linux-stable.git/arch/metag/include, branch linux-4.7.y

metag: copy_from_user() should zero the destination on access_ok() failure

2016-09-24T08:09:40+00:00

commit 8ae95ed4ae5fc7c3391ed668b2014c9e2079533b upstream.

Acked-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

metag: Fix __cmpxchg_u32 asm constraint for CMP

2016-08-20T16:11:01+00:00

commit 6154c187b97ee7513046bb4eb317a89f738f13ef upstream.

The LNKGET based atomic sequence in __cmpxchg_u32 has slightly incorrect
constraints for the return value which under certain circumstances can
allow an address unit register to be used as the first operand of a CMP
instruction. This isn't a valid instruction however as the encodings
only allow a data unit to be specified. This would result in an
assembler error like the following:

  Error: failed to assemble instruction: "CMP A0.2,D0Ar6"

Fix by changing the constraint from "=&da" (assigned, early clobbered,
data or address unit register) to "=&d" (data unit register only).

The constraint for the second operand, "bd" (an op2 register where op1
is a data unit register and the instruction supports O2R) is already
correct assuming the first operand is a data unit register.

Other cases of CMP in inline asm have had their constraints checked, and
appear to all be fine.

Fixes: 6006c0d8ce94 ("metag: Atomics, locks and bitops")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I

2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00

This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1].  I have
basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree.  I am sending
it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
considerably when we want to target rc2.  I plan to send the next step
and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
hopefully.

Motivation:

While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
__GFP_REPEAT in the tree.  It seems that a majority of the usage is and
always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often.  It seems that a big pile of them is just a
copy&paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.

I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear.  Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
documented as

* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt

* _might_ fail.  This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
  while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic.  So one could
  reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
  for ever.  This is not implemented right now though.

I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
for it.

  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
  111
  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
  36

So we are down to the third after this patch series.  The remaining
places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
requests.  This still needs some double checking which I will do later
after all the simple ones are sorted out.

I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
do not have cross compiler for them.  Patches should be quite trivial to
review for stupid compile mistakes though.  The tricky parts are usually
hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
arch maintainers.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

This patch (of 19):

__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.  Yet we
have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
allocations.  This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).

Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places.  This would allow to
identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Chris Metcalf  [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: John Crispin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'asm-generic-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2016-05-24T22:24:37+00:00

Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
 "I have only one patch for asm-generic in this release, this one is
  from James Hogan and updates the generic system call table for
  renameat2 so we don't need to provide both renameat and renameat2 in
  newly added architectures"

* tag 'asm-generic-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list

exit_thread: remove empty bodies

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in
exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline.

This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to
accept a task parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Koichi Yasutake 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2016-05-18T00:05:30+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (21 commits)
  gitignore: fix wording
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: fix "between" in printk
  memstick: trivial fix of spelling mistake on management
  cpupowerutils: bench: fix "average"
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  IB/mlx4: printk fix
  pinctrl: sirf/atlas7: fix printk spelling
  serial: mctrl_gpio: Grammar s/lines GPIOs/line GPIOs/, /sets/set/
  w1: comment spelling s/minmum/minimum/
  Blackfin: comment spelling s/divsor/divisor/
  metag: Fix misspellings in comments.
  ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  hexagon: Fix misspellings in comments.
  tools/perf: Fix misspellings in comments.
  cris: Fix misspellings in comments.
  c6x: Fix misspellings in comments.
  blackfin: Fix misspelling of 'register' in comment.
  avr32: Fix misspelling of 'definitions' in comment.
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  Doc: treewide : Fix typos in DocBook/filesystem.xml
  ...

Merge tag 'metag-for-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag

2016-05-16T23:50:38+00:00

Pull metag architecture updates from James Hogan:
 "Three minor fixes:

   - removal of stale comment
   - fix build for Meta1 when perf events are enabled
   - fix inline asm constraint in atomics"

* tag 'metag-for-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag:
  metag: Fix atomic_*_return inline asm constraints
  metag: perf: fix build on Meta1
  metag: ftrace: remove the misleading comment for ftrace_dyn_arch_init

asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list

2016-05-04T22:42:21+00:00

The newer renameat2 syscall provides all the functionality provided by
the renameat syscall and adds flags, so future architectures won't need
to include renameat.

Therefore drop the renameat syscall from the generic syscall list unless
__ARCH_WANT_RENAMEAT is defined by the architecture's unistd.h prior to
including asm-generic/unistd.h, and adjust all architectures using the
generic syscall list to define it so that no in-tree architectures are
affected.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

metag: Fix atomic_*_return inline asm constraints

2016-05-03T08:25:46+00:00

The argument i of atomic_*_return() operations is given to inline asm
with the "bd" constraint, which means "An Op2 register where Op1 is a
data unit register and the instruction supports O2R", however Op1 is
constrained by "da" which allows an address unit register to be used.

Fix the constraint to use "br", meaning "An Op2 register and the
instruction supports O2R", i.e. not requiring Op1 to be a data unit
register.

Fixes: d6dfe2509da9 ("locking,arch,metag: Fold atomic_ops")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org

metag: Fix misspellings in comments.

2016-04-18T10:45:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina