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<title>ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm</title>
<updated>2018-01-01T20:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-22T18:06:50+00:00</published>
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commit 84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 upstream.

It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
read the file.  This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace
is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only
executables.

As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm
spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the
target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or
the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing
began to read the target processes mm.

In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by
ptrace_access_vm.  There remain several ptrace sites that still use
access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables
instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks.  As such it
does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls.

This bug has always existed in Linux.

Fixes: v1.0
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Pass around only a write flag, not gup_flags
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 upstream.

It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
read the file.  This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace
is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only
executables.

As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm
spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the
target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or
the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing
began to read the target processes mm.

In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by
ptrace_access_vm.  There remain several ptrace sites that still use
access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables
instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks.  As such it
does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls.

This bug has always existed in Linux.

Fixes: v1.0
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Pass around only a write flag, not gup_flags
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-01T00:35:55+00:00</published>
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commit cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 upstream.

This fixes compiler errors in perf such as:

tests/attr.c: In function 'store_event':
tests/attr.c:66:27: error: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64 {aka long unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
  snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/event-%d-%llu-%d", dir,
                           ^

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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commit cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 upstream.

This fixes compiler errors in perf such as:

tests/attr.c: In function 'store_event':
tests/attr.c:66:27: error: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64 {aka long unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
  snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/event-%d-%llu-%d", dir,
                           ^

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>osf_wait4(): fix infoleak</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T17:29:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-15T01:47:25+00:00</published>
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commit a8c39544a6eb2093c04afd5005b6192bd0e880c6 upstream.

failing sys_wait4() won't fill struct rusage...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a8c39544a6eb2093c04afd5005b6192bd0e880c6 upstream.

failing sys_wait4() won't fill struct rusage...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>alpha: fix copy_from_user()</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-17T20:02:32+00:00</published>
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commit 2561d309dfd1555e781484af757ed0115035ddb3 upstream.

it should clear the destination even when access_ok() fails.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 2561d309dfd1555e781484af757ed0115035ddb3 upstream.

it should clear the destination even when access_ok() fails.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>alpha/PCI: Call iomem_is_exclusive() for IORESOURCE_MEM, but not IORESOURCE_IO</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T21:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bhelgaas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-25T20:59:50+00:00</published>
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commit c20e128030caf0537d5e906753eac1c28fefdb75 upstream.

The alpha pci_mmap_resource() is used for both IORESOURCE_MEM and
IORESOURCE_IO resources, but iomem_is_exclusive() is only applicable for
IORESOURCE_MEM.

Call iomem_is_exclusive() only for IORESOURCE_MEM resources, and do it
earlier to match the generic version of pci_mmap_resource().

Fixes: 10a0ef39fbd1 ("PCI/alpha: pci sysfs resources")
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
CC: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit c20e128030caf0537d5e906753eac1c28fefdb75 upstream.

The alpha pci_mmap_resource() is used for both IORESOURCE_MEM and
IORESOURCE_IO resources, but iomem_is_exclusive() is only applicable for
IORESOURCE_MEM.

Call iomem_is_exclusive() only for IORESOURCE_MEM resources, and do it
earlier to match the generic version of pci_mmap_resource().

Fixes: 10a0ef39fbd1 ("PCI/alpha: pci sysfs resources")
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
CC: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T10:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - file renamed: arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c -&gt;
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_fault.c
  - dropped changes to arch/nios2/mm/fault.c ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - file renamed: arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c -&gt;
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_fault.c
  - dropped changes to arch/nios2/mm/fault.c ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T21:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T21:00:15+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main scheduling related changes in this cycle were:

   - various sched/numa updates, for better performance

   - tree wide cleanup of open coded nice levels

   - nohz fix related to rq-&gt;nr_running use

   - cpuidle changes and continued consolidation to improve the
     kernel/sched/idle.c high level idle scheduling logic.  As part of
     this effort I pulled cpuidle driver changes from Rafael as well.

   - standardized idle polling amongst architectures

   - continued work on preparing better power/energy aware scheduling

   - sched/rt updates

   - misc fixlets and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  sched/numa: Decay -&gt;wakee_flips instead of zeroing
  sched/numa: Update migrate_improves/degrades_locality()
  sched/numa: Allow task switch if load imbalance improves
  sched/rt: Fix 'struct sched_dl_entity' and dl_task_time() comments, to match the current upstream code
  sched: Consolidate open coded implementations of nice level frobbing into nice_to_rlimit() and rlimit_to_nice()
  sched: Initialize rq-&gt;age_stamp on processor start
  sched, nohz: Change rq-&gt;nr_running to always use wrappers
  sched: Fix the rq-&gt;next_balance logic in rebalance_domains() and idle_balance()
  sched: Use clamp() and clamp_val() to make sys_nice() more readable
  sched: Do not zero sg-&gt;cpumask and sg-&gt;sgp-&gt;power in build_sched_groups()
  sched/numa: Fix initialization of sched_domain_topology for NUMA
  sched: Call select_idle_sibling() when not affine_sd
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_read_attr()
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_copy_attr()
  sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks
  arm64: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  metag: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  sched/idle: Make cpuidle_idle_call() void
  sched/idle: Reflow cpuidle_idle_call()
  sched/idle: Delay clearing the polling bit
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main scheduling related changes in this cycle were:

   - various sched/numa updates, for better performance

   - tree wide cleanup of open coded nice levels

   - nohz fix related to rq-&gt;nr_running use

   - cpuidle changes and continued consolidation to improve the
     kernel/sched/idle.c high level idle scheduling logic.  As part of
     this effort I pulled cpuidle driver changes from Rafael as well.

   - standardized idle polling amongst architectures

   - continued work on preparing better power/energy aware scheduling

   - sched/rt updates

   - misc fixlets and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  sched/numa: Decay -&gt;wakee_flips instead of zeroing
  sched/numa: Update migrate_improves/degrades_locality()
  sched/numa: Allow task switch if load imbalance improves
  sched/rt: Fix 'struct sched_dl_entity' and dl_task_time() comments, to match the current upstream code
  sched: Consolidate open coded implementations of nice level frobbing into nice_to_rlimit() and rlimit_to_nice()
  sched: Initialize rq-&gt;age_stamp on processor start
  sched, nohz: Change rq-&gt;nr_running to always use wrappers
  sched: Fix the rq-&gt;next_balance logic in rebalance_domains() and idle_balance()
  sched: Use clamp() and clamp_val() to make sys_nice() more readable
  sched: Do not zero sg-&gt;cpumask and sg-&gt;sgp-&gt;power in build_sched_groups()
  sched/numa: Fix initialization of sched_domain_topology for NUMA
  sched: Call select_idle_sibling() when not affine_sd
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_read_attr()
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_copy_attr()
  sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks
  arm64: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  metag: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  sched/idle: Make cpuidle_idle_call() void
  sched/idle: Reflow cpuidle_idle_call()
  sched/idle: Delay clearing the polling bit
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=776edb59317ada867dfcddde40b55648beeb0078'/>
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Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
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Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: Turn pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() into a weak function</title>
<updated>2014-05-27T22:23:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hanjun Guo</name>
<email>hanjun.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-06T03:29:52+00:00</published>
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pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() is only implemented by x86 now, and legacy ISA
is not used by some architectures.  Make pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() a
__weak function to simplify the code.  This removes the need for new
platforms to add stub implementations of pcibios_penalize_isa_irq().

[bhelgaas: changelog, comments]
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;</content>
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pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() is only implemented by x86 now, and legacy ISA
is not used by some architectures.  Make pcibios_penalize_isa_irq() a
__weak function to simplify the code.  This removes the need for new
platforms to add stub implementations of pcibios_penalize_isa_irq().

[bhelgaas: changelog, comments]
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;</pre>
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<title>sched/idle, alpha: Switch from TS_POLLING to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG</title>
<updated>2014-05-08T07:16:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-11T07:59:17+00:00</published>
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Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that
both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word.
This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and
check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless
wakeups.

Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic
thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state
changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: 蔡正龙 &lt;zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9tfzr196gs0n2afxv0ga8pc3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that
both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word.
This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and
check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless
wakeups.

Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic
thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state
changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: 蔡正龙 &lt;zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9tfzr196gs0n2afxv0ga8pc3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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