linux-rng/Documentation/arch, branch master

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-12-03T01:03:55Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19. The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/. There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and several cleanups/typos. Summary: Core features: - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring) driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API Perf and PMU: - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support for NVIDIA implementations - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver Memory managemennt: - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping() - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common() ACPI and EFI: - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption - Remove unused ACPI function Miscellaneous: - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test - Remove some no longer used macros/functions - Various spelling corrections" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits) arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state ...

Merge branches 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/efi-preempt', 'for-next/assembler-macro', 'for-next/typos', 'for-next/sme-ptrace-disable', 'for-next/local-tlbi-page-reused', 'for-next/mpam', 'for-next/acpi' and 'for-next/documentation', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core

2025-11-28T15:47:12Z

* arm64/for-next/perf: perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arch_topology: Provide a stub topology_core_has_smt() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY perf/arm-ni: Fix and optimise register offset calculation perf: arm_pmuv3: Add new Cortex and C1 CPU PMUs perf: arm_cspmu: fix error handling in arm_cspmu_impl_unregister() perf/arm-ni: Add NoC S3 support perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add pmevfiltr2 support perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add revision id matching perf/arm_cspmu: Add pmpidr support perf/arm_cspmu: Add callback to reset filter config perf: arm_pmuv3: Don't use PMCCNTR_EL0 on SMT cores * for-next/misc: : Miscellaneous patches arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index arm64: mm: make linear mapping permission update more robust for patial range arm64/mm: Elide TLB flush in certain pte protection transitions arm64/mm: Rename try_pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm arm64/mm: Allow __create_pgd_mapping() to propagate pgtable_alloc() errors arm64: add unlikely hint to MTE async fault check in el0_svc_common arm64: acpi: add newline to deferred APEI warning arm64: entry: Clean out some indirection arm64/mm: Ensure PGD_SIZE is aligned to 64 bytes when PA_BITS = 52 arm64/mm: Drop cpu_set_[default|idmap]_tcr_t0sz() arm64: remove unused ARCH_PFN_OFFSET arm64: use SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK for enabling softirq stack arm64: Remove assertion on CONFIG_VMAP_STACK * for-next/kselftest: : arm64 kselftest patches kselftest/arm64: Align zt-test register dumps * for-next/efi-preempt: : arm64: Make EFI calls preemptible arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption arm64/efi: Move uaccess en/disable out of efi_set_pgd() arm64/efi: Drop efi_rt_lock spinlock from EFI arch wrapper arm64/fpsimd: Permit kernel mode NEON with IRQs off arm64/fpsimd: Don't warn when EFI execution context is preemptible efi/runtime-wrappers: Keep track of the efi_runtime_lock owner efi: Add missing static initializer for efi_mm::cpus_allowed_lock * for-next/assembler-macro: : arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in headers arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers * for-next/typos: : Random typo/spelling fixes arm64: Fix double word in comments arm64: Fix typos and spelling errors in comments * for-next/sme-ptrace-disable: : Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Cover disabling streaming mode without SVE in fp-ptrace kselftst/arm64: Test NT_ARM_SVE FPSIMD format writes on non-SVE systems arm64/sme: Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems * for-next/local-tlbi-page-reused: : arm64, mm: avoid TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault arm64, tlbflush: don't TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault mm: add spurious fault fixing support for huge pmd * for-next/mpam: (34 commits) : Basic Arm MPAM driver (more to follow) MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state arm_mpam: Use long MBWU counters if supported arm_mpam: Probe for long/lwd mbwu counters arm_mpam: Consider overflow in bandwidth counter state arm_mpam: Track bandwidth counter state for power management arm_mpam: Add mpam_msmon_read() to read monitor value arm_mpam: Add helpers to allocate monitors arm_mpam: Probe and reset the rest of the features arm_mpam: Allow configuration to be applied and restored during cpu online arm_mpam: Use a static key to indicate when mpam is enabled arm_mpam: Register and enable IRQs arm_mpam: Extend reset logic to allow devices to be reset any time arm_mpam: Add a helper to touch an MSC from any CPU arm_mpam: Reset MSC controls from cpuhp callbacks arm_mpam: Merge supported features during mpam_enable() into mpam_class arm_mpam: Probe the hardware features resctrl supports arm_mpam: Add helpers for managing the locking around the mon_sel registers ... * for-next/acpi: : arm64 acpi updates ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() * for-next/documentation: : arm64 Documentation updates Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names

Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names

2025-11-25T12:26:31Z

The register name 'HWFGWTR_EL2' and 'HWFGRTR_EL2' is wrong, should be 'HFGWTR_EL2' and 'HFGRTR_EL2'. Find the register description on arm website here, https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2025-09/AArch64-Registers/HFGWTR-EL2--Hypervisor-Fine-Grained-Write-Trap-Register https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2025-09/AArch64-Registers/HFGRTR-EL2--Hypervisor-Fine-Grained-Read-Trap-Register?lang=en Signed-off-by: Zenon Xiu Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64/sme: Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems

2025-11-17T20:11:54Z

Currently it is not possible to disable streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems, the interface for doing this is to write via NT_ARM_SVE but such writes will be rejected on a system without SVE support. Enable this functionality by allowing userspace to write SVE_PT_REGS_FPSIMD format data via NT_ARM_SVE with the vector length set to 0 on SME only systems. Such writes currently error since we require that a vector length is specified which should minimise the risk that existing software is relying on current behaviour. Reads are not supported since I am not aware of any use case for this and there is some risk that an existing userspace application may be confused if it reads NT_ARM_SVE on a system without SVE. Existing kernels will return FPSIMD formatted register state from NT_ARM_SVE if full SVE state is not stored, for example if the task has not used SVE. Returning a vector length of 0 would create a risk that software would try to do things like allocate space for register state with zero sizes, while returning a vector length of 128 bits would look like SVE is supported. It seems safer to just not make the changes to add read support. It remains possible for userspace to detect a SME only system via the ptrace interface only since reads of NT_ARM_SSVE and NT_ARM_ZA will succeed while reads of NT_ARM_SVE will fail. Read/write access to the FPSIMD registers in non-streaming mode is available via REGSET_FPR. sve_set_common() already avoids allocating SVE storage when doing a FPSIMD formatted write and allocating SME storage when doing a NT_ARM_SVE write so we change the function to validate the new case and skip setting a vector length for it. The aim is to make a minimally invasive change, no operation that would previously have succeeded will be affected, and we use a previously defined interface in new circumstances rather than define completely new ABI. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Reviewed-by: David Spickett Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

s390/debug: Update description of resize operation

2025-11-17T10:55:16Z

With commit 1204777867e8 ("s390/debug: keep debug data on resize") the behavior of a debug area resize operation was changed. Update the associated documentation to reflect this change. Fixes: 1204777867e8 ("s390/debug: keep debug data on resize") Reported-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

Merge tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-10-04T17:01:30Z

Pull x86 TDX updates from Dave Hansen: "The biggest change here is making TDX and kexec play nicely together. Before this, the memory encryption hardware (which doesn't respect cache coherency) could write back old cachelines on top of data in the new kernel, so kexec and TDX were made mutually exclusive. This removes the limitation. There is also some work to tighten up a hardware bug workaround and some MAINTAINERS updates. - Make TDX and kexec work together - Skip TDX bug workaround when the bug is not present - Update maintainers entries" * tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/virt/tdx: Use precalculated TDVPR page physical address KVM/TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation x86/virt/tdx: Remove the !KEXEC_CORE dependency x86/kexec: Disable kexec/kdump on platforms with TDX partial write erratum x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL x86/sme: Use percpu boolean to control WBINVD during kexec x86/kexec: Consolidate relocate_kernel() function parameters x86/tdx: Skip clearing reclaimed pages unless X86_BUG_TDX_PW_MCE is present x86/tdx: Tidy reset_pamt functions x86/tdx: Eliminate duplicate code in tdx_clear_page() MAINTAINERS: Add KVM mail list to the TDX entry MAINTAINERS: Add Rick Edgecombe as a TDX reviewer MAINTAINERS: Update the file list in the TDX entry.

Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2025-10-04T00:16:13Z

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() ...

Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-09-30T20:19:08Z

Pull x86 cpuid updates from Borislav Petkov: - Make UMIP instruction detection more robust - Correct and cleanup AMD CPU topology detection; document the relevant CPUID leaves topology parsing precedence on AMD - Add support for running the kernel as guest on FreeBSD's Bhyve hypervisor - Cleanups and improvements * tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/umip: Fix decoding of register forms of 0F 01 (SGDT and SIDT aliases) x86/umip: Check that the instruction opcode is at least two bytes Documentation/x86/topology: Detail CPUID leaves used for topology enumeration x86/cpu/topology: Define AMD64_CPUID_EXT_FEAT MSR x86/cpu/topology: Check for X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY instead of passing has_xtopology x86/cpu/cacheinfo: Simplify cacheinfo_amd_init_llc_id() using _cpuid4_info x86/cpu: Rename and move CPU model entry for Diamond Rapids x86/cpu: Detect FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor

Merge tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2025-09-30T02:28:50Z

Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan: - powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics - Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains) - Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath - Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths - Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver - Fixes for handling TLB misses - Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe - Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform - Misc fixes and cleanups Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence, Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao, Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters, Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote. * tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits) powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free() powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt ...

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2025-09-30T02:01:08Z

Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley - Replacement of __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files (other architectures have already merged this type of cleanup) - The introduction of ioremap_wc() for RISC-V - Cleanup of the RISC-V kprobes code to use mostly-extant macros rather than open code - A RISC-V kprobes unit test - An architecture-specific endianness swap macro set implementation, leveraging some dedicated RISC-V instructions for this purpose if they are available - The ability to identity and communicate to userspace the presence of a MIPS P8700-specific ISA extension, and to leverage its MIPS-specific PAUSE implementation in cpu_relax() - Several other miscellaneous cleanups * tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (39 commits) riscv: errata: Fix the PAUSE Opcode for MIPS P8700 riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extension riscv: hwprobe: Add MIPS vendor extension probing riscv: Add xmipsexectl instructions riscv: Add xmipsexectl as a vendor extension dt-bindings: riscv: Add xmipsexectl ISA extension description riscv: cpufeature: add validation for zfa, zfh and zfhmin perf: riscv: skip empty batches in counter start selftests: riscv: Add README for RISC-V KSelfTest riscv: sbi: Switch to new sys-off handler API riscv: Move vendor errata definitions to new header RISC-V: ACPI: enable parsing the BGRT table riscv: Enable ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG riscv: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile riscv: introduce asm/swab.h riscv: mmap(): use unsigned offset type in riscv_sys_mmap drivers/perf: riscv: Remove redundant ternary operators riscv: mm: Use mmu-type from FDT to limit SATP mode riscv: mm: Return intended SATP mode for noXlvl options riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM ...