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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm/include/asm, branch v5.16.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'efi-urgent-for-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2021-12-27T16:58:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-27T16:58:35+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another EFI fix for v5.16:

   - Prevent missing prototype warning from breaking the build under
     CONFIG_WERROR=y"

* tag 'efi-urgent-for-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Move efifb_setup_from_dmi() prototype from arch headers
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Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another EFI fix for v5.16:

   - Prevent missing prototype warning from breaking the build under
     CONFIG_WERROR=y"

* tag 'efi-urgent-for-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Move efifb_setup_from_dmi() prototype from arch headers
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<entry>
<title>efi: Move efifb_setup_from_dmi() prototype from arch headers</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T14:07:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier Martinez Canillas</name>
<email>javierm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-26T00:13:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 8633ef82f101 ("drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup
for all arches") made the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) driver able
to be built on non-x86 architectures.

But it left the efifb_setup_from_dmi() function prototype declaration in
the architecture specific headers. This could lead to the following
compiler warning as reported by the kernel test robot:

   drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c:70:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'efifb_setup_from_dmi' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
   void efifb_setup_from_dmi(struct screen_info *si, const char *opt)
        ^
   drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c:70:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
   void efifb_setup_from_dmi(struct screen_info *si, const char *opt)

Fixes: 8633ef82f101 ("drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup for all arches")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.15.x
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas &lt;javierm@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211126001333.555514-1-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 8633ef82f101 ("drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup
for all arches") made the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) driver able
to be built on non-x86 architectures.

But it left the efifb_setup_from_dmi() function prototype declaration in
the architecture specific headers. This could lead to the following
compiler warning as reported by the kernel test robot:

   drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c:70:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'efifb_setup_from_dmi' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
   void efifb_setup_from_dmi(struct screen_info *si, const char *opt)
        ^
   drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c:70:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
   void efifb_setup_from_dmi(struct screen_info *si, const char *opt)

Fixes: 8633ef82f101 ("drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup for all arches")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.15.x
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas &lt;javierm@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211126001333.555514-1-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Add linux/cacheflush.h</title>
<updated>2021-11-17T15:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-06T21:13:35+00:00</published>
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Many architectures do not include asm-generic/cacheflush.h, so turn
the includes on their head and add linux/cacheflush.h which includes
asm/cacheflush.h.

Move the flush_dcache_folio() declaration from asm-generic/cacheflush.h
to linux/cacheflush.h and change linux/highmem.h to include
linux/cacheflush.h instead of asm/cacheflush.h so that all necessary
places will see flush_dcache_folio().

More functions should have their default implementations moved in the
future, but those are for follow-on patches.  This fixes csky, sparc and
sparc64 which were missed in the commit which added flush_dcache_folio().

Fixes: 08b0b0059bf1 ("mm: Add flush_dcache_folio()")
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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Many architectures do not include asm-generic/cacheflush.h, so turn
the includes on their head and add linux/cacheflush.h which includes
asm/cacheflush.h.

Move the flush_dcache_folio() declaration from asm-generic/cacheflush.h
to linux/cacheflush.h and change linux/highmem.h to include
linux/cacheflush.h instead of asm/cacheflush.h so that all necessary
places will see flush_dcache_folio().

More functions should have their default implementations moved in the
future, but those are for follow-on patches.  This fixes csky, sparc and
sparc64 which were missed in the commit which added flush_dcache_folio().

Fixes: 08b0b0059bf1 ("mm: Add flush_dcache_folio()")
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2021-11-10T19:22:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T19:22:03+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a single cleanup from Peter Collingbourne, removing some dead
  code"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  arch: remove unused function syscall_set_arguments()
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Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a single cleanup from Peter Collingbourne, removing some dead
  code"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  arch: remove unused function syscall_set_arguments()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T18:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T18:33:15+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Rejig task/thread info to place thread info in task struct

 - Amba bus cleanups (removing unused functions)

 - Handle Amba device probe without IRQ domains

 - Parse linux,usable-memory-range in decompressor

 - Mark OCRAM as read-only after initialisation

 - Refactor page fault handling

 - Fix PXN handling with LPAE kernels

 - Warning and build fixes from Arnd

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 9151/1: Thumb2: avoid __builtin_thread_pointer() on Clang
  ARM: 9150/1: Fix PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR regression when THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y
  ARM: 9147/1: add printf format attribute to early_print()
  ARM: 9146/1: RiscPC needs older gcc version
  ARM: 9145/1: patch: fix BE32 compilation
  ARM: 9144/1: forbid ftrace with clang and thumb2_kernel
  ARM: 9143/1: add CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET default values
  ARM: 9142/1: kasan: work around LPAE build warning
  ARM: 9140/1: allow compile-testing without machine record
  ARM: 9137/1: disallow CONFIG_THUMB with ARMv4
  ARM: 9136/1: ARMv7-M uses BE-8, not BE-32
  ARM: 9135/1: kprobes: address gcc -Wempty-body warning
  ARM: 9101/1: sa1100/assabet: convert LEDs to gpiod APIs
  ARM: 9131/1: mm: Fix PXN process with LPAE feature
  ARM: 9130/1: mm: Provide die_kernel_fault() helper
  ARM: 9126/1: mm: Kill page table base print in show_pte()
  ARM: 9127/1: mm: Cleanup access_error()
  ARM: 9129/1: mm: Kill task_struct argument for __do_page_fault()
  ARM: 9128/1: mm: Refactor the __do_page_fault()
  ARM: imx6: mark OCRAM mapping read-only
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Rejig task/thread info to place thread info in task struct

 - Amba bus cleanups (removing unused functions)

 - Handle Amba device probe without IRQ domains

 - Parse linux,usable-memory-range in decompressor

 - Mark OCRAM as read-only after initialisation

 - Refactor page fault handling

 - Fix PXN handling with LPAE kernels

 - Warning and build fixes from Arnd

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 9151/1: Thumb2: avoid __builtin_thread_pointer() on Clang
  ARM: 9150/1: Fix PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR regression when THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y
  ARM: 9147/1: add printf format attribute to early_print()
  ARM: 9146/1: RiscPC needs older gcc version
  ARM: 9145/1: patch: fix BE32 compilation
  ARM: 9144/1: forbid ftrace with clang and thumb2_kernel
  ARM: 9143/1: add CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET default values
  ARM: 9142/1: kasan: work around LPAE build warning
  ARM: 9140/1: allow compile-testing without machine record
  ARM: 9137/1: disallow CONFIG_THUMB with ARMv4
  ARM: 9136/1: ARMv7-M uses BE-8, not BE-32
  ARM: 9135/1: kprobes: address gcc -Wempty-body warning
  ARM: 9101/1: sa1100/assabet: convert LEDs to gpiod APIs
  ARM: 9131/1: mm: Fix PXN process with LPAE feature
  ARM: 9130/1: mm: Provide die_kernel_fault() helper
  ARM: 9126/1: mm: Kill page table base print in show_pte()
  ARM: 9127/1: mm: Cleanup access_error()
  ARM: 9129/1: mm: Kill task_struct argument for __do_page_fault()
  ARM: 9128/1: mm: Refactor the __do_page_fault()
  ARM: imx6: mark OCRAM mapping read-only
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'devel-stable' and 'misc' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T09:04:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T09:04:22+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T20:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T20:48:52+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2021-10-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T20:44:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T20:44:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=57a315cd7198907326e691cc909df2beebc2420d'/>
<id>57a315cd7198907326e691cc909df2beebc2420d</id>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Time, timers and timekeeping updates:

   - No core updates

   - No new clocksource/event driver

   - A large rework of the ARM architected timer driver to prepare for
     the support of the upcoming ARMv8.6 support

   - Fix Kconfig options for Exynos MCT, Samsung PWM and TI DM timers

   - Address a namespace collison in the ARC sp804 timer driver"

* tag 'timers-core-2021-10-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Select TIMER_OF
  clocksource/drivers/exynosy: Depend on sub-architecture for Exynos MCT and Samsung PWM
  clocksource/drivers/arch_arm_timer: Move workaround synchronisation around
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix masking for high freq counters
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Drop unnecessary ISB on CVAL programming
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove any trace of the TVAL programming interface
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Work around broken CVAL implementations
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Advertise 56bit timer to the core code
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move MMIO timer programming over to CVAL
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix MMIO base address vs callback ordering issue
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move drop _tval from erratum function names
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move system register timer programming over to CVAL
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Extend write side of timer register accessors to u64
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Drop CNT*_TVAL read accessors
  clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Add build-time guards for unhandled register accesses
  clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Eliminate redefined macro error
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<pre>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Time, timers and timekeeping updates:

   - No core updates

   - No new clocksource/event driver

   - A large rework of the ARM architected timer driver to prepare for
     the support of the upcoming ARMv8.6 support

   - Fix Kconfig options for Exynos MCT, Samsung PWM and TI DM timers

   - Address a namespace collison in the ARC sp804 timer driver"

* tag 'timers-core-2021-10-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Select TIMER_OF
  clocksource/drivers/exynosy: Depend on sub-architecture for Exynos MCT and Samsung PWM
  clocksource/drivers/arch_arm_timer: Move workaround synchronisation around
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix masking for high freq counters
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Drop unnecessary ISB on CVAL programming
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove any trace of the TVAL programming interface
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Work around broken CVAL implementations
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Advertise 56bit timer to the core code
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move MMIO timer programming over to CVAL
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix MMIO base address vs callback ordering issue
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move drop _tval from erratum function names
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move system register timer programming over to CVAL
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Extend write side of timer register accessors to u64
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Drop CNT*_TVAL read accessors
  clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Add build-time guards for unhandled register accesses
  clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Eliminate redefined macro error
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T15:47:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T15:47:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=49f8275c7d9247cf1dd4440fc8162f784252c849'/>
<id>49f8275c7d9247cf1dd4440fc8162f784252c849</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull memory folios from Matthew Wilcox:
 "Add memory folios, a new type to represent either order-0 pages or the
  head page of a compound page. This should be enough infrastructure to
  support filesystems converting from pages to folios.

  The point of all this churn is to allow filesystems and the page cache
  to manage memory in larger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. The original plan
  was to use compound pages like THP does, but I ran into problems with
  some functions expecting only a head page while others expect the
  precise page containing a particular byte.

  The folio type allows a function to declare that it's expecting only a
  head page. Almost incidentally, this allows us to remove various calls
  to VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) and compound_head().

  This converts just parts of the core MM and the page cache. For 5.17,
  we intend to convert various filesystems (XFS and AFS are ready; other
  filesystems may make it) and also convert more of the MM and page
  cache to folios. For 5.18, multi-page folios should be ready.

  The multi-page folios offer some improvement to some workloads. The
  80% win is real, but appears to be an artificial benchmark (postgres
  startup, which isn't a serious workload). Real workloads (eg building
  the kernel, running postgres in a steady state, etc) seem to benefit
  between 0-10%. I haven't heard of any performance losses as a result
  of this series. Nobody has done any serious performance tuning; I
  imagine that tweaking the readahead algorithm could provide some more
  interesting wins. There are also other places where we could choose to
  create large folios and currently do not, such as writes that are
  larger than PAGE_SIZE.

  I'd like to thank all my reviewers who've offered review/ack tags:
  Christoph Hellwig, David Howells, Jan Kara, Jeff Layton, Johannes
  Weiner, Kirill A. Shutemov, Michal Hocko, Mike Rapoport, Vlastimil
  Babka, William Kucharski, Yu Zhao and Zi Yan.

  I'd also like to thank those who gave feedback I incorporated but
  haven't offered up review tags for this part of the series: Nick
  Piggin, Mel Gorman, Ming Lei, Darrick Wong, Ted Ts'o, John Hubbard,
  Hugh Dickins, and probably a few others who I forget"

* tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (90 commits)
  mm/writeback: Add folio_write_one
  mm/filemap: Add FGP_STABLE
  mm/filemap: Add filemap_get_folio
  mm/filemap: Convert mapping_get_entry to return a folio
  mm/filemap: Add filemap_add_folio()
  mm/filemap: Add filemap_alloc_folio
  mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions
  mm/lru: Add folio_add_lru()
  mm/lru: Convert __pagevec_lru_add_fn to take a folio
  mm: Add folio_evictable()
  mm/workingset: Convert workingset_refault() to take a folio
  mm/filemap: Add readahead_folio()
  mm/filemap: Add folio_mkwrite_check_truncate()
  mm/filemap: Add i_blocks_per_folio()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_cancel_dirty()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_account_cleaned()
  mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull memory folios from Matthew Wilcox:
 "Add memory folios, a new type to represent either order-0 pages or the
  head page of a compound page. This should be enough infrastructure to
  support filesystems converting from pages to folios.

  The point of all this churn is to allow filesystems and the page cache
  to manage memory in larger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. The original plan
  was to use compound pages like THP does, but I ran into problems with
  some functions expecting only a head page while others expect the
  precise page containing a particular byte.

  The folio type allows a function to declare that it's expecting only a
  head page. Almost incidentally, this allows us to remove various calls
  to VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) and compound_head().

  This converts just parts of the core MM and the page cache. For 5.17,
  we intend to convert various filesystems (XFS and AFS are ready; other
  filesystems may make it) and also convert more of the MM and page
  cache to folios. For 5.18, multi-page folios should be ready.

  The multi-page folios offer some improvement to some workloads. The
  80% win is real, but appears to be an artificial benchmark (postgres
  startup, which isn't a serious workload). Real workloads (eg building
  the kernel, running postgres in a steady state, etc) seem to benefit
  between 0-10%. I haven't heard of any performance losses as a result
  of this series. Nobody has done any serious performance tuning; I
  imagine that tweaking the readahead algorithm could provide some more
  interesting wins. There are also other places where we could choose to
  create large folios and currently do not, such as writes that are
  larger than PAGE_SIZE.

  I'd like to thank all my reviewers who've offered review/ack tags:
  Christoph Hellwig, David Howells, Jan Kara, Jeff Layton, Johannes
  Weiner, Kirill A. Shutemov, Michal Hocko, Mike Rapoport, Vlastimil
  Babka, William Kucharski, Yu Zhao and Zi Yan.

  I'd also like to thank those who gave feedback I incorporated but
  haven't offered up review tags for this part of the series: Nick
  Piggin, Mel Gorman, Ming Lei, Darrick Wong, Ted Ts'o, John Hubbard,
  Hugh Dickins, and probably a few others who I forget"

* tag 'folio-5.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (90 commits)
  mm/writeback: Add folio_write_one
  mm/filemap: Add FGP_STABLE
  mm/filemap: Add filemap_get_folio
  mm/filemap: Convert mapping_get_entry to return a folio
  mm/filemap: Add filemap_add_folio()
  mm/filemap: Add filemap_alloc_folio
  mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions
  mm/lru: Add folio_add_lru()
  mm/lru: Convert __pagevec_lru_add_fn to take a folio
  mm: Add folio_evictable()
  mm/workingset: Convert workingset_refault() to take a folio
  mm/filemap: Add readahead_folio()
  mm/filemap: Add folio_mkwrite_check_truncate()
  mm/filemap: Add i_blocks_per_folio()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_redirty_for_writepage()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_account_redirty()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_clear_dirty_for_io()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_cancel_dirty()
  mm/writeback: Add folio_account_cleaned()
  mm/writeback: Add filemap_dirty_folio()
  ...
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