select bpf_local_storage_map_bucket based on bpf_local_storage
selftests/xsk: fix number of Tx frags in invalid packet
selftests/xsk: properly handle batch ending in the middle of a packet
bpf: Prevent reentrance into call_rcu_tasks_trace()
...
Pull kmalloc_obj updates from Kees Cook:
"Introduce the kmalloc_obj* family of APIs for switching to type-based
kmalloc allocations, away from purely size-based allocations.
Discussed on lkml, with you, and at Linux Plumbers. It's been in -next
for the entire dev cycle.
Before the merge window closes, I'd like to send the treewide
change (generated from the Coccinelle script included here), which
mechanically converts almost 20k callsites from kmalloc* to
kmalloc_obj*:
8007 files changed, 19980 insertions(+), 20838 deletions(-)
This change needed fixes for mismatched types (since now the return
type from allocations is a pointer to the requested type, not "void
*"), and I've been fixing these over the last 4 releases.
These fixes have mostly been trivial mismatches with const qualifiers
or accidentally identical sizes (e.g. same object size: "struct kvec"
vs "struct iovec", or differing pointers to pointers), but I did catch
one case of too-small allocation.
Summary:
- Introduce kmalloc_obj*() family of type-based allocator APIs
- checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
- coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script"
* tag 'kmalloc_obj-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script
slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family
compiler_types: Introduce __flex_counter() and family
checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
still a fair amount going on, including:
- Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation
- Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
by generative tools
- The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
behind to avoid breaking scripts
- Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
variables, and lots of improvements and fixes
- Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
to the online pages in the HTML build
...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"
* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
doc: development-process: add notice on testing
tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation
docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
docs: add parse_features module documentation
docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
docs: add jobserver module documentation
docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
docs: add kabi modules documentation
...
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.
For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.
This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.
Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.
For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
In the last few years, the capabilities of coding tools have exploded.
As those capabilities have expanded, contributors and maintainers have
more and more questions about how and when to apply those
capabilities.
Add new Documentation to guide contributors on how to best use kernel
development tools, new and old.
Note, though, there are fundamentally no new or unique rules in this
new document. It clarifies expectations that the kernel community has
had for many years. For example, researchers are already asked to
disclose the tools they use to find issues by
Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst. This new document
just reiterates existing best practices for development tooling.
In short: Please show your work and make sure your contribution is
easy to review.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cfb8bb96-e798-474d-bc6f-9cf610fe720f@lucifer.local/
--
Changes from v5:
* Add more review tags
* Add a blurb to the "special" asks bullet to mention that extra
testing may be requested.
* Reword the closing paragraph of "Out of Scope" section for clarity
* Remove an "AI" and make small wording tweak (Jon)
Changes from v4:
* Modest tweaking and rewording to strengthen language
* Add a section to help alleviate concerns that the document would
not enable maintainers to act forcefully enough in the face of
high-volume low-quality contributions (aka. AI slop).
This is very close to some text that Lorenzo posted. I just
made some very minor wording tweaks and spelling fixes.
* Note: v4 mistakenly had "v3" in the subject
Changes from v3:
* Wording/formatting tweaks (Randy)
Changes from v2:
* Mention testing (Shuah)
* Remove "very", rename LLM => coding assistant (Dan)
* More formatting sprucing up and minor typos (Miguel)
* Make changelog and text less flashy (Christian)
* Tone down critical=>helpful (Neil)
Changes from v1:
* Rename to generated-content.rst and add to documentation index.
(Jon)
* Rework subject to align with the new filename
* Replace commercial names with generic ones. (Jon)
* Be consistent about punctuation at the end of bullets for whole
sentences. (Miguel)
* Formatting sprucing up and minor typos (Miguel)
This document was a collaborative effort from all the members of
the TAB. I just reformatted it into .rst and wrote the changelog.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260119200418.89541-1-dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
The Rust support was merged in v6.1 into mainline in order to help
determine whether Rust as a language was suitable for the kernel,
i.e. worth the tradeoffs, technically, procedurally and socially.
At the 2025 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit, the experiment has just
been deemed concluded [1].
Thus remove the section -- it was not fully true already anyway, since
there are already uses of Rust in production out there, some well-known
Linux distributions enable it and it is already in millions of devices
via Android.
Obviously, this does not mean that everything works for every kernel
configuration, architecture, toolchain etc., or that there won't be
new issues. There is still a ton of work to do in all areas, from the
kernel to upstream Rust, GCC and other projects. And, in fact, certain
combinations (such as the mixed GCC+LLVM builds and the upcoming GCC
support) are still quite experimental but getting there.
But the experiment is done, i.e. Rust is here to stay.
I hope this signals commitment from the kernel to companies and other
entities to invest more into it, e.g. into giving time to their kernel
developers to train themselves in Rust.
Thanks to the many kernel maintainers that gave the project their
support and patience throughout these years, and to the many other
developers, whether in the kernel or in other projects, that have
made this possible. I had a long list of 173 names in the credits of
the original pull that merged the support into the kernel [2], and now
such a list would be way longer, so I will not even try to compose one,
but again, thanks a lot, everybody.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]
Link: https://git.kernel.org/linus/8aebac82933f [2]
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251213000042.23072-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Removing :manpage: from non-existing man pages (xyzzy(2), xyzzyat(2),
fxyzzy(3) in adding-syscalls.rst, including translations) prevent
adding link to nonexisting man pages when using manpages_url in next
commit.
While at it, add also missing '(2)' in sp_SP translation.
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260113113612.315748-2-pvorel@suse.cz>
Fix various typos and grammatical errors across documentation files:
- Fix missing preposition 'in' in process/changes.rst
- Correct 'result by' to 'result from' in admin-guide/README.rst
- Fix 'before hand' to 'beforehand' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
- Correct 'allows to limit' to 'allows limiting' in hugetlb.rst,
cgroup-v2.rst, and kconfig-language.rst
- Fix 'needs precisely know' to 'needs to precisely know'
- Correct 'overcommited' to 'overcommitted' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix subject-verb agreement: 'never causes' to 'never cause'
- Fix 'there is enough' to 'there are enough' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix 'metadatas' to 'metadata' in filesystems/erofs.rst
- Fix 'hardwares' to 'hardware' in scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
Signed-off-by: Nauman Sabir <officialnaumansabir@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20260115230110.7734-1-officialnaumansabir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR.
No conflicts.
Adjacent:
Auto-merging MAINTAINERS
Auto-merging Makefile
Auto-merging kernel/bpf/verifier.c
Auto-merging kernel/sched/ext.c
Auto-merging mm/memcontrol.c
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
As done for kmalloc_obj*(), introduce a type-aware allocator for flexible
arrays, which may also have "counted_by" annotations:
ptr = kmalloc(struct_size(ptr, flex_member, count), gfp);
becomes:
ptr = kmalloc_flex(*ptr, flex_member, count, gfp);
The internal use of __flex_counter() allows for automatically setting
the counter member of a struct's flexible array member when it has
been annotated with __counted_by(), avoiding any missed early size
initializations while __counted_by() annotations are added to the
kernel. Additionally, this also checks for "too large" allocations based
on the type size of the counter variable. For example:
if (count > type_max(ptr->flex_counter))
fail...;
size = struct_size(ptr, flex_member, count);
ptr = kmalloc(size, gfp);
if (!ptr)
fail...;
ptr->flex_counter = count;
becomes (n.b. unchanged from earlier example):
ptr = kmalloc_flex(*ptr, flex_member, count, gfp);
if (!ptr)
fail...;
ptr->flex_counter = count;
Note that manual initialization of the flexible array counter is still
required (at some point) after allocation as not all compiler versions
support the __counted_by annotation yet. But doing it internally makes
sure they cannot be missed when __counted_by _is_ available, meaning
that the bounds checker will not trip due to the lack of "early enough"
initializations that used to work before enabling the stricter bounds
checking. For example:
ptr = kmalloc_flex(*ptr, flex_member, count, gfp);
fill(ptr->flex, count);
ptr->flex_count = count;
This works correctly before adding a __counted_by annotation (since
nothing is checking ptr->flex accesses against ptr->flex_count). After
adding the annotation, the bounds sanitizer would trip during fill()
because ptr->flex_count wasn't set yet. But with kmalloc_flex() setting
ptr->flex_count internally at allocation time, the existing code works
without needing to move the ptr->flex_count assignment before the call
to fill(). (This has been a stumbling block for __counted_by adoption.)
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203233036.3212363-4-kees@kernel.org
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Introduce type-aware kmalloc-family helpers to replace the common
idioms for single object and arrays of objects allocation:
ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
ptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct some_obj_name), gfp);
ptr = kzalloc(sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
ptr = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
ptr = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*ptr), gfp);
These become, respectively:
ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp);
ptr = kmalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp);
ptr = kzalloc_obj(*ptr, gfp);
ptr = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp);
ptr = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, count, gfp);
Beyond the other benefits outlined below, the primary ergonomic benefit
is the elimination of needing "sizeof" nor the type name, and the
enforcement of assignment types (they do not return "void *", but rather
a pointer to the type of the first argument). The type name _can_ be
used, though, in the case where an assignment is indirect (e.g. via
"return"). This additionally allows[1] variables to be declared via
__auto_type:
__auto_type ptr = kmalloc_obj(struct foo, gfp);
Internal introspection of the allocated type now becomes possible,
allowing for future alignment-aware choices to be made by the allocator
and future hardening work that can be type sensitive. For example,
adding __alignof(*ptr) as an argument to the internal allocators so that
appropriate/efficient alignment choices can be made, or being able to
correctly choose per-allocation offset randomization within a bucket
that does not break alignment requirements.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCOTW5UftUrAnvJkr6769D29tF7Of79gUjdQHS_TkF5A@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203233036.3212363-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Add guidance for AI assistants and developers using AI tools for kernel
contributions, per the consensus reached at the 2025 Maintainers Summit.
Create Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst with detailed guidance
on licensing, Signed-off-by requirements, and attribution format. The
README points AI tools to this documentation.
This will allow coding assistants to easily parse these instructions and
comply with guidelines set by the community.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049830/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251223122110.2496946-1-sashal@kernel.org>
For review of patches that revisioned multiple times, patch changelogs
are very useful. Adding actual links to the previous versions can
further help the review. Using such links, reviewers can double check
the changelog by themselves, and find previous discussions. Nowadays
having such links (e.g., lore.kernel.org archive links) is easy and
reliable. Suggest adding such links if available.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251225015447.16387-1-sj@kernel.org>
While reading the git-format-patch manpages [1], I discovered the existence
of the "Toggle Line Wrap" extension for Thunderbird which I found rather
convenient.
Looking at the history, the ancestor of this extension was added to the
documentation in commit e0e34e977a ("Documentation/email-clients.txt:
update Thunderbird docs with wordwrap plugin") but then removed in commit
f9a0974d3f ("Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings").
Extend the paragraph on Thunderbird's mailnews.wraplength register to
mention the existence of the "Toggle Line Wrap" extension. The goal is not
to create a war on what is the best option so make it clear that this is
just an alternative.
[1] man git-format-patch -- §Thunderbird
Link: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_thunderbird
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@gmail.com> # As past commit author
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251226-docs_thunderbird-toggle-line-wrap-v2-1-aebb8c60025d@kernel.org>
As the trend of AI-generated reports is growing, the trend of unreadable
reports in gimmicky formats is following, and we cannot request that
developers rely on online viewers to be able to read a security report
full for formatting tags. Let's just insist on the plain text requirement
a bit more.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251129141741.19046-1-w@1wt.eu>
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
required updates to align with that work. Do it here.
Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
The paragraph mentions only removal of Tested-by and Reviewed-by tags as
action needing mentioning in patch changelog, so some developers treat
it too literally. Acks, as a weaker form of review/approval, should
rarely be removed, but if that happens it should be explained as well.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126081905.7684-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
The big picture section of 2.Process.rst currently hardcodes major
version number to 5 since fb0e0ffe7f ("Documentation: bring process
docs up to date"). As it can get outdated when it is actually
incremented (the recent is 6 and will be 7 in the near future),
arbitrarily bump it to 9, giving a headroom for a decade.
Note that the version number examples are kept to illustrate the
numbering scheme.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
[jc: tweaked the initial 9.x mention slightly]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250922074219.26241-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
over:
- Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
"literal include" mode.
- Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
converted to Python and updated for current systems.
- A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.
- Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
protocol.
- A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.
... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
etc"
* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
docs: remove cdomain.py
Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
...
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:
- Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS
- Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions
- Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
offloads capabilities
- Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
- Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath
- Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
such HW
- Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
better fit modern link speeds
- Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
synchronize_rcu() on delete
- Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
magnitude faster on large switches
- Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios
- Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets
- Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
recent TCP autotuning changes
- Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
administratively down
- Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
connection and simplify common MPTCP setups
- Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races
- A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
reducing code duplication
- Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
XDP buffer
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:
- Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
parser
Driver API:
- Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
selection
- Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups
- Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
datapath
- Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
in RX ring queries and RSS configuration
- Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause
- Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
controlling the average smoothing factor
Device drivers:
- Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)
- Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC
- Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
devices (dibps)
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
issues
- support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
- support RSS for IPSec offload
- support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
- support for disabling host PFs.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
aggregate
- ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
- ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
- idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support Hyper-V VF ID
- dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
- Meta (fbnic):
- support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
- support basic XDP functionalities
- devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
- expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
- Wangxun:
- support ethtool coalesce options
- support for multiple RSS contexts
- Ethernet virtual:
- Macsec:
- replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
checks
- Bonding:
- support aggregator selection based on port priority
- Microsoft vNIC:
- use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
to improve memory efficiency
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
- Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
- Freescale
- enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
- fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
- Renesas (R-Car S4):
- support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
- support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
- Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
- TI:
- support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
- Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
driver
- Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
- Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
- Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115
- CAN:
- a large CAN-XL preparation work
- reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
usage
- rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling
- WiFi:
- extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- S1G channel representation cleanup
- improve S1G support
- WiFi drivers:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- major refactor and cleanup
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support for AP isolation
- RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
- preparation work for RTL8922DE support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- HW restart improvements
- MLO support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
- GTK rekey fixes
- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
- btintel: support for BlazarIW core
- btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
- btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"
* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
net: use llist for sd->defer_list
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
...
Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:
- Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
a builtin module
- Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0
- Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors
- Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling
- Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
W=e
- Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
(userprogs)
- Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
(hostprogs)
- Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
btrfs and XFS
- Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files
* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
...
Commit bd7c231212 ("pinctrl: meson: Fix typo in device table macro")
is needed in kbuild-next to avoid a build error with a future change.
While at it, address the conflict between commit 41f9049cff ("riscv:
Only allow LTO with CMODEL_MEDANY") and commit 6578a1ff6a ("riscv:
Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects"), as reported by Stephen
Rothwell [1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250908134913.68778b7b@canb.auug.org.au/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Freshen up the maintainer PGP guide:
- Bump minimum GnuPG version requirement from 2.2 to 2.4, since 2.2 is
no longer maintained
- All major hardware tokens now support Curve25519, so remove outdated
ECC support callouts
- Update hardware device recommendations (Nitrokey Pro 2 -> Nitrokey 3)
- Broaden backup media terminology (USB thumb drive -> external media)
- Update wording to follow vale's linter recommendations
- Various minor wording improvements for clarity
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250902-pgp-guide-updates-v1-1-62ac7312d3f9@linuxfoundation.org>
Every now and then people send stylistic patches and use Fixes
purely to refer to a commit which added the ugly or unnecessary
code. Reword the docs about Fixes.
It should hopefully be enough to lead with the word "bug"
rather than "issue". We can add more verbiage later, tho, let's
try the word swap first. I always feel like the more words the
smaller the chance someone will actually read the docs.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250904144533.2146576-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Devicetree is a data structure and it is a bit generic term, because
some treat Devicetree bindings as Devicetree. What the SoC maintainers
profile is mentioning in ABI stability are the Devicetree sources, so
DTS files. It is also more common during reviews to refer to these as
per "DTS" instead "devicetree".
Clarify that by using "DTS" name in few more places.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250812104154.42289-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc4).
No conflicts.
Adjacent changes:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
02614eee26 ("idpf: do not linearize big TSO packets")
6c4e684802 ("idpf: remove obsolete stashing code")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
s390 and x86 have required LLVM 15 since
30d17fac6a ("scripts/min-tool-version.sh: raise minimum clang version to 15.0.0 for s390")
7861640aac ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0")
respectively but most other architectures allow LLVM 13.0.1 or newer. In
accordance with the recent minimum supported version of GCC bump that
happened in
118c40b7b5 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30")
do the same for LLVM to 15.0.0.
Of the supported releases of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE
surveyed in evaluating this bump, this only leaves behind Debian
Bookworm (14.0.6) and Ubuntu Jammy (14.0.0). Debian Trixie has 19.1.7
and Ubuntu Noble has 18.1.3 (so there are viable upgrade paths) or users
can use apt.llvm.org, which provides even newer packages for those
distributions.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-1-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
