<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/Kconfig, branch v5.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: remove LLVM=1 test from HAS_LTO_CLANG</title>
<updated>2021-03-11T05:52:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-10T13:54:22+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst notes, LLVM=1 switches the default of
tools, but you can still override CC, LD, etc. individually. This LLVM=1
check is unneeded because each tool is already checked separately.

"make CC=clang LD=ld.lld NM=llvm-nm AR=llvm-ar LLVM_IAS=1 menuconfig"
should be able to enable Clang LTO.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
As Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst notes, LLVM=1 switches the default of
tools, but you can still override CC, LD, etc. individually. This LLVM=1
check is unneeded because each tool is already checked separately.

"make CC=clang LD=ld.lld NM=llvm-nm AR=llvm-ar LLVM_IAS=1 menuconfig"
should be able to enable Clang LTO.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Allow LTO to be selected with KASAN_HW_TAGS</title>
<updated>2021-03-11T05:40:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-08T18:46:56+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
While LTO with KASAN is normally not useful, hardware tag-based KASAN
can be used also in production kernels with ARM64_MTE. Therefore, allow
KASAN_HW_TAGS to be selected together with HAS_LTO_CLANG.

Reported-by: Alistair Delva &lt;adelva@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
While LTO with KASAN is normally not useful, hardware tag-based KASAN
can be used also in production kernels with ARM64_MTE. Therefore, allow
KASAN_HW_TAGS to be selected together with HAS_LTO_CLANG.

Reported-by: Alistair Delva &lt;adelva@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-entry-2021-02-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-25T00:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-25T00:32:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=29c395c77a9a514c5857c45ceae2665e9bd99ac7'/>
<id>29c395c77a9a514c5857c45ceae2665e9bd99ac7</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 irq entry updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq stack switching was moved out of the ASM entry code in course
  of the entry code consolidation. It ended up being suboptimal in
  various ways.

  This reworks the X86 irq stack handling:

   - Make the stack switching inline so the stackpointer manipulation is
     not longer at an easy to find place.

   - Get rid of the unnecessary indirect call.

   - Avoid the double stack switching in interrupt return and reuse the
     interrupt stack for softirq handling.

   - A objtool fix for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y builds where it got
     confused about the stack pointer manipulation"

* tag 'x86-entry-2021-02-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool: Fix stack-swizzle for FRAME_POINTER=y
  um: Enforce the usage of asm-generic/softirq_stack.h
  x86/softirq/64: Inline do_softirq_own_stack()
  softirq: Move do_softirq_own_stack() to generic asm header
  softirq: Move __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ to Kconfig
  x86: Select CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
  x86/softirq: Remove indirection in do_softirq_own_stack()
  x86/entry: Use run_sysvec_on_irqstack_cond() for XEN upcall
  x86/entry: Convert device interrupts to inline stack switching
  x86/entry: Convert system vectors to irq stack macro
  x86/irq: Provide macro for inlining irq stack switching
  x86/apic: Split out spurious handling code
  x86/irq/64: Adjust the per CPU irq stack pointer by 8
  x86/irq: Sanitize irq stack tracking
  x86/entry: Fix instrumentation annotation
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 irq entry updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq stack switching was moved out of the ASM entry code in course
  of the entry code consolidation. It ended up being suboptimal in
  various ways.

  This reworks the X86 irq stack handling:

   - Make the stack switching inline so the stackpointer manipulation is
     not longer at an easy to find place.

   - Get rid of the unnecessary indirect call.

   - Avoid the double stack switching in interrupt return and reuse the
     interrupt stack for softirq handling.

   - A objtool fix for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y builds where it got
     confused about the stack pointer manipulation"

* tag 'x86-entry-2021-02-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool: Fix stack-swizzle for FRAME_POINTER=y
  um: Enforce the usage of asm-generic/softirq_stack.h
  x86/softirq/64: Inline do_softirq_own_stack()
  softirq: Move do_softirq_own_stack() to generic asm header
  softirq: Move __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ to Kconfig
  x86: Select CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
  x86/softirq: Remove indirection in do_softirq_own_stack()
  x86/entry: Use run_sysvec_on_irqstack_cond() for XEN upcall
  x86/entry: Convert device interrupts to inline stack switching
  x86/entry: Convert system vectors to irq stack macro
  x86/irq: Provide macro for inlining irq stack switching
  x86/apic: Split out spurious handling code
  x86/irq/64: Adjust the per CPU irq stack pointer by 8
  x86/irq: Sanitize irq stack tracking
  x86/entry: Fix instrumentation annotation
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T17:28:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T17:28:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=79db4d2293eba2ce6265a341bedf6caecad5eeb3'/>
<id>79db4d2293eba2ce6265a341bedf6caecad5eeb3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull clang LTO updates from Kees Cook:
 "Clang Link Time Optimization.

  This is built on the work done preparing for LTO by arm64 folks,
  tracing folks, etc. This includes the core changes as well as the
  remaining pieces for arm64 (LTO has been the default build method on
  Android for about 3 years now, as it is the prerequisite for the
  Control Flow Integrity protections).

  While x86 LTO enablement is done, it depends on some pending objtool
  clean-ups. It's possible that I'll send a "part 2" pull request for
  LTO that includes x86 support.

  For merge log posterity, and as detailed in commit dc5723b02e52
  ("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO"), here is the lt;dr to do an LTO
  build:

        make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
        scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
        make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

  (To do a cross-compile of arm64, add "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-"
  and "ARCH=arm64" to the "make" command lines.)

  Summary:

   - Clang LTO build infrastructure and arm64-specific enablement (Sami
     Tolvanen)

   - Recursive build CC_FLAGS_LTO fix (Alexander Lobakin)"

* tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kbuild: prevent CC_FLAGS_LTO self-bloating on recursive rebuilds
  arm64: allow LTO to be selected
  arm64: disable recordmcount with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
  arm64: vdso: disable LTO
  drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o
  efi/libstub: disable LTO
  scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c
  modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names
  PCI: Fix PREL32 relocations for LTO
  init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
  init: lto: ensure initcall ordering
  kbuild: lto: add a default list of used symbols
  kbuild: lto: merge module sections
  kbuild: lto: limit inlining
  kbuild: lto: fix module versioning
  kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
  tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull clang LTO updates from Kees Cook:
 "Clang Link Time Optimization.

  This is built on the work done preparing for LTO by arm64 folks,
  tracing folks, etc. This includes the core changes as well as the
  remaining pieces for arm64 (LTO has been the default build method on
  Android for about 3 years now, as it is the prerequisite for the
  Control Flow Integrity protections).

  While x86 LTO enablement is done, it depends on some pending objtool
  clean-ups. It's possible that I'll send a "part 2" pull request for
  LTO that includes x86 support.

  For merge log posterity, and as detailed in commit dc5723b02e52
  ("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO"), here is the lt;dr to do an LTO
  build:

        make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
        scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
        make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

  (To do a cross-compile of arm64, add "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-"
  and "ARCH=arm64" to the "make" command lines.)

  Summary:

   - Clang LTO build infrastructure and arm64-specific enablement (Sami
     Tolvanen)

   - Recursive build CC_FLAGS_LTO fix (Alexander Lobakin)"

* tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kbuild: prevent CC_FLAGS_LTO self-bloating on recursive rebuilds
  arm64: allow LTO to be selected
  arm64: disable recordmcount with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
  arm64: vdso: disable LTO
  drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o
  efi/libstub: disable LTO
  scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c
  modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names
  PCI: Fix PREL32 relocations for LTO
  init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
  init: lto: ensure initcall ordering
  kbuild: lto: add a default list of used symbols
  kbuild: lto: merge module sections
  kbuild: lto: limit inlining
  kbuild: lto: fix module versioning
  kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
  tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2021-02-22T18:57:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-22T18:57:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0e63a5c6ba9679a903f95b10827f74fe183017fa'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.

   - As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now
     1.7, and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That
     allowed the removal of a bunch of compatibility code.

   - A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
     became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.

   - The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from
     relative paths to RST files.

   - More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (75 commits)
  docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
  docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
  Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Update nohlt section
  doc/admin-guide: fix spelling mistake: "perfomance" -&gt; "performance"
  docs: Document cross-referencing using relative path
  docs: Enable usage of relative paths to docs on automarkup
  docs: thermal: fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
  docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
  coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
  Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions
  Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
  Docs: drop Python 2 support
  Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7
  Documentation: input: define ABS_PRESSURE/ABS_MT_PRESSURE resolution as grams
  scripts/kernel-doc: add internal hyperlink to DOC: sections
  Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
  docs: Update DTB format references
  docs: zh_CN: add iio index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add iio ep93xx_adc.rst translation
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.

   - As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now
     1.7, and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That
     allowed the removal of a bunch of compatibility code.

   - A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
     became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.

   - The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from
     relative paths to RST files.

   - More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (75 commits)
  docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
  docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
  Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Update nohlt section
  doc/admin-guide: fix spelling mistake: "perfomance" -&gt; "performance"
  docs: Document cross-referencing using relative path
  docs: Enable usage of relative paths to docs on automarkup
  docs: thermal: fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
  docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
  coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
  Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions
  Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
  Docs: drop Python 2 support
  Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7
  Documentation: input: define ABS_PRESSURE/ABS_MT_PRESSURE resolution as grams
  scripts/kernel-doc: add internal hyperlink to DOC: sections
  Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
  docs: Update DTB format references
  docs: zh_CN: add iio index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add iio ep93xx_adc.rst translation
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-5.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2021-02-21T21:40:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-21T21:40:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=df24212a493afda0d4de42176bea10d45825e9a0'/>
<id>df24212a493afda0d4de42176bea10d45825e9a0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Convert to using the generic entry infrastructure.

 - Add vdso time namespace support.

 - Switch s390 and alpha to 64-bit ino_t. As discussed at

     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YCV7QiyoweJwvN+m@osiris/

 - Get rid of expensive stck (store clock) usages where possible.
   Utilize cpu alternatives to patch stckf when supported.

 - Make tod_clock usage less error prone by converting it to a union and
   rework code which is using it.

 - Machine check handler fixes and cleanups.

 - Drop couple of minor inline asm optimizations to fix clang build.

 - Default configs changes notably to make libvirt happy.

 - Various changes to rework and improve qdio code.

 - Other small various fixes and improvements all over the code.

* tag 's390-5.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (68 commits)
  s390/qdio: remove 'merge_pending' mechanism
  s390/qdio: improve handling of PENDING buffers for QEBSM devices
  s390/qdio: rework q-&gt;qdio_error indication
  s390/qdio: inline qdio_kick_handler()
  s390/time: remove get_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/crypto: use store_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/hypfs: use store_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/debug: use union tod_clock
  s390/kvm: use union tod_clock
  s390/vdso: use union tod_clock
  s390/time: convert tod_clock_base to union
  s390/time: introduce new store_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/time: rename store_tod_clock_ext() and use union tod_clock
  s390/time: introduce union tod_clock
  s390,alpha: switch to 64-bit ino_t
  s390: split cleanup_sie
  s390: use r13 in cleanup_sie as temp register
  s390: fix kernel asce loading when sie is interrupted
  s390: add stack for machine check handler
  s390: use WRITE_ONCE when re-allocating async stack
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Convert to using the generic entry infrastructure.

 - Add vdso time namespace support.

 - Switch s390 and alpha to 64-bit ino_t. As discussed at

     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YCV7QiyoweJwvN+m@osiris/

 - Get rid of expensive stck (store clock) usages where possible.
   Utilize cpu alternatives to patch stckf when supported.

 - Make tod_clock usage less error prone by converting it to a union and
   rework code which is using it.

 - Machine check handler fixes and cleanups.

 - Drop couple of minor inline asm optimizations to fix clang build.

 - Default configs changes notably to make libvirt happy.

 - Various changes to rework and improve qdio code.

 - Other small various fixes and improvements all over the code.

* tag 's390-5.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (68 commits)
  s390/qdio: remove 'merge_pending' mechanism
  s390/qdio: improve handling of PENDING buffers for QEBSM devices
  s390/qdio: rework q-&gt;qdio_error indication
  s390/qdio: inline qdio_kick_handler()
  s390/time: remove get_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/crypto: use store_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/hypfs: use store_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/debug: use union tod_clock
  s390/kvm: use union tod_clock
  s390/vdso: use union tod_clock
  s390/time: convert tod_clock_base to union
  s390/time: introduce new store_tod_clock_ext()
  s390/time: rename store_tod_clock_ext() and use union tod_clock
  s390/time: introduce union tod_clock
  s390,alpha: switch to 64-bit ino_t
  s390: split cleanup_sie
  s390: use r13 in cleanup_sie as temp register
  s390: fix kernel asce loading when sie is interrupted
  s390: add stack for machine check handler
  s390: use WRITE_ONCE when re-allocating async stack
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-21T20:35:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-21T20:35:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=657bd90c93146a929c69cd43addf2804eb70c926'/>
<id>657bd90c93146a929c69cd43addf2804eb70c926</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler updates:

   - Add CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC: this in its current form adds the
     preempt=none/voluntary/full boot options (default: full), to allow
     distros to build a PREEMPT kernel but fall back to close to
     PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY (or PREEMPT_NONE) runtime scheduling behavior via
     a boot time selection.

     There's also the /debug/sched_debug switch to do this runtime.

     This feature is implemented via runtime patching (a new variant of
     static calls).

     The scope of the runtime patching can be best reviewed by looking
     at the sched_dynamic_update() function in kernel/sched/core.c.

     ( Note that the dynamic none/voluntary mode isn't 100% identical,
       for example preempt-RCU is available in all cases, plus the
       preempt count is maintained in all models, which has runtime
       overhead even with the code patching. )

     The PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY/PREEMPT_NONE models, used by the vast
     majority of distributions, are supposed to be unaffected.

   - Fix ignored rescheduling after rcu_eqs_enter(). This is a bug that
     was found via rcutorture triggering a hang. The bug is that
     rcu_idle_enter() may wake up a NOCB kthread, but this happens after
     the last generic need_resched() check. Some cpuidle drivers fix it
     by chance but many others don't.

     In true 2020 fashion the original bug fix has grown into a 5-patch
     scheduler/RCU fix series plus another 16 RCU patches to address the
     underlying issue of missed preemption events. These are the initial
     fixes that should fix current incarnations of the bug.

   - Clean up rbtree usage in the scheduler, by providing &amp; using the
     following consistent set of rbtree APIs:

       partial-order; less() based:
         - rb_add(): add a new entry to the rbtree
         - rb_add_cached(): like rb_add(), but for a rb_root_cached

       total-order; cmp() based:
         - rb_find(): find an entry in an rbtree
         - rb_find_add(): find an entry, and add if not found

         - rb_find_first(): find the first (leftmost) matching entry
         - rb_next_match(): continue from rb_find_first()
         - rb_for_each(): iterate a sub-tree using the previous two

   - Improve the SMP/NUMA load-balancer: scan for an idle sibling in a
     single pass. This is a 4-commit series where each commit improves
     one aspect of the idle sibling scan logic.

   - Improve the cpufreq cooling driver by getting the effective CPU
     utilization metrics from the scheduler

   - Improve the fair scheduler's active load-balancing logic by
     reducing the number of active LB attempts &amp; lengthen the
     load-balancing interval. This improves stress-ng mmapfork
     performance.

   - Fix CFS's estimated utilization (util_est) calculation bug that can
     result in too high utilization values

  Misc updates &amp; fixes:

   - Fix the HRTICK reprogramming &amp; optimization feature

   - Fix SCHED_SOFTIRQ raising race &amp; warning in the CPU offlining code

   - Reduce dl_add_task_root_domain() overhead

   - Fix uprobes refcount bug

   - Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()

   - Clean up task priority related defines, remove *USER_*PRIO and
     USER_PRIO()

   - Simplify the sched_init_numa() deduplication sort

   - Documentation updates

   - Fix EAS bug in update_misfit_status(), which degraded the quality
     of energy-balancing

   - Smaller cleanups"

* tag 'sched-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
  sched,x86: Allow !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  rcu/nocb: Trigger self-IPI on late deferred wake up before user resume
  rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check
  rcu: Pull deferred rcuog wake up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers
  sched/features: Distinguish between NORMAL and DEADLINE hrtick
  sched/features: Fix hrtick reprogramming
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention in dl_add_task_root_domain()
  uprobes: (Re)add missing get_uprobe() in __find_uprobe()
  smp: Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()
  sched: Harden PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Allow module use without exposing static_call_key
  sched: Add /debug/sched_preempt
  preempt/dynamic: Support dynamic preempt with preempt= boot option
  preempt/dynamic: Provide irqentry_exit_cond_resched() static call
  preempt/dynamic: Provide preempt_schedule[_notrace]() static calls
  preempt/dynamic: Provide cond_resched() and might_resched() static calls
  preempt: Introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Provide DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0()
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler updates:

   - Add CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC: this in its current form adds the
     preempt=none/voluntary/full boot options (default: full), to allow
     distros to build a PREEMPT kernel but fall back to close to
     PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY (or PREEMPT_NONE) runtime scheduling behavior via
     a boot time selection.

     There's also the /debug/sched_debug switch to do this runtime.

     This feature is implemented via runtime patching (a new variant of
     static calls).

     The scope of the runtime patching can be best reviewed by looking
     at the sched_dynamic_update() function in kernel/sched/core.c.

     ( Note that the dynamic none/voluntary mode isn't 100% identical,
       for example preempt-RCU is available in all cases, plus the
       preempt count is maintained in all models, which has runtime
       overhead even with the code patching. )

     The PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY/PREEMPT_NONE models, used by the vast
     majority of distributions, are supposed to be unaffected.

   - Fix ignored rescheduling after rcu_eqs_enter(). This is a bug that
     was found via rcutorture triggering a hang. The bug is that
     rcu_idle_enter() may wake up a NOCB kthread, but this happens after
     the last generic need_resched() check. Some cpuidle drivers fix it
     by chance but many others don't.

     In true 2020 fashion the original bug fix has grown into a 5-patch
     scheduler/RCU fix series plus another 16 RCU patches to address the
     underlying issue of missed preemption events. These are the initial
     fixes that should fix current incarnations of the bug.

   - Clean up rbtree usage in the scheduler, by providing &amp; using the
     following consistent set of rbtree APIs:

       partial-order; less() based:
         - rb_add(): add a new entry to the rbtree
         - rb_add_cached(): like rb_add(), but for a rb_root_cached

       total-order; cmp() based:
         - rb_find(): find an entry in an rbtree
         - rb_find_add(): find an entry, and add if not found

         - rb_find_first(): find the first (leftmost) matching entry
         - rb_next_match(): continue from rb_find_first()
         - rb_for_each(): iterate a sub-tree using the previous two

   - Improve the SMP/NUMA load-balancer: scan for an idle sibling in a
     single pass. This is a 4-commit series where each commit improves
     one aspect of the idle sibling scan logic.

   - Improve the cpufreq cooling driver by getting the effective CPU
     utilization metrics from the scheduler

   - Improve the fair scheduler's active load-balancing logic by
     reducing the number of active LB attempts &amp; lengthen the
     load-balancing interval. This improves stress-ng mmapfork
     performance.

   - Fix CFS's estimated utilization (util_est) calculation bug that can
     result in too high utilization values

  Misc updates &amp; fixes:

   - Fix the HRTICK reprogramming &amp; optimization feature

   - Fix SCHED_SOFTIRQ raising race &amp; warning in the CPU offlining code

   - Reduce dl_add_task_root_domain() overhead

   - Fix uprobes refcount bug

   - Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()

   - Clean up task priority related defines, remove *USER_*PRIO and
     USER_PRIO()

   - Simplify the sched_init_numa() deduplication sort

   - Documentation updates

   - Fix EAS bug in update_misfit_status(), which degraded the quality
     of energy-balancing

   - Smaller cleanups"

* tag 'sched-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
  sched,x86: Allow !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  rcu/nocb: Trigger self-IPI on late deferred wake up before user resume
  rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check
  rcu: Pull deferred rcuog wake up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers
  sched/features: Distinguish between NORMAL and DEADLINE hrtick
  sched/features: Fix hrtick reprogramming
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention in dl_add_task_root_domain()
  uprobes: (Re)add missing get_uprobe() in __find_uprobe()
  smp: Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()
  sched: Harden PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Allow module use without exposing static_call_key
  sched: Add /debug/sched_preempt
  preempt/dynamic: Support dynamic preempt with preempt= boot option
  preempt/dynamic: Provide irqentry_exit_cond_resched() static call
  preempt/dynamic: Provide preempt_schedule[_notrace]() static calls
  preempt/dynamic: Provide cond_resched() and might_resched() static calls
  preempt: Introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Provide DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux</title>
<updated>2021-02-21T18:40:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-21T18:40:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=24880bef417f6e9069158c750969d18793427a10'/>
<id>24880bef417f6e9069158c750969d18793427a10</id>
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Pull oprofile and dcookies removal from Viresh Kumar:
 "Remove oprofile and dcookies support

  The 'oprofile' user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
  any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
  the perf interfaces.

  The dcookies stuff is only used by the oprofile code. Now that
  oprofile's support is getting removed from the kernel, there is no
  need for dcookies as well.

  Remove kernel's old oprofile and dcookies support"

* tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux:
  fs: Remove dcookies support
  drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: xtensa: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: x86: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sparc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sh: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: s390: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: powerpc: Remove oprofile
  arch: powerpc: Stop building and using oprofile
  arch: parisc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: mips: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: microblaze: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support
  arch: ia64: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: hexagon: Don't select HAVE_OPROFILE
  arch: arc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: arm: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: alpha: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
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Pull oprofile and dcookies removal from Viresh Kumar:
 "Remove oprofile and dcookies support

  The 'oprofile' user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
  any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
  the perf interfaces.

  The dcookies stuff is only used by the oprofile code. Now that
  oprofile's support is getting removed from the kernel, there is no
  need for dcookies as well.

  Remove kernel's old oprofile and dcookies support"

* tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux:
  fs: Remove dcookies support
  drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: xtensa: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: x86: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sparc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sh: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: s390: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: powerpc: Remove oprofile
  arch: powerpc: Stop building and using oprofile
  arch: parisc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: mips: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: microblaze: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support
  arch: ia64: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: hexagon: Don't select HAVE_OPROFILE
  arch: arc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: arm: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: alpha: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.elf-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2021-02-21T17:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-21T17:29:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=591fd30eee47ed75d1296d619dd467414d0894e3'/>
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Pull ELF compat updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitizing ELF compat support, especially for triarch architectures:

   - X32 handling cleaned up

   - MIPS64 uses compat_binfmt_elf.c both for O32 and N32 now

   - Kconfig side of things regularized

  Eventually I hope to have compat_binfmt_elf.c killed, with both native
  and compat built from fs/binfmt_elf.c, with -DELF_BITS={64,32} passed
  by kbuild, but that's a separate story - not included here"

* 'work.elf-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of COMPAT_ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE
  compat_binfmt_elf: don't bother with undef of ELF_ARCH
  Kconfig: regularize selection of CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF
  mips compat: switch to compat_binfmt_elf.c
  mips: don't bother with ELF_CORE_EFLAGS
  mips compat: don't bother with ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  mips: KVM_GUEST makes no sense for 64bit builds...
  mips: kill unused definitions in binfmt_elf[on]32.c
  mips binfmt_elf*32.c: use elfcore-compat.h
  x32: make X32, !IA32_EMULATION setups able to execute x32 binaries
  [amd64] clean PRSTATUS_SIZE/SET_PR_FPVALID up properly
  elf_prstatus: collect the common part (everything before pr_reg) into a struct
  binfmt_elf: partially sanitize PRSTATUS_SIZE and SET_PR_FPVALID
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Pull ELF compat updates from Al Viro:
 "Sanitizing ELF compat support, especially for triarch architectures:

   - X32 handling cleaned up

   - MIPS64 uses compat_binfmt_elf.c both for O32 and N32 now

   - Kconfig side of things regularized

  Eventually I hope to have compat_binfmt_elf.c killed, with both native
  and compat built from fs/binfmt_elf.c, with -DELF_BITS={64,32} passed
  by kbuild, but that's a separate story - not included here"

* 'work.elf-compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of COMPAT_ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE
  compat_binfmt_elf: don't bother with undef of ELF_ARCH
  Kconfig: regularize selection of CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF
  mips compat: switch to compat_binfmt_elf.c
  mips: don't bother with ELF_CORE_EFLAGS
  mips compat: don't bother with ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  mips: KVM_GUEST makes no sense for 64bit builds...
  mips: kill unused definitions in binfmt_elf[on]32.c
  mips binfmt_elf*32.c: use elfcore-compat.h
  x32: make X32, !IA32_EMULATION setups able to execute x32 binaries
  [amd64] clean PRSTATUS_SIZE/SET_PR_FPVALID up properly
  elf_prstatus: collect the common part (everything before pr_reg) into a struct
  binfmt_elf: partially sanitize PRSTATUS_SIZE and SET_PR_FPVALID
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>preempt: Introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T13:12:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-18T14:12:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6ef869e0647439af0fc28dde162d33320d4e1dd7'/>
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Preemption mode selection is currently hardcoded on Kconfig choices.
Introduce a dedicated option to tune preemption flavour at boot time,

This will be only available on architectures efficiently supporting
static calls in order not to tempt with the feature against additional
overhead that might be prohibitive or undesirable.

CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is automatically selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT if
the architecture provides the necessary support (CONFIG_STATIC_CALL_INLINE,
CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY, and provide with __preempt_schedule_function() /
__preempt_schedule_notrace_function()).

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
[peterz: relax requirement to HAVE_STATIC_CALL]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118141223.123667-5-frederic@kernel.org
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Preemption mode selection is currently hardcoded on Kconfig choices.
Introduce a dedicated option to tune preemption flavour at boot time,

This will be only available on architectures efficiently supporting
static calls in order not to tempt with the feature against additional
overhead that might be prohibitive or undesirable.

CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is automatically selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT if
the architecture provides the necessary support (CONFIG_STATIC_CALL_INLINE,
CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY, and provide with __preempt_schedule_function() /
__preempt_schedule_notrace_function()).

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
[peterz: relax requirement to HAVE_STATIC_CALL]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118141223.123667-5-frederic@kernel.org
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