26 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has
tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active
which requires another cacheline load.This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page),
and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when
there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra
wakeup check that will clears the bit.The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages.
Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The
generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation
under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency).This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by
2-3%.Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the
memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters
bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory
operand widths match and cover both bits).Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Bob Peterson
Cc: Steven Whitehouse
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Dec, 2016
2 commits
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Pull networking fixes and cleanups from David Miller:
1) Revert bogus nla_ok() change, from Alexey Dobriyan.
2) Various bpf validator fixes from Daniel Borkmann.
3) Add some necessary SET_NETDEV_DEV() calls to hsis_femac and hip04
drivers, from Dongpo Li.4) Several ethtool ksettings conversions from Philippe Reynes.
5) Fix bugs in inet port management wrt. soreuseport, from Tom Herbert.
6) XDP support for virtio_net, from John Fastabend.
7) Fix NAT handling within a vrf, from David Ahern.
8) Endianness fixes in dpaa_eth driver, from Claudiu Manoil
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (63 commits)
net: mv643xx_eth: fix build failure
isdn: Constify some function parameters
mlxsw: spectrum: Mark split ports as such
cgroup: Fix CGROUP_BPF config
qed: fix old-style function definition
net: ipv6: check route protocol when deleting routes
r6040: move spinlock in r6040_close as SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
irda: w83977af_ir: cleanup an indent issue
net: sfc: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: davicom: dm9000: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: cirrus: ep93xx: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: chelsio: cxgb3: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: chelsio: cxgb2: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
bpf: fix mark_reg_unknown_value for spilled regs on map value marking
bpf: fix overflow in prog accounting
bpf: dynamically allocate digest scratch buffer
gtp: Fix initialization of Flags octet in GTPv1 header
gtp: gtp_check_src_ms_ipv4() always return success
net/x25: use designated initializers
isdn: use designated initializers
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CGROUP_BPF depended on SOCK_CGROUP_DATA which can't be manually
enabled, making it rather challenging to turn CGROUP_BPF on.Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
15 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
"Summary of modules changes for the 4.10 merge window:- The rodata= cmdline parameter has been extended to additionally
apply to module mappings- Fix a hard to hit race between module loader error/clean up
handling and ftrace registration- Some code cleanups, notably panic.c and modules code use a unified
taint_flags table now. This is much cleaner than duplicating the
taint flag code in modules.c"* tag 'modules-for-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: fix DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX typo
module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings
module: Fix a comment above strong_try_module_get()
module: When modifying a module's text ignore modules which are going away too
module: Ensure a module's state is set accordingly during module coming cleanup code
module: remove trailing whitespace
taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling
modpost: free allocated memory
14 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
of keventd_up().The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
sanity check failure."* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
workqueue: remove keventd_up()
debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
13 Dec, 2016
5 commits
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Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"These are the documentation changes for 4.10.It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion
continues. Highlights include:- Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but
should be more solid now.- Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to
go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and
integrated.- Images in binary formats have been replaced with more
source-friendly versions.- Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of
various files discussed at the kernel summit.- New documentation for the device_link mechanism.
... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates"
* tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
Update Documentation/00-INDEX
docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs
docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries
docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs
docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description
scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS
Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation
core-api: remove an unexpected unident
ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off
Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction"
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup
docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation
docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target
docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules
docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files
docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- most of MM (quite a lot of MM material is awaiting the merge of
linux-next dependencies)- kasan
- printk updates
- procfs updates
- MAINTAINERS
- /lib updates
- checkpatch updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (123 commits)
init: reduce rootwait polling interval time to 5ms
binfmt_elf: use vmalloc() for allocation of vma_filesz
checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches
checkpatch: don't check c99 types like uint8_t under tools
checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences
checkpatch: don't check .pl files, improve absolute path commit log test
scripts/checkpatch.pl: fix spelling
checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given
lib/ida: document locking requirements a bit better
lib/rbtree.c: fix typo in comment of ____rb_erase_color
lib/Kconfig.debug: make CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM depend on CONFIG_DEVMEM
MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 irc channels
MAINTAINERS: add "C:" for URI for chat where developers hang out
MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 bug filing info
MAINTAINERS: add "B:" for URI where to file bugs
get_maintainer: look for arbitrary letter prefixes in sections
printk: add Kconfig option to set default console loglevel
printk/sound: handle more message headers
printk/btrfs: handle more message headers
printk/kdb: handle more message headers
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The time/timekeeping/timer folks deliver with this update:- Fix a reintroduced signed/unsigned issue and cleanup the whole
signed/unsigned mess in the timekeeping core so this wont happen
accidentaly again.- Add a new trace clock based on boot time
- Prevent injection of random sleep times when PM tracing abuses the
RTC for storage- Make posix timers configurable for real tiny systems
- Add tracepoints for the alarm timer subsystem so timer based
suspend wakeups can be instrumented- The usual pile of fixes and updates to core and drivers"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
timekeeping: Use mul_u64_u32_shr() instead of open coding it
timekeeping: Get rid of pointless typecasts
timekeeping: Make the conversion call chain consistently unsigned
timekeeping_Force_unsigned_clocksource_to_nanoseconds_conversion
alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers
trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
trace: Add an option for boot clock as trace clock
timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock
timekeeping/clocksource_cyc2ns: Document intended range limitation
timekeeping: Ignore the bogus sleep time if pm_trace is enabled
selftests/timers: Fix spelling mistake "Asyncrhonous" -> "Asynchronous"
clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Map frame with of_io_request_and_map()
arm64: dts: rockchip: Arch counter doesn't tick in system suspend
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Don't assume clock runs in suspend
posix-timers: Make them configurable
posix_cpu_timers: Move the add_device_randomness() call to a proper place
timer: Move sys_alarm from timer.c to itimer.c
ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional
Kconfig: Regenerate *.c_shipped files after previous changes
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For several devices, the rootwait time is sensitive because it directly
affects booting time. The polling interval of rootwait is currently
100ms. To save unnessesary waiting time, reduce the polling interval to
5 ms.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove used-once #define]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207060743.1728-1-js07.lee@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jungseung Lee
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Pull x86 idle updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There were two bigger changes in this development cycle:- remove idle notifiers:
32 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 803 deletions(-)
These notifiers were of questionable value and the main usecase,
the i7300 driver, was essentially unmaintained and can be removed,
plus modern power management concepts don't need the callback - so
use this golden opportunity and get rid of this opaque and fragile
callback from a latency sensitive code path.(Len Brown, Thomas Gleixner)
- improve the AMD Erratum 400 workaround that used high overhead MSR
polling in the idle loop (Borisla Petkov, Thomas Gleixner)"* 'x86-idle-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Remove empty idle.h header
x86/amd: Simplify AMD E400 aware idle routine
x86/amd: Check for the C1E bug post ACPI subsystem init
x86/bugs: Separate AMD E400 erratum and C1E bug
x86/cpufeature: Provide helper to set bugs bits
x86/idle: Remove enter_idle(), exit_idle()
x86: Remove x86_test_and_clear_bit_percpu()
x86/idle: Remove is_idle flag
x86/idle: Remove idle_notifier
i7300_idle: Remove this driver
10 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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AMD CPUs affected by the E400 erratum suffer from the issue that the
local APIC timer stops when the CPU goes into C1E. Unfortunately there
is no way to detect the affected CPUs on early boot. It's only possible
to determine the range of possibly affected CPUs from the family/model
range.The actual decision whether to enter C1E and thus cause the bug is done
by the firmware and we need to detect that case late, after ACPI has
been initialized.The current solution is to check in the idle routine whether the CPU is
affected by reading the MSR_K8_INT_PENDING_MSG MSR and checking for the
K8_INTP_C1E_ACTIVE_MASK bits. If one of the bits is set then the CPU is
affected and the system is switched into forced broadcast mode.This is ineffective and on non-affected CPUs every entry to idle does
the extra RDMSR.After doing some research it turns out that the bits are visible on the
boot CPU right after the ACPI subsystem is initialized in the early
boot process. So instead of polling for the bits in the idle loop, add
a detection function after acpi_subsystem_init() and check for the MSR
bits. If set, then the X86_BUG_AMD_APIC_C1E is set on the boot CPU and
the TSC is marked unstable when X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC is not set as it
will stop in C1E state as well.The switch to broadcast mode cannot be done at this point because the
boot CPU still uses HPET as a clockevent device and the local APIC timer
is not yet calibrated and installed. The switch to broadcast mode on the
affected CPUs needs to be done when the local APIC timer is actually set
up.This allows to cleanup the amd_e400_idle() function in the next step.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161209182912.2726-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
04 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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Couple conflicts resolved here:
1) In the MACB driver, a bug fix to properly initialize the
RX tail pointer properly overlapped with some changes
to support variable sized rings.2) In XGBE we had a "CONFIG_PM" --> "CONFIG_PM_SLEEP" fix
overlapping with a reorganization of the driver to support
ACPI, OF, as well as PCI variants of the chip.3) In 'net' we had several probe error path bug fixes to the
stmmac driver, meanwhile a lot of this code was cleaned up
and reorganized in 'net-next'.4) The cls_flower classifier obtained a helper function in
'net-next' called __fl_delete() and this overlapped with
Daniel Borkamann's bug fix to use RCU for object destruction
in 'net'. It also overlapped with Jiri's change to guard
the rhashtable_remove_fast() call with a check against
tc_skip_sw().5) In mlx4, a revert bug fix in 'net' overlapped with some
unrelated changes in 'net-next'.6) In geneve, a stale header pointer after pskb_expand_head()
bug fix in 'net' overlapped with a large reorganization of
the same code in 'net-next'. Since the 'net-next' code no
longer had the bug in question, there was nothing to do
other than to simply take the 'net-next' hunks.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
30 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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This enables CONFIG_MODVERSIONS again, but allows for missing symbol CRC
information in order to work around the issue that newer binutils
versions seem to occasionally drop the CRC on the floor. binutils 2.26
seems to work fine, while binutils 2.27 seems to break MODVERSIONS of
symbols that have been defined in assembler files.[ We've had random missing CRC's before - it may be an old problem that
just is now reliably triggered with the weak asm symbols and a new
version of binutils ]Some day I really do want to remove MODVERSIONS entirely. Sadly, today
does not appear to be that day: Debian people apparently do want the
option to enable MODVERSIONS to make it easier to have external modules
across kernel versions, and this seems to be a fairly minimal fix for
the annoying problem.Cc: Ben Hutchings
Acked-by: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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The newly added 'rodata_enabled' global variable is protected by
the wrong #ifdef, leading to a link error when CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
is turned on:kernel/module.o: In function `disable_ro_nx':
module.c:(.text.unlikely.disable_ro_nx+0x88): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'
kernel/module.o: In function `module_disable_ro':
module.c:(.text.module_disable_ro+0x8c): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'
kernel/module.o: In function `module_enable_ro':
module.c:(.text.module_enable_ro+0xb0): undefined reference to `rodata_enabled'CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX does not exist, so use the correct one instead.
Fixes: 39290b389ea2 ("module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu
28 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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The current "rodata=off" parameter disables read-only kernel mappings
under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA:
commit d2aa1acad22f ("mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter
to disable read-only kernel mappings")This patch is a logical extension to module mappings ie. read-only mappings
at module loading can be disabled even if CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
(mainly for debug use). Please note, however, that it only affects RO/RW
permissions, keeping NX set.This is the first step to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX mandatory
(always-on) in the future as CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on x86 and arm64.Suggested-by: and Acked-by: Mark Rutland
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161114061505.15238-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu
27 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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udplite conflict is resolved by taking what 'net-next' did
which removed the backlog receive method assignment, since
it is no longer necessary.Two entries were added to the non-priv ethtool operations
switch statement, one in 'net' and one in 'net-next, so
simple overlapping changes.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
26 Nov, 2016
2 commits
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CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has been broken for pretty much the whole 4.9 series,
and quite frankly, nobody has cared very deeply. We absolutely know how
to fix it, and it's not _complicated_, but it's not exactly pretty
either.This oneliner fixes it without the ugliness, and allows for further
future cleanups."We've secretly replaced their regular MODVERSIONS with nothing at
all, let's see if they notice"Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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This patch adds two sets of eBPF program pointers to struct cgroup.
One for such that are directly pinned to a cgroup, and one for such
that are effective for it.To illustrate the logic behind that, assume the following example
cgroup hierarchy.A - B - C
\ D - EIf only B has a program attached, it will be effective for B, C, D
and E. If D then attaches a program itself, that will be effective for
both D and E, and the program in B will only affect B and C. Only one
program of a given type is effective for a cgroup.Attaching and detaching programs will be done through the bpf(2)
syscall. For now, ingress and egress inet socket filtering are the
only supported use-cases.Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
25 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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Otherwise each individual rotator char would be printed in a new line:
(...)
[ 0.642350] -
[ 0.644374] |
[ 0.646367] -
(...)Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about
25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out.Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to
use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were
disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create,
timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete,
clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm.The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast
majority of use cases with very little code.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Acked-by: Richard Cochran
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: John Stultz
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Cc: Paul Bolle
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Edward Cree
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
24 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
20 Oct, 2016
1 commit
16 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
"This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
15 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.
This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
working on a patch to fix this.Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
change prototypes.- Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
Piggin- fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.
- preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections- CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell
- fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
ia64: move exports to definitions
sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
[sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
sparc: move exports to definitions
ppc: move exports to definitions
arm: move exports to definitions
s390: move exports to definitions
m68k: move exports to definitions
alpha: move exports to actual definitions
x86: move exports to actual definitions
...
12 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of
readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the
context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to
prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is
generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock.The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for
delegating the wakeup to another context.
commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7
Author: Tom Zanussi
Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work
relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers
when a simple timer will do.Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup
causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes
relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the
data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting
filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every
newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub
buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap
between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub
buffers to store the new data.By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked
in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer
tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes
relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use
irq_work for deferred wake up of readers.[arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
08 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"Changes include:- Fix boot of 32bit SMP kernel (initial kernel mapping was too small)
- Added hardened usercopy checks
- Drop bootmem and switch to memblock and NO_BOOTMEM implementation
- Drop the BROKEN_RODATA config option (and thus remove the relevant
code from the generic headers and files because parisc was the last
architecture which used this config option)- Improve segfault reporting by printing human readable error strings
- Various smaller changes, e.g. dwarf debug support for assembly
code, update comments regarding copy_user_page_asm, switch to
kmalloc_array()"* 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels
parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock
parisc: Add hardened usercopy feature
parisc: Add cfi_startproc and cfi_endproc to assembly code
parisc: Move hpmc stack into page aligned bss section
parisc: Fix self-detected CPU stall warnings on Mako machines
parisc: Report trap type as human readable string
parisc: Update comment regarding implementation of copy_user_page_asm
parisc: Use kmalloc_array() in add_system_map_addresses()
parisc: Check return value of smp_boot_one_cpu()
parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option
21 Sep, 2016
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PARISC was the only architecture which selected the BROKEN_RODATA config
option. Drop it and remove the special handling from init.h as well.Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
18 Sep, 2016
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Workqueue is currently initialized in an early init call; however,
there are cases where early boot code has to be split and reordered to
come after workqueue initialization or the same code path which makes
use of workqueues is used both before workqueue initailization and
after. The latter cases have to gate workqueue usages with
keventd_up() tests, which is nasty and easy to get wrong.Workqueue usages have become widespread and it'd be a lot more
convenient if it can be used very early from boot. This patch splits
workqueue initialization into two steps. workqueue_init_early() which
sets up the basic data structures so that workqueues can be created
and work items queued, and workqueue_init() which actually brings up
workqueues online and starts executing queued work items. The former
step can be done very early during boot once memory allocation,
cpumasks and idr are initialized. The latter right after kthreads
become available.This allows work item queueing and canceling from very early boot
which is what most of these use cases want.* As systemd_wq being initialized doesn't indicate that workqueue is
fully online anymore, update keventd_up() to test wq_online instead.
The follow-up patches will get rid of all its usages and the
function itself.* Flushing doesn't make sense before workqueue is fully initialized.
The flush functions trigger WARN and return immediately before fully
online.* Work items are never in-flight before fully online. Canceling can
always succeed by skipping the flush step.* Some code paths can no longer assume to be called with irq enabled
as irq is disabled during early boot. Use irqsave/restore
operations instead.v2: Watchdog init, which requires timer to be running, moved from
workqueue_init_early() to workqueue_init().Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFx0vPuMuxn00rBSM192n-Du5uxy+4AvKa0SBSOVJeuCGg@mail.gmail.com
16 Sep, 2016
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There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory
belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task
stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code
paths to pin the stack.Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Gerst
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jann Horn
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
15 Sep, 2016
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If an arch opts in by setting CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT,
then thread_info is defined as a single 'u32 flags' and is the first
entry of task_struct. thread_info::task is removed (it serves no
purpose if thread_info is embedded in task_struct), and
thread_info::cpu gets its own slot in task_struct.This is heavily based on a patch written by Linus.
Originally-from: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Gerst
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jann Horn
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0898196f0476195ca02713691a5037a14f2aac5.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to
select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link
with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all
unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build
verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now.On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving,
it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so
these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link.text data bss dec filename
11169741 1180744 1923176 14273661 vmlinux
10445269 1004127 1919707 13369103 vmlinux.dce~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
09 Aug, 2016
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Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook:
"Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and
copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and
SLUB"* tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support
mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support
s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
mm: Hardened usercopy
mm: Implement stack frame object validation
mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page
03 Aug, 2016
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It doesn't trim just symbols that are totally unused in-tree - it trims
the symbols unused by any in-tree modules actually built. If you've
done a 'make localmodconfig' and only build a hundred or so modules,
it's pretty likely that your out-of-tree module will come up lacking
something...Hopefully this will save the next guy from a Homer Simpson "D'oh!"
moment.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10177.1469787292@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Doing patches with allmodconfig kernel compiled and committing stuff
into local tree have unfortunate consequence: kernel version changes (as
it should) leading to recompiling and relinking of several files even if
they weren't touched (or interesting at all). This and "git-whatever"
figuring out current version slow down compilation for no good reason.But lets face it, "allmodconfig" kernels don't care about kernel
version, they are simply compile check guinea pigs.Make LOCALVERSION_AUTO depend on !COMPILE_TEST, so it doesn't sneak into
allmodconfig .config.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707214954.GC31678@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
sprint_symbol_no_offset() returns the string "function_name
[module_name]" where [module_name] is not printed for built in kernel
functions. This means that the blacklisting code will fail when
comparing module function names with the extended string.This patch adds the functionality to block a module's module_init()
function by finding the space in the string and truncating the
comparison to that length.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466124387-20446-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Yang Shi
Cc: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Yaowei Bai
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There was only one use of __initdata_refok and __exit_refok
__init_refok was used 46 times against 82 for __ref.
Those definitions are obsolete since commit 312b1485fb50 ("Introduce new
section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst")This patch removes the following compatibility definitions and replaces
them treewide./* compatibility defines */
#define __init_refok __ref
#define __initdata_refok __refdata
#define __exit_refok __refI can also provide separate patches if necessary.
(One patch per tree and check in 1 month or 2 to remove old definitions)[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466796271-3043-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
UML is a bit special since it does not have iomem nor dma. That means a
lot of drivers will not build if they miss a dependency on HAS_IOMEM.
s390 used to have the same issues but since it gained PCI support UML is
the only stranger.We are tired of patching dozens of new drivers after every merge window
just to un-break allmod/yesconfig UML builds. One could argue that a
decent driver has to know on what it depends and therefore a missing
HAS_IOMEM dependency is a clear driver bug. But the dependency not
obvious and not everyone does UML builds with COMPILE_TEST enabled when
developing a device driver.A possible solution to make these builds succeed on UML would be
providing stub functions for ioremap() and friends which fail upon
runtime. Another one is simply disabling COMPILE_TEST for UML. Since
it is the least hassle and does not force use to fake iomem support
let's do the latter.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466152995-28367-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470148443-6509-1-git-send-email-iamyooon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
