Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet http://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/lwn.git/atom?h=master 2026-04-19T15:47:40+00:00 2026-04-19T15:47:40+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-19T15:47:40+00:00 urn:sha1:99ef60d119f3b2621067dd5fc1ea4a37360709e4 Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 7.1-rc1. Lots of little things in here, nothing major, just constant improvements, updates, and new features. Highlights are: - new USB power supply driver support. These changes did touch outside of drivers/usb/ but got acks from the relevant mantainers for them. - dts file updates and conversions - string function conversions into "safer" ones - new device quirks - xhci driver updates - usb gadget driver minor fixes - typec driver additions and updates - small number of thunderbolt driver changes - dwc3 driver updates and additions of new hardware support - other minor driver updates All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'usb-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (176 commits) usb: dwc3: starfive: Add JHB100 USB 2.0 DRD controller dt-bindings: usb: dwc3: add support for StarFive JHB100 dt-bindings: usb: atmel,at91sam9rl-udc: convert to DT schema dt-bindings: usb: atmel,at91rm9200-udc: convert to DT schema dt-bindings: usb: generic-ehci: fix schema structure and add at91sam9g45 constraints dt-bindings: usb: generic-ohci: add AT91RM9200 OHCI binding support arm: dts: at91: remove unused #address-cells/#size-cells from sam9x60 udc node drivers/usb/host: Fix spelling error 'seperate' -> 'separate' usbip: tools: add hint when no exported devices are found USB: serial: iuu_phoenix: fix iuutool author name usb: gadget: f_ncm: validate minimum block_len in ncm_unwrap_ntb() usb: gadget: f_phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in pn_rx_complete() usb: gadget: f_hid: Add missing error code usb: typec: cros_ec_ucsi: Load driver from OF and ACPI definitions dt-bindings: chrome: Add cros-ec-ucsi compatibility to typec binding USB: of: Simplify with scoped for each OF child loop usbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit() usb: gadget: renesas_usb3: validate endpoint index in standard request handlers usb: core: config: reverse the size check of the SSP isoc endpoint descriptor usb: typec: ucsi: Set usb mode on partner change ... 2026-04-19T15:44:41+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-19T15:44:41+00:00 urn:sha1:73398c2772d04ee656a654c63db85851381cd147 Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the set of tty and serial driver changes for 7.1-rc1. Not much here this cycle, biggest thing is the removal of an old driver that never got any actual hardware support (esp32), and the second try to moving the tty ports to their own workqueues (first try was in 7.0-rc1 but was reverted due to problems) Otherwise it's just a small set of driver updates and some vt modifier key enhancements. All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (35 commits) tty: serial: ip22zilog: Fix section mispatch warning hvc/xen: Check console connection flag serial: sh-sci: Add support for RZ/G3L RSCI dt-bindings: serial: renesas,rsci: Document RZ/G3L SoC tty: atmel_serial: update outdated reference to atmel_tasklet_func() serial: xilinx_uartps: Drop unused include serial: qcom-geni: drop stray newline format specifier serial: 8250: loongson: Enable building on MIPS Loongson64 dt-bindings: serial: 8250: Add Loongson 3A4000 uart compatible serial: 8250_fintek: Add support for F81214E tty: tty_port: add workqueue to flip TTY buffer vt: support ITU-T T.416 color subparameters serial: qcom-geni: Fix RTS behavior with flow control tty: serial: imx: keep dma request disabled before dma transfer setup tty: serial: 8250: Add SystemBase Multi I/O cards serial: pic32_uart: allow driver to be compiled on all architectures with COMPILE_TEST serial: tegra: remove Kconfig dependency on APB DMA controller dt-bindings: serial: amlogic,meson-uart: Add compatible string for A9 dt-bindings: serial: atmel,at91-usart: add microchip,lan9691-usart serial: auart: check clk_enable() return in console write ... 2026-04-17T23:35:49+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-17T23:35:49+00:00 urn:sha1:cdd4dc3aebeab43a72ce0bc2b5bab6f0a80b97a5 Pull ntfs resurrection from Namjae Jeon: "Ever since Kari Argillander’s 2022 report [1] regarding the state of the ntfs3 driver, I have spent the last 4 years working to provide full write support and current trends (iomap, no buffer head, folio), enhanced performance, stable maintenance, utility support including fsck for NTFS in Linux. This new implementation is built upon the clean foundation of the original read-only NTFS driver, adding: - Write support: Implemented full write support based on the classic read-only NTFS driver. Added delayed allocation to improve write performance through multi-cluster allocation and reduced fragmentation of the cluster bitmap. - iomap conversion: Switched buffered IO (reads/writes), direct IO, file extent mapping, readpages, and writepages to use iomap. - Remove buffer_head: Completely removed buffer_head usage by converting to folios. As a result, the dependency on CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD has been removed from Kconfig. - Stability improvements: The new ntfs driver passes 326 xfstests, compared to 273 for ntfs3. All tests passed by ntfs3 are a complete subset of the tests passed by this implementation. Added support for fallocate, idmapped mounts, permissions, and more. xfstests Results report: Total tests run: 787 Passed : 326 Failed : 38 Skipped : 423 Failed tests breakdown: - 34 tests require metadata journaling - 4 other tests: 094: No unwritten extent concept in NTFS on-disk format 563: cgroup v2 aware writeback accounting not supported 631: RENAME_WHITEOUT support required 787: NFS delegation test" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/da20d32b-5185-f40b-48b8-2986922d8b25@stargateuniverse.net/ [1] [ Let's see if this undead filesystem ends up being of the "Easter miracle" kind, or the "Nosferatu of filesystems" kind... ] * tag 'ntfs-for-7.1-rc1-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/ntfs: (46 commits) ntfs: remove redundant out-of-bound checks ntfs: add bound checking to ntfs_external_attr_find ntfs: add bound checking to ntfs_attr_find ntfs: fix ignoring unreachable code warnings ntfs: fix inconsistent indenting warnings ntfs: fix variable dereferenced before check warnings ntfs: prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over manual NULL check ntfs: harden ntfs_listxattr against EA entries ntfs: harden ntfs_ea_lookup against malformed EA entries ntfs: check $EA query-length in ntfs_ea_get ntfs: validate WSL EA payload sizes ntfs: fix WSL ea restore condition ntfs: add missing newlines to pr_err() messages ntfs: fix pointer/integer casting warnings ntfs: use ->mft_no instead of ->i_ino in prints ntfs: change mft_no type to u64 ntfs: select FS_IOMAP in Kconfig ntfs: add MODULE_ALIAS_FS ntfs: reduce stack usage in ntfs_write_mft_block() ntfs: fix sysctl table registration and path ... 2026-04-17T18:12:42+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-17T18:12:42+00:00 urn:sha1:87768582a440e7049a04e8af7383b86738d15b38 Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski: - added support for batched cache sync, what improves performance of dma_map/unmap_sg() operations on ARM64 architecture (Barry Song) - introduced DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED attribute for explicitly shared memory used in confidential computing (Jiri Pirko) - refactored spaghetti-like code in drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c and its clients (Marek Szyprowski, shared branch with device-tree updates to avoid merge conflicts) - prepared Contiguous Memory Allocator related code for making dma-buf drivers modularized (Maxime Ripard) - added support for benchmarking dma_map_sg() calls to tools/dma utility (Qinxin Xia) * tag 'dma-mapping-7.1-2026-04-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: (24 commits) dma-buf: heaps: system: document system_cc_shared heap dma-buf: heaps: system: add system_cc_shared heap for explicitly shared memory dma-mapping: introduce DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED for shared memory mm: cma: Export cma_alloc(), cma_release() and cma_get_name() dma: contiguous: Export dev_get_cma_area() dma: contiguous: Make dma_contiguous_default_area static dma: contiguous: Make dev_get_cma_area() a proper function dma: contiguous: Turn heap registration logic around of: reserved_mem: rework fdt_init_reserved_mem_node() of: reserved_mem: clarify fdt_scan_reserved_mem*() functions of: reserved_mem: rearrange code a bit of: reserved_mem: replace CMA quirks by generic methods of: reserved_mem: switch to ops based OF_DECLARE() of: reserved_mem: use -ENODEV instead of -ENOENT of: reserved_mem: remove fdt node from the structure dma-mapping: fix false kernel-doc comment marker dma-mapping: Support batch mode for dma_direct_{map,unmap}_sg dma-mapping: Separate DMA sync issuing and completion waiting arm64: Provide dcache_inval_poc_nosync helper arm64: Provide dcache_clean_poc_nosync helper ... 2026-04-17T16:43:12+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-17T16:43:12+00:00 urn:sha1:cb30bf881c5b4ee8b879558a2fce93d7de652955 Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Fix printf format warning for bprintf sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during the compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging is not enabled the warning will go away - Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in event_filter_write() The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then checked again right afterward, which is unneeded - Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now with eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit and also add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data is not present - Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open All access to the file private data is handled by the helper functions, which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on open - Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum, show the name of the enum instead of its number - Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution will just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted to a direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations are required to be performed to update the parameters of the tracepoint. In this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is a static_branch() that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is enabled. This allows the extra calculations to also be skipped by the nop: if (trace_foo_enabled()) { x = bar(); trace_foo(x); } Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem with this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One for checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if the tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint directly without doing a static_branch(): if (trace_foo_enabled()) { x = bar(); trace_call__foo(); } - Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API - Move snapshot code out of trace.c Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code out of it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file - Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s" - Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times Have options like: ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo Equal to: ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo - Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is now a __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that - Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat() It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat() - Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled respectively. But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the tracepoint is not enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear down what the "reg" function performed - Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing "$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location - Some other simple cleanups * tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (24 commits) selftests/ftrace: Add test case for fully-qualified variable references tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func() tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call tracing: Report ipi_raise target CPUs as cpumask tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stub tracing: Preserve repeated trace_trigger boot parameters tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters tracing: Remove spurious default precision from show_event_trigger/filter formats cpufreq: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c mm: damon: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites btrfs: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites spi: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites i2c: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites kernel: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites tracepoint: Add trace_call__##name() API tracing: trace_mmap.h: fix a kernel-doc warning tracing: Pretty-print enum parameters in function arguments ... 2026-04-17T14:18:03+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-17T14:18:03+00:00 urn:sha1:01f492e1817e858d1712f2489d0afbaa552f417b Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Arm: - Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code, which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came through the tracing tree - Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM - Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous memory is also supported This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST + 'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is created. Caveat emptor - Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state immutable - Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page tables on a per-VM basis - Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to follow - Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead to very bad HW lockups - A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error cases - Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host SMCCC calls - The usual cleanups and other selftest churn LoongArch: - Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel() - Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support RISC-V: - Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks - Fix vector context allocation leak - Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi() - Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() - Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask() - Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request() - Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging - Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging - Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core - Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests - Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources - Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config - Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources - Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space s390: - Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors - Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed anymore with the new gmap code - Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking event address register) x86: - Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before they were initialized - Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in the page table and thus write all bytes - As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage x86 generic: - Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to userspace - Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier") - Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O - Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions - Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one of KVM's headers that is included multiple times - Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from unintentionally crashing the VM - Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec - Misc hardening and cleanup changes x86 (AMD): - Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs - Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should usually be the same for all CPUs - Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains about a "too large" size based purely on user input - Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION - Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an RMP violation page fault - Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped queries are required to hold kvm->lock, and enforce it by lockdep. Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for the whole duration of a function or ioctl - Convert a pile of kvm->lock SEV code to guard() - Play nicer with userspace that does not enable KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6 as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example). Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent, but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6 - Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT instead of vmcb02->save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2 - Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE - Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly initialized after save+restore - Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields on nested #VMEXIT - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or #GP for SVM-related instructions - Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM) - Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and (hopefully) make the code easier to maintain - Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined features - Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests - Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP for "unsupported" addresses) - Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs x86 (Intel): - Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros - Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a register input when appropriate - Code cleanups guest_memfd: - Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage to write back to LoongArch selftests: - Add KVM PMU test cases s390 selftests: - Enable more memory selftests x86 selftests: - Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests - Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP - Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd folios against KVM's will" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits) KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update() KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm->lock is held when querying SEV+ support KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe" KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch ... 2026-04-16T15:01:16+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-16T15:01:16+00:00 urn:sha1:f0bf3eac92b2be5f34b944cb82f1c23db642c7f5 Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Update QAT vfio-pci variant driver for Gen 5, 420xx devices (Vijay Sundar Selvamani, Suman Kumar Chakraborty, Giovanni Cabiddu) - Fix vfio selftest MMIO DMA mapping selftest (Alex Mastro) - Conversions to const struct class in support of class_create() deprecation (Jori Koolstra) - Improve selftest compiler compatibility by avoiding initializer on variable-length array (Manish Honap) - Define new uAPI for drivers supporting migration to advise user- space of new initial data for reducing target startup latency. Implemented for mlx5 vfio-pci variant driver (Yishai Hadas) - Enable vfio selftests on aarch64, not just cross-compiles reporting arm64 (Ted Logan) - Update vfio selftest driver support to include additional DSA devices (Yi Lai) - Unconditionally include debugfs root pointer in vfio device struct, avoiding a build failure seen in hisi_acc variant driver without debugfs otherwise (Arnd Bergmann) - Add support for the s390 ISM (Internal Shared Memory) device via a new variant driver. The device is unique in the size of its BAR space (256TiB) and lack of mmap support (Julian Ruess) - Enforce that vfio-pci drivers implement a name in their ops structure for use in sequestering SR-IOV VFs (Alex Williamson) - Prune leftover group notifier code (Paolo Bonzini) - Fix Xe vfio-pci variant driver to avoid migration support as a dependency in the reset path and missing release call (Michał Winiarski) * tag 'vfio-v7.1-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (23 commits) vfio/xe: Add a missing vfio_pci_core_release_dev() vfio/xe: Reorganize the init to decouple migration from reset vfio: remove dead notifier code vfio/pci: Require vfio_device_ops.name MAINTAINERS: add VFIO ISM PCI DRIVER section vfio/ism: Implement vfio_pci driver for ISM devices vfio/pci: Rename vfio_config_do_rw() to vfio_pci_config_rw_single() and export it vfio: unhide vdev->debug_root vfio/qat: add support for Intel QAT 420xx VFs vfio: selftests: Support DMR and GNR-D DSA devices vfio: selftests: Build tests on aarch64 vfio/mlx5: Add REINIT support to VFIO_MIG_GET_PRECOPY_INFO vfio/mlx5: consider inflight SAVE during PRE_COPY net/mlx5: Add IFC bits for migration state vfio: Adapt drivers to use the core helper vfio_check_precopy_ioctl vfio: Add support for VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE_MIG_PRECOPY_INFOv2 vfio: Define uAPI for re-init initial bytes during the PRE_COPY phase vfio: selftests: Fix VLA initialisation in vfio_pci_irq_set() vfio: uapi: fix comment typo vfio: mdev: replace mtty_dev->vd_class with a const struct class ... 2026-04-15T22:59:46+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-15T22:59:46+00:00 urn:sha1:e4bf304f000e6fcceaf60b1455a5124b783b3a66 Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt: - Add remote buffers for pKVM pKVM has a hypervisor component that is used to protect the guest from the host kernel. This hypervisor is a black box to the kernel as the kernel is to user space. The remote buffers are used to have a memory mapping between the hypervisor and the kernel where kernel may send commands to enable tracing within the hypervisor. Then the kernel will read this memory mapping just like user space can read the memory mapped ring buffer of the kernel tracing system. Since the hypervisor only has a single context, it doesn't need to worry about races between normal context, interrupt context and NMIs like the kernel does. The ring buffer it uses doesn't need to be as complex. The remote buffers are a simple version of the ring buffer that works in a single context. They are still per-CPU and use sub buffers. The data layout is the same as the kernel's ring buffer to share the same parsing. Currently, only ARM64 implements pKVM, but there's work to implement it also in x86. The remote buffer code is separated out from the ARM implementation so that it can be used in the future by x86. The ARM64 updates for pKVM is in the ARM/KVM tree and it merged in the remote buffers of this tree. - Make the backup instance non reusable The backup instance is a copy of the persistent ring buffer so that the persistent ring buffer could start recording again without using the data from the previous boot. The backup isn't for normal tracing. It is made read-only, and after it is consumed, it is automatically removed. - Have backup copy persistent instance before it starts recording To allow the persistent ring buffer to start recording from the kernel command line commands, move the copy of the backup instance to before the the command line options start recording. - Report header_page overwrite field as "char" and not "int' The rust parser of the header_page file was triggering a warning when it defined the overwrite variable as "int" but it was only a single byte in size. - Fix memory barriers for the trace_buffer CPU mask When a CPU comes online, the bit is set to allow readers to know that the CPU buffer is allocated. The bit is set after the allocation is done, and a smp_wmb() is performed after the allocation and before the setting of the bit. But instead of adding a smp_rmb() to all readers, since once a buffer is created for a CPU it is not deleted if that CPU goes offline, so this allocation is almost always done at boot up before any readers exist. If for the unlikely case where a CPU comes online for the first time after the system boot has finished, send an IPI to all CPUs to force the smp_rmb() for each CPU. - Show clock function being used in debugging ring buffer data When the ring buffer checks are enabled and the ring buffer detects an inconsistency in the times of the invents, print out the clock being used when the error occurred. There was a very hard to hit bug that would happen every so often and it ended up being only triggered when the jiffies clock was being used. If the bug showed the clock being used, it would have been much easier to find the problem (which was an internal function was being traced which caused the clock accounting to go off). * tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits) ring-buffer: Prevent off-by-one array access in ring_buffer_desc_page() ring-buffer: Report header_page overwrite as char tracing: Allow backup to save persistent ring buffer before it starts tracing/Documentation: Add a section about backup instance tracing: Remove the backup instance automatically after read tracing: Make the backup instance non-reusable ring-buffer: Enforce read ordering of trace_buffer cpumask and buffers ring-buffer: Show what clock function is used on timestamp errors tracing: Check for undefined symbols in simple_ring_buffer tracing: load/unload page callbacks for simple_ring_buffer Documentation: tracing: Add tracing remotes tracing: selftests: Add trace remote tests tracing: Add a trace remote module for testing tracing: Introduce simple_ring_buffer ring-buffer: Export buffer_data_page and macros tracing: Add helpers to create trace remote events tracing: Add events/ root files to trace remotes tracing: Add events to trace remotes tracing: Add init callback to trace remotes tracing: Add non-consuming read to trace remotes ... 2026-04-15T22:22:26+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-15T22:22:26+00:00 urn:sha1:aec2f682d47c54ef434b2d440992626d80b1ebdc Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu: "API: - Replace crypto_get_default_rng with crypto_stdrng_get_bytes - Remove simd skcipher support - Allow algorithm types to be disabled when CRYPTO_SELFTESTS is off Algorithms: - Remove CPU-based des/3des acceleration - Add test vectors for authenc(hmac(md5),cbc({aes,des})) and authenc(hmac({md5,sha1,sha224,sha256,sha384,sha512}),rfc3686(ctr(aes))) - Replace spin lock with mutex in jitterentropy Drivers: - Add authenc algorithms to safexcel - Add support for zstd in qat - Add wireless mode support for QAT GEN6 - Add anti-rollback support for QAT GEN6 - Add support for ctr(aes), gcm(aes), and ccm(aes) in dthev2" * tag 'v7.1-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (129 commits) crypto: af_alg - use sock_kmemdup in alg_setkey_by_key_serial crypto: vmx - remove CRYPTO_DEV_VMX from Kconfig crypto: omap - convert reqctx buffer to fixed-size array crypto: atmel-sha204a - add Thorsten Blum as maintainer crypto: atmel-ecc - add Thorsten Blum as maintainer crypto: qat - fix IRQ cleanup on 6xxx probe failure crypto: geniv - Remove unused spinlock from struct aead_geniv_ctx crypto: qce - simplify qce_xts_swapiv() crypto: hisilicon - Fix dma_unmap_single() direction crypto: talitos - rename first/last to first_desc/last_desc crypto: talitos - fix SEC1 32k ahash request limitation crypto: jitterentropy - replace long-held spinlock with mutex crypto: hisilicon - remove unused and non-public APIs for qm and sec crypto: hisilicon/qm - drop redundant variable initialization crypto: hisilicon/qm - remove else after return crypto: hisilicon/qm - add const qualifier to info_name in struct qm_cmd_dump_item crypto: hisilicon - fix the format string type error crypto: ccree - fix a memory leak in cc_mac_digest() crypto: qat - add support for zstd crypto: qat - use swab32 macro ... 2026-04-15T22:05:51+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-15T22:05:51+00:00 urn:sha1:f1d26d72f01556c787b1291729aa7a2ce37656a8 Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel: "Core: - Support for RISC-V IO-page-table format in generic iommupt code ARM-SMMU Updates: - Introduction of an "invalidation array" for SMMUv3, which enables future scalability work and optimisations for devices with a large number of SMMUv3 instances - Update the conditions under which the SMMUv3 driver works around hardware errata for invalidation on MMU-700 implementations - Fix broken command filtering for the host view of NVIDIA's "cmdqv" SMMUv3 extension - MMU-500 device-tree binding additions for Qualcomm Eliza & Hawi SoCs Intel VT-d: - Support for dirty tracking on domains attached to PASID - Removal of unnecessary read*()/write*() wrappers - Improvements to the invalidation paths AMD Vi: - Race-condition fixed in debugfs code - Make log buffer allocation NUMA aware RISC-V: - IO-TLB flushing improvements - Minor fixes" * tag 'iommu-updates-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux: (48 commits) iommu/vt-d: Restore IOMMU_CAP_CACHE_COHERENCY dt-bindings: arm-smmu: qcom: Add compatible for Hawi SoC iommu/amd: Invalidate IRT cache for DMA aliases iommu/riscv: Remove overflows on the invalidation path iommu/amd: Fix clone_alias() to use the original device's devid iommu/vt-d: Remove the remaining pages along the invalidation path iommu/vt-d: Pass size_order to qi_desc_piotlb() not npages iommu/vt-d: Split piotlb invalidation into range and all iommu/vt-d: Remove dmar_writel() and dmar_writeq() iommu/vt-d: Remove dmar_readl() and dmar_readq() iommufd/selftest: Test dirty tracking on PASID iommu/vt-d: Support dirty tracking on PASID iommu/vt-d: Rename device_set_dirty_tracking() and pass dmar_domain pointer iommu/vt-d: Block PASID attachment to nested domain with dirty tracking iommu/dma: Always allow DMA-FQ when iommupt provides the iommu_domain iommu/riscv: Fix signedness bug iommu/amd: Fix illegal cap/mmio access in IOMMU debugfs iommu/amd: Fix illegal device-id access in IOMMU debugfs iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Update uAPI to clarify HYP_OWN requirement iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Set supports_cmd op in tegra241_vcmdq_hw_init() ...