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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arc/kernel, branch v6.5.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</published>
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Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T10:01:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>vschneid@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T14:35:56+00:00</published>
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To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.

Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle script:

  @func_use@
  @@
  smp_send_reschedule(...);

  @include@
  @@
  #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

  @no_include depends on func_use &amp;&amp; !include@
  @@
    #include &lt;...&gt;
  +
  + #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

[csky bits]
[riscv bits]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-6-vschneid@redhat.com
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To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.

Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle script:

  @func_use@
  @@
  smp_send_reschedule(...);

  @include@
  @@
  #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

  @no_include depends on func_use &amp;&amp; !include@
  @@
    #include &lt;...&gt;
  +
  + #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

[csky bits]
[riscv bits]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-6-vschneid@redhat.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: replace module_layout with module_memory</title>
<updated>2023-03-09T20:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>song@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-07T00:28:02+00:00</published>
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module_layout manages different types of memory (text, data, rodata, etc.)
in one allocation, which is problematic for some reasons:

1. It is hard to enable CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX.
2. It is hard to use huge pages in modules (and not break strict rwx).
3. Many archs uses module_layout for arch-specific data, but it is not
   obvious how these data are used (are they RO, RX, or RW?)

Improve the scenario by replacing 2 (or 3) module_layout per module with
up to 7 module_memory per module:

        MOD_TEXT,
        MOD_DATA,
        MOD_RODATA,
        MOD_RO_AFTER_INIT,
        MOD_INIT_TEXT,
        MOD_INIT_DATA,
        MOD_INIT_RODATA,

and allocating them separately. This adds slightly more entries to
mod_tree (from up to 3 entries per module, to up to 7 entries per
module). However, this at most adds a small constant overhead to
__module_address(), which is expected to be fast.

Various archs use module_layout for different data. These data are put
into different module_memory based on their location in module_layout.
IOW, data that used to go with text is allocated with MOD_MEM_TYPE_TEXT;
data that used to go with data is allocated with MOD_MEM_TYPE_DATA, etc.

module_memory simplifies quite some of the module code. For example,
ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC is a lot cleaner, as it just uses a
different allocator for the data. kernel/module/strict_rwx.c is also
much cleaner with module_memory.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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module_layout manages different types of memory (text, data, rodata, etc.)
in one allocation, which is problematic for some reasons:

1. It is hard to enable CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX.
2. It is hard to use huge pages in modules (and not break strict rwx).
3. Many archs uses module_layout for arch-specific data, but it is not
   obvious how these data are used (are they RO, RX, or RW?)

Improve the scenario by replacing 2 (or 3) module_layout per module with
up to 7 module_memory per module:

        MOD_TEXT,
        MOD_DATA,
        MOD_RODATA,
        MOD_RO_AFTER_INIT,
        MOD_INIT_TEXT,
        MOD_INIT_DATA,
        MOD_INIT_RODATA,

and allocating them separately. This adds slightly more entries to
mod_tree (from up to 3 entries per module, to up to 7 entries per
module). However, this at most adds a small constant overhead to
__module_address(), which is expected to be fast.

Various archs use module_layout for different data. These data are put
into different module_memory based on their location in module_layout.
IOW, data that used to go with text is allocated with MOD_MEM_TYPE_TEXT;
data that used to go with data is allocated with MOD_MEM_TYPE_DATA, etc.

module_memory simplifies quite some of the module code. For example,
ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC is a lot cleaner, as it just uses a
different allocator for the data. kernel/module/strict_rwx.c is also
much cleaner with module_memory.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/idle: Change arch_cpu_idle() behavior: always exit with IRQs disabled</title>
<updated>2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-12T19:43:35+00:00</published>
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Current arch_cpu_idle() is called with IRQs disabled, but will return
with IRQs enabled.

However, the very first thing the generic code does after calling
arch_cpu_idle() is raw_local_irq_disable(). This means that
architectures that can idle with IRQs disabled end up doing a
pointless 'enable-disable' dance.

Therefore, push this IRQ disabling into the idle function, meaning
that those architectures can avoid the pointless IRQ state flipping.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;gautham.shenoy@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.618076436@infradead.org
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Current arch_cpu_idle() is called with IRQs disabled, but will return
with IRQs enabled.

However, the very first thing the generic code does after calling
arch_cpu_idle() is raw_local_irq_disable(). This means that
architectures that can idle with IRQs disabled end up doing a
pointless 'enable-disable' dance.

Therefore, push this IRQ disabling into the idle function, meaning
that those architectures can avoid the pointless IRQ state flipping.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;gautham.shenoy@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.618076436@infradead.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr</title>
<updated>2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-12T19:43:31+00:00</published>
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Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org
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Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arc: ptrace: user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0</title>
<updated>2022-11-15T22:30:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Shtylyov</name>
<email>s.shtylyov@omp.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T21:22:23+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Make user_regset_copyin_ignore() *void*".

user_regset_copyin_ignore() apparently cannot fail and so always returns 0.
Let's first remove the result checks in several architectures that call this
function and then make user_regset_copyin_ignore() return *void* instead of
*int*...


This patch (of 13):

user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0, so checking its result seems
pointless -- don't do this anymore...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-1-s.shtylyov@omp.ru
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-2-s.shtylyov@omp.ru
Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov &lt;s.shtylyov@omp.ru&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt; # powerpc
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "Make user_regset_copyin_ignore() *void*".

user_regset_copyin_ignore() apparently cannot fail and so always returns 0.
Let's first remove the result checks in several architectures that call this
function and then make user_regset_copyin_ignore() return *void* instead of
*int*...


This patch (of 13):

user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0, so checking its result seems
pointless -- don't do this anymore...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-1-s.shtylyov@omp.ru
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-2-s.shtylyov@omp.ru
Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov &lt;s.shtylyov@omp.ru&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt; # powerpc
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: Fix comment typo</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T23:32:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jilin Yuan</name>
<email>yuanjilin@cdjrlc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-08T03:02:24+00:00</published>
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 - Remove one of the repeated 'call' in comment line 396.
 - Delete the redundant word 'to', 'since'

Signed-off-by: Jilin Yuan &lt;yuanjilin@cdjrlc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
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 - Remove one of the repeated 'call' in comment line 396.
 - Delete the redundant word 'to', 'since'

Signed-off-by: Jilin Yuan &lt;yuanjilin@cdjrlc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head</title>
<updated>2022-10-02T09:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-24T18:19:14+00:00</published>
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The objects placed at the head of vmlinux need special treatments:

 - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile adds them to head-y in order to place
   them before other archives in the linker command line.

 - arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile adds them to extra-y instead of
   obj-y to avoid them going into built-in.a.

This commit gets rid of the latter.

Create vmlinux.a to collect all the objects that are unconditionally
linked to vmlinux. The objects listed in head-y are moved to the head
of vmlinux.a by using 'ar m'.

With this, arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile can consistently use obj-y
for builtin objects.

There is no *.o that is directly linked to vmlinux. Drop unneeded code
in scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py.

$(AR) mPi needs 'T' to workaround the llvm-ar bug. The fix was suggested
by Nathan Chancellor [1].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/YyjjT5gQ2hGMH0ni@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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The objects placed at the head of vmlinux need special treatments:

 - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile adds them to head-y in order to place
   them before other archives in the linker command line.

 - arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile adds them to extra-y instead of
   obj-y to avoid them going into built-in.a.

This commit gets rid of the latter.

Create vmlinux.a to collect all the objects that are unconditionally
linked to vmlinux. The objects listed in head-y are moved to the head
of vmlinux.a by using 'ar m'.

With this, arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile can consistently use obj-y
for builtin objects.

There is no *.o that is directly linked to vmlinux. Drop unneeded code
in scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py.

$(AR) mPi needs 'T' to workaround the llvm-ar bug. The fix was suggested
by Nathan Chancellor [1].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/YyjjT5gQ2hGMH0ni@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-08-06-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-08-07T17:03:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-07T17:03:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=eb5699ba31558bdb2cee6ebde3d0a68091e47dce'/>
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Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2,
  fatfs, autofs, squashfs, procfs, etc. A relatively small amount of
  material this time"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-08-06-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
  scripts/gdb: ensure the absolute path is generated on initial source
  MAINTAINERS: kunit: add David Gow as a maintainer of KUnit
  mailmap: add linux.dev alias for Brendan Higgins
  mailmap: update Kirill's email
  profile: setup_profiling_timer() is moslty not implemented
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  ocfs2: use the bitmap API to simplify code
  ocfs2: remove some useless functions
  lib/mpi: fix typo 'the the' in comment
  proc: add some (hopefully) insightful comments
  bdi: remove enum wb_congested_state
  kernel/hung_task: fix address space of proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs
  lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c: replace ternary operator with min() and min_t()
  squashfs: support reading fragments in readahead call
  squashfs: implement readahead
  squashfs: always build "file direct" version of page actor
  Revert "squashfs: provide backing_dev_info in order to disable read-ahead"
  fs/ocfs2: Fix spelling typo in comment
  ia64: old_rr4 added under CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
  proc: fix test for "vsyscall=xonly" boot option
  ...
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Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2,
  fatfs, autofs, squashfs, procfs, etc. A relatively small amount of
  material this time"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-08-06-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
  scripts/gdb: ensure the absolute path is generated on initial source
  MAINTAINERS: kunit: add David Gow as a maintainer of KUnit
  mailmap: add linux.dev alias for Brendan Higgins
  mailmap: update Kirill's email
  profile: setup_profiling_timer() is moslty not implemented
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  ocfs2: use the bitmap API to simplify code
  ocfs2: remove some useless functions
  lib/mpi: fix typo 'the the' in comment
  proc: add some (hopefully) insightful comments
  bdi: remove enum wb_congested_state
  kernel/hung_task: fix address space of proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs
  lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c: replace ternary operator with min() and min_t()
  squashfs: support reading fragments in readahead call
  squashfs: implement readahead
  squashfs: always build "file direct" version of page actor
  Revert "squashfs: provide backing_dev_info in order to disable read-ahead"
  fs/ocfs2: Fix spelling typo in comment
  ia64: old_rr4 added under CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
  proc: fix test for "vsyscall=xonly" boot option
  ...
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<entry>
<title>profile: setup_profiling_timer() is moslty not implemented</title>
<updated>2022-07-30T01:12:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben-linux@fluff.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-21T19:55:09+00:00</published>
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The setup_profiling_timer() is mostly un-implemented by many
architectures.  In many places it isn't guarded by CONFIG_PROFILE which is
needed for it to be used.  Make it a weak symbol in kernel/profile.c and
remove the 'return -EINVAL' implementations from the kenrel.

There are a couple of architectures which do return 0 from the
setup_profiling_timer() function but they don't seem to do anything else
with it.  To keep the /proc compatibility for now, leave these for a
future update or removal.

On ARM, this fixes the following sparse warning:
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'setup_profiling_timer' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220721195509.418205-1-ben-linux@fluff.org
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben-linux@fluff.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The setup_profiling_timer() is mostly un-implemented by many
architectures.  In many places it isn't guarded by CONFIG_PROFILE which is
needed for it to be used.  Make it a weak symbol in kernel/profile.c and
remove the 'return -EINVAL' implementations from the kenrel.

There are a couple of architectures which do return 0 from the
setup_profiling_timer() function but they don't seem to do anything else
with it.  To keep the /proc compatibility for now, leave these for a
future update or removal.

On ARM, this fixes the following sparse warning:
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'setup_profiling_timer' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220721195509.418205-1-ben-linux@fluff.org
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben-linux@fluff.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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