kernel/linux.git/arch/alpha, branch v6.19.11

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-03-12T11:09:39+00:00

commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream. Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390 and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader failing to load the compressed kernel [1]. Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition. Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has never been necessary in those uses. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Reported-by: Ed W Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction

2026-03-04T12:19:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7 ] Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems. Reviewed-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Tested-by: Matoro Mahri Tested-by: Michael Cree Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260102173603.18247-2-linmag7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'alpha-for-v6.19-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lindholm/alpha

2025-12-10T23:01:52+00:00

Pull alpha updates from Magnus Lindholm: "Two small uapi fixes. One patch hardcodes TC* ioctl values that previously depended on the deprecated termio struct, avoiding build issues with newer glibc versions. The other patch switches uapi headers to use the compiler-defined __ASSEMBLER__ macro for better consistency between kernel and userspace. - don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in the alpha headers" * tag 'alpha-for-v6.19-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lindholm/alpha: alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants alpha: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in the alpha headers

alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants

2025-12-08T22:10:54+00:00

Similar in nature to ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251. glibc-2.42 drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead. This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like: ./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio' Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769 Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600 Signed-off-by: Sam James Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ebd3451908785cad53b50ca6bc46cfe9d6bc03c.1764922497.git.sam@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm

alpha: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in the alpha headers

2025-12-08T22:10:30+00:00

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers. This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement). Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Matt Turner Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251121100044.282684-2-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm

Merge tag 'dma-mapping-6.19-2025-12-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux

2025-12-06T17:25:05+00:00

Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski: - More DMA mapping API refactoring to physical addresses as the primary interface instead of page+offset parameters. This time dma_map_ops callbacks are converted to physical addresses, what in turn results also in some simplification of architecture specific code (Leon Romanovsky and Jason Gunthorpe) - Clarify that dma_map_benchmark is not a kernel self-test, but standalone tool (Qinxin Xia) * tag 'dma-mapping-6.19-2025-12-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: dma-mapping: remove unused map_page callback xen: swiotlb: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address x86: Use physical address for DMA mapping sparc: Use physical address DMA mapping powerpc: Convert to physical address DMA mapping parisc: Convert DMA map_page to map_phys interface MIPS/jazzdma: Provide physical address directly alpha: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address dma-mapping: remove unused mapping resource callbacks xen: swiotlb: Switch to physical address mapping callbacks ARM: dma-mapping: Switch to physical address mapping callbacks ARM: dma-mapping: Reduce struct page exposure in arch_sync_dma*() dma-mapping: convert dummy ops to physical address mapping dma-mapping: prepare dma_map_ops to conversion to physical address tools/dma: move dma_map_benchmark from selftests to tools/dma

arch: hookup listns() system call

2025-11-03T16:41:18+00:00

Add the listns() system call to all architectures. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-20-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

alpha: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address

2025-10-29T09:27:30+00:00

Alpha doesn't need struct *page and can perform mapping based on physical addresses. So convert it to implement new .map_phys callback. As part of this change, remove useless BUG_ON() as DMA mapping layer ensures that right direction is provided. Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251015-remove-map-page-v5-7-3bbfe3a25cdf@kernel.org

Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2025-10-03T18:37:50+00:00

Pull misc non-vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted dead code removal around asm/pgtable.h" * tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: alpha: unobfuscate _PAGE_P() definition kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR alpha: get rid of the remnants of BAD_PAGE and friends SET_PAGE_DIR() users had been gone since 2.3.12pre1 PAGE_PTR() had been last used outside of arch/* in 1.1.94 csky: remove BS check for FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY

Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - NVMe pull request via Keith: - FC target fixes (Daniel) - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris) - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit) - Target lockdep assertions (Max) - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair) - Suspend quirk (Georg) - MD pull request via Yu: - Add support for a lockless bitmap. A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following writes. By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no need to do a full disk resync/recovery. - Switch ->getgeo() and ->bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather than struct block_device. - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes. The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string` to support the same use as the removed logic. - floppy arch cleanups - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket setups. - A few s390 dasd block fixes - Fix a few issues around atomic writes - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment constraints. We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now only the request as a whole needs to. - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata payloads - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device - Various fixes and cleanups * tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits) s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod() nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io() ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch() ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf() ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req() ...