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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A moderately busy cycle for documentation this time around:
- The most significant change is the replacement of the old
kernel-doc script (a monstrous collection of Perl regexes that
predates the Git era) with a Python reimplementation. That, too, is
a horrifying collection of regexes, but in a much cleaner and more
maintainable structure that integrates far better with the Sphinx
build system.
This change has been in linux-next for the full 6.15 cycle; the
small number of problems that turned up have been addressed,
seemingly to everybody's satisfaction. The Perl kernel-doc script
remains in tree (as scripts/kernel-doc.pl) and can be used with a
command-line option if need be. Unless some reason to keep it
around materializes, it will probably go away in 6.17.
Credit goes to Mauro Carvalho Chehab for doing all this work.
- Some RTLA documentation updates
- A handful of Chinese translations
- The usual collection of typo fixes, general updates, etc"
* tag 'docs-6.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (85 commits)
Docs: doc-guide: update sphinx.rst Sphinx version number
docs: doc-guide: clarify latest theme usage
Documentation/scheduler: Fix typo in sched-stats domain field description
scripts: kernel-doc: prevent a KeyError when checking output
docs: kerneldoc.py: simplify exception handling logic
MAINTAINERS: update linux-doc entry to cover new Python scripts
docs: align with scripts/syscall.tbl migration
Documentation: NTB: Fix typo
Documentation: ioctl-number: Update table intro
docs: conf.py: drop backward support for old Sphinx versions
Docs: driver-api/basics: add kobject_event interfaces
Docs: relay: editing cleanups
docs: fix "incase" typo in coresight/panic.rst
Fix spelling error for 'parallel'
docs: admin-guide: fix typos in reporting-issues.rst
docs: dmaengine: add explanation for DMA_ASYNC_TX capability
Documentation: leds: improve readibility of multicolor doc
docs: fix typo in firmware-related section
docs: Makefile: Inherit PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX setting as env variable
Documentation: ioctl-number: Update outdated submission info
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Both Intel and AMD CPUs support 5-level paging, which is expected to
become more widely adopted in the future. All major x86 Linux
distributions have the feature enabled.
Remove CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL and related #ifdeffery for it to make it more readable.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250516123306.3812286-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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Fix a spelling typo in fsgs.rst.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bütler <buetlera123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250426122303.15905-1-buetlera123@gmail.com>
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Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
- Quite a bit of Chinese and Spanish translation work
- Clarifying that Git commit IDs >12chars are OK
- A new nvme-multipath document
- A reorganization of the admin-guide top-level page to make it
readable
- Clarification of the role of Acked-by and maintainer discretion on
their acceptance
- Some reorganization of debugging-oriented docs
... and typo fixes, documentation updates, etc as usual
* tag 'docs-6.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (50 commits)
Documentation: Fix x86_64 UEFI outdated references to elilo
Documentation/sysctl: Add timer_migration to kernel.rst
docs/mm: Physical memory: Remove zone_t
docs: submitting-patches: clarify that signers may use their discretion on tags
docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by
docs: submitting-patches: clarify Acked-by and introduce "# Suffix"
Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: remove odd contact information
docs/zh_CN: Add sak index Chinese translation
doc: module: DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE must be defined before #includes
doc: module: Fix documented type of namespace
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Fix a reference to vga-softcursor.rst
docs/zh_CN: Add landlock index Chinese translation
Documentation: Fix typo localmodonfig -> localmodconfig
overlayfs.rst: Fix and improve grammar
docs/zh_CN: Add siphash index Chinese translation
docs/zh_CN: Add security IMA-templates Chinese translation
docs/zh_CN: Add security digsig Chinese translation
Align git commit ID abbreviation guidelines and checks
docs: process: submitting-patches: split canonical patch format section
docs/zh_CN: Add security lsm Chinese translation
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Problem: The x86_64 UEFI doc references Elilo which is an
unmaintained/orphaned bootloader project. Also, on x86_64 a bootloader
is technically not actually required since there is support for the
Linux EFI stub.
Solution: Remove the references to Elilo from the doc and refer to the
EFI stub doc page, update steps accordingly, and add more details about
creation of the EFI partition to improve clarity.
Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108113522.GA897677@lichtman.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst is causing unnecessary
confusion by being a second place where one can put x86 boot options.
Move them into the main one.
Drop removed ones like "acpi=ht", while at it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202190011.11979-1-bp@kernel.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Put cpumask_test_cpu() check in switch_mm_irqs_off() under
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, to micro-optimize the context-switching code (Rik
van Riel)
- Add missing details in virtual memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)
* tag 'x86-mm-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm/tlb: Put cpumask_test_cpu() check in switch_mm_irqs_off() under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
x86/mm/doc: Add missing details in virtual memory layout
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Improve memory layout documentation:
- Document 4kB guard hole at the end of userspace.
See TASK_SIZE_MAX definition.
- Divide the description of the non-canonical hole into two parts:
userspace and kernel sides.
- Mention the effect of LAM on the non-canonical range.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241031084946.2243440-1-kirill.shutemov%40linux.intel.com
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Provide a "nosnp" kernel command line option to prevent enabling of the RMP
and SEV-SNP features in the host/hypervisor. Not initializing the RMP
removes system overhead associated with RMP checks.
[ bp: Actually make it a HV-only cmdline option. ]
Co-developed-by: Eric Van Tassell <Eric.VanTassell@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Tassell <Eric.VanTassell@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Paluri <papaluri@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241014130948.1476946-3-papaluri@amd.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
in this pull request are:
- "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.
- "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.
- "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
functional changes - code cleanups only.
- "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
little cleanup.
- "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
simplifications and .text shrinkage.
- "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0
which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".
- "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.
- "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
independent small optimizations of page counters".
- "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.
- "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
unneeded.
- "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.
- "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
even from a userspace-only harness.
- "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
performance.
- "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.
- "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
resulting in the removal of follow_page().
- "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.
- "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,
- "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
yet.
- "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
tree library code.
- "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.
- "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
deprecated.
- "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
allocation.
- "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
code.
- "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.
- "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.
- "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.
- "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.
- "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
performance regression due to the addition of mseal().
- "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!
- "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
accessors/mutators can be removed.
- "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.
- "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
an unrelated vma tree walk.
- "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
better tested.
- "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.
- "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
Code cleanups and folio conversions.
- "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.
- "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.
- "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.
- "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
rationalization.
- "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.
- "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.
- "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.
- "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.
- "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
implementations to better respect guard areas.
- "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.
- "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
pfnmap support.
- "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
CXL memory.
- "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
of poisoned memry.
- "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
than into single-page folios"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
zram: free secondary algorithms names
uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page
uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
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Correct spelling mistakes in the documentation to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Amit Vadhavana <av2082000@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240817072724.6861-1-av2082000@gmail.com
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NUMA emulation can be now enabled on arm64 and riscv in addition to x86.
Move description of numa=fake parameters from x86 documentation of
admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807064110.1003856-27-rppt@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> [arm64 + CXL via QEMU]
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Briefly introduce FRED, and its advantages compared to IDT.
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-5-xin3.li@intel.com
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Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning
up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more
closely match the structure of the source directories it describes.
All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated.
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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