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# 0fc8f620 27-Apr-2026 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Getting fixes and updates from v7.1-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# f4b369c6 20-Apr-2026 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 7.1 merge window.


# eb5249b1 18-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'parisc-for-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

Pull parisc architecture updates from Helge Deller:

- A fix to make modules on 32-bit parisc arc

Merge tag 'parisc-for-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

Pull parisc architecture updates from Helge Deller:

- A fix to make modules on 32-bit parisc architecture work again

- Drop ip_fast_csum() inline assembly to avoid unaligned memory
accesses

- Allow to build kernel without 32-bit VDSO

- Reference leak fix in error path in LED driver

* tag 'parisc-for-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: led: fix reference leak on failed device registration
module.lds.S: Fix modules on 32-bit parisc architecture
parisc: Allow to build without VDSO32
parisc: Include 32-bit VDSO only when building for 32-bit or compat mode
parisc: Allow to disable COMPAT mode on 64-bit kernel
parisc: Fix default stack size when COMPAT=n
parisc: Fix signal code to depend on CONFIG_COMPAT instead of CONFIG_64BIT
parisc: is_compat_task() shall return false for COMPAT=n
parisc: Avoid compat syscalls when COMPAT=n
parisc: _llseek syscall is only available for 32-bit userspace
parisc: Drop ip_fast_csum() inline assembly implementation
parisc: update outdated comments for renamed ccio_alloc_consistent()

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# 1221365f 07-Apr-2026 Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

module.lds.S: Fix modules on 32-bit parisc architecture

On the 32-bit parisc architecture, we always used the
-ffunction-sections compiler option to tell the compiler to put the
functions into seper

module.lds.S: Fix modules on 32-bit parisc architecture

On the 32-bit parisc architecture, we always used the
-ffunction-sections compiler option to tell the compiler to put the
functions into seperate text sections. This is necessary, otherwise
"big" kernel modules like ext4 or ipv6 fail to load because some
branches won't be able to reach their stubs.

Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related
macros") broke this for parisc because all text sections will get
unconditionally merged now.

Introduce the ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_TEXT_SECTIONS config option which
avoids the text section merge for modules, and fix this issue by
enabling this option by default for 32-bit parisc.

Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros")
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

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# 88b29f3f 15-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux

Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen:
"Kernel symbol flags:

- Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sect

Merge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux

Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen:
"Kernel symbol flags:

- Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and
__kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new __kflagstab
section.

This section stores symbol flags, such as the GPL-only flag, as an
8-bit bitset for each exported symbol. This is a cleanup that
simplifies symbol lookup in the module loader by avoiding table
fragmentation and will allow a cleaner way to add more flags later
if needed.

Module signature UAPI:

- Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse by
tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and
scripts/sign-file.

This also renames a few constants for clarity and drops unused
signature types as preparation for hash-based module integrity
checking work that's in progress.

Sysfs:

- Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show the
symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules.

This makes it easier to verify driver API access at runtime on
systems that care about such things (e.g. Android).

Cleanups and fixes:

- Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents
non-zero section addresses when linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r',
which confused elfutils.

- Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload when
the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.

- Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to
userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by the
module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded.

- Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive
returns from module_init().

- Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and
synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation"

* tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (23 commits)
module: Simplify warning on positive returns from module_init()
module: Override -EEXIST module return
documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules
module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader
module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections
module: populate kflagstab in modpost
module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules
module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags
selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.h
module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI
module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name
module: Drop unused signature types
extract-cert: drop unused definition of PKEY_ID_PKCS7
docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute
module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs
module: Remove extern keyword from param prototypes
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# f1854025 26-Mar-2026 Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>

module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules

These sections are not used anymore and can be removed from vmlinux and
modules during linking.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@goo

module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules

These sections are not used anymore and can be removed from vmlinux and
modules during linking.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

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# 9743311b 26-Mar-2026 Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>

module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules

This patch introduces a __kflagstab section to store symbol flags in a
dedicated data structure, similar to how CRCs are handled in the
__kcrctab

module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules

This patch introduces a __kflagstab section to store symbol flags in a
dedicated data structure, similar to how CRCs are handled in the
__kcrctab.

The flags for a given symbol in __kflagstab will be located at the same
index as the symbol's entry in __ksymtab and its CRC in __kcrctab. This
design decouples the flags from the symbol table itself, allowing us to
maintain a single, sorted __ksymtab. As a result, the symbol search
remains an efficient, single lookup, regardless of the number of flags
we add in the future.

The motivation for this change comes from the Android kernel, which uses
an additional symbol flag to restrict the use of certain exported
symbols by unsigned modules, thereby enhancing kernel security. This
__kflagstab can be implemented as a bitmap to efficiently manage which
symbols are available for general use versus those restricted to signed
modules only.

This section will contain read-only data for values of kernel symbol
flags in the form of an 8-bit bitsets for each kernel symbol. Each bit
in the bitset represents a flag value defined by ksym_flags enumeration.

Petr Pavlu ran a small test to get a better understanding of the
different section sizes resulting from this patch series. He used
v6.17-rc6 together with the openSUSE x86_64 config [1], which is fairly
large. The resulting vmlinux.bin (no debuginfo) had an on-disk size of
58 MiB, and included 5937 + 6589 (GPL-only) exported symbols.

The following table summarizes his measurements and calculations
regarding the sizes of all sections related to exported symbols:

| HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS | !HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
Section | Base [B] | Ext. [B] | Sep. [B] | Base [B] | Ext. [B] | Sep. [B]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
__ksymtab | 71244 | 200416 | 150312 | 142488 | 400832 | 300624
__ksymtab_gpl | 79068 | NA | NA | 158136 | NA | NA
__kcrctab | 23748 | 50104 | 50104 | 23748 | 50104 | 50104
__kcrctab_gpl | 26356 | NA | NA | 26356 | NA | NA
__ksymtab_strings | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 | 253628
__kflagstab | NA | NA | 12526 | NA | NA | 12526
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total | 454044 | 504148 | 466570 | 604356 | 704564 | 616882
Increase to base [%] | NA | 11.0 | 2.8 | NA | 16.6 | 2.1

The column "HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS -> Base" contains the measured
numbers. The rest of the values are calculated. The "Ext." column
represents an alternative approach of extending __ksymtab to include a
bitset of symbol flags, and the "Sep." column represents the approach of
having a separate __kflagstab. With HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS, each
kernel_symbol is 12 B in size and is extended to 16 B. With
!HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS, it is 24 B, extended to 32 B. Note that
this does not include the metadata needed to relocate __ksymtab*, which
is freed after the initial processing.

Adding __kflagstab as a separate section has a negligible impact, as
expected. When extending __ksymtab (kernel_symbol) instead, the worst
case with !HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS increases the export data size
by 16.6%. Note that the larger increase in size for the latter approach
is due to 4-byte alignment of kernel_symbol data structure, instead of
1-byte alignment for the flags bitset in __kflagstab in the former
approach.

Based on the above, it was concluded that introducing __kflagstab makes
sense, as the added complexity is minimal over extending kernel_symbol,
and there is overall simplification of symbol finding logic in the
module loader.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
[Sami: Updated commit message to include details from the cover letter.]
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

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# 4afc71bb 05-Mar-2026 Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>

module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections

Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and
related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections
unconditio

module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections

Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and
related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections
unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit
address like the other sections in the same file.

When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address
inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in
the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these
sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been
reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1].

Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the
.codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro.

Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958
Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros")
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

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# 0421ccdf 12-Mar-2026 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specifically
changes to ALPS driver.


# 42d3b66d 12-Mar-2026 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 7.00-rc3. Important ahead GPU SVM merging THP
support.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>


# f09812b8 25-Feb-2026 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync with v7.0-rc1 which contains a few treewide changes affecting i915.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>


# 8b85987d 23-Feb-2026 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next window

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# c17ee635 23-Feb-2026 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

7.0-rc1 was just released, let's merge it to kick the new release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# d08008f1 19-Feb-2026 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v7.0-merge-window' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v7.0 merge window

A reasonably small set of fixes and quriks t

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v7.0-merge-window' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v7.0 merge window

A reasonably small set of fixes and quriks that came in during the merge
window, there's one more pending that I'll send tomorrow if you didn't
send a PR already.

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# f14c94d2 10-Feb-2026 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

ASoC: Merge up release

We need to fix some commits that went into the final release.


# 7e0b172c 07-Feb-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar::

- Bump up the Clang minimum version requirements for livepatch

Merge tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar::

- Bump up the Clang minimum version requirements for livepatch
builds, due to Clang assembler section handling bugs causing
silent miscompilations

- Strip livepatching symbol artifacts from non-livepatch modules

- Fix livepatch build warnings when certain Clang LTO options
are enabled

- Fix livepatch build error when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y

* tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool/klp: Fix unexported static call key access for manually built livepatch modules
objtool/klp: Fix symbol correlation for orphaned local symbols
livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization
livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules
livepatch/klp-build: Require Clang assembler >= 20

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# b525fcaf 23-Jan-2026 Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization

The klp_object_ext and klp_func_ext data, which are stored in the
__klp_objects and __klp_funcs sections, respectively, are not needed

livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization

The klp_object_ext and klp_func_ext data, which are stored in the
__klp_objects and __klp_funcs sections, respectively, are not needed
after they are used to create the actual klp_object and klp_func
instances. This operation is implemented by the init function in
scripts/livepatch/init.c.

Prefix the two sections with ".init" so they are freed after the module
is initializated.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123102825.3521961-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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# ab108154 23-Jan-2026 Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules

The linker script scripts/module.lds.S specifies that all input
__klp_objects sections should be consolidated into an output secti

livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules

The linker script scripts/module.lds.S specifies that all input
__klp_objects sections should be consolidated into an output section of
the same name, and start/stop symbols should be created to enable
scripts/livepatch/init.c to locate this data.

This start/stop pattern is not ideal for modules because the symbols are
created even if no __klp_objects input sections are present.
Consequently, a dummy __klp_objects section also appears in the
resulting module. This unnecessarily pollutes non-livepatch modules.

Instead, since modules are relocatable files, the usual method for
locating consolidated data in a module is to read its section table.
This approach avoids the aforementioned problem.

The klp_modinfo already stores a copy of the entire section table with
the final addresses. Introduce a helper function that
scripts/livepatch/init.c can call to obtain the location of the
__klp_objects section from this data.

Fixes: dd590d4d57eb ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123102825.3521961-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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# cc4adab1 20-Jan-2026 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC
config database defining UBWC_6).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.q

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC
config database defining UBWC_6).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

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# 24f171c7 21-Dec-2025 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though not in
any particularly exciting ways - the standout thing is the fix for _SX
controls which were broken by a change to how we do clamping, otherwise
it's all fairly run of the mill fixes and quirks.

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# 5add3c3c 19-Dec-2025 Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 6.19-rc1. An important upstream bugfix and
to help unblock PTL CI.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>


# b8304863 15-Dec-2025 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync-up some display code needed for Async flips refactor.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


# 84318277 15-Dec-2025 Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: M

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

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# 7f790dd2 15-Dec-2025 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's kickstart the v6.20 (7.0?) release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# 63e69950 02-Dec-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

- klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)

Int

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

- klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)

Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate
livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.

This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to
generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a
complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+
years of maintaining kpatch.

Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:

- Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
graph analysis to help detect changed functions.

- Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.

- Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.

- Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.

- Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for
symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction.

- Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines
script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to
preserve the original line numbers at compile time.

- Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump
(Alexandre Chartre)

- Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre,
which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation
specials such as alternatives:

17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | <alternative.17f3> | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax
17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx

... jump table alternatives:

1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch
1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19>
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | <jump_table.189a> | JUMP
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2
189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax
18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx

... exception table alternatives:

native_read_msr:
5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4>
5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx

.... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above):

2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114>
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | <alternative.2fab5> | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5
2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax

... NOP sequence shortening:

1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7>
1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6
1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11
1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11
104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx
104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax

... and much more.

- Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre)

- Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf)

- Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support
(Josh Poimboeuf)

- Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo
Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra,
Thorsten Blum)

* tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives
objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h
objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative
objtool: Add wide output for disassembly
objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction
objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives
objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature
objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives
objtool: Fix address references in alternatives
objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives
objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives
objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions
objtool: Disassemble group alternatives
objtool: Print headers for alternatives
objtool: Preserve alternatives order
objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action
objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites
objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions
objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives
objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives
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