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<title>Merge tag 's390-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2025-03-29T18:59:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
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<published>2025-03-29T18:59:43Z</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add sorting of mcount locations at build time

 - Rework uaccess functions with C exception handling to shorten inline
   assembly size and enable full inlining. This yields near-optimal code
   for small constant copies with a ~40kb kernel size increase

 - Add support for a configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS which allows to
   generate better code, but also allows to have type checking for debug
   builds

 - Optimize get_lowcore() for common callers with alternatives that
   nearly revert to the pre-relocated lowcore code, while also slightly
   reducing syscall entry and exit time

 - Convert MACHINE_HAS_* checks for single facility tests into cpu_has_*
   style macros that call test_facility(), and for features with
   additional conditions, add a new ALT_TYPE_FEATURE alternative to
   provide a static branch via alternative patching. Also, move machine
   feature detection to the decompressor for early patching and add
   debugging functionality to easily show which alternatives are patched

 - Add exception table support to early boot / startup code to get rid
   of the open coded exception handling

 - Use asm_inline for all inline assemblies with EX_TABLE or ALTERNATIVE
   to ensure correct inlining and unrolling decisions

 - Remove 2k page table leftovers now that s390 has been switched to
   always allocate 4k page tables

 - Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool() and
   remove the architecture-specific kfence_split_mapping()

 - Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() to silence
   spurious KASAN warnings from opportunistic ftrace argument tracing

 - Force __atomic_add_const() variants on s390 to always return void,
   ensuring compile errors for improper usage

 - Remove s390's ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough() due to
   mismatched semantics and lack of known users, relying on asm-generic
   fallbacks

 - Signal eventfd in vfio-ap to notify userspace when the guest AP
   configuration changes, including during mdev removal

 - Convert mdev_types from an array to a pointer in vfio-ccw and vfio-ap
   drivers to avoid fake flex array confusion

 - Cleanup trap code

 - Remove references to the outdated linux390@de.ibm.com address

 - Other various small fixes and improvements all over the code

* tag 's390-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (78 commits)
  s390: Use inline qualifier for all EX_TABLE and ALTERNATIVE inline assemblies
  s390/kfence: Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool()
  s390/ptrace: Avoid KASAN false positives in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()
  s390/boot: Ignore vmlinux.map
  s390/sysctl: Remove "vm/allocate_pgste" sysctl
  s390: Remove 2k vs 4k page table leftovers
  s390/tlb: Use mm_has_pgste() instead of mm_alloc_pgste()
  s390/lowcore: Use lghi instead llilh to clear register
  s390/syscall: Merge __do_syscall() and do_syscall()
  s390/spinlock: Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with inline assembly
  s390/smp: Implement raw_smp_processor_id() with inline assembly
  s390/current: Implement current with inline assembly
  s390/lowcore: Use inline qualifier for get_lowcore() inline assembly
  s390: Move s390 sysctls into their own file under arch/s390
  s390/syscall: Simplify syscall_get_arguments()
  s390/vfio-ap: Notify userspace that guest's AP config changed when mdev removed
  s390: Remove ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough()
  s390/mm: Add configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
  s390/mm: Convert pgste_val() into function
  s390/mm: Convert pgprot_val() into function
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<title>s390/spinlock: Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with inline assembly</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T16:13:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
</author>
<published>2025-03-10T09:33:41Z</published>
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Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with an inline assembly, which makes use of the
ALTERNATIVE macro, to read spinlock_lockval from lowcore. Provide an
alternative instruction with a different offset in case lowcore is
relocated.

This replaces sequences of two instructions with one instruction.

Before:
  10602a:       a7 78 00 00             lhi     %r7,0
  10602e:       a5 8e 00 00             llilh   %r8,0
  106032:       58 d0 83 ac             l       %r13,940(%r8)
  106036:       ba 7d b5 80             cs      %r7,%r13,1408(%r11)

After:
  10602a:       a7 88 00 00             lhi     %r8,0
  10602e:       e3 70 03 ac 00 58       ly      %r7,940
  106034:       ba 87 b5 80             cs      %r8,%r7,1408(%r11)

Kernel image size change:
add/remove: 756/750 grow/shrink: 646/3435 up/down: 30778/-46326 (-15548)

Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390: Move s390 sysctls into their own file under arch/s390</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T16:13:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>joel granados</name>
</author>
<published>2025-03-06T11:29:46Z</published>
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Move s390 sysctls (spin_retry and userprocess_debug) into their own
files under arch/s390. Create two new sysctl tables
(2390_{fault,spin}_sysctl_table) which will be initialized with
arch_initcall placing them after their original place in proc_root_init.

This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: joel granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306-jag-mv_ctltables-v2-6-71b243c8d3f8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390: Convert MACHINE_IS_[LPAR|VM|KVM], etc, machine_is_[lpar|vm|kvm]()</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T16:18:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
</author>
<published>2025-02-07T14:49:07Z</published>
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Move machine type detection to the decompressor and use static branches
to implement and use machine_is_[lpar|vm|kvm]() instead of a runtime check
via MACHINE_IS_[LPAR|VM|KVM].

Reviewed-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/uaccess: Inline __clear_user()</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T16:18:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
</author>
<published>2025-02-11T19:19:30Z</published>
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Rework __clear_user() similar to raw_copy_from_user() / raw_copy_to_user()
and inline the function saving the overhead of branches.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>s390/uaccess: Separate key uaccess functions</title>
<updated>2025-03-04T16:18:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
</author>
<published>2025-02-11T19:19:27Z</published>
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Implement separate raw_copy_to_user_key() and raw_copy_from_user_key()
functions, which allows to remove the open-coded operand access control
handling from the normal raw_copy_to_user() / raw_copy_from_user()
functions - they are simplified to use immediate instructions to load
hard-coded operand access control values into register zero, which saves
one instruction.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>lib/crc32: remove "_le" from crc32c base and arch functions</title>
<updated>2025-02-09T04:06:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
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<published>2025-02-08T02:49:11Z</published>
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Following the standardization on crc32c() as the lib entry point for the
Castagnoli CRC32 instead of the previous mix of crc32c(), crc32c_le(),
and __crc32c_le(), make the same change to the underlying base and arch
functions that implement it.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250208024911.14936-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 's390-6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2025-01-30T18:48:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2025-01-30T18:48:17Z</published>
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Pull more s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - The rework that uncoupled physical and virtual address spaces
   inadvertently prevented KASAN shadow mappings from using large pages.
   Restore large page mappings for KASAN shadows

 - Add decompressor routine physmem_alloc() that may fail, unlike
   physmem_alloc_or_die(). This allows callers to implement fallback
   paths

 - Allow falling back from large pages to smaller pages (1MB or 4KB) if
   the allocation of 2GB pages in the decompressor can not be fulfilled

 - Add to the decompressor boot print support of "%%" format string,
   width and padding hadnling, length modifiers and decimal conversion
   specifiers

 - Add to the decompressor message severity levels similar to kernel
   ones. Support command-line options that control console output
   verbosity

 - Replaces boot_printk() calls with appropriate loglevel- specific
   helpers such as boot_emerg(), boot_warn(), and boot_debug().

 - Collect all boot messages into a ring buffer independent of the
   current log level. This is particularly useful for early crash
   analysis

 - If 'earlyprintk' command line parameter is not specified, store
   decompressor boot messages in a ring buffer to be printed later by
   the kernel, once the console driver is registered

 - Add 'bootdebug' command line parameter to enable printing of
   decompressor debug messages when needed. That parameters allows
   message suppressing and filtering

 - Dump boot messages on a decompressor crash, but only if 'bootdebug'
   command line parameter is enabled

 - When CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is enabled, add timestamps to boot messages
   in the same format as regular printk()

 - Dump physical memory tracking information on boot: online ranges,
   reserved areas and vmem allocations

 - Dump virtual memory layout and randomization details

 - Improve decompression error reporting and dump the message ring
   buffer in case the boot failed and system halted

 - Add an exception handler which handles exceptions when FPU control
   register is attempted to be set to an invalid value. Remove '.fixup'
   section as result of this change

 - Use 'A', 'O', and 'R' inline assembly format flags, which allows
   recent Clang compilers to generate better FPU code

 - Rework uaccess code so it reads better and generates more efficient
   code

 - Cleanup futex inline assembly code

 - Disable KMSAN instrumention for futex inline assemblies, which
   contain dereferenced user pointers. Otherwise, shadows for the user
   pointers would be accessed

 - PFs which are not initially configured but in standby create only a
   single-function PCI domain. If they are configured later on, sibling
   PFs and their child VFs will not be added to their PCI domain
   breaking SR-IOV expectations.

   Fix that by allowing initially configured but in standby PFs create
   multi-function PCI domains

 - Add '-std=gnu11' to decompressor and purgatory CFLAGS to avoid
   compile errors caused by kernel's own definitions of 'bool', 'false',
   and 'true' conflicting with the C23 reserved keywords

 - Fix sclp subsystem failure when a sclp console is not present

 - Fix misuse of non-NULL terminated strings in vmlogrdr driver

 - Various other small improvements, cleanups and fixes

* tag 's390-6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (53 commits)
  s390/vmlogrdr: Use array instead of string initializer
  s390/vmlogrdr: Use internal_name for error messages
  s390/sclp: Initialize sclp subsystem via arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  s390/tools: Use array instead of string initializer
  s390/vmem: Fix null-pointer-arithmetic warning in vmem_map_init()
  s390: Add '-std=gnu11' to decompressor and purgatory CFLAGS
  s390/bitops: Use correct constraint for arch_test_bit() inline assembly
  s390/pci: Fix SR-IOV for PFs initially in standby
  s390/futex: Avoid KMSAN instrumention for user pointers
  s390/uaccess: Rename get_put_user_noinstr_attributes to uaccess_kmsan_or_inline
  s390/futex: Cleanup futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
  s390/futex: Generate futex atomic op functions
  s390/uaccess: Remove INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and INLINE_COPY_TO_USER
  s390/uaccess: Use asm goto for put_user()/get_user()
  s390/uaccess: Remove usage of the oac specifier
  s390/uaccess: Replace EX_TABLE_UA_LOAD_MEM exception handling
  s390/uaccess: Cleanup noinstr __put_user()/__get_user() inline assembly constraints
  s390/uaccess: Remove __put_user_fn()/__get_user_fn() wrappers
  s390/uaccess: Move put_user() / __put_user() close to put_user() asm code
  s390/uaccess: Use asm goto for __mvc_kernel_nofault()
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<title>s390/uaccess: Remove INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and INLINE_COPY_TO_USER</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T16:24:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
</author>
<published>2025-01-16T15:24:31Z</published>
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The s390 implementations of raw_copy_from_user() and raw_copy_to_user() are
never inlined. However INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and INLINE_COPY_TO_USER are
still set. This leads to the odd situation that only the error handling
(memset to zero of the not copied bytes) of copy_from_user() is inlined,
while the actual fast path code is out-of-line.

This would make sense if raw_copy_from_user() and raw_copy_to_user() were
implemented in assembler files, where inlining is not possible. But the
current s390 setup does not make any sense.

Address this by moving the raw uaccess copy inline assemblies to the
uaccess header file, and remove INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and
INLINE_COPY_TO_USER definitions. This way the uaccess code, but now
including error handling, is still out-of-line with the common code
_copy_from_user() and _copy_to_user() variants, which inline the raw
uaccess functions via _inline_copy_from_user() and _inline_copy_to_user().

This reduces the size of the kernel image by ~17kb.
(defconfig, gcc 14.2.0)

Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'crc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T03:55:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T03:55:08Z</published>
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Pull CRC updates from Eric Biggers:

 - Reorganize the architecture-optimized CRC32 and CRC-T10DIF code to be
   directly accessible via the library API, instead of requiring the
   crypto API. This is much simpler and more efficient.

 - Convert some users such as ext4 to use the CRC32 library API instead
   of the crypto API. More conversions like this will come later.

 - Add a KUnit test that tests and benchmarks multiple CRC variants.
   Remove older, less-comprehensive tests that are made redundant by
   this.

 - Add an entry to MAINTAINERS for the kernel's CRC library code. I'm
   volunteering to maintain it. I have additional cleanups and
   optimizations planned for future cycles.

* tag 'crc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (31 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for CRC library
  powerpc/crc: delete obsolete crc-vpmsum_test.c
  lib/crc32test: delete obsolete crc32test.c
  lib/crc16_kunit: delete obsolete crc16_kunit.c
  lib/crc_kunit.c: add KUnit test suite for CRC library functions
  powerpc/crc-t10dif: expose CRC-T10DIF function through lib
  arm64/crc-t10dif: expose CRC-T10DIF function through lib
  arm/crc-t10dif: expose CRC-T10DIF function through lib
  x86/crc-t10dif: expose CRC-T10DIF function through lib
  crypto: crct10dif - expose arch-optimized lib function
  lib/crc-t10dif: add support for arch overrides
  lib/crc-t10dif: stop wrapping the crypto API
  scsi: target: iscsi: switch to using the crc32c library
  f2fs: switch to using the crc32 library
  jbd2: switch to using the crc32c library
  ext4: switch to using the crc32c library
  lib/crc32: make crc32c() go directly to lib
  bcachefs: Explicitly select CRYPTO from BCACHEFS_FS
  x86/crc32: expose CRC32 functions through lib
  x86/crc32: update prototype for crc32_pclmul_le_16()
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