kernel/linux.git/Documentation/ABI/testing, branch v6.12.80

f2fs: add gc_boost_gc_greedy sysfs node

2025-12-18T12:55:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit c8705cefce44fbe85ca3b180dee0e0b5f3d51dc5 ] Add this to control GC algorithm for boost GC. Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Stable-dep-of: e462fc48ceb8 ("f2fs: maintain one time GC mode is enabled during whole zoned GC cycle") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

f2fs: add gc_boost_gc_multiple sysfs node

2025-12-18T12:55:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1d4c5dbba1a53aeaf2c6cc84e7ba94c436d18852 ] Add a sysfs knob to set a multiplier for the background GC migration window when F2FS Garbage Collection is boosted. Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Stable-dep-of: e462fc48ceb8 ("f2fs: maintain one time GC mode is enabled during whole zoned GC cycle") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

f2fs: introduce reserved_pin_section sysfs entry

2025-12-18T12:55:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 59c1c89e9ba8cefff05aa982dd9e6719f25e8ec5 ] This patch introduces /sys/fs/f2fs//reserved_pin_section for tuning @needed parameter of has_not_enough_free_secs(), if we configure it w/ zero, it can avoid f2fs_gc() as much as possible while fallocating on pinned file. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Reviewed-by: wangzijie Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Stable-dep-of: e462fc48ceb8 ("f2fs: maintain one time GC mode is enabled during whole zoned GC cycle") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

f2fs: sysfs: add encoding_flags entry

2025-12-18T12:55:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3fea0641b06ff4e53d95d07a96764d8951d4ced6 ] This patch adds a new sysfs entry /sys/fs/f2fs//encoding_flags, it is a read-only entry to show the value of sb.s_encoding_flags, the value is hexadecimal. ============================ ========== Flag_Name Flag_Value ============================ ========== SB_ENC_STRICT_MODE_FL 0x00000001 SB_ENC_NO_COMPAT_FALLBACK_FL 0x00000002 ============================ ========== case#1 mkfs.f2fs -f -O casefold -C utf8:strict /dev/vda mount /dev/vda /mnt/f2fs cat /sys/fs/f2fs/vda/encoding_flags 1 case#2 mkfs.f2fs -f -O casefold -C utf8 /dev/vda fsck.f2fs --nolinear-lookup=1 /dev/vda mount /dev/vda /mnt/f2fs cat /sys/fs/f2fs/vda/encoding_flags 2 Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Stable-dep-of: e462fc48ceb8 ("f2fs: maintain one time GC mode is enabled during whole zoned GC cycle") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

f2fs: add carve_out sysfs node

2025-12-18T12:55:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit d7b549def0eb42a950eebd3bd5343f5c8088c305 ] For several zoned storage devices, vendors will provide extra space which was used for device level GC than specs and F2FS can use this space for filesystem level GC. To do that, we can reserve the space using reserved_blocks. However, it is not enough, since this extra space should not be shown to users. So, with this new sysfs node, we can hide the space by substracting reserved_blocks from total bytes. Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Stable-dep-of: e462fc48ceb8 ("f2fs: maintain one time GC mode is enabled during whole zoned GC cycle") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

f2fs: add a sysfs entry to reclaim POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE pages

2025-12-18T12:55:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit a907f3a68ee26ba493a08a958809208d17f3347e ] 1. fadvise(fd1, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, {0,3}); 2. fadvise(fd2, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, {1,2}); 3. fadvise(fd3, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, {3,1}); 4. echo 1024 > /sys/fs/f2fs/tuning/reclaim_caches_kb This gives a way to reclaim file-backed pages by iterating all f2fs mounts until reclaiming 1MB page cache ranges, registered by #1, #2, and #3. 5. cat /sys/fs/f2fs/tuning/reclaim_caches_kb -> gives total number of registered file ranges. Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim Stable-dep-of: e462fc48ceb8 ("f2fs: maintain one time GC mode is enabled during whole zoned GC cycle") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation

2025-09-11T15:21:46+00:00

Commit 556c1ad666ad90c50ec8fccb930dd5046cfbecfb upstream. Enable the previously added mitigation for VMscape. Add the cmdline vmscape={off|ibpb|force} and sysfs reporting. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation

2025-07-10T14:05:14+00:00

Commit d8010d4ba43e9f790925375a7de100604a5e2dba upstream. Add the required features detection glue to bugs.c et all in order to support the TSA mitigation. Co-developed-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

scsi: ufs: core: Fix spelling of a sysfs attribute name

2025-07-10T14:04:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit 021f243627ead17eb6500170256d3d9be787dad8 ] Change "resourse" into "resource" in the name of a sysfs attribute. Fixes: d829fc8a1058 ("scsi: ufs: sysfs: unit descriptor") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624181658.336035-1-bvanassche@acm.org Reviewed-by: Avri Altman Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation

2025-05-18T06:24:59+00:00

commit f4818881c47fd91fcb6d62373c57c7844e3de1c0 upstream. Indirect Target Selection (ITS) is a bug in some pre-ADL Intel CPUs with eIBRS. It affects prediction of indirect branch and RETs in the lower half of cacheline. Due to ITS such branches may get wrongly predicted to a target of (direct or indirect) branch that is located in the upper half of the cacheline. Scope of impact =============== Guest/host isolation -------------------- When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches in the VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to branches in the guest. Intra-mode ---------- cBPF or other native gadgets can be used for intra-mode training and disclosure using ITS. User/kernel isolation --------------------- When eIBRS is enabled user/kernel isolation is not impacted. Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) ----------------------------------------- After an IBPB, indirect branches may be predicted with targets corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB. This is mitigated by a microcode update. Add cmdline parameter indirect_target_selection=off|on|force to control the mitigation to relocate the affected branches to an ITS-safe thunk i.e. located in the upper half of cacheline. Also add the sysfs reporting. When retpoline mitigation is deployed, ITS safe-thunks are not needed, because retpoline sequence is already ITS-safe. Similarly, when call depth tracking (CDT) mitigation is deployed (retbleed=stuff), ITS safe return thunk is not used, as CDT prevents RSB-underflow. To not overcomplicate things, ITS mitigation is not supported with spectre-v2 lfence;jmp mitigation. Moreover, it is less practical to deploy lfence;jmp mitigation on ITS affected parts anyways. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman