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<title>percpu: do not search past bitmap when allocating an area</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T09:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou</name>
<email>dennis@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T23:54:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8c43004af01635cc9fbb11031d070e5e0d327ef2 ]

pcpu_find_block_fit() guarantees that a fit is found within
PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_BITS. Iteration is used to determine the first fit as
it compares against the block's contig_hint. This can lead to
incorrectly scanning past the end of the bitmap. The behavior was okay
given the check after for bit_off &gt;= end and the correctness of the
hints from pcpu_find_block_fit().

This patch fixes this by bounding the end offset by the number of bits
in a chunk.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8c43004af01635cc9fbb11031d070e5e0d327ef2 ]

pcpu_find_block_fit() guarantees that a fit is found within
PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_BITS. Iteration is used to determine the first fit as
it compares against the block's contig_hint. This can lead to
incorrectly scanning past the end of the bitmap. The behavior was okay
given the check after for bit_off &gt;= end and the correctness of the
hints from pcpu_find_block_fit().

This patch fixes this by bounding the end offset by the number of bits
in a chunk.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: remove spurious lock dependency between percpu and sched</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T09:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Sperbeck</name>
<email>jsperbeck@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T01:43:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 198790d9a3aeaef5792d33a560020861126edc22 ]

In free_percpu() we sometimes call pcpu_schedule_balance_work() to
queue a work item (which does a wakeup) while holding pcpu_lock.
This creates an unnecessary lock dependency between pcpu_lock and
the scheduler's pi_lock.  There are other places where we call
pcpu_schedule_balance_work() without hold pcpu_lock, and this case
doesn't need to be different.

Moving the call outside the lock prevents the following lockdep splat
when running tools/testing/selftests/bpf/{test_maps,test_progs} in
sequence with lockdep enabled:

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
5.1.0-dbg-DEV #1 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kworker/23:255/18872 is trying to acquire lock:
000000000bc79290 (&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){-.-.}, at: __queue_work+0xb2/0x520

but task is already holding lock:
00000000e3e7a6aa (pcpu_lock){..-.}, at: free_percpu+0x36/0x260

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-&gt; #4 (pcpu_lock){..-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       pcpu_alloc+0xfa/0x780
       __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
       alloc_htab_elem+0x184/0x2b0
       __htab_percpu_map_update_elem+0x252/0x290
       bpf_percpu_hash_update+0x7c/0x130
       __do_sys_bpf+0x1912/0x1be0
       __x64_sys_bpf+0x1a/0x20
       do_syscall_64+0x59/0x400
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

-&gt; #3 (&amp;htab-&gt;buckets[i].lock){....}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       htab_map_update_elem+0x1af/0x3a0

-&gt; #2 (&amp;rq-&gt;lock){-.-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       task_fork_fair+0x37/0x160
       sched_fork+0x211/0x310
       copy_process.part.43+0x7b1/0x2160
       _do_fork+0xda/0x6b0
       kernel_thread+0x29/0x30
       rest_init+0x22/0x260
       arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10
       start_kernel+0x4fd/0x520
       x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
       x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
       secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

-&gt; #1 (&amp;p-&gt;pi_lock){-.-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       try_to_wake_up+0x41/0x600
       wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
       create_worker+0x16b/0x1e0
       workqueue_init+0x279/0x2ee
       kernel_init_freeable+0xf7/0x288
       kernel_init+0xf/0x180
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

-&gt; #0 (&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){-.-.}:
       __lock_acquire+0x101f/0x12a0
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       __queue_work+0xb2/0x520
       queue_work_on+0x38/0x80
       free_percpu+0x221/0x260
       pcpu_freelist_destroy+0x11/0x20
       stack_map_free+0x2a/0x40
       bpf_map_free_deferred+0x3c/0x50
       process_one_work+0x1f7/0x580
       worker_thread+0x54/0x410
       kthread+0x10f/0x150
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:

Chain exists of:
  &amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock --&gt; &amp;htab-&gt;buckets[i].lock --&gt; pcpu_lock

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(pcpu_lock);
                               lock(&amp;htab-&gt;buckets[i].lock);
                               lock(pcpu_lock);
  lock(&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by kworker/23:255/18872:
 #0: 00000000b36a6e16 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.},
     at: process_one_work+0x17a/0x580
 #1: 00000000dfd966f0 ((work_completion)(&amp;map-&gt;work)){+.+.},
     at: process_one_work+0x17a/0x580
 #2: 00000000e3e7a6aa (pcpu_lock){..-.},
     at: free_percpu+0x36/0x260

stack backtrace:
CPU: 23 PID: 18872 Comm: kworker/23:255 Not tainted 5.1.0-dbg-DEV #1
Hardware name: ...
Workqueue: events bpf_map_free_deferred
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x67/0x95
 print_circular_bug.isra.38+0x1c6/0x220
 check_prev_add.constprop.50+0x9f6/0xd20
 __lock_acquire+0x101f/0x12a0
 lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
 __queue_work+0xb2/0x520
 queue_work_on+0x38/0x80
 free_percpu+0x221/0x260
 pcpu_freelist_destroy+0x11/0x20
 stack_map_free+0x2a/0x40
 bpf_map_free_deferred+0x3c/0x50
 process_one_work+0x1f7/0x580
 worker_thread+0x54/0x410
 kthread+0x10f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck &lt;jsperbeck@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 198790d9a3aeaef5792d33a560020861126edc22 ]

In free_percpu() we sometimes call pcpu_schedule_balance_work() to
queue a work item (which does a wakeup) while holding pcpu_lock.
This creates an unnecessary lock dependency between pcpu_lock and
the scheduler's pi_lock.  There are other places where we call
pcpu_schedule_balance_work() without hold pcpu_lock, and this case
doesn't need to be different.

Moving the call outside the lock prevents the following lockdep splat
when running tools/testing/selftests/bpf/{test_maps,test_progs} in
sequence with lockdep enabled:

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
5.1.0-dbg-DEV #1 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kworker/23:255/18872 is trying to acquire lock:
000000000bc79290 (&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){-.-.}, at: __queue_work+0xb2/0x520

but task is already holding lock:
00000000e3e7a6aa (pcpu_lock){..-.}, at: free_percpu+0x36/0x260

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-&gt; #4 (pcpu_lock){..-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       pcpu_alloc+0xfa/0x780
       __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
       alloc_htab_elem+0x184/0x2b0
       __htab_percpu_map_update_elem+0x252/0x290
       bpf_percpu_hash_update+0x7c/0x130
       __do_sys_bpf+0x1912/0x1be0
       __x64_sys_bpf+0x1a/0x20
       do_syscall_64+0x59/0x400
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

-&gt; #3 (&amp;htab-&gt;buckets[i].lock){....}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       htab_map_update_elem+0x1af/0x3a0

-&gt; #2 (&amp;rq-&gt;lock){-.-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       task_fork_fair+0x37/0x160
       sched_fork+0x211/0x310
       copy_process.part.43+0x7b1/0x2160
       _do_fork+0xda/0x6b0
       kernel_thread+0x29/0x30
       rest_init+0x22/0x260
       arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10
       start_kernel+0x4fd/0x520
       x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
       x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
       secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

-&gt; #1 (&amp;p-&gt;pi_lock){-.-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       try_to_wake_up+0x41/0x600
       wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
       create_worker+0x16b/0x1e0
       workqueue_init+0x279/0x2ee
       kernel_init_freeable+0xf7/0x288
       kernel_init+0xf/0x180
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

-&gt; #0 (&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){-.-.}:
       __lock_acquire+0x101f/0x12a0
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       __queue_work+0xb2/0x520
       queue_work_on+0x38/0x80
       free_percpu+0x221/0x260
       pcpu_freelist_destroy+0x11/0x20
       stack_map_free+0x2a/0x40
       bpf_map_free_deferred+0x3c/0x50
       process_one_work+0x1f7/0x580
       worker_thread+0x54/0x410
       kthread+0x10f/0x150
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:

Chain exists of:
  &amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock --&gt; &amp;htab-&gt;buckets[i].lock --&gt; pcpu_lock

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(pcpu_lock);
                               lock(&amp;htab-&gt;buckets[i].lock);
                               lock(pcpu_lock);
  lock(&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by kworker/23:255/18872:
 #0: 00000000b36a6e16 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.},
     at: process_one_work+0x17a/0x580
 #1: 00000000dfd966f0 ((work_completion)(&amp;map-&gt;work)){+.+.},
     at: process_one_work+0x17a/0x580
 #2: 00000000e3e7a6aa (pcpu_lock){..-.},
     at: free_percpu+0x36/0x260

stack backtrace:
CPU: 23 PID: 18872 Comm: kworker/23:255 Not tainted 5.1.0-dbg-DEV #1
Hardware name: ...
Workqueue: events bpf_map_free_deferred
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x67/0x95
 print_circular_bug.isra.38+0x1c6/0x220
 check_prev_add.constprop.50+0x9f6/0xd20
 __lock_acquire+0x101f/0x12a0
 lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
 __queue_work+0xb2/0x520
 queue_work_on+0x38/0x80
 free_percpu+0x221/0x260
 pcpu_freelist_destroy+0x11/0x20
 stack_map_free+0x2a/0x40
 bpf_map_free_deferred+0x3c/0x50
 process_one_work+0x1f7/0x580
 worker_thread+0x54/0x410
 kthread+0x10f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck &lt;jsperbeck@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: stop printing kernel addresses</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:36:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matteo Croce</name>
<email>mcroce@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-18T01:32:36+00:00</published>
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commit 00206a69ee32f03e6f40837684dcbe475ea02266 upstream.

Since commit ad67b74d2469d9b8 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p"),
at boot "____ptrval____" is printed instead of actual addresses:

    percpu: Embedded 38 pages/cpu @(____ptrval____) s124376 r0 d31272 u524288

Instead of changing the print to "%px", and leaking kernel addresses,
just remove the print completely, cfr. e.g. commit 071929dbdd865f77
("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout").

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 00206a69ee32f03e6f40837684dcbe475ea02266 upstream.

Since commit ad67b74d2469d9b8 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p"),
at boot "____ptrval____" is printed instead of actual addresses:

    percpu: Embedded 38 pages/cpu @(____ptrval____) s124376 r0 d31272 u524288

Instead of changing the print to "%px", and leaking kernel addresses,
just remove the print completely, cfr. e.g. commit 071929dbdd865f77
("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout").

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: stop leaking bitmap metadata blocks</title>
<updated>2018-10-07T21:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-07T08:31:51+00:00</published>
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The commit ca460b3c9627 ("percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks")
introduced bitmap metadata blocks. These metadata blocks are allocated
whenever a new chunk is created, but they are never freed. Fix it.

Fixes: ca460b3c9627 ("percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
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The commit ca460b3c9627 ("percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks")
introduced bitmap metadata blocks. These metadata blocks are allocated
whenever a new chunk is created, but they are never freed. Fix it.

Fixes: ca460b3c9627 ("percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>/proc/meminfo: add percpu populated pages count</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou (Facebook)</name>
<email>dennisszhou@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:53:58+00:00</published>
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Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
information via debugfs.  This more or less is only really useful for
understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a per-chunk
level with a few global counters.  This is also gated behind a config.
BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase in use causing
increased use of percpu memory.  Let's make it easier for someone to
identify how much memory is being used.

This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
much percpu memory is in use.  This number includes the cost for all
allocated backing pages and not just insight at the per a unit, per chunk
level.  Metadata is excluded.  I think excluding metadata is fair because
the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
outweigh the metadata.  It also makes this calculation light.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180807184723.74919-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&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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Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
information via debugfs.  This more or less is only really useful for
understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a per-chunk
level with a few global counters.  This is also gated behind a config.
BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase in use causing
increased use of percpu memory.  Let's make it easier for someone to
identify how much memory is being used.

This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
much percpu memory is in use.  This number includes the cost for all
allocated backing pages and not just insight at the per a unit, per chunk
level.  Metadata is excluded.  I think excluding metadata is fair because
the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
outweigh the metadata.  It also makes this calculation light.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180807184723.74919-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2018-04-03T03:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-03T03:20:12+00:00</published>
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Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This removes the entire architecture code for blackfin, cris, frv,
  m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile, including the associated device
  drivers.

  I have been working with the (former) maintainers for each one to
  ensure that my interpretation was right and the code is definitely
  unused in mainline kernels. Many had fond memories of working on the
  respective ports to start with and getting them included in upstream,
  but also saw no point in keeping the port alive without any users.

  In the end, it seems that while the eight architectures are extremely
  different, they all suffered the same fate: There was one company in
  charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software
  ecosystem, which was more costly than licensing newer off-the-shelf
  CPU cores from a third party (typically ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V). It
  seems that all the SoC product lines are still around, but have not
  used the custom CPU architectures for several years at this point. In
  contrast, CPU instruction sets that remain popular and have actively
  maintained kernel ports tend to all be used across multiple licensees.

  [ See the new nds32 port merged in the previous commit for the next
    generation of "one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU
    microarchitecture and a software ecosystem"   - Linus ]

  The removal came out of a discussion that is now documented at
  https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/. Unlike the original plans, I'm not
  marking any ports as deprecated but remove them all at once after I
  made sure that they are all unused. Some architectures (notably tile,
  mn10300, and blackfin) are still being shipped in products with old
  kernels, but those products will never be updated to newer kernel
  releases.

  After this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline
  gcc support:

   - unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the
     maintainers promised to work on providing something newer. At least
     in case of hexagon, this will only be llvm, not gcc.

   - openrisc, risc-v and nds32 are still in the process of finishing
     their support or getting it added to mainline gcc in the first
     place. They all have patched gcc-7.3 ports that work to some
     degree, but complete upstream support won't happen before gcc-8.1.
     Csky posted their first kernel patch set last week, their situation
     will be similar

  [ Palmer Dabbelt points out that RISC-V support is in mainline gcc
    since gcc-7, although gcc-7.3.0 is the recommended minimum  - Linus ]"

This really says it all:

 2498 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 467668 deletions(-)

* tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (74 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: UNICORE32: Change email account
  staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver
  tty: hvc: remove tile driver
  tty: remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers
  serial: remove tile uart driver
  serial: remove m32r_sio driver
  serial: remove blackfin drivers
  serial: remove cris/etrax uart drivers
  usb: Remove Blackfin references in USB support
  usb: isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue
  usb: musb: remove blackfin port
  usb: host: remove tilegx platform glue
  pwm: remove pwm-bfin driver
  i2c: remove bfin-twi driver
  spi: remove blackfin related host drivers
  watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver
  can: remove bfin_can driver
  mmc: remove bfin_sdh driver
  input: misc: remove blackfin rotary driver
  input: keyboard: remove bf54x driver
  ...
</content>
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<pre>
Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This removes the entire architecture code for blackfin, cris, frv,
  m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile, including the associated device
  drivers.

  I have been working with the (former) maintainers for each one to
  ensure that my interpretation was right and the code is definitely
  unused in mainline kernels. Many had fond memories of working on the
  respective ports to start with and getting them included in upstream,
  but also saw no point in keeping the port alive without any users.

  In the end, it seems that while the eight architectures are extremely
  different, they all suffered the same fate: There was one company in
  charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software
  ecosystem, which was more costly than licensing newer off-the-shelf
  CPU cores from a third party (typically ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V). It
  seems that all the SoC product lines are still around, but have not
  used the custom CPU architectures for several years at this point. In
  contrast, CPU instruction sets that remain popular and have actively
  maintained kernel ports tend to all be used across multiple licensees.

  [ See the new nds32 port merged in the previous commit for the next
    generation of "one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU
    microarchitecture and a software ecosystem"   - Linus ]

  The removal came out of a discussion that is now documented at
  https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/. Unlike the original plans, I'm not
  marking any ports as deprecated but remove them all at once after I
  made sure that they are all unused. Some architectures (notably tile,
  mn10300, and blackfin) are still being shipped in products with old
  kernels, but those products will never be updated to newer kernel
  releases.

  After this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline
  gcc support:

   - unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the
     maintainers promised to work on providing something newer. At least
     in case of hexagon, this will only be llvm, not gcc.

   - openrisc, risc-v and nds32 are still in the process of finishing
     their support or getting it added to mainline gcc in the first
     place. They all have patched gcc-7.3 ports that work to some
     degree, but complete upstream support won't happen before gcc-8.1.
     Csky posted their first kernel patch set last week, their situation
     will be similar

  [ Palmer Dabbelt points out that RISC-V support is in mainline gcc
    since gcc-7, although gcc-7.3.0 is the recommended minimum  - Linus ]"

This really says it all:

 2498 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 467668 deletions(-)

* tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (74 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: UNICORE32: Change email account
  staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver
  tty: hvc: remove tile driver
  tty: remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers
  serial: remove tile uart driver
  serial: remove m32r_sio driver
  serial: remove blackfin drivers
  serial: remove cris/etrax uart drivers
  usb: Remove Blackfin references in USB support
  usb: isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue
  usb: musb: remove blackfin port
  usb: host: remove tilegx platform glue
  pwm: remove pwm-bfin driver
  i2c: remove bfin-twi driver
  spi: remove blackfin related host drivers
  watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver
  can: remove bfin_can driver
  mmc: remove bfin_sdh driver
  input: misc: remove blackfin rotary driver
  input: keyboard: remove bf54x driver
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: simplify Kconfig dependencies for removed archs</title>
<updated>2018-03-26T13:55:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T22:30:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a687a5337063af99ebd0eebaa6f4b4cf2e07c21b'/>
<id>a687a5337063af99ebd0eebaa6f4b4cf2e07c21b</id>
<content type='text'>
A lot of Kconfig symbols have architecture specific dependencies.
In those cases that depend on architectures we have already removed,
they can be omitted.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
A lot of Kconfig symbols have architecture specific dependencies.
In those cases that depend on architectures we have already removed,
they can be omitted.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T16:38:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-19T15:32:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f52ba1fef7b92e74d58efef8eae7b6f48c6d218d'/>
<id>f52ba1fef7b92e74d58efef8eae7b6f48c6d218d</id>
<content type='text'>
In case of memory deficit and low percpu memory pages,
pcpu_balance_workfn() takes pcpu_alloc_mutex for a long
time (as it makes memory allocations itself and waits
for memory reclaim). If tasks doing pcpu_alloc() are
choosen by OOM killer, they can't exit, because they
are waiting for the mutex.

The patch makes pcpu_alloc() to care about killing signal
and use mutex_lock_killable(), when it's allowed by GFP
flags. This guarantees, a task does not miss SIGKILL
from OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
In case of memory deficit and low percpu memory pages,
pcpu_balance_workfn() takes pcpu_alloc_mutex for a long
time (as it makes memory allocations itself and waits
for memory reclaim). If tasks doing pcpu_alloc() are
choosen by OOM killer, they can't exit, because they
are waiting for the mutex.

The patch makes pcpu_alloc() to care about killing signal
and use mutex_lock_killable(), when it's allowed by GFP
flags. This guarantees, a task does not miss SIGKILL
from OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: include linux/sched.h for cond_resched()</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T16:38:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T15:27:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=71546d100422bcc2c543dadeb9328728997cd23a'/>
<id>71546d100422bcc2c543dadeb9328728997cd23a</id>
<content type='text'>
microblaze build broke due to missing declaration of the
cond_resched() invocation added recently.  Let's include linux/sched.h
explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
microblaze build broke due to missing declaration of the
cond_resched() invocation added recently.  Let's include linux/sched.h
explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: add a schedule point in pcpu_balance_workfn()</title>
<updated>2018-02-23T16:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-23T16:12:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=accd4f36a7d11c2d54544007eb65e10604dcf2f5'/>
<id>accd4f36a7d11c2d54544007eb65e10604dcf2f5</id>
<content type='text'>
When a large BPF percpu map is destroyed, I have seen
pcpu_balance_workfn() holding cpu for hundreds of milliseconds.

On KASAN config and 112 hyperthreads, average time to destroy a chunk
is ~4 ms.

[ 2489.841376] destroy chunk 1 in 4148689 ns
...
[ 2490.093428] destroy chunk 32 in 4072718 ns

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When a large BPF percpu map is destroyed, I have seen
pcpu_balance_workfn() holding cpu for hundreds of milliseconds.

On KASAN config and 112 hyperthreads, average time to destroy a chunk
is ~4 ms.

[ 2489.841376] destroy chunk 1 in 4148689 ns
...
[ 2490.093428] destroy chunk 32 in 4072718 ns

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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