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Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:
- Fix a section mismatch warning in modpost
- Fix Debian package build error with the O= option
* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: deb-pkg: fix build error with O=
modpost: Add .irqentry.text to OTHER_SECTIONS
Pull irq fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Fix a /proc/interrupts formatting regression
- Have the BCM2836 interrupt controller enter power management states
properly
- Other fixlets
* tag 'irq_urgent_for_v6.13_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/stm32mp-exti: CONFIG_STM32MP_EXTI should not default to y when compile-testing
genirq/proc: Add missing space separator back
irqchip/bcm2836: Enable SKIP_SET_WAKE and MASK_ON_SUSPEND
irqchip/gic-v3: Fix irq_complete_ack() comment
Since commit 13b25489b6f8 ("kbuild: change working directory to external
module directory with M="), the Debian package build fails if a relative
path is specified with the O= option.
$ make O=build bindeb-pkg
[ snip ]
dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-image-6.13.0-rc1' in '../linux-image-6.13.0-rc1_6.13.0-rc1-6_amd64.deb'.
Rebuilding host programs with x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc...
make[6]: Entering directory '/home/masahiro/linux/build'
/home/masahiro/linux/Makefile:190: *** specified kernel directory "build" does not exist. Stop.
This occurs because the sub_make_done flag is cleared, even though the
working directory is already in the output directory.
Passing KBUILD_OUTPUT=. resolves the issue.
Fixes: 13b25489b6f8 ("kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M=")
Reported-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z1DnP-GJcfseyrM3@ghost/
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull timer fix from Borislav Petkov:
- Handle the case where clocksources with small counter width can,
in conjunction with overly long idle sleeps, falsely trigger the
negative motion detection of clocksources
* tag 'timers_urgent_for_v6.13_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource: Make negative motion detection more robust
Merely enabling compile-testing should not enable additional functionality.
Fixes: 0be58e0553812fcb ("irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Allow building as module")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ef5ec063b23522058f92087e072419ea233acfe9.1733243115.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
The compiler can fully inline the actual handler function of an interrupt
entry into the .irqentry.text entry point. If such a function contains an
access which has an exception table entry, modpost complains about a
section mismatch:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(__ex_table+0x447c): Section mismatch in reference ...
The relocation at __ex_table+0x447c references section ".irqentry.text"
which is not in the list of authorized sections.
Add .irqentry.text to OTHER_SECTIONS to cure the issue.
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # needed for linux-5.4-y
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241128111844.GE10431@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Have the Automatic IBRS setting check on AMD does not falsely fire in
the guest when it has been set already on the host
- Make sure cacheinfo structures memory is allocated to address a boot
NULL ptr dereference on Intel Meteor Lake which has different numbers
of subleafs in its CPUID(4) leaf
- Take care of the GDT restoring on the kexec path too, as expected by
the kernel
- Make sure SMP is not disabled when IO-APIC is disabled on the kernel
cmdline
- Add a PGD flag _PAGE_NOPTISHADOW to instruct machinery not to
propagate changes to the kernelmode page tables, to the user portion,
in PTI
- Mark Intel Lunar Lake as affected by an issue where MONITOR wakeups
can get lost and thus user-visible delays happen
- Make sure PKRU is properly restored with XRSTOR on AMD after a PRKU
write of 0 (WRPKRU) which will mark PKRU in its init state and thus
lose the actual buffer
* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v6.13_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/CPU/AMD: WARN when setting EFER.AUTOIBRS if and only if the WRMSR fails
x86/cacheinfo: Delete global num_cache_leaves
cacheinfo: Allocate memory during CPU hotplug if not done from the primary CPU
x86/kexec: Restore GDT on return from ::preserve_context kexec
x86/cpu/topology: Remove limit of CPUs due to disabled IO/APIC
x86/mm: Add _PAGE_NOPTISHADOW bit to avoid updating userspace page tables
x86/cpu: Add Lunar Lake to list of CPUs with a broken MONITOR implementation
x86/pkeys: Ensure updated PKRU value is XRSTOR'd
x86/pkeys: Change caller of update_pkru_in_sigframe()
Guenter reported boot stalls on a emulated ARM 32-bit platform, which has a
24-bit wide clocksource.
It turns out that the calculated maximal idle time, which limits idle
sleeps to prevent clocksource wrap arounds, is close to the point where the
negative motion detection triggers.
max_idle_ns: 597268854 ns
negative motion tripping point: 671088640 ns
If the idle wakeup is delayed beyond that point, the clocksource
advances far enough to trigger the negative motion detection. This
prevents the clock to advance and in the worst case the system stalls
completely if the consecutive sleeps based on the stale clock are
delayed as well.
Cure this by calculating a more robust cut-off value for negative motion,
which covers 87.5% of the actual clocksource counter width. Compare the
delta against this value to catch negative motion. This is specifically for
clock sources with a small counter width as their wrap around time is close
to the half counter width. For clock sources with wide counters this is not
a problem because the maximum idle time is far from the half counter width
due to the math overflow protection constraints.
For the case at hand this results in a tripping point of 1174405120ns.
Note, that this cannot prevent issues when the delay exceeds the 87.5%
margin, but that's not different from the previous unchecked version which
allowed arbitrary time jumps.
Systems with small counter width are prone to invalid results, but this
problem is unlikely to be seen on real hardware. If such a system
completely stalls for more than half a second, then there are other more
urgent problems than the counter wrapping around.
Fixes: c163e40af9b2 ("timekeeping: Always check for negative motion")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8734j5ul4x.ffs@tglx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/387b120b-d68a-45e8-b6ab-768cd95d11c2@roeck-us.net
The recent conversion of show_interrupts() to seq_put_decimal_ull_width()
caused a formatting regression as it drops a previosuly existing space
separator.
Add it back by unconditionally inserting a space after the interrupt
counts and removing the extra leading space from the chip name prints.
Fixes: f9ed1f7c2e26 ("genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: David Wang <00107082@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87zfldt5g4.ffs@tglx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4ce18851-6e9f-bbe-8319-cc5e69fb45c@linux-m68k.org
Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"24 hotfixes. 17 are cc:stable. 15 are MM and 9 are non-MM.
The usual bunch of singletons - please see the relevant changelogs for
details"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2024-12-07-22-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (24 commits)
iio: magnetometer: yas530: use signed integer type for clamp limits
sched/numa: fix memory leak due to the overwritten vma->numab_state
mm/damon: fix order of arguments in damos_before_apply tracepoint
lib: stackinit: hide never-taken branch from compiler
mm/filemap: don't call folio_test_locked() without a reference in next_uptodate_folio()
scatterlist: fix incorrect func name in kernel-doc
mm: correct typo in MMAP_STATE() macro
mm: respect mmap hint address when aligning for THP
mm: memcg: declare do_memsw_account inline
mm/codetag: swap tags when migrate pages
ocfs2: update seq_file index in ocfs2_dlm_seq_next
stackdepot: fix stack_depot_save_flags() in NMI context
mm: open-code page_folio() in dump_page()
mm: open-code PageTail in folio_flags() and const_folio_flags()
mm: fix vrealloc()'s KASAN poisoning logic
Revert "readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()"
selftests/damon: add _damon_sysfs.py to TEST_FILES
selftest: hugetlb_dio: fix test naming
ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails
nilfs2: fix potential out-of-bounds memory access in nilfs_find_entry()
...
When ensuring EFER.AUTOIBRS is set, WARN only on a negative return code
from msr_set_bit(), as '1' is used to indicate the WRMSR was successful
('0' indicates the MSR bit was already set).
Fixes: 8cc68c9c9e92 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Make sure EFER[AIBRSE] is set")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z1MkNofJjt7Oq0G6@google.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241205220604.GA2054199@thelio-3990X
The continual trickle of small conversion patches is grating on me, and
is really not helping. Just get rid of the 'remove_new' member
function, which is just an alias for the plain 'remove', and had a
comment to that effect:
/*
* .remove_new() is a relic from a prototype conversion of .remove().
* New drivers are supposed to implement .remove(). Once all drivers are
* converted to not use .remove_new any more, it will be dropped.
*/
This was just a tree-wide 'sed' script that replaced '.remove_new' with
'.remove', with some care taken to turn a subsequent tab into two tabs
to make things line up.
I did do some minimal manual whitespace adjustment for places that used
spaces to line things up.
Then I just removed the old (sic) .remove_new member function, and this
is the end result. No more unnecessary conversion noise.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The BCM2836 interrupt controller doesn't provide any facility to configure
the wakeup sources. That's the reason why the driver lacks the
irq_set_wake() callback for the interrupt chip.
Enable the flags IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE and IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND so the
interrupt suspend logic can handle the chip correctly equivalently to the
corresponding bcm2835 change (9a58480e5e53 ("irqchip/bcm2835: Enable
SKIP_SET_WAKE and MASK_ON_SUSPEND").
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241202115437.33552-1-wahrenst@gmx.net
Pull i2c component probing support from Wolfram Sang:
"Add OF component probing.
Some devices are designed and manufactured with some components having
multiple drop-in replacement options. These components are often
connected to the mainboard via ribbon cables, having the same signals
and pin assignments across all options. These may include the display
panel and touchscreen on laptops and tablets, and the trackpad on
laptops. Sometimes which component option is used in a particular
device can be detected by some firmware provided identifier, other
times that information is not available, and the kernel has to try to
probe each device.
Instead of a delicate dance between drivers and device tree quirks,
this change introduces a simple I2C component probe function. For a
given class of devices on the same I2C bus, it will go through all of
them, doing a simple I2C read transfer and see which one of them
responds. It will then enable the device that responds"
* tag 'i2c-for-6.13-rc1-part3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
MAINTAINERS: fix typo in I2C OF COMPONENT PROBER
of: base: Document prefix argument for of_get_next_child_with_prefix()
i2c: Fix whitespace style issue
arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8173-elm-hana: Mark touchscreens and trackpads as fail
platform/chrome: Introduce device tree hardware prober
i2c: of-prober: Add GPIO support to simple helpers
i2c: of-prober: Add simple helpers for regulator support
i2c: Introduce OF component probe function
of: base: Add for_each_child_of_node_with_prefix()
of: dynamic: Add of_changeset_update_prop_string
Pull smb client fixes from Steve French:
- DFS fix (for race with tree disconnect and dfs cache worker)
- Four fixes for SMB3.1.1 posix extensions:
- improve special file support e.g. to Samba, retrieving the file
type earlier
- reduce roundtrips (e.g. on ls -l, in some cases)
* tag '6.13-rc1-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
smb: client: fix potential race in cifs_put_tcon()
smb3.1.1: fix posix mounts to older servers
fs/smb/client: cifs_prime_dcache() for SMB3 POSIX reparse points
fs/smb/client: Implement new SMB3 POSIX type
fs/smb/client: avoid querying SMB2_OP_QUERY_WSL_EA for SMB3 POSIX
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