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<entry>
<title>ARC: mm: Use max_high_pfn as a HIGHMEM zone border</title>
<updated>2021-05-19T08:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Isaev</name>
<email>isaev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-27T12:13:54+00:00</published>
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commit 1d5e4640e5df15252398c1b621f6bd432f2d7f17 upstream.

Commit 4af22ded0ecf ("arc: fix memory initialization for systems
with two memory banks") fixed highmem, but for the PAE case it causes
bug messages:

| BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:80000
| page:(ptrval) refcount:0 mapcount:1 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x80000 flags: 0x0()
| raw: 00000000 00000100 00000122 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
| raw: 00000000
| page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-00003-g1e43c377a79f #1

This is because the fix expects highmem to be always less than
lowmem and uses min_low_pfn as an upper zone border for highmem.

max_high_pfn should be ok for both highmem and highmem+PAE cases.

Fixes: 4af22ded0ecf ("arc: fix memory initialization for systems with two memory banks")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Isaev &lt;isaev@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  #5.8 onwards
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 1d5e4640e5df15252398c1b621f6bd432f2d7f17 upstream.

Commit 4af22ded0ecf ("arc: fix memory initialization for systems
with two memory banks") fixed highmem, but for the PAE case it causes
bug messages:

| BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:80000
| page:(ptrval) refcount:0 mapcount:1 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x80000 flags: 0x0()
| raw: 00000000 00000100 00000122 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
| raw: 00000000
| page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-00003-g1e43c377a79f #1

This is because the fix expects highmem to be always less than
lowmem and uses min_low_pfn as an upper zone border for highmem.

max_high_pfn should be ok for both highmem and highmem+PAE cases.

Fixes: 4af22ded0ecf ("arc: fix memory initialization for systems with two memory banks")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Isaev &lt;isaev@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  #5.8 onwards
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: mm: PAE: use 40-bit physical page mask</title>
<updated>2021-05-19T08:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Isaev</name>
<email>isaev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-27T12:12:37+00:00</published>
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commit c5f756d8c6265ebb1736a7787231f010a3b782e5 upstream.

32-bit PAGE_MASK can not be used as a mask for physical addresses
when PAE is enabled. PAGE_MASK_PHYS must be used for physical
addresses instead of PAGE_MASK.

Without this, init gets SIGSEGV if pte_modify was called:

| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| Path: /bin/busybox
| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-00003-g1e43c377a79f-dirty
| Insn could not be fetched
|     @No matching VMA found
|  ECR: 0x00040000 EFA: 0x00000000 ERET: 0x00000000
| STAT: 0x80080082 [IE U     ]   BTA: 0x00000000
|  SP: 0x5f9ffe44  FP: 0x00000000 BLK: 0xaf3d4
| LPS: 0x000d093e LPE: 0x000d0950 LPC: 0x00000000
| r00: 0x00000002 r01: 0x5f9fff14 r02: 0x5f9fff20
| ...
| Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Isaev &lt;isaev@synopsys.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 c5f756d8c6265ebb1736a7787231f010a3b782e5 upstream.

32-bit PAGE_MASK can not be used as a mask for physical addresses
when PAE is enabled. PAGE_MASK_PHYS must be used for physical
addresses instead of PAGE_MASK.

Without this, init gets SIGSEGV if pte_modify was called:

| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| Path: /bin/busybox
| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-00003-g1e43c377a79f-dirty
| Insn could not be fetched
|     @No matching VMA found
|  ECR: 0x00040000 EFA: 0x00000000 ERET: 0x00000000
| STAT: 0x80080082 [IE U     ]   BTA: 0x00000000
|  SP: 0x5f9ffe44  FP: 0x00000000 BLK: 0xaf3d4
| LPS: 0x000d093e LPE: 0x000d0950 LPC: 0x00000000
| r00: 0x00000002 r01: 0x5f9fff14 r02: 0x5f9fff20
| ...
| Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Isaev &lt;isaev@synopsys.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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: entry: fix off-by-one error in syscall number validation</title>
<updated>2021-05-19T08:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-23T19:16:25+00:00</published>
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commit 3433adc8bd09fc9f29b8baddf33b4ecd1ecd2cdc upstream.

We have NR_syscall syscalls from [0 .. NR_syscall-1].
However the check for invalid syscall number is "&gt; NR_syscall" as
opposed to &gt;=. This off-by-one error erronesously allows "NR_syscall"
to be treated as valid syscall causeing out-of-bounds access into
syscall-call table ensuing a crash (holes within syscall table have a
invalid-entry handler but this is beyond the array implementing the
table).

This problem showed up on v5.6 kernel when testing glibc 2.33 (v5.10
kernel capable, includng faccessat2 syscall 439). The v5.6 kernel has
NR_syscalls=439 (0 to 438). Due to the bug, 439 passed by glibc was
not handled as -ENOSYS but processed leading to a crash.

Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/48
Reported-by: Shahab Vahedi &lt;shahab@synopsys.com&gt;
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 3433adc8bd09fc9f29b8baddf33b4ecd1ecd2cdc upstream.

We have NR_syscall syscalls from [0 .. NR_syscall-1].
However the check for invalid syscall number is "&gt; NR_syscall" as
opposed to &gt;=. This off-by-one error erronesously allows "NR_syscall"
to be treated as valid syscall causeing out-of-bounds access into
syscall-call table ensuing a crash (holes within syscall table have a
invalid-entry handler but this is beyond the array implementing the
table).

This problem showed up on v5.6 kernel when testing glibc 2.33 (v5.10
kernel capable, includng faccessat2 syscall 439). The v5.6 kernel has
NR_syscalls=439 (0 to 438). Due to the bug, 439 passed by glibc was
not handled as -ENOSYS but processed leading to a crash.

Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/48
Reported-by: Shahab Vahedi &lt;shahab@synopsys.com&gt;
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: kernel: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails</title>
<updated>2021-04-21T11:13:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Qing</name>
<email>wangqing@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-01T12:05:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 46e152186cd89d940b26726fff11eb3f4935b45a ]

The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining to be
copied, but we want to return -EFAULT if the copy doesn't complete.

Signed-off-by: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
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 46e152186cd89d940b26726fff11eb3f4935b45a ]

The copy_to_user() function returns the number of bytes remaining to be
copied, but we want to return -EFAULT if the copy doesn't complete.

Signed-off-by: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: [hsdk]: Enable FPU_SAVE_RESTORE</title>
<updated>2021-01-08T21:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-08T21:46:55+00:00</published>
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HSDK has hardware floating point and the common use case is with
glibc+hf so enable that as default.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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HSDK has hardware floating point and the common use case is with
glibc+hf so enable that as default.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: unbork 5.11 bootup: fix snafu in _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling</title>
<updated>2021-01-07T22:04:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-06T20:34:36+00:00</published>
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Linux 5.11.rcX was failing to boot on ARC HSDK board. Turns out we have
a couple of issues, this being the first one, and I'm to blame as I
didn't pay attention during review.

TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL support requires checking multiple TIF_* bits in
kernel return code path. Old code only needed to check a single bit so
BBIT0 &lt;TIF_SIGPENDING&gt; worked. New code needs to check multiple bits so
AND &lt;bit-mask&gt; instruction. So needs to use bit mask variant _TIF_SIGPENDING

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Fixes: 53855e12588743ea128 ("arc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL")
Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/34
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Linux 5.11.rcX was failing to boot on ARC HSDK board. Turns out we have
a couple of issues, this being the first one, and I'm to blame as I
didn't pay attention during review.

TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL support requires checking multiple TIF_* bits in
kernel return code path. Old code only needed to check a single bit so
BBIT0 &lt;TIF_SIGPENDING&gt; worked. New code needs to check multiple bits so
AND &lt;bit-mask&gt; instruction. So needs to use bit mask variant _TIF_SIGPENDING

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Fixes: 53855e12588743ea128 ("arc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL")
Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/34
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/arc: add copy_user_page() to &lt;asm/page.h&gt; to fix build error on ARC</title>
<updated>2021-01-05T20:59:40+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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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;
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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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arc-5.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc</title>
<updated>2021-01-05T20:46:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-05T20:46:27+00:00</published>
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:
 "Things are quieter on upstreaming front as we are mostly focusing on
  ARCv3/ARC64 port.

  This contains just build system updates from Masahiro Yamada"

* tag 'arc-5.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: build: use $(READELF) instead of hard-coded readelf
  ARC: build: remove unneeded extra-y
  ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race
  ARC: build: add boot_targets to PHONY
  ARC: build: add uImage.lzma to the top-level target
  ARC: build: remove non-existing bootpImage from KBUILD_IMAGE
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:
 "Things are quieter on upstreaming front as we are mostly focusing on
  ARCv3/ARC64 port.

  This contains just build system updates from Masahiro Yamada"

* tag 'arc-5.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: build: use $(READELF) instead of hard-coded readelf
  ARC: build: remove unneeded extra-y
  ARC: build: move symlink creation to arch/arc/Makefile to avoid race
  ARC: build: add boot_targets to PHONY
  ARC: build: add uImage.lzma to the top-level target
  ARC: build: remove non-existing bootpImage from KBUILD_IMAGE
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>local64.h: make &lt;asm/local64.h&gt; mandatory</title>
<updated>2020-12-29T23:36:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-29T23:14:49+00:00</published>
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Make &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; mandatory in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
remove all arch/*/include/asm/local64.h arch-specific files since they
only #include &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt;.

This fixes build errors on arch/c6x/ and arch/nios2/ for
block/blk-iocost.c.

Build-tested on 21 of 25 arch-es.  (tools problems on the others)

Yes, we could even rename &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; to
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; and change all #includes to use
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201227024446.17018-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;jacquiot.aurelien@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&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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Make &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; mandatory in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
remove all arch/*/include/asm/local64.h arch-specific files since they
only #include &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt;.

This fixes build errors on arch/c6x/ and arch/nios2/ for
block/blk-iocost.c.

Build-tested on 21 of 25 arch-es.  (tools problems on the others)

Yes, we could even rename &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; to
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; and change all #includes to use
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201227024446.17018-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;jacquiot.aurelien@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&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>Merge tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T20:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2020-12-16T20:33:35+00:00</published>
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Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman &lt;romger@amazon.com&gt; reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...
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Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman &lt;romger@amazon.com&gt; reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...
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