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<title>fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-12T15:18:48+00:00</published>
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Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-08T23:07:50+00:00</published>
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With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/exit: remove dead reference to do_exit from copy_thread</title>
<updated>2021-12-16T18:58:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-08T20:25:23+00:00</published>
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My s390 assembly is not particularly good so I have read the history
of the reference to do_exit copy_thread and have been able to
verify that do_exit is not used.

The general argument is that s390 has been changed to use the generic
kernel_thread and kernel_execve and the generic versions do not call
do_exit.  So it is strange to see a do_exit reference sitting there.

The history of the do_exit reference in s390's version of copy_thread
seems conclusive that the do_exit reference is something that lingers
and should have been removed several years ago.

Up through 8d19f15a60be ("[PATCH] s390 update (1/27): arch.")  the
s390 code made a call to the exit(2) system call when a kernel thread
finished.  Then kernel_thread_starter was added which branched
directly to the value in register 11 when the kernel thread finshed.
The value in register 11 was set in kernel_thread to
"regs.gprs[11] = (unsigned long) do_exit"

In commit 37fe5d41f640 ("s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into
ret_from_fork()") kernel_thread_starter was moved into entry.S and
entry64.S unchanged (except for the syntax differences between inline
assemly and in the assembly file).

In commit f9a7e025dfc2 ("s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()") the
assignment to "gprs[11]" was moved into copy_thread from the old
kernel_thread.  The helper kernel_thread_starter was still being used
and was still branching to "%r11" at the end.

In commit 30dcb0996e40 ("s390: switch to saner kernel_execve()
semantics") kernel_thread_starter was changed to unconditionally
branch to sysc_tracenogo instead to %r11 which held the value of
do_exit.  Unfortunately copy_thread was not updated to stop passing
do_exit in "gprs[11]".

In commit 56e62a737028 ("s390: convert to generic entry")
kernel_thread_starter was replaced by __ret_from_fork.  And the code
still continued to pass do_exit in "gprs[11]" despite __ret_from_fork
not caring in the slightest.

Remove this dead reference to do_exit to make it clear that s390 is
not doing anything with do_exit in copy_thread.

History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git

Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Fixes: 30dcb0996e40 ("s390: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208202532.16409-1-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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My s390 assembly is not particularly good so I have read the history
of the reference to do_exit copy_thread and have been able to
verify that do_exit is not used.

The general argument is that s390 has been changed to use the generic
kernel_thread and kernel_execve and the generic versions do not call
do_exit.  So it is strange to see a do_exit reference sitting there.

The history of the do_exit reference in s390's version of copy_thread
seems conclusive that the do_exit reference is something that lingers
and should have been removed several years ago.

Up through 8d19f15a60be ("[PATCH] s390 update (1/27): arch.")  the
s390 code made a call to the exit(2) system call when a kernel thread
finished.  Then kernel_thread_starter was added which branched
directly to the value in register 11 when the kernel thread finshed.
The value in register 11 was set in kernel_thread to
"regs.gprs[11] = (unsigned long) do_exit"

In commit 37fe5d41f640 ("s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into
ret_from_fork()") kernel_thread_starter was moved into entry.S and
entry64.S unchanged (except for the syntax differences between inline
assemly and in the assembly file).

In commit f9a7e025dfc2 ("s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()") the
assignment to "gprs[11]" was moved into copy_thread from the old
kernel_thread.  The helper kernel_thread_starter was still being used
and was still branching to "%r11" at the end.

In commit 30dcb0996e40 ("s390: switch to saner kernel_execve()
semantics") kernel_thread_starter was changed to unconditionally
branch to sysc_tracenogo instead to %r11 which held the value of
do_exit.  Unfortunately copy_thread was not updated to stop passing
do_exit in "gprs[11]".

In commit 56e62a737028 ("s390: convert to generic entry")
kernel_thread_starter was replaced by __ret_from_fork.  And the code
still continued to pass do_exit in "gprs[11]" despite __ret_from_fork
not caring in the slightest.

Remove this dead reference to do_exit to make it clear that s390 is
not doing anything with do_exit in copy_thread.

History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git

Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Fixes: 30dcb0996e40 ("s390: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208202532.16409-1-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T21:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-06T21:48:06+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add support for ftrace with direct call and ftrace direct call
   samples.

 - Add support for kernel command lines longer than current 896 bytes
   and make its length configurable.

 - Add support for BEAR enhancement facility to improve last breaking
   event instruction tracking.

 - Add kprobes sanity checks and testcases to prevent kprobe in the mid
   of an instruction.

 - Allow concurrent access to /dev/hwc for the CPUMF users.

 - Various ftrace / jump label improvements.

 - Convert unwinder tests to KUnit.

 - Add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter to tweak the limits on
   concurrently usable DMA mappings.

 - Add ap.useirq AP module option which can be used to disable interrupt
   use.

 - Add add_disk() error handling support to block device drivers.

 - Drop arch specific and use generic implementation of strlcpy and
   strrchr.

 - Several __pa/__va usages fixes.

 - Various cio, crypto, pci, kernel doc and other small fixes and
   improvements all over the code.

[ Merge fixup as per https://lore.kernel.org/all/YXAqZ%2FEszRisunQw@osiris/ ]

* tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (63 commits)
  s390: make command line configurable
  s390: support command lines longer than 896 bytes
  s390/kexec_file: move kernel image size check
  s390/pci: add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter
  s390/spinlock: remove incorrect kernel doc indicator
  s390/string: use generic strlcpy
  s390/string: use generic strrchr
  s390/ap: function rework based on compiler warning
  s390/cio: make ccw_device_dma_* more robust
  s390/vfio-ap: s390/crypto: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  s390/hmcdrv: fix kernel doc comments
  s390/ap: new module option ap.useirq
  s390/cpumf: Allow multiple processes to access /dev/hwc
  s390/bitops: return true/false (not 1/0) from bool functions
  s390: add support for BEAR enhancement facility
  s390: introduce nospec_uses_trampoline()
  s390: rename last_break to pgm_last_break
  s390/ptrace: add last_break member to pt_regs
  s390/sclp: sort out physical vs virtual pointers usage
  s390/setup: convert start and end initrd pointers to virtual
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add support for ftrace with direct call and ftrace direct call
   samples.

 - Add support for kernel command lines longer than current 896 bytes
   and make its length configurable.

 - Add support for BEAR enhancement facility to improve last breaking
   event instruction tracking.

 - Add kprobes sanity checks and testcases to prevent kprobe in the mid
   of an instruction.

 - Allow concurrent access to /dev/hwc for the CPUMF users.

 - Various ftrace / jump label improvements.

 - Convert unwinder tests to KUnit.

 - Add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter to tweak the limits on
   concurrently usable DMA mappings.

 - Add ap.useirq AP module option which can be used to disable interrupt
   use.

 - Add add_disk() error handling support to block device drivers.

 - Drop arch specific and use generic implementation of strlcpy and
   strrchr.

 - Several __pa/__va usages fixes.

 - Various cio, crypto, pci, kernel doc and other small fixes and
   improvements all over the code.

[ Merge fixup as per https://lore.kernel.org/all/YXAqZ%2FEszRisunQw@osiris/ ]

* tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (63 commits)
  s390: make command line configurable
  s390: support command lines longer than 896 bytes
  s390/kexec_file: move kernel image size check
  s390/pci: add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter
  s390/spinlock: remove incorrect kernel doc indicator
  s390/string: use generic strlcpy
  s390/string: use generic strrchr
  s390/ap: function rework based on compiler warning
  s390/cio: make ccw_device_dma_* more robust
  s390/vfio-ap: s390/crypto: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  s390/hmcdrv: fix kernel doc comments
  s390/ap: new module option ap.useirq
  s390/cpumf: Allow multiple processes to access /dev/hwc
  s390/bitops: return true/false (not 1/0) from bool functions
  s390: add support for BEAR enhancement facility
  s390: introduce nospec_uses_trampoline()
  s390: rename last_break to pgm_last_break
  s390/ptrace: add last_break member to pt_regs
  s390/sclp: sort out physical vs virtual pointers usage
  s390/setup: convert start and end initrd pointers to virtual
  ...
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<entry>
<title>s390: add support for BEAR enhancement facility</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T13:21:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-07T07:20:17+00:00</published>
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The Breaking-Event-Address-Register (BEAR) stores the address of the
last breaking event instruction. Breaking events are usually instructions
that change the program flow - for example branches, and instructions
that modify the address in the PSW like lpswe. This is useful for debugging
wild branches, because one could easily figure out where the wild branch
was originating from.

What is problematic is that lpswe is considered a breaking event, and
therefore overwrites BEAR on kernel exit. The BEAR enhancement facility
adds new instructions that allow to save/restore BEAR and also an lpswey
instruction that doesn't cause a breaking event. So we can save BEAR on
kernel entry and restore it on exit to user space.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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The Breaking-Event-Address-Register (BEAR) stores the address of the
last breaking event instruction. Breaking events are usually instructions
that change the program flow - for example branches, and instructions
that modify the address in the PSW like lpswe. This is useful for debugging
wild branches, because one could easily figure out where the wild branch
was originating from.

What is problematic is that lpswe is considered a breaking event, and
therefore overwrites BEAR on kernel exit. The BEAR enhancement facility
adds new instructions that allow to save/restore BEAR and also an lpswey
instruction that doesn't cause a breaking event. So we can save BEAR on
kernel entry and restore it on exit to user space.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked</title>
<updated>2021-10-15T09:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-29T22:02:14+00:00</published>
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Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org
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Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/signal: switch to using vdso for sigreturn and syscall restart</title>
<updated>2021-07-08T20:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-25T13:02:08+00:00</published>
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with generic entry, there's a bug when it comes to restarting of signals.
The failing sequence is:

a) a signal is coming in, and no handler is registered, so the lower
   part of arch_do_signal_or_restart() in arch/s390/kernel/signal.c
   sets PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART.

b) a second signal gets pending while the kernel is still in the exit
   loop, and for that one, a handler exists.

c) The first part of arch_do_signal_or_restart() is called. That part
   calls handle_signal(), which sets up stack + registers for handling
   the signal.

d) __do_syscall() in arch/s390/kernel/syscall.c checks for
   PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART right before leaving to userspace. If it is set,
   it restart's the syscall. However, the registers are already setup
   for handling a signal from c). The syscall is now restarted with the
   wrong arguments.

Change the code to:

- use vdso for syscall_restart() instead of PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART because
  we cannot rewind and go back to userspace on s390 because the system call
  number might be encoded in the svc instruction.
- for all other syscalls we rewind the PSW and return to userspace.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ d57778feb987: s390/vdso: always enable vdso
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ 686341f2548b: s390/vdso64: add sigreturn,rt_sigreturn and restart_syscall
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ 43e1f76b0b69: s390/vdso: rename VDSO64_LBASE to VDSO_LBASE
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ 779df2248739: s390/vdso: add minimal compat vdso
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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with generic entry, there's a bug when it comes to restarting of signals.
The failing sequence is:

a) a signal is coming in, and no handler is registered, so the lower
   part of arch_do_signal_or_restart() in arch/s390/kernel/signal.c
   sets PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART.

b) a second signal gets pending while the kernel is still in the exit
   loop, and for that one, a handler exists.

c) The first part of arch_do_signal_or_restart() is called. That part
   calls handle_signal(), which sets up stack + registers for handling
   the signal.

d) __do_syscall() in arch/s390/kernel/syscall.c checks for
   PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART right before leaving to userspace. If it is set,
   it restart's the syscall. However, the registers are already setup
   for handling a signal from c). The syscall is now restarted with the
   wrong arguments.

Change the code to:

- use vdso for syscall_restart() instead of PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART because
  we cannot rewind and go back to userspace on s390 because the system call
  number might be encoded in the svc instruction.
- for all other syscalls we rewind the PSW and return to userspace.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ d57778feb987: s390/vdso: always enable vdso
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ 686341f2548b: s390/vdso64: add sigreturn,rt_sigreturn and restart_syscall
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ 43e1f76b0b69: s390/vdso: rename VDSO64_LBASE to VDSO_LBASE
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+ 779df2248739: s390/vdso: add minimal compat vdso
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v5.12+
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Introduce task_is_running()</title>
<updated>2021-06-18T09:43:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-11T08:28:12+00:00</published>
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Replace a bunch of 'p-&gt;state == TASK_RUNNING' with a new helper:
task_is_running(p).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.222401495@infradead.org
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Replace a bunch of 'p-&gt;state == TASK_RUNNING' with a new helper:
task_is_running(p).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.222401495@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: setup PF_IO_WORKER threads like PF_KTHREAD</title>
<updated>2021-02-22T00:25:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-17T15:48:00+00:00</published>
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PF_IO_WORKER are kernel threads too, but they aren't PF_KTHREAD in the
sense that we don't assign -&gt;set_child_tid with our own structure. Just
ensure that every arch sets up the PF_IO_WORKER threads like kthreads
in the arch implementation of copy_thread().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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PF_IO_WORKER are kernel threads too, but they aren't PF_KTHREAD in the
sense that we don't assign -&gt;set_child_tid with our own structure. Just
ensure that every arch sets up the PF_IO_WORKER threads like kthreads
in the arch implementation of copy_thread().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: convert to generic entry</title>
<updated>2021-01-19T11:29:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-21T10:14:56+00:00</published>
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This patch converts s390 to use the generic entry infrastructure from
kernel/entry/*.

There are a few special things on s390:

- PIF_PER_TRAP is moved to TIF_PER_TRAP as the generic code doesn't
  know about our PIF flags in exit_to_user_mode_loop().

- The old code had several ways to restart syscalls:

  a) PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART, which was only set during execve to force a
     restart after upgrading a process (usually qemu-kvm) to pgste page
     table extensions.

  b) PIF_SYSCALL, which is set by do_signal() to indicate that the
     current syscall should be restarted. This is changed so that
     do_signal() now also uses PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART. Continuing to use
     PIF_SYSCALL doesn't work with the generic code, and changing it
     to PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART makes PIF_SYSCALL and PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART
     more unique.

- On s390 calling sys_sigreturn or sys_rt_sigreturn is implemented by
executing a svc instruction on the process stack which causes a fault.
While handling that fault the fault code sets PIF_SYSCALL to hand over
processing to the syscall code on exit to usermode.

The patch introduces PIF_SYSCALL_RET_SET, which is set if ptrace sets
a return value for a syscall. The s390x ptrace ABI uses r2 both for the
syscall number and return value, so ptrace cannot set the syscall number +
return value at the same time. The flag makes handling that a bit easier.
do_syscall() will just skip executing the syscall if PIF_SYSCALL_RET_SET
is set.

CONFIG_DEBUG_ASCE was removd in favour of the generic CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY.
CR1/7/13 will be checked both on kernel entry and exit to contain the
correct asces.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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This patch converts s390 to use the generic entry infrastructure from
kernel/entry/*.

There are a few special things on s390:

- PIF_PER_TRAP is moved to TIF_PER_TRAP as the generic code doesn't
  know about our PIF flags in exit_to_user_mode_loop().

- The old code had several ways to restart syscalls:

  a) PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART, which was only set during execve to force a
     restart after upgrading a process (usually qemu-kvm) to pgste page
     table extensions.

  b) PIF_SYSCALL, which is set by do_signal() to indicate that the
     current syscall should be restarted. This is changed so that
     do_signal() now also uses PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART. Continuing to use
     PIF_SYSCALL doesn't work with the generic code, and changing it
     to PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART makes PIF_SYSCALL and PIF_SYSCALL_RESTART
     more unique.

- On s390 calling sys_sigreturn or sys_rt_sigreturn is implemented by
executing a svc instruction on the process stack which causes a fault.
While handling that fault the fault code sets PIF_SYSCALL to hand over
processing to the syscall code on exit to usermode.

The patch introduces PIF_SYSCALL_RET_SET, which is set if ptrace sets
a return value for a syscall. The s390x ptrace ABI uses r2 both for the
syscall number and return value, so ptrace cannot set the syscall number +
return value at the same time. The flag makes handling that a bit easier.
do_syscall() will just skip executing the syscall if PIF_SYSCALL_RET_SET
is set.

CONFIG_DEBUG_ASCE was removd in favour of the generic CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY.
CR1/7/13 will be checked both on kernel entry and exit to contain the
correct asces.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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