kernel/linux.git/Documentation/dev-tools, branch v6.19.11

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-13T08:55:12+00:00

Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton: "There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the individual changelogs for details" [ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ] * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left() ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl() ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache() ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator

checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check

2025-12-11T00:07:42+00:00

Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when the pointer goes out of scope. add check in checkpatch to detect such issues. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ally Heev Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/ Acked-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: David Hunter Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Menon, Nishanth Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-06T22:01:20+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter: This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition. As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot. Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work. - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ...

Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest

2025-12-03T23:50:11+00:00

Pull kunit updates from Shuah Khan: - Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig - Add description of kunit.enable parameter to documentation * tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: kunit: Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter

checkpatch: document new check PLACEHOLDER_USE

2025-11-12T00:48:29+00:00

Adds documentation for the new check PLACEHOLDER_USE in checkpatch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-3-work@onurozkan.dev Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter

2025-10-27T17:16:09+00:00

The current KUnit documentation does not mention the kunit.enable kernel parameter, making it unclear how to troubleshoot cases where KUnit tests do not run as expected. Add a note explaining kunit.enable parmaeter. Disabling this parameter prevents all KUnit tests from running even if CONFIG_KUNIT is enabled. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251021030605.41610-1-ishikawa.yuy-00@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Yuya Ishikawa Reviewed-by: David Gow Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan

docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style

2025-10-21T20:36:33+00:00

Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no longer checks for this. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>

docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style

2025-10-21T20:36:33+00:00

Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are not aligned properly. Correct that. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org>

Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2025-10-04T00:16:13+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the delaytop monitoring tool - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of EFI and KHO - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits) Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect() checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name() kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO) ...