lwn.git/scripts/gdb/linux, branch master

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov) Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some documentation fixups - "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown) Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest - "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko) - "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector" (Aaron Tomlin) Give administrators the ability to zero out /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count - "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh) Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the system-provided ones - "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta) Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its documentation - "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law) A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code - "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo) - "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig) A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to quote Christoph: "The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture code. Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call overhead" - "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need - "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt) Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself - "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and PowerPC" (Coiby Xu) Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and powerpc - "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks" (Joseph Qi) Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits) ocfs2: validate group add input before caching ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full doc: watchdog: fix typos etc update Sean's email address ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path() ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec() ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend .get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel ...

scripts/gdb/symbols: handle module path parameters

2026-03-28T04:19:41+00:00

commit 581ee79a2547 ("scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB") added support to make BPF debug information available to GDB. However, the argument handling loop was slightly broken, causing it to fail if further modules were passed. Fix it to append these passed modules to the instance variable after expansion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260304110642.2020614-2-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Fixes: 581ee79a2547 ("scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Jan Kiszka Cc: Kieran Bingham Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/gdb: timerlist: Adapt to move of tk_core

2026-03-12T11:15:53+00:00

tk_core is a macro today which cannot be resolved by gdb. Use the correct symbol expression to reference tk_core. Fixes: 22c62b9a84b8 ("timekeeping: Introduce auxiliary timekeepers") Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311-hrtimer-cleanups-v1-1-095357392669@linutronix.de

scripts/gdb: implement x86_page_ops in mm.py

2026-02-12T23:45:57+00:00

Implement all member functions of x86_page_ops strictly following the logic of aarch64_page_ops. This includes full support for SPARSEMEM and standard page translation functions. This fixes compatibility with 'lx-' commands on x86_64, preventing AttributeErrors when using lx-pfn_to_page and others. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260202034241.649268-1-hsj0512@snu.ac.kr Signed-off-by: Seongjun Hong Cc: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB

2025-11-20T22:03:42+00:00

One can debug BPF programs with QEMU gdbstub by setting a breakpoint on bpf_prog_kallsyms_add(), waiting for a hit with a matching aux.name, and then setting a breakpoint on bpf_func. This is tedious, error-prone, and also lacks line numbers. Automate this in a way similar to the existing support for modules in lx-symbols. Enumerate and monitor changes to both BPF kallsyms and JITed progs. For each ksym, generate and compile a synthetic .s file containing the name, code, and size. In addition, if this ksym is also a prog, and not a trampoline, add line number information. Ensure that this is a no-op if the kernel is built without BPF support or if "as" is missing. In theory the "as" dependency may be dropped by generating the synthetic .o file manually, but this is too much complexity for too little benefit. Now one can debug BPF progs out of the box like this: (gdb) lx-symbols -bpf (gdb) b bpf_prog_4e612a6a881a086b_arena_list_add Breakpoint 2 (bpf_prog_4e612a6a881a086b_arena_list_add) pending. # ./test_progs -t arena_list Thread 4 hit Breakpoint 2, bpf_prog_4e612a6a881a086b_arena_list_add () at linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_list.c:51 51 list_head = &global_head; (gdb) n bpf_prog_4e612a6a881a086b_arena_list_add () at linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_list.c:53 53 for (i = zero; i < cnt && can_loop; i++) { This also works for subprogs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251106124600.86736-3-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Daniel Borkman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jan Kiszka Cc: Kieran Bingham Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/gdb/radix-tree: add lx-radix-tree-command

2025-11-20T22:03:42+00:00

Patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB", v2. This series greatly simplifies debugging BPF progs when using QEMU gdbstub by providing symbol names, sizes, and line numbers to GDB. Patch 1 adds radix tree iteration, which is necessary for parsing prog_idr. Patch 2 is the actual implementation; its description contains some details on how to use this. This patch (of 2): Add a function and a command to iterate over radix tree contents. Duplicate the C implementation in Python, but drop support for tagging. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251106124600.86736-1-iii@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251106124600.86736-2-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Daniel Borkman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jan Kiszka Cc: Kieran Bingham Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_clock_base:: Get_time

2025-09-09T10:27:18+00:00

The get_time() callbacks always need to match the bases clockid. Instead of maintaining that association twice in hrtimer_bases, use a helper. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250821-hrtimer-cleanup-get_time-v2-8-3ae822e5bfbd@linutronix.de

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-08-03T23:23:09+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Significant patch series in this pull request: - "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets us closer to being able to remove page->mapping - "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and minor feature addition work in relayfs - "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first kernel obtains extra memory - "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel splats information at the operator * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits) tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version kho: add test for kexec handover delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances" fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add() scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer" net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer" drm/xe: fix typo "notifer" cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer" KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer" MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below() ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable lib/xxhash: remove unused functions init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage docs: update docs after introducing delaytop ...

Merge tag 's390-6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2025-07-30T03:17:08+00:00

Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev: - Standardize on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by GCC and Clang compilers and replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in both uapi and non-uapi headers - Explicitly include in architecture and driver files which contain an EXPORT_SYMBOL() and remove the include from the files which do not contain the EXPORT_SYMBOL() - Use the full title of "z/Architecture Principles of Operation" manual and the name of a section where facility bits are listed - Use -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS for files in arch/s390/boot to avoid unnecessary slowing down of the build and confusing external kABI tools that process symtypes data - Print additional unrecoverable machine check information to make the root cause analysis easier - Move cmpxchg_user_key() handling to uaccess library code, since the generated code is large anyway and there is no benefit if it is inlined - Fix a problem when cmpxchg_user_key() is executing a code with a non-default key: if a system is IPL-ed with "LOAD NORMAL", and the previous system used storage keys where the fetch-protection bit was set for some pages, and the cmpxchg_user_key() is located within such page, a protection exception happens - Either the external call or emergency signal order is used to send an IPI to a remote CPU. Use the external order only, since it is at least as good and sometimes even better, than the emergency signal - In case of an early crash the early program check handler prints more or less random value of the last breaking event address, since it is not initialized properly. Copy the last breaking event address from the lowcore to pt_regs to address this - During STP synchronization check udelay() can not be used, since the first CPU modifies tod_clock_base and get_tod_clock_monotonic() might return a non-monotonic time. Instead, busy-loop on other CPUs, while the the first CPU actually handles the synchronization operation - When debugging the early kernel boot using QEMU with the -S flag and GDB attached, skip the decompressor and start directly in kernel - Rename PAI Crypto event 4210 according to z16 and z17 "z/Architecture Principles of Operation" manual - Remove the in-kernel time steering support in favour of the new s390 PTP driver, which allows the kernel clock steered more precisely - Remove a possible false-positive warning in pte_free_defer(), which could be triggered in a valid case KVM guest process is initializing * tag 's390-6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (29 commits) s390/mm: Remove possible false-positive warning in pte_free_defer() s390/stp: Default to enabled s390/stp: Remove leap second support s390/time: Remove in-kernel time steering s390/sclp: Use monotonic clock in sclp_sync_wait() s390/smp: Use monotonic clock in smp_emergency_stop() s390/time: Use monotonic clock in get_cycles() s390/pai_crypto: Rename PAI Crypto event 4210 scripts/gdb/symbols: make lx-symbols skip the s390 decompressor s390/boot: Introduce jump_to_kernel() function s390/stp: Remove udelay from stp_sync_clock() s390/early: Copy last breaking event address to pt_regs s390/smp: Remove conditional emergency signal order code usage s390/uaccess: Merge cmpxchg_user_key() inline assemblies s390/uaccess: Prevent kprobes on cmpxchg_user_key() functions s390/uaccess: Initialize code pages executed with non-default access key s390/skey: Provide infrastructure for executing with non-default access key s390/uaccess: Make cmpxchg_user_key() library code s390/page: Add memory clobber to page_set_storage_key() s390/page: Cleanup page_set_storage_key() inline assemblies ...

scripts/gdb/symbols: make lx-symbols skip the s390 decompressor

2025-07-10T12:42:10+00:00

When one starts QEMU with the -S flag and attaches GDB, the kernel is not yet loaded, and the current instruction is an entry point to the decompressor. In case the intention is to debug the early kernel boot, and not the decompressor, e.g., put a breakpoint on some kernel function and see all the invocations, one has to skip the decompressor. There are many ways to do this, and so far people wrote private scripts or memorized certain command sequences. Make it work out of the box like this: $ gdb -ex 'target remote :6812' -ex 'source vmlinux-gdb.py' vmlinux Remote debugging using :6812 0x0000000000010000 in ?? () (gdb) lx-symbols loading vmlinux (gdb) x/i $pc => 0x3ffe0100000 : lghi %r2,0 Implement this by reading the address of the jump_to_kernel() function from the lowcore, and step until DAT is turned on. Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich Acked-by: Jan Kiszka Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625154220.75300-3-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev