timekeeping/auxclock: Consistently use raw timekeeper for tk_setup_internals()
In aux_clock_enable() the clocksource from tkr_raw is used to call
tk_setup_internals(). Do the same in tk_aux_update_clocksource(). While
the clocksources will be the same in any case, this is less confusing.
tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing
The sentinel value added by the wrapper macros __print_symbolic() et al
prevents the callers from adding their own trailing comma. This makes
constructing symbol list dynamically based on kconfig values tedious.
Drop the sentinel elements, so callers can either specify the trailing
comma or not, just like in regular array initializers.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:02:21 +0000 (20:02 +0100)]
hrtimer: Less agressive interrupt 'hang' handling
When the hrtimer_interrupt needs to restart more than 3 times and still has
expired timers, the interrupt is considered hung. To give the system a
little time to recover, the hardware timer is programmed a little into the
future.
Prior to commit 288924384856 ("hrtimer: Re-arrange hrtimer_interrupt()"),
this was relative to the amount of time spend serving the interrupt with a
max of 100 msec.
However, in order to simplify, and because this condition 'should' not
happen, the timeout was unconditionally set to 100 msec.
'Obviously' there is a benchmark that hits this hard, by programming a
ton of very short timers :-/
Since reprogramming is decoupled from the interrupt handling, the actual
execution time is lost, however the code does track max_hang_time. Using
that, rather than the 100 ms max restores performance.
Additionally, Thomas noted that cpu_base->hang_detected should not be
cleared until the next interrupt, such that __hrtimer_reprogram() won't
undo the extra delay.
Fixes: 288924384856 ("hrtimer: Re-arrange hrtimer_interrupt()") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311121500.GF652779@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202603102229.74b9dee4-lkp@intel.com
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 4 Mar 2026 18:49:29 +0000 (19:49 +0100)]
clocksource: Update clocksource::freq_khz on registration
Borislav reported a division by zero in the timekeeping code and random
hangs with the new coupled clocksource/clockevent functionality.
It turned out that the TSC clocksource is not always updating the
freq_khz field of the clocksource on registration. The coupled mode
conversion calculation requires the frequency and as it's not
initialized the resulting factor is zero or a random value. As a
consequence this causes a division by zero or random boot hangs.
Instead of chasing down all clocksources which fail to update that
member, fill it in at registration time where the caller has to supply
the frequency anyway. Except for special clocksources like jiffies which
never can have coupled mode.
To make this more robust put a check into the registration function to
validate that the caller supplied a frequency if the coupled mode
feature bit is set. If not, emit a warning and clear the feature bit.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 3 Mar 2026 21:56:27 +0000 (22:56 +0100)]
timekeeping: Initialize the coupled clocksource conversion completely
Nathan reported a boot failure after the coupled clocksource/event support
was enabled for the TSC deadline timer. It turns out that on the affected
test systems the TSC frequency is not refined against HPET, so it is
registered with the same frequency as the TSC-early clocksource.
As a consequence the update function which checks for a change of the
shift/mult pair of the clocksource fails to compute the conversion
limit, which is zero initialized. This check is there to avoid pointless
computations on every timekeeping update cycle (tick).
So the actual clockevent conversion function limits the delta expiry to
zero, which means the timer is always programmed to expire in the
past. This obviously results in a spectacular timer interrupt storm,
which goes unnoticed because the per CPU interrupts on x86 are not
exposed to the runaway detection mechanism and the NMI watchdog is not
yet functional. So the machine simply stops booting.
That did not show up in testing. All test machines refine the TSC frequency
so TSC has a differrent shift/mult pair than TSC-early and the conversion
limit is properly initialized.
Cure that by setting the conversion limit right at the point where the new
clocksource is installed.
Fixes: cd38bdb8e696 ("timekeeping: Provide infrastructure for coupled clockevents") Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87bjh4zies.ffs@tglx Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20260303012905.GA978396@ax162
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:39:08 +0000 (17:39 +0100)]
sched: Default enable HRTICK when deferred rearming is enabled
The deferred rearm of the clock event device after an interrupt and and
other hrtimer optimizations allow now to enable HRTICK for generic entry
architectures.
This decouples preemption from CONFIG_HZ, leaving only the periodic
load-balancer and various accounting things relying on the tick.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:39:02 +0000 (17:39 +0100)]
hrtimer: Try to modify timers in place
When modifying the expiry of a armed timer it is first dequeued, then the
expiry value is updated and then it is queued again.
This can be avoided when the new expiry value is within the range of the
previous and the next timer as that does not change the position in the RB
tree.
The linked timerqueue allows to peak ahead to the neighbours and check
whether the new expiry time is within the range of the previous and next
timer. If so just modify the timer in place and spare the enqueue and
requeue effort, which might end up rotating the RB tree twice for nothing.
This speeds up the handling of frequently rearmed hrtimers, like the hrtick
scheduler timer significantly.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:57 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
hrtimer: Use linked timerqueue
To prepare for optimizing the rearming of enqueued timers, switch to the
linked timerqueue. That allows to check whether the new expiry time changes
the position of the timer in the RB tree or not, by checking the new expiry
time against the previous and the next timers expiry.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:52 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
timerqueue: Provide linked timerqueue
The hrtimer subsystem wants to peak ahead to the next and previous timer to
evaluated whether a to be rearmed timer can stay at the same position in
the RB tree with the new expiry time.
The linked RB tree provides the infrastructure for this as it maintains
links to the previous and next nodes for each entry in the tree.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:47 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
rbtree: Provide rbtree with links
Some RB tree users require quick access to the next and the previous node,
e.g. to check whether a modification of the node results in a change of the
nodes position in the tree. If the node position does not change, then the
modification can happen in place without going through a full enqueue
requeue cycle. A upcoming use case for this are the timer queues of the
hrtimer subsystem as they can optimize for timers which are frequently
rearmed while enqueued.
This can be obviously achieved with rb_next() and rb_prev(), but those
turned out to be quite expensive for hotpath operations depending on the
tree depth.
Add a linked RB tree variant where add() and erase() maintain the links
between the nodes. Like the cached variant it provides a pointer to the
left most node in the root.
It intentionally does not use a [h]list head as there is no real need for
true list operations as the list is strictly coupled to the tree and
and cannot be manipulated independently.
It sets the nodes previous pointer to NULL for the left most node and the
next pointer to NULL for the right most node. This allows a quick check
especially for the left most node without consulting the list head address,
which creates better code.
Aside of the rb_leftmost cached pointer this could trivially provide a
rb_rightmost pointer as well, but there is no usage for that (yet).
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:33 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
hrtimer: Rework next event evaluation
The per clock base cached expiry time allows to do a more efficient
evaluation of the next expiry on a CPU.
Separate the reprogramming evaluation from the NOHZ idle evaluation which
needs to exclude the NOHZ timer to keep the reprogramming path lean and
clean.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:28 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
hrtimer: Keep track of first expiring timer per clock base
Evaluating the next expiry time of all clock bases is cache line expensive
as the expiry time of the first expiring timer is not cached in the base
and requires to access the timer itself, which is definitely in a different
cache line.
It's way more efficient to keep track of the expiry time on enqueue and
dequeue operations as the relevant data is already in the cache at that
point.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:23 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
hrtimer: Avoid re-evaluation when nothing changed
Most times there is no change between hrtimer_interrupt() deferring the rearm
and the invocation of hrtimer_rearm_deferred(). In those cases it's a pointless
exercise to re-evaluate the next expiring timer.
Cache the required data and use it if nothing changed.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:18 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
hrtimer: Push reprogramming timers into the interrupt return path
Currently hrtimer_interrupt() runs expired timers, which can re-arm
themselves, after which it computes the next expiration time and
re-programs the hardware.
However, things like HRTICK, a highres timer driving preemption, cannot
re-arm itself at the point of running, since the next task has not been
determined yet. The schedule() in the interrupt return path will switch to
the next task, which then causes a new hrtimer to be programmed.
This then results in reprogramming the hardware at least twice, once after
running the timers, and once upon selecting the new task.
Notably, *both* events happen in the interrupt.
By pushing the hrtimer reprogram all the way into the interrupt return
path, it runs after schedule() picks the new task and the double reprogram
can be avoided.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:12 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
sched/core: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming
The hrtimer interrupt expires timers and at the end of the interrupt it
rearms the clockevent device for the next expiring timer.
That's obviously correct, but in the case that a expired timer sets
NEED_RESCHED the return from interrupt ends up in schedule(). If HRTICK is
enabled then schedule() will modify the hrtick timer, which causes another
reprogramming of the hardware.
That can be avoided by deferring the rearming to the return from interrupt
path and if the return results in a immediate schedule() invocation then it
can be deferred until the end of schedule(), which avoids multiple rearms
and re-evaluation of the timer wheel.
Add the rearm checks to the existing sched_hrtick_enter/exit() functions,
which already handle the batched rearm of the hrtick timer.
For now this is just placing empty stubs at the right places which are all
optimized out by the compiler until the guard condition becomes true.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:07 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
softirq: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming
The hrtimer interrupt expires timers and at the end of the interrupt it
rearms the clockevent device for the next expiring timer.
That's obviously correct, but in the case that a expired timer sets
NEED_RESCHED the return from interrupt ends up in schedule(). If HRTICK is
enabled then schedule() will modify the hrtick timer, which causes another
reprogramming of the hardware.
That can be avoided by deferring the rearming to the return from interrupt
path and if the return results in a immediate schedule() invocation then it
can be deferred until the end of schedule(), which avoids multiple rearms
and re-evaluation of the timer wheel.
In case that the return from interrupt ends up handling softirqs before
reaching the rearm conditions in the return to user entry code functions, a
deferred rearm has to be handled before softirq handling enables interrupts
as soft interrupt handling can be long and would therefore introduce hard
to diagnose latencies to the timer interrupt.
Place the for now empty stub call right before invoking the softirq
handling routine.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:38:03 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
entry: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming
The hrtimer interrupt expires timers and at the end of the interrupt it
rearms the clockevent device for the next expiring timer.
That's obviously correct, but in the case that a expired timer sets
NEED_RESCHED the return from interrupt ends up in schedule(). If HRTICK is
enabled then schedule() will modify the hrtick timer, which causes another
reprogramming of the hardware.
That can be avoided by deferring the rearming to the return from interrupt
path and if the return results in a immediate schedule() invocation then it
can be deferred until the end of schedule(), which avoids multiple rearms
and re-evaluation of the timer wheel.
As this is only relevant for interrupt to user return split the work masks
up and hand them in as arguments from the relevant exit to user functions,
which allows the compiler to optimize the deferred handling out for the
syscall exit to user case.
Add the rearm checks to the approritate places in the exit to user loop and
the interrupt return to kernel path, so that the rearming is always
guaranteed.
In the return to user space path this is handled in the same way as
TIF_RSEQ to avoid extra instructions in the fast path, which are truly
hurtful for device interrupt heavy work loads as the extra instructions and
conditionals while benign at first sight accumulate quickly into measurable
regressions. The return from syscall path is completely unaffected due to
the above mentioned split so syscall heavy workloads wont have any extra
burden.
For now this is just placing empty stubs at the right places which are all
optimized out by the compiler until the actual functionality is in place.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:58 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Prepare stubs for deferred rearming
The hrtimer interrupt expires timers and at the end of the interrupt it
rearms the clockevent device for the next expiring timer.
That's obviously correct, but in the case that a expired timer set
NEED_RESCHED the return from interrupt ends up in schedule(). If HRTICK is
enabled then schedule() will modify the hrtick timer, which causes another
reprogramming of the hardware.
That can be avoided by deferring the rearming to the return from interrupt
path and if the return results in a immediate schedule() invocation then it
can be deferred until the end of schedule().
To make this correct the affected code parts need to be made aware of this.
Provide empty stubs for the deferred rearming mechanism, so that the
relevant code changes for entry, softirq and scheduler can be split up into
separate changes independent of the actual enablement in the hrtimer code.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:53 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Rename hrtimer_cpu_base::in_hrtirq to deferred_rearm
The upcoming deferred rearming scheme has the same effect as the deferred
rearming when the hrtimer interrupt is executing. So it can reuse the
in_hrtirq flag, but when it gets deferred beyond the hrtimer interrupt
path, then the name does not make sense anymore.
Rename it to deferred_rearm upfront to keep the actual functional change
separate from the mechanical rename churn.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:48 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Re-arrange hrtimer_interrupt()
Rework hrtimer_interrupt() such that reprogramming is split out into an
independent function at the end of the interrupt.
This prepares for reprogramming getting delayed beyond the end of
hrtimer_interrupt().
Notably, this changes the hang handling to always wait 100ms instead of
trying to keep it proportional to the actual delay. This simplifies the
state, also this really shouldn't be happening.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:43 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Add hrtimer_rearm tracepoint
Analyzing the reprogramming of the clock event device is essential to debug
the behaviour of the hrtimer subsystem especially with the upcoming
deferred rearming scheme.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:33 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Use NOHZ information for locality
The decision to keep a timer which is associated to the local CPU on that
CPU does not take NOHZ information into account. As a result there are a
lot of hrtimer base switch invocations which end up not switching the base
and stay on the local CPU. That's just work for nothing and can be further
improved.
If the local CPU is part of the NOISE housekeeping mask, then check:
1) Whether the local CPU has the tick running, which means it is
either not idle or already expecting a timer soon.
2) Whether the tick is stopped and need_resched() is set, which
means the CPU is about to exit idle.
This reduces the amount of hrtimer base switch attempts, which end up on
the local CPU anyway, significantly and prepares for further optimizations.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:28 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Optimize for local timers
The decision whether to keep timers on the local CPU or on the CPU they are
associated to is suboptimal and causes the expensive switch_hrtimer_base()
mechanism to be invoked more than necessary. This is especially true for
pinned timers.
Rewrite the decision logic so that the current base is kept if:
1) The callback is running on the base
2) The timer is associated to the local CPU and the first expiring timer as
that allows to optimize for reprogramming avoidance
3) The timer is associated to the local CPU and pinned
4) The timer is associated to the local CPU and timer migration is
disabled.
Only #2 was covered by the original code, but especially #3 makes a
difference for high frequency rearming timers like the scheduler hrtick
timer. If timer migration is disabled, then #4 avoids most of the base
switches.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37:23 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
hrtimer: Convert state and properties to boolean
All 'u8' flags are true booleans, so make it entirely clear that these can
only contain true or false.
This is especially true for hrtimer::state, which has a historical leftover
of using the state with bitwise operations. That was used in the early
hrtimer implementation with several bits, but then converted to a boolean
state. But that conversion missed to replace the bit OR and bit check
operations all over the place, which creates suboptimal code. As of today
'state' is a misnomer because it's only purpose is to reflect whether the
timer is enqueued into the RB-tree or not. Rename it to 'is_queued' and
make all operations on it boolean.
Which is incorrect as the timer doesn't get canceled. Just the expiry time
changes. The internal dequeue operation which is required for that is not
really interesting for trace analysis. But it makes it tedious to keep real
cancellations and the above case apart.
Remove the cancel tracing in hrtimer_start() and add a 'was_armed'
indicator to the hrtimer start tracepoint, which clearly indicates what the
state of the hrtimer is when hrtimer_start() is invoked:
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:54 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
hrtimer: Add debug object init assertion
The debug object coverage in hrtimer_start_range_ns() happens too late to
do anything useful. Implement the init assert assertion part and invoke
that early in hrtimer_start_range_ns().
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:49 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
x86/apic: Enable TSC coupled programming mode
The TSC deadline timer is directly coupled to the TSC and setting the next
deadline is tedious as the clockevents core code converts the
CLOCK_MONOTONIC based absolute expiry time to a relative expiry by reading
the current time from the TSC. It converts that delta to cycles and hands
the result to lapic_next_deadline(), which then has read to the TSC and add
the delta to program the timer.
The core code now supports coupled clock event devices and can provide the
expiry time in TSC cycles directly without reading the TSC at all.
This obviouly works only when the TSC is the current clocksource, but
that's the default for all modern CPUs which implement the TSC deadline
timer. If the TSC is not the current clocksource (e.g. early boot) then the
core code falls back to the relative set_next_event() callback as before.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:45 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
clockevents: Provide support for clocksource coupled comparators
Some clockevent devices are coupled to the system clocksource by
implementing a less than or equal comparator which compares the programmed
absolute expiry time against the underlying time counter.
The timekeeping core provides a function to convert and absolute
CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry time to a absolute clock cycles time which can
be directly fed into the comparator. That spares two time reads in the next
event progamming path, one to convert the absolute nanoseconds time to a
delta value and the other to convert the delta value back to a absolute
time value suitable for the comparator.
Provide a new clocksource callback which takes the absolute cycle value and
wire it up in clockevents_program_event(). Similar to clocksources allow
architectures to inline the rearm operation.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:40 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
timekeeping: Provide infrastructure for coupled clockevents
Some architectures have clockevent devices which are coupled to the system
clocksource by implementing a less than or equal comparator which compares
the programmed absolute expiry time against the underlying time
counter. Well known examples are TSC/TSC deadline timer and the S390 TOD
clocksource/comparator.
While the concept is nice it has some downsides:
1) The clockevents core code is strictly based on relative expiry times
as that's the most common case for clockevent device hardware. That
requires to convert the absolute expiry time provided by the caller
(hrtimers, NOHZ code) to a relative expiry time by reading and
substracting the current time.
The clockevent::set_next_event() callback must then read the counter
again to convert the relative expiry back into a absolute one.
2) The conversion factors from nanoseconds to counter clock cycles are
set up when the clockevent is registered. When NTP applies corrections
then the clockevent conversion factors can deviate from the
clocksource conversion substantially which either results in timers
firing late or in the worst case early. The early expiry then needs to
do a reprogam with a short delta.
In most cases this is papered over by the fact that the read in the
set_next_event() callback happens after the read which is used to
calculate the delta. So the tendency is that timers expire mostly
late.
All of this can be avoided by providing support for these devices in the
core code:
1) The timekeeping core keeps track of the last update to the clocksource
by storing the base nanoseconds and the corresponding clocksource
counter value. That's used to keep the conversion math for reading the
time within 64-bit in the common case.
This information can be used to avoid both reads of the underlying
clocksource in the clockevents reprogramming path:
The resulting cycles value can be directly used to program the
comparator.
2) As #1 does not longer provide the "compensation" through the second
read the deviation of the clocksource and clockevent conversions
caused by NTP become more prominent.
This can be cured by letting the timekeeping core compute and store
the reverse conversion factors when the clocksource cycles to
nanoseconds factors are modified by NTP:
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:29 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
x86/apic: Remove pointless fence in lapic_next_deadline()
lapic_next_deadline() contains a fence before the TSC read and the write to
the TSC_DEADLINE MSR with a content free and therefore useless comment:
/* This MSR is special and need a special fence: */
The MSR is not really special. It is just not a serializing MSR, but that
does not matter at all in this context as all of these operations are
strictly CPU local.
The only thing the fence prevents is that the RDTSC is speculated ahead,
but that's not really relevant as the delta is calculated way before based
on a previous TSC read and therefore inaccurate by definition.
So removing the fence is just making it slightly more inaccurate in the
worst case, but that is irrelevant as it's way below the actual system
immanent latencies and variations.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:20 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
timekeeping: Allow inlining clocksource::read()
On some architectures clocksource::read() boils down to a single
instruction, so the indirect function call is just a massive overhead
especially with speculative execution mitigations in effect.
Allow architectures to enable conditional inlining of that read to avoid
that by:
- providing a static branch to switch to the inlined variant
- disabling the branch before clocksource changes
- enabling the branch after a clocksource change, when the clocksource
indicates in a feature flag that it is the one which provides the
inlined variant
This is intentionally not a static call as that would only remove the
indirect call, but not the rest of the overhead.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:10 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
tick/sched: Avoid hrtimer_cancel/start() sequence
The sequence of cancel and start is inefficient. It has to do the timer
lock/unlock twice and in the worst case has to reprogram the underlying
clock event device twice.
The reason why it is done this way is the usage of hrtimer_forward_now(),
which requires the timer to be inactive.
But that can be completely avoided as the forward can be done on a variable
and does not need any of the overrun accounting provided by
hrtimer_forward_now().
Implement a trivial forwarding mechanism and replace the cancel/reprogram
sequence with hrtimer_start(..., new_expiry).
For the non high resolution case the timer is not actually armed, but used
for storage so that code checking for expiry times can unconditially look
it up in the timer. So it is safe for that case to set the new expiry time
directly.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:06 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
sched/hrtick: Mark hrtick timer LAZY_REARM
The hrtick timer is frequently rearmed before expiry and most of the time
the new expiry is past the armed one. As this happens on every context
switch it becomes expensive with scheduling heavy work loads especially in
virtual machines as the "hardware" reprogamming implies a VM exit.
hrtimer now provide a lazy rearm mode flag which skips the reprogamming if:
1) The timer was the first expiring timer before the rearm
2) The new expiry time is farther out than the armed time
This avoids a massive amount of reprogramming operations of the hrtick
timer for the price of eventually taking the alredy armed interrupt for
nothing.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:36:01 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
hrtimer: Provide LAZY_REARM mode
The hrtick timer is frequently rearmed before expiry and most of the time
the new expiry is past the armed one. As this happens on every context
switch it becomes expensive with scheduling heavy work loads especially in
virtual machines as the "hardware" reprogamming implies a VM exit.
Add a lazy rearm mode flag which skips the reprogamming if:
1) The timer was the first expiring timer before the rearm
2) The new expiry time is farther out than the armed time
This avoids a massive amount of reprogramming operations of the hrtick
timer for the price of eventually taking the alredy armed interrupt for
nothing.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:35:56 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
sched/hrtick: Avoid tiny hrtick rearms
Tiny adjustments to the hrtick expiry time below 5 microseconds are just
causing extra work for no real value. Filter them out when restarting the
hrtick.
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:35:52 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
sched: Optimize hrtimer handling
schedule() provides several mechanisms to update the hrtick timer:
1) When the next task is picked
2) When the balance callbacks are invoked before rq::lock is released
Each of them can result in a first expiring timer and cause a reprogram of
the clock event device.
Solve this by deferring the rearm to the end of schedule() right before
releasing rq::lock by setting a flag on entry which tells hrtick_start() to
cache the runtime constraint in rq::hrtick_delay without touching the timer
itself.
Right before releasing rq::lock evaluate the flags and either rearm or
cancel the hrtick timer.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:35:37 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
hrtimer: Avoid pointless reprogramming in __hrtimer_start_range_ns()
Much like hrtimer_reprogram(), skip programming if the cpu_base is running
the hrtimer interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163429.069535561@kernel.org
Since the tick causes hard preemption, the hrtick should too.
Letting the hrtick do lazy preemption completely defeats the purpose, since
it will then still be delayed until a old tick and be dependent on
CONFIG_HZ.
hrtick_update() was needed when the slice depended on nr_running, all that
code is gone. All that remains is starting the hrtick when nr_running
becomes more than 1.
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:35:17 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
sched/eevdf: Fix HRTICK duration
The nominal duration for an EEVDF task to run is until its deadline. At
which point the deadline is moved ahead and a new task selection is done.
Try and predict the time 'lost' to higher scheduling classes. Since this is
an estimate, the timer can be both early or late. In case it is early
task_tick_fair() will take the !need_resched() path and restarts the timer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224163428.798198874@kernel.org
Petr Pavlu [Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:26:15 +0000 (12:26 +0100)]
jiffies: Remove unused __jiffy_arch_data
The __jiffy_arch_data definition was added in 2017 by commit 60b0a8c3d248
("frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section") for the needs
of the frv port. The frv support was removed in 2018 by commit fd8773f9f544
("arch: remove frv port") and no other architecture has required
__jiffy_arch_data. Therefore, remove this unused definition.
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:09:33 +0000 (13:09 -0800)]
Merge tag 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux
Pull crypto library fix from Eric Biggers:
"Fix a big endian specific issue in the PPC64-optimized AES code"
* tag 'libcrypto-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
lib/crypto: powerpc/aes: Fix rndkey_from_vsx() on big endian CPUs
Mark Brown [Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:10:46 +0000 (13:10 +0000)]
CREDITS: Add -next to Stephen Rothwell's entry
Stephen retired and stepped back from -next maintainership, update his
entry in CREDITS to recognise his 18 years of hard work making it what
it is today and all the impact it's had on our development process.
Also update to his current GnuPG key while we're here.
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arnd Bergmann [Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:26:49 +0000 (08:26 +0000)]
x509: select CONFIG_CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256
The x509 public key code gained a dependency on the sha256 hash
implementation, causing a rare link time failure in randconfig
builds:
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.o: in function `x509_get_sig_params':
x509_public_key.c:(.text.x509_get_sig_params+0x12): undefined reference to `sha256'
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: (sha256): Unknown destination type (ARM/Thumb) in crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.o
x509_public_key.c:(.text.x509_get_sig_params+0x12): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation
Select the necessary library code from Kconfig.
Fixes: 2c62068ac86b ("x509: Separately calculate sha256 for blacklist") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Haiyue Wang [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:11:00 +0000 (20:11 +0800)]
xz: fix arm fdt compile error for kmalloc replacement
Align to the commit bf4afc53b77a ("Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the
new default GFP_KERNEL argument") update the 'kmalloc_obj' declaration
for userspace to fix below compile error:
In file included from arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c:241,
from arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c:56:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c: In function 'xz_dec_init':
arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c:787:28: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmalloc_obj'; did you mean 'kmalloc'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
787 | struct xz_dec *s = kmalloc_obj(*s);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
| kmalloc
Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyuewa@163.com> Fixes: 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types") Fixes: bf4afc53b77a ("Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument") Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Acked-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:43:11 +0000 (09:43 -0800)]
Merge tag 'rtc-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux
Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
- loongson: Loongson-2K0300 support
- s35390a: nvmem support
- zynqmp: rework calibration
* tag 'rtc-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux:
rtc: ds1390: fix number of bytes read from RTC
rtc: class: Remove duplicate check for alarm
rtc: optee: simplify OP-TEE context match
rtc: interface: Alarm race handling should not discard preceding error
rtc: s35390a: implement nvmem support
rtc: loongson: Add Loongson-2K0300 support
dt-bindings: rtc: loongson: Document Loongson-2K0300 compatible
dt-bindings: rtc: loongson: Correct Loongson-1C interrupts property
dt-bindings: rtc: renesas,rz-rtca3: Add RZ/V2N support
dt-bindings: rtc: cpcap: convert to schema
rtc: zynqmp: use dynamic max and min offset ranges
rtc: zynqmp: rework set_offset
rtc: zynqmp: rework read_offset
rtc: zynqmp: check calibration max value
rtc: zynqmp: correct frequency value
rtc: amlogic-a4: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT
rtc: pcf8563: use correct of_node for output clock
rtc: max31335: use correct CONFIG symbol in IS_REACHABLE()
rtc: nvvrs: Add ARCH_TEGRA to the NV VRS RTC driver
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:43:31 +0000 (08:43 -0800)]
Merge tag 'rust-fixes-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux
Pull rust fixes from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Pass '-Zunstable-options' flag required by the future Rust 1.95.0
- Fix 'objtool' warning for Rust 1.84.0
'kernel' crate:
- 'irq' module: add missing bound detected by the future Rust 1.95.0
- 'list' module: add missing 'unsafe' blocks and placeholder safety
comments to macros (an issue for future callers within the crate)
'pin-init' crate:
- Clean Clippy warning that changed behavior in the future Rust
1.95.0"
* tag 'rust-fixes-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux:
rust: list: Add unsafe blocks for container_of and safety comments
rust: pin-init: replace clippy `expect` with `allow`
rust: irq: add `'static` bounds to irq callbacks
objtool/rust: add one more `noreturn` Rust function
rust: kbuild: pass `-Zunstable-options` for Rust 1.95.0
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:40:13 +0000 (08:40 -0800)]
Merge tag 'trace-rv-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull runtime verifier fix from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix multiple definition of __pcpu_unique_da_mon_this
After refactoring monitors, we used static per-cpu variables with the
same names across different per-cpu monitors. This is explicitly
disallowed for modules on some architectures (alpha) or if
CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU is enabled (e.g. Fedora's debug
kernel). Make sure all those variables have different names to avoid
compilation issues.
* tag 'trace-rv-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
rv: Fix multiple definition of __pcpu_unique_da_mon_this
@gfp depends on patch && !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@
identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
@@
ALLOC(...
- , GFP_KERNEL
)
$ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci
Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:03:00 +0000 (20:03 -0800)]
Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.
Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.
So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.
The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:06:51 +0000 (17:06 -0800)]
Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.
As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:14:11 +0000 (16:14 -0800)]
add default_gfp() helper macro and use it in the new *alloc_obj() helpers
Most simple allocations use GFP_KERNEL, and with the new allocation
helpers being introduced, let's just take advantage of that to simplify
that default case.
shows that about 90% of all those new allocator instances just use that
standard GFP_KERNEL.
Those helpers are already macros, and we can easily just make it be the
default case when the gfp argument is missing.
And yes, we could do that for all the legacy interfaces too, but let's
keep it to just the new ones at least for now, since those all got
converted recently anyway, so this is not any "extra" noise outside of
that limited conversion.
And, in fact, I want to do this before doing the -rc1 release, exactly
so that we don't get extra merge conflicts.
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:12:09 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
slab.h: disable completely broken overflow handling in flex allocations
Commit 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for
non-scalar types") started using the new allocation helpers, and in the
process showed that they were completely non-working.
The overflow logic in overflows_flex_counter_type() is completely the
wrong way around, and that broke __alloc_flex() completely. By chance,
the resulting code was then such a mess that clang generated
sufficiently garbage code that objtool warned about it all. Which made
it somewhat quicker to narrow things down.
While fixing overflows_flex_counter_type() would presumably fix this
all, I'm excising the whole broken overflow logic from __alloc_flex(),
because we don't want that kind of code in basic allocation functions
anyway.
That (no longer) broken overflows_flex_counter_type() thing needs to be
inserted into the actual __set_flex_counter() logic in the unlikely case
that we ever want this at all. And made conditional.
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:02:58 +0000 (11:02 -0800)]
Merge tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook:
"This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj() and friends using
coccinelle, with a subsequent small manual cleanup of whitespace
alignment that coccinelle does not handle.
This uncovered a clang bug in __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so the
conversion is preceded by disabling that for current versions of
clang. The imminent clang 22.1 release has the fix.
I've done allmodconfig build tests for x86_64, arm64, i386, and arm. I
did defconfig builds for alpha, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, riscv,
s390, sparc, sh, arc, csky, xtensa, hexagon, and openrisc"
* tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements
treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
- Fixes and improvements for ARM's CoreSight support, simplify ARM SPE
event config in 'perf mem', update docs for 'perf c2c' including the
ARM events it can be used with
- Build support for generating metrics from arch specific python
script, add extra AMD, Intel, ARM64 metrics using it
- Add AMD Zen 6 events and metrics
- Add JSON file with OpenHW Risc-V CVA6 hardware counters
- Add 'perf kvm' stats live testing
- Add more 'perf stat' tests to 'perf test'
- Fix segfault in `perf lock contention -b/--use-bpf`
- Fix various 'perf test' cases for s390
- Build system cleanups, bump minimum shellcheck version to 0.7.2
- Support building the capstone based annotation routines as a plugin
- Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.0-1-2026-02-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (255 commits)
perf test script: Add python script testing support
perf test script: Add perl script testing support
perf script: Allow the generated script to be a path
perf test: perf data --to-ctf testing
perf test: Test pipe mode with data conversion --to-json
perf json: Pipe mode --to-ctf support
perf json: Pipe mode --to-json support
perf check: Add libbabeltrace to the listed features
perf build: Allow passing extra Clang flags via EXTRA_BPF_FLAGS
perf test data_type_profiling.sh: Skip just the Rust tests if code_with_type workload is missing
tools build: Fix feature test for rust compiler
perf libunwind: Fix calls to thread__e_machine()
perf stat: Add no-affinity flag
perf evlist: Reduce affinity use and move into iterator, fix no affinity
perf evlist: Missing TPEBS close in evlist__close()
perf evlist: Special map propagation for tool events that read on 1 CPU
perf stat-shadow: In prepare_metric fix guard on reading NULL perf_stat_evsel
Revert "perf tool_pmu: More accurately set the cpus for tool events"
tools build: Emit dependencies file for test-rust.bin
tools build: Make test-rust.bin be removed by the 'clean' target
...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:25:42 +0000 (10:25 -0800)]
Merge tag 'cocci-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlawall/linux
Pull coccinelle updates from Julia Lawall:
"This simplifies and clarifies the handling of output generated by
Coccinelle that is sent to standard error.
By default, this goes to /dev/null. Remind the user of that and
encourage them to provide another file name (Benjamin Philip)"
* tag 'cocci-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlawall/linux:
Documentation: Coccinelle: document debug log handling
scripts: coccicheck: warn on unset debug file
scripts: coccicheck: simplify debug file handling
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:20:32 +0000 (10:20 -0800)]
Merge tag 'ntb-7.0' of https://github.com/jonmason/ntb
Pull NTB (PCIe non-transparent bridge) updates from Jon Mason:
"NTB updates include debugfs improvements, correctness fixes, cleanups,
and new hardware support:
ntb_transport QP stats are converted to seq_file, a tx_memcpy_offload
module parameter is introduced with associated ordering fixes, and a
debugfs queue name truncation bug is corrected.
Additional fixes address format specifier mismatches in ntb_tool and
boundary conditions in the Switchtec driver, while unused MSI helpers
are removed and the codebase migrates to dma_map_phys().
Intel Gen6 (Diamond Rapids) NTB support is also added"
* tag 'ntb-7.0' of https://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
NTB: ntb_transport: Use seq_file for QP stats debugfs
NTB: ntb_transport: Fix too small buffer for debugfs_name
ntb/ntb_tool: correct sscanf format for u64 and size_t in tool_peer_mw_trans_write
ntb: intel: Add Intel Gen6 NTB support for DiamondRapids
NTB/msi: Remove unused functions
ntb: ntb_hw_switchtec: Increase MAX_MWS limit to 256
ntb: ntb_hw_switchtec: Fix array-index-out-of-bounds access
ntb: ntb_hw_switchtec: Fix shift-out-of-bounds for 0 mw lut
NTB: epf: allow built-in build
ntb: migrate to dma_map_phys instead of map_page
NTB: ntb_transport: Add 'tx_memcpy_offload' module option
NTB: ntb_transport: Remove unused 'retries' field from ntb_queue_entry
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:05:49 +0000 (10:05 -0800)]
Merge tag 'io_uring-20260221' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe:
- A fix for a missing URING_CMD128 opcode check, fixing an issue with
the SQE mixed mode support introduced in 6.19. Merged late due to
having multiple dependencies
- Add sqe->cmd size checking for big SQEs, similar to what we have for
normal sized SQEs
- Fix a race condition in zcrx, that leads to a double free
* tag 'io_uring-20260221' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
io_uring: Add size check for sqe->cmd
io_uring: add IORING_OP_URING_CMD128 to opcode checks
io_uring/zcrx: fix user_ref race between scrub and refill paths
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:38:59 +0000 (09:38 -0800)]
Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.0-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
- Various bug fixes for the example schedulers and selftests
* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.0-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
tools/sched_ext: fix getopt not re-parsed on restart
tools/sched_ext: scx_userland: fix data races on shared counters
tools/sched_ext: scx_pair: fix stride == 0 crash on single-CPU systems
tools/sched_ext: scx_central: fix CPU_SET and skeleton leak on early exit
tools/sched_ext: scx_userland: fix stale data on restart
tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: fix potential stack overflow from VLA in fcg_read_stats
selftests/sched_ext: Fix rt_stall flaky failure
tools/sched_ext: scx_userland: fix restart and stats thread lifecycle bugs
tools/sched_ext: scx_central: fix sched_setaffinity() call with the set size
tools/sched_ext: scx_flatcg: zero-initialize stats counter array
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:11:32 +0000 (09:11 -0800)]
Merge tag 'v7.0-rc-part2-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd
Pull smb server fixes from Steve French:
"Two small fixes:
- fix potential deadlock
- minor cleanup"
* tag 'v7.0-rc-part2-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd:
ksmbd: call ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_end_removing() on some error paths
smb: server: Remove duplicate include of misc.h
The current debug documentation does not mention that logs are printed
to stdout unless DEBUG_FILE is set. It also doesn't mention that
Coccinelle cannot overwrite debug files.
Document this behaviour in the examples and reference it in the
debugging section.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Philip <benjamin.philip495@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Benjamin Philip [Tue, 6 Jan 2026 19:08:35 +0000 (00:38 +0530)]
scripts: coccicheck: warn on unset debug file
coccicheck prints debug logs to stdout unless a debug file has been set.
This makes it hard to read coccinelle's suggested changes, especially
for someone new to coccicheck.
From this commit, we warn about this behaviour from within the script on
an unset debug file. Explicitly setting the debug file to /dev/null
suppresses the warning while keeping the default.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Philip <benjamin.philip495@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Kees Cook [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:49:23 +0000 (23:49 -0800)]
treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Kees Cook [Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:15:58 +0000 (13:15 -0800)]
compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
Unfortunately, there is a corner case of __builtin_counted_by_ref()
usage that crashes[1] Clang since support was introduced in Clang 19.
Disable it prior to Clang 22. Found while tested kmalloc_obj treewide
refactoring (via kmalloc_flex() usage).
David Carlier [Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:22:35 +0000 (19:22 +0000)]
tools/sched_ext: fix getopt not re-parsed on restart
After goto restart, optind retains its advanced position from the
previous getopt loop, causing getopt() to immediately return -1.
This silently drops all command-line options on the restarted skeleton.
Reset optind to 1 at the restart label so options are re-parsed.
David Carlier [Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:22:23 +0000 (19:22 +0000)]
tools/sched_ext: scx_userland: fix data races on shared counters
The stats thread reads nr_vruntime_enqueues, nr_vruntime_dispatches,
nr_vruntime_failed, and nr_curr_enqueued concurrently with the main
thread writing them, with no synchronization.
Use __atomic builtins with relaxed ordering for all accesses to these
counters to eliminate the data races.
Only display accuracy is affected, not scheduling correctness.
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:14:36 +0000 (17:14 -0800)]
Merge tag 'spi-fix-v7.0-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
"There's a relatively large but ultimately simple fix for spidev here
which addresses some ABBA races by simplifying down to just using a
single lock, it's not clear to me that there was ever any benefit in
having the two separate locks in the first place.
We also have simple missing error check fix in in the wpcm-fiu driver"
* tag 'spi-fix-v7.0-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
spi: spidev: fix lock inversion between spi_lock and buf_lock
spi: wpcm-fiu: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in wpcm_fiu_probe()
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:11:55 +0000 (17:11 -0800)]
Merge tag 'regulator-fix-v7.0-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator
Pull regulator fixes from Mark Brown:
"A few driver specific fixes, plus a patch from Bjorn which removes a
fixed limit on regulator names that was breaking some Qualcomm
systems"
* tag 'regulator-fix-v7.0-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator:
regulator: s2mps11: fix pctrlsel macro usage in s2mpg10_of_parse_cb()
regulator: s2mps11: drop redundant sanity checks in s2mpg10_of_parse_cb()
regulator: core: Remove regulator supply_name length limit
regulator: mt6363: Fix interrmittent timeout
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