- The beginning of an EEVDF scheduler document
- More Chinese translations
- A rethrashing of our bisection documentation
...plus the usual array of smaller fixes, and more than the usual number of
typo fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"Another relatively mundane cycle for docs:
- The beginning of an EEVDF scheduler document
- More Chinese translations
- A rethrashing of our bisection documentation
...plus the usual array of smaller fixes, and more than the usual
number of typo fixes"
* tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (48 commits)
Remove duplicate "and" in 'Linux NVMe docs.
docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes
docs:filesystem: fix mispelled words on autofs page
docs:mm: fixed spelling and grammar mistakes on vmalloc kernel stack page
Documentation: PCI: fix typo in pci.rst
docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
docs/process: fix typos
docs:mm: fix spelling mistakes in heterogeneous memory management page
accel/qaic: Fix a typo
docs/zh_CN: update the translation of security-bugs
docs: block: Fix grammar and spelling mistakes in bfq-iosched.rst
Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
Documentation/gpu: Fix typo in Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst
scripts: sphinx-pre-install: remove unnecessary double check for $cur_version
Loongarch: KVM: Add KVM hypercalls documentation for LoongArch
Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted
docs: scheduler: completion: Update member of struct completion
docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Suppress extra spaces in CJK literal blocks
docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4
docs: update dev-tools/kcsan.rst url about KTSAN
...
Fix typos in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer <algonell@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240907122534.15998-1-algonell@gmail.com>
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Merge tag 'v6.11-rc6' into docs-mw
This is done primarily to get a docs build fix merged via another tree so
that "make htmldocs" stops failing.
b4 is now widely used and is quite helpful for a lot of the things that
submitting-patches covers, let's advertise it to submitters to try to make
their lives easier and reduce the number of procedural issues maintainers
see.
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905-documentation-b4-advert-v2-1-24d686ba4117@kernel.org
Document what was discussed multiple times on list and various
virtual / in-person conversations. guard() being okay in functions
<= 20 LoC is a bit of my own invention. If the function is trivial
it should be fine, but feel free to disagree :)
We'll obviously revisit this guidance as time passes and we and other
subsystems get more experience.
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240830171443.3532077-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
As we discussed in the room at netdevconf earlier this week,
drop the requirement for special comment style for netdev.
For checkpatch, the general check accepts both right now, so
simply drop the special request there as well.
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Over the past years there have been many "misunderstandings" and
"confusion" as to who is, and is not, allowed early access to the
changes created by the members of the embargoed hardware issue teams
working on a specific problem.
The current process, while it does work, is "difficult" for many
companies to understand and agree with. Because of this, there has been
numerous attempts by many companies to work around the process by lies,
subterfuge, and other side channels sometimes involving unsuspecting
lawyers. Cut all of that out, and put the responsibility of
distributing code on the silicon vendor affected, as they already have
legal agreements in place that cover this type of distribution. When
this distribution happens, the developers involved MUST be notified of
this happening, to be kept aware of the situation at all times.
The wording here has been hashed out by many different companies and
lawyers involved in the process, as well as community members and
everyone now agrees that the proposed change here should work better
than what is currently happening.
This change has been approved by a review from a large number of
different open source legal members, representing the companies involved
in this process.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024073035-bagel-vertigo-e0dd@gregkh
Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The embargoed-hardware-issues.rst file needed a bunch of minor grammar,
punctuation, and syntax cleanups based on feedback we have gotten over
the past few years. The main change here is the term "silicon" being
used over "hardware" to differentiate between companies that make a chip
(i.e. a CPU) and those that take the chip and put it into their system.
No process changes are made here at all, only clarification for the way
the current process works.
All of these changes have been approved by a review from a large number
of different open source legal members, representing the companies
involved in this process.
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024073032-outsource-sniff-e8ea@gregkh
Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The highlight is the establishment of a minimum version for the Rust
toolchain, including 'rustc' (and bundled tools) and 'bindgen'.
The initial minimum will be the pinned version we currently have, i.e.
we are just widening the allowed versions. That covers 3 stable Rust
releases: 1.78.0, 1.79.0, 1.80.0 (getting released tomorrow), plus beta,
plus nightly.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions
that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch
Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux,
Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and
openSUSE Slowroll and Tumbleweed.
In addition, the kernel is now being built-tested by Rust's pre-merge
CI. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it
passes. Similarly, the bindgen tool has agreed to build the kernel in
their CI too.
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we
will need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust
compiler versions should generally work.
In addition, the Rust project has proposed getting the kernel into
stable Rust (at least solving the main blockers) as one of its three
flagship goals for 2024H2 [1].
I would like to thank Niko, Sid, Emilio et al. for their help promoting
the collaboration between Rust and the kernel.
[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/index.html#flagship-goals
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Support several Rust toolchain versions.
- Support several bindgen versions.
- Remove 'cargo' requirement and simplify 'rusttest', thanks to 'alloc'
having been dropped last cycle.
- Provide proper error reporting for the 'rust-analyzer' target.
'kernel' crate:
- Add 'uaccess' module with a safe userspace pointers abstraction.
- Add 'page' module with a 'struct page' abstraction.
- Support more complex generics in workqueue's 'impl_has_work!' macro.
'macros' crate:
- Add 'firmware' field support to the 'module!' macro.
- Improve 'module!' macro documentation.
Documentation:
- Provide instructions on what packages should be installed to build
the kernel in some popular Linux distributions.
- Introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchains.
- Explain '#[no_std]'.
And a few other small bits.
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Merge tag 'rust-6.11' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux
Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"The highlight is the establishment of a minimum version for the Rust
toolchain, including 'rustc' (and bundled tools) and 'bindgen'.
The initial minimum will be the pinned version we currently have, i.e.
we are just widening the allowed versions. That covers three stable
Rust releases: 1.78.0, 1.79.0, 1.80.0 (getting released tomorrow),
plus beta, plus nightly.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions
that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch
Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux,
Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and
openSUSE Slowroll and Tumbleweed.
In addition, the kernel is now being built-tested by Rust's pre-merge
CI. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it
passes. Similarly, the bindgen tool has agreed to build the kernel in
their CI too.
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will
need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust
compiler versions should generally work.
In addition, the Rust project has proposed getting the kernel into
stable Rust (at least solving the main blockers) as one of its three
flagship goals for 2024H2 [1].
I would like to thank Niko, Sid, Emilio et al. for their help
promoting the collaboration between Rust and the kernel.
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Support several Rust toolchain versions.
- Support several bindgen versions.
- Remove 'cargo' requirement and simplify 'rusttest', thanks to
'alloc' having been dropped last cycle.
- Provide proper error reporting for the 'rust-analyzer' target.
'kernel' crate:
- Add 'uaccess' module with a safe userspace pointers abstraction.
- Add 'page' module with a 'struct page' abstraction.
- Support more complex generics in workqueue's 'impl_has_work!'
macro.
'macros' crate:
- Add 'firmware' field support to the 'module!' macro.
- Improve 'module!' macro documentation.
Documentation:
- Provide instructions on what packages should be installed to build
the kernel in some popular Linux distributions.
- Introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchains.
- Explain '#[no_std]'.
And a few other small bits"
Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/index.html#flagship-goals [1]
* tag 'rust-6.11' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (26 commits)
docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributions
rust: warn about `bindgen` versions 0.66.0 and 0.66.1
rust: start supporting several `bindgen` versions
rust: work around `bindgen` 0.69.0 issue
rust: avoid assuming a particular `bindgen` build
rust: start supporting several compiler versions
rust: simplify Clippy warning flags set
rust: relax most deny-level lints to warnings
rust: allow `dead_code` for never constructed bindings
rust: init: simplify from `map_err` to `inspect_err`
rust: macros: indent list item in `paste!`'s docs
rust: add abstraction for `struct page`
rust: uaccess: add typed accessors for userspace pointers
uaccess: always export _copy_[from|to]_user with CONFIG_RUST
rust: uaccess: add userspace pointers
kbuild: rust-analyzer: improve comment documentation
kbuild: rust-analyzer: better error handling
docs: rust: no_std is used
rust: alloc: add __GFP_HIGHMEM flag
rust: alloc: fix typo in docs for GFP_NOWAIT
...
- Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig
- Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script
- Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
and CONFIG_KALLSYMS
- Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by default
- Fix warnings in RPM package builds
- Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate base
DTB and overlays
- Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig
- Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig
- Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
package builds
- Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
environment variable
- Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0
- Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms
- Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/
- Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
Arch Linux
- Clean up Kconfig
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig
- Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script
- Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
- Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
default
- Fix warnings in RPM package builds
- Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
base DTB and overlays
- Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig
- Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig
- Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
package builds
- Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
environment variable
- Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0
- Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms
- Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/
- Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
Arch Linux
- Clean up Kconfig
* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
kbuild: Abort make on install failures
kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
...
around, mostly more of the usual:
- More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations
- A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
commits have touched an (English) document since a given translation was
last updated.
- A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and off-list
discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level, but I concluded
they were close enough to accept.
- Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters that have
not been recognized for ... a long time.
...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
around, mostly more of the usual:
- More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations
- A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
commits have touched an (English) document since a given
translation was last updated.
- A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
but I concluded they were close enough to accept.
- Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
that have not been recognized for ... a long time.
...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"
* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
...
RHEL/CentOS 7, popular distributions that install GNU Make 3.82, reached
EOM/EOL on June 30, 2024. While you may get extended support, it is a
good time to raise the minimum GNU Make version.
The new requirement, GNU Make 4.0, was released in October, 2013.
I did not touch the Makefiles under tools/ because I do not know the
requirements for building tools. I do not find any GNU Make version
checks under tools/.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Now that we are starting to support several Rust compiler and `bindgen`
versions, there is a good chance some Linux distributions work out of
the box.
Thus, provide some instructions on how to set the toolchain up for a
few major Linux distributions. This simplifies the setup users need to
build the kernel.
In addition, add an introduction to the document so that it is easier
to understand its structure and move the LLVM+Rust kernel.org toolchains
paragraph there (removing "depending on the Linux version"). We may want
to reorganize the document or split it in the future, but I wanted to
focus this commit on the new information added about each particular
distribution.
Finally, remove the `rustup`'s components mention in `changes.rst` since
users do not need it if they install the toolchain via the distributions
(and anyway it was too detailed for that main document).
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
Cc: Fabian Grünbichler <debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email>
Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
Cc: Anna (navi) Figueiredo Gomes <navi@vlhl.dev>
Cc: Matoro Mahri <matoro_gentoo@matoro.tk>
Cc: Ryan Scheel <ryan.havvy@gmail.com>
Cc: figsoda <figsoda@pm.me>
Cc: Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io>
Cc: Theodore Ni <43ngvg@masqt.com>
Cc: Winter <nixos@winter.cafe>
Cc: William Brown <wbrown@suse.de>
Cc: Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang@suse.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Cc: Zixing Liu <zixing.liu@canonical.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-14-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus
establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since
there may be important features coming into the language that improve
how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make
sense to support conditionally.
We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over
time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but
instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that
provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux,
Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo
Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE
Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series.
In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge
CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes
-- thanks to the Rust project for that!
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will
need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler
versions should generally work.
For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches
work as well.
Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need
to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is
to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1]
Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.dev>
Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
There have been some changes to the way mailing lists are hosted at
kernel.org. This patch does the following:
1. fixes links that are pointing at the outdated resources
2. removes an outdated patchbomb admonition
We still don't particularly want or welcome huge patchbombs, but they
are less likely to overload our systems.
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao.osdev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619-docs-patch-msgid-link-v2-1-72dd272bfe37@linuxfoundation.org
Extend the Index of Further Kernel Documentation by adding entries for the
Rust for Linux website, the Linux Foundation's YouTube channel, and notes
on the second edition of Billimoria's kernel programming book. Also,
perform some refactoring: format the text to 75 characters per line and
sort per-section content in chronological order of publication.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao.osdev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240622194727.2171845-1-carlos.bilbao.osdev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
'Other material' section on 'process/index' is no more necessary since
we have 'staging/' directory. Also all documents on the section has
moved to better places. Remove the section.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-6-sj@kernel.org
'clang-format' is on 'Other material' section of 'process/index', but it
may fit more under 'dev-tools/' directory. Move it.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-5-sj@kernel.org
'Other material' section on 'process/index' is for unsorted documents.
However we also have a dedicated place for the purpose, 'staging/'.
Move 'magic-number' from the section to 'staging/' directory.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-4-sj@kernel.org
'patch-acceptance' on 'Other material' section of 'process/index', which
is for unsorted documents, is actually well organized under
'arch/riscv/' directory, and linked on the index document of the
directory. Remove it from the 'Other material' section.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-3-sj@kernel.org
'unaligned-memory-access document' is linked on 'Other material' section
of 'core-api/index', which is for unsorted documents. But it is
actually well organized under 'core-api/' directory, and linked on the
'core-api/index'. Remove it from 'Other material' section of
'process/index' document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624185312.94537-2-sj@kernel.org
The drm/msm driver had adopted using Python3 script to generate register
header files instead of shipping pre-generated header files. Document
the minimal Python version supported by the script.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509-python-version-v1-1-a7dda3a95b5f@linaro.org
Update the handling-regressions guide to recommend using "Closes:" tags
rather than "Link:" when referencing fixed reports. The latter was used
originally but now is only recommended when the given patch only fixes
part of the issue, as described in submitting-patches. Briefly mention
that and also note that regzbot currently doesn't make a distinction.
Also fix a typo.
Acked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Karel Balej <balejk@matfyz.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513084145.2460-1-balejk@matfyz.cz
Revert commit 1d2ed9234c ("Documentation: process: Document
suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development") as Proton disabled
WKD for kernel.org addresses as a result of some interaction with
Konstantin on social.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Kanak Shilledar <kanakshilledar111@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240516-groin-slingshot-c3c3734d2f10@spud
Notable series include:
- Some maintenance and performance work for ocfs2 in Heming Zhao's
series "improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high".
- Some ocfs2 bugfixes from Su Yue in the series "ocfs2 bugs fixes
exposed by fstests".
- kfifo header rework from Andy Shevchenko in the series "kfifo: Clean
up kfifo.h".
- GDB script fixes from Florian Rommel in the series "scripts/gdb: Fixes
for $lx_current and $lx_per_cpu".
- After much discussion, a coding-style update from Barry Song
explaining one reason why inline functions are preferred over macros.
The series is "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a function-like
macro".
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Some maintenance and performance work for ocfs2 in Heming Zhao's
series "improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high".
- Some ocfs2 bugfixes from Su Yue in the series "ocfs2 bugs fixes
exposed by fstests".
- kfifo header rework from Andy Shevchenko in the series "kfifo:
Clean up kfifo.h".
- GDB script fixes from Florian Rommel in the series "scripts/gdb:
Fixes for $lx_current and $lx_per_cpu".
- After much discussion, a coding-style update from Barry Song
explaining one reason why inline functions are preferred over
macros. The series is "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a
function-like macro""
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (62 commits)
fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore
nilfs2: convert BUG_ON() in nilfs_finish_roll_forward() to WARN_ON()
scripts: checkpatch: check unused parameters for function-like macro
Documentation: coding-style: ask function-like macros to evaluate parameters
nilfs2: use __field_struct() for a bitwise field
selftests/kcmp: remove unused open mode
nilfs2: remove calls to folio_set_error() and folio_clear_error()
kernel/watchdog_perf.c: tidy up kerneldoc
watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf event
watchdog: handle comma separated nmi_watchdog command line
nilfs2: make superblock data array index computation sparse friendly
squashfs: remove calls to set the folio error flag
squashfs: convert squashfs_symlink_read_folio to use folio APIs
scripts/gdb: fix detection of current CPU in KGDB
scripts/gdb: make get_thread_info accept pointers
scripts/gdb: fix parameter handling in $lx_per_cpu
scripts/gdb: fix failing KGDB detection during probe
kfifo: don't use "proxy" headers
media: stih-cec: add missing io.h
media: rc: add missing io.h
...
ACPI:
* Support for the Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) signature
feature which is used to reboot out of hibernation on some systems.
Kbuild:
* Support for building Flat Image Tree (FIT) images, where the kernel
Image is compressed alongside a set of devicetree blobs.
Memory management:
* Optimisation of our early page-table manipulation for creation of the
linear mapping.
* Support for userfaultfd write protection, which brings along some nice
cleanups to our handling of invalid but present ptes.
* Extend our use of range TLBI invalidation at EL1.
Perf and PMUs:
* Ensure that the 'pmu->parent' pointer is correctly initialised by PMU
drivers.
* Avoid allocating 'cpumask_t' types on the stack in some PMU drivers.
* Fix parsing of the CPU PMU "version" field in assembly code, as it
doesn't follow the usual architectural rules.
* Add best-effort unwinding support for USER_STACKTRACE
* Minor driver fixes and cleanups.
Selftests:
* Minor cleanups to the arm64 selftests (missing NULL check, unused
variable).
Miscellaneous
* Add a command-line alias for disabling 32-bit application support.
* Add part number for Neoverse-V2 CPUs.
* Minor fixes and cleanups.
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"The most interesting parts are probably the mm changes from Ryan which
optimise the creation of the linear mapping at boot and (separately)
implement write-protect support for userfaultfd.
Outside of our usual directories, the Kbuild-related changes under
scripts/ have been acked by Masahiro whilst the drivers/acpi/ parts
have been acked by Rafael and the addition of cpumask_any_and_but()
has been acked by Yury.
ACPI:
- Support for the Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) signature
feature which is used to reboot out of hibernation on some systems
Kbuild:
- Support for building Flat Image Tree (FIT) images, where the kernel
Image is compressed alongside a set of devicetree blobs
Memory management:
- Optimisation of our early page-table manipulation for creation of
the linear mapping
- Support for userfaultfd write protection, which brings along some
nice cleanups to our handling of invalid but present ptes
- Extend our use of range TLBI invalidation at EL1
Perf and PMUs:
- Ensure that the 'pmu->parent' pointer is correctly initialised by
PMU drivers
- Avoid allocating 'cpumask_t' types on the stack in some PMU drivers
- Fix parsing of the CPU PMU "version" field in assembly code, as it
doesn't follow the usual architectural rules
- Add best-effort unwinding support for USER_STACKTRACE
- Minor driver fixes and cleanups
Selftests:
- Minor cleanups to the arm64 selftests (missing NULL check, unused
variable)
Miscellaneous:
- Add a command-line alias for disabling 32-bit application support
- Add part number for Neoverse-V2 CPUs
- Minor fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (64 commits)
arm64/mm: Fix pud_user_accessible_page() for PGTABLE_LEVELS <= 2
arm64/mm: Add uffd write-protect support
arm64/mm: Move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to overlay PTE_NG
arm64/mm: Remove PTE_PROT_NONE bit
arm64/mm: generalize PMD_PRESENT_INVALID for all levels
arm64: simplify arch_static_branch/_jump function
arm64: Add USER_STACKTRACE support
arm64: Add the arm64.no32bit_el0 command line option
drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Actually use devm_add_action_or_reset()
drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group
drivers/perf: hisi_pcie: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group
kselftest: arm64: Add a null pointer check
arm64: defer clearing DAIF.D
arm64: assembler: update stale comment for disable_step_tsk
arm64/sysreg: Update PIE permission encodings
kselftest/arm64: Remove unused parameters in abi test
perf/arm-spe: Assign parents for event_source device
perf/arm-smmuv3: Assign parents for event_source device
perf/arm-dsu: Assign parents for event_source device
perf/arm-dmc620: Assign parents for event_source device
...
The most notable change is the drop of the 'alloc' in-tree fork. This
is nicely reflected in the diffstat as a ~10k lines drop. In turn, this
makes the version upgrades way simpler and smaller in the future, e.g.
the latest one in commit 56f64b3706 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.78.0").
More importantly, this increases the chances that a newer compiler
version just works, which in turn means supporting several compiler
versions is easier now. Thus we will look into finally setting a minimum
version in the near future.
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Upgrade to Rust 1.78.0.
This time around, due to how the kernel and Rust schedules have
aligned, there are two upgrades in fact. These allow us to remove one
more unstable feature ('offset_of') from the list, among other
improvements.
- Drop 'alloc' in-tree fork of the standard library crate, which means
all the unstable features used by 'alloc' (~30 language ones, ~60
library ones) are not a concern anymore.
- Support DWARFv5 via the '-Zdwarf-version' flag.
- Support zlib and zstd debuginfo compression via the
'-Zdebuginfo-compression' flag.
'kernel' crate:
- Support allocation flags ('GFP_*'), particularly in 'Box' (via
'BoxExt'), 'Vec' (via 'VecExt'), 'Arc' and 'UniqueArc', as well as in
the 'init' module APIs.
- Remove usage of the 'allocator_api' unstable feature.
- Remove 'try_' prefix in allocation APIs' names.
- Add 'VecExt' (an extension trait) to be able to drop the 'alloc'
fork.
- Add the '{make,to}_{upper,lower}case()' methods to 'CStr'/'CString'.
- Add the 'as_ptr' method to 'ThisModule'.
- Add the 'from_raw' method to 'ArcBorrow'.
- Add the 'into_unique_or_drop' method to 'Arc'.
- Display column number in the 'dbg!' macro output by applying the
equivalent change done to the standard library one.
- Migrate 'Work' to '#[pin_data]' thanks to the changes in the 'macros'
crate, which allows to remove an unsafe call in its 'new' associated
function.
- Prevent namespacing issues when using the '[try_][pin_]init!' macros
by changing the generated name of guard variables.
- Make the 'get' method in 'Opaque' const.
- Implement the 'Default' trait for 'LockClassKey'.
- Remove unneeded 'kernel::prelude' imports from doctests.
- Remove redundant imports.
'macros' crate:
- Add 'decl_generics' to 'parse_generics()' to support default values,
and use that to allow them in '#[pin_data]'.
Helpers:
- Trivial English grammar fix.
Documentation:
- Add section on Rust Kselftests to the "Testing" document.
- Expand the "Abstractions vs. bindings" section of the "General
Information" document.
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Merge tag 'rust-6.10' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux
Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"The most notable change is the drop of the 'alloc' in-tree fork. This
is nicely reflected in the diffstat as a ~10k lines drop. In turn,
this makes the version upgrades way simpler and smaller in the future,
e.g. the latest one in commit 56f64b3706 ("rust: upgrade to Rust
1.78.0").
More importantly, this increases the chances that a newer compiler
version just works, which in turn means supporting several compiler
versions is easier now. Thus we will look into finally setting a
minimum version in the near future.
Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Upgrade to Rust 1.78.0
This time around, due to how the kernel and Rust schedules have
aligned, there are two upgrades in fact. These allow us to remove
one more unstable feature ('offset_of') from the list, among other
improvements
- Drop 'alloc' in-tree fork of the standard library crate, which
means all the unstable features used by 'alloc' (~30 language ones,
~60 library ones) are not a concern anymore
- Support DWARFv5 via the '-Zdwarf-version' flag
- Support zlib and zstd debuginfo compression via the
'-Zdebuginfo-compression' flag
'kernel' crate:
- Support allocation flags ('GFP_*'), particularly in 'Box' (via
'BoxExt'), 'Vec' (via 'VecExt'), 'Arc' and 'UniqueArc', as well as
in the 'init' module APIs
- Remove usage of the 'allocator_api' unstable feature
- Remove 'try_' prefix in allocation APIs' names
- Add 'VecExt' (an extension trait) to be able to drop the 'alloc'
fork
- Add the '{make,to}_{upper,lower}case()' methods to 'CStr'/'CString'
- Add the 'as_ptr' method to 'ThisModule'
- Add the 'from_raw' method to 'ArcBorrow'
- Add the 'into_unique_or_drop' method to 'Arc'
- Display column number in the 'dbg!' macro output by applying the
equivalent change done to the standard library one
- Migrate 'Work' to '#[pin_data]' thanks to the changes in the
'macros' crate, which allows to remove an unsafe call in its 'new'
associated function
- Prevent namespacing issues when using the '[try_][pin_]init!'
macros by changing the generated name of guard variables
- Make the 'get' method in 'Opaque' const
- Implement the 'Default' trait for 'LockClassKey'
- Remove unneeded 'kernel::prelude' imports from doctests
- Remove redundant imports
'macros' crate:
- Add 'decl_generics' to 'parse_generics()' to support default
values, and use that to allow them in '#[pin_data]'
Helpers:
- Trivial English grammar fix
Documentation:
- Add section on Rust Kselftests to the 'Testing' document
- Expand the 'Abstractions vs. bindings' section of the 'General
Information' document"
* tag 'rust-6.10' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (31 commits)
rust: alloc: fix dangling pointer in VecExt<T>::reserve()
rust: upgrade to Rust 1.78.0
rust: kernel: remove redundant imports
rust: sync: implement `Default` for `LockClassKey`
docs: rust: extend abstraction and binding documentation
docs: rust: Add instructions for the Rust kselftest
rust: remove unneeded `kernel::prelude` imports from doctests
rust: update `dbg!()` to format column number
rust: helpers: Fix grammar in comment
rust: init: change the generated name of guard variables
rust: sync: add `Arc::into_unique_or_drop`
rust: sync: add `ArcBorrow::from_raw`
rust: types: Make Opaque::get const
rust: kernel: remove usage of `allocator_api` unstable feature
rust: init: update `init` module to take allocation flags
rust: sync: update `Arc` and `UniqueArc` to take allocation flags
rust: alloc: update `VecExt` to take allocation flags
rust: alloc: introduce the `BoxExt` trait
rust: alloc: introduce allocation flags
rust: alloc: remove our fork of the `alloc` crate
...
- Some build-system changes to detect the variable fonts installed by some
distributions that can break the PDF build.
- Various updates and additions to the Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and
Japanese translations.
- Update the stable-kernel rules to match modern practice
...and the usual array of corrections, updates, and typo fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Another not-too-busy cycle for documentation, including:
- Some build-system changes to detect the variable fonts installed by
some distributions that can break the PDF build.
- Various updates and additions to the Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and
Japanese translations.
- Update the stable-kernel rules to match modern practice
... and the usual array of corrections, updates, and typo fixes"
* tag 'docs-6.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (42 commits)
cgroup: Add documentation for missing zswap memory.stat
kernel-doc: Added "*" in $type_constants2 to fix 'make htmldocs' warning.
docs:core-api: fixed typos and grammar in printk-index page
Documentation: tracing: Fix spelling mistakes
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of quick-start to 6.9-rc4
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of general-information to 6.9-rc4
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of coding-guidelines to 6.9-rc4
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of arch-support to 6.9-rc4
docs: stable-kernel-rules: fix typo sent->send
docs/zh_CN: remove two inconsistent spaces
docs: scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh: Improve commands for detection
docs: stable-kernel-rules: create special tag to flag 'no backporting'
docs: stable-kernel-rules: explain use of stable@kernel.org (w/o @vger.)
docs: stable-kernel-rules: remove code-labels tags and a indention level
docs: stable-kernel-rules: call mainline by its name and change example
docs: stable-kernel-rules: reduce redundancy
docs, kprobes: Add riscv as supported architecture
Docs: typos/spelling
docs: kernel_include.py: Cope with docutils 0.21
docs: ja_JP/howto: Catch up update in v6.8
...
Patch series "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a function-like
macro", v7.
A function-like macro could result in build warnings such as "unused
variable." This patchset updates the guidance to recommend always using a
static inline function instead and also provides checkpatch support for
this new rule.
This patch (of 2):
Recent commit 77292bb8ca ("crypto: scomp - remove memcpy if
sg_nents is 1 and pages are lowmem") leads to warnings on xtensa
and loongarch,
In file included from crypto/scompress.c:12:
include/crypto/scatterwalk.h: In function 'scatterwalk_pagedone':
include/crypto/scatterwalk.h:76:30: warning: variable 'page' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
76 | struct page *page;
| ^~~~
crypto/scompress.c: In function 'scomp_acomp_comp_decomp':
>> crypto/scompress.c:174:38: warning: unused variable 'dst_page' [-Wunused-variable]
174 | struct page *dst_page = sg_page(req->dst);
|
The reason is that flush_dcache_page() is implemented as a noop
macro on these platforms as below,
#define flush_dcache_page(page) do { } while (0)
The driver code, for itself, seems be quite innocent and placing
maybe_unused seems pointless,
struct page *dst_page = sg_page(req->dst);
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
flush_dcache_page(dst_page + i);
And it should be independent of architectural implementation
differences.
Let's provide guidance on coding style for requesting parameter
evaluation or proposing the migration to a static inline
function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240507032757.146386-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240507032757.146386-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Suggested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Xining Xu <mac.xxn@outlook.com>
Cc: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.77.1 to 1.78.0
(i.e. the latest) [1].
See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4da0 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").
It is much smaller than previous upgrades, since the `alloc` fork was
dropped in commit 9d0441bab7 ("rust: alloc: remove our fork of the
`alloc` crate") [3].
# Unstable features
There have been no changes to the set of unstable features used in
our own code. Therefore, the only unstable features allowed to be used
outside the `kernel` crate is still `new_uninit`.
However, since we finally dropped our `alloc` fork [3], all the unstable
features used by `alloc` (~30 language ones, ~60 library ones) are not
a concern anymore. This reduces the maintenance burden, increases the
chances of new compiler versions working without changes and gets us
closer to the goal of supporting several compiler versions.
It also means that, ignoring non-language/library features, we are
currently left with just the few language features needed to implement the
kernel `Arc`, the `new_uninit` library feature, the `compiler_builtins`
marker and the few `no_*` `cfg`s we pass when compiling `core`/`alloc`.
Please see [4] for details.
# Required changes
## LLVM's data layout
Rust 1.77.0 (i.e. the previous upgrade) introduced a check for matching
LLVM data layouts [5]. Then, Rust 1.78.0 upgraded LLVM's bundled major
version from 17 to 18 [6], which changed the data layout in x86 [7]. Thus
update the data layout in our custom target specification for x86 so
that the compiler does not complain about the mismatch:
error: data-layout for target `target-5559158138856098584`,
`e-m:e-p270:32:32-p271:32:32-p272:64:64-i64:64-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128`,
differs from LLVM target's `x86_64-linux-gnu` default layout,
`e-m:e-p270:32:32-p271:32:32-p272:64:64-i64:64-i128:128-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128`
In the future, the goal is to drop the custom target specifications.
Meanwhile, if we want to support other LLVM versions used in `rustc`
(e.g. for LTO), we will need to add some extra logic (e.g. conditional on
LLVM's version, or extracting the data layout from an existing built-in
target specification).
## `unused_imports`
Rust's `unused_imports` lint covers both unused and redundant imports.
Now, in 1.78.0, the lint detects more cases of redundant imports [8].
Thus one of the previous patches cleaned them up.
## Clippy's `new_without_default`
Clippy now suggests to implement `Default` even when `new()` is `const`,
since `Default::default()` may call `const` functions even if it is not
`const` itself [9]. Thus one of the previous patches implemented it.
# Other changes in Rust
Rust 1.78.0 introduced `feature(asm_goto)` [10] [11]. This feature was
discussed in the past [12].
Rust 1.78.0 introduced `feature(const_refs_to_static)` [13] to allow
referencing statics in constants and extended `feature(const_mut_refs)`
to allow raw mutable pointers in constants. Together, this should cover
the kernel's `VTABLE` use case. In fact, the implementation [14] in
upstream Rust added a test case for it [15].
Rust 1.78.0 with debug assertions enabled (i.e. `-Cdebug-assertions=y`,
kernel's `CONFIG_RUST_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS=y`) now always checks all unsafe
preconditions, though without a way to opt-out for particular cases [16].
It would be ideal to have a way to selectively disable certain checks
per-call site for this one (i.e. not just per check but for particular
instances of a check), even if the vast majority of the checks remain
in place [17].
Rust 1.78.0 also improved a couple issues we reported when giving feedback
for the new `--check-cfg` feature [18] [19].
# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing
As mentioned above, compiler upgrades will not update `alloc` anymore,
since we dropped our `alloc` fork [3].
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1780-2024-05-02 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20240328013603.206764-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/ [3]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120062 [5]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120055 [6]
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86310 [7]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117772 [8]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/10903 [9]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119365 [10]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/119364 [11]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/ZWipTZysC2YL7qsq@Boquns-Mac-mini.home/ [12]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/119618 [13]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120932 [14]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120932/files#diff-e6fc1622c46054cd46b1d225c5386c5554564b3b0fa8a03c2dc2d8627a1079d9 [15]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120969 [16]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/354 [17]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121202 [18]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121237 [19]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401212303.537355-4-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Added a few more details and links I mentioned in the list. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Remove the 'code-block:: none' labels and switch to the shorter '::' to
reduce noise.
Remove a unneeded level of indentation, as that reduces the chance that
readers have to scroll sideways in some of the code blocks.
No text changes. Rendered html output looks like before, except for the
different level of indentation.
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/755afbeafc8e1457154cb4b30ff4397f34326679.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Fine-tuning:
* s/Linus' tree/Linux mainline/, as mainline is the term used elsewhere
in the document.
* Provide a better example for the 'delayed backporting' case that uses
a fixed rather than a relative reference point, which makes it easier
to handle for the stable team.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0a120573ea827aee12d45e7bd802ba85c09884da.1714367921.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Add a script which produces a Flat Image Tree (FIT), a single file
containing the built kernel and associated devicetree files.
Compression defaults to gzip which gives a good balance of size and
performance.
The files compress from about 86MB to 24MB using this approach.
The FIT can be used by bootloaders which support it, such as U-Boot
and Linuxboot. It permits automatic selection of the correct
devicetree, matching the compatible string of the running board with
the closest compatible string in the FIT. There is no need for
filenames or other workarounds.
Add a 'make image.fit' build target for arm64, as well.
The FIT can be examined using 'dumpimage -l'.
This uses the 'dtbs-list' file but processes only .dtb files, ignoring
the overlay .dtbo files.
This features requires pylibfdt (use 'pip install libfdt'). It also
requires compression utilities for the algorithm being used. Supported
compression options are the same as the Image.xxx files. Use
FIT_COMPRESSION to select an algorithm other than gzip.
While FIT supports a ramdisk / initrd, no attempt is made to support
this here, since it must be built separately from the Linux build.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240329032836.141899-3-sjg@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Unfortunately Anton has left IBM. Add myself as the contact for Power,
until someone else volunteers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240322103840.668746-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Quoting of the '"no regressions" rule' expression differs between
occurrences, sometimes being presented as '"no regressions rule"'. Unify
the quoting using the first form which seems semantically correct or is
at least used dominantly, albeit marginally.
One of the occurrences is obviously missing the 'rule' part -- add it.
Signed-off-by: Karel Balej <balejk@matfyz.cz>
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328194342.11760-2-balejk@matfyz.cz
There are lots of maintainers "pings" during the merge window, even
for trivial patches.
Clarify that contributors should not expect progress on *any*
non-urgent patches during the merge window. This applies to all
contributions, not just large ones.
Clarify the language around -rc1. Trees really are closed during the
merge window.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240322183403.67BAEEFE%40davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
This is the next upgrade to the Rust toolchain, from 1.76.0 to 1.77.1
(i.e. the latest) [1].
See the upgrade policy [2] and the comments on the first upgrade in
commit 3ed03f4da0 ("rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2").
# Unstable features
The `offset_of` feature (single-field `offset_of!`) that we were using
got stabilized in Rust 1.77.0 [3].
Therefore, now the only unstable features allowed to be used outside the
`kernel` crate is `new_uninit`, though other code to be upstreamed may
increase the list.
Please see [4] for details.
# Required changes
Rust 1.77.0 merged the `unused_tuple_struct_fields` lint into `dead_code`,
thus upgrading it from `allow` to `warn` [5]. In turn, this made `rustc`
complain about the `ThisModule`'s pointer field being never read, but
the previous patch adds the `as_ptr` method to it, needed by Binder [6],
so that we do not need to locally `allow` it.
# Other changes
Rust 1.77.0 introduces the `--check-cfg` feature [7], for which there
is a Call for Testing going on [8]. We were requested to test it and
we found it useful [9] -- we will likely enable it in the future.
# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing
The vast majority of changes are due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded
at once.
There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.
Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.
Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.
To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:
# Get the difference with respect to the old version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > old.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
# Apply this patch.
git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch
# Get the difference with respect to the new version.
git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
cut -d/ -f3- |
grep -Fv README.md |
xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R > new.patch
git -C linux restore rust/alloc
Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/stable/RELEASES.md#version-1770-2024-03-21 [1]
Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118799 [3]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118297 [5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231101-rust-binder-v1-2-08ba9197f637@google.com/#Z31rust:kernel:lib.rs [6]
Link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/compiler-flags/check-cfg.html [7]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3013#issuecomment-1936648479 [8]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/82450#issuecomment-1947462977 [9]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217002717.57507-1-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Upgraded to 1.77.1. Removed `allow(dead_code)` thanks to the previous
patch. Reworded accordingly. No changes to `alloc` during the beta. ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'docs-6.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes and enhancements"
* tag 'docs-6.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: verify/bisect: remove a level of indenting
docs: verify/bisect: drop 'v' prefix, EOL aspect, and assorted fixes
docs: verify/bisect: check taint flag
docs: verify/bisect: improve install instructions
docs: handling-regressions.rst: Update regzbot command fixed-by to fix
docs: *-regressions.rst: Add colon to regzbot commands
doc: Fix typo in admin-guide/cifs/introduction.rst
README: Fix spelling
On the reference documentation for regzbot, the fixed-by command has
been renamed to fix. Update the kernel documentation accordingly.
Link: https://gitlab.com/knurd42/regzbot/-/blob/main/docs/reference.md
Link: 6d8d30f6bd
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: "Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240311-regzbot-fixes-v2-2-98c1b6ec0678@collabora.com>
Use colon as command terminator everywhere for consistency, even though
it's not strictly necessary. That way it will also match regzbot's
reference documentation.
Link: https://gitlab.com/knurd42/regzbot/-/blob/main/docs/reference.md
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: "Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20240311-regzbot-fixes-v2-1-98c1b6ec0678@collabora.com>
