kernel/linux.git/Documentation, branch v6.1.175

bonding: add support for per-port LACP actor priority

2026-06-01T15:39:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6b6dc81ee7e8ca87c71a533e1d69cf96a4f1e986 ] Introduce a new netlink attribute 'actor_port_prio' to allow setting the LACP actor port priority on a per-slave basis. This extends the existing bonding infrastructure to support more granular control over LACP negotiations. The priority value is embedded in LACPDU packets and will be used by subsequent patches to influence aggregator selection policies. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902064501.360822-2-liuhangbin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: c4f050ce06c5 ("bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: bonding: add broadcast_neighbor option for 802.3ad

2026-06-01T15:39:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit ce7a381697cb3958ffe0b45e5028ac69444e9288 ] Stacking technology is a type of technology used to expand ports on Ethernet switches. It is widely used as a common access method in large-scale Internet data center architectures. Years of practice have proved that stacking technology has advantages and disadvantages in high-reliability network architecture scenarios. For instance, in stacking networking arch, conventional switch system upgrades require multiple stacked devices to restart at the same time. Therefore, it is inevitable that the business will be interrupted for a while. It is for this reason that "no-stacking" in data centers has become a trend. Additionally, when the stacking link connecting the switches fails or is abnormal, the stack will split. Although it is not common, it still happens in actual operation. The problem is that after the split, it is equivalent to two switches with the same configuration appearing in the network, causing network configuration conflicts and ultimately interrupting the services carried by the stacking system. To improve network stability, "non-stacking" solutions have been increasingly adopted, particularly by public cloud providers and tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Didi. "non-stacking" is a method of mimicing switch stacking that convinces a LACP peer, bonding in this case, connected to a set of "non-stacked" switches that all of its ports are connected to a single switch (i.e., LACP aggregator), as if those switches were stacked. This enables the LACP peer's ports to aggregate together, and requires (a) special switch configuration, described in the linked article, and (b) modifications to the bonding 802.3ad (LACP) mode to send all ARP/ND packets across all ports of the active aggregator. Note that, with multiple aggregators, the current broadcast mode logic will send only packets to the selected aggregator(s). +-----------+ +-----------+ | switch1 | | switch2 | +-----------+ +-----------+ ^ ^ | | +-----------------+ | bond4 lacp | +-----------------+ | | | NIC1 | NIC2 +-----------------+ | server | +-----------------+ - https://www.ruijie.com/fr-fr/support/tech-gallery/de-stack-data-center-network-architecture/ Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang Signed-off-by: Zengbing Tu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/84d0a044514157bb856a10b6d03a1028c4883561.1751031306.git.tonghao@bamaicloud.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Stable-dep-of: c4f050ce06c5 ("bonding: 3ad: implement proper RCU rules for port->aggregator") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Documentation: fix a hugetlbfs reservation statement

2026-06-01T15:39:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7a197d346a44384a1a858a98ef03766840e561d4 ] Documentation/mm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst has if (resv_needed <= (resv_huge_pages - free_huge_pages)) resv_huge_pages += resv_needed; which describes this code in gather_surplus_pages() needed = (h->resv_huge_pages + delta) - h->free_huge_pages; if (needed <= 0) { h->resv_huge_pages += delta; return 0; } which means if there are enough free hugepages to account for the new reservation, simply update the global reservation count without further action. But the description is backwards, it should be if (resv_needed <= (free_huge_pages - resv_huge_pages)) instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260302201015.1824798-1-jane.chu@oracle.com Fixes: 70bc0dc578b3 ("Documentation: vm, add hugetlbfs reservation overview") Signed-off-by: Jane Chu Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: warn commit_inputs vs param updates race

2026-06-01T15:38:37+00:00

commit 0beba407d4585a15b0dc09f2064b5b3ddcb0e857 upstream. Patch series "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race". Writing 'Y' to the commit_inputs parameter of DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT, and writing other parameters before the commit_inputs request is completely processed can cause race conditions. While the consequence can be bad, the documentation is not clearly describing that. Add clear warnings. The issue was discovered [1,2] by sashiko. This patch (of 2): DAMON_RECLAIM handles commit_inputs request inside kdamond thread, reading the module parameters. If the user updates the module parameters while the kdamond thread is reading those, races can happen. To avoid this, the commit_inputs parameter shows whether it is still in the progress, assuming users wouldn't update parameters in the middle of the work. Some users might ignore that. Add a warning about the behavior. The issue was discovered in [1] by sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260329153052.46657-2-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260319161620.189392-3-objecting@objecting.org [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260319161620.189392-2-objecting@objecting.org [3] Fixes: 81a84182c343 ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document 'commit_inputs' parameter") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: # 5.19.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dt-bindings: net: Fix Tegra234 MGBE PTP clock

2026-06-01T15:38:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit fb22b1fc5bca3c0aad95388933497ceb30f1fb26 ] The PTP clock for the Tegra234 MGBE device is incorrectly named 'ptp-ref' and should be 'ptp_ref'. This is causing the following warning to be observed on Tegra234 platforms that use this device: ERR KERN tegra-mgbe 6800000.ethernet eth0: Invalid PTP clock rate WARNING KERN tegra-mgbe 6800000.ethernet eth0: PTP init failed Although this constitutes an ABI breakage in the binding for this device, PTP support has clearly never worked and so fix this now so we can correct the device-tree for this device. Note that the MGBE driver still supports the legacy 'ptp-ref' clock name and so older/existing device-trees will still work, but given that this is not the correct name, there is no point to advertise this in the binding. Fixes: 189c2e5c7669 ("dt-bindings: net: Add Tegra234 MGBE") Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401102941.17466-3-jonathanh@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

dt-bindings: gpio: fix microchip #interrupt-cells

2026-04-11T12:16:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6b5ef8c88854b343b733b574ea8754c9dab61f41 ] The GPIO controller on PolarFire SoC supports more than one type of interrupt and needs two interrupt cells. Fixes: 735806d8a68e9 ("dt-bindings: gpio: add bindings for microchip mpfs gpio") Signed-off-by: Jamie Gibbons Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326-wise-gumdrop-49217723a72a@spud Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

dt-bindings: auxdisplay: ht16k33: Use unevaluatedProperties to fix common property warning

2026-04-11T12:16:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 398c0c8bbc8f5a9d2f43863275a427a9d3720b6f ] Change additionalProperties to unevaluatedProperties because it refs to /schemas/input/matrix-keymap.yaml. Fix below CHECK_DTBS warnings: arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-victgo.dtb: keypad@70 (holtek,ht16k33): 'keypad,num-columns', 'keypad,num-rows' do not match any of the regexes: '^pinctrl-[0-9]+$' from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/auxdisplay/holtek,ht16k33.yaml# Fixes: f12b457c6b25c ("dt-bindings: auxdisplay: ht16k33: Convert to json-schema") Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) Signed-off-by: Frank Li Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

hwmon: (peci/cputemp) Fix crit_hyst returning delta instead of absolute temperature

2026-04-11T12:16:13+00:00

commit 0adc752b4f7d82af7bd14f7cad3091b3b5d702ba upstream. The hwmon sysfs ABI expects tempN_crit_hyst to report the temperature at which the critical condition clears, not the hysteresis delta from the critical limit. The peci cputemp driver currently returns tjmax - tcontrol for crit_hyst_type, which is the hysteresis margin rather than the corresponding absolute temperature. Return tcontrol directly, and update the documentation accordingly. Fixes: bf3608f338e9 ("hwmon: peci: Add cputemp driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sanman Pradhan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323002352.93417-2-sanman.pradhan@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hwmon: (adm1177) fix sysfs ABI violation and current unit conversion

2026-04-11T12:16:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit bf08749a6abb6d1959bfdc0edc32c640df407558 ] The adm1177 driver exposes the current alert threshold through hwmon_curr_max_alarm. This violates the hwmon sysfs ABI, where *_alarm attributes are read-only status flags and writable thresholds must use currN_max. The driver also stores the threshold internally in microamps, while currN_max is defined in milliamps. Convert the threshold accordingly on both the read and write paths. Widen the cached threshold and related calculations to 64 bits so that small shunt resistor values do not cause truncation or overflow. Also use 64-bit arithmetic for the mA/uA conversions, clamp writes to the range the hardware can represent, and propagate failures from adm1177_write_alert_thr() instead of silently ignoring them. Update the hwmon documentation to reflect the attribute rename and the correct units returned by the driver. Fixes: 09b08ac9e8d5 ("hwmon: (adm1177) Add ADM1177 Hot Swap Controller and Digital Power Monitor driver") Signed-off-by: Sanman Pradhan Acked-by: Nuno Sá Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260325051246.28262-1-sanman.pradhan@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

usb: core: new quirk to handle devices with zero configurations

2026-04-11T12:16:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9f6a983cfa22ac662c86e60816d3a357d4b551e9 ] Some USB devices incorrectly report bNumConfigurations as 0 in their device descriptor, which causes the USB core to reject them during enumeration. logs: usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-2: no configurations usb 1-2: can't read configurations, error -22 However, these devices actually work correctly when treated as having a single configuration. Add a new quirk USB_QUIRK_FORCE_ONE_CONFIG to handle such devices. When this quirk is set, assume the device has 1 configuration instead of failing with -EINVAL. This quirk is applied to the device with VID:PID 5131:2007 which exhibits this behavior. Signed-off-by: Jie Deng Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227084931.1527461-1-dengjie03@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin