Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of timekeeping/VDSO updates:

   - Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
     implementation.

     S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the
     counter read function when time namespace support is enabled.
     Adding the pointer is a NOOP for all other architectures because
     the compiler is supposed to optimize that out when it is unused in
     the architecture specific inline. The change also solved a similar
     problem for MIPS which fortunately has time namespaces not yet
     enabled.

     S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
     timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another
     sequence counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is
     to utilize the already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The
     core code now exposes helper functions which allow to serialize
     against the timekeeper code and against concurrent readers.

     S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
     common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It
     now has an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which
     defaults to an empty struct.

     Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
     allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support
     to work from a common upstream base.

   - A trivial comment fix"

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Delete repeated words in comments
  lib/vdso: Allow to add architecture-specific vdso data
  timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()
  vdso/treewide: Add vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter()

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler

 - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags

 - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs

 - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax

 - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/

 - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
  kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
  kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
  kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
  kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
  kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
  kbuild: always create directories of targets
  powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
  kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
  Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
  kbuild: run the checker after the compiler

The initial assumption that all VDSO related data can be completely generic
does not hold. S390 needs architecture specific storage to access the clock
steering information.

Add struct arch_vdso_data to the vdso data struct. For architectures which
do not need extra data this defaults to an empty struct. Architectures
which require it, enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA and provide their
specific struct in asm/vdso/data.h.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200804150124.41692-2-svens@linux.ibm.com

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...

Pull generic kernel entry/exit code from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Generic implementation of common syscall, interrupt and exception
  entry/exit functionality based on the recent X86 effort to ensure
  correctness of entry/exit vs RCU and instrumentation.

  As this functionality and the required entry/exit sequences are not
  architecture specific, sharing them allows other architectures to
  benefit instead of copying the same code over and over again.

  This branch was kept standalone to allow others to work on it. The
  conversion of x86 comes in a seperate pull request which obviously is
  based on this branch"

* tag 'core-entry-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  entry: Correct __secure_computing() stub
  entry: Correct 'noinstr' attributes
  entry: Provide infrastructure for work before transitioning to guest mode
  entry: Provide generic interrupt entry/exit code
  entry: Provide generic syscall exit function
  entry: Provide generic syscall entry functionality
  seccomp: Provide stub for __secure_computing()

On syscall entry certain work needs to be done:

   - Establish state (lockdep, context tracking, tracing)
   - Conditional work (ptrace, seccomp, audit...)

This code is needlessly duplicated and  different in all
architectures.

Provide a generic version based on the x86 implementation which has all the
RCU and instrumentation bits right.

As interrupt/exception entry from user space needs parts of the same
functionality, provide a function for this as well.

syscall_enter_from_user_mode() and irqentry_enter_from_user_mode() must be
called right after the low level ASM entry. The calling code must be
non-instrumentable. After the functions returns state is correct and the
subsequent functions can be instrumented.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200722220519.513463269@linutronix.de

Some Makefiles already pass -fno-stack-protector unconditionally.
For example, arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile, arch/x86/xen/Makefile.

No problem report so far about hard-coding this option. So, we can
assume all supported compilers know -fno-stack-protector.

GCC 4.8 and Clang support this option (https://godbolt.org/z/_HDGzN)

Get rid of cc-option from -fno-stack-protector.

Remove CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE, which is always 'y'.

Note:
arch/mips/vdso/Makefile adds -fno-stack-protector twice, first
unconditionally, and second conditionally. I removed the second one.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

All architectures support copy_thread_tls() now, so remove the legacy
copy_thread() function and the HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS config option. Everyone
uses the same process creation calling convention based on
copy_thread_tls() and struct kernel_clone_args. This will make it easier to
maintain the core process creation code under kernel/, simplifies the
callpaths and makes the identical for all architectures.

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

There are a number of random documents that seem to be
describing some aspects of the core-api. Move them to such
directory, adding them at the core-api/index.rst file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86d979ed183adb76af93a92f20189bccf97f0055.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>