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<title>Merge branch 'uaccess-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-09-14T16:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-14T16:35:05+00:00</published>
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Pull uaccess fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixes for broken uaccess primitives - mostly lack of proper zeroing
  in copy_from_user()/get_user()/__get_user(), but for several
  architectures there's more (broken clear_user() on frv and
  strncpy_from_user() on hexagon)"

* 'uaccess-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  avr32: fix copy_from_user()
  microblaze: fix __get_user()
  microblaze: fix copy_from_user()
  m32r: fix __get_user()
  blackfin: fix copy_from_user()
  sparc32: fix copy_from_user()
  sh: fix copy_from_user()
  sh64: failing __get_user() should zero
  score: fix copy_from_user() and friends
  score: fix __get_user/get_user
  s390: get_user() should zero on failure
  ppc32: fix copy_from_user()
  parisc: fix copy_from_user()
  openrisc: fix copy_from_user()
  nios2: fix __get_user()
  nios2: copy_from_user() should zero the tail of destination
  mn10300: copy_from_user() should zero on access_ok() failure...
  mn10300: failing __get_user() and get_user() should zero
  mips: copy_from_user() must zero the destination on access_ok() failure
  ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault
  ...
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Pull uaccess fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixes for broken uaccess primitives - mostly lack of proper zeroing
  in copy_from_user()/get_user()/__get_user(), but for several
  architectures there's more (broken clear_user() on frv and
  strncpy_from_user() on hexagon)"

* 'uaccess-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  avr32: fix copy_from_user()
  microblaze: fix __get_user()
  microblaze: fix copy_from_user()
  m32r: fix __get_user()
  blackfin: fix copy_from_user()
  sparc32: fix copy_from_user()
  sh: fix copy_from_user()
  sh64: failing __get_user() should zero
  score: fix copy_from_user() and friends
  score: fix __get_user/get_user
  s390: get_user() should zero on failure
  ppc32: fix copy_from_user()
  parisc: fix copy_from_user()
  openrisc: fix copy_from_user()
  nios2: fix __get_user()
  nios2: copy_from_user() should zero the tail of destination
  mn10300: copy_from_user() should zero on access_ok() failure...
  mn10300: failing __get_user() and get_user() should zero
  mips: copy_from_user() must zero the destination on access_ok() failure
  ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault
  ...
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix copy_from_user()</title>
<updated>2016-09-13T21:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-20T23:03:37+00:00</published>
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Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/usercopy: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS</title>
<updated>2016-08-30T17:10:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-30T13:04:16+00:00</published>
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There are three usercopy warnings which are currently being silenced for
gcc 4.6 and newer:

1) "copy_from_user() buffer size is too small" compile warning/error

   This is a static warning which happens when object size and copy size
   are both const, and copy size &gt; object size.  I didn't see any false
   positives for this one.  So the function warning attribute seems to
   be working fine here.

   Note this scenario is always a bug and so I think it should be
   changed to *always* be an error, regardless of
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS.

2) "copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct" compile warning

   This is another static warning which happens when I enable
   __compiletime_object_size() for new compilers (and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS).  It happens when object size
   is const, but copy size is *not*.  In this case there's no way to
   compare the two at build time, so it gives the warning.  (Note the
   warning is a byproduct of the fact that gcc has no way of knowing
   whether the overflow function will be called, so the call isn't dead
   code and the warning attribute is activated.)

   So this warning seems to only indicate "this is an unusual pattern,
   maybe you should check it out" rather than "this is a bug".

   I get 102(!) of these warnings with allyesconfig and the
   __compiletime_object_size() gcc check removed.  I don't know if there
   are any real bugs hiding in there, but from looking at a small
   sample, I didn't see any.  According to Kees, it does sometimes find
   real bugs.  But the false positive rate seems high.

3) "Buffer overflow detected" runtime warning

   This is a runtime warning where object size is const, and copy size &gt;
   object size.

All three warnings (both static and runtime) were completely disabled
for gcc 4.6 with the following commit:

  2fb0815c9ee6 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+")

That commit mistakenly assumed that the false positives were caused by a
gcc bug in __compiletime_object_size().  But in fact,
__compiletime_object_size() seems to be working fine.  The false
positives were instead triggered by #2 above.  (Though I don't have an
explanation for why the warnings supposedly only started showing up in
gcc 4.6.)

So remove warning #2 to get rid of all the false positives, and re-enable
warnings #1 and #3 by reverting the above commit.

Furthermore, since #1 is a real bug which is detected at compile time,
upgrade it to always be an error.

Having done all that, CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Nilay Vaish &lt;nilayvaish@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There are three usercopy warnings which are currently being silenced for
gcc 4.6 and newer:

1) "copy_from_user() buffer size is too small" compile warning/error

   This is a static warning which happens when object size and copy size
   are both const, and copy size &gt; object size.  I didn't see any false
   positives for this one.  So the function warning attribute seems to
   be working fine here.

   Note this scenario is always a bug and so I think it should be
   changed to *always* be an error, regardless of
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS.

2) "copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct" compile warning

   This is another static warning which happens when I enable
   __compiletime_object_size() for new compilers (and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS).  It happens when object size
   is const, but copy size is *not*.  In this case there's no way to
   compare the two at build time, so it gives the warning.  (Note the
   warning is a byproduct of the fact that gcc has no way of knowing
   whether the overflow function will be called, so the call isn't dead
   code and the warning attribute is activated.)

   So this warning seems to only indicate "this is an unusual pattern,
   maybe you should check it out" rather than "this is a bug".

   I get 102(!) of these warnings with allyesconfig and the
   __compiletime_object_size() gcc check removed.  I don't know if there
   are any real bugs hiding in there, but from looking at a small
   sample, I didn't see any.  According to Kees, it does sometimes find
   real bugs.  But the false positive rate seems high.

3) "Buffer overflow detected" runtime warning

   This is a runtime warning where object size is const, and copy size &gt;
   object size.

All three warnings (both static and runtime) were completely disabled
for gcc 4.6 with the following commit:

  2fb0815c9ee6 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+")

That commit mistakenly assumed that the false positives were caused by a
gcc bug in __compiletime_object_size().  But in fact,
__compiletime_object_size() seems to be working fine.  The false
positives were instead triggered by #2 above.  (Though I don't have an
explanation for why the warnings supposedly only started showing up in
gcc 4.6.)

So remove warning #2 to get rid of all the false positives, and re-enable
warnings #1 and #3 by reverting the above commit.

Furthermore, since #1 is a real bug which is detected at compile time,
upgrade it to always be an error.

Having done all that, CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Nilay Vaish &lt;nilayvaish@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix order of EREFUSED define in errno.h</title>
<updated>2016-08-20T11:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-20T09:51:38+00:00</published>
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When building gccgo in userspace, errno.h gets parsed and the go include file
sysinfo.go is generated.

Since EREFUSED is defined to the same value as ECONNREFUSED, and ECONNREFUSED
is defined later on in errno.h, this leads to go complaining that EREFUSED
isn't defined yet.

Fix this trivial problem by moving the define of EREFUSED down after
ECONNREFUSED in errno.h (and clean up the indenting while touching this line).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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When building gccgo in userspace, errno.h gets parsed and the go include file
sysinfo.go is generated.

Since EREFUSED is defined to the same value as ECONNREFUSED, and ECONNREFUSED
is defined later on in errno.h, this leads to go complaining that EREFUSED
isn't defined yet.

Fix this trivial problem by moving the define of EREFUSED down after
ECONNREFUSED in errno.h (and clean up the indenting while touching this line).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux</title>
<updated>2016-08-05T13:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T13:48:22+00:00</published>
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Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
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Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-4.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T22:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-04T22:31:14+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:

 - added an optimized hash implementation for parisc (George Spelvin)

 - C99 style cleanups in iomap.c (Amitoj Kaur Chawla)

 - added breaks to switch statement in PDC function (noticed by Dan
   Carpenter)

* 'parisc-4.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Change structure intialisation to C99 style in iomap.c
  parisc: Add break statements to pdc_pat_io_pci_cfg_read()
  parisc: Add &lt;asm/hash.h&gt;
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<pre>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:

 - added an optimized hash implementation for parisc (George Spelvin)

 - C99 style cleanups in iomap.c (Amitoj Kaur Chawla)

 - added breaks to switch statement in PDC function (noticed by Dan
   Carpenter)

* 'parisc-4.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Change structure intialisation to C99 style in iomap.c
  parisc: Add break statements to pdc_pat_io_pci_cfg_read()
  parisc: Add &lt;asm/hash.h&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add &lt;asm/hash.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T14:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>George Spelvin</name>
<email>linux@sciencehorizons.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-07T23:45:06+00:00</published>
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PA-RISC is interesting; integer multiplies are implemented in the
FPU, so are painful in the kernel.  But it tries to be friendly to
shift-and-add sequences for constant multiplies.

__hash_32 is implemented using the same shift-and-add sequence as
Microblaze, just scheduled for the PA7100.  (It's 2-way superscalar
but in-order, like the Pentium.)

hash_64 was tricky, but a suggestion from Jason Thong allowed a
good solution by breaking up the multiplier.  After a lot of manual
optimization, I found a 19-instruction sequence for the multiply that
can be executed in 10 cycles using only 4 temporaries.

(The PA8xxx can issue 4 instructions per cycle, but 2 must be ALU ops
and 2 must be loads/stores.  And the final add can't be paired.)

An alternative considered, but ultimately not used, was Thomas Wang's
64-to-32-bit integer hash.  At 12 instructions, it's smaller, but they're
all sequentially dependent, so it has longer latency.

https://web.archive.org/web/2011/http://www.concentric.net/~Ttwang/tech/inthash.htm
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/integer.html

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin &lt;linux@sciencehorizons.net&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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PA-RISC is interesting; integer multiplies are implemented in the
FPU, so are painful in the kernel.  But it tries to be friendly to
shift-and-add sequences for constant multiplies.

__hash_32 is implemented using the same shift-and-add sequence as
Microblaze, just scheduled for the PA7100.  (It's 2-way superscalar
but in-order, like the Pentium.)

hash_64 was tricky, but a suggestion from Jason Thong allowed a
good solution by breaking up the multiplier.  After a lot of manual
optimization, I found a 19-instruction sequence for the multiply that
can be executed in 10 cycles using only 4 temporaries.

(The PA8xxx can issue 4 instructions per cycle, but 2 must be ALU ops
and 2 must be loads/stores.  And the final add can't be paired.)

An alternative considered, but ultimately not used, was Thomas Wang's
64-to-32-bit integer hash.  At 12 instructions, it's smaller, but they're
all sequentially dependent, so it has longer latency.

https://web.archive.org/web/2011/http://www.concentric.net/~Ttwang/tech/inthash.htm
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/integer.html

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin &lt;linux@sciencehorizons.net&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&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>2016-07-25T19:41:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-25T19:41:29+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The locking tree was busier in this cycle than the usual pattern - a
  couple of major projects happened to coincide.

  The main changes are:

   - implement the atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() API natively
     across all SMP architectures (Peter Zijlstra)

   - add atomic_fetch_{inc/dec}() as well, using the generic primitives
     (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - optimize various aspects of rwsems (Jason Low, Davidlohr Bueso,
     Waiman Long)

   - optimize smp_cond_load_acquire() on arm64 and implement LSE based
     atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
     on arm64 (Will Deacon)

   - introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() and fix various barrier
     mis-uses and bugs (Peter Zijlstra)

   - after discovering ancient spin_unlock_wait() barrier bugs in its
     implementation and usage, strengthen its semantics and update/fix
     usage sites (Peter Zijlstra)

   - optimize mutex_trylock() fastpath (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... misc fixes and cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  locking/atomic: Introduce inc/dec variants for the atomic_fetch_$op() API
  locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()
  locking/static_keys: Fix non static symbol Sparse warning
  locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Fix tilepro build
  locking/atomic, arch/m68k: Remove comment
  locking/atomic, arch/arc: Fix build
  locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
  locking/atomic, arch/rwsem: Employ atomic_long_fetch_add()
  locking/atomic, arch/qrwlock: Employ atomic_fetch_add_acquire()
  locking/atomic, arch/mips: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic, arch/alpha: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic: Remove the deprecated atomic_{set,clear}_mask() functions
  locking/atomic: Remove linux/atomic.h:atomic_fetch_or()
  locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
  locking/atomic: Fix atomic64_relaxed() bits
  locking/atomic, arch/xtensa: Implement atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/x86: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The locking tree was busier in this cycle than the usual pattern - a
  couple of major projects happened to coincide.

  The main changes are:

   - implement the atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() API natively
     across all SMP architectures (Peter Zijlstra)

   - add atomic_fetch_{inc/dec}() as well, using the generic primitives
     (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - optimize various aspects of rwsems (Jason Low, Davidlohr Bueso,
     Waiman Long)

   - optimize smp_cond_load_acquire() on arm64 and implement LSE based
     atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
     on arm64 (Will Deacon)

   - introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() and fix various barrier
     mis-uses and bugs (Peter Zijlstra)

   - after discovering ancient spin_unlock_wait() barrier bugs in its
     implementation and usage, strengthen its semantics and update/fix
     usage sites (Peter Zijlstra)

   - optimize mutex_trylock() fastpath (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... misc fixes and cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  locking/atomic: Introduce inc/dec variants for the atomic_fetch_$op() API
  locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()
  locking/static_keys: Fix non static symbol Sparse warning
  locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Fix tilepro build
  locking/atomic, arch/m68k: Remove comment
  locking/atomic, arch/arc: Fix build
  locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
  locking/atomic, arch/rwsem: Employ atomic_long_fetch_add()
  locking/atomic, arch/qrwlock: Employ atomic_fetch_add_acquire()
  locking/atomic, arch/mips: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic, arch/alpha: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic: Remove the deprecated atomic_{set,clear}_mask() functions
  locking/atomic: Remove linux/atomic.h:atomic_fetch_or()
  locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
  locking/atomic: Fix atomic64_relaxed() bits
  locking/atomic, arch/xtensa: Implement atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/x86: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>parisc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT</title>
<updated>2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-24T21:49:06+00:00</published>
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__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.

pmd_alloc_one allocate PMD_ORDER which is 1.  This means that this flag
has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only
for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-10-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__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.

pmd_alloc_one allocate PMD_ORDER which is 1.  This means that this flag
has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only
for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-10-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I</title>
<updated>2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-24T21:48:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=32d6bd9059f265f617f6502c68dfbcae7e515add'/>
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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&amp;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 &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
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&amp;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 &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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