kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops, branch v7.0-rc7

platform/x86: uniwill-laptop: Rename FN lock and super key lock attrs

2026-02-23T16:06:38+00:00

It turns out that both sysfs attributes actually directly control the FN lock status/super key enable status, rather than the triggering of the associated events. This behavior was first observed on a Tuxedo notebook and was belived to be a hardware quirk. However, it seems that i simply misunderstood the manual of the OEM software for Intel NUC devices. The correct behavior is: - fn_lock_toggle_enable enables/disables FN lock mode - super_key_toggle_enable enables/disables the super key Rename both sysfs attributes to avoid confusing users. Fixes: d050479693bb ("platform/x86: Add Uniwill laptop driver") Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218005101.73680-2-W_Armin@gmx.de Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen

Merge tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-02-15T18:47:59+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of small, late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: docs: toshiba_haps: fix grammar error in SSD warning Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst Docs/core-api: fix typos in rbtree.rst docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst docs: process: maintainer-pgp-guide: update kernel.org docs link docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes

docs: toshiba_haps: fix grammar error in SSD warning

2026-02-14T17:17:20+00:00

Replace "make this driver to fail" with "cause this driver to fail" to correct the grammar. Signed-off-by: Berke Antar Message-ID: Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86

2026-02-13T23:39:15+00:00

Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen: "Highlights: - amd/pmf: - Avoid overwriting BIOS input values when events occur rapidly - Fix PMF driver issues related to S4 (in part on crypto/ccp side) - Add NPU metrics API (for accel side consumers) - Allow disabling Smart PC function through a module parameter - asus-wmi & HID/asus: - Unification of backlight control (replaces quirks) - Support multiple interfaces for controlling keyboard/RGB brightness - Simplify init sequence - hp-wmi: - Add manual fan control for Victus S models - Add fan mode keep-alive - Fix platform profile values for Omen 16-wf1xxx - Add EC offset to get the thermal profile - intel/pmc: Show substate residencies also for non-primary PMCs - intel/ISST: - Store and restore data for all domains - Write interface improvements - lenovo-wmi: - Support multiple Capability Data - Add HWMON reporting and tuning support - mellanox/mlx-platform: Add HI173 & HI174 support - surface/aggregator_registry: Add Surface Pro 11 (QCOM) - thinkpad_acpi: Add support for HW damage detection capability - uniwill: Implement cTGP setting - wmi: - Introduce marshalling support - Convert a few drivers to use the new buffer-based WMI API - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Allow read operations for non-root - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (68 commits) platform/x86: lenovo-wmi-{capdata,other}: Fix HWMON channel visibility platform/x86: hp-wmi: Add EC offsets to read Victus S thermal profile platform: mellanox: mlx-platform: Add support DGX flavor of next-generation 800GB/s ethernet switch. platform: mellanox: mlx-platform: Add support for new Nvidia DGX system based on class VMOD0010 HID: asus: add support for the asus-wmi brightness handler platform/x86: asus-wmi: add keyboard brightness event handler platform/x86: asus-wmi: remove unused keyboard backlight quirk HID: asus: listen to the asus-wmi brightness device instead of creating one platform/x86: asus-wmi: Add support for multiple kbd led handlers HID: asus: early return for ROG devices HID: asus: move vendor initialization to probe HID: asus: fortify keyboard handshake HID: asus: use same report_id in response HID: asus: initialize additional endpoints only for certain devices HID: asus: simplify RGB init sequence platform/wmi: string-kunit: Add missing oversized string test case platform/x86/amd/pmf: Added a module parameter to disable the Smart PC function platform/x86/uniwill: Implement cTGP setting platform/x86: uniwill-laptop: Introduce device descriptor system platform/x86/amd: Use scope-based cleanup for wbrf_record() ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T19:32:37+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...

Merge branch 'fixes' of into for-next

2026-01-26T13:42:44+00:00

mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode

2026-01-21T03:24:47+00:00

Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to spin. Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices. Reclaim has also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design. The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore. The footprint of the feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm, block, filesystems. Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years. Let's sunset it. Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add sysfs to display details of damaged device.

2026-01-15T09:10:31+00:00

Add new sysfs interface to identify the impacted component with location of device. Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson Signed-off-by: Nitin Joshi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106174519.6402-2-nitjoshi@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen

platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add support to detect hardware damage detection capability.

2026-01-15T09:07:35+00:00

Thinkpads are adding the ability to detect and report hardware damage status. Add new sysfs interface to identify whether hardware damage is detected or not. Initial support is available for the USB-C replaceable connector. Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson Signed-off-by: Nitin Joshi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106174519.6402-1-nitjoshi@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen

docs: alienware-wmi: fix typo

2026-01-05T14:29:00+00:00

Fix a typo in the manual fan control description ("aproximate" -> "approximate"). Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya Reviewed-by: Kurt Borja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230213431.656106-1-weibu@redadmin.org Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen