Merge tag 'v6.6.63' into for/openbmc/dev-6.6

This is the 6.6.63 stable release

ARM: 9419/1: mm: Fix kernel memory mapping for xip kernels

[ Upstream commit ed6cbe6e5563452f305e89c15846820f2874e431 ]

The patchset introducing kernel_sec_start/end variables to separate the
kerne

ARM: 9419/1: mm: Fix kernel memory mapping for xip kernels

[ Upstream commit ed6cbe6e5563452f305e89c15846820f2874e431 ]

The patchset introducing kernel_sec_start/end variables to separate the
kernel/lowmem memory mappings, broke the mapping of the kernel memory
for xipkernels.

kernel_sec_start/end variables are in RO area before the MMU is switched
on for xipkernels.
So these cannot be set early in boot in head.S. Fix this by setting these
after MMU is switched on.
xipkernels need two different mappings for kernel text (starting at
CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR) and data (starting at CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET).
Also, move the kernel code mapping from devicemaps_init() to map_kernel().

Fixes: a91da5457085 ("ARM: 9089/1: Define kernel physical section start and end")
Signed-off-by: Harith George <harith.g@alifsemi.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

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

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_a

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_avail_list")

- Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

- Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
of mas_store()").

- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

- Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

- xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

- Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

- David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

- Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
UFFD").

- Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
check").

- Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

- Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

- Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

- Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

- More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
folio").

- page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

- Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

- Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

- Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

- Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
upgrade").

- Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
for arm64").

- Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

- Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

- Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
optimization for ppc64").

- page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

- Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
cleanups").

- kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

- VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

- DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

- Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

- Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

- ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
("cleanup with helper macro K()").

- Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

- pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
migratetype").

- Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
"struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

- memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
for vm.memfd_noexec").

- MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

- THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
output").

- kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

- More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
and _folio_order").

- A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

- pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
range API").

- A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

- Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").

- Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
mm: remove enum page_entry_size
mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
mm: remove checks for pte_index
memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio
mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
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arm: implement the new page table range API

Add set_ptes(), update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_dcache_folio() and
flush_icache_pages(). Change the PG_dcache_clear flag from being per-page
to per-folio

arm: implement the new page table range API

Add set_ptes(), update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_dcache_folio() and
flush_icache_pages(). Change the PG_dcache_clear flag from being per-page
to per-folio which makes __dma_page_dev_to_cpu() a bit more exciting.
Also add flush_cache_pages(), even though this isn't used by generic code
(yet?)

[m.szyprowski@samsung.com: fix potential endless loop in __dma_page_dev_to_cpu()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809172737.3574190-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com
[willy@infradead.org: fix folio conversion in __dma_page_dev_to_cpu()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823191852.1556561-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-10-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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arm: convert various functions to use ptdescs

As part of the conversions to replace pgtable constructor/destructors with
ptdesc equivalents, convert various page table functions to use ptdescs.

lat

arm: convert various functions to use ptdescs

As part of the conversions to replace pgtable constructor/destructors with
ptdesc equivalents, convert various page table functions to use ptdescs.

late_alloc() also uses the __get_free_pages() helper function. Convert
this to use pagetable_alloc() and ptdesc_address() instead to help
standardize page tables further.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-18-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo V

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

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

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

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

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/1

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

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/121735/

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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

Backmerging to get v6.5-rc2.

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

ASoC: Merge v6.5-rc2

Get a similar baseline to my other branches, and fixes for people using
the branch.

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts or adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge v6.5-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Boris needs 6.5-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to prevent a conflict.

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

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"These are cleanups for architecture specific header files

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"These are cleanups for architecture specific header files:

- the comments in include/linux/syscalls.h have gone out of sync and
are really pointless, so these get removed

- The asm/bitsperlong.h header no longer needs to be architecture
specific on modern compilers, so use a generic version for newer
architectures that use new enough userspace compilers

- A cleanup for virt_to_pfn/virt_to_bus to have proper type checking,
forcing the use of pointers"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
syscalls: Remove file path comments from headers
tools arch: Remove uapi bitsperlong.h of hexagon and microblaze
asm-generic: Unify uapi bitsperlong.h for arm64, riscv and loongarch
m68k/mm: Make pfn accessors static inlines
arm64: memory: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline
ARM: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline
asm-generic/page.h: Make pfn accessors static inlines
xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page()
netfs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()
cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() in cifsglob
cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()
riscv: mm: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()
ARC: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() in init
m68k: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() virt_to_page()
fs/proc/kcore.c: Pass a pointer to virt_addr_valid()

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Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

- lots of build cleanups from Arnd spread throughout the arch/arm tree

- replace strlcpy() w

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

- lots of build cleanups from Arnd spread throughout the arch/arm tree

- replace strlcpy() with the preferred strscpy()

- use sign_extend32() in the module linker

- drop handle_irq() machine descriptor method

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 9315/1: fiq: include asm/mach/irq.h for prototypes
ARM: 9314/1: tcm: move tcm_init() prototype to asm/tcm.h
ARM: 9313/1: vdso: add missing prototypes
ARM: 9312/1: vfp: include asm/neon.h in vfpmodule.c
ARM: 9311/1: decompressor: move function prototypes to misc.h
ARM: 9310/1: xip-kernel: add __inflate_kernel_data prototype
ARM: 9309/1: add missing syscall prototypes
ARM: 9308/1: move setup functions to header
ARM: 9307/1: nommu: include asm/idmap.h
ARM: 9306/1: cacheflush: avoid __flush_anon_page() missing-prototype warning
ARM: 9305/1: add clear/copy_user_highpage declarations
ARM: 9304/1: add prototype for function called only from asm
ARM: 9303/1: kprobes: avoid missing-declaration warnings
ARM: 9302/1: traps: hide unused functions on NOMMU
ARM: 9301/1: dma-mapping: hide unused dma_contiguous_early_fixup function
ARM: 9300/1: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
ARM: 9299/1: module: use sign_extend32() to extend the signedness
ARM: 9298/1: Drop custom mdesc->handle_irq()

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ARM: 9314/1: tcm: move tcm_init() prototype to asm/tcm.h

The function definition is in a file that does not include the
header with the declaration:

arch/arm/kernel/tcm.c:256:13: error: no previous

ARM: 9314/1: tcm: move tcm_init() prototype to asm/tcm.h

The function definition is in a file that does not include the
header with the declaration:

arch/arm/kernel/tcm.c:256:13: error: no previous prototype for 'tcm_init'

Move the declaration to a global header where it can actually be
included.

Fixes: de40614e92bf ("ARM: 7694/1: ARM, TCM: initialize TCM in paging_init(), instead of setup_arch()")
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

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Merge tag 'virt-to-pfn-for-arch-v6.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-integrator into asm-generic

This is an attempt to harden the typing on virt_to_pfn()
and pfn_to_

Merge tag 'virt-to-pfn-for-arch-v6.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-integrator into asm-generic

This is an attempt to harden the typing on virt_to_pfn()
and pfn_to_virt().

Making virt_to_pfn() a static inline taking a strongly typed
(const void *) makes the contract of a passing a pointer of that
type to the function explicit and exposes any misuse of the
macro virt_to_pfn() acting polymorphic and accepting many types
such as (void *), (unitptr_t) or (unsigned long) as arguments
without warnings.

For symmetry, we do the same with pfn_to_virt().

The problem with this inconsistent typing was pointed out by
Russell King:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/YoJDKJXc0MJ2QZTb@shell.armlinux.org.uk/

And confirmed by Andrew Morton:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220701160004.2ffff4e5ab59a55499f4c736@linux-foundation.org/

So the recognition of the problem is widespread.

These platforms have been chosen as initial conversion targets:

- ARM
- ARM64/Aarch64
- asm-generic (including for example x86)
- m68k

The idea is that if this goes in, it will block further misuse
of the function signatures due to the large compile coverage,
and then I can go in and fix the remaining architectures on a
one-by-one basis.

Some of the patches have been circulated before but were not
picked up by subsystem maintainers, so now the arch tree is
target for this series.

It has passed zeroday builds after a lot of iterations in my
personal tree, but there could be some randconfig outliers.
New added or deeply hidden problems appear all the time so
some minor fallout can be expected.

* tag 'virt-to-pfn-for-arch-v6.5-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-integrator:
m68k/mm: Make pfn accessors static inlines
arm64: memory: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline
ARM: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline
asm-generic/page.h: Make pfn accessors static inlines
xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page()
netfs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()
cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() in cifsglob
cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()
riscv: mm: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page()
ARC: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() in init
m68k: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() virt_to_page()
fs/proc/kcore.c: Pass a pointer to virt_addr_valid()

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ARM: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline

Making virt_to_pfn() a static inline taking a strongly typed
(const void *) makes the contract of a passing a pointer of that
type to the function explici

ARM: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline

Making virt_to_pfn() a static inline taking a strongly typed
(const void *) makes the contract of a passing a pointer of that
type to the function explicit and exposes any misuse of the
macro virt_to_pfn() acting polymorphic and accepting many types
such as (void *), (unitptr_t) or (unsigned long) as arguments
without warnings.

Doing this is a bit intrusive: virt_to_pfn() requires
PHYS_PFN_OFFSET and PAGE_SHIFT to be defined, and this is defined in
<asm/page.h>, so this must be included *before* <asm/memory.h>.

The use of macros were obscuring the unclear inclusion order here,
as the macros would eventually be resolved, but a static inline
like this cannot be compiled with unresolved macros.

The naive solution to include <asm/page.h> at the top of
<asm/memory.h> does not work, because <asm/memory.h> sometimes
includes <asm/page.h> at the end of itself, which would create a
confusing inclusion loop. So instead, take the approach to always
unconditionally include <asm/page.h> at the end of <asm/memory.h>

arch/arm uses <asm/memory.h> explicitly in a lot of places,
however it turns out that if we just unconditionally include
<asm/memory.h> into <asm/page.h> and switch all inclusions of
<asm/memory.h> to <asm/page.h> instead, we enforce the right
order and <asm/memory.h> will always have access to the
definitions.

Put an inclusion guard in place making it impossible to include
<asm/memory.h> explicitly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220701160004.2ffff4e5ab59a55499f4c736@linux-foundation.org/
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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Merge branch 'main' into zstd-linus

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.2 merge window.

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

Backmerging to update drm-misc-next-fixes for the final phase
of the release cycle.

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

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

Catch up on 6.1-rc cycle in order to solve the intel_backlight
conflict on linux-next.

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

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

Needed to bring in v6.1-rc1 which contains commit f683b9d61319 ("i915: use the VMA iterator")
which is needed for series https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/s

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

Needed to bring in v6.1-rc1 which contains commit f683b9d61319 ("i915: use the VMA iterator")
which is needed for series https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/110083/ .

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge branch 'main' into zstd-next

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

Backmerging to get v6.1-rc1.

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