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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/include, branch v4.0-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T01:56:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-17T00:00:18+00:00</published>
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We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&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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We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&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 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2015-02-15T18:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-15T18:48:44+00:00</published>
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Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.

  Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog.
  Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which
  was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to
  come through this tree.

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits)
  coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order
  coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro
  coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree
  coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set()
  coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name
  coresight: remove the extra spaces
  coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device
  coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property
  coresight: fix the replicator subtype value
  pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl'
  mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe
  virtio/console: verify device has config space
  ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption)
  mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow
  mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit
  extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config
  extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove
  extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer
  ...
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Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.

  Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog.
  Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which
  was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to
  come through this tree.

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits)
  coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order
  coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro
  coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree
  coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set()
  coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name
  coresight: remove the extra spaces
  coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device
  coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property
  coresight: fix the replicator subtype value
  pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl'
  mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe
  virtio/console: verify device has config space
  ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption)
  mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow
  mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit
  extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config
  extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove
  extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
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<pre>
Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T23:01:14+00:00</published>
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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.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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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove remaining references to NUMA hinting bits and helpers</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:58:32+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the NUMA PTE bits and associated helpers.  As a
side-effect it increases the maximum possible swap space on x86-64.

One potential source of problems is races between the marking of PTEs
PROT_NONE, NUMA hinting faults and migration.  It must be guaranteed that
a PTE being protected is not faulted in parallel, seen as a pte_none and
corrupting memory.  The base case is safe but transhuge has problems in
the past due to an different migration mechanism and a dependance on page
lock to serialise migrations and warrants a closer look.

task_work hinting update			parallel fault
------------------------			--------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						pmd_none
						  do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
						  read? pmd_lock blocks until hinting complete, fail !pmd_none test
						  write? __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page acquires pmd_lock, checks pmd_none
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

task_work hinting update			parallel migration
------------------------			------------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						  do_huge_pmd_numa_page
						    migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
						    pmd_lock waits for updates to complete, recheck pmd_same
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

Both of those are safe and the case where a transhuge page is inserted
during a protection update is unchanged.  The case where two processes try
migrating at the same time is unchanged by this series so should still be
ok.  I could not find a case where we are accidentally depending on the
PTE not being cleared and flushed.  If one is missed, it'll manifest as
corruption problems that start triggering shortly after this series is
merged and only happen when NUMA balancing is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&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>
This patch removes the NUMA PTE bits and associated helpers.  As a
side-effect it increases the maximum possible swap space on x86-64.

One potential source of problems is races between the marking of PTEs
PROT_NONE, NUMA hinting faults and migration.  It must be guaranteed that
a PTE being protected is not faulted in parallel, seen as a pte_none and
corrupting memory.  The base case is safe but transhuge has problems in
the past due to an different migration mechanism and a dependance on page
lock to serialise migrations and warrants a closer look.

task_work hinting update			parallel fault
------------------------			--------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						pmd_none
						  do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
						  read? pmd_lock blocks until hinting complete, fail !pmd_none test
						  write? __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page acquires pmd_lock, checks pmd_none
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

task_work hinting update			parallel migration
------------------------			------------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						  do_huge_pmd_numa_page
						    migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
						    pmd_lock waits for updates to complete, recheck pmd_same
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

Both of those are safe and the case where a transhuge page is inserted
during a protection update is unchanged.  The case where two processes try
migrating at the same time is unchanged by this series so should still be
ok.  I could not find a case where we are accidentally depending on the
PTE not being cleared and flushed.  If one is missed, it'll manifest as
corruption problems that start triggering shortly after this series is
merged and only happen when NUMA balancing is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add p[te|md] protnone helpers for use by NUMA balancing</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:58:19+00:00</published>
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This is a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic
NUMA balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.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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This is a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic
NUMA balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T17:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T17:16:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a26be149facb22d30cd92cadb26f651d6fe802c9'/>
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Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "This time with:

   - Generic page-table framework for ARM IOMMUs using the LPAE
     page-table format, ARM-SMMU and Renesas IPMMU make use of it
     already.

   - Break out the IO virtual address allocator from the Intel IOMMU so
     that it can be used by other DMA-API implementations too.  The
     first user will be the ARM64 common DMA-API implementation for
     IOMMUs

   - Device tree support for Renesas IPMMU

   - Various fixes and cleanups all over the place"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (36 commits)
  iommu/amd: Convert non-returned local variable to boolean when relevant
  iommu: Update my email address
  iommu/amd: Use wait_event in put_pasid_state_wait
  iommu/amd: Fix amd_iommu_free_device()
  iommu/arm-smmu: Avoid build warning
  iommu/fsl: Various cleanups
  iommu/fsl: Use %pa to print phys_addr_t
  iommu/omap: Print phys_addr_t using %pa
  iommu: Make more drivers depend on COMPILE_TEST
  iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix IOMMU lookup when multiple IOMMUs are registered
  iommu: Disable on !MMU builds
  iommu/fsl: Remove unused fsl_of_pamu_ids[]
  iommu/fsl: Fix section mismatch
  iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Use the ARM LPAE page table allocator
  iommu: Fix trace_map() to report original iova and original size
  iommu/arm-smmu: add support for iova_to_phys through ATS1PR
  iopoll: Introduce memory-mapped IO polling macros
  iommu/arm-smmu: don't touch the secure STLBIALL register
  iommu/arm-smmu: make use of generic LPAE allocator
  iommu: io-pgtable-arm: add non-secure quirk
  ...
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<pre>
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "This time with:

   - Generic page-table framework for ARM IOMMUs using the LPAE
     page-table format, ARM-SMMU and Renesas IPMMU make use of it
     already.

   - Break out the IO virtual address allocator from the Intel IOMMU so
     that it can be used by other DMA-API implementations too.  The
     first user will be the ARM64 common DMA-API implementation for
     IOMMUs

   - Device tree support for Renesas IPMMU

   - Various fixes and cleanups all over the place"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (36 commits)
  iommu/amd: Convert non-returned local variable to boolean when relevant
  iommu: Update my email address
  iommu/amd: Use wait_event in put_pasid_state_wait
  iommu/amd: Fix amd_iommu_free_device()
  iommu/arm-smmu: Avoid build warning
  iommu/fsl: Various cleanups
  iommu/fsl: Use %pa to print phys_addr_t
  iommu/omap: Print phys_addr_t using %pa
  iommu: Make more drivers depend on COMPILE_TEST
  iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix IOMMU lookup when multiple IOMMUs are registered
  iommu: Disable on !MMU builds
  iommu/fsl: Remove unused fsl_of_pamu_ids[]
  iommu/fsl: Fix section mismatch
  iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Use the ARM LPAE page table allocator
  iommu: Fix trace_map() to report original iova and original size
  iommu/arm-smmu: add support for iova_to_phys through ATS1PR
  iopoll: Introduce memory-mapped IO polling macros
  iommu/arm-smmu: don't touch the secure STLBIALL register
  iommu/arm-smmu: make use of generic LPAE allocator
  iommu: io-pgtable-arm: add non-secure quirk
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T02:23:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T02:23:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=59d53737a8640482995fea13c6e2c0fd016115d6'/>
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<content type='text'>
Merge second set of updates from Andrew Morton:
 "More of MM"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (83 commits)
  mm/nommu.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()
  mm/mmap.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()
  vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu
  mm/page_owner.c: remove unnecessary stack_trace field
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: describe /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/map_files
  mm: incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages
  vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update
  mm: more aggressive page stealing for UNMOVABLE allocations
  mm: always steal split buddies in fallback allocations
  mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting buddy page
  mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore()
  mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: avoid split_huge_page()
  mm: pagewalk: fix misbehavior of walk_page_range for vma(VM_PFNMAP)
  mempolicy: apply page table walker on queue_pages_range()
  arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c: use walk-&gt;vma and walk_page_vma()
  memcg: cleanup preparation for page table walk
  numa_maps: remove numa_maps-&gt;vma
  numa_maps: fix typo in gather_hugetbl_stats
  pagemap: use walk-&gt;vma instead of calling find_vma()
  clear_refs: remove clear_refs_private-&gt;vma and introduce clear_refs_test_walk()
  ...
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<pre>
Merge second set of updates from Andrew Morton:
 "More of MM"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (83 commits)
  mm/nommu.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()
  mm/mmap.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()
  vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu
  mm/page_owner.c: remove unnecessary stack_trace field
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: describe /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/map_files
  mm: incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages
  vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update
  mm: more aggressive page stealing for UNMOVABLE allocations
  mm: always steal split buddies in fallback allocations
  mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting buddy page
  mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore()
  mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: avoid split_huge_page()
  mm: pagewalk: fix misbehavior of walk_page_range for vma(VM_PFNMAP)
  mempolicy: apply page table walker on queue_pages_range()
  arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c: use walk-&gt;vma and walk_page_vma()
  memcg: cleanup preparation for page table walk
  numa_maps: remove numa_maps-&gt;vma
  numa_maps: fix typo in gather_hugetbl_stats
  pagemap: use walk-&gt;vma instead of calling find_vma()
  clear_refs: remove clear_refs_private-&gt;vma and introduce clear_refs_test_walk()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T02:15:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T02:15:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d3f180ea1a44aecba1b0dab2a253428e77f906bf'/>
<id>d3f180ea1a44aecba1b0dab2a253428e77f906bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Update of all defconfigs

 - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs

 - Some PS3 updates from Geoff

 - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton

 - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen

 - Several cxl updates from Ian &amp; Ryan

 - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody &amp; Sukadev

 - Freescale updates from Scott:
    "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
     device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
     error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
  cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
  cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
  cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
  powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
  powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
  powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
  cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
  powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
  powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
  perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
  powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Update of all defconfigs

 - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs

 - Some PS3 updates from Geoff

 - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton

 - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen

 - Several cxl updates from Ian &amp; Ryan

 - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody &amp; Sukadev

 - Freescale updates from Scott:
    "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
     device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
     error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
  cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
  cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
  cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
  powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
  powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
  powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
  cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
  powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
  powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
  perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
  powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: make FIRST_USER_ADDRESS unsigned long on all archs</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:26:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d016bf7ece53b2b947bfd769e0842fd2feb7556b'/>
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<content type='text'>
LKP has triggered a compiler warning after my recent patch "mm: account
pmd page tables to the process":

    mm/mmap.c: In function 'exit_mmap':
 &gt;&gt; mm/mmap.c:2857:2: warning: right shift count &gt;= width of type [enabled by default]

The code:

 &gt; 2857                WARN_ON(mm_nr_pmds(mm) &gt;
   2858                                round_up(FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, PUD_SIZE) &gt;&gt; PUD_SHIFT);

In this, on tile, we have FIRST_USER_ADDRESS defined as 0.  round_up() has
the same type -- int.  PUD_SHIFT.

I think the best way to fix it is to define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as unsigned
long.  On every arch for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
LKP has triggered a compiler warning after my recent patch "mm: account
pmd page tables to the process":

    mm/mmap.c: In function 'exit_mmap':
 &gt;&gt; mm/mmap.c:2857:2: warning: right shift count &gt;= width of type [enabled by default]

The code:

 &gt; 2857                WARN_ON(mm_nr_pmds(mm) &gt;
   2858                                round_up(FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, PUD_SIZE) &gt;&gt; PUD_SHIFT);

In this, on tile, we have FIRST_USER_ADDRESS defined as 0.  round_up() has
the same type -- int.  PUD_SHIFT.

I think the best way to fix it is to define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as unsigned
long.  On every arch for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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