commit 275555fa1bf177ab33cf42db267680c33f0b2c9d Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Fri Aug 21 20:59:29 2026 +0000 Linux 7.2.0-xanmod1 Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 29d92d1b92fb9b3f675e1478e77dd03397c7f522 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Tue Jul 29 01:01:08 2025 +0000 XANMOD: .gitlab-ci: Add gitlab-ci.yml file Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit f67bfad060940360f411828c55284eb5e5c48a59 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Sun Aug 10 03:57:32 2025 -0300 XANMOD: Add GPLv2 license file Required for the GitLab OSS Program. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 020afb98da2e401ad10891db1b86f6fa2a60225a Author: Serge Hallyn Date: Fri May 31 19:12:12 2013 +0100 sysctl: add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default This is a short-term patch. Unprivileged use of CLONE_NEWUSER is certainly an intended feature of user namespaces. However for at least saucy we want to make sure that, if any security issues are found, we have a fail-safe. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn [bwh: Remove unneeded binary sysctl bits] [bwh: Keep this sysctl, but change the default to enabled] Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 84598b0cf5c4dc9c4e5f7842baf53b9885462ac2 Author: Mark Weiman Date: Sun Aug 12 11:36:21 2018 -0400 PCI: Enable overrides for missing ACS capabilities This an updated version of Alex Williamson's patch from: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/30/513 Original commit message follows: PCIe ACS (Access Control Services) is the PCIe 2.0+ feature that allows us to control whether transactions are allowed to be redirected in various subnodes of a PCIe topology. For instance, if two endpoints are below a root port or downsteam switch port, the downstream port may optionally redirect transactions between the devices, bypassing upstream devices. The same can happen internally on multifunction devices. The transaction may never be visible to the upstream devices. One upstream device that we particularly care about is the IOMMU. If a redirection occurs in the topology below the IOMMU, then the IOMMU cannot provide isolation between devices. This is why the PCIe spec encourages topologies to include ACS support. Without it, we have to assume peer-to-peer DMA within a hierarchy can bypass IOMMU isolation. Unfortunately, far too many topologies do not support ACS to make this a steadfast requirement. Even the latest chipsets from Intel are only sporadically supporting ACS. We have trouble getting interconnect vendors to include the PCIe spec required PCIe capability, let alone suggested features. Therefore, we need to add some flexibility. The pcie_acs_override= boot option lets users opt-in specific devices or sets of devices to assume ACS support. The "downstream" option assumes full ACS support on root ports and downstream switch ports. The "multifunction" option assumes the subset of ACS features available on multifunction endpoints and upstream switch ports are supported. The "id:nnnn:nnnn" option enables ACS support on devices matching the provided vendor and device IDs, allowing more strategic ACS overrides. These options may be combined in any order. A maximum of 16 id specific overrides are available. It's suggested to use the most limited set of options necessary to avoid completely disabling ACS across the topology. Note to hardware vendors, we have facilities to permanently quirk specific devices which enforce isolation but not provide an ACS capability. Please contact me to have your devices added and save your customers the hassle of this boot option. Rebased-by: Alexandre Frade Signed-off-by: Mark Weiman Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit a4c71e364327da57559503e410ad031aa9034597 Author: Paolo Pisati Date: Tue Jan 23 16:33:16 2024 +0100 file: export file_close_fd() instead of close_fd_get_file() Following the refactor done in: commit a88c955fcfb49727d0ed86b47410f6555a8e69e4 Author: Christian Brauner Date: Thu Nov 30 13:49:07 2023 +0100 file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g update the export directive we added in: commit 17f7fa4baad268cc4a93205747222be931699788 Author: Christian Brauner Date: Wed Jan 16 23:13:25 2019 +0100 UBUNTU: SAUCE: binder: turn into module Anbox probably needs a review too. Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 049ff525581a5924797aba562e165cb6c247295a Author: Andrea Righi Date: Fri Dec 17 11:14:24 2021 +0100 wait: allow to use __wake_up_pollfree() from GPL modules commit ebafbcf7f32d ("UBUNTU: SAUCE: binder: turn into module") is changing binder to be a module, but __wake_up_pollfree() can only be used internally by the kernel. Make __wake_up_pollfree an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL so that it can be used by the binder module. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit d72d6bc529182cce0306aa031d0da4d509b5527f Author: Christian Brauner Date: Wed Jan 23 21:54:23 2019 +0100 binder: give binder_alloc its own debug mask file Currently both binder.c and binder_alloc.c both register the /sys/module/binder_linux/paramters/debug_mask file which leads to conflicts in sysfs. This commit gives binder_alloc.c its own /sys/module/binder_linux/paramters/alloc_debug_mask file. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 2b656afd62ec2cc3f8019848026ce63724ad1b89 Author: Christian Brauner Date: Wed Jan 16 23:13:25 2019 +0100 binder: turn into module The Android binder driver needs to become a module for the sake of shipping Anbox. To do this we need to export the following functions since binder is currently still using them: - security_binder_set_context_mgr() - security_binder_transaction() - security_binder_transfer_binder() - security_binder_transfer_file() - can_nice() - __close_fd_get_file() - mmput_async() - task_work_add() - map_kernel_range_noflush() - get_vm_area() - zap_vma_range() - put_ipc_ns() - get_ipc_ns_exported() - show_init_ipc_ns() Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner [ saf: fix additional reference to init_ipc_ns from 5.0-rc6 ] Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee [ arighi: fix EXPORT_SYMBOL vs EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL change from 6.0-rc5 ] [ arighi: zap_page_range() has been dropped, export zap_page_range_single() in 6.3 ] Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi [ ppisati: export list_lru_add, list_lru_del, lock_vma_under_rcu] Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati [ tjaalton: selftests got converted to KUnit ] [ tjaalton: 7.1: rename zap_page_range_simple to zap_vma_range] Signed-off-by: Timo Aaltonen Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 8cba03efea37c9038c8c1b75fe2da05017dc8045 Author: Andrey Smirnov Date: Sun Sep 24 15:02:33 2023 -0700 mfd: steamdeck: Expose controller board power in sysfs As of version 118 Deck's BIOS implements "SCBP" method that allows gating power of the controller board (VBUS). Add a basic WO method to our root MFD device to allow toggling that. Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov (cherry picked from commit f97f32718acc10cbb51fef925842392e80904d74) Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 53f4492f17e17051badcf3fb1fd519d50dca02a5 Author: Andrey Smirnov Date: Sat Feb 19 16:08:36 2022 -0800 mfd: Add MFD core driver for Steam Deck Add MFD core driver for Steam Deck. Doesn't really do much so far besides instantiating a number of MFD cells that implement all the interesting functionality. (cherry picked from commit 5f534c2d6ebdefccb9c024eb0f013bc1c0c622d9) Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 92b109106b845e9ffcafad22fa807b072691855b Author: Andrey Smirnov Date: Sun Feb 27 12:58:05 2022 -0800 leds: steamdeck: Add support for Steam Deck LED (cherry picked from commit 85a86d19aa7022ff0555023d53aef78323a42d0c) Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 4d95534fadd3a7c6b8dca1a70b3ba68a99494842 Author: Andrey Smirnov Date: Sat Jul 15 12:58:54 2023 -0700 hwmon: steamdeck-hwmon: Add support for max battery level/rate Add support for max battery level/charge rate attributes. Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov (cherry picked from commit 50af83e8fd75dc52221edd3fb6fd7a7f70c4d8a4) Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 824ae407514e753c9ea71800ab81fd4f7f965cd3 Author: Andrey Smirnov Date: Sat Feb 19 16:09:45 2022 -0800 hwmon: Add driver for Steam Deck's EC sensors Add driver for sensors exposed by EC firmware on Steam Deck hardware. (cherry picked from commit 6917aac77bee6185ae3920b936cdbe7876118c0b) Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 8e799663139bf62a46f6e65033bc08e9ecae2822 Author: Andrey Smirnov Date: Sun Feb 27 14:46:08 2022 -0800 extcon: Add driver for Steam Deck (cherry picked from commit f9f2eddae582ae39d5f89c1218448fc259b90aa8) Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 3b4d00f3a7bbb0a56c701f54858ae1ff2ff27e98 Author: Felix Fietkau Date: Tue Feb 20 15:56:02 2018 +0100 netfilter: add xt_FLOWOFFLOAD target Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 04edf698d91577698cbc2069e1eaeeb1009e9538 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Feb 27 01:38:18 2023 +0000 netfilter: Add netfilter nf_tables fullcone support Signed-off-by: Syrone Wong Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 2bc6b0895f5ca8945b56d774180253667e2fd7f3 Author: mfreemon@cloudflare.com Date: Tue Mar 1 17:06:02 2022 -0600 tcp: Add a sysctl to skip tcp collapse processing when the receive buffer is full For context and additional information about this patch, see the blog post at https://blog.cloudflare.com/optimizing-tcp-for-high-throughput-and-low-latency/ sysctl: net.ipv4.tcp_collapse_max_bytes If tcp_collapse_max_bytes is non-zero, attempt to collapse the queue to free up memory if the current amount of memory allocated is less than tcp_collapse_max_bytes. Otherwise, the packet is dropped without attempting to collapse the queue. If tcp_collapse_max_bytes is zero, this feature is disabled and the default Linux behavior is used. The default Linux behavior is to always perform the attempt to collapse the queue to free up memory. When the receive queue is small, we want to collapse the queue. There are two reasons for this: (a) the latency of performing the collapse will be small on a small queue, and (b) we want to avoid sending a congestion signal (via a packet drop) to the sender when the receive queue is small. The result is that we avoid latency spikes caused by the time it takes to perform the collapse logic when the receive queue is large and full, while preserving existing behavior and performance for all other cases. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit d50171100f3c547f1b2cbb5b52b17f03848f3858 Author: Oleksandr Natalenko Date: Mon Apr 27 10:31:55 2026 +0200 tcp_bbr: v3: update TCP 'bbr' congestion control module to BBRv3 Original patchset Link: https://github.com/google/bbr/tree/v3 Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 9c594ca6d407a56b06aab5b217163167a1a437b6 Author: Steven Barrett Date: Sat May 21 15:15:09 2022 -0500 ZEN: dm-crypt: Disable workqueues for crypto ops Queueing in dm-crypt for crypto operations reduces performance on modern systems. As discussed in an article from Cloudflare, they discovered that queuing was introduced because the crypto subsystem used to be synchronous. Since it's now asynchronous, we get double queueing when using the subsystem through dm-crypt. This is obviously undesirable and reduces throughput and increases latency. Fixes: https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/issues/282 Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit c1f19aa98e5449b0832751462a983adcb5a30632 Author: Kenny Levinsen Date: Sun Dec 27 14:43:13 2020 +0000 ZEN: input/evdev: Use call_rcu when detaching client Significant time was spent on synchronize_rcu in evdev_detach_client when applications closed evdev devices. Switching VT away from a graphical environment commonly leads to mass input device closures, which could lead to noticable delays on systems with many input devices. Replace synchronize_rcu with call_rcu, deferring reclaim of the evdev client struct till after the RCU grace period instead of blocking the calling application. While this does not solve all slow evdev fd closures, it takes care of a good portion of them, including this simple test: #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int idx, fd; const char *path = "/dev/input/event0"; for (idx = 0; idx < 1000; idx++) { if ((fd = open(path, O_RDWR)) == -1) { return -1; } close(fd); } return 0; } Time to completion of above test when run locally: Before: 0m27.111s After: 0m0.018s Signed-off-by: Kenny Levinsen Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 66b54cff5cba1179a5433e014b1e7d3e384d46fd Author: Arjan van de Ven Date: Thu Jun 2 23:36:32 2016 -0500 drivers: initialize ata before graphics ATA init is the long pole in the boot process, and its asynchronous. move the graphics init after it so that ata and graphics initialize in parallel Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 1c4833ae5adda0176806262f13c42853f20fd46b Author: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sun Feb 18 23:35:41 2018 +0000 locking: rwsem: spin faster tweak rwsem owner spinning a bit Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit dce6a5fdd74340d8bfcb099b0560e7e074b1fa67 Author: William Douglas Date: Wed Jun 20 17:23:21 2018 +0000 firmware: Enable stateless firmware loading Prefer the order of specific version before generic and /etc before /lib to enable the user to give specific overrides for generic firmware and distribution firmware. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 7c6a928460099012db5e0a863c4ef3bc260687dd Author: Arjan van de Ven Date: Thu Dec 13 01:00:49 2018 +0000 sched/wait: Do accept() in LIFO order for cache efficiency Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 80af49bc67fa95c486d056a1a72f0ddd0e7e897a Author: Masahito S Date: Mon Mar 23 02:11:53 2026 +0900 mm: Add working set protection for anon and clean file pages sysctl vm.workingset_protection=1 by default. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 36d9622e03e8b2a195076e910c2be84170a90320 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Jul 28 20:00:15 2025 +0000 XANMOD: Makefile: Move x86 instruction set selection to kernel-wide build Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 4bc30ce6728ff4ecd0e02d74e345c60043ba1b08 Author: graysky Date: Mon Jul 28 18:42:09 2025 +0000 x86/kconfig: more x86-64 ISA levels and uarches FEATURES This patch adds additional tunings via new x86-64 ISA levels and more micro-architecture options to the Linux kernel in three classes. 1. New generic x86-64 ISA levels These are selectable under: Processor type and features ---> x86-64 compiler ISA level • x86-64 A value of (1) is the default • x86-64-v2 A value of (2) brings support for vector instructions up to Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 (SSE4.2) and Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3), the POPCNT instruction, and CMPXCHG16B. • x86-64-v3 A value of (3) adds vector instructions up to AVX2, MOVBE, and additional bit-manipulation instructions. There is also x86-64-v4 but including this makes little sense as the kernel does not use any of the AVX512 instructions anyway. Users of glibc 2.33 and above can see which level is supported by running: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep supported Or /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep supported 2. New micro-architectures These are selectable under: Processor type and features ---> Processor family • AMD Improved K8-family • AMD K10-family • AMD Family 10h (Barcelona) • AMD Family 14h (Bobcat) • AMD Family 16h (Jaguar) • AMD Family 15h (Bulldozer) • AMD Family 15h (Piledriver) • AMD Family 15h (Steamroller) • AMD Family 15h (Excavator) • AMD Family 17h (Zen) • AMD Family 17h (Zen 2) • AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)** • AMD Family 19h (Zen 4)‡ • AMD Family 1Ah (Zen 5)§ • Intel Silvermont low-power processors • Intel Goldmont low-power processors (Apollo Lake and Denverton) • Intel Goldmont Plus low-power processors (Gemini Lake) • Intel 1st Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Nehalem) • Intel 1.5 Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Westmere) • Intel 2nd Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Sandybridge) • Intel 3rd Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Ivybridge) • Intel 4th Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Haswell) • Intel 5th Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Broadwell) • Intel 6th Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Skylake) • Intel 6th Gen Core i7/i9 (Skylake X) • Intel 8th Gen Core i3/i5/i7 (Cannon Lake) • Intel 10th Gen Core i7/i9 (Ice Lake) • Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake) • Intel Xeon (Cooper Lake)* • Intel 3rd Gen 10nm++ i3/i5/i7/i9-family (Tiger Lake)* • Intel 4th Gen 10nm++ Xeon (Sapphire Rapids)† • Intel 11th Gen i3/i5/i7/i9-family (Rocket Lake)† • Intel 12th Gen i3/i5/i7/i9-family (Alder Lake)† • Intel 13th Gen i3/i5/i7/i9-family (Raptor Lake)‡ • Intel 14th Gen i3/i5/i7/i9-family (Meteor Lake)‡ • Intel 5th Gen 10nm++ Xeon (Emerald Rapids)‡ Notes: If not otherwise noted, gcc >=9.1 is required for support. *Requires gcc >=10.1 or clang >=10.0 **Required gcc >=10.3 or clang >=12.0 †Required gcc >=11.1 or clang >=12.0 ‡Required gcc >=13.0 or clang >=15.0.5 §Required gcc >14.0 or clang >=19.0? 3. Auto-detected micro-architecture levels Compile by passing the '-march=native' option which, "selects the CPU to generate code for at compilation time by determining the processor type of the compiling machine. Using -march=native enables all instruction subsets supported by the local machine and will produce code optimized for the local machine under the constraints of the selected instruction set."[1] MINOR NOTES RELATING TO INTEL ATOM PROCESSORS This patch also changes -march=atom to -march=bonnell in accordance with the gcc v4.9 changes. Upstream is using the deprecated -match=atom flags when I believe it should use the newer -march=bonnell flag for atom processors.[2] It is not recommended to compile on Atom-CPUs with the 'native' option.[3] The recommendation is to use the 'atom' option instead. BENEFITS Small but real speed increases are measurable using a make endpoint comparing a generic kernel to one built with one of the respective microarchs. See the following experimental evidence supporting this statement: https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_compiler_patch?tab=readme-ov-file#benchmarks REQUIREMENTS linux version 6.1.79+ gcc version >=9.0 or clang version >=9.0 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This patch builds on the seminal work by Jeroen.[4] REFERENCES 1. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-Options.html#index-x86-Options 2. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77461 3. https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch/issues/15 4. http://www.linuxforge.net/docs/linux/linux-gcc.php Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 231777ac25f326b42a7112183a63a7770138f60d Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Thu Nov 13 22:38:14 2025 +0000 XANMOD: x86/build: Prevent generating avx2 floating-point code Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 0283427a0a31cd2d6c0ba183460612e950bcf15a Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Apr 24 04:50:34 2023 +0000 XANMOD: scripts/setlocalversion: Move localversion* files to the end Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 517afee9bc921a0200ab38f4b6442aef6a6c04be Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Sun May 29 00:57:40 2022 +0000 XANMOD: scripts/setlocalversion: remove '+' tag for git repo short version Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit f2ef9a46d11b69bfd461af8af8718366044f1fd9 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Sep 16 08:09:56 2024 +0000 XANMOD: lib/kconfig.debug: disable default SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME and DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit ccc0f7ec88e3e20577cfc7b5a83ca48d312f38c8 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Tue Mar 31 13:32:08 2020 -0300 XANMOD: cpufreq: tunes ondemand and conservative governor for performance Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 5b4df09b709a88cf19bd4c9d6ff01978088bfb2e Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Fri May 30 19:58:58 2025 +0000 XANMOD: mm/vmscan: Reduce amount of swapping Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit ed2a9eca2135ea75124b46c8490abe26ef8ff13b Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Sun Apr 28 09:06:54 2024 +0000 XANMOD: mm: Raise max_map_count default value Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 7ac91c5588e72ec86401aa5050638b0ce8a7a607 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Jul 28 17:20:16 2025 +0000 XANMOD: vfs: Decrease rate at which vfs caches are reclaimed Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 0988dbc5822a57a2690c1ed6acf71adcc374631b Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Jan 29 17:26:15 2018 +0000 XANMOD: kconfig: add 500Hz timer interrupt kernel config option Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 89d0ae0469662c03df0170aea420009d0de3f34f Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Jul 15 04:50:34 2024 +0000 XANMOD: blk-wbt: Set wbt_default_latency_nsec() to 2msec Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit bae2948f36c9cca4a21e7d641513b31f0be6e615 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Sep 16 15:36:01 2024 +0000 XANMOD: block: Set rq_affinity to force complete I/O requests on same CPU Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit fd699380cd6aef30b6025e03fa366e95bce2afa3 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Thu Jan 6 16:59:01 2022 +0000 XANMOD: block/mq-deadline: Disable front_merges by default Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 3868ed8dbd888f3b5710b8cc873a83a632252e08 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Wed May 11 18:56:51 2022 +0000 XANMOD: block/mq-deadline: Increase write priority to improve responsiveness Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit b746821c076571adfbc8ed9e25f4857055353fae Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Thu May 11 19:41:41 2023 +0000 XANMOD: fair: Set scheduler tunable latencies to unscaled Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 19e5ebe24766c4dec247f7ca6761bc0455e98655 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Thu Nov 28 22:55:27 2024 +0000 kbuild: Re-add .config file required to sign external modules Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit c9d752c21d514a754f878b9f1541576cd870e5fd Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Sun Jul 6 15:56:57 2025 +0000 XANMOD: kbuild: deb-pkg: Create -dbg when make DEB_DEBUG_PKG=1 Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 1d39a03d3382427008f066b915f43ee3be3783e8 Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Fri Jun 20 01:14:28 2025 +0000 XANMOD: kbuild: Add SMS-based software pipelining flags Add support for Swing Modulo Scheduling (SMS) when default optimization level is enabled. This optimization performs software pipelining on innermost loops, overlapping iterations to improve instruction-level parallelism. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 3b40b2850e7911716ef658078af3cd2bf719b00a Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Thu Jun 18 19:18:52 2026 +0000 XANMOD: kbuild: Add LLVM polyhedral loop optimizer flags LLVM's Polly is able to optimize various loops throughout the kernel for cache locality. A mathematical representation of the program, based on polyhedra, is analysed to find opportunistic optimisations in memory access patterns which then leads to loop transformations. Polly is not built with LLVM by default, and requires LLVM to be compiled with the Polly "project". This can be done by adding Polly to -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS, for example: -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;libcxx;libcxxabi;polly" Preliminary benchmarking seems to show an improvement of around two percent across perf benchmarks: Benchmark | Control | Polly -------------------------------------------------------- bonnie++ -x 2 -s 4096 -r 0 | 12.610s | 12.547s perf bench futex requeue | 33.553s | 33.094s perf bench futex wake | 1.032s | 1.021s perf bench futex wake-parallel | 1.049s | 1.025s perf bench futex requeue | 1.037s | 1.020s Furthermore, Polly does not produce a much larger image size netting it to be a "free" optimisation. A comparison of a bzImage for a kernel with and without Polly is shown below: bzImage | stat --printf="%s\n" ------------------------------------- Control | 9333728 Polly | 9345792 Compile times were one percent different at best, which is well within the range of noise. Therefore, I can say with certainty that Polly has a minimal effect on compile times, if none. Link: https://github.com/CachyOS/kernel-patches/blob/master/6.15/misc/0001-clang-polly.patch Signed-off-by: Peter Jung Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit dd21db2d9881708e563bbf71c0b845287d46566f Author: Alexandre Frade Date: Mon Aug 28 05:00:29 2023 +0000 XANMOD: x86/build: Add more CFLAGS optimizations Signed-off-by: Alexandre Frade commit 8d3ae59288f1e7d58d76558a6ee96d533bc5019f Author: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun Aug 16 14:32:26 2026 -0700 Linux 7.2