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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/nios2/include/asm, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS&amp;LoongArch&amp;NIOS2: adjust prototypes of p?d_init()</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T02:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Feiyang Chen</name>
<email>chenfeiyang@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T12:52:50+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Generalise helpers and enable for
LoongArch", v14.

This series is in order to enable sparse-vmemmap for LoongArch.  But
LoongArch cannot use generic helpers directly because MIPS&amp;LoongArch need
to call pgd_init()/pud_init()/pmd_init() when populating page tables.  So
we adjust the prototypes of p?d_init() to make generic helpers can call
them, then enable sparse-vmemmap with generic helpers, and to be further,
generalise vmemmap_populate_hugepages() for ARM64, X86 and LoongArch.


This patch (of 4):

We are preparing to add sparse vmemmap support to LoongArch.  MIPS and
LoongArch need to call pgd_init()/pud_init()/pmd_init() when populating
page tables, so adjust their prototypes to make generic helpers can call
them.

NIOS2 declares pmd_init() but doesn't use, just remove it to avoid build
errors.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221027125253.3458989-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221027125253.3458989-2-chenhuacai@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Feiyang Chen &lt;chenfeiyang@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;philmd@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuefeng Li &lt;lixuefeng@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Min Zhou &lt;zhoumin@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Generalise helpers and enable for
LoongArch", v14.

This series is in order to enable sparse-vmemmap for LoongArch.  But
LoongArch cannot use generic helpers directly because MIPS&amp;LoongArch need
to call pgd_init()/pud_init()/pmd_init() when populating page tables.  So
we adjust the prototypes of p?d_init() to make generic helpers can call
them, then enable sparse-vmemmap with generic helpers, and to be further,
generalise vmemmap_populate_hugepages() for ARM64, X86 and LoongArch.


This patch (of 4):

We are preparing to add sparse vmemmap support to LoongArch.  MIPS and
LoongArch need to call pgd_init()/pud_init()/pmd_init() when populating
page tables, so adjust their prototypes to make generic helpers can call
them.

NIOS2 declares pmd_init() but doesn't use, just remove it to avoid build
errors.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221027125253.3458989-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221027125253.3458989-2-chenhuacai@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Feiyang Chen &lt;chenfeiyang@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;philmd@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuefeng Li &lt;lixuefeng@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Min Zhou &lt;zhoumin@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2: remove unused INIT_MMAP</title>
<updated>2022-11-09T01:37:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-19T03:49:41+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: cleanup with VM_ACCESS_FLAGS".


This patch (of 5):

It seems that INIT_MMAP is gone in 2.4.10, not sure, anyways, it is
useless now, kill it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019034945.93081-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019034945.93081-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Christian König" &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" &lt;Xinhui.Pan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "mm: cleanup with VM_ACCESS_FLAGS".


This patch (of 5):

It seems that INIT_MMAP is gone in 2.4.10, not sure, anyways, it is
useless now, kill it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019034945.93081-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221019034945.93081-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Christian König" &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" &lt;Xinhui.Pan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove kern_addr_valid() completely</title>
<updated>2022-11-09T01:37:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-18T07:40:14+00:00</published>
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Most architectures (except arm64/x86/sparc) simply return 1 for
kern_addr_valid(), which is only used in read_kcore(), and it calls
copy_from_kernel_nofault() which could check whether the address is a
valid kernel address.  So as there is no need for kern_addr_valid(), let's
remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018074014.185687-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;		[s390]
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;			[parisc]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;		[powerpc]
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;			[csky]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;	[arm64]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Most architectures (except arm64/x86/sparc) simply return 1 for
kern_addr_valid(), which is only used in read_kcore(), and it calls
copy_from_kernel_nofault() which could check whether the address is a
valid kernel address.  So as there is no need for kern_addr_valid(), let's
remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018074014.185687-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;		[s390]
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;			[parisc]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;		[powerpc]
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;			[csky]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;	[arm64]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()</title>
<updated>2022-09-12T04:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-19T01:44:06+00:00</published>
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Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;				[csky]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;			[powerpc]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;			[openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;			[LoongArch]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt; [csky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;				[csky]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;			[powerpc]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;			[openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;			[LoongArch]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt; [csky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2: add force_successful_syscall_return()</title>
<updated>2022-08-15T16:25:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-08T15:09:45+00:00</published>
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If we use the ancient SysV syscall ABI, we'd better have tell the
kernel how to claim that a negative return value is a success.
Use -&gt;orig_r2 for that - it's inaccessible via ptrace, so it's
a fair game for changes and it's normally[*] non-negative on return
from syscall.  Set to -1; syscall is not going to be restart-worthy
by definition, so we won't interfere with that use either.

[*] the only exception is rt_sigreturn(), where we skip the entire
messing with r1/r2 anyway.

Fixes: 82ed08dd1b0e ("nios2: Exception handling")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
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If we use the ancient SysV syscall ABI, we'd better have tell the
kernel how to claim that a negative return value is a success.
Use -&gt;orig_r2 for that - it's inaccessible via ptrace, so it's
a fair game for changes and it's normally[*] non-negative on return
from syscall.  Set to -1; syscall is not going to be restart-worthy
by definition, so we won't interfere with that use either.

[*] the only exception is rt_sigreturn(), where we skip the entire
messing with r1/r2 anyway.

Fixes: 82ed08dd1b0e ("nios2: Exception handling")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2: page fault et.al. are *not* restartable syscalls...</title>
<updated>2022-08-15T16:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-08T15:06:04+00:00</published>
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make sure that -&gt;orig_r2 is negative for everything except
the syscalls.

Fixes: 82ed08dd1b0e ("nios2: Exception handling")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
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make sure that -&gt;orig_r2 is negative for everything except
the syscalls.

Fixes: 82ed08dd1b0e ("nios2: Exception handling")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2: drop definition of PGD_ORDER</title>
<updated>2022-07-18T00:14:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-03T14:11:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a6714e720b5e8438ca7f779342ad91b39094f548'/>
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This is the order of the page table allocation, not the order of a PGD. 
Since its always hardwired to 0, simply drop it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220703141203.147893-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the order of the page table allocation, not the order of a PGD. 
Since its always hardwired to 0, simply drop it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220703141203.147893-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2: drop definition of PTE_ORDER</title>
<updated>2022-07-18T00:14:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-03T14:11:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bf0dc119c51ffdcfa6db0786ea877eec85985b7e'/>
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This is the order of the page table allocation, not the order of a PTE. 
Since its always hardwired to 0, simply drop it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220703141203.147893-8-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the order of the page table allocation, not the order of a PTE. 
Since its always hardwired to 0, simply drop it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220703141203.147893-8-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2/mm: enable ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT</title>
<updated>2022-07-18T00:14:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-11T07:05:49+00:00</published>
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This enables ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT on the platform and exports
standard vm_get_page_prot() implementation via DECLARE_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT,
which looks up a private and static protection_map[] array.  Subsequently
all __SXXX and __PXXX macros can be dropped which are no longer needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711070600.2378316-16-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This enables ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT on the platform and exports
standard vm_get_page_prot() implementation via DECLARE_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT,
which looks up a private and static protection_map[] array.  Subsequently
all __SXXX and __PXXX macros can be dropped which are no longer needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711070600.2378316-16-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nios2: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T21:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-08T16:03:13+00:00</published>
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In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be
preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even
falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though
random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to
be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is
better than returning zero all the time.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be
preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even
falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though
random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to
be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is
better than returning zero all the time.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
</pre>
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