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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard page</title>
<updated>2015-01-06T21:00:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-06T21:00:05+00:00</published>
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Jay Foad reports that the address sanitizer test (asan) sometimes gets
confused by a stack pointer that ends up being outside the stack vma
that is reported by /proc/maps.

This happens due to an interaction between RLIMIT_STACK and the guard
page: when we do the guard page check, we ignore the potential error
from the stack expansion, which effectively results in a missing guard
page, since the expected stack expansion won't have been done.

And since /proc/maps explicitly ignores the guard page (commit
d7824370e263: "mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard
page"), the stack pointer ends up being outside the reported stack area.

This is the minimal patch: it just propagates the error.  It also
effectively makes the guard page part of the stack limit, which in turn
measn that the actual real stack is one page less than the stack limit.

Let's see if anybody notices.  We could teach acct_stack_growth() to
allow an extra page for a grow-up/grow-down stack in the rlimit test,
but I don't want to add more complexity if it isn't needed.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jay Foad &lt;jay.foad@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Jay Foad reports that the address sanitizer test (asan) sometimes gets
confused by a stack pointer that ends up being outside the stack vma
that is reported by /proc/maps.

This happens due to an interaction between RLIMIT_STACK and the guard
page: when we do the guard page check, we ignore the potential error
from the stack expansion, which effectively results in a missing guard
page, since the expected stack expansion won't have been done.

And since /proc/maps explicitly ignores the guard page (commit
d7824370e263: "mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard
page"), the stack pointer ends up being outside the reported stack area.

This is the minimal patch: it just propagates the error.  It also
effectively makes the guard page part of the stack limit, which in turn
measn that the actual real stack is one page less than the stack limit.

Let's see if anybody notices.  We could teach acct_stack_growth() to
allow an extra page for a grow-up/grow-down stack in the rlimit test,
but I don't want to add more complexity if it isn't needed.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jay Foad &lt;jay.foad@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vm_area_operations: kill -&gt;migrate()</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T13:26:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-15T09:06:42+00:00</published>
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the only instance this method has ever grown was one in kernfs -
one that call -&gt;migrate() of another vm_ops if it exists.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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the only instance this method has ever grown was one in kernfs -
one that call -&gt;migrate() of another vm_ops if it exists.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: invoke slab shrinkers from shrink_zone()</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:56:13+00:00</published>
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The slab shrinkers are currently invoked from the zonelist walkers in
kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim, all of which roughly gauge the
eligible LRU pages and assemble a nodemask to pass to NUMA-aware
shrinkers, which then again have to walk over the nodemask.  This is
redundant code, extra runtime work, and fairly inaccurate when it comes to
the estimation of actually scannable LRU pages.  The code duplication will
only get worse when making the shrinkers cgroup-aware and requiring them
to have out-of-band cgroup hierarchy walks as well.

Instead, invoke the shrinkers from shrink_zone(), which is where all
reclaimers end up, to avoid this duplication.

Take the count for eligible LRU pages out of get_scan_count(), which
considers many more factors than just the availability of swap space, like
zone_reclaimable_pages() currently does.  Accumulate the number over all
visited lruvecs to get the per-zone value.

Some nodes have multiple zones due to memory addressing restrictions.  To
avoid putting too much pressure on the shrinkers, only invoke them once
for each such node, using the class zone of the allocation as the pivot
zone.

For now, this integrates the slab shrinking better into the reclaim logic
and gets rid of duplicative invocations from kswapd, direct reclaim, and
zone reclaim.  It also prepares for cgroup-awareness, allowing
memcg-capable shrinkers to be added at the lruvec level without much
duplication of both code and runtime work.

This changes kswapd behavior, which used to invoke the shrinkers for each
zone, but with scan ratios gathered from the entire node, resulting in
meaningless pressure quantities on multi-zone nodes.

Zone reclaim behavior also changes.  It used to shrink slabs until the
same amount of pages were shrunk as were reclaimed from the LRUs.  Now it
merely invokes the shrinkers once with the zone's scan ratio, which makes
the shrinkers go easier on caches that implement aging and would prefer
feeding back pressure from recently used slab objects to unused LRU pages.

[vdavydov@parallels.com: assure class zone is populated]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.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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The slab shrinkers are currently invoked from the zonelist walkers in
kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim, all of which roughly gauge the
eligible LRU pages and assemble a nodemask to pass to NUMA-aware
shrinkers, which then again have to walk over the nodemask.  This is
redundant code, extra runtime work, and fairly inaccurate when it comes to
the estimation of actually scannable LRU pages.  The code duplication will
only get worse when making the shrinkers cgroup-aware and requiring them
to have out-of-band cgroup hierarchy walks as well.

Instead, invoke the shrinkers from shrink_zone(), which is where all
reclaimers end up, to avoid this duplication.

Take the count for eligible LRU pages out of get_scan_count(), which
considers many more factors than just the availability of swap space, like
zone_reclaimable_pages() currently does.  Accumulate the number over all
visited lruvecs to get the per-zone value.

Some nodes have multiple zones due to memory addressing restrictions.  To
avoid putting too much pressure on the shrinkers, only invoke them once
for each such node, using the class zone of the allocation as the pivot
zone.

For now, this integrates the slab shrinking better into the reclaim logic
and gets rid of duplicative invocations from kswapd, direct reclaim, and
zone reclaim.  It also prepares for cgroup-awareness, allowing
memcg-capable shrinkers to be added at the lruvec level without much
duplication of both code and runtime work.

This changes kswapd behavior, which used to invoke the shrinkers for each
zone, but with scan ratios gathered from the entire node, resulting in
meaningless pressure quantities on multi-zone nodes.

Zone reclaim behavior also changes.  It used to shrink slabs until the
same amount of pages were shrunk as were reclaimed from the LRUs.  Now it
merely invokes the shrinkers once with the zone's scan ratio, which makes
the shrinkers go easier on caches that implement aging and would prefer
feeding back pressure from recently used slab objects to unused LRU pages.

[vdavydov@parallels.com: assure class zone is populated]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.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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<entry>
<title>mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:55:52+00:00</published>
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Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime.  So
introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and
makes related functions to be disabled in this case.

Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions.  Because guard
page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off
according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: Jungsoo Son &lt;jungsoo.son@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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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Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime.  So
introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and
makes related functions to be disabled in this case.

Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions.  Because guard
page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off
according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: Jungsoo Son &lt;jungsoo.son@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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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<entry>
<title>mm/debug-pagealloc: prepare boottime configurable on/off</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:55:49+00:00</published>
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Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
recompile whole source code when we decide to use it.  This is really
painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
not possible due to third party module depending on struct page.  So, we
can't use this good feature in many cases.

Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
flags to outside of struct page.  This gets rid of third party module
issue mentioned above.  And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
memory for this page extension in boottime.  With these property, we can
avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  This will help our
development process greatly.

This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal.  debug-pagealloc
originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
use field of struct page_ext.  Because memory for page_ext is allocated
later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
page_ext.  This patch implements this.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: Jungsoo Son &lt;jungsoo.son@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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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Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
recompile whole source code when we decide to use it.  This is really
painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
not possible due to third party module depending on struct page.  So, we
can't use this good feature in many cases.

Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
flags to outside of struct page.  This gets rid of third party module
issue mentioned above.  And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
memory for this page extension in boottime.  With these property, we can
avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  This will help our
development process greatly.

This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal.  debug-pagealloc
originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
use field of struct page_ext.  Because memory for page_ext is allocated
later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
page_ext.  This patch implements this.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: Jungsoo Son &lt;jungsoo.son@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T01:30:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-12T01:30:55+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The most notable change for this pull request is the ftrace rework
  from Heiko.  It brings a small performance improvement and the ground
  work to support a new gcc option to replace the mcount blocks with a
  single nop.

  Two new s390 specific system calls are added to emulate user space
  mmio for PCI, an artifact of the how PCI memory is accessed.

  Two patches for the memory management with changes to common code.
  For KVM mm_forbids_zeropage is added which disables the empty zero
  page for an mm that is used by a KVM process.  And an optimization,
  pmdp_get_and_clear_full is added analog to ptep_get_and_clear_full.

  Some micro optimization for the cmpxchg and the spinlock code.

  And as usual bug fixes and cleanups"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (46 commits)
  s390/cputime: fix 31-bit compile
  s390/scm_block: make the number of reqs per HW req configurable
  s390/scm_block: handle multiple requests in one HW request
  s390/scm_block: allocate aidaw pages only when necessary
  s390/scm_block: use mempool to manage aidaw requests
  s390/eadm: change timeout value
  s390/mm: fix memory leak of ptlock in pmd_free_tlb
  s390: use local symbol names in entry[64].S
  s390/ptrace: always include vector registers in core files
  s390/simd: clear vector register pointer on fork/clone
  s390: translate cputime magic constants to macros
  s390/idle: convert open coded idle time seqcount
  s390/idle: add missing irq off lockdep annotation
  s390/debug: avoid function call for debug_sprintf_*
  s390/kprobes: fix instruction copy for out of line execution
  s390: remove diag 44 calls from cpu_relax()
  s390/dasd: retry partition detection
  s390/dasd: fix list corruption for sleep_on requests
  s390/dasd: fix infinite term I/O loop
  s390/dasd: remove unused code
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The most notable change for this pull request is the ftrace rework
  from Heiko.  It brings a small performance improvement and the ground
  work to support a new gcc option to replace the mcount blocks with a
  single nop.

  Two new s390 specific system calls are added to emulate user space
  mmio for PCI, an artifact of the how PCI memory is accessed.

  Two patches for the memory management with changes to common code.
  For KVM mm_forbids_zeropage is added which disables the empty zero
  page for an mm that is used by a KVM process.  And an optimization,
  pmdp_get_and_clear_full is added analog to ptep_get_and_clear_full.

  Some micro optimization for the cmpxchg and the spinlock code.

  And as usual bug fixes and cleanups"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (46 commits)
  s390/cputime: fix 31-bit compile
  s390/scm_block: make the number of reqs per HW req configurable
  s390/scm_block: handle multiple requests in one HW request
  s390/scm_block: allocate aidaw pages only when necessary
  s390/scm_block: use mempool to manage aidaw requests
  s390/eadm: change timeout value
  s390/mm: fix memory leak of ptlock in pmd_free_tlb
  s390: use local symbol names in entry[64].S
  s390/ptrace: always include vector registers in core files
  s390/simd: clear vector register pointer on fork/clone
  s390: translate cputime magic constants to macros
  s390/idle: convert open coded idle time seqcount
  s390/idle: add missing irq off lockdep annotation
  s390/debug: avoid function call for debug_sprintf_*
  s390/kprobes: fix instruction copy for out of line execution
  s390: remove diag 44 calls from cpu_relax()
  s390/dasd: retry partition detection
  s390/dasd: fix list corruption for sleep_on requests
  s390/dasd: fix infinite term I/O loop
  s390/dasd: remove unused code
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, mpx: Introduce VM_MPX to indicate that a VMA is MPX specific</title>
<updated>2014-11-17T23:58:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiaowei Ren</name>
<email>qiaowei.ren@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-14T15:18:25+00:00</published>
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MPX-enabled applications using large swaths of memory can
potentially have large numbers of bounds tables in process
address space to save bounds information. These tables can take
up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the
system) even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case
scenario, the tables can be 4x the size of the data structure
being tracked. IOW, a 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table
pages.

Being this huge, our expectation is that folks using MPX are
going to be keen on figuring out how much memory is being
dedicated to it. So we need a way to track memory use for MPX.

If we want to specifically track MPX VMAs we need to be able to
distinguish them from normal VMAs, and keep them from getting
merged with normal VMAs. A new VM_ flag set only on MPX VMAs does
both of those things. With this flag, MPX bounds-table VMAs can
be distinguished from other VMAs, and userspace can also walk
/proc/$pid/smaps to get memory usage for MPX.

In addition to this flag, we also introduce a special -&gt;vm_ops
specific to MPX VMAs (see the patch "add MPX specific mmap
interface"), but currently different -&gt;vm_ops do not by
themselves prevent VMA merging, so we still need this flag.

We understand that VM_ flags are scarce and are open to other
options.

Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151825.565625B3@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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MPX-enabled applications using large swaths of memory can
potentially have large numbers of bounds tables in process
address space to save bounds information. These tables can take
up huge swaths of memory (as much as 80% of the memory on the
system) even if we clean them up aggressively. In the worst-case
scenario, the tables can be 4x the size of the data structure
being tracked. IOW, a 1-page structure can require 4 bounds-table
pages.

Being this huge, our expectation is that folks using MPX are
going to be keen on figuring out how much memory is being
dedicated to it. So we need a way to track memory use for MPX.

If we want to specifically track MPX VMAs we need to be able to
distinguish them from normal VMAs, and keep them from getting
merged with normal VMAs. A new VM_ flag set only on MPX VMAs does
both of those things. With this flag, MPX bounds-table VMAs can
be distinguished from other VMAs, and userspace can also walk
/proc/$pid/smaps to get memory usage for MPX.

In addition to this flag, we also introduce a special -&gt;vm_ops
specific to MPX VMAs (see the patch "add MPX specific mmap
interface"), but currently different -&gt;vm_ops do not by
themselves prevent VMA merging, so we still need this flag.

We understand that VM_ flags are scarce and are open to other
options.

Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151825.565625B3@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: page-writeback: inline account_page_dirtied() into single caller</title>
<updated>2014-10-29T23:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-29T21:50:46+00:00</published>
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A follow-up patch would have changed the call signature.  To save the
trouble, just fold it instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.17.x]
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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A follow-up patch would have changed the call signature.  To save the
trouble, just fold it instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.17.x]
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>mm: introduce mm_forbids_zeropage function</title>
<updated>2014-10-27T12:27:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Dingel</name>
<email>dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-23T10:07:44+00:00</published>
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Add a new function stub to allow architectures to disable for
an mm_structthe backing of non-present, anonymous pages with
read-only empty zero pages.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Add a new function stub to allow architectures to disable for
an mm_structthe backing of non-present, anonymous pages with
read-only empty zero pages.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</content>
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