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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/seq_file.c, branch v4.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>proc: fix smaps and meminfo alignment</title>
<updated>2018-05-26T01:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-25T21:47:50+00:00</published>
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<id>6c04ab0eddc9a38e6c14ae4b6217db1e34436b8c</id>
<content type='text'>
The 4.17-rc /proc/meminfo and /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps look ugly: single-digit
numbers (commonly 0) are misaligned.

Remove seq_put_decimal_ull_width()'s leftover optimization for single
digits: it's wrong now that num_to_str() takes care of the width.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805241554210.1326@eggly.anvils
Fixes: d1be35cb6f96 ("proc: add seq_put_decimal_ull_width to speed up /proc/pid/smaps")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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>
The 4.17-rc /proc/meminfo and /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps look ugly: single-digit
numbers (commonly 0) are misaligned.

Remove seq_put_decimal_ull_width()'s leftover optimization for single
digits: it's wrong now that num_to_str() takes care of the width.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805241554210.1326@eggly.anvils
Fixes: d1be35cb6f96 ("proc: add seq_put_decimal_ull_width to speed up /proc/pid/smaps")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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>seq_file: account everything to kmemcg</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:34:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d64d01a155f84850f7dc9795f464e3df9a5ddb10'/>
<id>d64d01a155f84850f7dc9795f464e3df9a5ddb10</id>
<content type='text'>
All it takes to open a file and read 1 byte from it.

seq_file will be allocated along with any private allocations, and more
importantly seq file buffer which is 1 page by default.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180310085252.GB17121@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>
All it takes to open a file and read 1 byte from it.

seq_file will be allocated along with any private allocations, and more
importantly seq file buffer which is 1 page by default.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180310085252.GB17121@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>seq_file: allocate seq_file from kmem_cache</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:34:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0965232035cfa59a64d197cf8a8ee0bc407bb3e4'/>
<id>0965232035cfa59a64d197cf8a8ee0bc407bb3e4</id>
<content type='text'>
For fine-grained debugging and usercopy protection.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180310085027.GA17121@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>
For fine-grained debugging and usercopy protection.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180310085027.GA17121@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>proc: optimize single-symbol delimiters to spead up seq_put_decimal_ull</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:31:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=48dffbf82d2f17bc6dd3c2b7fd733738ea567914'/>
<id>48dffbf82d2f17bc6dd3c2b7fd733738ea567914</id>
<content type='text'>
A delimiter is a string which is printed before a number.  A
syngle-symbol delimiters can be printed by set_putc() and this works
faster than printing by set_puts().

== test_proc.c

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int n, i, fd;
	char buf[16384];

	n = atoi(argv[1]);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++) {
		fd = open(argv[2], O_RDONLY);
		if (fd &lt; 0)
			return 1;
		if (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) &lt;= 0)
			return 1;
		close(fd);
	}

	return 0;
}
==

$ time ./test_proc  1000000 /proc/1/stat

== Before patch ==
  real	0m3.820s
  user	0m0.337s
  sys	0m3.394s

== After patch ==
  real	0m3.110s
  user	0m0.324s
  sys	0m2.700s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212074931.7227-3-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;
</content>
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<pre>
A delimiter is a string which is printed before a number.  A
syngle-symbol delimiters can be printed by set_putc() and this works
faster than printing by set_puts().

== test_proc.c

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int n, i, fd;
	char buf[16384];

	n = atoi(argv[1]);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++) {
		fd = open(argv[2], O_RDONLY);
		if (fd &lt; 0)
			return 1;
		if (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) &lt;= 0)
			return 1;
		close(fd);
	}

	return 0;
}
==

$ time ./test_proc  1000000 /proc/1/stat

== Before patch ==
  real	0m3.820s
  user	0m0.337s
  sys	0m3.394s

== After patch ==
  real	0m3.110s
  user	0m0.324s
  sys	0m2.700s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212074931.7227-3-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>
</div>
</content>
</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'/>
<id>d1be35cb6f96975d792a1535d3fe9b75239065ee</id>
<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;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>procfs: optimize seq_pad() to speed up /proc/pid/maps</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:30:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8cfa67b4d9a9d9a6061f3cfd0e0ed16e66e45984'/>
<id>8cfa67b4d9a9d9a6061f3cfd0e0ed16e66e45984</id>
<content type='text'>
seq_printf() is slow and it can be replaced by memset() in this case.

== test.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/maps") as f:
          while num &lt; 10000 :
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
                  num = num + 1
==

== Before patch ==
  $  time python test.py
  real	0m0.986s
  user	0m0.279s
  sys	0m0.707s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test.py
  real	0m0.932s
  user	0m0.261s
  sys	0m0.669s

$ perf record -g python test.py
== Before patch ==
-   47.35%     3.38%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.23
   - 43.97% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 20.84% seq_path
      - 15.73% show_vma_header_prefix
      + 6.96% seq_pad
   + 2.94% __GI___libc_read

== After patch ==
-   44.01%     0.34%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_pid_map
   - 43.67% show_pid_map
      - 42.91% show_map_vma.isra.23
         + 21.55% seq_path
         - 15.68% show_vma_header_prefix
         + 2.08% seq_pad
        0.55% seq_putc

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112185812.7710-2-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;
</content>
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<pre>
seq_printf() is slow and it can be replaced by memset() in this case.

== test.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/maps") as f:
          while num &lt; 10000 :
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
                  num = num + 1
==

== Before patch ==
  $  time python test.py
  real	0m0.986s
  user	0m0.279s
  sys	0m0.707s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test.py
  real	0m0.932s
  user	0m0.261s
  sys	0m0.669s

$ perf record -g python test.py
== Before patch ==
-   47.35%     3.38%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.23
   - 43.97% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 20.84% seq_path
      - 15.73% show_vma_header_prefix
      + 6.96% seq_pad
   + 2.94% __GI___libc_read

== After patch ==
-   44.01%     0.34%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_pid_map
   - 43.67% show_pid_map
      - 42.91% show_map_vma.isra.23
         + 21.55% seq_path
         - 15.68% show_vma_header_prefix
         + 2.08% seq_pad
        0.55% seq_putc

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112185812.7710-2-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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>procfs: add seq_put_hex_ll to speed up /proc/pid/maps</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:30:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0e3dc019143104a6e676287b1e453cccd7add404'/>
<id>0e3dc019143104a6e676287b1e453cccd7add404</id>
<content type='text'>
seq_put_hex_ll() prints a number in hexadecimal notation and works
faster than seq_printf().

== test.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/maps") as f:
          while num &lt; 10000 :
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
                 num = num + 1
==

== Before patch ==
  $  time python test.py

  real	0m1.561s
  user	0m0.257s
  sys	0m1.302s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test.py

  real	0m0.986s
  user	0m0.279s
  sys	0m0.707s

$ perf -g record python test.py:

== Before patch ==
-   67.42%     2.82%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.22
   - 64.60% show_map_vma.isra.22
      - 44.98% seq_printf
         - seq_vprintf
            - vsnprintf
               + 14.85% number
               + 12.22% format_decode
                 5.56% memcpy_erms
      + 15.06% seq_path
      + 4.42% seq_pad
   + 2.45% __GI___libc_read

== After patch ==
-   47.35%     3.38%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.23
   - 43.97% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 20.84% seq_path
      - 15.73% show_vma_header_prefix
           10.55% seq_put_hex_ll
         + 2.65% seq_put_decimal_ull
           0.95% seq_putc
      + 6.96% seq_pad
   + 2.94% __GI___libc_read

[avagin@openvz.org: use unsigned int instead of int where it is suitable]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214025619.4005-1-avagin@openvz.org
[avagin@openvz.org: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117082050.25406-1-avagin@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112185812.7710-1-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;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
seq_put_hex_ll() prints a number in hexadecimal notation and works
faster than seq_printf().

== test.py
  num = 0
  with open("/proc/1/maps") as f:
          while num &lt; 10000 :
                  data = f.read()
                  f.seek(0, 0)
                 num = num + 1
==

== Before patch ==
  $  time python test.py

  real	0m1.561s
  user	0m0.257s
  sys	0m1.302s

== After patch ==
  $ time python test.py

  real	0m0.986s
  user	0m0.279s
  sys	0m0.707s

$ perf -g record python test.py:

== Before patch ==
-   67.42%     2.82%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.22
   - 64.60% show_map_vma.isra.22
      - 44.98% seq_printf
         - seq_vprintf
            - vsnprintf
               + 14.85% number
               + 12.22% format_decode
                 5.56% memcpy_erms
      + 15.06% seq_path
      + 4.42% seq_pad
   + 2.45% __GI___libc_read

== After patch ==
-   47.35%     3.38%  python   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] show_map_vma.isra.23
   - 43.97% show_map_vma.isra.23
      + 20.84% seq_path
      - 15.73% show_vma_header_prefix
           10.55% seq_put_hex_ll
         + 2.65% seq_put_decimal_ull
           0.95% seq_putc
      + 6.96% seq_pad
   + 2.94% __GI___libc_read

[avagin@openvz.org: use unsigned int instead of int where it is suitable]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214025619.4005-1-avagin@openvz.org
[avagin@openvz.org: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117082050.25406-1-avagin@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112185812.7710-1-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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seq_file: fix incomplete reset on read from zero offset</title>
<updated>2018-01-20T07:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-15T10:34:58+00:00</published>
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When resetting iterator on a zero offset we need to discard any data
already in the buffer (count), and private state of the iterator (version).

For example this bug results in first line being repeated in /proc/mounts
if doing a zero size read before a non-zero size read.

Reported-by: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: e522751d605d ("seq_file: reset iterator to first record for zero offset")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When resetting iterator on a zero offset we need to discard any data
already in the buffer (count), and private state of the iterator (version).

For example this bug results in first line being repeated in /proc/mounts
if doing a zero size read before a non-zero size read.

Reported-by: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: e522751d605d ("seq_file: reset iterator to first record for zero offset")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.10
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd'/>
<id>b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd</id>
<content type='text'>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a7c3e901a46ff54c016d040847eda598a9e3e653'/>
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<content type='text'>
Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.

There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree.  Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
fallback is available.

As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.

Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
instead.  This is patch 6.  There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com

This patch (of 9):

Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code.  Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers.  Some of them are
really creative when doing so.  Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly.  This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for &gt; PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures.  This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.

This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them.  In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL).  Those need to be
fixed separately.

While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers.  Existing ones would have to die
slowly.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;	[ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.

There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree.  Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
fallback is available.

As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.

Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
instead.  This is patch 6.  There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com

This patch (of 9):

Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code.  Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers.  Some of them are
really creative when doing so.  Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly.  This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for &gt; PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures.  This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.

This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them.  In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL).  Those need to be
fixed separately.

While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers.  Existing ones would have to die
slowly.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;	[ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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>
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