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<title>linux.git/arch/ia64/include/asm, branch v4.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ia64: Convert remaining atomic operations</title>
<updated>2018-03-05T22:39:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-19T17:41:26+00:00</published>
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While we've only seen inlining problems with atomic_sub_return(),
the other atomic operations could have the same problem.  Convert all
remaining operations to use the same solution as atomic_sub_return().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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While we've only seen inlining problems with atomic_sub_return(),
the other atomic operations could have the same problem.  Convert all
remaining operations to use the same solution as atomic_sub_return().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()</title>
<updated>2018-02-21T23:35:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T22:45:54+00:00</published>
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Looking at functions with large stack frames across all architectures
led me discovering that BUG() suffers from the same problem as
fortify_panic(), which I've added a workaround for already.

In short, variables that go out of scope by calling a noreturn function
or __builtin_unreachable() keep using stack space in functions
afterwards.

A workaround that was identified is to insert an empty assembler
statement just before calling the function that doesn't return.  I'm
adding a macro "barrier_before_unreachable()" to document this, and
insert calls to that in all instances of BUG() that currently suffer
from this problem.

The files that saw the largest change from this had these frame sizes
before, and much less with my patch:

  fs/ext4/inode.c:82:1: warning: the frame size of 1672 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/ext4/namei.c:434:1: warning: the frame size of 904 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/ext4/super.c:2279:1: warning: the frame size of 1160 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/ext4/xattr.c:146:1: warning: the frame size of 1168 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/f2fs/inode.c:152:1: warning: the frame size of 1424 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:1195:1: warning: the frame size of 1068 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:395:1: warning: the frame size of 1084 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c:298:1: warning: the frame size of 928 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c:418:1: warning: the frame size of 908 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c:718:1: warning: the frame size of 960 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:1500:1: warning: the frame size of 1088 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

In case of ARC and CRIS, it turns out that the BUG() implementation
actually does return (or at least the compiler thinks it does),
resulting in lots of warnings about uninitialized variable use and
leaving noreturn functions, such as:

  block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfq_async_queue_prio':
  block/cfq-iosched.c:3804:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
  include/linux/dmaengine.h: In function 'dma_maxpq':
  include/linux/dmaengine.h:1123:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]

This makes them call __builtin_trap() instead, which should normally
dump the stack and kill the current process, like some of the other
architectures already do.

I tried adding barrier_before_unreachable() to panic() and
fortify_panic() as well, but that had very little effect, so I'm not
submitting that patch.

Vineet said:

: For ARC, it is double win.
:
: 1. Fixes 3 -Wreturn-type warnings
:
: | ../net/core/ethtool.c:311:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
: [-Wreturn-type]
: | ../kernel/sched/core.c:3246:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
: [-Wreturn-type]
: | ../include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h:180:1: warning: control reaches end of
: non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
:
: 2.  bloat-o-meter reports code size improvements as gcc elides the
:    generated code for stack return.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171219114112.939391-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;	[arch/arc]
Tested-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;	[arch/arc]
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Christopher Li &lt;sparse@chrisli.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.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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<pre>
Looking at functions with large stack frames across all architectures
led me discovering that BUG() suffers from the same problem as
fortify_panic(), which I've added a workaround for already.

In short, variables that go out of scope by calling a noreturn function
or __builtin_unreachable() keep using stack space in functions
afterwards.

A workaround that was identified is to insert an empty assembler
statement just before calling the function that doesn't return.  I'm
adding a macro "barrier_before_unreachable()" to document this, and
insert calls to that in all instances of BUG() that currently suffer
from this problem.

The files that saw the largest change from this had these frame sizes
before, and much less with my patch:

  fs/ext4/inode.c:82:1: warning: the frame size of 1672 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/ext4/namei.c:434:1: warning: the frame size of 904 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/ext4/super.c:2279:1: warning: the frame size of 1160 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/ext4/xattr.c:146:1: warning: the frame size of 1168 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  fs/f2fs/inode.c:152:1: warning: the frame size of 1424 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:1195:1: warning: the frame size of 1068 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:395:1: warning: the frame size of 1084 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c:298:1: warning: the frame size of 928 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c:418:1: warning: the frame size of 908 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c:718:1: warning: the frame size of 960 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:1500:1: warning: the frame size of 1088 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

In case of ARC and CRIS, it turns out that the BUG() implementation
actually does return (or at least the compiler thinks it does),
resulting in lots of warnings about uninitialized variable use and
leaving noreturn functions, such as:

  block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfq_async_queue_prio':
  block/cfq-iosched.c:3804:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
  include/linux/dmaengine.h: In function 'dma_maxpq':
  include/linux/dmaengine.h:1123:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]

This makes them call __builtin_trap() instead, which should normally
dump the stack and kill the current process, like some of the other
architectures already do.

I tried adding barrier_before_unreachable() to panic() and
fortify_panic() as well, but that had very little effect, so I'm not
submitting that patch.

Vineet said:

: For ARC, it is double win.
:
: 1. Fixes 3 -Wreturn-type warnings
:
: | ../net/core/ethtool.c:311:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
: [-Wreturn-type]
: | ../kernel/sched/core.c:3246:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
: [-Wreturn-type]
: | ../include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h:180:1: warning: control reaches end of
: non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
:
: 2.  bloat-o-meter reports code size improvements as gcc elides the
:    generated code for stack return.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171219114112.939391-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;	[arch/arc]
Tested-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;	[arch/arc]
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Christopher Li &lt;sparse@chrisli.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T00:56:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T00:56:07+00:00</published>
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Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
 "The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly
  due to the clk rate protection support added by Jerome Brunet.

  This feature will allow consumers to lock in a certain rate on the
  output of a clk so that things like audio playback don't hear pops
  when the clk frequency changes due to shared parent clks changing
  rates. Currently the clk API doesn't guarantee the rate of a clk stays
  at the rate you request after clk_set_rate() is called, so this new
  API will allow drivers to express that requirement.

  Beyond this, the core got some debugfs pretty printing patches and a
  couple minor non-critical fixes.

  Looking outside of the core framework diff we have some new driver
  additions and the removal of a legacy TI clk driver. Both of these hit
  high in the dirstat. Also, the removal of the asm-generic/clkdev.h
  file causes small one-liners in all the architecture Kbuild files.

  Overall, the driver diff seems to be the normal stuff that comes all
  the time to fix little problems here and there and to support new
  hardware.

  Summary:

  Core:
   - Clk rate protection
   - Symbolic clk flags in debugfs output
   - Clk registration enabled clks while doing bookkeeping updates

  New Drivers:
   - Spreadtrum SC9860
   - HiSilicon hi3660 stub
   - Qualcomm A53 PLL, SPMI clkdiv, and MSM8916 APCS
   - Amlogic Meson-AXG
   - ASPEED BMC

  Removed Drivers:
   - TI OMAP 3xxx legacy clk (non-DT) support
   - asm*/clkdev.h got removed (not really a driver)

  Updates:
   - Renesas FDP1-0 module clock on R-Car M3-W
   - Renesas LVDS module clock on R-Car V3M
   - Misc fixes to pr_err() prints
   - Qualcomm MSM8916 audio fixes
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 rounded out support for more peripherals
   - Qualcomm Alpha PLL variants
   - Divider code was using container_of() on bad pointers
   - Allwinner DE2 clks on H3
   - Amlogic minor data fixes and dropping of CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
   - Mediatek clk driver compile test support
   - AT91 PMC clk suspend/resume restoration support
   - PLL issues fixed on si5351
   - Broadcom IProc PLL calculation updates
   - DVFS support for Armada mvebu CPU clks
   - Allwinner fixed post-divider support
   - TI clkctrl fixes and support for newer SoCs"

* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (125 commits)
  clk: aspeed: Handle inverse polarity of USB port 1 clock gate
  clk: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_cc_init()
  clk: aspeed: Add reset controller
  clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks
  clk: aspeed: Add platform driver and register PLLs
  clk: aspeed: Register core clocks
  clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs
  clk: mediatek: adjust dependency of reset.c to avoid unexpectedly being built
  clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems
  clk: meson-axg: fix potential NULL dereference in axg_clkc_probe()
  clk: Simplify debugfs registration
  clk: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  clk: Show symbolic clock flags in debugfs
  clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add FDP clock
  clk: Move __clk_{get,put}() into private clk.h API
  clk: sunxi: Use CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for critical clks
  clk: Improve flags doc for of_clk_detect_critical()
  arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild
  clk: sunxi-ng: a83t: Add M divider to TCON1 clock
  clk: Prepare to remove asm-generic/clkdev.h
  ...
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Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
 "The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly
  due to the clk rate protection support added by Jerome Brunet.

  This feature will allow consumers to lock in a certain rate on the
  output of a clk so that things like audio playback don't hear pops
  when the clk frequency changes due to shared parent clks changing
  rates. Currently the clk API doesn't guarantee the rate of a clk stays
  at the rate you request after clk_set_rate() is called, so this new
  API will allow drivers to express that requirement.

  Beyond this, the core got some debugfs pretty printing patches and a
  couple minor non-critical fixes.

  Looking outside of the core framework diff we have some new driver
  additions and the removal of a legacy TI clk driver. Both of these hit
  high in the dirstat. Also, the removal of the asm-generic/clkdev.h
  file causes small one-liners in all the architecture Kbuild files.

  Overall, the driver diff seems to be the normal stuff that comes all
  the time to fix little problems here and there and to support new
  hardware.

  Summary:

  Core:
   - Clk rate protection
   - Symbolic clk flags in debugfs output
   - Clk registration enabled clks while doing bookkeeping updates

  New Drivers:
   - Spreadtrum SC9860
   - HiSilicon hi3660 stub
   - Qualcomm A53 PLL, SPMI clkdiv, and MSM8916 APCS
   - Amlogic Meson-AXG
   - ASPEED BMC

  Removed Drivers:
   - TI OMAP 3xxx legacy clk (non-DT) support
   - asm*/clkdev.h got removed (not really a driver)

  Updates:
   - Renesas FDP1-0 module clock on R-Car M3-W
   - Renesas LVDS module clock on R-Car V3M
   - Misc fixes to pr_err() prints
   - Qualcomm MSM8916 audio fixes
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 rounded out support for more peripherals
   - Qualcomm Alpha PLL variants
   - Divider code was using container_of() on bad pointers
   - Allwinner DE2 clks on H3
   - Amlogic minor data fixes and dropping of CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
   - Mediatek clk driver compile test support
   - AT91 PMC clk suspend/resume restoration support
   - PLL issues fixed on si5351
   - Broadcom IProc PLL calculation updates
   - DVFS support for Armada mvebu CPU clks
   - Allwinner fixed post-divider support
   - TI clkctrl fixes and support for newer SoCs"

* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (125 commits)
  clk: aspeed: Handle inverse polarity of USB port 1 clock gate
  clk: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_cc_init()
  clk: aspeed: Add reset controller
  clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks
  clk: aspeed: Add platform driver and register PLLs
  clk: aspeed: Register core clocks
  clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs
  clk: mediatek: adjust dependency of reset.c to avoid unexpectedly being built
  clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems
  clk: meson-axg: fix potential NULL dereference in axg_clkc_probe()
  clk: Simplify debugfs registration
  clk: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  clk: Show symbolic clock flags in debugfs
  clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add FDP clock
  clk: Move __clk_{get,put}() into private clk.h API
  clk: sunxi: Use CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for critical clks
  clk: Improve flags doc for of_clk_detect_critical()
  arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild
  clk: sunxi-ng: a83t: Add M divider to TCON1 clock
  clk: Prepare to remove asm-generic/clkdev.h
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.whack-a-mole' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T03:18:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T03:18:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=40b9672a2f071cbf931eb144997a21332bc0a747'/>
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Pull asm/uaccess.h whack-a-mole from Al Viro:
 "It's linux/uaccess.h, damnit... Oh, well - eventually they'll stop
  cropping up..."

* 'work.whack-a-mole' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  asm-prototypes.h: use linux/uaccess.h, not asm/uaccess.h
  riscv: use linux/uaccess.h, not asm/uaccess.h...
  ppc: for put_user() pull linux/uaccess.h, not asm/uaccess.h
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Pull asm/uaccess.h whack-a-mole from Al Viro:
 "It's linux/uaccess.h, damnit... Oh, well - eventually they'll stop
  cropping up..."

* 'work.whack-a-mole' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  asm-prototypes.h: use linux/uaccess.h, not asm/uaccess.h
  riscv: use linux/uaccess.h, not asm/uaccess.h...
  ppc: for put_user() pull linux/uaccess.h, not asm/uaccess.h
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2382dc9a3eca644147be83dd2cd0dd64dc9e3e8c'/>
<id>2382dc9a3eca644147be83dd2cd0dd64dc9e3e8c</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T17:08:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-29T17:08:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=49f9c3552ccc30f4f98c45d94d7f9b335596913f'/>
<id>49f9c3552ccc30f4f98c45d94d7f9b335596913f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull init_task initializer cleanups from David Howells:
 "It doesn't seem useful to have the init_task in a header file rather
  than in a normal source file. We could consolidate init_task handling
  instead and expand out various macros.

  Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling:

   (1) Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds for cris, hexagon and
       openrisc.

   (2) Alter the INIT_TASK_DATA linker script macro to set
       init_thread_union and init_stack rather than defining these in C.

       Insert init_task and init_thread_into into the init_stack area in
       the linker script as appropriate to the configuration, with
       different section markers so that they end up correctly ordered.

       We can then get merge ia64's init_task.c into the main one.

       We then have a bunch of single-use INIT_*() macros that seem only
       to be macros because they used to be used per-arch. We can then
       expand these in place of the user and get rid of a few lines and
       a lot of backslashes.

   (3) Expand INIT_TASK() in place.

   (4) Expand in place various small INIT_*() macros that are defined
       conditionally. Expand them and surround them by #if[n]def/#endif
       in the .c file as it takes fewer lines.

   (5) Expand INIT_SIGNALS() and INIT_SIGHAND() in place.

   (6) Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID in place.

  These macros can then be discarded"

* tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID and remove
  Expand the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros and remove
  Expand various INIT_* macros and remove
  Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove
  Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union
  openrisc: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  hexagon: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  cris: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
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<pre>
Pull init_task initializer cleanups from David Howells:
 "It doesn't seem useful to have the init_task in a header file rather
  than in a normal source file. We could consolidate init_task handling
  instead and expand out various macros.

  Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling:

   (1) Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds for cris, hexagon and
       openrisc.

   (2) Alter the INIT_TASK_DATA linker script macro to set
       init_thread_union and init_stack rather than defining these in C.

       Insert init_task and init_thread_into into the init_stack area in
       the linker script as appropriate to the configuration, with
       different section markers so that they end up correctly ordered.

       We can then get merge ia64's init_task.c into the main one.

       We then have a bunch of single-use INIT_*() macros that seem only
       to be macros because they used to be used per-arch. We can then
       expand these in place of the user and get rid of a few lines and
       a lot of backslashes.

   (3) Expand INIT_TASK() in place.

   (4) Expand in place various small INIT_*() macros that are defined
       conditionally. Expand them and surround them by #if[n]def/#endif
       in the .c file as it takes fewer lines.

   (5) Expand INIT_SIGNALS() and INIT_SIGHAND() in place.

   (6) Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID in place.

  These macros can then be discarded"

* tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID and remove
  Expand the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros and remove
  Expand various INIT_* macros and remove
  Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove
  Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union
  openrisc: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  hexagon: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  cris: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: Rewrite atomic_add and atomic_sub</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T18:47:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T21:52:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4b664e739f7743f91e1d12ebfb7a76307ebea702'/>
<id>4b664e739f7743f91e1d12ebfb7a76307ebea702</id>
<content type='text'>
Force __builtin_constant_p to evaluate whether the argument to atomic_add
&amp; atomic_sub is constant in the front-end before optimisations which
can lead GCC to output a call to __bad_increment_for_ia64_fetch_and_add().

See GCC bugzilla 83653.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Force __builtin_constant_p to evaluate whether the argument to atomic_add
&amp; atomic_sub is constant in the front-end before optimisations which
can lead GCC to output a call to __bad_increment_for_ia64_fetch_and_add().

See GCC bugzilla 83653.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: clean up swiotlb support</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T08:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-24T12:57:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4fac8076df854aa4ddb8acbf6cce9d337300219e'/>
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Move the few remaining bits of swiotlb glue towards their callers,
and remove the pointless on ia64 swiotlb variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
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Move the few remaining bits of swiotlb glue towards their callers,
and remove the pointless on ia64 swiotlb variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: move dma_mark_clean to dma-direct.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T15:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T21:11:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b49efd76248242169f28ffd20ada05064d01ed9f'/>
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And unlike the other helpers we don't require a &lt;asm/dma-direct.h&gt; as
this helper is a special case for ia64 only, and this keeps it as
simple as possible.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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And unlike the other helpers we don't require a &lt;asm/dma-direct.h&gt; as
this helper is a special case for ia64 only, and this keeps it as
simple as possible.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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