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<title>ia64: salinfo: placate defined-but-not-used warning</title>
<updated>2023-05-11T14:17:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-23T03:43:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0de155752b152d6bcd96b5b5bf20af336abd183a ]

When CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set, proc_salinfo_show() is not used.  Mark the
function as __maybe_unused to quieten the warning message.

../arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c:584:12: warning: 'proc_salinfo_show' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
  584 | static int proc_salinfo_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230223034309.13375-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Fixes: 3f3942aca6da ("proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data}")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0de155752b152d6bcd96b5b5bf20af336abd183a ]

When CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set, proc_salinfo_show() is not used.  Mark the
function as __maybe_unused to quieten the warning message.

../arch/ia64/kernel/salinfo.c:584:12: warning: 'proc_salinfo_show' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
  584 | static int proc_salinfo_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230223034309.13375-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Fixes: 3f3942aca6da ("proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data}")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T22:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-04T21:35:43+00:00</published>
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Commit aa47a7c215e7 ("lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits") resulted
in the cpumask operations potentially becoming hugely less efficient,
because suddenly the cpumask was always considered to be variable-sized.

The optimization was then later added back in a limited form by commit
6f9c07be9d02 ("lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option"), but that
FORCE_NR_CPUS option is not useful in a generic kernel and more of a
special case for embedded situations with fixed hardware.

Instead, just re-introduce the optimization, with some changes.

Instead of depending on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK being false, and then always
using the full constant cpumask width, this introduces three different
cpumask "sizes":

 - the exact size (nr_cpumask_bits) remains identical to nr_cpu_ids.

   This is used for situations where we should use the exact size.

 - the "small" size (small_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   fits in a single word and the bitmap operations thus end up able
   to trigger the "small_const_nbits()" optimizations.

   This is used for the operations that have optimized single-word
   cases that get inlined, notably the bit find and scanning functions.

 - the "large" size (large_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   is an sufficiently small constant that makes simple "copy" and
   "clear" operations more efficient.

   This is arbitrarily set at four words or less.

As a an example of this situation, without this fixed size optimization,
cpumask_clear() will generate code like

        movl    nr_cpu_ids(%rip), %edx
        addq    $63, %rdx
        shrq    $3, %rdx
        andl    $-8, %edx
        callq   memset@PLT

on x86-64, because it would calculate the "exact" number of longwords
that need to be cleared.

In contrast, with this patch, using a MAX_CPU of 64 (which is quite a
reasonable value to use), the above becomes a single

	movq $0,cpumask

instruction instead, because instead of caring to figure out exactly how
many CPU's the system has, it just knows that the cpumask will be a
single word and can just clear it all.

Note that this does end up tightening the rules a bit from the original
version in another way: operations that set bits in the cpumask are now
limited to the actual nr_cpu_ids limit, whereas we used to do the
nr_cpumask_bits thing almost everywhere in the cpumask code.

But if you just clear bits, or scan for bits, we can use the simpler
compile-time constants.

In the process, remove 'cpumask_complement()' and 'for_each_cpu_not()'
which were not useful, and which fundamentally have to be limited to
'nr_cpu_ids'.  Better remove them now than have somebody introduce use
of them later.

Of course, on x86-64 with MAXSMP there is no sane small compile-time
constant for the cpumask sizes, and we end up using the actual CPU bits,
and will generate the above kind of horrors regardless.  Please don't
use MAXSMP unless you really expect to have machines with thousands of
cores.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit aa47a7c215e7 ("lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits") resulted
in the cpumask operations potentially becoming hugely less efficient,
because suddenly the cpumask was always considered to be variable-sized.

The optimization was then later added back in a limited form by commit
6f9c07be9d02 ("lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option"), but that
FORCE_NR_CPUS option is not useful in a generic kernel and more of a
special case for embedded situations with fixed hardware.

Instead, just re-introduce the optimization, with some changes.

Instead of depending on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK being false, and then always
using the full constant cpumask width, this introduces three different
cpumask "sizes":

 - the exact size (nr_cpumask_bits) remains identical to nr_cpu_ids.

   This is used for situations where we should use the exact size.

 - the "small" size (small_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   fits in a single word and the bitmap operations thus end up able
   to trigger the "small_const_nbits()" optimizations.

   This is used for the operations that have optimized single-word
   cases that get inlined, notably the bit find and scanning functions.

 - the "large" size (large_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   is an sufficiently small constant that makes simple "copy" and
   "clear" operations more efficient.

   This is arbitrarily set at four words or less.

As a an example of this situation, without this fixed size optimization,
cpumask_clear() will generate code like

        movl    nr_cpu_ids(%rip), %edx
        addq    $63, %rdx
        shrq    $3, %rdx
        andl    $-8, %edx
        callq   memset@PLT

on x86-64, because it would calculate the "exact" number of longwords
that need to be cleared.

In contrast, with this patch, using a MAX_CPU of 64 (which is quite a
reasonable value to use), the above becomes a single

	movq $0,cpumask

instruction instead, because instead of caring to figure out exactly how
many CPU's the system has, it just knows that the cpumask will be a
single word and can just clear it all.

Note that this does end up tightening the rules a bit from the original
version in another way: operations that set bits in the cpumask are now
limited to the actual nr_cpu_ids limit, whereas we used to do the
nr_cpumask_bits thing almost everywhere in the cpumask code.

But if you just clear bits, or scan for bits, we can use the simpler
compile-time constants.

In the process, remove 'cpumask_complement()' and 'for_each_cpu_not()'
which were not useful, and which fundamentally have to be limited to
'nr_cpu_ids'.  Better remove them now than have somebody introduce use
of them later.

Of course, on x86-64 with MAXSMP there is no sane small compile-time
constant for the cpumask sizes, and we end up using the actual CPU bits,
and will generate the above kind of horrors regardless.  Please don't
use MAXSMP unless you really expect to have machines with thousands of
cores.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2023-02-26T19:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-26T19:53:25+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Change V=1 option to print both short log and full command log

 - Allow V=1 and V=2 to be combined as V=12

 - Make W=1 detect wrong .gitignore files

 - Tree-wide cleanups for unused command line arguments passed to Clang

 - Stop using -Qunused-arguments with Clang

 - Make scripts/setlocalversion handle only correct release tags instead
   of any arbitrary annotated tag

 - Create Debian and RPM source packages without cleaning the source
   tree

 - Various cleanups for packaging

* tag 'kbuild-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (74 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: remove unneeded KERNELRELEASE from modules/headers_install
  docs: kbuild: remove description of KBUILD_LDS_MODULE
  .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files
  kbuild: deb-pkg: improve the usability of source package
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix binary-arch and clean in debian/rules
  kbuild: tar-pkg: use tar rules in scripts/Makefile.package
  kbuild: make perf-tar*-src-pkg work without relying on git
  kbuild: deb-pkg: switch over to source format 3.0 (quilt)
  kbuild: deb-pkg: make .orig tarball a hard link if possible
  kbuild: deb-pkg: hide KDEB_SOURCENAME from Makefile
  kbuild: srcrpm-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build binary packages from source rpm
  kbuild: deb-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git
  Documentation/llvm: add Chimera Linux, Google and Meta datacenters
  setlocalversion: use only the correct release tag for git-describe
  setlocalversion: clean up the construction of version output
  .gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx
  kbuild: remove --include-dir MAKEFLAG from top Makefile
  kbuild: fix trivial typo in comment
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Change V=1 option to print both short log and full command log

 - Allow V=1 and V=2 to be combined as V=12

 - Make W=1 detect wrong .gitignore files

 - Tree-wide cleanups for unused command line arguments passed to Clang

 - Stop using -Qunused-arguments with Clang

 - Make scripts/setlocalversion handle only correct release tags instead
   of any arbitrary annotated tag

 - Create Debian and RPM source packages without cleaning the source
   tree

 - Various cleanups for packaging

* tag 'kbuild-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (74 commits)
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: remove unneeded KERNELRELEASE from modules/headers_install
  docs: kbuild: remove description of KBUILD_LDS_MODULE
  .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files
  kbuild: deb-pkg: improve the usability of source package
  kbuild: deb-pkg: fix binary-arch and clean in debian/rules
  kbuild: tar-pkg: use tar rules in scripts/Makefile.package
  kbuild: make perf-tar*-src-pkg work without relying on git
  kbuild: deb-pkg: switch over to source format 3.0 (quilt)
  kbuild: deb-pkg: make .orig tarball a hard link if possible
  kbuild: deb-pkg: hide KDEB_SOURCENAME from Makefile
  kbuild: srcrpm-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: build binary packages from source rpm
  kbuild: deb-pkg: create source package without cleaning
  kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git
  Documentation/llvm: add Chimera Linux, Google and Meta datacenters
  setlocalversion: use only the correct release tag for git-describe
  setlocalversion: clean up the construction of version output
  .gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx
  kbuild: remove --include-dir MAKEFLAG from top Makefile
  kbuild: fix trivial typo in comment
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2023-02-23T22:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-23T22:41:48+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "A healthy mix of EFI contributions this time:

   - Performance tweaks for efifb earlycon (Andy)

   - Preparatory refactoring and cleanup work in the efivar layer, which
     is needed to accommodate the Snapdragon arm64 laptops that expose
     their EFI variable store via a TEE secure world API (Johan)

   - Enhancements to the EFI memory map handling so that Xen dom0 can
     safely access EFI configuration tables (Demi Marie)

   - Wire up the newly introduced IBT/BTI flag in the EFI memory
     attributes table, so that firmware that is generated with ENDBR/BTI
     landing pads will be mapped with enforcement enabled

   - Clean up how we check and print the EFI revision exposed by the
     firmware

   - Incorporate EFI memory attributes protocol definition and wire it
     up in the EFI zboot code (Evgeniy)

     This ensures that these images can execute under new and stricter
     rules regarding the default memory permissions for EFI page
     allocations (More work is in progress here)

   - CPER header cleanup (Dan Williams)

   - Use a raw spinlock to protect the EFI runtime services stack on
     arm64 to ensure the correct semantics under -rt (Pierre)

   - EFI framebuffer quirk for Lenovo Ideapad (Darrell)"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (24 commits)
  firmware/efi sysfb_efi: Add quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3
  arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock
  efi: Add mixed-mode thunk recipe for GetMemoryAttributes
  efi: x86: Wire up IBT annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions
  efi/cper, cxl: Remove cxl_err.h
  efi: Use standard format for printing the EFI revision
  efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot
  efi: zboot: Use EFI protocol to remap code/data with the right attributes
  efi/libstub: Add memory attribute protocol definitions
  efi: efivars: prevent double registration
  efi: verify that variable services are supported
  efivarfs: always register filesystem
  efi: efivars: add efivars printk prefix
  efi: Warn if trying to reserve memory under Xen
  efi: Actually enable the ESRT under Xen
  efi: Apply allowlist to EFI configuration tables when running under Xen
  efi: xen: Implement memory descriptor lookup based on hypercall
  efi: memmap: Disregard bogus entries instead of returning them
  ...
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<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "A healthy mix of EFI contributions this time:

   - Performance tweaks for efifb earlycon (Andy)

   - Preparatory refactoring and cleanup work in the efivar layer, which
     is needed to accommodate the Snapdragon arm64 laptops that expose
     their EFI variable store via a TEE secure world API (Johan)

   - Enhancements to the EFI memory map handling so that Xen dom0 can
     safely access EFI configuration tables (Demi Marie)

   - Wire up the newly introduced IBT/BTI flag in the EFI memory
     attributes table, so that firmware that is generated with ENDBR/BTI
     landing pads will be mapped with enforcement enabled

   - Clean up how we check and print the EFI revision exposed by the
     firmware

   - Incorporate EFI memory attributes protocol definition and wire it
     up in the EFI zboot code (Evgeniy)

     This ensures that these images can execute under new and stricter
     rules regarding the default memory permissions for EFI page
     allocations (More work is in progress here)

   - CPER header cleanup (Dan Williams)

   - Use a raw spinlock to protect the EFI runtime services stack on
     arm64 to ensure the correct semantics under -rt (Pierre)

   - EFI framebuffer quirk for Lenovo Ideapad (Darrell)"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (24 commits)
  firmware/efi sysfb_efi: Add quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3
  arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock
  efi: Add mixed-mode thunk recipe for GetMemoryAttributes
  efi: x86: Wire up IBT annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions
  efi/cper, cxl: Remove cxl_err.h
  efi: Use standard format for printing the EFI revision
  efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot
  efi: zboot: Use EFI protocol to remap code/data with the right attributes
  efi/libstub: Add memory attribute protocol definitions
  efi: efivars: prevent double registration
  efi: verify that variable services are supported
  efivarfs: always register filesystem
  efi: efivars: add efivars printk prefix
  efi: Warn if trying to reserve memory under Xen
  efi: Actually enable the ESRT under Xen
  efi: Apply allowlist to EFI configuration tables when running under Xen
  efi: xen: Implement memory descriptor lookup based on hypercall
  efi: memmap: Disregard bogus entries instead of returning them
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-02-21T01:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-21T01:41:08+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve the scalability of the CFS bandwidth unthrottling logic with
   large number of CPUs.

 - Fix &amp; rework various cpuidle routines, simplify interaction with the
   generic scheduler code. Add __cpuidle methods as noinstr to objtool's
   noinstr detection and fix boatloads of cpuidle bugs &amp; quirks.

 - Add new ABI: introduce MEMBARRIER_CMD_GET_REGISTRATIONS, to query
   previously issued registrations.

 - Limit scheduler slice duration to the sysctl_sched_latency period, to
   improve scheduling granularity with a large number of SCHED_IDLE
   tasks.

 - Debuggability enhancement on sys_exit(): warn about disabled IRQs,
   but also enable them to prevent a cascade of followup problems and
   repeat warnings.

 - Fix the rescheduling logic in prio_changed_dl().

 - Micro-optimize cpufreq and sched-util methods.

 - Micro-optimize ttwu_runnable()

 - Micro-optimize the idle-scanning in update_numa_stats(),
   select_idle_capacity() and steal_cookie_task().

 - Update the RSEQ code &amp; self-tests

 - Constify various scheduler methods

 - Remove unused methods

 - Refine __init tags

 - Documentation updates

 - Misc other cleanups, fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
  sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry
  sched/deadline: Add more reschedule cases to prio_changed_dl()
  sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
  sched/fair: Remove capacity inversion detection
  sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized
  objtool: mem*() are not uaccess safe
  cpuidle: Fix poll_idle() noinstr annotation
  sched/clock: Make local_clock() noinstr
  sched/clock/x86: Mark sched_clock() noinstr
  x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
  x86/atomics: Always inline arch_atomic64*()
  cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing
  cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()
  cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
  cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code
  KVM: selftests: Fix build of rseq test
  exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops
  cpuidle, arm64: Fix the ARM64 cpuidle logic
  cpuidle: mvebu: Fix duplicate flags assignment
  sched/fair: Limit sched slice duration
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve the scalability of the CFS bandwidth unthrottling logic with
   large number of CPUs.

 - Fix &amp; rework various cpuidle routines, simplify interaction with the
   generic scheduler code. Add __cpuidle methods as noinstr to objtool's
   noinstr detection and fix boatloads of cpuidle bugs &amp; quirks.

 - Add new ABI: introduce MEMBARRIER_CMD_GET_REGISTRATIONS, to query
   previously issued registrations.

 - Limit scheduler slice duration to the sysctl_sched_latency period, to
   improve scheduling granularity with a large number of SCHED_IDLE
   tasks.

 - Debuggability enhancement on sys_exit(): warn about disabled IRQs,
   but also enable them to prevent a cascade of followup problems and
   repeat warnings.

 - Fix the rescheduling logic in prio_changed_dl().

 - Micro-optimize cpufreq and sched-util methods.

 - Micro-optimize ttwu_runnable()

 - Micro-optimize the idle-scanning in update_numa_stats(),
   select_idle_capacity() and steal_cookie_task().

 - Update the RSEQ code &amp; self-tests

 - Constify various scheduler methods

 - Remove unused methods

 - Refine __init tags

 - Documentation updates

 - Misc other cleanups, fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
  sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry
  sched/deadline: Add more reschedule cases to prio_changed_dl()
  sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
  sched/fair: Remove capacity inversion detection
  sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized
  objtool: mem*() are not uaccess safe
  cpuidle: Fix poll_idle() noinstr annotation
  sched/clock: Make local_clock() noinstr
  sched/clock/x86: Mark sched_clock() noinstr
  x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
  x86/atomics: Always inline arch_atomic64*()
  cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing
  cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()
  cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
  cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code
  KVM: selftests: Fix build of rseq test
  exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops
  cpuidle, arm64: Fix the ARM64 cpuidle logic
  cpuidle: mvebu: Fix duplicate flags assignment
  sched/fair: Limit sched slice duration
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: remove --include-dir MAKEFLAG from top Makefile</title>
<updated>2023-02-05T09:51:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-28T09:24:23+00:00</published>
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I added $(srctree)/ to some included Makefiles in the following commits:

 - 3204a7fb98a3 ("kbuild: prefix $(srctree)/ to some included Makefiles")
 - d82856395505 ("kbuild: do not require sub-make for separate output tree builds")

They were a preparation for removing --include-dir flag.

I have never thought --include-dir useful. Rather, it _is_ harmful.

For example, run the following commands:

  $ make -s ARCH=x86 mrproper defconfig
  $ make ARCH=arm O=foo dtbs
  make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
    HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it
    UPD     include/config/kernel.release
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/linux/foo'

The first command configures the source tree for x86. The next command
tries to build ARM device trees in the separate foo/ directory - this
must stop because the directory foo/ has not been configured yet.

However, due to --include-dir=$(abs_srctree), the top Makefile includes
the wrong include/config/auto.conf from the source tree and continues
building. Kbuild traverses the directory tree, but of course it does
not work correctly. The Error message is also pointless - 'make prepare'
does not help at all for fixing the issue.

This commit fixes more arch Makefile, and finally removes --include-dir
from the top Makefile.

There are more breakages under drivers/, but I do not volunteer to fix
them all. I just moved --include-dir to drivers/Makefile.

With this commit, the second command will stop with a sensible message.

  $ make -s ARCH=x86 mrproper defconfig
  $ make ARCH=arm O=foo dtbs
  make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
    SYNC    include/config/auto.conf.cmd
  ***
  *** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make ARCH=arm mrproper'
  *** in /tmp/linux
  ***
  make[2]: *** [../Makefile:646: outputmakefile] Error 1
  /tmp/linux/Makefile:770: include/config/auto.conf.cmd: No such file or directory
  make[1]: *** [/tmp/linux/Makefile:793: include/config/auto.conf.cmd] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
  make: *** [Makefile:226: __sub-make] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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I added $(srctree)/ to some included Makefiles in the following commits:

 - 3204a7fb98a3 ("kbuild: prefix $(srctree)/ to some included Makefiles")
 - d82856395505 ("kbuild: do not require sub-make for separate output tree builds")

They were a preparation for removing --include-dir flag.

I have never thought --include-dir useful. Rather, it _is_ harmful.

For example, run the following commands:

  $ make -s ARCH=x86 mrproper defconfig
  $ make ARCH=arm O=foo dtbs
  make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
    HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it
    UPD     include/config/kernel.release
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/linux/foo'

The first command configures the source tree for x86. The next command
tries to build ARM device trees in the separate foo/ directory - this
must stop because the directory foo/ has not been configured yet.

However, due to --include-dir=$(abs_srctree), the top Makefile includes
the wrong include/config/auto.conf from the source tree and continues
building. Kbuild traverses the directory tree, but of course it does
not work correctly. The Error message is also pointless - 'make prepare'
does not help at all for fixing the issue.

This commit fixes more arch Makefile, and finally removes --include-dir
from the top Makefile.

There are more breakages under drivers/, but I do not volunteer to fix
them all. I just moved --include-dir to drivers/Makefile.

With this commit, the second command will stop with a sensible message.

  $ make -s ARCH=x86 mrproper defconfig
  $ make ARCH=arm O=foo dtbs
  make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
    SYNC    include/config/auto.conf.cmd
  ***
  *** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make ARCH=arm mrproper'
  *** in /tmp/linux
  ***
  make[2]: *** [../Makefile:646: outputmakefile] Error 1
  /tmp/linux/Makefile:770: include/config/auto.conf.cmd: No such file or directory
  make[1]: *** [/tmp/linux/Makefile:793: include/config/auto.conf.cmd] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/linux/foo'
  make: *** [Makefile:226: __sub-make] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot</title>
<updated>2023-02-03T17:01:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2023-02-03T16:39:38+00:00</published>
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We currently pass a minimum major version to the generic EFI helper that
checks the system table magic and version, and refuse to boot if the
value is lower.

The motivation for this check is unknown, and even the code that uses
major version 2 as the minimum (ARM, arm64 and RISC-V) should make it
past this check without problems, and boot to a point where we have
access to a console or some other means to inform the user that the
firmware's major revision number made us unhappy. (Revision 2.0 of the
UEFI specification was released in January 2006, whereas ARM, arm64 and
RISC-V support where added in 2009, 2013 and 2017, respectively, so
checking for major version 2 or higher is completely arbitrary)

So just drop the check.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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We currently pass a minimum major version to the generic EFI helper that
checks the system table magic and version, and refuse to boot if the
value is lower.

The motivation for this check is unknown, and even the code that uses
major version 2 as the minimum (ARM, arm64 and RISC-V) should make it
past this check without problems, and boot to a point where we have
access to a console or some other means to inform the user that the
firmware's major revision number made us unhappy. (Revision 2.0 of the
UEFI specification was released in January 2006, whereas ARM, arm64 and
RISC-V support where added in 2009, 2013 and 2017, respectively, so
checking for major version 2 or higher is completely arbitrary)

So just drop the check.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ia64: fix build error due to switch case label appearing next to declaration</title>
<updated>2023-02-01T00:44:08+00:00</updated>
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<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-17T15:16:32+00:00</published>
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Since commit aa06a9bd8533 ("ia64: fix clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) to
report ITC frequency"), gcc 10.1.0 fails to build ia64 with the gnomic:
| ../arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c: In function 'ia64_clock_getres':
| ../arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c:189:3: error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement
|   189 |   s64 tick_ns = DIV_ROUND_UP(NSEC_PER_SEC, local_cpu_data-&gt;itc_freq);

This line appears immediately after a case label in a switch.

Move the declarations out of the case, to the top of the function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230117151632.393836-1-james.morse@arm.com
Fixes: aa06a9bd8533 ("ia64: fix clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) to report ITC frequency")
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Émeric Maschino &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: matoro &lt;matoro_mailinglist_kernel@matoro.tk&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since commit aa06a9bd8533 ("ia64: fix clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) to
report ITC frequency"), gcc 10.1.0 fails to build ia64 with the gnomic:
| ../arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c: In function 'ia64_clock_getres':
| ../arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c:189:3: error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement
|   189 |   s64 tick_ns = DIV_ROUND_UP(NSEC_PER_SEC, local_cpu_data-&gt;itc_freq);

This line appears immediately after a case label in a switch.

Move the declarations out of the case, to the top of the function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230117151632.393836-1-james.morse@arm.com
Fixes: aa06a9bd8533 ("ia64: fix clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) to report ITC frequency")
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Émeric Maschino &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: matoro &lt;matoro_mailinglist_kernel@matoro.tk&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.2-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2023-01-31T14:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-31T14:01:20+00:00</published>
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Pick up fixes before merging another batch of cpuidle updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Pick up fixes before merging another batch of cpuidle updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<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
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