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Patch series "Introduce mseal", v10.

This patchset proposes a new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel.

In a nutshell, mseal() protects the VMAs of a given virtual memory range
against modifications, such as changes to their permission bits.

Modern CPUs support memory permissions, such as the read/write (RW) and
no-execute (NX) bits.  Linux has supported NX since the release of kernel
version 2.6.8 in August 2004 [1].  The memory permission feature improves
the security stance on memory corruption bugs, as an attacker cannot
simply write to arbitrary memory and point the code to it.  The memory
must be marked with the X bit, or else an exception will occur. 
Internally, the kernel maintains the memory permissions in a data
structure called VMA (vm_area_struct).  mseal() additionally protects the
VMA itself against modifications of the selected seal type.

Memory sealing is useful to mitigate memory corruption issues where a
corrupted pointer is passed to a memory management system.  For example,
such an attacker primitive can break control-flow integrity guarantees
since read-only memory that is supposed to be trusted can become writable
or .text pages can get remapped.  Memory sealing can automatically be
applied by the runtime loader to seal .text and .rodata pages and
applications can additionally seal security critical data at runtime.  A
similar feature already exists in the XNU kernel with the
VM_FLAGS_PERMANENT [3] flag and on OpenBSD with the mimmutable syscall
[4].  Also, Chrome wants to adopt this feature for their CFI work [2] and
this patchset has been designed to be compatible with the Chrome use case.

Two system calls are involved in sealing the map:  mmap() and mseal().

The new mseal() is an syscall on 64 bit CPU, and with following signature:

int mseal(void addr, size_t len, unsigned long flags)
addr/len: memory range.
flags: reserved.

mseal() blocks following operations for the given memory range.

1&gt; Unmapping, moving to another location, and shrinking the size,
   via munmap() and mremap(), can leave an empty space, therefore can
   be replaced with a VMA with a new set of attributes.

2&gt; Moving or expanding a different VMA into the current location,
   via mremap().

3&gt; Modifying a VMA via mmap(MAP_FIXED).

4&gt; Size expansion, via mremap(), does not appear to pose any specific
   risks to sealed VMAs. It is included anyway because the use case is
   unclear. In any case, users can rely on merging to expand a sealed VMA.

5&gt; mprotect() and pkey_mprotect().

6&gt; Some destructive madvice() behaviors (e.g. MADV_DONTNEED) for anonymous
   memory, when users don't have write permission to the memory. Those
   behaviors can alter region contents by discarding pages, effectively a
   memset(0) for anonymous memory.

The idea that inspired this patch comes from Stephen Röttger’s work in
V8 CFI [5].  Chrome browser in ChromeOS will be the first user of this
API.

Indeed, the Chrome browser has very specific requirements for sealing,
which are distinct from those of most applications.  For example, in the
case of libc, sealing is only applied to read-only (RO) or read-execute
(RX) memory segments (such as .text and .RELRO) to prevent them from
becoming writable, the lifetime of those mappings are tied to the lifetime
of the process.

Chrome wants to seal two large address space reservations that are managed
by different allocators.  The memory is mapped RW- and RWX respectively
but write access to it is restricted using pkeys (or in the future ARM
permission overlay extensions).  The lifetime of those mappings are not
tied to the lifetime of the process, therefore, while the memory is
sealed, the allocators still need to free or discard the unused memory. 
For example, with madvise(DONTNEED).

However, always allowing madvise(DONTNEED) on this range poses a security
risk.  For example if a jump instruction crosses a page boundary and the
second page gets discarded, it will overwrite the target bytes with zeros
and change the control flow.  Checking write-permission before the discard
operation allows us to control when the operation is valid.  In this case,
the madvise will only succeed if the executing thread has PKEY write
permissions and PKRU changes are protected in software by control-flow
integrity.

Although the initial version of this patch series is targeting the Chrome
browser as its first user, it became evident during upstream discussions
that we would also want to ensure that the patch set eventually is a
complete solution for memory sealing and compatible with other use cases. 
The specific scenario currently in mind is glibc's use case of loading and
sealing ELF executables.  To this end, Stephen is working on a change to
glibc to add sealing support to the dynamic linker, which will seal all
non-writable segments at startup.  Once this work is completed, all
applications will be able to automatically benefit from these new
protections.

In closing, I would like to formally acknowledge the valuable
contributions received during the RFC process, which were instrumental in
shaping this patch:

Jann Horn: raising awareness and providing valuable insights on the
  destructive madvise operations.
Liam R. Howlett: perf optimization.
Linus Torvalds: assisting in defining system call signature and scope.
Theo de Raadt: sharing the experiences and insight gained from
  implementing mimmutable() in OpenBSD.

MM perf benchmarks
==================
This patch adds a loop in the mprotect/munmap/madvise(DONTNEED) to
check the VMAs’ sealing flag, so that no partial update can be made,
when any segment within the given memory range is sealed.

To measure the performance impact of this loop, two tests are developed.
[8]

The first is measuring the time taken for a particular system call,
by using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). The second is using
PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES (exclude user space). Both tests have
similar results.

The tests have roughly below sequence:
for (i = 0; i &lt; 1000, i++)
    create 1000 mappings (1 page per VMA)
    start the sampling
    for (j = 0; j &lt; 1000, j++)
        mprotect one mapping
    stop and save the sample
    delete 1000 mappings
calculates all samples.

Below tests are performed on Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold 7505 @ 2.00GHz,
4G memory, Chromebook.

Based on the latest upstream code:
The first test (measuring time)
syscall__	vmas	t	t_mseal	delta_ns	per_vma	%
munmap__  	1	909	944	35	35	104%
munmap__  	2	1398	1502	104	52	107%
munmap__  	4	2444	2594	149	37	106%
munmap__  	8	4029	4323	293	37	107%
munmap__  	16	6647	6935	288	18	104%
munmap__  	32	11811	12398	587	18	105%
mprotect	1	439	465	26	26	106%
mprotect	2	1659	1745	86	43	105%
mprotect	4	3747	3889	142	36	104%
mprotect	8	6755	6969	215	27	103%
mprotect	16	13748	14144	396	25	103%
mprotect	32	27827	28969	1142	36	104%
madvise_	1	240	262	22	22	109%
madvise_	2	366	442	76	38	121%
madvise_	4	623	751	128	32	121%
madvise_	8	1110	1324	215	27	119%
madvise_	16	2127	2451	324	20	115%
madvise_	32	4109	4642	534	17	113%

The second test (measuring cpu cycle)
syscall__	vmas	cpu	cmseal	delta_cpu	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	1790	1890	100	100	106%
munmap__	2	2819	3033	214	107	108%
munmap__	4	4959	5271	312	78	106%
munmap__	8	8262	8745	483	60	106%
munmap__	16	13099	14116	1017	64	108%
munmap__	32	23221	24785	1565	49	107%
mprotect	1	906	967	62	62	107%
mprotect	2	3019	3203	184	92	106%
mprotect	4	6149	6569	420	105	107%
mprotect	8	9978	10524	545	68	105%
mprotect	16	20448	21427	979	61	105%
mprotect	32	40972	42935	1963	61	105%
madvise_	1	434	497	63	63	115%
madvise_	2	752	899	147	74	120%
madvise_	4	1313	1513	200	50	115%
madvise_	8	2271	2627	356	44	116%
madvise_	16	4312	4883	571	36	113%
madvise_	32	8376	9319	943	29	111%

Based on the result, for 6.8 kernel, sealing check adds
20-40 nano seconds, or around 50-100 CPU cycles, per VMA.

In addition, I applied the sealing to 5.10 kernel:
The first test (measuring time)
syscall__	vmas	t	tmseal	delta_ns	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	357	390	33	33	109%
munmap__	2	442	463	21	11	105%
munmap__	4	614	634	20	5	103%
munmap__	8	1017	1137	120	15	112%
munmap__	16	1889	2153	263	16	114%
munmap__	32	4109	4088	-21	-1	99%
mprotect	1	235	227	-7	-7	97%
mprotect	2	495	464	-30	-15	94%
mprotect	4	741	764	24	6	103%
mprotect	8	1434	1437	2	0	100%
mprotect	16	2958	2991	33	2	101%
mprotect	32	6431	6608	177	6	103%
madvise_	1	191	208	16	16	109%
madvise_	2	300	324	24	12	108%
madvise_	4	450	473	23	6	105%
madvise_	8	753	806	53	7	107%
madvise_	16	1467	1592	125	8	108%
madvise_	32	2795	3405	610	19	122%
					
The second test (measuring cpu cycle)
syscall__	nbr_vma	cpu	cmseal	delta_cpu	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	684	715	31	31	105%
munmap__	2	861	898	38	19	104%
munmap__	4	1183	1235	51	13	104%
munmap__	8	1999	2045	46	6	102%
munmap__	16	3839	3816	-23	-1	99%
munmap__	32	7672	7887	216	7	103%
mprotect	1	397	443	46	46	112%
mprotect	2	738	788	50	25	107%
mprotect	4	1221	1256	35	9	103%
mprotect	8	2356	2429	72	9	103%
mprotect	16	4961	4935	-26	-2	99%
mprotect	32	9882	10172	291	9	103%
madvise_	1	351	380	29	29	108%
madvise_	2	565	615	49	25	109%
madvise_	4	872	933	61	15	107%
madvise_	8	1508	1640	132	16	109%
madvise_	16	3078	3323	245	15	108%
madvise_	32	5893	6704	811	25	114%

For 5.10 kernel, sealing check adds 0-15 ns in time, or 10-30
CPU cycles, there is even decrease in some cases.

It might be interesting to compare 5.10 and 6.8 kernel
The first test (measuring time)
syscall__	vmas	t_5_10	t_6_8	delta_ns	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	357	909	552	552	254%
munmap__	2	442	1398	956	478	316%
munmap__	4	614	2444	1830	458	398%
munmap__	8	1017	4029	3012	377	396%
munmap__	16	1889	6647	4758	297	352%
munmap__	32	4109	11811	7702	241	287%
mprotect	1	235	439	204	204	187%
mprotect	2	495	1659	1164	582	335%
mprotect	4	741	3747	3006	752	506%
mprotect	8	1434	6755	5320	665	471%
mprotect	16	2958	13748	10790	674	465%
mprotect	32	6431	27827	21397	669	433%
madvise_	1	191	240	49	49	125%
madvise_	2	300	366	67	33	122%
madvise_	4	450	623	173	43	138%
madvise_	8	753	1110	357	45	147%
madvise_	16	1467	2127	660	41	145%
madvise_	32	2795	4109	1314	41	147%

The second test (measuring cpu cycle)
syscall__	vmas	cpu_5_10	c_6_8	delta_cpu	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	684	1790	1106	1106	262%
munmap__	2	861	2819	1958	979	327%
munmap__	4	1183	4959	3776	944	419%
munmap__	8	1999	8262	6263	783	413%
munmap__	16	3839	13099	9260	579	341%
munmap__	32	7672	23221	15549	486	303%
mprotect	1	397	906	509	509	228%
mprotect	2	738	3019	2281	1140	409%
mprotect	4	1221	6149	4929	1232	504%
mprotect	8	2356	9978	7622	953	423%
mprotect	16	4961	20448	15487	968	412%
mprotect	32	9882	40972	31091	972	415%
madvise_	1	351	434	82	82	123%
madvise_	2	565	752	186	93	133%
madvise_	4	872	1313	442	110	151%
madvise_	8	1508	2271	763	95	151%
madvise_	16	3078	4312	1234	77	140%
madvise_	32	5893	8376	2483	78	142%

From 5.10 to 6.8
munmap: added 250-550 ns in time, or 500-1100 in cpu cycle, per vma.
mprotect: added 200-750 ns in time, or 500-1200 in cpu cycle, per vma.
madvise: added 33-50 ns in time, or 70-110 in cpu cycle, per vma.

In comparison to mseal, which adds 20-40 ns or 50-100 CPU cycles, the
increase from 5.10 to 6.8 is significantly larger, approximately ten times
greater for munmap and mprotect.

When I discuss the mm performance with Brian Makin, an engineer who worked
on performance, it was brought to my attention that such performance
benchmarks, which measuring millions of mm syscall in a tight loop, may
not accurately reflect real-world scenarios, such as that of a database
service.  Also this is tested using a single HW and ChromeOS, the data
from another HW or distribution might be different.  It might be best to
take this data with a grain of salt.


This patch (of 5):

Wire up mseal syscall for all architectures.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-1-jeffxu@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-2-jeffxu@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt; [Bug #2]
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Röttger &lt;sroettger@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amer Al Shanawany &lt;amer.shanawany@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Javier Carrasco &lt;javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "Introduce mseal", v10.

This patchset proposes a new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel.

In a nutshell, mseal() protects the VMAs of a given virtual memory range
against modifications, such as changes to their permission bits.

Modern CPUs support memory permissions, such as the read/write (RW) and
no-execute (NX) bits.  Linux has supported NX since the release of kernel
version 2.6.8 in August 2004 [1].  The memory permission feature improves
the security stance on memory corruption bugs, as an attacker cannot
simply write to arbitrary memory and point the code to it.  The memory
must be marked with the X bit, or else an exception will occur. 
Internally, the kernel maintains the memory permissions in a data
structure called VMA (vm_area_struct).  mseal() additionally protects the
VMA itself against modifications of the selected seal type.

Memory sealing is useful to mitigate memory corruption issues where a
corrupted pointer is passed to a memory management system.  For example,
such an attacker primitive can break control-flow integrity guarantees
since read-only memory that is supposed to be trusted can become writable
or .text pages can get remapped.  Memory sealing can automatically be
applied by the runtime loader to seal .text and .rodata pages and
applications can additionally seal security critical data at runtime.  A
similar feature already exists in the XNU kernel with the
VM_FLAGS_PERMANENT [3] flag and on OpenBSD with the mimmutable syscall
[4].  Also, Chrome wants to adopt this feature for their CFI work [2] and
this patchset has been designed to be compatible with the Chrome use case.

Two system calls are involved in sealing the map:  mmap() and mseal().

The new mseal() is an syscall on 64 bit CPU, and with following signature:

int mseal(void addr, size_t len, unsigned long flags)
addr/len: memory range.
flags: reserved.

mseal() blocks following operations for the given memory range.

1&gt; Unmapping, moving to another location, and shrinking the size,
   via munmap() and mremap(), can leave an empty space, therefore can
   be replaced with a VMA with a new set of attributes.

2&gt; Moving or expanding a different VMA into the current location,
   via mremap().

3&gt; Modifying a VMA via mmap(MAP_FIXED).

4&gt; Size expansion, via mremap(), does not appear to pose any specific
   risks to sealed VMAs. It is included anyway because the use case is
   unclear. In any case, users can rely on merging to expand a sealed VMA.

5&gt; mprotect() and pkey_mprotect().

6&gt; Some destructive madvice() behaviors (e.g. MADV_DONTNEED) for anonymous
   memory, when users don't have write permission to the memory. Those
   behaviors can alter region contents by discarding pages, effectively a
   memset(0) for anonymous memory.

The idea that inspired this patch comes from Stephen Röttger’s work in
V8 CFI [5].  Chrome browser in ChromeOS will be the first user of this
API.

Indeed, the Chrome browser has very specific requirements for sealing,
which are distinct from those of most applications.  For example, in the
case of libc, sealing is only applied to read-only (RO) or read-execute
(RX) memory segments (such as .text and .RELRO) to prevent them from
becoming writable, the lifetime of those mappings are tied to the lifetime
of the process.

Chrome wants to seal two large address space reservations that are managed
by different allocators.  The memory is mapped RW- and RWX respectively
but write access to it is restricted using pkeys (or in the future ARM
permission overlay extensions).  The lifetime of those mappings are not
tied to the lifetime of the process, therefore, while the memory is
sealed, the allocators still need to free or discard the unused memory. 
For example, with madvise(DONTNEED).

However, always allowing madvise(DONTNEED) on this range poses a security
risk.  For example if a jump instruction crosses a page boundary and the
second page gets discarded, it will overwrite the target bytes with zeros
and change the control flow.  Checking write-permission before the discard
operation allows us to control when the operation is valid.  In this case,
the madvise will only succeed if the executing thread has PKEY write
permissions and PKRU changes are protected in software by control-flow
integrity.

Although the initial version of this patch series is targeting the Chrome
browser as its first user, it became evident during upstream discussions
that we would also want to ensure that the patch set eventually is a
complete solution for memory sealing and compatible with other use cases. 
The specific scenario currently in mind is glibc's use case of loading and
sealing ELF executables.  To this end, Stephen is working on a change to
glibc to add sealing support to the dynamic linker, which will seal all
non-writable segments at startup.  Once this work is completed, all
applications will be able to automatically benefit from these new
protections.

In closing, I would like to formally acknowledge the valuable
contributions received during the RFC process, which were instrumental in
shaping this patch:

Jann Horn: raising awareness and providing valuable insights on the
  destructive madvise operations.
Liam R. Howlett: perf optimization.
Linus Torvalds: assisting in defining system call signature and scope.
Theo de Raadt: sharing the experiences and insight gained from
  implementing mimmutable() in OpenBSD.

MM perf benchmarks
==================
This patch adds a loop in the mprotect/munmap/madvise(DONTNEED) to
check the VMAs’ sealing flag, so that no partial update can be made,
when any segment within the given memory range is sealed.

To measure the performance impact of this loop, two tests are developed.
[8]

The first is measuring the time taken for a particular system call,
by using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). The second is using
PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES (exclude user space). Both tests have
similar results.

The tests have roughly below sequence:
for (i = 0; i &lt; 1000, i++)
    create 1000 mappings (1 page per VMA)
    start the sampling
    for (j = 0; j &lt; 1000, j++)
        mprotect one mapping
    stop and save the sample
    delete 1000 mappings
calculates all samples.

Below tests are performed on Intel(R) Pentium(R) Gold 7505 @ 2.00GHz,
4G memory, Chromebook.

Based on the latest upstream code:
The first test (measuring time)
syscall__	vmas	t	t_mseal	delta_ns	per_vma	%
munmap__  	1	909	944	35	35	104%
munmap__  	2	1398	1502	104	52	107%
munmap__  	4	2444	2594	149	37	106%
munmap__  	8	4029	4323	293	37	107%
munmap__  	16	6647	6935	288	18	104%
munmap__  	32	11811	12398	587	18	105%
mprotect	1	439	465	26	26	106%
mprotect	2	1659	1745	86	43	105%
mprotect	4	3747	3889	142	36	104%
mprotect	8	6755	6969	215	27	103%
mprotect	16	13748	14144	396	25	103%
mprotect	32	27827	28969	1142	36	104%
madvise_	1	240	262	22	22	109%
madvise_	2	366	442	76	38	121%
madvise_	4	623	751	128	32	121%
madvise_	8	1110	1324	215	27	119%
madvise_	16	2127	2451	324	20	115%
madvise_	32	4109	4642	534	17	113%

The second test (measuring cpu cycle)
syscall__	vmas	cpu	cmseal	delta_cpu	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	1790	1890	100	100	106%
munmap__	2	2819	3033	214	107	108%
munmap__	4	4959	5271	312	78	106%
munmap__	8	8262	8745	483	60	106%
munmap__	16	13099	14116	1017	64	108%
munmap__	32	23221	24785	1565	49	107%
mprotect	1	906	967	62	62	107%
mprotect	2	3019	3203	184	92	106%
mprotect	4	6149	6569	420	105	107%
mprotect	8	9978	10524	545	68	105%
mprotect	16	20448	21427	979	61	105%
mprotect	32	40972	42935	1963	61	105%
madvise_	1	434	497	63	63	115%
madvise_	2	752	899	147	74	120%
madvise_	4	1313	1513	200	50	115%
madvise_	8	2271	2627	356	44	116%
madvise_	16	4312	4883	571	36	113%
madvise_	32	8376	9319	943	29	111%

Based on the result, for 6.8 kernel, sealing check adds
20-40 nano seconds, or around 50-100 CPU cycles, per VMA.

In addition, I applied the sealing to 5.10 kernel:
The first test (measuring time)
syscall__	vmas	t	tmseal	delta_ns	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	357	390	33	33	109%
munmap__	2	442	463	21	11	105%
munmap__	4	614	634	20	5	103%
munmap__	8	1017	1137	120	15	112%
munmap__	16	1889	2153	263	16	114%
munmap__	32	4109	4088	-21	-1	99%
mprotect	1	235	227	-7	-7	97%
mprotect	2	495	464	-30	-15	94%
mprotect	4	741	764	24	6	103%
mprotect	8	1434	1437	2	0	100%
mprotect	16	2958	2991	33	2	101%
mprotect	32	6431	6608	177	6	103%
madvise_	1	191	208	16	16	109%
madvise_	2	300	324	24	12	108%
madvise_	4	450	473	23	6	105%
madvise_	8	753	806	53	7	107%
madvise_	16	1467	1592	125	8	108%
madvise_	32	2795	3405	610	19	122%
					
The second test (measuring cpu cycle)
syscall__	nbr_vma	cpu	cmseal	delta_cpu	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	684	715	31	31	105%
munmap__	2	861	898	38	19	104%
munmap__	4	1183	1235	51	13	104%
munmap__	8	1999	2045	46	6	102%
munmap__	16	3839	3816	-23	-1	99%
munmap__	32	7672	7887	216	7	103%
mprotect	1	397	443	46	46	112%
mprotect	2	738	788	50	25	107%
mprotect	4	1221	1256	35	9	103%
mprotect	8	2356	2429	72	9	103%
mprotect	16	4961	4935	-26	-2	99%
mprotect	32	9882	10172	291	9	103%
madvise_	1	351	380	29	29	108%
madvise_	2	565	615	49	25	109%
madvise_	4	872	933	61	15	107%
madvise_	8	1508	1640	132	16	109%
madvise_	16	3078	3323	245	15	108%
madvise_	32	5893	6704	811	25	114%

For 5.10 kernel, sealing check adds 0-15 ns in time, or 10-30
CPU cycles, there is even decrease in some cases.

It might be interesting to compare 5.10 and 6.8 kernel
The first test (measuring time)
syscall__	vmas	t_5_10	t_6_8	delta_ns	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	357	909	552	552	254%
munmap__	2	442	1398	956	478	316%
munmap__	4	614	2444	1830	458	398%
munmap__	8	1017	4029	3012	377	396%
munmap__	16	1889	6647	4758	297	352%
munmap__	32	4109	11811	7702	241	287%
mprotect	1	235	439	204	204	187%
mprotect	2	495	1659	1164	582	335%
mprotect	4	741	3747	3006	752	506%
mprotect	8	1434	6755	5320	665	471%
mprotect	16	2958	13748	10790	674	465%
mprotect	32	6431	27827	21397	669	433%
madvise_	1	191	240	49	49	125%
madvise_	2	300	366	67	33	122%
madvise_	4	450	623	173	43	138%
madvise_	8	753	1110	357	45	147%
madvise_	16	1467	2127	660	41	145%
madvise_	32	2795	4109	1314	41	147%

The second test (measuring cpu cycle)
syscall__	vmas	cpu_5_10	c_6_8	delta_cpu	per_vma	%
munmap__	1	684	1790	1106	1106	262%
munmap__	2	861	2819	1958	979	327%
munmap__	4	1183	4959	3776	944	419%
munmap__	8	1999	8262	6263	783	413%
munmap__	16	3839	13099	9260	579	341%
munmap__	32	7672	23221	15549	486	303%
mprotect	1	397	906	509	509	228%
mprotect	2	738	3019	2281	1140	409%
mprotect	4	1221	6149	4929	1232	504%
mprotect	8	2356	9978	7622	953	423%
mprotect	16	4961	20448	15487	968	412%
mprotect	32	9882	40972	31091	972	415%
madvise_	1	351	434	82	82	123%
madvise_	2	565	752	186	93	133%
madvise_	4	872	1313	442	110	151%
madvise_	8	1508	2271	763	95	151%
madvise_	16	3078	4312	1234	77	140%
madvise_	32	5893	8376	2483	78	142%

From 5.10 to 6.8
munmap: added 250-550 ns in time, or 500-1100 in cpu cycle, per vma.
mprotect: added 200-750 ns in time, or 500-1200 in cpu cycle, per vma.
madvise: added 33-50 ns in time, or 70-110 in cpu cycle, per vma.

In comparison to mseal, which adds 20-40 ns or 50-100 CPU cycles, the
increase from 5.10 to 6.8 is significantly larger, approximately ten times
greater for munmap and mprotect.

When I discuss the mm performance with Brian Makin, an engineer who worked
on performance, it was brought to my attention that such performance
benchmarks, which measuring millions of mm syscall in a tight loop, may
not accurately reflect real-world scenarios, such as that of a database
service.  Also this is tested using a single HW and ChromeOS, the data
from another HW or distribution might be different.  It might be best to
take this data with a grain of salt.


This patch (of 5):

Wire up mseal syscall for all architectures.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-1-jeffxu@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-2-jeffxu@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt; [Bug #2]
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Röttger &lt;sroettger@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amer Al Shanawany &lt;amer.shanawany@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Javier Carrasco &lt;javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'm68knommu-for-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu</title>
<updated>2024-05-21T19:05:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-21T19:05:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=334e5639fc4e20752d46552abefc5311351e3bee'/>
<id>334e5639fc4e20752d46552abefc5311351e3bee</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull m68knommu update from Greg Ungerer:

 . remove use of kernel config option from uapi header

* tag 'm68knommu-for-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
  m68k: Avoid CONFIG_COLDFIRE switch in uapi header
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull m68knommu update from Greg Ungerer:

 . remove use of kernel config option from uapi header

* tag 'm68knommu-for-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
  m68k: Avoid CONFIG_COLDFIRE switch in uapi header
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2024-05-20T22:18:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-20T22:18:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3eb3c33c1d87029a3832e205eebd59cfb56ba3a4'/>
<id>3eb3c33c1d87029a3832e205eebd59cfb56ba3a4</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a few cross-architecture cleanup patches:

   - separate out fbdev support from the asm/video.h contents that may
     be used by either the old fbdev drivers or the newer drm display
     code (Thomas Zimmermann)

   - cleanups for the generic bitops code and asm-generic/bug.h
     (Thorsten Blum)

   - remove the orphaned include/asm-generic/page.h header that used to
     be included by long-removed mmu-less architectures (me)"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  arch: Fix name collision with ACPI's video.o
  bug: Improve comment
  asm-generic: remove unused asm-generic/page.h
  arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  arch: Select fbdev helpers with CONFIG_VIDEO
  bitops: Change function return types from long to int
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a few cross-architecture cleanup patches:

   - separate out fbdev support from the asm/video.h contents that may
     be used by either the old fbdev drivers or the newer drm display
     code (Thomas Zimmermann)

   - cleanups for the generic bitops code and asm-generic/bug.h
     (Thorsten Blum)

   - remove the orphaned include/asm-generic/page.h header that used to
     be included by long-removed mmu-less architectures (me)"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  arch: Fix name collision with ACPI's video.o
  bug: Improve comment
  asm-generic: remove unused asm-generic/page.h
  arch: Rename fbdev header and source files
  arch: Remove struct fb_info from video helpers
  arch: Select fbdev helpers with CONFIG_VIDEO
  bitops: Change function return types from long to int
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'drm-next-2024-05-15' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel</title>
<updated>2024-05-15T16:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-15T16:43:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=db5d28c0bfe566908719bec8e25443aabecbb802'/>
<id>db5d28c0bfe566908719bec8e25443aabecbb802</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "This is the main pull request for the drm subsystems for 6.10.

  In drivers the main thing is a new driver for ARM Mali firmware based
  GPUs, otherwise there are a lot of changes to amdgpu/xe/i915/msm and
  scattered changes to everything else.

  In the core a bunch of headers and Kconfig was refactored, along with
  the addition of a new panic handler which is meant to provide a user
  friendly message when a panic happens and graphical display is
  enabled.

  New drivers:
   - panthor: ARM Mali/Immortalis CSF-based GPU driver

  Core:
   - add a CONFIG_DRM_WERROR option
   - make more headers self-contained
   - grab resv lock in pin/unpin
   - fix vmap resv locking
   - EDID/eDP panel matching
   - Kconfig cleanups
   - DT sound bindings
   - Add SIZE_HINTS property for cursor planes
   - Add struct drm_edid_product_id and helpers.
   - Use drm device based logging in more drm functions.
   - drop seq_file.h from a bunch of places
   - use drm_edid driver conversions

  dp:
   - DP Tunnel documentation
   - MST read sideband cap
   - Adaptive sync SDP prep work

  ttm:
   - improve placement for TTM BOs in idle/busy handling

  panic:
   - Fixes for drm-panic, and option to test it.
   - Add drm panic to simpledrm, mgag200, imx, ast

  bridge:
   - improve init ordering
   - adv7511: allow GPIO pin sharing
   - tc358775: add tc358675 support

  panel:
   - AUO B120XAN01.0
   - Samsung s6e3fa7
   - BOE NT116WHM-N44
   - CMN N116BCA-EA1,
   - CrystalClear CMT430B19N00
   - Startek KD050HDFIA020-C020A
   - powertip PH128800T006-ZHC01
   - Innolux G121X1-L03
   - LG sw43408
   - Khadas TS050 V2
   - EDO RM69380 OLED
   - CSOT MNB601LS1-1

  amdgpu:
   - HDCP/ODM/RAS fixes
   - Devcoredump improvements
   - Expose VCN activity via sysfs
   - SMY 13.0.x updates
   - Enable fast updates on DCN 3.1.4
   - Add dclk and vclk reporting on additional devices
   - Add ACA RAS infrastructure
   - Implement TLB flush fence
   - EEPROM handling fixes
   - SMUIO 14.0.2 support
   - SMU 14.0.1 Updates
   - SMU 14.0.2 support
   - Sync page table freeing with TLB flushes
   - DML2 refactor
   - DC debug improvements
   - DCN 3.5.x Updates
   - GPU reset fixes
   - HDP fix for second GFX pipe on GC 10.x
   - Enable secondary GFX pipe on GC 10.3
   - Refactor and clean up BACO/BOCO/BAMACO handling
   - Remove invalid TTM resource start check
   - UAF fix in VA IOCTL
   - GPUVM page fault redirection to secondary IH rings for IH 6.x
   - Initial support for mapping kernel queues via MES
   - Fix VRAM memory accounting

  amdkfd:
   - MQD handling cleanup
   - Preemption handling fixes for XCDs
   - TLB flush fix for GC 9.4.2
   - Properly clean up workqueue during module unload
   - Fix memory leak process create failure
   - Range check CP bad op exception targets to avoid reporting invalid exceptions to userspace
   - Fix eviction fence handling
   - Fix leak in GPU memory allocation failure case
   - DMABuf import handling fix
   - Enable SQ watchpoint for gfx10

  i915:
   - Adding new DG2 PCI ID
   - add context hints for GT frequency
   - enable only one CCS for compute workloads
   - new workarounds
   - Fix UAF on destroy against retire race and remove two earlier partial fixes
   - Limit the reserved VM space to only the platforms that need it
   - Fix gt reset with GuC submission is disable
   - Add and use gt_to_guc() wrapper

  i915/xe display:
   - Lunar Lake display enabling, including cdclk and other refactors
   - BIOS/VBT/opregion related refactor
   - Digital port related refactor/clean-up
   - Fix 2s boot time regression on DP panel replay init
   - Remove duplication on audio enable/disable on SDVO and g4x+ DP
   - Disable AuxCCS framebuffers if built for Xe
   - Make crtc disable more atomic
   - Increase DP idle pattern wait timeout to 2ms
   - Start using container_of_const() for some extra const safety
   - Fix Jasper Lake boot freeze
   - Enable MST mode for 128b/132b single-stream sideband
   - Enable Adaptive Sync SDP Support for DP
   - Fix MTL supported DP rates - removal of UHBR13.5
   - PLL refactoring
   - Limit eDP MSO pipe only for display version 20
   - More display refactor towards independence from i915 dev_priv
   - Convert i915/xe fbdev to DRM client
   - More initial work to make display code more independent from i915

  xe:
   - improved error capture
   - clean up some uAPI leftovers
   - devcoredump update
   - Add BMG mocs table
   - Handle GSCCS ER interrupt
   - Implement xe2- and GuC workarounds
   - struct xe_device cleanup
   - Hwmon updates
   - Add LRC parsing for more GPU instruction
   - Increase VM_BIND number of per-ioctl Ops
   - drm/xe: Add XE_BO_GGTT_INVALIDATE flag
   - Initial development for SR-IOV support
   - Add new PCI IDs to DG2 platform
   - Move userptr over to start using hmm_range_fault

  msm:
   - Switched to generating register header files during build process
     instead of shipping pre-generated headers
   - Merged DPU and MDP4 format databases.
   - DP:
     - Stop using compat string to distinguish DP and eDP cases
     - Added support for X Elite platform (X1E80100)
     - Reworked DP aux/audio support
     - Added SM6350 DP to the bindings
   - GPU:
     - a7xx perfcntr reg fixes
     - MAINTAINERS updates
     - a750 devcoredump support

  radeon:
   - Silence UBSAN warnings related to flexible arrays

  nouveau:
   - move some uAPI objects to uapi headers

  omapdrm:
   - console fix

  ast:
   - add i2c polling

  qaic:
   - add debugfs entries

  exynos:
   - fix platform_driver .owner
   - drop cleanup code

  mediatek:
   - Use devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() in mtk_hdmi_ddc_probe()
   - Add GAMMA 12-bit LUT support for MT8188
   - Rename mtk_drm_* to mtk_*
   - Drop driver owner initialization
   - Correct calculation formula of PHY Timing"

* tag 'drm-next-2024-05-15' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1477 commits)
  drm/xe/ads: Use flexible-array
  drm/xe: Use ordered WQ for G2H handler
  drm/msm/gen_header: allow skipping the validation
  drm/msm/a6xx: Cleanup indexed regs const'ness
  drm/msm: Add devcoredump support for a750
  drm/msm: Adjust a7xx GBIF debugbus dumping
  drm/msm: Update a6xx registers XML
  drm/msm: Fix imported a750 snapshot header for upstream
  drm/msm: Import a750 snapshot registers from kgsl
  MAINTAINERS: Add Konrad Dybcio as a reviewer for the Adreno driver
  MAINTAINERS: Add a separate entry for Qualcomm Adreno GPU drivers
  drm/msm/a6xx: Avoid a nullptr dereference when speedbin setting fails
  drm/msm/adreno: fix CP cycles stat retrieval on a7xx
  drm/msm/a7xx: allow writing to CP_BV counter selection registers
  drm: zynqmp_dpsub: Always register bridge
  Revert "drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi83: Fix enable error path"
  drm/fb_dma: Add checks in drm_fb_dma_get_scanout_buffer()
  drm/fbdev-generic: Do not set physical framebuffer address
  drm/panthor: Fix the FW reset logic
  drm/panthor: Make sure we handle 'unknown group state' case properly
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "This is the main pull request for the drm subsystems for 6.10.

  In drivers the main thing is a new driver for ARM Mali firmware based
  GPUs, otherwise there are a lot of changes to amdgpu/xe/i915/msm and
  scattered changes to everything else.

  In the core a bunch of headers and Kconfig was refactored, along with
  the addition of a new panic handler which is meant to provide a user
  friendly message when a panic happens and graphical display is
  enabled.

  New drivers:
   - panthor: ARM Mali/Immortalis CSF-based GPU driver

  Core:
   - add a CONFIG_DRM_WERROR option
   - make more headers self-contained
   - grab resv lock in pin/unpin
   - fix vmap resv locking
   - EDID/eDP panel matching
   - Kconfig cleanups
   - DT sound bindings
   - Add SIZE_HINTS property for cursor planes
   - Add struct drm_edid_product_id and helpers.
   - Use drm device based logging in more drm functions.
   - drop seq_file.h from a bunch of places
   - use drm_edid driver conversions

  dp:
   - DP Tunnel documentation
   - MST read sideband cap
   - Adaptive sync SDP prep work

  ttm:
   - improve placement for TTM BOs in idle/busy handling

  panic:
   - Fixes for drm-panic, and option to test it.
   - Add drm panic to simpledrm, mgag200, imx, ast

  bridge:
   - improve init ordering
   - adv7511: allow GPIO pin sharing
   - tc358775: add tc358675 support

  panel:
   - AUO B120XAN01.0
   - Samsung s6e3fa7
   - BOE NT116WHM-N44
   - CMN N116BCA-EA1,
   - CrystalClear CMT430B19N00
   - Startek KD050HDFIA020-C020A
   - powertip PH128800T006-ZHC01
   - Innolux G121X1-L03
   - LG sw43408
   - Khadas TS050 V2
   - EDO RM69380 OLED
   - CSOT MNB601LS1-1

  amdgpu:
   - HDCP/ODM/RAS fixes
   - Devcoredump improvements
   - Expose VCN activity via sysfs
   - SMY 13.0.x updates
   - Enable fast updates on DCN 3.1.4
   - Add dclk and vclk reporting on additional devices
   - Add ACA RAS infrastructure
   - Implement TLB flush fence
   - EEPROM handling fixes
   - SMUIO 14.0.2 support
   - SMU 14.0.1 Updates
   - SMU 14.0.2 support
   - Sync page table freeing with TLB flushes
   - DML2 refactor
   - DC debug improvements
   - DCN 3.5.x Updates
   - GPU reset fixes
   - HDP fix for second GFX pipe on GC 10.x
   - Enable secondary GFX pipe on GC 10.3
   - Refactor and clean up BACO/BOCO/BAMACO handling
   - Remove invalid TTM resource start check
   - UAF fix in VA IOCTL
   - GPUVM page fault redirection to secondary IH rings for IH 6.x
   - Initial support for mapping kernel queues via MES
   - Fix VRAM memory accounting

  amdkfd:
   - MQD handling cleanup
   - Preemption handling fixes for XCDs
   - TLB flush fix for GC 9.4.2
   - Properly clean up workqueue during module unload
   - Fix memory leak process create failure
   - Range check CP bad op exception targets to avoid reporting invalid exceptions to userspace
   - Fix eviction fence handling
   - Fix leak in GPU memory allocation failure case
   - DMABuf import handling fix
   - Enable SQ watchpoint for gfx10

  i915:
   - Adding new DG2 PCI ID
   - add context hints for GT frequency
   - enable only one CCS for compute workloads
   - new workarounds
   - Fix UAF on destroy against retire race and remove two earlier partial fixes
   - Limit the reserved VM space to only the platforms that need it
   - Fix gt reset with GuC submission is disable
   - Add and use gt_to_guc() wrapper

  i915/xe display:
   - Lunar Lake display enabling, including cdclk and other refactors
   - BIOS/VBT/opregion related refactor
   - Digital port related refactor/clean-up
   - Fix 2s boot time regression on DP panel replay init
   - Remove duplication on audio enable/disable on SDVO and g4x+ DP
   - Disable AuxCCS framebuffers if built for Xe
   - Make crtc disable more atomic
   - Increase DP idle pattern wait timeout to 2ms
   - Start using container_of_const() for some extra const safety
   - Fix Jasper Lake boot freeze
   - Enable MST mode for 128b/132b single-stream sideband
   - Enable Adaptive Sync SDP Support for DP
   - Fix MTL supported DP rates - removal of UHBR13.5
   - PLL refactoring
   - Limit eDP MSO pipe only for display version 20
   - More display refactor towards independence from i915 dev_priv
   - Convert i915/xe fbdev to DRM client
   - More initial work to make display code more independent from i915

  xe:
   - improved error capture
   - clean up some uAPI leftovers
   - devcoredump update
   - Add BMG mocs table
   - Handle GSCCS ER interrupt
   - Implement xe2- and GuC workarounds
   - struct xe_device cleanup
   - Hwmon updates
   - Add LRC parsing for more GPU instruction
   - Increase VM_BIND number of per-ioctl Ops
   - drm/xe: Add XE_BO_GGTT_INVALIDATE flag
   - Initial development for SR-IOV support
   - Add new PCI IDs to DG2 platform
   - Move userptr over to start using hmm_range_fault

  msm:
   - Switched to generating register header files during build process
     instead of shipping pre-generated headers
   - Merged DPU and MDP4 format databases.
   - DP:
     - Stop using compat string to distinguish DP and eDP cases
     - Added support for X Elite platform (X1E80100)
     - Reworked DP aux/audio support
     - Added SM6350 DP to the bindings
   - GPU:
     - a7xx perfcntr reg fixes
     - MAINTAINERS updates
     - a750 devcoredump support

  radeon:
   - Silence UBSAN warnings related to flexible arrays

  nouveau:
   - move some uAPI objects to uapi headers

  omapdrm:
   - console fix

  ast:
   - add i2c polling

  qaic:
   - add debugfs entries

  exynos:
   - fix platform_driver .owner
   - drop cleanup code

  mediatek:
   - Use devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() in mtk_hdmi_ddc_probe()
   - Add GAMMA 12-bit LUT support for MT8188
   - Rename mtk_drm_* to mtk_*
   - Drop driver owner initialization
   - Correct calculation formula of PHY Timing"

* tag 'drm-next-2024-05-15' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1477 commits)
  drm/xe/ads: Use flexible-array
  drm/xe: Use ordered WQ for G2H handler
  drm/msm/gen_header: allow skipping the validation
  drm/msm/a6xx: Cleanup indexed regs const'ness
  drm/msm: Add devcoredump support for a750
  drm/msm: Adjust a7xx GBIF debugbus dumping
  drm/msm: Update a6xx registers XML
  drm/msm: Fix imported a750 snapshot header for upstream
  drm/msm: Import a750 snapshot registers from kgsl
  MAINTAINERS: Add Konrad Dybcio as a reviewer for the Adreno driver
  MAINTAINERS: Add a separate entry for Qualcomm Adreno GPU drivers
  drm/msm/a6xx: Avoid a nullptr dereference when speedbin setting fails
  drm/msm/adreno: fix CP cycles stat retrieval on a7xx
  drm/msm/a7xx: allow writing to CP_BV counter selection registers
  drm: zynqmp_dpsub: Always register bridge
  Revert "drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi83: Fix enable error path"
  drm/fb_dma: Add checks in drm_fb_dma_get_scanout_buffer()
  drm/fbdev-generic: Do not set physical framebuffer address
  drm/panthor: Fix the FW reset logic
  drm/panthor: Make sure we handle 'unknown group state' case properly
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k: defconfig: Update defconfigs for v6.9-rc1</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T15:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-26T17:49:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ec8c8266373f6283a3e99b036aea7b9428480625'/>
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  - Enable trimming of unused exported kernel symbols,
  - Drop CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES=m (auto-enabled since commit
    4654467dc7e111e8 ("netfilter: arptables: allow xtables-nft only
    builds")),
  - Drop CONFIG_STRING_SELFTEST=m (replaced by auto-modular
    CONFIG_STRING_KUNIT_TEST in commit 29d8568849fe5937 ("string:
    Convert selftest to KUnit")),
  - Drop CONFIG_TEST_STRING_HELPERS=m (replaced by auto-modular
    CONFIG_STRING_HELPERS_KUNIT_TEST in commit fb57550fcbd86839
    ("string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit")).

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e17b3ac60832a3ff92d25d1a05bf814e8f15d0c5.1711475325.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
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  - Enable trimming of unused exported kernel symbols,
  - Drop CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES=m (auto-enabled since commit
    4654467dc7e111e8 ("netfilter: arptables: allow xtables-nft only
    builds")),
  - Drop CONFIG_STRING_SELFTEST=m (replaced by auto-modular
    CONFIG_STRING_KUNIT_TEST in commit 29d8568849fe5937 ("string:
    Convert selftest to KUnit")),
  - Drop CONFIG_TEST_STRING_HELPERS=m (replaced by auto-modular
    CONFIG_STRING_HELPERS_KUNIT_TEST in commit fb57550fcbd86839
    ("string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit")).

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e17b3ac60832a3ff92d25d1a05bf814e8f15d0c5.1711475325.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k: Move ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T15:43:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-06T07:06:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c66b7b950bbf45eadcdee467e53f80568f4a0a7f'/>
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Move the recently added ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING to restore
alphabetical sort order.

Fixes: 8690bbcf3b7010b3 ("Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() across all architectures")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4574ad6cc1117e4b5d29812c165bf7f6e5b60773.1714978406.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
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Move the recently added ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING to restore
alphabetical sort order.

Fixes: 8690bbcf3b7010b3 ("Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() across all architectures")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4574ad6cc1117e4b5d29812c165bf7f6e5b60773.1714978406.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k: mac: Fix reboot hang on Mac IIci</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T15:43:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Finn Thain</name>
<email>fthain@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-04T04:31:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=265a3b322df9a973ff1fc63da70af456ab6ae1d6'/>
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Calling mac_reset() on a Mac IIci does reset the system, but what
follows is a POST failure that requires a manual reset to resolve.
Avoid that by using the 68030 asm implementation instead of the C
implementation.

Apparently the SE/30 has a similar problem as it has used the asm
implementation since before git. This patch extends that solution to
other systems with a similar ROM.

After this patch, the only systems still using the C implementation are
68040 systems where adb_type is either MAC_ADB_IOP or MAC_ADB_II. This
implies a 1 MiB Quadra ROM.

This now includes the Quadra 900/950, which previously fell through to
the "should never get here" catch-all.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stan Johnson &lt;userm57@yahoo.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/480ebd1249d229c6dc1f3f1c6d599b8505483fd8.1714797072.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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Calling mac_reset() on a Mac IIci does reset the system, but what
follows is a POST failure that requires a manual reset to resolve.
Avoid that by using the 68030 asm implementation instead of the C
implementation.

Apparently the SE/30 has a similar problem as it has used the asm
implementation since before git. This patch extends that solution to
other systems with a similar ROM.

After this patch, the only systems still using the C implementation are
68040 systems where adb_type is either MAC_ADB_IOP or MAC_ADB_II. This
implies a 1 MiB Quadra ROM.

This now includes the Quadra 900/950, which previously fell through to
the "should never get here" catch-all.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stan Johnson &lt;userm57@yahoo.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain &lt;fthain@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/480ebd1249d229c6dc1f3f1c6d599b8505483fd8.1714797072.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k: Fix spinlock race in kernel thread creation</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T15:43:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Schmitz</name>
<email>schmitzmic@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-11T03:36:31+00:00</published>
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Context switching does take care to retain the correct lock owner across
the switch from 'prev' to 'next' tasks.  This does rely on interrupts
remaining disabled for the entire duration of the switch.

This condition is guaranteed for normal process creation and context
switching between already running processes, because both 'prev' and
'next' already have interrupts disabled in their saved copies of the
status register.

The situation is different for newly created kernel threads.  The status
register is set to PS_S in copy_thread(), which does leave the IPL at 0.
Upon restoring the 'next' thread's status register in switch_to() aka
resume(), interrupts then become enabled prematurely.  resume() then
returns via ret_from_kernel_thread() and schedule_tail() where run queue
lock is released (see finish_task_switch() and finish_lock_switch()).

A timer interrupt calling scheduler_tick() before the lock is released
in finish_task_switch() will find the lock already taken, with the
current task as lock owner.  This causes a spinlock recursion warning as
reported by Guenter Roeck.

As far as I can ascertain, this race has been opened in commit
533e6903bea0 ("m68k: split ret_from_fork(), simplify kernel_thread()")
but I haven't done a detailed study of kernel history so it may well
predate that commit.

Interrupts cannot be disabled in the saved status register copy for
kernel threads (init will complain about interrupts disabled when
finally starting user space).  Disable interrupts temporarily when
switching the tasks' register sets in resume().

Note that a simple oriw 0x700,%sr after restoring sr is not enough here
- this leaves enough of a race for the 'spinlock recursion' warning to
still be observed.

Tested on ARAnyM and qemu (Quadra 800 emulation).

Fixes: 533e6903bea0 ("m68k: split ret_from_fork(), simplify kernel_thread()")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/07811b26-677c-4d05-aeb4-996cd880b789@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz &lt;schmitzmic@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411033631.16335-1-schmitzmic@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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Context switching does take care to retain the correct lock owner across
the switch from 'prev' to 'next' tasks.  This does rely on interrupts
remaining disabled for the entire duration of the switch.

This condition is guaranteed for normal process creation and context
switching between already running processes, because both 'prev' and
'next' already have interrupts disabled in their saved copies of the
status register.

The situation is different for newly created kernel threads.  The status
register is set to PS_S in copy_thread(), which does leave the IPL at 0.
Upon restoring the 'next' thread's status register in switch_to() aka
resume(), interrupts then become enabled prematurely.  resume() then
returns via ret_from_kernel_thread() and schedule_tail() where run queue
lock is released (see finish_task_switch() and finish_lock_switch()).

A timer interrupt calling scheduler_tick() before the lock is released
in finish_task_switch() will find the lock already taken, with the
current task as lock owner.  This causes a spinlock recursion warning as
reported by Guenter Roeck.

As far as I can ascertain, this race has been opened in commit
533e6903bea0 ("m68k: split ret_from_fork(), simplify kernel_thread()")
but I haven't done a detailed study of kernel history so it may well
predate that commit.

Interrupts cannot be disabled in the saved status register copy for
kernel threads (init will complain about interrupts disabled when
finally starting user space).  Disable interrupts temporarily when
switching the tasks' register sets in resume().

Note that a simple oriw 0x700,%sr after restoring sr is not enough here
- this leaves enough of a race for the 'spinlock recursion' warning to
still be observed.

Tested on ARAnyM and qemu (Quadra 800 emulation).

Fixes: 533e6903bea0 ("m68k: split ret_from_fork(), simplify kernel_thread()")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/07811b26-677c-4d05-aeb4-996cd880b789@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz &lt;schmitzmic@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411033631.16335-1-schmitzmic@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k: Let GENERIC_IOMAP depend on HAS_IOPORT</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T15:43:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Niklas Schnelle</name>
<email>schnelle@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-03T12:28:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=40d4388722fcc65e0493cfc90bab0605b532dffa'/>
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In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will disable inb()/outb() and friends at
compile time. With that choosing dynamically between I/O port and MMIO
access via GNERIC_IOMAP will not work. So only select GENERIC_IOMAP when
HAS_IOPORT is selected.

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle &lt;schnelle@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240403122851.38808-2-schnelle@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will disable inb()/outb() and friends at
compile time. With that choosing dynamically between I/O port and MMIO
access via GNERIC_IOMAP will not work. So only select GENERIC_IOMAP when
HAS_IOPORT is selected.

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle &lt;schnelle@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240403122851.38808-2-schnelle@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>m68k: Avoid CONFIG_COLDFIRE switch in uapi header</title>
<updated>2024-05-06T22:55:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-10T10:31:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a5044ce7d1d94cd37be99e86964aa054f7e5564c'/>
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We should not use any CONFIG switches in uapi headers since
these only work during kernel compilation. They are not defined
for userspace. Let's use the __mcoldfire__ switch from the
compiler here instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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We should not use any CONFIG switches in uapi headers since
these only work during kernel compilation. They are not defined
for userspace. Let's use the __mcoldfire__ switch from the
compiler here instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
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