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<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-01-22T18:40:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-22T18:40:36+00:00</published>
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Pull module and param fixes from Rusty Russell:
 "Surprising number of fixes this merge window :(

  The first two are minor fallout from the param rework which went in
  this merge window.

  The next three are a series which fixes a longstanding (but never
  previously reported and unlikely , so no CC stable) race between
  kallsyms and freeing the init section.

  Finally, a minor cleanup as our module refcount will now be -1 during
  unload"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: make module_refcount() a signed integer.
  module: fix race in kallsyms resolution during module load success.
  module: remove mod arg from module_free, rename module_memfree().
  module_arch_freeing_init(): new hook for archs before module-&gt;module_init freed.
  param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  param: initialize store function to NULL if not available.
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Pull module and param fixes from Rusty Russell:
 "Surprising number of fixes this merge window :(

  The first two are minor fallout from the param rework which went in
  this merge window.

  The next three are a series which fixes a longstanding (but never
  previously reported and unlikely , so no CC stable) race between
  kallsyms and freeing the init section.

  Finally, a minor cleanup as our module refcount will now be -1 during
  unload"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: make module_refcount() a signed integer.
  module: fix race in kallsyms resolution during module load success.
  module: remove mod arg from module_free, rename module_memfree().
  module_arch_freeing_init(): new hook for archs before module-&gt;module_init freed.
  param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  param: initialize store function to NULL if not available.
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<title>module_arch_freeing_init(): new hook for archs before module-&gt;module_init freed.</title>
<updated>2015-01-20T01:08:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-19T22:37:04+00:00</published>
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Archs have been abusing module_free() to clean up their arch-specific
allocations.  Since module_free() is also (ab)used by BPF and trace code,
let's keep it to simple allocations, and provide a hook called before
that.

This means that avr32, ia64, parisc and s390 no longer need to implement
their own module_free() at all.  avr32 doesn't need module_finalize()
either.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
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Archs have been abusing module_free() to clean up their arch-specific
allocations.  Since module_free() is also (ab)used by BPF and trace code,
let's keep it to simple allocations, and provide a hook called before
that.

This means that avr32, ia64, parisc and s390 no longer need to implement
their own module_free() at all.  avr32 doesn't need module_finalize()
either.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-26T21:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-26T21:41:05+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc build fix from Helge Deller:
 "This unbreaks the kernel compilation on parisc with gcc-4.9"

* 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: fix out-of-register compiler error in ldcw inline assembler function
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Pull parisc build fix from Helge Deller:
 "This unbreaks the kernel compilation on parisc with gcc-4.9"

* 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: fix out-of-register compiler error in ldcw inline assembler function
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix out-of-register compiler error in ldcw inline assembler function</title>
<updated>2014-12-26T16:47:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-14T15:49:11+00:00</published>
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The __ldcw macro has a problem when its argument needs to be reloaded from
memory. The output memory operand and the input register operand both need to
be reloaded using a register in class R1_REGS when generating 64-bit code.
This fails because there's only a single register in the class. Instead, use a
memory clobber. This also makes the __ldcw macro a compiler memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;        [3.13+]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The __ldcw macro has a problem when its argument needs to be reloaded from
memory. The output memory operand and the input register operand both need to
be reloaded using a register in class R1_REGS when generating 64-bit code.
This fails because there's only a single register in the class. Instead, use a
memory clobber. This also makes the __ldcw macro a compiler memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;        [3.13+]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: percpu: update comments referring to __get_cpu_var</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:58:47+00:00</published>
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__get_cpu_var was removed. Update comments to refer to
this_cpu_ptr() instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&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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__get_cpu_var was removed. Update comments to refer to
this_cpu_ptr() instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&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>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
    offloading of switching and routing to hardware.

    This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
    limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
    Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu

 2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
    modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers.  Thanks to Al Viro
    and Herbert Xu.

 3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
    Alpe.

 4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
    Pavaluca.

 6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
    achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
    interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
    Nicolas Dichtel.

 9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
    programs to actually be attached to sockets.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.

11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
    Westphal.

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
    driver, from Thomas Lendacky.

14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.

15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
    Klassert.

16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
    Dumazet.  This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
    desired handling of bulk vs.  RPC-like traffic.

17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
    received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU.  From Eric Dumazet.

18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
    Dumazet.

19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
    consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.

20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.

22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
    Perry.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
    offloading of switching and routing to hardware.

    This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
    limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
    Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu

 2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
    modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers.  Thanks to Al Viro
    and Herbert Xu.

 3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
    Alpe.

 4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
    Pavaluca.

 6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
    achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
    interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
    Nicolas Dichtel.

 9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
    programs to actually be attached to sockets.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.

11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
    Westphal.

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
    driver, from Thomas Lendacky.

14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.

15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
    Klassert.

16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
    Dumazet.  This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
    desired handling of bulk vs.  RPC-like traffic.

17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
    received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU.  From Eric Dumazet.

18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
    Dumazet.

19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
    consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.

20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.

22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
    Perry.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T00:10:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T00:10:49+00:00</published>
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Pull VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "First pile out of several (there _definitely_ will be more).  Stuff in
  this one:

   - unification of d_splice_alias()/d_materialize_unique()

   - iov_iter rewrite

   - killing a bunch of -&gt;f_path.dentry users (and f_dentry macro).

     Getting that completed will make life much simpler for
     unionmount/overlayfs, since then we'll be able to limit the places
     sensitive to file _dentry_ to reasonably few.  Which allows to have
     file_inode(file) pointing to inode in a covered layer, with dentry
     pointing to (negative) dentry in union one.

     Still not complete, but much closer now.

   - crapectomy in lustre (dead code removal, mostly)

   - "let's make seq_printf return nothing" preparations

   - assorted cleanups and fixes

  There _definitely_ will be more piles"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  copy_from_iter_nocache()
  new helper: iov_iter_kvec()
  csum_and_copy_..._iter()
  iov_iter.c: handle ITER_KVEC directly
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_to_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_from_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: get rid of bvec_copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_zero() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_npages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: macros for iterating over iov_iter
  kill f_dentry macro
  dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_names
  new helper: audit_file()
  nfsd_vfs_write(): use file_inode()
  ncpfs: use file_inode()
  kill f_dentry uses
  lockd: get rid of -&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_sb
  ...
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Pull VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "First pile out of several (there _definitely_ will be more).  Stuff in
  this one:

   - unification of d_splice_alias()/d_materialize_unique()

   - iov_iter rewrite

   - killing a bunch of -&gt;f_path.dentry users (and f_dentry macro).

     Getting that completed will make life much simpler for
     unionmount/overlayfs, since then we'll be able to limit the places
     sensitive to file _dentry_ to reasonably few.  Which allows to have
     file_inode(file) pointing to inode in a covered layer, with dentry
     pointing to (negative) dentry in union one.

     Still not complete, but much closer now.

   - crapectomy in lustre (dead code removal, mostly)

   - "let's make seq_printf return nothing" preparations

   - assorted cleanups and fixes

  There _definitely_ will be more piles"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  copy_from_iter_nocache()
  new helper: iov_iter_kvec()
  csum_and_copy_..._iter()
  iov_iter.c: handle ITER_KVEC directly
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_to_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_from_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: get rid of bvec_copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_zero() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_npages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: macros for iterating over iov_iter
  kill f_dentry macro
  dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_names
  new helper: audit_file()
  nfsd_vfs_write(): use file_inode()
  ncpfs: use file_inode()
  kill f_dentry uses
  lockd: get rid of -&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_sb
  ...
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<entry>
<title>net, lib: kill arch_fast_hash library bits</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T20:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T15:33:12+00:00</published>
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As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.

This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e19 ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d44 ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f7f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df511
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").

Cc: Francesco Fusco &lt;fusco@ntop.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.

This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e19 ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d44 ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f7f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df511
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").

Cc: Francesco Fusco &lt;fusco@ntop.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T01:25:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T01:25:00+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic asm/io.h rewrite from Arnd Bergmann:
 "While there normally is no reason to have a pull request for
  asm-generic but have all changes get merged through whichever tree
  needs them, I do have a series for 3.19.

  There are two sets of patches that change significant portions of
  asm/io.h, and this branch contains both in order to resolve the
  conflicts:

   - Will Deacon has done a set of patches to ensure that all
     architectures define {read,write}{b,w,l,q}_relaxed() functions or
     get them by including asm-generic/io.h.

     These functions are commonly used on ARM specific drivers to avoid
     expensive L2 cache synchronization implied by the normal
     {read,write}{b,w,l,q}, but we need to define them on all
     architectures in order to share the drivers across architectures
     and to enable CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST configurations for them

   - Thierry Reding has done an unrelated set of patches that extends
     the asm-generic/io.h file to the degree necessary to make it useful
     on ARM64 and potentially other architectures"

* tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (29 commits)
  ARM64: use GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  sparc: io: remove duplicate relaxed accessors on sparc32
  ARM: sa11x0: Use void __iomem * in MMIO accessors
  arm64: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*()
  asm-generic/io.h: Reconcile I/O accessor overrides
  /dev/mem: Use more consistent data types
  Change xlate_dev_{kmem,mem}_ptr() prototypes
  ARM: ixp4xx: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARM: ixp4xx: Fix build with IXP4XX_INDIRECT_PCI
  ARM: ebsa110: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARC: Remove redundant PCI_IOBASE declaration
  documentation: memory-barriers: clarify relaxed io accessor semantics
  x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  tile: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  sparc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  powerpc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  parisc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  mn10300: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  ...
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Pull asm-generic asm/io.h rewrite from Arnd Bergmann:
 "While there normally is no reason to have a pull request for
  asm-generic but have all changes get merged through whichever tree
  needs them, I do have a series for 3.19.

  There are two sets of patches that change significant portions of
  asm/io.h, and this branch contains both in order to resolve the
  conflicts:

   - Will Deacon has done a set of patches to ensure that all
     architectures define {read,write}{b,w,l,q}_relaxed() functions or
     get them by including asm-generic/io.h.

     These functions are commonly used on ARM specific drivers to avoid
     expensive L2 cache synchronization implied by the normal
     {read,write}{b,w,l,q}, but we need to define them on all
     architectures in order to share the drivers across architectures
     and to enable CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST configurations for them

   - Thierry Reding has done an unrelated set of patches that extends
     the asm-generic/io.h file to the degree necessary to make it useful
     on ARM64 and potentially other architectures"

* tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (29 commits)
  ARM64: use GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  sparc: io: remove duplicate relaxed accessors on sparc32
  ARM: sa11x0: Use void __iomem * in MMIO accessors
  arm64: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*()
  asm-generic/io.h: Reconcile I/O accessor overrides
  /dev/mem: Use more consistent data types
  Change xlate_dev_{kmem,mem}_ptr() prototypes
  ARM: ixp4xx: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARM: ixp4xx: Fix build with IXP4XX_INDIRECT_PCI
  ARM: ebsa110: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARC: Remove redundant PCI_IOBASE declaration
  documentation: memory-barriers: clarify relaxed io accessor semantics
  x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  tile: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  sparc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  powerpc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  parisc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  mn10300: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  ...
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