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<title>of: overlay: update phandle cache on overlay apply and remove</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T11:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-12T21:00:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b9952b5218added5577e4a3443969bc20884cea9 ]

A comment in the review of the patch adding the phandle cache said that
the cache would have to be updated when modules are applied and removed.
This patch implements the cache updates.

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Reported-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b9952b5218added5577e4a3443969bc20884cea9 ]

A comment in the review of the patch adding the phandle cache said that
the cache would have to be updated when modules are applied and removed.
This patch implements the cache updates.

Fixes: 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()")
Reported-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Alan Tull &lt;atull@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>of: platform: stop accessing invalid dev in of_platform_device_destroy</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivas Kandagatla</name>
<email>srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-04T14:14:08+00:00</published>
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commit 522811e944ed9b36806faa019faec10f9d259cca upstream.

Immediately after the platform_device_unregister() the device will be
cleaned up. Accessing the freed pointer immediately after that will
crash the system.

Found this bug when kernel is built with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and testing
loading/unloading audio drivers in a loop on Qcom platforms.

Fix this by moving of_node_clear_flag() just before the unregister calls.

Below is the crash trace:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6c03
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x96000021
  Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021
  CM = 0, WnR = 0
[006b6b6b6b6b6c03] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 1784 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W         4.17.0-rc7-02230-ge3a63a7ef641-dirty #204
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC (DT)
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : clear_bit+0x18/0x2c
lr : of_platform_device_destroy+0x64/0xb8
sp : ffff00000c9c3930
x29: ffff00000c9c3930 x28: ffff80003d39b200
x27: ffff000008bb1000 x26: 0000000000000040
x25: 0000000000000124 x24: ffff80003a9a3080
x23: 0000000000000060 x22: ffff00000939f518
x21: ffff80003aa79e98 x20: ffff80003aa3dae0
x19: ffff80003aa3c890 x18: ffff800009feb794
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
x15: ffff800009feb790 x14: 0000000000000000
x13: ffff80003a058778 x12: ffff80003a058728
x11: ffff80003a058750 x10: 0000000000000000
x9 : 0000000000000006 x8 : ffff80003a825988
x7 : bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : 0000000000000001
x1 : 6b6b6b6b6b6b6c03 x0 : 0000000000000000
Process sh (pid: 1784, stack limit = 0x        (ptrval))
Call trace:
 clear_bit+0x18/0x2c
 q6afe_remove+0x20/0x38
 apr_device_remove+0x30/0x70
 device_release_driver_internal+0x170/0x208
 device_release_driver+0x14/0x20
 bus_remove_device+0xcc/0x150
 device_del+0x10c/0x310
 device_unregister+0x1c/0x70
 apr_remove_device+0xc/0x18
 device_for_each_child+0x50/0x80
 apr_remove+0x18/0x20
 rpmsg_dev_remove+0x38/0x68
 device_release_driver_internal+0x170/0x208
 device_release_driver+0x14/0x20
 bus_remove_device+0xcc/0x150
 device_del+0x10c/0x310
 device_unregister+0x1c/0x70
 qcom_smd_remove_device+0xc/0x18
 device_for_each_child+0x50/0x80
 qcom_smd_unregister_edge+0x3c/0x70
 smd_subdev_remove+0x18/0x28
 rproc_stop+0x48/0xd8
 rproc_shutdown+0x60/0xe8
 state_store+0xbc/0xf8
 dev_attr_store+0x18/0x28
 sysfs_kf_write+0x3c/0x50
 kernfs_fop_write+0x118/0x1e0
 __vfs_write+0x18/0x110
 vfs_write+0xa4/0x1a8
 ksys_write+0x48/0xb0
 sys_write+0xc/0x18
 el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34
Code: d2800022 8b400c21 f9800031 9ac32043 (c85f7c22)
---[ end trace 32020935775616a2 ]---

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 522811e944ed9b36806faa019faec10f9d259cca upstream.

Immediately after the platform_device_unregister() the device will be
cleaned up. Accessing the freed pointer immediately after that will
crash the system.

Found this bug when kernel is built with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and testing
loading/unloading audio drivers in a loop on Qcom platforms.

Fix this by moving of_node_clear_flag() just before the unregister calls.

Below is the crash trace:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6c03
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x96000021
  Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021
  CM = 0, WnR = 0
[006b6b6b6b6b6c03] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 1784 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W         4.17.0-rc7-02230-ge3a63a7ef641-dirty #204
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC (DT)
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : clear_bit+0x18/0x2c
lr : of_platform_device_destroy+0x64/0xb8
sp : ffff00000c9c3930
x29: ffff00000c9c3930 x28: ffff80003d39b200
x27: ffff000008bb1000 x26: 0000000000000040
x25: 0000000000000124 x24: ffff80003a9a3080
x23: 0000000000000060 x22: ffff00000939f518
x21: ffff80003aa79e98 x20: ffff80003aa3dae0
x19: ffff80003aa3c890 x18: ffff800009feb794
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
x15: ffff800009feb790 x14: 0000000000000000
x13: ffff80003a058778 x12: ffff80003a058728
x11: ffff80003a058750 x10: 0000000000000000
x9 : 0000000000000006 x8 : ffff80003a825988
x7 : bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : 0000000000000001
x1 : 6b6b6b6b6b6b6c03 x0 : 0000000000000000
Process sh (pid: 1784, stack limit = 0x        (ptrval))
Call trace:
 clear_bit+0x18/0x2c
 q6afe_remove+0x20/0x38
 apr_device_remove+0x30/0x70
 device_release_driver_internal+0x170/0x208
 device_release_driver+0x14/0x20
 bus_remove_device+0xcc/0x150
 device_del+0x10c/0x310
 device_unregister+0x1c/0x70
 apr_remove_device+0xc/0x18
 device_for_each_child+0x50/0x80
 apr_remove+0x18/0x20
 rpmsg_dev_remove+0x38/0x68
 device_release_driver_internal+0x170/0x208
 device_release_driver+0x14/0x20
 bus_remove_device+0xcc/0x150
 device_del+0x10c/0x310
 device_unregister+0x1c/0x70
 qcom_smd_remove_device+0xc/0x18
 device_for_each_child+0x50/0x80
 qcom_smd_unregister_edge+0x3c/0x70
 smd_subdev_remove+0x18/0x28
 rproc_stop+0x48/0xd8
 rproc_shutdown+0x60/0xe8
 state_store+0xbc/0xf8
 dev_attr_store+0x18/0x28
 sysfs_kf_write+0x3c/0x50
 kernfs_fop_write+0x118/0x1e0
 __vfs_write+0x18/0x110
 vfs_write+0xa4/0x1a8
 ksys_write+0x48/0xb0
 sys_write+0xc/0x18
 el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34
Code: d2800022 8b400c21 f9800031 9ac32043 (c85f7c22)
---[ end trace 32020935775616a2 ]---

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>of: unittest: for strings, account for trailing \0 in property length field</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan M Schaeckeler</name>
<email>sschaeck@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-21T23:26:14+00:00</published>
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commit 3b9cf7905fe3ab35ab437b5072c883e609d3498d upstream.

For strings, account for trailing \0 in property length field:

This is consistent with how dtc builds string properties.

Function __of_prop_dup() would misbehave on such properties as it duplicates
properties based on the property length field creating new string values
without trailing \0s.

Signed-off-by: Stefan M Schaeckeler &lt;sschaeck@cisco.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3b9cf7905fe3ab35ab437b5072c883e609d3498d upstream.

For strings, account for trailing \0 in property length field:

This is consistent with how dtc builds string properties.

Function __of_prop_dup() would misbehave on such properties as it duplicates
properties based on the property length field creating new string values
without trailing \0s.

Signed-off-by: Stefan M Schaeckeler &lt;sschaeck@cisco.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: overlay: validate offset from property fixups</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank Rowand</name>
<email>frank.rowand@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-17T04:19:51+00:00</published>
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commit 482137bf2aecd887ebfa8756456764a2f6a0e545 upstream.

The smatch static checker marks the data in offset as untrusted,
leading it to warn:

  drivers/of/resolver.c:125 update_usages_of_a_phandle_reference()
  error: buffer underflow 'prop-&gt;value' 's32min-s32max'

Add check to verify that offset is within the property data.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 482137bf2aecd887ebfa8756456764a2f6a0e545 upstream.

The smatch static checker marks the data in offset as untrusted,
leading it to warn:

  drivers/of/resolver.c:125 update_usages_of_a_phandle_reference()
  error: buffer underflow 'prop-&gt;value' 's32min-s32max'

Add check to verify that offset is within the property data.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@sony.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux</title>
<updated>2018-05-07T15:33:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-07T15:33:29+00:00</published>
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Pull DeviceTree fixes from Rob Herring:

 - fix path to display timing binding

 - fix some typos in interrupt-names and clock-names

 - fix a resource leak on overlay removal

 - add missing documentation for R8A77965 DMA, serial, and net

 - cleanup sunxi pinctrl description

 - add Kieback &amp; Peter GmbH vendor prefix

* tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux:
  dt-bindings: panel: lvds: Fix path to display timing bindings
  dt-bindings: mvebu-uart: DT fix s/interrupts-names/interrupt-names/
  dt-bindings: meson-uart: DT fix s/clocks-names/clock-names/
  of: overlay: Stop leaking resources on overlay removal
  dtc: checks: drop warning for missing PCI bridge bus-range
  dt-bindings: dmaengine: rcar-dmac: document R8A77965 support
  dt-bindings: serial: sh-sci: Add support for r8a77965 (H)SCIF
  dt-bindings: net: ravb: Add support for r8a77965 SoC
  dt-bindings: pinctrl: sunxi: Fix reference to driver
  doc: Add vendor prefix for Kieback &amp; Peter GmbH
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Pull DeviceTree fixes from Rob Herring:

 - fix path to display timing binding

 - fix some typos in interrupt-names and clock-names

 - fix a resource leak on overlay removal

 - add missing documentation for R8A77965 DMA, serial, and net

 - cleanup sunxi pinctrl description

 - add Kieback &amp; Peter GmbH vendor prefix

* tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux:
  dt-bindings: panel: lvds: Fix path to display timing bindings
  dt-bindings: mvebu-uart: DT fix s/interrupts-names/interrupt-names/
  dt-bindings: meson-uart: DT fix s/clocks-names/clock-names/
  of: overlay: Stop leaking resources on overlay removal
  dtc: checks: drop warning for missing PCI bridge bus-range
  dt-bindings: dmaengine: rcar-dmac: document R8A77965 support
  dt-bindings: serial: sh-sci: Add support for r8a77965 (H)SCIF
  dt-bindings: net: ravb: Add support for r8a77965 SoC
  dt-bindings: pinctrl: sunxi: Fix reference to driver
  doc: Add vendor prefix for Kieback &amp; Peter GmbH
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: overlay: Stop leaking resources on overlay removal</title>
<updated>2018-04-27T02:18:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kiszka</name>
<email>jan.kiszka@siemens.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-26T11:00:30+00:00</published>
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Only the overlay notifier callbacks have a chance to potentially get
hold of references to those two resources, but they are not supposed to
store them beyond OF_OVERLAY_POST_REMOVE.

Document the overlay notifier API, its constraint regarding pointer
lifetime, and then remove intentional leaks of ovcs-&gt;overlay_tree and
ovcs-&gt;fdt from free_overlay_changeset.

See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/23/1063 and following.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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Only the overlay notifier callbacks have a chance to potentially get
hold of references to those two resources, but they are not supposed to
store them beyond OF_OVERLAY_POST_REMOVE.

Document the overlay notifier API, its constraint regarding pointer
lifetime, and then remove intentional leaks of ovcs-&gt;overlay_tree and
ovcs-&gt;fdt from free_overlay_changeset.

See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/23/1063 and following.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>earlycon: Use a pointer table to fix __earlycon_table stride</title>
<updated>2018-04-23T08:06:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kurtz</name>
<email>djkurtz@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-06T23:21:53+00:00</published>
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Commit 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride") tried to fix
__earlycon_table stride by forcing the earlycon_id struct alignment to 32
and asking the linker to 32-byte align the __earlycon_table symbol.  This
fix was based on commit 07fca0e57fca92 ("tracing: Properly align linker
defined symbols") which tried a similar fix for the tracing subsystem.

However, this fix doesn't quite work because there is no guarantee that
gcc will place structures packed into an array format.  In fact, gcc 4.9
chooses to 64-byte align these structs by inserting additional padding
between the entries because it has no clue that they are supposed to be in
an array.  If we are unlucky, the linker will assign symbol
"__earlycon_table" to a 32-byte aligned address which does not correspond
to the 64-byte aligned contents of section "__earlycon_table".

To address this same problem, the fix to the tracing system was
subsequently re-implemented using a more robust table of pointers approach
by commits:
 3d56e331b653 ("tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array")
 654986462939 ("tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array")
 e4a9ea5ee7c8 ("tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array")

Let's use this same "array of pointers to structs" approach for
EARLYCON_TABLE.

Fixes: 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Aaron Durbin &lt;adurbin@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride") tried to fix
__earlycon_table stride by forcing the earlycon_id struct alignment to 32
and asking the linker to 32-byte align the __earlycon_table symbol.  This
fix was based on commit 07fca0e57fca92 ("tracing: Properly align linker
defined symbols") which tried a similar fix for the tracing subsystem.

However, this fix doesn't quite work because there is no guarantee that
gcc will place structures packed into an array format.  In fact, gcc 4.9
chooses to 64-byte align these structs by inserting additional padding
between the entries because it has no clue that they are supposed to be in
an array.  If we are unlucky, the linker will assign symbol
"__earlycon_table" to a 32-byte aligned address which does not correspond
to the 64-byte aligned contents of section "__earlycon_table".

To address this same problem, the fix to the tracing system was
subsequently re-implemented using a more robust table of pointers approach
by commits:
 3d56e331b653 ("tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array")
 654986462939 ("tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array")
 e4a9ea5ee7c8 ("tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array")

Let's use this same "array of pointers to structs" approach for
EARLYCON_TABLE.

Fixes: 99492c39f39f ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Aaron Durbin &lt;adurbin@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-04-16T00:21:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T00:21:30+00:00</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - pass HOSTLDFLAGS when compiling single .c host programs

 - build genksyms lexer and parser files instead of using shipped
   versions

 - rename *-asn1.[ch] to *.asn1.[ch] for suffix consistency

 - let the top .gitignore globally ignore artifacts generated by flex,
   bison, and asn1_compiler

 - let the top Makefile globally clean artifacts generated by flex,
   bison, and asn1_compiler

 - use safer .SECONDARY marker instead of .PRECIOUS to prevent
   intermediate files from being removed

 - support -fmacro-prefix-map option to make __FILE__ a relative path

 - fix # escaping to prepare for the future GNU Make release

 - clean up deb-pkg by using debian tools instead of handrolled
   source/changes generation

 - improve rpm-pkg portability by supporting kernel-install as a
   fallback of new-kernel-pkg

 - extend Kconfig listnewconfig target to provide more information

* tag 'kbuild-v4.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: extend output of 'listnewconfig'
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: use kernel-install as a fallback for new-kernel-pkg
  Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make
  kbuild: deb-pkg: split generating packaging and build
  kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map to make __FILE__ a relative path
  kbuild: mark $(targets) as .SECONDARY and remove .PRECIOUS markers
  kbuild: rename *-asn1.[ch] to *.asn1.[ch]
  kbuild: clean up *-asn1.[ch] patterns from top-level Makefile
  .gitignore: move *-asn1.[ch] patterns to the top-level .gitignore
  kbuild: add %.dtb.S and %.dtb to 'targets' automatically
  kbuild: add %.lex.c and %.tab.[ch] to 'targets' automatically
  genksyms: generate lexer and parser during build instead of shipping
  kbuild: clean up *.lex.c and *.tab.[ch] patterns from top-level Makefile
  .gitignore: move *.lex.c *.tab.[ch] patterns to the top-level .gitignore
  kbuild: use HOSTLDFLAGS for single .c executables
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<pre>
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - pass HOSTLDFLAGS when compiling single .c host programs

 - build genksyms lexer and parser files instead of using shipped
   versions

 - rename *-asn1.[ch] to *.asn1.[ch] for suffix consistency

 - let the top .gitignore globally ignore artifacts generated by flex,
   bison, and asn1_compiler

 - let the top Makefile globally clean artifacts generated by flex,
   bison, and asn1_compiler

 - use safer .SECONDARY marker instead of .PRECIOUS to prevent
   intermediate files from being removed

 - support -fmacro-prefix-map option to make __FILE__ a relative path

 - fix # escaping to prepare for the future GNU Make release

 - clean up deb-pkg by using debian tools instead of handrolled
   source/changes generation

 - improve rpm-pkg portability by supporting kernel-install as a
   fallback of new-kernel-pkg

 - extend Kconfig listnewconfig target to provide more information

* tag 'kbuild-v4.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: extend output of 'listnewconfig'
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: use kernel-install as a fallback for new-kernel-pkg
  Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make
  kbuild: deb-pkg: split generating packaging and build
  kbuild: use -fmacro-prefix-map to make __FILE__ a relative path
  kbuild: mark $(targets) as .SECONDARY and remove .PRECIOUS markers
  kbuild: rename *-asn1.[ch] to *.asn1.[ch]
  kbuild: clean up *-asn1.[ch] patterns from top-level Makefile
  .gitignore: move *-asn1.[ch] patterns to the top-level .gitignore
  kbuild: add %.dtb.S and %.dtb to 'targets' automatically
  kbuild: add %.lex.c and %.tab.[ch] to 'targets' automatically
  genksyms: generate lexer and parser during build instead of shipping
  kbuild: clean up *.lex.c and *.tab.[ch] patterns from top-level Makefile
  .gitignore: move *.lex.c *.tab.[ch] patterns to the top-level .gitignore
  kbuild: use HOSTLDFLAGS for single .c executables
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: add seq_put_decimal_ull_width to speed up /proc/pid/smaps</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:31:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d1be35cb6f96975d792a1535d3fe9b75239065ee'/>
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<content type='text'>
seq_put_decimal_ull_w(m, str, val, width) prints a decimal number with a
specified minimal field width.

It is equivalent of seq_printf(m, "%s%*d", str, width, val), but it
works much faster.

== test_smaps.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/smaps") as f:
          for x in xrange(10000):
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
==

== Before patch ==
  $ time python test_smaps.py
  real    0m4.593s
  user    0m0.398s
  sys     0m4.158s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test_smaps.py
  real    0m3.828s
  user    0m0.413s
  sys     0m3.408s

$ perf -g record python test_smaps.py
== Before patch ==
-   79.01%     3.36%  python   [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] show_smap.isra.33
   - 75.65% show_smap.isra.33
      + 48.85% seq_printf
      + 15.75% __walk_page_range
      + 9.70% show_map_vma.isra.23
        0.61% seq_puts

== After patch ==
-   75.51%     4.62%  python   [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] show_smap.isra.33
   - 70.88% show_smap.isra.33
      + 24.82% seq_put_decimal_ull_w
      + 19.78% __walk_page_range
      + 12.74% seq_printf
      + 11.08% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 1.68% seq_puts

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/of/unittest.c build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212074931.7227-1-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
seq_put_decimal_ull_w(m, str, val, width) prints a decimal number with a
specified minimal field width.

It is equivalent of seq_printf(m, "%s%*d", str, width, val), but it
works much faster.

== test_smaps.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/smaps") as f:
          for x in xrange(10000):
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
==

== Before patch ==
  $ time python test_smaps.py
  real    0m4.593s
  user    0m0.398s
  sys     0m4.158s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test_smaps.py
  real    0m3.828s
  user    0m0.413s
  sys     0m3.408s

$ perf -g record python test_smaps.py
== Before patch ==
-   79.01%     3.36%  python   [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] show_smap.isra.33
   - 75.65% show_smap.isra.33
      + 48.85% seq_printf
      + 15.75% __walk_page_range
      + 9.70% show_map_vma.isra.23
        0.61% seq_puts

== After patch ==
-   75.51%     4.62%  python   [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] show_smap.isra.33
   - 70.88% show_smap.isra.33
      + 24.82% seq_put_decimal_ull_w
      + 19.78% __walk_page_range
      + 12.74% seq_printf
      + 11.08% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 1.68% seq_puts

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/of/unittest.c build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212074931.7227-1-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: mark $(targets) as .SECONDARY and remove .PRECIOUS markers</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T10:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T13:04:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=54a702f70589926acf687f0cd5df24d07230c80e'/>
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GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files that are updated
in a chain of pattern rules.

Example 1) %.dtb.o &lt;- %.dtb.S &lt;- %.dtb &lt;- %.dts
Example 2) %.o &lt;- %.c &lt;- %.c_shipped

A couple of makefiles mark such targets as .PRECIOUS to prevent Make
from deleting them, but the correct way is to use .SECONDARY.

  .SECONDARY
    Prerequisites of this special target are treated as intermediate
    files but are never automatically deleted.

  .PRECIOUS
    When make is interrupted during execution, it may delete the target
    file it is updating if the file was modified since make started.
    If you mark the file as precious, make will never delete the file
    if interrupted.

Both can avoid deletion of intermediate files, but the difference is
the behavior when Make is interrupted; .SECONDARY deletes the target,
but .PRECIOUS does not.

The use of .PRECIOUS is relatively rare since we do not want to keep
partially constructed (possibly corrupted) targets.

Another difference is that .PRECIOUS works with pattern rules whereas
.SECONDARY does not.

  .PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.lex.c

works, but

  .SECONDARY: $(obj)/%.lex.c

has no effect.  However, for the reason above, I do not want to use
.PRECIOUS which could cause obscure build breakage.

The targets specified as .SECONDARY must be explicit.  $(targets)
contains all targets that need to include .*.cmd files.  So, the
intermediates you want to keep are mostly in there.  Therefore, mark
$(targets) as .SECONDARY.  It means primary targets are also marked
as .SECONDARY, but I do not see any drawback for this.

I replaced some .SECONDARY / .PRECIOUS markers with 'targets'.  This
will make Kbuild search for non-existing .*.cmd files, but this is
not a noticeable performance issue.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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GNU Make automatically deletes intermediate files that are updated
in a chain of pattern rules.

Example 1) %.dtb.o &lt;- %.dtb.S &lt;- %.dtb &lt;- %.dts
Example 2) %.o &lt;- %.c &lt;- %.c_shipped

A couple of makefiles mark such targets as .PRECIOUS to prevent Make
from deleting them, but the correct way is to use .SECONDARY.

  .SECONDARY
    Prerequisites of this special target are treated as intermediate
    files but are never automatically deleted.

  .PRECIOUS
    When make is interrupted during execution, it may delete the target
    file it is updating if the file was modified since make started.
    If you mark the file as precious, make will never delete the file
    if interrupted.

Both can avoid deletion of intermediate files, but the difference is
the behavior when Make is interrupted; .SECONDARY deletes the target,
but .PRECIOUS does not.

The use of .PRECIOUS is relatively rare since we do not want to keep
partially constructed (possibly corrupted) targets.

Another difference is that .PRECIOUS works with pattern rules whereas
.SECONDARY does not.

  .PRECIOUS: $(obj)/%.lex.c

works, but

  .SECONDARY: $(obj)/%.lex.c

has no effect.  However, for the reason above, I do not want to use
.PRECIOUS which could cause obscure build breakage.

The targets specified as .SECONDARY must be explicit.  $(targets)
contains all targets that need to include .*.cmd files.  So, the
intermediates you want to keep are mostly in there.  Therefore, mark
$(targets) as .SECONDARY.  It means primary targets are also marked
as .SECONDARY, but I do not see any drawback for this.

I replaced some .SECONDARY / .PRECIOUS markers with 'targets'.  This
will make Kbuild search for non-existing .*.cmd files, but this is
not a noticeable performance issue.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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