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9 daysMerge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang) Remove some noise from the MM selftests build - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts) Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and to the releasing of frozen pages - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio" (SeongJae Park) Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable memory. To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions. Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large page sizes" (Li Wang) Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of the cgroup zswap selftests - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga) Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao) Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman) Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun Song) Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree" A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand) Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped() - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park) Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of stacks and page tables - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default" (SeongJae Park) Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default, replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae Park) Update some DAMON docs - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin) Switch zone->lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie) Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O, drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse random or strided memory access workloads - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic" (Li Wang) Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning" (SeongJae Park) Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park) Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao) Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode kmemleak output - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to removing it entirely in a later series - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan) Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as this later results in undesirable behavior - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle) - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu) Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman) Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song) Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios, provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves performance - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park( Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra) Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when shrinking across a page boundary - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng) - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and updates the memory char driver accordingly - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests" (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym Shcherba) - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike Rapoport) - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and others) Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar to reduce contention on central mmap_lock - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()" (Ran Xiaokai) Some cleanup work in the THP code - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko) Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code. - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel Butt) Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line. - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky) address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner) Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif) Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large maximum folio order under the cache cap. - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song) Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four arch-specific implementations can be removed. - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device" (Youngjun Park) Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device reference taking/releasing frequency. - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages() sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd() rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present() mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole() fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry() fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race ...
11 daysMerge tag 'net-next-7.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Work on removing rtnl_lock protection throughout the stack continues. In this chapter: - don't use rtnl_lock for IPv6 multicast routing configuration - don't take rtnl_lock in ethtool for modern drivers - prepare Qdisc dump callbacks for rtnl_lock removal - Support dumping just ifindex + name of all interfaces, under RCU. It's a common operation for Netlink CLI tools (when translating names to ifindexes) and previously required full rtnl_lock. - Support dumping qdiscs and page pools for a specific netdev. Even tho user space wants a dump of all netdevs, most of the time, the OOO programming model results in repeating the dump for each netdev. Which, in absence of a cache, leads to a O(n^2) behavior. - Flush nexthops once on multi-nexthop removal (e.g. when device goes down), another O(n^2) -> O(n) improvement. - Rehash locally generated traffic to a different nexthop on retransmit timeout. - Honor oif when choosing nexthop for locally generated IPv6 traffic. - Convert TCP Auth Option to crypto library, and drop non-RFC algos. - Increase subflow limits in MPTCP to 64 and endpoint limit to 256. - Support MPTCP signaling of IPv6 address + port (ADD_ADDR). We need to selectively skip reporting of the standard TCP Timestamp option, because they won't fit into the header space together (12 + 30 > 40). - Support using bridge neighbor suppression, Duplicate Address Detection, Gratuitous ARP and unsolicited NA forwarding - in EVPN deployments, e.g. VXLAN fabrics (IPv4 and IPv6). - Improve link state reporting for upper netdevs (e.g. macvlan) over tunnel devices (again, mostly for EVPN deployments). - Support binding GENEVE tunnels to a local address. - Speed up UDP tunnel destruction (remove one synchronize_rcu()). - Support exponential field encoding in multicast (IGMPv3 and MLDv2). - Support attaching PSP crypto offload to containers (veth, netkit). - Add a new IPSec Netlink message XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE that allows migrating individual IPsec SAs independently of their policies. The existing XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE is tightly coupled to policy+SA migration, lacks SPI for unique SA identification, and cannot express reqid changes or migrate Transport mode selectors. The new interface identifies the SA via SPI and mark, supports reqid changes, address family changes, encap removal, and uses an atomic create+install flow under x->lock to prevent SN/IV reuse during AEAD SA migration. - Implement GRO/GSO support for PPPoE. - Convert sockopt callbacks in a number of protocols to iov_iter. Cross-tree stuff: - Remove support for Crypto TFM cloning (unblocked after the TCP Auth Option rework). This feature regressed performance for all crypto API users, since it changed crypto transformation objects into reference-counted objects. - Add FCrypt-PCBC implementation to rxrpc and remove it from the global crypto API as obsolete and insecure. Wireless: - Major rework of station bandwidth handling, fixing issues with lower capability than AP. - Cleanups for EMLSR spec issues (drafts differed). - More Neighbor Awareness Networking (Wi-Fi Aware) work (multicast, schedule improvements, multi-station etc.) - Some Ultra High Reliability (UHR) / IEEE 802.11bn (D1.4) work (e.g. non-primary channel access, UHR DBE support). - Fine Timing Measurement ranging (i.e. distance measurement) APIs. Netfilter: - Use per-rule hash initval in nf_conncount. This avoids unnecessary lock contention with short keys (e.g. conntrack zones) in different namespaces. - Various safety improvements, both in packet parsing and object lifetimes. Notably add refcounts to conntrack timeout policy. Deletions: - Remove TLS + sockmap integration. TLS wants to pin user pages to avoid a copy, and sockmap wants to write to the input stream. More work on this integration is clearly needed, and we can't find any users (original author admitted that they never deployed it). - Remove support for TLS offload with TCP Offload Engine (the far more common opportunistic offload is retained). The locking looks unfixable (driver sleeps under TCP spin locks) and people from the vendor that added this are AWOL. - Remove more ATM code, trying to leave behind only what PPPoATM needs, AAL5 and br2684 with permanent circuits. - Remove AppleTalk. Let it join hamradio in our out of tree protocol graveyard, I mean, repository. - Disable 32-bit x_tables compatibility (32bit binaries on 64bit kernel) interface in user namespaces. To be deleted completely, soon. - Remove 5/10 MHz support from cfg80211/mac80211. Drivers: - Software: - Support DEVMEM/DMABUF Tx over NETMEM_TX_NO_DMA devices (netkit) - bonding: add knob to strictly follow 802.3ad for link state - New drivers: - Alibaba Elastic Ethernet Adaptor (cloud vNIC). - NXP NETC switch within i.MX94. - DPLL: - Add operational state to pins (implement in zl3073x). - Add generic DPLL type, for daisy-chaining DPLLs (implement in ice). - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Huawei (hinic3): - enhance tc flow offload support with queue selection, tunnels - nVidia/Mellanox: - avoid over-copying payload to the skb's linear part (up to 60% win for LRO on slow CPUs like ARM64 V2) - expose more per-queue stats over the standard API - support additional, unprivileged PFs in the DPU configuration - support Socket Direct (multi-PF) with switchdev offloads - add a pool / frag allocator for DMA mapped buffers for control objects, save memory on systems with 64kB page size - take advantage of the ability to dynamically change RSS table size, even when table is configured by the user - increase the max RSS table size for even traffic distribution - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - AQC113 PTP support - Realtek USB (r8152): - support 10Gbit Link Speeds and Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) - support firmware loaded (for RTL8157/RTL8159) - support for the RTL8159 - Intel (ixgbe): - support Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) on E610 devices - Ethernet switches: - Airoha: - support multiple netdevs on a single GDM block / port - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - support SERDES of mv88e6321 - Microchip (ksz8/9): - rework the driver callbacks to remove one indirection layer - Motorcomm (yt921x): - support port rate policing - support TBF qdisc offload - support ACL/flower offload - nVidia/Mellanox: - expose per-PG rx_discards - Realtek: - rtl8365mb: bridge offloading and VLAN support - Ethernet PHYs: - Airoha: - support Airoha AN8801R Gigabit PHYs. - Micrel: - implement 3 low-loss cable tunables - Realtek: - support MDI swapping for RTL8226-CG - support MDIO for RTL931x - Qualcomm: - at803x: Rx and Tx clock management for IPQ5018 PHY - Motorcomm: - support YT8522 100M RMII PHY - set drive strength in YT8531s RGMII - TI: - dp83822: add optional external PHY clock - Bluetooth: - hci_sync: add support for HCI_LE_Set_Host_Feature [v2] - SMP: use AES-CMAC library API - Intel: - support Product level reset - support smart trigger dump - Mediatek: - add event filter to filter specific event - Realtek: - fix RTL8761B/BU broken LE extended scan - WiFi: - Broadcom (b43): - new support for a 11n device - MediaTek (mt76): - support mt7927 - mt792x: broken usb transport detection - mt7921: regulatory improvements - Qualcomm (ath9k): - GPIO interface improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - WDS support - replace dynamic memory allocation in WMI Rx path - thermal throttling/cooling device support - 6 GHz incumbent interference detection - channel 177 in 5 GHz - Realtek (rt89): - RTL8922AU support - USB 3 mode switch for performance - better monitor radiotap support - RTL8922DE preparations" * tag 'net-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1778 commits) ipv4: fib_rule: Move fib4_rules_exit() to ->exit(). net: serialize netif_running() check in enqueue_to_backlog() net: skmsg: preserve sg.copy across SG transforms appletalk: move the protocol out of tree appletalk: stop storing per-interface state in struct net_device selftests/bpf: test that TLS crypto is rejected on a sockmap socket selftests/bpf: drop the unused kTLS program from test_sockmap selftests/bpf: remove sockmap + ktls tests tls: remove dead sockmap (psock) handling from the SW path tls: reject the combination of TLS and sockmap atm: remove orphaned uAPI for deleted drivers, protocols and SVCs atm: remove unused ATM PHY operations atm: remove the unused pre_send and send_bh device operations atm: remove the unused change_qos device operation atm: remove SVC socket support and the signaling daemon interface atm: remove the local ATM (NSAP) address registry atm: remove dead SONET PHY ioctls atm: remove the unused send_oam / push_oam callbacks atm: remove AAL3/4 transport support net: dsa: sja1105: fix lastused timestamp in flower stats ...
12 daysappletalk: move the protocol out of treeJakub Kicinski
AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing. Let AppleTalk follow AX.25 and hamradio out of the Linux tree. We we will maintain the code at: github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan for anyone interested in playing with it. Retain the uAPI for now. No strong reason, simply because I suspect keeping it will be less controversial. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615222935.947233-3-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-06-04docs: mm: clarify that user_reserve_kbytes has no effect when ↵Brian Masney
overcommit_memory is set to 0 or 1 Looking at __vm_enough_memory() in mm/util.c, user_reserve_kbytes has no effect when overcommit_memory is set to 0 or 1. The documentation for overcommit_memory already references user_reserve_kbytes when the flag is set to 2. Let's go ahead and add a clarification to user_reserve_kbytes in vm.rst that it has no effect when overcommit_memory is set to 0 or 1. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260528-mm-clarify-docs-v1-1-aa88e83b4bfd@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-25docs: sysctl/net: Remove ax25, netrom, rose entriesCosta Shulyupin
These networking subsystems were removed in commit dd8d4bc28ad7 ("net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem"), but the sysctl directory table still listed them. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260515180200.1490926-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-04-16Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023) - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection Cross-tree stuff: - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it Netfilter: - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU. Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable Wireless: - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth - Radar detection improvements - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware Driver API: - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic) - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana) - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x) - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5) Misc: - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter Drivers - Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling - Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration - Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics - Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs - Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support" * tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including: - Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations, Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the beginnings of a Portuguese translation. - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging Python gbb scripts, and more. - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and more. - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put both into alphabetical order. ... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general improvements" * tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits) Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation Documentation: Add managed interrupts Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/ Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation" ...
2026-04-09docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/Shubham Chakraborty
Add documentation for the Xen hypervisor sysctl controls in /proc/sys/xen/balloon/. Documents the hotplug_unpopulated tunable (available when CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is enabled) which controls whether unpopulated memory regions are automatically hotplugged when the Xen balloon driver needs to reclaim memory. The documentation is based on source code analysis of drivers/xen/balloon.c. Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakraborty <chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260304150419.16738-1-chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
2026-03-27hung_task: enable runtime reset of hung_task_detect_countAaron Tomlin
Currently, the hung_task_detect_count sysctl provides a cumulative count of hung tasks since boot. In long-running, high-availability environments, this counter may lose its utility if it cannot be reset once an incident has been resolved. Furthermore, the previous implementation relied upon implicit ordering, which could not strictly guarantee that diagnostic metadata published by one CPU was visible to the panic logic on another. This patch introduces the capability to reset the detection count by writing "0" to the hung_task_detect_count sysctl. The proc_handler logic has been updated to validate this input and atomically reset the counter. The synchronisation of sysctl_hung_task_detect_count relies upon a transactional model to ensure the integrity of the detection counter against concurrent resets from userspace. The application of atomic_long_read_acquire() and atomic_long_cmpxchg_release() is correct and provides the following guarantees: 1. Prevention of Load-Store Reordering via Acquire Semantics By utilising atomic_long_read_acquire() to snapshot the counter before initiating the task traversal, we establish a strict memory barrier. This prevents the compiler or hardware from reordering the initial load to a point later in the scan. Without this "acquire" barrier, a delayed load could potentially read a "0" value resulting from a userspace reset that occurred mid-scan. This would lead to the subsequent cmpxchg succeeding erroneously, thereby overwriting the user's reset with stale increment data. 2. Atomicity of the "Commit" Phase via Release Semantics The atomic_long_cmpxchg_release() serves as the transaction's commit point. The "release" barrier ensures that all diagnostic recordings and task-state observations made during the scan are globally visible before the counter is incremented. 3. Race Condition Resolution This pairing effectively detects any "out-of-band" reset of the counter. If sysctl_hung_task_detect_count is modified via the procfs interface during the scan, the final cmpxchg will detect the discrepancy between the current value and the "acquire" snapshot. Consequently, the update will fail, ensuring that a reset command from the administrator is prioritised over a scan that may have been invalidated by that very reset. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260303203031.4097316-3-atomlin@atomlin.com Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-03-12vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transportAlexander Graf
When no H2G transport is loaded, vsock currently routes all CIDs to the G2H transport (commit 65b422d9b61b ("vsock: forward all packets to the host when no H2G is registered"). Extend that existing behavior: when an H2G transport is loaded but does not claim a given CID, the connection falls back to G2H in the same way. This matters in environments like Nitro Enclaves, where an instance may run nested VMs via vhost-vsock (H2G) while also needing to reach sibling enclaves at higher CIDs through virtio-vsock-pci (G2H). With the old code, any CID > 2 was unconditionally routed to H2G when vhost was loaded, making those enclaves unreachable without setting VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST explicitly on every connect. Requiring every application to set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST creates friction: tools like socat, iperf, and others would all need to learn about it. The flag was introduced 6 years ago and I am still not aware of any tool that supports it. Even if there was support, it would be cumbersome to use. The most natural experience is a single CID address space where H2G only wins for CIDs it actually owns, and everything else falls through to G2H, extending the behavior that already exists when H2G is absent. To give user space at least a hint that the kernel applied this logic, automatically set the VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST on the remote address so it can determine the path taken via getpeername(). Add a per-network namespace sysctl net.vsock.g2h_fallback (default 1). At 0 it forces strict routing: H2G always wins for CID > VMADDR_CID_HOST, or ENODEV if H2G is not loaded. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304230027.59857-1-graf@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-03-03docs: sysctl: add documentation for crypto and debugShubham Chakraborty
Add documentation for the /proc/sys/crypto and /proc/sys/debug directories in the admin-guide. This includes tunables for FIPS mode (fips_enabled, fips_name, fips_version), exception-trace, and kprobes-optimization. The documentation is based on source code analysis and addresses stylistic feedback to keep it direct and concise. Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakraborty <chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260223203724.20874-1-chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
2026-02-26vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctlBobby Eshleman
Update the vsock child_ns_mode documentation to include the new write-once semantics of setting child_ns_mode. The semantics are implemented in a preceding patch in this series. Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-vsock-ns-write-once-v3-3-c0cde6959923@meta.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-02-19Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Including fixes from Netfilter. Current release - new code bugs: - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols Previous releases - regressions: - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free() Previous releases - always broken: - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data() - fixes for ICMP rate limiting Misc: - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200" * tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (85 commits) net: nfc: nci: Fix parameter validation for packet data net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event net/mlx5: Fix misidentification of write combining CQE during poll loop net/mlx5e: Fix misidentification of ASO CQE during poll loop net/mlx5: Fix multiport device check over light SFs bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down bnge: fix reserving resources from FW eth: fbnic: Advertise supported XDP features. rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind net/rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_accept_one octeontx2-af: Fix default entries mcam entry action net/mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow() inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow() selftests/net: packetdrill: add ipv4-mapped-ipv6 tests ...
2026-02-17vsock: document namespace mode sysctlsStefano Garzarella
Add documentation for the vsock per-namespace sysctls (`ns_mode` and `child_ns_mode`) to Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst. These sysctls were introduced by commit eafb64f40ca4 ("vsock: add netns to vsock core"). Document the two namespace modes (`global` and `local`), the inheritance behavior of `child_ns_mode`, and the restriction preventing local namespaces from setting `child_ns_mode` to `global`. Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216163147.236844-1-sgarzare@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...
2026-02-11Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path. This generates better and faster code with very small or no text size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than the actual inlined helper. - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete, also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace basis. - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer. Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage by up to ~30%. - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without the HBH hint. - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is resolved out of a different interface than the one specified, aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior. - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing a single global rate on the interface. - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that are safer in crash scenarios. - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information, saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use. - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions. - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure. - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line. - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence. - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks across different network namespaces. - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented optimizations. - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes back online. Driver API: - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a DPLL device via netlink. - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing media ports over a single MAC. - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties, to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential signaling. - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks. Device drivers: - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver. - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet controller. - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver. - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl(). - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt, bng): - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram and NVRAM defragmentation - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the used H/W resources - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO, leading to 12% RX tput improvement - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new layouts - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support - Meta (fbnic): - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors - Ethernet virtual: - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Synopsys (stmmac): - some code refactoring and cleanups - RealTek (r8169): - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP) - add dash and LTR support - Airoha: - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support - Freescale (fec): - add XDP zero-copy support - Thunderbolt: - add get link setting support to allow bonding - Renesas: - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear: - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration - add support for Intel GSW150 - Motorcomm (yt921x): - add DCB/QoS support - TI: - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev framework - Ethernet PHYs: - Realtek: - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema - CAN: - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN metadata access more robust - CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: - add support for FD-only mode - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling - WiFi: - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211 - WiFi drivers: - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy devices and and pave the way for future device support in the same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k) - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset - Intel: - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn - RealTek (rtw89): - preparations for RTL8922DE support - Bluetooth: - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature" * tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits) bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect() ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update() ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header() ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup() ...
2026-02-09Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
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 ...
2026-02-09Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs initrd removal from Christian Brauner: "Remove the deprecated linuxrc-based initrd code path and related dead code. The linuxrc initrd path was deprecated in 2020 and this series completes its removal. If we see real-life regressions we'll revert. The core change removes handle_initrd() and init_linuxrc() — the entire flow that ran /linuxrc from an initrd, pivoted roots, and handed off to the real root filesystem. With that gone, initrd_load() becomes void (no longer short-circuits prepare_namespace()), rd_load_image() is simplified to always load /initrd.image instead of taking a path, and rd_load_disk() is deleted. The /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev sysctl and its backing variable are removed since they only existed for linuxrc to communicate the real root device back to the kernel. The no-op load_ramdisk= and prompt_ramdisk= parameters are dropped, and noinitrd and ramdisk_start= gain deprecation warnings. Initramfs is entirely unaffected. The non-linuxrc initrd path (root=/dev/ram0) is preserved but now carries a deprecation warning targeting January 2027 removal" * tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc) init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters
2026-01-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.19-rc8). No adjacent changes, conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c 2c84959167d64 ("net: spacemit: Check for netif_carrier_ok() in emac_stats_update()") f66086798f91f ("net: spacemit: Remove broken flow control support") https://lore.kernel.org/aXjAqZA3iEWD_DGM@sirena.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-26Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: - Fix the the buggy conversion of fuse_reverse_inval_entry() introduced during the creation rework - Disallow nfs delegation requests for directories by setting simple_nosetlease() - Require an opt-in for getting readdir flag bits outside of S_DT_MASK set in d_type - Fix scheduling delayed writeback work by only scheduling when the dirty time expiry interval is non-zero and cancel the delayed work if the interval is set to zero - Use rounded_jiffies_interval for dirty time work - Check the return value of sb_set_blocksize() for romfs - Wait for batched folios to be stable in __iomap_get_folio() - Use private naming for fuse hash size - Fix the stale dentry cleanup to prevent a race that causes a UAF * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: vfs: document d_dispose_if_unused() fuse: shrink once after all buckets have been scanned fuse: clean up fuse_dentry_tree_work() fuse: add need_resched() before unlocking bucket fuse: make sure dentry is evicted if stale fuse: fix race when disposing stale dentries fuse: use private naming for fuse hash size writeback: use round_jiffies_relative for dirtytime_work iomap: wait for batched folios to be stable in __iomap_get_folio romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writeback writeback: fix 100% CPU usage when dirtytime_expire_interval is 0 readdir: require opt-in for d_type flags vboxsf: don't allow delegations to be set on directories ceph: don't allow delegations to be set on directories gfs2: don't allow delegations to be set on directories 9p: don't allow delegations to be set on directories smb/client: properly disallow delegations on directories nfs: properly disallow delegation requests on directories fuse: fix conversion of fuse_reverse_inval_entry() to start_removing()
2026-01-25net: expand NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN to 256 bytesEric Dumazet
NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN has been set to 52 bytes in 2014, until now. Jakub suggested we bump the size to 128 bytes or more. Some drivers (like idpf) were already working around the core limit. Since this change might cause some issues in admin scripts, bump it directly to 256 in one go. tjbp26:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key | wc -c 768 tjbp26:~# ethtool -x eth1 RX flow hash indirection table for eth1 with 32 RX ring(s): ... RSS hash key: fe:16:5b:2f:93:85:c2:c9:c1:ef:bd:60:c6:e0:2b:99:4d:bf:b7:14:c8:1e:8d:cb:31:17:51:da:55:eb:91:d9:9e:f9:89:9b:44:a1:dc:08:72:3a:b3:d6:31:86:9a:fe:02:3a:0d:eb:a1:7c:f5:a3:51:3b:08:56:c9:3f:71:69:01:ba:70:38 RSS hash function: toeplitz: on xor: off crc32: off Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260122075206.504ec591@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122190349.2771064-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-20mm, hugetlb: implement movable_gigantic_pages sysctlGregory Price
This reintroduces a concept removed by: commit d6cb41cc44c6 ("mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl") This sysctl provides flexibility between ZONE_MOVABLE use cases: 1) onlining memory in ZONE_MOVABLE to maintain hotplug compatibility 2) onlining memory in ZONE_MOVABLE to make hugepage allocate reliable When ZONE_MOVABLE is used to make huge page allocation more reliable, disallowing gigantic pages memory in this region is pointless. If hotplug is not a requirement, we can loosen the restrictions to allow 1GB gigantic pages in ZONE_MOVABLE. Since 1GB can be difficult to migrate / has impacts on compaction / defragmentation, we don't enable this by default. Notably, 1GB pages can only be migrated if another 1GB page is available - so hot-unplug will fail if such a page cannot be found. However, since there are scenarios where gigantic pages are migratable, we should allow use of these on movable regions. When not valid 1GB is available for migration, hot-unplug will retry indefinitely (or until interrupted). For example: echo 0 > node0/hugepages/..-1GB/nr_hugepages # clear node0 1GB pages echo 1 > node1/hugepages/..-1GB/nr_hugepages # reserve node1 1GB page ./alloc_huge_node1 & # Allocate a 1GB page on node1 ./node1_offline & # attempt to offline all node1 memory echo 1 > node0/hugepages/..-1GB/nr_hugepages # reserve node0 1GB page In this example, node1_offline will block indefinitely until the final step, when a node0 1GB page is made available. Note: Boot-time CMA is not possible for driver-managed hotplug memory, as CMA requires the memory to be registered as SystemRAM at boot time. Additionally, 1GB huge pages are not supported by THP. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251221125603.2364174-1-gourry@gourry.net Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180201193132.Hk7vI_xaU%25akpm@linux-foundation.org/ Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20mm/block/fs: remove laptop_modeJohannes Weiner
Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to spin. Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices. Reclaim has also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design. The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore. The footprint of the feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm, block, filesystems. Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years. Let's sunset it. Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20Docs/mm/allocation-profiling: describe sysctrl limitations in debug modeSuren Baghdasaryan
When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y, /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling is read-only to avoid debug warnings in a scenario when an allocation is made while profiling is disabled (allocation does not get an allocation tag), then profiling gets enabled and allocation gets freed (warning due to the allocation missing allocation tag). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116184423.2708363-1-surenb@google.com Fixes: ebdf9ad4ca98 ("memprofiling: documentation") Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-16docs: make kptr_restrict and hash_pointers reference each otherMarc Herbert
vsprintf.c uses a mix of the `kernel.kptr_restrict` sysctl and the `hash_pointers` boot param to control pointer hashing. But that wasn't possible to tell without looking at the source code. They have a different focus and purpose. To avoid wasting the time of users trying to use one instead of the other, simply have them reference each other in the Documentation. Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260107-doc-hash-ptr-v2-1-cb4c161218d7@linux.intel.com>
2026-01-13net: add net.core.qdisc_max_burstEric Dumazet
In blamed commit, I added a check against the temporary queue built in __dev_xmit_skb(). Idea was to drop packets early, before any spinlock was acquired. if (unlikely(defer_count > READ_ONCE(q->limit))) { kfree_skb_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_QDISC_DROP); return NET_XMIT_DROP; } It turned out that HTB Qdisc has a zero q->limit. HTB limits packets on a per-class basis. Some of our tests became flaky. Add a new sysctl : net.core.qdisc_max_burst to control how many packets can be stored in the temporary lockless queue. Also add a new QDISC_BURST_DROP drop reason to better diagnose future issues. Thanks Neal ! Fixes: 100dfa74cad9 ("net: dev_queue_xmit() llist adoption") Reported-and-bisected-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107104159.3669285-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-01-12init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-devAskar Safin
It is not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-4-safinaskar@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-12docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writebackLaveesh Bansal
Document that setting vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds to zero disables periodic dirtytime writeback, matching the behavior of the related dirty_writeback_centisecs sysctl which already documents this. Signed-off-by: Laveesh Bansal <laveeshb@laveeshbansal.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106145059.543282-3-laveeshb@laveeshbansal.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-12-06Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter: This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition. As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot. Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work. - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ...
2025-11-20sys_info: add a default kernel sys_info maskFeng Tang
Which serves as a global default sys_info mask. When users want the same system information for many error cases (panic, hung, lockup ...), they can chose to set this global knob only once, while not setting up each individual sys_info knobs. This just adds a 'lazy' option, and doesn't change existing kernel behavior as the mask is 0 by default. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-5-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20watchdog: add sys_info sysctls to dump sys info on system lockupFeng Tang
When soft/hard lockup happens, developers may need different kinds of system information (call-stacks, memory info, locks, etc.) to help debugging. Add 'softlockup_sys_info' and 'hardlockup_sys_info' sysctl knobs to take human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,...", and when system lockup happens, all requested information will be printed out. (refer kernel/sys_info.c for more details). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-4-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20hung_task: add hung_task_sys_info sysctl to dump sys info on task-hungFeng Tang
When task-hung happens, developers may need different kinds of system information (call-stacks, memory info, locks, etc.) to help debugging. Add 'hung_task_sys_info' sysctl knob to take human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,...", and when task-hung happens, all requested information will be dumped. (refer kernel/sys_info.c for more details). Meanwhile, the newly introduced sys_info() call is used to unify some existing info-dumping knobs. [feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com: maintain consistecy established behavior, per Lance and Petr] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aRncJo1mA5Zk77Hr@U-2FWC9VHC-2323.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20docs: panic: correct some sys_ifo names in sysctl docFeng Tang
Patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand", v2. When working on kernel stability issues: panic, task-hung and soft/hard lockup are frequently met. And to debug them, user may need lots of system information at that time, like task call stacks, lock info, memory info, ftrace dump, etc. panic case already uses sys_info() for this purpose, and has a 'panic_sys_info' sysctl(also support cmdline setup) interface to take human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,..." to control what kinds of information is needed. Which is also helpful to debug task-hung and lockup cases. So this patchset introduces the similar sys_info sysctl interface for task-hung and lockup cases. his is mainly for debugging and the info dumping could be intrusive, like dumping call stack for all tasks when system has huge number of tasks, similarly for ftrace dump (we may add tracing_stop() and tracing_start() around it) Locally these have been used in our bug chasing for stability issues and were helpful. As Andrew suggested, add a configurable global 'kernel_sys_info' knob. When error scenarios like panic/hung-task/lockup etc doesn't setup their own sys_info knob and calls sys_info() with parameter "0", this global knob will take effect. It could be used for other kernel cases like OOM, which may not need one dedicated sys_info knob. This patch (of 4): Some sys_info names wered forgotten to change in patch iterations, while the right names are defined in kernel/sys_info.c. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-2-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: d747755917bf ("panic: add 'panic_sys_info' sysctl to take human readable string parameter") Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-12hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same timeLi RongQing
The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or nothing. Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient glitch. A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when multiple tasks hang simultaneously. Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan. This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents and system-wide failures. The accepted values are: - 0: Don't panic (unchanged) - 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged) - N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full backward compatibility. [lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig] Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de> Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-07net: increase skb_defer_max default to 128Eric Dumazet
skb_defer_max value is very conservative, and can be increased to avoid too many calls to kick_defer_list_purge(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106202935.1776179-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-16net: Introduce net.core.bypass_prot_mem sysctl.Kuniyuki Iwashima
If a socket has sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem flagged, the socket opts out of the global protocol memory accounting. Let's control the flag by a new sysctl knob. The flag is written once during socket(2) and is inherited to child sockets. Tested with a script that creates local socket pairs and send()s a bunch of data without recv()ing. Setup: # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test # echo $$ >> /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs # sysctl -q net.ipv4.tcp_mem="1000 1000 1000" # ulimit -n 524288 Without net.core.bypass_prot_mem, charged to tcp_mem & memcg # python3 pressure.py & # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat | grep sock sock 22642688 <-------------------------------------- charged to memcg # cat /proc/net/sockstat| grep TCP TCP: inuse 2006 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 2008 mem 5376 <-- charged to tcp_mem # ss -tn | head -n 5 State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port ESTAB 2000 0 127.0.0.1:34479 127.0.0.1:53188 ESTAB 2000 0 127.0.0.1:34479 127.0.0.1:49972 ESTAB 2000 0 127.0.0.1:34479 127.0.0.1:53868 ESTAB 2000 0 127.0.0.1:34479 127.0.0.1:53554 # nstat | grep Pressure || echo no pressure TcpExtTCPMemoryPressures 1 0.0 With net.core.bypass_prot_mem=1, charged to memcg only: # sysctl -q net.core.bypass_prot_mem=1 # python3 pressure.py & # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat | grep sock sock 2757468160 <------------------------------------ charged to memcg # cat /proc/net/sockstat | grep TCP TCP: inuse 2006 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 2008 mem 0 <- NOT charged to tcp_mem # ss -tn | head -n 5 State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port ESTAB 111000 0 127.0.0.1:36019 127.0.0.1:49026 ESTAB 110000 0 127.0.0.1:36019 127.0.0.1:45630 ESTAB 110000 0 127.0.0.1:36019 127.0.0.1:44870 ESTAB 111000 0 127.0.0.1:36019 127.0.0.1:45274 # nstat | grep Pressure || echo no pressure no pressure Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014235604.3057003-4-kuniyu@google.com
2025-10-15net: add /proc/sys/net/core/txq_reselection_ms controlEric Dumazet
Add a new sysctl to control how often a queue reselection can happen even if a flow has a persistent queue of skbs in a Qdisc or NIC queue. A value of zero means the feature is disabled. Default is 1000 (1 second). This sysctl is used in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013152234.842065-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
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() ...
2025-10-02Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the delaytop monitoring tool - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of EFI and KHO - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits) Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect() checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name() kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO) ...
2025-09-13panic: refine the document for 'panic_print'Feng Tang
User reported current document about SYS_INFO_PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY is confusing, that people could expect all user space console messages to be replayed. Specify that only 'kernel' messages will be replayed to solve the confusion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825025701.81921-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-21docs: sysctl: add a few more top-level /proc/sys entriesRandy Dunlap
Add a few missing directories under /proc/sys. Fix punctuation and doubled words. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250819075456.113623-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2025-08-20net: set net.core.rmem_max and net.core.wmem_max to 4 MBEric Dumazet
SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF have limited range today, unless distros or system admins change rmem_max and wmem_max. Even iproute2 uses 1 MB SO_RCVBUF which is capped by the kernel. Decouple [rw]mem_max and [rw]mem_default and increase [rw]mem_max to 4 MB. Before: $ sysctl net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max net.core.rmem_default = 212992 net.core.rmem_max = 212992 net.core.wmem_default = 212992 net.core.wmem_max = 212992 After: $ sysctl net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max net.core.rmem_default = 212992 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 212992 net.core.wmem_max = 4194304 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250819174030.1986278-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-08-11docs: admin-guide: update to current minimum pipe size defaultŠtěpán Němec
The pipe size limit used when the fs.pipe-user-pages-soft sysctl value is reached was increased from one to two pages in commit 46c4c9d1beb7; update the documentation to match the new reality. Fixes: 46c4c9d1beb7 ("pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages") Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250729-pipedoc-v2-1-18b8e735a9c6@smrk.net
2025-08-03Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 ...
2025-07-31Merge tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build system: - The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions. Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward that end. - A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format. - Various Chinese translations and updates. - A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing. - A new document for linked lists - A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository links. ...and lots of fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits) scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir> Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty docs: document linked lists scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7 docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link overlayfs.rst: fix typos docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections() docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration() ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Move sysctls out of the kern_table array This is the final move of ctl_tables into their respective subsystems. Only 5 (out of the original 50) will remain in kernel/sysctl.c file; these handle either sysctl or common arch variables. By decentralizing sysctl registrations, subsystem maintainers regain control over their sysctl interfaces, improving maintainability and reducing the likelihood of merge conflicts. - docs: Remove false positives from check-sysctl-docs Stopped falsely identifying sysctls as undocumented or unimplemented in the check-sysctl-docs script. This script can now be used to automatically identify if documentation is missing. * tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (23 commits) docs: Downgrade arm64 & riscv from titles to comment docs: Replace spaces with tabs in check-sysctl-docs docs: Remove colon from ctltable title in vm.rst docs: Add awk section for ucount sysctl entries docs: Use skiplist when checking sysctl admin-guide docs: nixify check-sysctl-docs sysctl: rename kern_table -> sysctl_subsys_table kernel/sys.c: Move overflow{uid,gid} sysctl into kernel/sys.c uevent: mv uevent_helper into kobject_uevent.c sysctl: Removed unused variable sysctl: Nixify sysctl.sh sysctl: Remove superfluous includes from kernel/sysctl.c sysctl: Remove (very) old file changelog sysctl: Move sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow to kernel/panic.c sysctl: move cad_pid into kernel/pid.c sysctl: Move tainted ctl_table into kernel/panic.c Input: sysrq: mv sysrq into drivers/tty/sysrq.c fork: mv threads-max into kernel/fork.c parisc/power: Move soft-power into power.c mm: move randomize_va_space into memory.c ...
2025-07-23docs: Downgrade arm64 & riscv from titles to commentJoel Granados
Remove the title string ("====") from under arm64 & riscv and move them to a commment under the perf_user_access sysctl. They are explanations, *not* sysctls themselves This effectively removes these two strings from appearing as not implemented when the check-sysctl-docs script is run Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-07-23docs: Remove colon from ctltable title in vm.rstJoel Granados
Removing them solves an issue where they were incorrectly considered as not implemented by the check-sysctl-docs script Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-07-21stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASEKees Cook
In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking that can support stack depth callbacks: - Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang stack depth callback support. - Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE, but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself. - Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn. While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS, since that's the only place it is referenced from. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>