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<title>linux.git/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h, branch v4.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>arch: remove unused macro/function thread_saved_pc()</title>
<updated>2017-06-28T23:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-28T13:30:02+00:00</published>
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The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed
in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in
sched_show_task()").  Remove the implementations as well.

Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code.
Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed
in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in
sched_show_task()").  Remove the implementations as well.

Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code.
Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core: Remove unused prefetch_stack()</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T00:45:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-05T11:11:03+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
prefetch_stack() is defined by IA64, but not actually used anywhere anymore.

Remove it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
prefetch_stack() is defined by IA64, but not actually used anywhere anymore.

Remove it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T07:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-16T12:23:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 &lt;linux-s390@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 &lt;linux-s390@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/core, arch: Remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()</title>
<updated>2016-11-16T09:15:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-25T09:03:15+00:00</published>
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As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield()</title>
<updated>2016-11-16T09:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-25T09:03:11+00:00</published>
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For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, mips, ia64: Remove __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW</title>
<updated>2014-09-24T12:47:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-23T15:06:41+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Kirill found that there's a subtle race in the
__ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW code, and instead of fixing it, remove the
entire exception because neither arch that uses it seems to actually
still require it.

Boot tested on mips64el (qemu) only.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@yandex.ru&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140923150641.GH3312@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Kirill found that there's a subtle race in the
__ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW code, and instead of fixing it, remove the
entire exception because neither arch that uses it seems to actually
still require it.

Boot tested on mips64el (qemu) only.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@yandex.ru&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140923150641.GH3312@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T10:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-29T22:09:33+00:00</published>
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The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is
hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact
that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus
impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays
we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and
lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header,
any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well.

This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency  ("relax, but
only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in
each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax
functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax,
and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant,
I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific
logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to
transparently define it, similarly to System Z.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bharat Bhushan &lt;r65777@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stratos Karafotis &lt;stratosk@semaphore.gr&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
Cc: adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404079773.2619.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is
hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact
that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus
impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays
we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and
lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header,
any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well.

This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency  ("relax, but
only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in
each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax
functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax,
and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant,
I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific
logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to
transparently define it, similarly to System Z.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bharat Bhushan &lt;r65777@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar &lt;deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Joseph Myers &lt;joseph@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stratos Karafotis &lt;stratosk@semaphore.gr&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
Cc: adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404079773.2619.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk/cache: mark printk_once test variable __read_mostly</title>
<updated>2014-01-24T00:36:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T23:54:16+00:00</published>
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Add #include &lt;linux/cache.h&gt; to define __read_mostly.

Convert cache.h to use uapi/linux/kernel.h instead
of linux/kernel.h to avoid recursive #includes.

Convert the ALIGN macro to __ALIGN_KERNEL.

printk_once only sets the bool variable tested
once so mark it __read_mostly.

Neaten the alignment so it matches the rest of the
pr_&lt;level&gt;_once #defines too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.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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Add #include &lt;linux/cache.h&gt; to define __read_mostly.

Convert cache.h to use uapi/linux/kernel.h instead
of linux/kernel.h to avoid recursive #includes.

Convert the ALIGN macro to __ALIGN_KERNEL.

printk_once only sets the bool variable tested
once so mark it __read_mostly.

Neaten the alignment so it matches the rest of the
pr_&lt;level&gt;_once #defines too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:11:17+00:00</published>
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The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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 get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: switch to generic kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()</title>
<updated>2012-10-19T18:28:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-14T19:43:06+00:00</published>
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<id>54d496c3915a10b5e46c5dd9de1a6d301ceb32bd</id>
<content type='text'>
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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