kernel.git/arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile, branch linux-6.19.y

riscv: trace: fix snapshot deadlock with sbi ecall

2026-01-07T20:25:56Z

If sbi_ecall.c's functions are traceable, echo "__sbi_ecall:snapshot" > /sys/kernel/tracing/set_ftrace_filter may get the kernel into a deadlock. (Functions in sbi_ecall.c are excluded from tracing if CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE_EARLY is set.) __sbi_ecall triggers a snapshot of the ringbuffer. The snapshot code raises an IPI interrupt, which results in another call to __sbi_ecall and another snapshot... All it takes to get into this endless loop is one initial __sbi_ecall. On RISC-V systems without SSTC extension, the clock events in timer-riscv.c issue periodic sbi ecalls, making the problem easy to trigger. Always exclude the sbi_ecall.c functions from tracing to fix the potential deadlock. sbi ecalls can easiliy be logged via trace events, excluding ecall functions from function tracing is not a big limitation. Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251223135043.1336524-1-martin@kaiser.cx Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI

2025-09-24T21:29:14Z

The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with associated options). Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-06-07T17:05:35Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which exports a symbol only to specified modules - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n - Add checkers for redundant or missing inclusion - Deprecate the extra-y syntax - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files * tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits) genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES} efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: check missing #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation kconfig: introduce menu type enum docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers ...

arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds

2025-06-07T05:38:07Z

The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN), which behaves equivalently. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

Merge tag 'riscv-mw2-6.16-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alexghiti/linux into for-next

2025-06-05T21:03:16Z

riscv patches for 6.16-rc1, part 2 * Performance improvements - Add support for vdso getrandom - Implement raid6 calculations using vectors - Introduce svinval tlb invalidation * Cleanup - A bunch of deduplication of the macros we use for manipulating instructions * Misc - Introduce a kunit test for kprobes - Add support for mseal as riscv fits the requirements (thanks to Lorenzo for making sure of that :)) [Palmer: There was a rebase between part 1 and part 2, so I've had to do some more git surgery here... at least two rounds of surgery...] * alex-pr-2: (866 commits) RISC-V: vDSO: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation riscv: enable mseal sysmap for RV64 raid6: Add RISC-V SIMD syndrome and recovery calculations riscv: mm: Add support for Svinval extension riscv: Add kprobes KUnit test riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_UTYPE_IMM riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_RD_REG riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RVC_EXTRACT_BTYPE_IMM riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RVC_EXTRACT_C2_RS1_REG riscv: kproves: Remove duplication of RVC_EXTRACT_JTYPE_IMM riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_BTYPE_IMM riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_RS1_REG riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_JTYPE_IMM riscv: kprobes: Move branch_funct3 to insn.h riscv: kprobes: Move branch_rs2_idx to insn.h Linux 6.15-rc6 Input: xpad - fix xpad_device sorting Input: xpad - add support for several more controllers Input: xpad - fix Share button on Xbox One controllers ...

riscv: kexec_file: Support loading Image binary file

2025-06-05T18:09:34Z

This patch creates image_kexec_ops to load Image binary file for kexec_file_load() syscall. Signed-off-by: Song Shuai Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409193004.643839-3-bjorn@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: kexec_file: Split the loading of kernel and others

2025-06-05T18:09:33Z

This is the preparative patch for kexec_file_load Image support. It separates the elf_kexec_load() as two parts: - the first part loads the vmlinux (or Image) - the second part loads other segments (e.g. initrd,fdt,purgatory) And the second part is exported as the load_extra_segments() function which would be used in both kexec-elf.c and kexec-image.c. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Song Shuai Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409193004.643839-2-bjorn@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

Fix mis-uses of 'cc-option' for warning disablement

2025-04-23T17:08:29Z

This was triggered by one of my mis-uses causing odd build warnings on sparc in linux-next, but while figuring out why the "obviously correct" use of cc-option caused such odd breakage, I found eight other cases of the same thing in the tree. The root cause is that 'cc-option' doesn't work for checking negative warning options (ie things like '-Wno-stringop-overflow') because gcc will silently accept options it doesn't recognize, and so 'cc-option' ends up thinking they are perfectly fine. And it all works, until you have a situation where _another_ warning is emitted. At that point the compiler will go "Hmm, maybe the user intended to disable this warning but used that wrong option that I didn't recognize", and generate a warning for the unrecognized negative option. Which explains why we have several cases of this in the tree: the 'cc-option' test really doesn't work for this situation, but most of the time it simply doesn't matter that ity doesn't work. The reason my recently added case caused problems on sparc was pointed out by Thomas Weißschuh: the sparc build had a previous explicit warning that then triggered the new one. I think the best fix for this would be to make 'cc-option' a bit smarter about this sitation, possibly by adding an intentional warning to the test case that then triggers the unrecognized option warning reliably. But the short-term fix is to replace 'cc-option' with an existing helper designed for this exact case: 'cc-disable-warning', which picks the negative warning but uses the positive form for testing the compiler support. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250422204718.0b4e3f81@canb.auug.org.au/ Explained-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge patch series "riscv: Add support for xtheadvector"

2025-01-18T20:33:43Z

Charlie Jenkins says: xtheadvector is a custom extension that is based upon riscv vector version 0.7.1 [1]. All of the vector routines have been modified to support this alternative vector version based upon whether xtheadvector was determined to be supported at boot. vlenb is not supported on the existing xtheadvector hardware, so a devicetree property thead,vlenb is added to provide the vlenb to Linux. There is a new hwprobe key RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_THEAD_0 that is used to request which thead vendor extensions are supported on the current platform. This allows future vendors to allocate hwprobe keys for their vendor. Support for xtheadvector is also added to the vector kselftests. [1] https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec/blob/95358cb2cca9489361c61d335e03d3134b14133f/xtheadvector.adoc * b4-shazam-merge: riscv: Add ghostwrite vulnerability selftests: riscv: Support xtheadvector in vector tests selftests: riscv: Fix vector tests riscv: hwprobe: Document thead vendor extensions and xtheadvector extension riscv: hwprobe: Add thead vendor extension probing riscv: vector: Support xtheadvector save/restore riscv: Add xtheadvector instruction definitions riscv: csr: Add CSR encodings for CSR_VXRM/CSR_VXSAT RISC-V: define the elements of the VCSR vector CSR riscv: vector: Use vlenb from DT for thead riscv: Add thead and xtheadvector as a vendor extension riscv: dts: allwinner: Add xtheadvector to the D1/D1s devicetree dt-bindings: cpus: add a thead vlen register length property dt-bindings: riscv: Add xtheadvector ISA extension description Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113-xtheadvector-v11-0-236c22791ef9@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

riscv: Add ghostwrite vulnerability

2025-01-18T20:33:39Z

Follow the patterns of the other architectures that use GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES for riscv to introduce the ghostwrite vulnerability and mitigation. The mitigation is to disable all vector which is accomplished by clearing the bit from the cpufeature field. Ghostwrite only affects thead c9xx CPUs that impelment xtheadvector, so the vulerability will only be mitigated on these CPUs. Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins Tested-by: Yangyu Chen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113-xtheadvector-v11-14-236c22791ef9@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt