kernel/linux.git/lib/Kconfig.debug, branch v7.0-rc7

Merge tag 'core-debugobjects-2026-03-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-03-01T21:32:32+00:00

Pull debugobjects fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single fix for debugobjects. The deferred page initialization prevents debug objects from allocating slab pages until the initialization is complete. That causes depletion of the pool and disabling of debugobjects. The reason is that debugobjects uses __GFP_HIGH for allocations as it might be invoked from arbitrary contexts. When PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled there is no way to know whether the context is safe to set __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. This worked until v6.18. Since then allocations w/o a reclaim flag cause new_slab() to end up in alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(), which returns early when deferred page initialization has not yet completed. Work around that when PREEMPT_COUNT is enabled as the preempt counter allows debugobjects to add __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to the GFP flags when the context is preemtible. When PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled the context is unknown and the reclaim bit can't be set because the caller might hold locks which might deadlock in the allocator. That makes debugobjects depend on PREEMPT_COUNT || !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT, which limits the coverage slightly, but keeps it functional for most cases" * tag 'core-debugobjects-2026-03-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: debugobject: Make it work with deferred page initialization - again

Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-03-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-03-01T19:00:43+00:00

Pull locking fix from Ingo Molnar: "Now that LLVM 22 has been released officially, require a release version to use the new CONFIG_WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS feature. In particular this avoids the widely used Android clang 22.0.1 pre-release build which is known to be broken for this usecase" * tag 'locking-urgent-2026-03-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: lib/Kconfig.debug: Require a release version of LLVM 22 for context analysis

lib/Kconfig.debug: Require a release version of LLVM 22 for context analysis

2026-02-25T14:36:02+00:00

Using a prerelease version as a minimum supported version for CONFIG_WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS was reasonable to do while LLVM 22 was the development version so that people could immediately build from main and start testing and validating this in their own code. However, it can be problematic when using prerelease versions of LLVM 22, such as Android clang 22.0.1 (the current android mainline compiler) or when bisecting LLVM between llvmorg-22-init and llvmorg-23-init, to build the kernel, as all compiler fixes for the context analysis may not be present, potentially resulting in warnings that can easily turn into errors. Now that LLVM 22 is released as 22.1.0, upgrade the check to require at least this version to ensure that a user's toolchain actually has all the changes needed for a smooth experience with context analysis. Fixes: 3269701cb256 ("compiler-context-analysis: Add infrastructure for Context Analysis with Clang") Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Marco Elver Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224-bump-clang-ver-context-analysis-v1-1-16cc7a90a040@kernel.org

Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option

2026-02-23T19:18:48+00:00

This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM, and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM. It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option. However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all of them isn't actually helping anything. And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go wrong. I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness) where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0 and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read). The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway. See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option. And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than this "just print it all" model. Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness") Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...

Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-02-12T03:31:52+00:00

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path. This generates better and faster code with very small or no text size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than the actual inlined helper. - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete, also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace basis. - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer. Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage by up to ~30%. - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without the HBH hint. - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is resolved out of a different interface than the one specified, aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior. - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing a single global rate on the interface. - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that are safer in crash scenarios. - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information, saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use. - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions. - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure. - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line. - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence. - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks across different network namespaces. - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented optimizations. - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes back online. Driver API: - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a DPLL device via netlink. - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing media ports over a single MAC. - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties, to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential signaling. - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks. Device drivers: - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver. - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet controller. - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver. - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl(). - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path. - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt, bng): - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram and NVRAM defragmentation - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the used H/W resources - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO, leading to 12% RX tput improvement - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new layouts - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support - Meta (fbnic): - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors - Ethernet virtual: - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Synopsys (stmmac): - some code refactoring and cleanups - RealTek (r8169): - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP) - add dash and LTR support - Airoha: - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support - Freescale (fec): - add XDP zero-copy support - Thunderbolt: - add get link setting support to allow bonding - Renesas: - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear: - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration - add support for Intel GSW150 - Motorcomm (yt921x): - add DCB/QoS support - TI: - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev framework - Ethernet PHYs: - Realtek: - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema - CAN: - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN metadata access more robust - CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: - add support for FD-only mode - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling - WiFi: - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211 - WiFi drivers: - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy devices and and pave the way for future device support in the same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k) - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset - Intel: - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn - RealTek (rtw89): - preparations for RTL8922DE support - Bluetooth: - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature" * tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits) bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect() ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update() ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header() ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup() ...

Merge tag 'wq-for-6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2026-02-11T21:13:32+00:00

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - Rework the rescuer to process work items one-by-one instead of slurping all pending work items in a single pass. As there is only one rescuer per workqueue, a single long-blocking work item could cause high latency for all tasks queued behind it, even after memory pressure is relieved and regular kworkers become available to service them. - Add CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_WQ_STALL_PANIC build-time option and workqueue.panic_on_stall_time parameter for time-based stall panic, giving systems more control over workqueue stall handling. - Replace BUG_ON() with panic() in the stall panic path for clearer intent and more informative output. * tag 'wq-for-6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: replace BUG_ON with panic in panic_on_wq_watchdog workqueue: add time-based panic for stalls workqueue: add CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_WQ_STALL_PANIC option workqueue: Process extra works in rescuer on memory pressure workqueue: Process rescuer work items one-by-one using a cursor workqueue: Make send_mayday() take a PWQ argument directly

printk: Add execution context (task name/CPU) to printk_info

2026-02-11T03:51:56+00:00

Extend struct printk_info to include the task name, pid, and CPU number where printk messages originate. This information is captured at vprintk_store() time and propagated through printk_message to nbcon_write_context, making it available to nbcon console drivers. This is useful for consoles like netconsole that want to include execution context in their output, allowing correlation of messages with specific tasks and CPUs regardless of where the console driver actually runs. The feature is controlled by CONFIG_PRINTK_EXECUTION_CTX, which is automatically selected by CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC. When disabled, the helper functions compile to no-ops with no overhead. Suggested-by: John Ogness Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: John Ogness Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206-nbcon-v7-1-62bda69b1b41@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'irq-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-02-10T21:39:37+00:00

Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Updates for the interrupt core subsystem: - Remove the interrupt timing infrastructure This was added seven years ago to be used for power management purposes, but that integration never happened. - Clean up the remaining setup_percpu_irq() users The memory allocator is available when interrupts can be requested so there is not need for static irq_action. Move the remaining users to request_percpu_irq() and delete the historical cruft. - Warn when interrupt flag inconsistencies are detected in request*_irq(). Inconsistent flags can lead to hard to diagnose malfunction. The fallout of this new warning has been addressed in next and the fixes are coming in via the maintainer trees and the tip irq/cleanup pull requests. - Invoke affinity notifier when CPU hotplug breaks affinity Otherwise the code using the notifier misses the affinity change and operates on stale information. - The usual cleanups and improvements" * tag 'irq-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq/proc: Replace snprintf with strscpy in register_handler_proc genirq/cpuhotplug: Notify about affinity changes breaking the affinity mask genirq: Move clear of kstat_irqs to free_desc() genirq: Warn about using IRQF_ONESHOT without a threaded handler irqdomain: Fix up const problem in irq_domain_set_name() genirq: Remove setup_percpu_irq() clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Move GIC timer to request_percpu_irq() MIPS: Move IP27 timer to request_percpu_irq() MIPS: Move IP30 timer to request_percpu_irq() genirq: Remove __request_percpu_irq() helper genirq: Remove IRQ timing tracking infrastructure

Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-02-10T20:28:44+00:00

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lock debugging: - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features (Marco Elver) We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code. Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited in distribution, admittedly) Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives. ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back, if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. ) Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng) - Add support for Atomic and replace most Rust native AtomicBool usages with Atomic - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for helper LTO - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function calls WW mutexes: - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz) Misc fixes and cleanups: - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd Bergmann) - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra) - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap) - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir Duberstein)" * tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits) locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers tomoyo: Use scoped init guard crypto: Use scoped init guard kcov: Use scoped init guard compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers ...