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<title>arch/arc: add copy_user_page() to &lt;asm/page.h&gt; to fix build error on ARC</title>
<updated>2021-01-19T17:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-05T03:44:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8a48c0a3360bf2bf4f40c980d0ec216e770e58ee ]

fs/dax.c uses copy_user_page() but ARC does not provide that interface,
resulting in a build error.

Provide copy_user_page() in &lt;asm/page.h&gt;.

../fs/dax.c: In function 'copy_cow_page_dax':
../fs/dax.c:702:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_user_page'; did you mean 'copy_to_user_page'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
#Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt; # v1
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
#Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt; # v2
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8a48c0a3360bf2bf4f40c980d0ec216e770e58ee ]

fs/dax.c uses copy_user_page() but ARC does not provide that interface,
resulting in a build error.

Provide copy_user_page() in &lt;asm/page.h&gt;.

../fs/dax.c: In function 'copy_cow_page_dax':
../fs/dax.c:702:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_user_page'; did you mean 'copy_to_user_page'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
#Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt; # v1
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
#Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt; # v2
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: pgtable: define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS where needed</title>
<updated>2020-12-02T07:49:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-11T16:52:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cef397038167ac15d085914493d6c86385773709 ]

Stefan Agner reported a bug when using zsram on 32-bit Arm machines
with RAM above the 4GB address boundary:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  pgd = a27bd01c
  [00000000] *pgd=236a0003, *pmd=1ffa64003
  Internal error: Oops: 207 [#1] SMP ARM
  Modules linked in: mdio_bcm_unimac(+) brcmfmac cfg80211 brcmutil raspberrypi_hwmon hci_uart crc32_arm_ce bcm2711_thermal phy_generic genet
  CPU: 0 PID: 123 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 5.9.6 #1
  Hardware name: BCM2711
  PC is at zs_map_object+0x94/0x338
  LR is at zram_bvec_rw.constprop.0+0x330/0xa64
  pc : [&lt;c0602b38&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0bda6a0&gt;]    psr: 60000013
  sp : e376bbe0  ip : 00000000  fp : c1e2921c
  r10: 00000002  r9 : c1dda730  r8 : 00000000
  r7 : e8ff7a00  r6 : 00000000  r5 : 02f9ffa0  r4 : e3710000
  r3 : 000fdffe  r2 : c1e0ce80  r1 : ebf979a0  r0 : 00000000
  Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
  Control: 30c5383d  Table: 235c2a80  DAC: fffffffd
  Process mkfs.ext4 (pid: 123, stack limit = 0x495a22e6)
  Stack: (0xe376bbe0 to 0xe376c000)

As it turns out, zsram needs to know the maximum memory size, which
is defined in MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set, or in
MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS on the x86 architecture.

The same problem will be hit on all 32-bit architectures that have a
physical address space larger than 4GB and happen to not enable sparsemem
and include asm/sparsemem.h from asm/pgtable.h.

After the initial discussion, I suggested just always defining
MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS whenever CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is
set, or provoking a build error otherwise. This addresses all
configurations that can currently have this runtime bug, but
leaves all other configurations unchanged.

I looked up the possible number of bits in source code and
datasheets, here is what I found:

 - on ARC, CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40 controls whether 32 or 40 bits are used
 - on ARM, CONFIG_LPAE enables 40 bit addressing, without it we never
   support more than 32 bits, even though supersections in theory allow
   up to 40 bits as well.
 - on MIPS, some MIPS32r1 or later chips support 36 bits, and MIPS32r5
   XPA supports up to 60 bits in theory, but 40 bits are more than
   anyone will ever ship
 - On PowerPC, there are three different implementations of 36 bit
   addressing, but 32-bit is used without CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
 - On RISC-V, the normal page table format can support 34 bit
   addressing. There is no highmem support on RISC-V, so anything
   above 2GB is unused, but it might be useful to eventually support
   CONFIG_ZRAM for high pages.

Fixes: 61989a80fb3a ("staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library")
Fixes: 02390b87a945 ("mm/zsmalloc: Prepare to variable MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS")
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Tested-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/bdfa44bf1c570b05d6c70898e2bbb0acf234ecdf.1604762181.git.stefan@agner.ch/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cef397038167ac15d085914493d6c86385773709 ]

Stefan Agner reported a bug when using zsram on 32-bit Arm machines
with RAM above the 4GB address boundary:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  pgd = a27bd01c
  [00000000] *pgd=236a0003, *pmd=1ffa64003
  Internal error: Oops: 207 [#1] SMP ARM
  Modules linked in: mdio_bcm_unimac(+) brcmfmac cfg80211 brcmutil raspberrypi_hwmon hci_uart crc32_arm_ce bcm2711_thermal phy_generic genet
  CPU: 0 PID: 123 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 5.9.6 #1
  Hardware name: BCM2711
  PC is at zs_map_object+0x94/0x338
  LR is at zram_bvec_rw.constprop.0+0x330/0xa64
  pc : [&lt;c0602b38&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0bda6a0&gt;]    psr: 60000013
  sp : e376bbe0  ip : 00000000  fp : c1e2921c
  r10: 00000002  r9 : c1dda730  r8 : 00000000
  r7 : e8ff7a00  r6 : 00000000  r5 : 02f9ffa0  r4 : e3710000
  r3 : 000fdffe  r2 : c1e0ce80  r1 : ebf979a0  r0 : 00000000
  Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
  Control: 30c5383d  Table: 235c2a80  DAC: fffffffd
  Process mkfs.ext4 (pid: 123, stack limit = 0x495a22e6)
  Stack: (0xe376bbe0 to 0xe376c000)

As it turns out, zsram needs to know the maximum memory size, which
is defined in MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set, or in
MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS on the x86 architecture.

The same problem will be hit on all 32-bit architectures that have a
physical address space larger than 4GB and happen to not enable sparsemem
and include asm/sparsemem.h from asm/pgtable.h.

After the initial discussion, I suggested just always defining
MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS whenever CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is
set, or provoking a build error otherwise. This addresses all
configurations that can currently have this runtime bug, but
leaves all other configurations unchanged.

I looked up the possible number of bits in source code and
datasheets, here is what I found:

 - on ARC, CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40 controls whether 32 or 40 bits are used
 - on ARM, CONFIG_LPAE enables 40 bit addressing, without it we never
   support more than 32 bits, even though supersections in theory allow
   up to 40 bits as well.
 - on MIPS, some MIPS32r1 or later chips support 36 bits, and MIPS32r5
   XPA supports up to 60 bits in theory, but 40 bits are more than
   anyone will ever ship
 - On PowerPC, there are three different implementations of 36 bit
   addressing, but 32-bit is used without CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
 - On RISC-V, the normal page table format can support 34 bit
   addressing. There is no highmem support on RISC-V, so anything
   above 2GB is unused, but it might be useful to eventually support
   CONFIG_ZRAM for high pages.

Fixes: 61989a80fb3a ("staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library")
Fixes: 02390b87a945 ("mm/zsmalloc: Prepare to variable MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS")
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Tested-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/bdfa44bf1c570b05d6c70898e2bbb0acf234ecdf.1604762181.git.stefan@agner.ch/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: elf: use right ELF_ARCH</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T06:16:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T21:18:45+00:00</published>
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commit b7faf971081a4e56147f082234bfff55135305cb upstream.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b7faf971081a4e56147f082234bfff55135305cb upstream.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: define __ALIGN_STR and __ALIGN symbols for ARC</title>
<updated>2020-03-18T06:17:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-11T16:26:43+00:00</published>
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commit 8d92e992a785f35d23f845206cf8c6cafbc264e0 upstream.

The default defintions use fill pattern 0x90 for padding which for ARC
generates unintended "ldh_s r12,[r0,0x20]" corresponding to opcode 0x9090

So use ".align 4" which insert a "nop_s" instruction instead.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8d92e992a785f35d23f845206cf8c6cafbc264e0 upstream.

The default defintions use fill pattern 0x90 for padding which for ARC
generates unintended "ldh_s r12,[r0,0x20]" corresponding to opcode 0x9090

So use ".align 4" which insert a "nop_s" instruction instead.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming</title>
<updated>2019-09-26T17:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-25T23:49:46+00:00</published>
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The naming of pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() seems to have confused a few
people, and until recently arm64 used these erroneously/pointlessly for
other levels of page table.

To make it incredibly clear that these only apply to the PTE level, and to
align with the naming of pgtable_pmd_page_{ctor,dtor}(), let's rename them
to pgtable_pte_page_{ctor,dtor}().

These changes were generated with the following shell script:

----
git grep -lw 'pgtable_page_.tor' | while read FILE; do
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_ctor/pgtable_pte_page_ctor/}' $FILE;
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_dtor/pgtable_pte_page_dtor/}' $FILE;
done
----

... with the documentation re-flowed to remain under 80 columns, and
whitespace fixed up in macros to keep backslashes aligned.

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

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722141133.3116-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The naming of pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() seems to have confused a few
people, and until recently arm64 used these erroneously/pointlessly for
other levels of page table.

To make it incredibly clear that these only apply to the PTE level, and to
align with the naming of pgtable_pmd_page_{ctor,dtor}(), let's rename them
to pgtable_pte_page_{ctor,dtor}().

These changes were generated with the following shell script:

----
git grep -lw 'pgtable_page_.tor' | while read FILE; do
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_ctor/pgtable_pte_page_ctor/}' $FILE;
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_dtor/pgtable_pte_page_dtor/}' $FILE;
done
----

... with the documentation re-flowed to remain under 80 columns, and
whitespace fixed up in macros to keep backslashes aligned.

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

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722141133.3116-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: consolidate pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init()</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:35:31+00:00</published>
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Both pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init() are used to initialize kmem
cache for page table allocations on several architectures that do not use
PAGE_SIZE tables for one or more levels of the page table hierarchy.

Most architectures do not implement these functions and use __weak default
NOP implementation of pgd_cache_init().  Since there is no such default
for pgtable_cache_init(), its empty stub is duplicated among most
architectures.

Rename the definitions of pgd_cache_init() to pgtable_cache_init() and
drop empty stubs of pgtable_cache_init().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566457046-22637-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;	[x86]
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Both pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init() are used to initialize kmem
cache for page table allocations on several architectures that do not use
PAGE_SIZE tables for one or more levels of the page table hierarchy.

Most architectures do not implement these functions and use __weak default
NOP implementation of pgd_cache_init().  Since there is no such default
for pgtable_cache_init(), its empty stub is duplicated among most
architectures.

Rename the definitions of pgd_cache_init() to pgtable_cache_init() and
drop empty stubs of pgtable_cache_init().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566457046-22637-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;	[x86]
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove quicklist page table caches</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:35:19+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".

A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].

I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com

This patch (of 3):

Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.

The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.

Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".

A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].

I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com

This patch (of 3):

Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.

The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.

Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>arc: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h</title>
<updated>2019-08-26T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-12T21:50:35+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Reported-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: entry: early return from exception need not clear U &amp; DE bits</title>
<updated>2019-08-05T07:01:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T20:50:34+00:00</published>
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Exception handlers call FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN to
 - clear AE bit: drop down from exception active to pure kernel mode
   allowing further excptions
 - set IE bit: re-enable interrupts

It additionally also clears U bit (user mode) and DE bit (delay slot
execution) which is redundant as hardware does that already on any taken
exception. Morevoer the current software clearing is bogus anyways as
the KFLAG instruction being used for purpose can't possibly write those
bits anyways.

So don't pretend to clear them.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: rewrote changelog]
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Exception handlers call FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN to
 - clear AE bit: drop down from exception active to pure kernel mode
   allowing further excptions
 - set IE bit: re-enable interrupts

It additionally also clears U bit (user mode) and DE bit (delay slot
execution) which is redundant as hardware does that already on any taken
exception. Morevoer the current software clearing is bogus anyways as
the KFLAG instruction being used for purpose can't possibly write those
bits anyways.

So don't pretend to clear them.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: rewrote changelog]
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T15:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T15:58:04+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "VM:
   - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool

   - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao

   - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
     Christoph Hellwig

   - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig

   - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
     Kairui Song

   - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
     initialization, by Alexander Potapenko

   - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual

   - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual

   - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin

   - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V

   - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy

   - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan

   - several misc fixes

  core/lib:
   - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada

   - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
     code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse

   - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes

  get_maintainer.pl:
   - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches

  misc:
   - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface

   - coda updates

   - gdb scripts, various"

[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (100 commits)
  fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
  arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
  mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
  mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
  mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
  mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
  device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
  mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
  device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
  include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
  ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
  include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
  scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
  scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
  drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
  kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
  select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
  select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "VM:
   - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool

   - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao

   - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
     Christoph Hellwig

   - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig

   - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
     Kairui Song

   - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
     initialization, by Alexander Potapenko

   - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual

   - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual

   - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin

   - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V

   - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy

   - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan

   - several misc fixes

  core/lib:
   - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada

   - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
     code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse

   - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes

  get_maintainer.pl:
   - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches

  misc:
   - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface

   - coda updates

   - gdb scripts, various"

[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (100 commits)
  fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
  arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
  mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
  mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
  mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
  mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
  device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
  mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
  device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
  include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
  ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
  include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
  scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
  scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
  drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
  kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
  select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
  select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
  ...
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