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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h, branch linux-4.3.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>arm64: kernel: Add support for Privileged Access Never</title>
<updated>2015-07-27T10:08:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-22T18:05:54+00:00</published>
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'Privileged Access Never' is a new arm8.1 feature which prevents
privileged code from accessing any virtual address where read or write
access is also permitted at EL0.

This patch enables the PAN feature on all CPUs, and modifies {get,put}_user
helpers temporarily to permit access.

This will catch kernel bugs where user memory is accessed directly.
'Unprivileged loads and stores' using ldtrb et al are unaffected by PAN.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[will: use ALTERNATIVE in asm and tidy up pan_enable check]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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'Privileged Access Never' is a new arm8.1 feature which prevents
privileged code from accessing any virtual address where read or write
access is also permitted at EL0.

This patch enables the PAN feature on all CPUs, and modifies {get,put}_user
helpers temporarily to permit access.

This will catch kernel bugs where user memory is accessed directly.
'Unprivileged loads and stores' using ldtrb et al are unaffected by PAN.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[will: use ALTERNATIVE in asm and tidy up pan_enable check]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: context-switch user tls register tpidr_el0 for compat tasks</title>
<updated>2015-06-01T10:58:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T14:39:40+00:00</published>
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Since commit a4780adeefd0 ("ARM: 7735/2: Preserve the user r/w register
TPIDRURW on context switch and fork"), arch/arm/ has context switched
the user-writable TLS register, so do the same for compat tasks running
under the arm64 kernel.

Reported-by: André Hentschel &lt;nerv@dawncrow.de&gt;
Tested-by: André Hentschel &lt;nerv@dawncrow.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since commit a4780adeefd0 ("ARM: 7735/2: Preserve the user r/w register
TPIDRURW on context switch and fork"), arch/arm/ has context switched
the user-writable TLS register, so do the same for compat tasks running
under the arm64 kernel.

Reported-by: André Hentschel &lt;nerv@dawncrow.de&gt;
Tested-by: André Hentschel &lt;nerv@dawncrow.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Implement cpu_relax as yield</title>
<updated>2015-03-17T10:17:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Crosthwaite</name>
<email>peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-02T19:19:14+00:00</published>
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ARM64 has the yield nop hint which has the intended semantics of
cpu_relax. Implement.

The immediate application is ARM CPU emulators. An emulator can take
advantage of the yield hint to de-prioritise an emulated CPU in favor
of other emulation tasks. QEMU A64 SMP emulation has yield awareness,
and sees a significant boot time performance increase with this change.

Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite &lt;peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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ARM64 has the yield nop hint which has the intended semantics of
cpu_relax. Implement.

The immediate application is ARM CPU emulators. An emulator can take
advantage of the yield hint to de-prioritise an emulated CPU in favor
of other emulation tasks. QEMU A64 SMP emulation has yield awareness,
and sees a significant boot time performance increase with this change.

Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite &lt;peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Increase the swiotlb buffer size 64MB</title>
<updated>2015-02-27T18:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-05T18:01:53+00:00</published>
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With commit 3690951fc6d4 (arm64: Use swiotlb late initialisation), the
swiotlb buffer size is limited to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. However, there are
platforms with 32-bit only devices that require bounce buffering via
swiotlb. This patch changes the swiotlb initialisation to an early 64MB
memblock allocation. In order to get the swiotlb buffer correctly
allocated (via memblock_virt_alloc_low_nopanic), this patch also defines
ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT to the maximum physical address capable of 32-bit
DMA.

Reported-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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With commit 3690951fc6d4 (arm64: Use swiotlb late initialisation), the
swiotlb buffer size is limited to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. However, there are
platforms with 32-bit only devices that require bounce buffering via
swiotlb. This patch changes the swiotlb initialisation to an early 64MB
memblock allocation. In order to get the swiotlb buffer correctly
allocated (via memblock_virt_alloc_low_nopanic), this patch also defines
ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT to the maximum physical address capable of 32-bit
DMA.

Reported-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fix missing asm/pgtable-hwdef.h include in asm/processor.h</title>
<updated>2015-01-07T11:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Walmsley</name>
<email>pwalmsley@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-06T00:38:41+00:00</published>
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On next-20150105, defconfig compilation breaks with:

./arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h:47:32: error: ‘PHYS_MASK’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Fix by including asm/pgtable-hwdef.h, where PHYS_MASK is defined.

This second version incorporates a comment from Mark Rutland
&lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; to keep the includes in alphabetical order
by filename.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;pwalmsley@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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On next-20150105, defconfig compilation breaks with:

./arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h:47:32: error: ‘PHYS_MASK’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Fix by including asm/pgtable-hwdef.h, where PHYS_MASK is defined.

This second version incorporates a comment from Mark Rutland
&lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; to keep the includes in alphabetical order
by filename.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;pwalmsley@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Remove unused prepare_to_copy()</title>
<updated>2015-01-07T11:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-05T14:23:48+00:00</published>
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prepare_to_copy() was removed from all architectures supported at that
time in commit 55ccf3fe3f9a ("fork: move the real prepare_to_copy()
users to arch_dup_task_struct()"). Remove it from arm64 as well.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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prepare_to_copy() was removed from all architectures supported at that
time in commit 55ccf3fe3f9a ("fork: move the real prepare_to_copy()
users to arch_dup_task_struct()"). Remove it from arm64 as well.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: report correct stack pointer in KSTK_ESP for compat tasks</title>
<updated>2014-08-29T15:11:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-29T15:11:10+00:00</published>
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The KSTK_ESP macro is used to determine the user stack pointer for a
given task. In particular, this is used to to report the '[stack]' VMA
in /proc/self/maps, which is used by Android to determine the stack
location for children of the main thread.

This patch fixes the macro to use user_stack_pointer instead of directly
returning sp. This means that we report w13 instead of sp, since the
former is used as the stack pointer when executing in AArch32 state.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Serban Constantinescu &lt;Serban.Constantinescu@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The KSTK_ESP macro is used to determine the user stack pointer for a
given task. In particular, this is used to to report the '[stack]' VMA
in /proc/self/maps, which is used by Android to determine the stack
location for children of the main thread.

This patch fixes the macro to use user_stack_pointer instead of directly
returning sp. This means that we report w13 instead of sp, since the
former is used as the stack pointer when executing in AArch32 state.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Serban Constantinescu &lt;Serban.Constantinescu@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-04T23:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-04T23:09:06+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - big rtmutex and futex cleanup and robustification from Thomas
     Gleixner
   - mutex optimizations and refinements from Jason Low
   - arch_mutex_cpu_relax() removal and related cleanups
   - smaller lockdep tweaks"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
  locking/lockdep: Only ask for /proc/lock_stat output when available
  locking/mutexes: Optimize mutex trylock slowpath
  locking/mutexes: Try to acquire mutex only if it is unlocked
  locking/mutexes: Delete the MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER macro
  locking/mutexes: Correct documentation on mutex optimistic spinning
  rtmutex: Make the rtmutex tester depend on BROKEN
  futex: Simplify futex_lock_pi_atomic() and make it more robust
  futex: Split out the first waiter attachment from lookup_pi_state()
  futex: Split out the waiter check from lookup_pi_state()
  futex: Use futex_top_waiter() in lookup_pi_state()
  futex: Make unlock_pi more robust
  rtmutex: Avoid pointless requeueing in the deadlock detection chain walk
  rtmutex: Cleanup deadlock detector debug logic
  rtmutex: Confine deadlock logic to futex
  rtmutex: Simplify remove_waiter()
  rtmutex: Document pi chain walk
  rtmutex: Clarify the boost/deboost part
  rtmutex: No need to keep task ref for lock owner check
  rtmutex: Simplify and document try_to_take_rtmutex()
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - big rtmutex and futex cleanup and robustification from Thomas
     Gleixner
   - mutex optimizations and refinements from Jason Low
   - arch_mutex_cpu_relax() removal and related cleanups
   - smaller lockdep tweaks"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
  locking/lockdep: Only ask for /proc/lock_stat output when available
  locking/mutexes: Optimize mutex trylock slowpath
  locking/mutexes: Try to acquire mutex only if it is unlocked
  locking/mutexes: Delete the MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER macro
  locking/mutexes: Correct documentation on mutex optimistic spinning
  rtmutex: Make the rtmutex tester depend on BROKEN
  futex: Simplify futex_lock_pi_atomic() and make it more robust
  futex: Split out the first waiter attachment from lookup_pi_state()
  futex: Split out the waiter check from lookup_pi_state()
  futex: Use futex_top_waiter() in lookup_pi_state()
  futex: Make unlock_pi more robust
  rtmutex: Avoid pointless requeueing in the deadlock detection chain walk
  rtmutex: Cleanup deadlock detector debug logic
  rtmutex: Confine deadlock logic to futex
  rtmutex: Simplify remove_waiter()
  rtmutex: Document pi chain walk
  rtmutex: Clarify the boost/deboost part
  rtmutex: No need to keep task ref for lock owner check
  rtmutex: Simplify and document try_to_take_rtmutex()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T10:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-29T22:09:33+00:00</published>
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The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is
hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact
that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus
impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays
we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and
lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header,
any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well.

This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency  ("relax, but
only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in
each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax
functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax,
and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant,
I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific
logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to
transparently define it, similarly to System Z.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bharat Bhushan &lt;r65777@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stratos Karafotis &lt;stratosk@semaphore.gr&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
Cc: adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404079773.2619.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is
hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact
that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus
impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays
we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and
lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header,
any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well.

This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency  ("relax, but
only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in
each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax
functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax,
and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant,
I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific
logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to
transparently define it, similarly to System Z.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bharat Bhushan &lt;r65777@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stratos Karafotis &lt;stratosk@semaphore.gr&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
Cc: adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404079773.2619.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: Cast KSTK_(EIP|ESP) to unsigned long</title>
<updated>2014-07-10T10:37:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-10T10:37:40+00:00</published>
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This is for similarity with thread_saved_(pc|sp) and to avoid some
compiler warnings in the audit code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This is for similarity with thread_saved_(pc|sp) and to avoid some
compiler warnings in the audit code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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