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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/xtensa, branch v5.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>xtensa: add missing isync to the cpu_reset TLB code</title>
<updated>2019-08-12T22:05:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-12T22:01:30+00:00</published>
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ITLB entry modifications must be followed by the isync instruction
before the new entries are possibly used. cpu_reset lacks one isync
between ITLB way 6 initialization and jump to the identity mapping.
Add missing isync to xtensa cpu_reset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
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ITLB entry modifications must be followed by the isync instruction
before the new entries are possibly used. cpu_reset lacks one isync
between ITLB way 6 initialization and jump to the identity mapping.
Add missing isync to xtensa cpu_reset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: fix build for cores with coprocessors</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T00:44:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-25T00:39:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Assembly entry/return abstraction change didn't add asmmacro.h include
statement to coprocessor.S, resulting in references to undefined macros
abi_entry and abi_ret on cores that define XTENSA_HAVE_COPROCESSORS.
Fix that by including asm/asmmacro.h from the coprocessor.S.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Assembly entry/return abstraction change didn't add asmmacro.h include
statement to coprocessor.S, resulting in references to undefined macros
abi_entry and abi_ret on cores that define XTENSA_HAVE_COPROCESSORS.
Fix that by including asm/asmmacro.h from the coprocessor.S.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T15:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T15:58:04+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "VM:
   - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool

   - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao

   - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
     Christoph Hellwig

   - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig

   - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
     Kairui Song

   - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
     initialization, by Alexander Potapenko

   - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual

   - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual

   - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin

   - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V

   - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy

   - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan

   - several misc fixes

  core/lib:
   - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada

   - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
     code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse

   - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes

  get_maintainer.pl:
   - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches

  misc:
   - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface

   - coda updates

   - gdb scripts, various"

[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (100 commits)
  fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
  arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
  mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
  mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
  mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
  mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
  device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
  mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
  device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
  include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
  ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
  include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
  scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
  scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
  drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
  kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
  select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
  select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
  ...
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<pre>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "VM:
   - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool

   - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao

   - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
     Christoph Hellwig

   - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig

   - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
     Kairui Song

   - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
     initialization, by Alexander Potapenko

   - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual

   - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual

   - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin

   - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V

   - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy

   - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan

   - several misc fixes

  core/lib:
   - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada

   - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
     code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse

   - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes

  get_maintainer.pl:
   - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches

  misc:
   - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface

   - coda updates

   - gdb scripts, various"

[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (100 commits)
  fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
  arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
  mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
  mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
  mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
  mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
  device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
  mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
  device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
  include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
  ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
  include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
  scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
  scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
  drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
  kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
  select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
  select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix the MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:26:27+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We can't expose UAPI symbols differently based on CONFIG_ symbols, as
userspace won't have them available.  Instead always define the flag,
but only respect it based on the config option.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190703122359.18200-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&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>
We can't expose UAPI symbols differently based on CONFIG_ symbols, as
userspace won't have them available.  Instead always define the flag,
but only respect it based on the config option.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190703122359.18200-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T19:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T19:21:41+00:00</published>
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Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
  ...
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<pre>
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T19:17:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T19:17:07+00:00</published>
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Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - clean up PCI support code

 - add defconfig and DTS for the 'virt' board

 - abstract 'entry' and 'retw' uses in xtensa assembly in preparation
   for XEA3/NX pipeline support

 - random small cleanups

* tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa:
  xtensa: virt: add defconfig and DTS
  xtensa: abstract 'entry' and 'retw' in assembly code
  xtensa: One function call less in bootmem_init()
  xtensa: remove arch/xtensa/include/asm/types.h
  xtensa: use generic pcibios_set_master and pcibios_enable_device
  xtensa: drop dead PCI support code
  xtensa/PCI: Remove unused variable
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<pre>
Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - clean up PCI support code

 - add defconfig and DTS for the 'virt' board

 - abstract 'entry' and 'retw' uses in xtensa assembly in preparation
   for XEA3/NX pipeline support

 - random small cleanups

* tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa:
  xtensa: virt: add defconfig and DTS
  xtensa: abstract 'entry' and 'retw' in assembly code
  xtensa: One function call less in bootmem_init()
  xtensa: remove arch/xtensa/include/asm/types.h
  xtensa: use generic pcibios_set_master and pcibios_enable_device
  xtensa: drop dead PCI support code
  xtensa/PCI: Remove unused variable
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: xtensa: convert to ReST</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T12:20:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-18T17:34:34+00:00</published>
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Rename the xtensa documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Rename the xtensa documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-5.3' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2019-07-12T22:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T22:13:55+00:00</published>
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - move the USB special case that bounced DMA through a device bar into
   the USB code instead of handling it in the common DMA code (Laurentiu
   Tudor and Fredrik Noring)

 - don't dip into the global CMA pool for single page allocations
   (Nicolin Chen)

 - fix a crash when allocating memory for the atomic pool failed during
   boot (Florian Fainelli)

 - move support for MIPS-style uncached segments to the common code and
   use that for MIPS and nios2 (me)

 - make support for DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT and
   DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING generic (me)

 - convert nds32 to the generic remapping allocator (me)

* tag 'dma-mapping-5.3' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (29 commits)
  dma-mapping: mark dma_alloc_need_uncached as __always_inline
  MIPS: only select ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT for non-coherent platforms
  usb: host: Fix excessive alignment restriction for local memory allocations
  lib/genalloc.c: Add algorithm, align and zeroed family of DMA allocators
  nios2: use the generic uncached segment support in dma-direct
  nds32: use the generic remapping allocator for coherent DMA allocations
  arc: use the generic remapping allocator for coherent DMA allocations
  dma-direct: handle DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING in common code
  dma-direct: handle DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT in common code
  dma-mapping: add a dma_alloc_need_uncached helper
  openrisc: remove the partial DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT support
  arc: remove the partial DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT support
  arm-nommu: remove the partial DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT support
  ARM: dma-mapping: allow larger DMA mask than supported
  dma-mapping: truncate dma masks to what dma_addr_t can hold
  iommu/dma: Apply dma_{alloc,free}_contiguous functions
  dma-remap: Avoid de-referencing NULL atomic_pool
  MIPS: use the generic uncached segment support in dma-direct
  dma-direct: provide generic support for uncached kernel segments
  au1100fb: fix DMA API abuse
  ...
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<pre>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - move the USB special case that bounced DMA through a device bar into
   the USB code instead of handling it in the common DMA code (Laurentiu
   Tudor and Fredrik Noring)

 - don't dip into the global CMA pool for single page allocations
   (Nicolin Chen)

 - fix a crash when allocating memory for the atomic pool failed during
   boot (Florian Fainelli)

 - move support for MIPS-style uncached segments to the common code and
   use that for MIPS and nios2 (me)

 - make support for DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT and
   DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING generic (me)

 - convert nds32 to the generic remapping allocator (me)

* tag 'dma-mapping-5.3' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (29 commits)
  dma-mapping: mark dma_alloc_need_uncached as __always_inline
  MIPS: only select ARCH_HAS_UNCACHED_SEGMENT for non-coherent platforms
  usb: host: Fix excessive alignment restriction for local memory allocations
  lib/genalloc.c: Add algorithm, align and zeroed family of DMA allocators
  nios2: use the generic uncached segment support in dma-direct
  nds32: use the generic remapping allocator for coherent DMA allocations
  arc: use the generic remapping allocator for coherent DMA allocations
  dma-direct: handle DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING in common code
  dma-direct: handle DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT in common code
  dma-mapping: add a dma_alloc_need_uncached helper
  openrisc: remove the partial DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT support
  arc: remove the partial DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT support
  arm-nommu: remove the partial DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT support
  ARM: dma-mapping: allow larger DMA mask than supported
  dma-mapping: truncate dma masks to what dma_addr_t can hold
  iommu/dma: Apply dma_{alloc,free}_contiguous functions
  dma-remap: Avoid de-referencing NULL atomic_pool
  MIPS: use the generic uncached segment support in dma-direct
  dma-direct: provide generic support for uncached kernel segments
  au1100fb: fix DMA API abuse
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T17:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T17:09:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8f6ccf6159aed1f04c6d179f61f6fb2691261e84'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
  after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
  window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
  and thus all legacy workloads.

  There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
  First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
  this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
  EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
  argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
  third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
  clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
  argument.

  The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:

    /* uapi */
    struct clone_args {
            __aligned_u64 flags;
            __aligned_u64 pidfd;
            __aligned_u64 child_tid;
            __aligned_u64 parent_tid;
            __aligned_u64 exit_signal;
            __aligned_u64 stack;
            __aligned_u64 stack_size;
            __aligned_u64 tls;
    };

  and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:

    /* kernel internal */
    struct kernel_clone_args {
            u64 flags;
            int __user *pidfd;
            int __user *child_tid;
            int __user *parent_tid;
            int exit_signal;
            unsigned long stack;
            unsigned long stack_size;
            unsigned long tls;
    };

  The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
  detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
  validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
  are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.

  A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
  simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
  internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
  legacy clone().

  This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
  introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.

  Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
  xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
  massaging.

  Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
  after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
  dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
  leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
  there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
  which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
  clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
  such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
  including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
  __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"

* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
  arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
  fork: add clone3
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Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
  after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
  window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
  and thus all legacy workloads.

  There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
  First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
  this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
  EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
  argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
  third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
  clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
  argument.

  The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:

    /* uapi */
    struct clone_args {
            __aligned_u64 flags;
            __aligned_u64 pidfd;
            __aligned_u64 child_tid;
            __aligned_u64 parent_tid;
            __aligned_u64 exit_signal;
            __aligned_u64 stack;
            __aligned_u64 stack_size;
            __aligned_u64 tls;
    };

  and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:

    /* kernel internal */
    struct kernel_clone_args {
            u64 flags;
            int __user *pidfd;
            int __user *child_tid;
            int __user *parent_tid;
            int exit_signal;
            unsigned long stack;
            unsigned long stack_size;
            unsigned long tls;
    };

  The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
  detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
  validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
  are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.

  A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
  simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
  internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
  legacy clone().

  This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
  introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.

  Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
  xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
  massaging.

  Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
  after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
  dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
  leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
  there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
  which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
  clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
  such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
  including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
  __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"

* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
  arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
  fork: add clone3
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T05:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T05:17:21+00:00</published>
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Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds two main features.

   - First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process
     managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free
     way.

     The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is
     currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's
     death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an
     {e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e.
     thread-group) exit.

   - The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible
     to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created
     using CLONE_PIDFD.

     A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
     such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these
     processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This
     is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service
     managers such as systemd.

  Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests.

  It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done
  in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see
  some adoption:

   - Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS
     kernels [1]

   - Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to
     wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption.

   - And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and
     CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too"

[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22

[2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753

* tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  tests: add pidfd_open() tests
  arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
  pid: add pidfd_open()
  pidfd: add polling selftests
  pidfd: add polling support
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<pre>
Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds two main features.

   - First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process
     managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free
     way.

     The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is
     currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's
     death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an
     {e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e.
     thread-group) exit.

   - The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible
     to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created
     using CLONE_PIDFD.

     A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
     such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these
     processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This
     is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service
     managers such as systemd.

  Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests.

  It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done
  in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see
  some adoption:

   - Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS
     kernels [1]

   - Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to
     wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption.

   - And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and
     CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too"

[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22

[2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753

* tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  tests: add pidfd_open() tests
  arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
  pid: add pidfd_open()
  pidfd: add polling selftests
  pidfd: add polling support
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