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clone has some of the quirkiest syscall handling in the kernel, with a
pile of special cases, historical curiosities, and architecture-specific
calling conventions. In particular, clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts a
parameter "tls" that the C entry point completely ignores and some
assembly entry points overwrite; instead, the low-level arch-specific
code pulls the tls parameter out of the arch-specific register captured
as part of pt_regs on entry to the kernel. That's a massive hack, and
it makes the arch-specific code only work when called via the specific
existing syscall entry points; because of this hack, any new clone-like
system call would have to accept an identical tls argument in exactly
the same arch-specific position, rather than providing a unified system
call entry point across architectures.
The first patch allows architectures to handle the tls argument via
normal C parameter passing, if they opt in by selecting
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. The second patch makes 32-bit and 64-bit x86 opt
into this.
These two patches came out of the clone4 series, which isn't ready for
this merge window, but these first two cleanup patches were entirely
uncontroversial and have acks. I'd like to go ahead and submit these
two so that other architectures can begin building on top of this and
opting into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. However, I'm also happy to wait and
send these through the next merge window (along with v3 of clone4) if
anyone would prefer that.
This patch (of 2):
clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts an argument to set the thread-local
storage area for the new thread. sys_clone declares an int argument
tls_val in the appropriate point in the argument list (based on the
various CLONE_BACKWARDS variants), but doesn't actually use or pass along
that argument. Instead, sys_clone calls do_fork, which calls
copy_process, which calls the arch-specific copy_thread, and copy_thread
pulls the corresponding syscall argument out of the pt_regs captured at
kernel entry (knowing what argument of clone that architecture passes tls
in).
Apart from being awful and inscrutable, that also only works because only
one code path into copy_thread can pass the CLONE_SETTLS flag, and that
code path comes from sys_clone with its architecture-specific
argument-passing order. This prevents introducing a new version of the
clone system call without propagating the same architecture-specific
position of the tls argument.
However, there's no reason to pull the argument out of pt_regs when
sys_clone could just pass it down via C function call arguments.
Introduce a new CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS for architectures to opt into,
and a new copy_thread_tls that accepts the tls parameter as an additional
unsigned long (syscall-argument-sized) argument. Change sys_clone's tls
argument to an unsigned long (which does not change the ABI), and pass
that down to copy_thread_tls.
Architectures that don't opt into copy_thread_tls will continue to ignore
the C argument to sys_clone in favor of the pt_regs captured at kernel
entry, and thus will be unable to introduce new versions of the clone
syscall.
Patch co-authored by Josh Triplett and Thiago Macieira.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc.
- More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes.
- Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan
Fontenot.
- Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao.
- Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz.
- A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping
nodes_possible_map.
- Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini.
- Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson.
- Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was
flashing your firmware when it wasn't.
- Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver.
- Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan
Stancek.
- Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler.
- A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by
Bjorn.
- A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater.
- Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather
than per machine.
- Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended
transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it.
- Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard.
- Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs.
- Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again.
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree
nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance
improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup.
* tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits)
powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds
powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs()
powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change
powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell
powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails
powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking
powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu
powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support
oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message
...
Conflicts:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
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The arch_randomize_brk() function is used on several architectures,
even those that don't support ET_DYN ASLR. To avoid bulky extern/#define
tricks, consolidate the support under CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE for
the architectures that support it, while still handling CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Cc: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Cc: Jan-Simon Mller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When an architecture fully supports randomizing the ELF load location,
a per-arch mmap_rnd() function is used to find a randomized mmap base.
In preparation for randomizing the location of ET_DYN binaries
separately from mmap, this renames and exports these functions as
arch_mmap_rnd(). Additionally introduces CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
for describing this feature on architectures that support it
(which is a superset of ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE, since s390
already supports a separated ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR without the
ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE logic).
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Cc: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Cc: Jan-Simon Mller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when
I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel.
ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and
arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time.
A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable
the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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By this time all architectures which support more than two page table
levels should be covered. This patch add default definiton of
PGTABLE_LEVELS equal 2.
We also add assert to detect inconsistence between CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS
and __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED/__PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We want to enable the hard lockup detector on ppc64, but right now
that enables the oprofile NMI timer too.
We'd prefer not to enable the oprofile NMI timer, it adds another
element to our PMU testing and it requires us to increase our
exported symbols (eg cpu_khz).
Modify the config entry for OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER to disable it on PPC64.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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The description of how archs should implement seccomp filters was
still strictly correct, but it failed to describe the newly
available optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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This adds the new "seccomp" syscall with both an "operation" and "flags"
parameter for future expansion. The third argument is a pointer value,
used with the SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER operation. Currently, flags must
be 0. This is functionally equivalent to prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, ...).
In addition to the TSYNC flag later in this patch series, there is a
non-zero chance that this syscall could be used for configuring a fixed
argument area for seccomp-tracer-aware processes to pass syscall arguments
in the future. Hence, the use of "seccomp" not simply "seccomp_add_filter"
for this syscall. Additionally, this syscall uses operation, flags,
and user pointer for arguments because strictly passing arguments via
a user pointer would mean seccomp itself would be unable to trivially
filter the seccomp syscall itself.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Suggested change from Oleg Nesterov. Fixes incomplete dependencies
for uprobes feature.
Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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This changes the stack protector config option into a choice of
"None", "Regular", and "Strong":
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
"Regular" means the old CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y option.
"Strong" is a new mode introduced by this patch. With "Strong" the
kernel is built with -fstack-protector-strong (available in
gcc 4.9 and later). This option increases the coverage of the stack
protector without the heavy performance hit of -fstack-protector-all.
For reference, the stack protector options available in gcc are:
-fstack-protector-all:
Adds the stack-canary saving prefix and stack-canary checking
suffix to _all_ function entry and exit. Results in substantial
use of stack space for saving the canary for deep stack users
(e.g. historically xfs), and measurable (though shockingly still
low) performance hit due to all the saving/checking. Really not
suitable for sane systems, and was entirely removed as an option
from the kernel many years ago.
-fstack-protector:
Adds the canary save/check to functions that define an 8
(--param=ssp-buffer-size=N, N=8 by default) or more byte local
char array. Traditionally, stack overflows happened with
string-based manipulations, so this was a way to find those
functions. Very few total functions actually get the canary; no
measurable performance or size overhead.
-fstack-protector-strong
Adds the canary for a wider set of functions, since it's not
just those with strings that have ultimately been vulnerable to
stack-busting. With this superset, more functions end up with a
canary, but it still remains small compared to all functions
with only a small change in performance. Based on the original
design document, a function gets the canary when it contains any
of:
- local variable's address used as part of the right hand side
of an assignment or function argument
- local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
regardless of array type or length
- uses register local variables
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1xXBH6rRZue4f296vGt9YQcuLVQHeE516stHwt8M9xyU
Find below a comparison of "size" and "objdump" output when built with
gcc-4.9 in three configurations:
- defconfig
11430641 kernel text size
36110 function bodies
- defconfig + CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
11468490 kernel text size (+0.33%)
1015 of 36110 functions are stack-protected (2.81%)
- defconfig + CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG via this patch
11692790 kernel text size (+2.24%)
7401 of 36110 functions are stack-protected (20.5%)
With -strong, ARM's compressed boot code now triggers stack
protection, so a static guard was added. Since this is only used
during decompression and was never used before, the exposure
here is very small. Once it switches to the full kernel, the
stack guard is back to normal.
Chrome OS has been using -fstack-protector-strong for its kernel
builds for the last 8 months with no problems.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387481759-14535-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
[ Improved the changelog and descriptions some more. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Instead of duplicating the CC_STACKPROTECTOR Kconfig and
Makefile logic in each architecture, switch to using
HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR and keep everything in one place. This
retains the x86-specific bug verification scripts.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387481759-14535-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so
remove the new useless config variable.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes in this cycle were:
- Updated full dynticks support.
- Event stream support for architected (ARM) timers.
- ARM clocksource driver updates.
- Move arm64 to using the generic sched_clock framework & resulting
cleanup in the generic sched_clock code.
- Misc fixes and cleanups"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
x86/time: Honor ACPI FADT flag indicating absence of a CMOS RTC
clocksource: sun4i: remove IRQF_DISABLED
clocksource: sun4i: Report the minimum tick that we can program
clocksource: sun4i: Select CLKSRC_MMIO
clocksource: Provide timekeeping for efm32 SoCs
clocksource: em_sti: convert to clk_prepare/unprepare
time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers
timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist
clocksource: arch_timer: Do not register arch_sys_counter twice
timer stats: Add a 'Collection: active/inactive' line to timer usage statistics
sched_clock: Remove sched_clock_func() hook
arch_timer: Move to generic sched_clock framework
clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Remove IRQF_DISABLED
clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Improve driver robustness
clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Replace clk_enable/disable with clk_prepare_enable/disable_unprepare
clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Use clocksource for suspend timekeeping
clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Mark a few more functions as __init
clocksource: Put nodes passed to CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE callbacks centrally
arm: zynq: Enable arm_global_timer
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If irq_exit() is called on the arch's specified irq stack,
it should be safe to run softirqs inline under that same
irq stack as it is near empty by the time we call irq_exit().
For example if we use the same stack for both hard and soft irqs here,
the worst case scenario is:
hardirq -> softirq -> hardirq. But then the softirq supersedes the
first hardirq as the stack user since irq_exit() is called in
a mostly empty stack. So the stack merge in this case looks acceptable.
Stack overrun still have a chance to happen if hardirqs have more
opportunities to nest, but then it's another problem to solve.
So lets adapt the irq exit's softirq stack on top of a new Kconfig symbol
that can be defined when irq_exit() runs on the irq stack. That way
we can spare some stack switch on irq processing and all the cache
issues that come along.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit. In order
to use that feature, arch code should be audited to ensure there are no
races in concurrent read/write of cputime_t. For example,
reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on some 32-bit arches may require
multiple accesses for low and high value parts, so proper locking
is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
Therefore, add CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN which arches can
enable after they've been audited for potential races.
This option is automatically enabled on 64-bit platforms.
Feature requested by Frederic Weisbecker.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arm Linux <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Linus suggested to replace
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX
#define arch_mutex_cpu_relax() cpu_relax()
#endif
with just a simple
#ifndef arch_mutex_cpu_relax
# define arch_mutex_cpu_relax() cpu_relax()
#endif
to get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_CPU_RELAX_SIMPLE. So architectures can
simply define arch_mutex_cpu_relax if they want an architecture
specific function instead of having to add a select statement in
their Kconfig in addition.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that
was introduced in commit f3268edbe6fe ("microblaze: switch to generic
fork/vfork/clone").
The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the
4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size. The
incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd
slot.
This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc
code will work correctly.
All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to. In order to do this tracking one should
1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
2. Wait some time.
3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)
To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is. Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.
Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast. This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.
Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Two fixlets for the fallout of the generic idle task conversion
- Documentation update
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu/idle: Wrap cpu-idle poll mode within rcu_idle_enter/exit
idle: Fix hlt/nohlt command-line handling in new generic idle
kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell:
"We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config
option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my
favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single
commandline. Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion
X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier
module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure.
kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length
MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature
modpost: handle huge numbers of modules.
modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin.
modpost: minor cleanup.
genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch
module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes
CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
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commit d1669912 (idle: Implement generic idle function) added a new
generic idle along with support for hlt/nohlt command line options to
override default idle loop behavior. However, the command-line
processing is never compiled.
The command-line handling is wrapped by CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
and arches that use this feature select it in their Kconfigs.
However, no Kconfig definition was created for this option, so it is
never enabled, and therefore command-line override of the idle-loop
behavior is broken after migrating to the generic idle loop.
To fix, add a Kconfig definition for GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP.
Tested on ARM (OMAP4/Panda) which enables the command-line overrides
by default.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366849153-25564-1-git-send-email-khilman@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
"Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
make do_mremap() static
sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
x86: trim sys_ia32.h
x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
merge compat sys_ipc instances
consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
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We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string
"_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and
SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to
do so.
Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to
prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are
defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set:
1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym)
3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7)
5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym)
6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if
CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version
for pasting.
(arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too).
Let's solve this properly:
1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm.
3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().
4) Make everyone use them.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
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In commit 887cbce0adea ("arch Kconfig: centralise ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS")
I introduced the config sybmol HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and selected that where
needed. I am not sure what I was thinking. Instead, just directly
select VIRT_TO_BUS where it is needed.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag
Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
"This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
fixes which I kept separate to ease review:
- Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
- A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
- A few privilege protection fixes
- Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
metag_ksyms.c)
- Fix some missing exports
- Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
- Copy device tree to non-init memory
- Provide dma_get_sgtable()"
* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
metag: export clear_page and copy_page
metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
...
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On 64 bit architectures with no efficient unaligned access, padding and
explicit alignment must be added in various places to prevent unaligned
64bit accesses (such as taskstats and trace ring buffer).
However this also needs to apply to 32 bit architectures with 64 bit
accesses requiring alignment such as metag.
This is solved by adding a new Kconfig symbol HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
which defaults to 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, and can be
explicitly selected by METAG and any other relevant architectures. This
can be used in various places to determine whether 64bit alignment is
required.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
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Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures
that already provide virt_to_bus().
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.
- a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
unified.
- a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
(fixing several potential problems with missing argument
validation, while we are at it)
- a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed
- a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
(uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.
- microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once
- saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
architectures switched to using those."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
x86: convert to ksignal
sparc: convert to ksignal
arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
burying unused conditionals
make do_sigaltstack() static
arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
kill sparc32_open()
sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
...
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__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION,
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_SCHED_RR_GET_INTERVAL - not used anymore
CONFIG_GENERIC_{SIGALTSTACK,COMPAT_RT_SIG{ACTION,QUEUEINFO,PENDING,PROCMASK}} -
can be assumed always set.
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conditional on OLD_SIGACTION/COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Again, protected by a temporary config symbol (GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGACTION);
will be gone by the end of series.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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conditional on OLD_SIGSUSPEND/OLD_SIGSUSPEND3, depending on which
variety of that fossil is needed.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGQUEUEINFO; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPENDING; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPROCMASK; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Switch from __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION to opposite
(!CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION); the only two architectures that
need it are alpha and sparc. The reason for use of CONFIG_...
instead of __ARCH_... is that it's needed only kernel-side
and doing it that way avoids a mess with include order on many
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Split ftrace-based kprobes code from kprobes, and introduce
CONFIG_(HAVE_)KPROBES_ON_FTRACE Kconfig flags.
For the cleanup reason, this also moves kprobe_ftrace check
into skip_singlestep.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081520.3560.25624.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.
Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."
Fixed up conflicts as per Al.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
new helper: restore_altstack()
unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
missing user_stack_pointer() instances
Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure
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Conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK; architectures that do not
select it are completely unaffected
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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All architectures have
CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap
Pull preparatory gcc intrisics bswap patch from David Woodhouse:
"This single patch is effectively a no-op for now. It enables
architectures to opt in to using GCC's __builtin_bswapXX() intrinsics
for byteswapping, and if we merge this now then the architecture
maintainers can enable it for their arch during the next cycle without
dependency issues.
It's worth making it a par-arch opt-in, because although in *theory*
the compiler should never do worse than hand-coded assembler (and of
course it also ought to do a lot better on platforms like Atom and
PowerPC which have load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions), that
isn't always the case. See
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46453
for example."
* tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap:
byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
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Currently only block_dev and uprobes use percpu_rw_semaphore,
add the config option selected by BLOCK || UPROBES.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
"All architectures are converted to new model. Quite a bit of that
stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.
A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):
- kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.
We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
or kernel_execve():
kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
successful do_execve() before returning.
kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
do transition to user mode anymore.
As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
resp. sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
architecture-independent.
- daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c
- struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.
- sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
kernel/fork.c now."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
new helper: signal_pt_regs()
unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
death to idle_regs()
don't pass regs to copy_process()
flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
xtensa: switch to generic clone()
openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
tile: switch to generic clone()
...
Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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Since GCC 4.4, there have been __builtin_bswap32() and __builtin_bswap16()
intrinsics. A __builtin_bswap16() came a little later (4.6 for PowerPC,
48 for other platforms).
By using these instead of the inline assembler that most architectures
have in their __arch_swabXX() macros, we let the compiler see what's
actually happening. The resulting code should be at least as good, and
much *better* in the cases where it can be combined with a nearby load
or store, using a load-and-byteswap or store-and-byteswap instruction
(e.g. lwbrx/stwbrx on PowerPC, movbe on Atom).
When GCC is sufficiently recent *and* the architecture opts in to using
the intrinsics by setting CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP, they will be
used in preference to the __arch_swabXX() macros. An architecture which
does not set ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will continue to use its own
hand-crafted macros.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.
This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.
We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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... and get rid of idiotic struct pt_regs * in asm-generic/syscalls.h
prototypes of the same, while we are at it. Eventually we want those
in linux/syscalls.h, of course, but that'll have to wait a bit.
Note that there are *three* variants of sys_clone() order of arguments.
Braindamage galore...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
"module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."
Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.
* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
module: signature checking hook
X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
"The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
alpha/arm/x86 use of those. Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
task_work stuff" breakage there.
At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
can be done independently for different architectures. The only
pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
the next cycle.
I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
changes."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
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