kernel/linux.git/Documentation, branch v6.1.176

arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 CPU

2026-06-19T11:37:32+00:00

commit 1940e70a8144bf75e6df26bf6f600862ea7f7ea1 upstream. Commit fb091ff39479 ("arm64: Subscribe Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 to ARM Neoverse N2 errata") states that Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 CPU "is a Microsoft implemented CPU based on r0p0 of the ARM Neoverse N2 CPU, and therefore suffers from all the same errata.". So enable the workaround for the latest broadcast TLB invalidation bug on these parts. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon [Mark: backport to v6.1.y] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on NVIDIA Olympus CPU

2026-06-19T11:37:32+00:00

commit ec7216f92e4ebd485b1c6dc6aa3f6064b71a5768 upstream. NVIDIA Olympus cores are affected by the TLBI completion issue tracked as CVE-2025-10263. The existing ARM64_ERRATUM_4118414 handling already uses ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI to issue an additional broadcast TLBI;DSB sequence and ensure affected memory write effects are globally observed. Add MIDR_NVIDIA_OLYMPUS to the repeat-TLBI match list so the same mitigation is enabled on affected Olympus systems. Also document the NVIDIA Olympus erratum in the arm64 silicon errata table and list it in the Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Will Deacon [Mark: backport to v6.1.y] Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: errata: Mitigate TLBI errata on various Arm CPUs

2026-06-19T11:37:32+00:00

commit cfd391e74134db664feb499d43af286380b10ba8 upstream. A number of CPUs developed by Arm suffer from errata whereby a broadcast TLBI;DSB sequence may complete before the global observation of writes which are translated by an affected TLB entry. These errata ONLY affect the completion of memory accesses which have been translated by an invalidated TLB entry, and these errata DO NOT affect the actual invalidation of TLB entries. TLB entries are removed correctly. This issue has been assigned CVE ID CVE-2025-10263. To mitigate this issue, Arm recommends that software follows any affected TLBI;DSB sequence with an additional TLBI;DSB, which will ensure that all memory write effects affected by the first TLBI have been globally observed. The additional TLBI can use any operation that is broadcast to affected CPUs, and the additional DSB can use any option that is sufficient to complete the additional TLBI. The ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI workaround is sufficient to mitigate the issue. Enable this workaround for affected CPUs, and update the silicon errata documentation accordingly. Note that due to the manner in which Arm develops IP and tracks errata, some CPUs share a common erratum number. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Will Deacon [Mark: backport to v6.1.y] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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