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<title>locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch</title>
<updated>2023-08-12T16:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2023-08-12T16:15:54+00:00</published>
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The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T21:14:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T21:14:30+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double()

   The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically &amp; functionally the
   same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface.

   Instead of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves
   layout details on the interface and exposed users to complexity,
   fragility &amp; bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128
   types.

 - Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments
   for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations.

   The generated definitions are much cleaner now, and come with
   documentation.

 - Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering when
   taking multiple locks of the same type.

   This gets rid of one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the
   bcache code.

 - Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended variable
   shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain ARM builds.

* tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_dec_if_positive() kerneldoc
  percpu: Fix self-assignment of __old in raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc
  locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation
  locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments
  docs: scripts: kernel-doc: accept bitwise negation like ~@var
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic_long*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: split pfx/name/sfx/order
  locking/atomic: scripts: restructure fallback ifdeffery
  locking/atomic: scripts: build raw_atomic_long*() directly
  locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: add trivial raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: factor out order template generation
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove leftover "${mult}"
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove bogus order parameter
  locking/atomic: xtensa: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: x86: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sparc: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sh: add preprocessor symbols
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double()

   The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically &amp; functionally the
   same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface.

   Instead of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves
   layout details on the interface and exposed users to complexity,
   fragility &amp; bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128
   types.

 - Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments
   for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations.

   The generated definitions are much cleaner now, and come with
   documentation.

 - Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering when
   taking multiple locks of the same type.

   This gets rid of one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the
   bcache code.

 - Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended variable
   shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain ARM builds.

* tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_dec_if_positive() kerneldoc
  percpu: Fix self-assignment of __old in raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc
  locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation
  locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments
  docs: scripts: kernel-doc: accept bitwise negation like ~@var
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic_long*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: split pfx/name/sfx/order
  locking/atomic: scripts: restructure fallback ifdeffery
  locking/atomic: scripts: build raw_atomic_long*() directly
  locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: add trivial raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: factor out order template generation
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove leftover "${mult}"
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove bogus order parameter
  locking/atomic: xtensa: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: x86: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sparc: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sh: add preprocessor symbols
  ...
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<entry>
<title>init: Remove check_bugs() leftovers</title>
<updated>2023-06-16T08:16:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-13T23:39:38+00:00</published>
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Everything is converted over to arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Remove the
check_bugs() leftovers including the empty stubs in asm-generic, alpha,
parisc, powerpc and xtensa.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.553215951@linutronix.de

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Everything is converted over to arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Remove the
check_bugs() leftovers including the empty stubs in asm-generic, alpha,
parisc, powerpc and xtensa.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.553215951@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc</title>
<updated>2023-06-05T07:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-05T07:01:24+00:00</published>
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Currently several architectures have kerneldoc comments for
arch_atomic_*(), which is unhelpful as these live in a shared namespace
where they clash, and the arch_atomic_*() ops are now an implementation
detail of the raw_atomic_*() ops, which no-one should use those
directly.

Delete the kerneldoc comments for arch_atomic_*(), along with
pseudo-kerneldoc comments which are in the correct style but are missing
the leading '/**' necessary to be true kerneldoc comments.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-28-mark.rutland@arm.com
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Currently several architectures have kerneldoc comments for
arch_atomic_*(), which is unhelpful as these live in a shared namespace
where they clash, and the arch_atomic_*() ops are now an implementation
detail of the raw_atomic_*() ops, which no-one should use those
directly.

Delete the kerneldoc comments for arch_atomic_*(), along with
pseudo-kerneldoc comments which are in the correct style but are missing
the leading '/**' necessary to be true kerneldoc comments.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-28-mark.rutland@arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/atomic: make atomic*_{cmp,}xchg optional</title>
<updated>2023-06-05T07:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-05T07:01:01+00:00</published>
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Most architectures define the atomic/atomic64 xchg and cmpxchg
operations in terms of arch_xchg and arch_cmpxchg respectfully.

Add fallbacks for these cases and remove the trivial cases from arch
code. On some architectures the existing definitions are kept as these
are used to build other arch_atomic*() operations.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
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Most architectures define the atomic/atomic64 xchg and cmpxchg
operations in terms of arch_xchg and arch_cmpxchg respectfully.

Add fallbacks for these cases and remove the trivial cases from arch
code. On some architectures the existing definitions are kept as these
are used to build other arch_atomic*() operations.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/arch: Wire up local_try_cmpxchg()</title>
<updated>2023-04-29T07:09:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-05T14:17:08+00:00</published>
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Implement target specific support for local_try_cmpxchg()
and local_cmpxchg() using typed C wrappers that call their
_local counterpart and provide additional checking of
their input arguments.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405141710.3551-4-ubizjak@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Implement target specific support for local_try_cmpxchg()
and local_cmpxchg() using typed C wrappers that call their
_local counterpart and provide additional checking of
their input arguments.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230405141710.3551-4-ubizjak@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/arch: Rename all internal __xchg() names to __arch_xchg()</title>
<updated>2023-04-29T07:08:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrzej Hajda</name>
<email>andrzej.hajda@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-18T15:44:44+00:00</published>
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Decrease the probability of this internal facility to be used by
driver code.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda &lt;andrzej.hajda@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti &lt;andi.shyti@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt; [riscv]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118154450.73842-1-andrzej.hajda@intel.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Decrease the probability of this internal facility to be used by
driver code.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda &lt;andrzej.hajda@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti &lt;andi.shyti@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt; [riscv]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118154450.73842-1-andrzej.hajda@intel.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha</title>
<updated>2023-02-25T20:49:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-25T20:49:29+00:00</published>
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Pull alpha updates from Al Viro:
 "Mostly small janitorial fixes but there's also more important ones: a
  patch to fix loading large modules from Edward Humes, and some fixes
  from Al Viro"

[ The fixes from Al mostly came in separately through Al's trees too and
  are now duplicated..   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
  alpha: in_irq() cleanup
  alpha: lazy FPU switching
  alpha/boot/misc: trim unused declarations
  alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header
  alpha/boot: fix the breakage from -isystem series...
  alpha: fix FEN fault handling
  alpha: Avoid comma separated statements
  alpha: fixed a typo in core_cia.c
  alpha: remove unused __SLOW_DOWN_IO and SLOW_DOWN_IO definitions
  alpha: update config files
  alpha: fix R_ALPHA_LITERAL reloc for large modules
  alpha: Add some spaces to ensure format specification
  alpha: replace NR_SYSCALLS by NR_syscalls
  alpha: Remove redundant local asm header redirections
  alpha: Implement "current_stack_pointer"
  alpha: remove redundant err variable
  alpha: osf_sys: reduce kernel log spamming on invalid osf_mount call typenr
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Pull alpha updates from Al Viro:
 "Mostly small janitorial fixes but there's also more important ones: a
  patch to fix loading large modules from Edward Humes, and some fixes
  from Al Viro"

[ The fixes from Al mostly came in separately through Al's trees too and
  are now duplicated..   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
  alpha: in_irq() cleanup
  alpha: lazy FPU switching
  alpha/boot/misc: trim unused declarations
  alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header
  alpha/boot: fix the breakage from -isystem series...
  alpha: fix FEN fault handling
  alpha: Avoid comma separated statements
  alpha: fixed a typo in core_cia.c
  alpha: remove unused __SLOW_DOWN_IO and SLOW_DOWN_IO definitions
  alpha: update config files
  alpha: fix R_ALPHA_LITERAL reloc for large modules
  alpha: Add some spaces to ensure format specification
  alpha: replace NR_SYSCALLS by NR_syscalls
  alpha: Remove redundant local asm header redirections
  alpha: Implement "current_stack_pointer"
  alpha: remove redundant err variable
  alpha: osf_sys: reduce kernel log spamming on invalid osf_mount call typenr
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: lazy FPU switching</title>
<updated>2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-02T01:50:12+00:00</published>
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	On each context switch we save the FPU registers on stack
of old process and restore FPU registers from the stack of new one.
That allows us to avoid doing that each time we enter/leave the
kernel mode; however, that can get suboptimal in some cases.

	For one thing, we don't need to bother saving anything
for kernel threads.  For another, if between entering and leaving
the kernel a thread gives CPU up more than once, it will do
useless work, saving the same values every time, only to discard
the saved copy as soon as it returns from switch_to().

	Alternative solution:

* move the array we save into from switch_stack to thread_info
* have a (thread-synchronous) flag set when we save them
* have another flag set when they should be restored on return to userland.
* do *NOT* save/restore them in do_switch_stack()/undo_switch_stack().
* restore on the exit to user mode if the restore flag had
been set.  Clear both flags.
* on context switch, entry to fork/clone/vfork, before entry into do_signal()
and on entry into straced syscall save the registers and set the 'saved' flag
unless it had been already set.
* on context switch set the 'restore' flag as well.
* have copy_thread() set both flags for child, so the registers would be
restored once the child returns to userland.
* use the saved data in setup_sigcontext(); have restore_sigcontext() set both flags
and copy from sigframe to save area.
* teach ptrace to look for FPU registers in thread_info instead of
switch_stack.
* teach isolated accesses to FPU registers (rdfpcr, wrfpcr, etc.)
to check the 'saved' flag (under preempt_disable()) and work with the save area
if it's been set; if 'saved' flag is found upon write access, set 'restore' flag
as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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	On each context switch we save the FPU registers on stack
of old process and restore FPU registers from the stack of new one.
That allows us to avoid doing that each time we enter/leave the
kernel mode; however, that can get suboptimal in some cases.

	For one thing, we don't need to bother saving anything
for kernel threads.  For another, if between entering and leaving
the kernel a thread gives CPU up more than once, it will do
useless work, saving the same values every time, only to discard
the saved copy as soon as it returns from switch_to().

	Alternative solution:

* move the array we save into from switch_stack to thread_info
* have a (thread-synchronous) flag set when we save them
* have another flag set when they should be restored on return to userland.
* do *NOT* save/restore them in do_switch_stack()/undo_switch_stack().
* restore on the exit to user mode if the restore flag had
been set.  Clear both flags.
* on context switch, entry to fork/clone/vfork, before entry into do_signal()
and on entry into straced syscall save the registers and set the 'saved' flag
unless it had been already set.
* on context switch set the 'restore' flag as well.
* have copy_thread() set both flags for child, so the registers would be
restored once the child returns to userland.
* use the saved data in setup_sigcontext(); have restore_sigcontext() set both flags
and copy from sigframe to save area.
* teach ptrace to look for FPU registers in thread_info instead of
switch_stack.
* teach isolated accesses to FPU registers (rdfpcr, wrfpcr, etc.)
to check the 'saved' flag (under preempt_disable()) and work with the save area
if it's been set; if 'saved' flag is found upon write access, set 'restore' flag
as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2023-02-24T20:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-02-24T20:58:55+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.3-rc1.

  There's a lot of changes this development cycle, most of the work
  falls into two different categories:

   - fw_devlink fixes and updates. This has gone through numerous review
     cycles and lots of review and testing by lots of different devices.
     Hopefully all should be good now, and Saravana will be keeping a
     watch for any potential regression on odd embedded systems.

   - driver core changes to work to make struct bus_type able to be
     moved into read-only memory (i.e. const) The recent work with Rust
     has pointed out a number of areas in the driver core where we are
     passing around and working with structures that really do not have
     to be dynamic at all, and they should be able to be read-only
     making things safer overall. This is the contuation of that work
     (started last release with kobject changes) in moving struct
     bus_type to be constant. We didn't quite make it for this release,
     but the remaining patches will be finished up for the release after
     this one, but the groundwork has been laid for this effort.

  Other than that we have in here:

   - debugfs memory leak fixes in some subsystems

   - error path cleanups and fixes for some never-able-to-be-hit
     codepaths.

   - cacheinfo rework and fixes

   - Other tiny fixes, full details are in the shortlog

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

[ Geert Uytterhoeven points out that that last sentence isn't true, and
  that there's a pending report that has a fix that is queued up - Linus ]

* tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (124 commits)
  debugfs: drop inline constant formatting for ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
  OPP: fix error checking in opp_migrate_dentry()
  debugfs: update comment of debugfs_rename()
  i3c: fix device.h kernel-doc warnings
  dma-mapping: no need to pass a bus_type into get_arch_dma_ops()
  driver core: class: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() lines to the correct place
  Revert "driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()"
  Revert "devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()"
  Revert "devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()"
  driver core: cpu: don't hand-override the uevent bus_type callback.
  devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()
  devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()
  driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()
  driver core: bus: update my copyright notice
  driver core: bus: add bus_get_dev_root() function
  driver core: bus: constify bus_unregister()
  driver core: bus: constify some internal functions
  driver core: bus: constify bus_get_kset()
  driver core: bus: constify bus_register/unregister_notifier()
  driver core: remove private pointer from struct bus_type
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.3-rc1.

  There's a lot of changes this development cycle, most of the work
  falls into two different categories:

   - fw_devlink fixes and updates. This has gone through numerous review
     cycles and lots of review and testing by lots of different devices.
     Hopefully all should be good now, and Saravana will be keeping a
     watch for any potential regression on odd embedded systems.

   - driver core changes to work to make struct bus_type able to be
     moved into read-only memory (i.e. const) The recent work with Rust
     has pointed out a number of areas in the driver core where we are
     passing around and working with structures that really do not have
     to be dynamic at all, and they should be able to be read-only
     making things safer overall. This is the contuation of that work
     (started last release with kobject changes) in moving struct
     bus_type to be constant. We didn't quite make it for this release,
     but the remaining patches will be finished up for the release after
     this one, but the groundwork has been laid for this effort.

  Other than that we have in here:

   - debugfs memory leak fixes in some subsystems

   - error path cleanups and fixes for some never-able-to-be-hit
     codepaths.

   - cacheinfo rework and fixes

   - Other tiny fixes, full details are in the shortlog

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

[ Geert Uytterhoeven points out that that last sentence isn't true, and
  that there's a pending report that has a fix that is queued up - Linus ]

* tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (124 commits)
  debugfs: drop inline constant formatting for ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
  OPP: fix error checking in opp_migrate_dentry()
  debugfs: update comment of debugfs_rename()
  i3c: fix device.h kernel-doc warnings
  dma-mapping: no need to pass a bus_type into get_arch_dma_ops()
  driver core: class: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() lines to the correct place
  Revert "driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()"
  Revert "devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()"
  Revert "devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()"
  driver core: cpu: don't hand-override the uevent bus_type callback.
  devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()
  devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()
  driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()
  driver core: bus: update my copyright notice
  driver core: bus: add bus_get_dev_root() function
  driver core: bus: constify bus_unregister()
  driver core: bus: constify some internal functions
  driver core: bus: constify bus_get_kset()
  driver core: bus: constify bus_register/unregister_notifier()
  driver core: remove private pointer from struct bus_type
  ...
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