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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sh: use PFN_DOWN macro</title>
<updated>2015-09-04T23:54:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Kuleshov</name>
<email>kuleshovmail@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T22:43:35+00:00</published>
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Replace ((x) &gt;&gt; PAGE_SHIFT) with the predefined PFN_DOWN macro.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov &lt;kuleshovmail@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&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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Replace ((x) &gt;&gt; PAGE_SHIFT) with the predefined PFN_DOWN macro.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov &lt;kuleshovmail@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&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>mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T23:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-09T19:29:06+00:00</published>
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While pmem is usable as a block device or via DAX mappings to userspace
there are several usage scenarios that can not target pmem due to its
lack of struct page coverage. In preparation for "hot plugging" pmem
into the vmemmap add ZONE_DEVICE as a new zone to tag these pages
separately from the ones that are subject to standard page allocations.
Importantly "device memory" can be removed at will by userspace
unbinding the driver of the device.

Having a separate zone prevents allocation and otherwise marks these
pages that are distinct from typical uniform memory.  Device memory has
different lifetime and performance characteristics than RAM.  However,
since we have run out of ZONES_SHIFT bits this functionality currently
depends on sacrificing ZONE_DMA.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;j.glisse@gmail.com&gt;
[hch: various simplifications in the arch interface]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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While pmem is usable as a block device or via DAX mappings to userspace
there are several usage scenarios that can not target pmem due to its
lack of struct page coverage. In preparation for "hot plugging" pmem
into the vmemmap add ZONE_DEVICE as a new zone to tag these pages
separately from the ones that are subject to standard page allocations.
Importantly "device memory" can be removed at will by userspace
unbinding the driver of the device.

Having a separate zone prevents allocation and otherwise marks these
pages that are distinct from typical uniform memory.  Device memory has
different lifetime and performance characteristics than RAM.  However,
since we have run out of ZONES_SHIFT bits this functionality currently
depends on sacrificing ZONE_DMA.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;j.glisse@gmail.com&gt;
[hch: various simplifications in the arch interface]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code about huge_pmd_unshare</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T00:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Zhen</name>
<email>zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:56:13+00:00</published>
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Currently we have many duplicates in definitions of huge_pmd_unshare.  In
all architectures this function just returns 0 when
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE is N.

This patch puts the default implementation in mm/hugetlb.c and lets these
architectures use the common code.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen &lt;zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.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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Currently we have many duplicates in definitions of huge_pmd_unshare.  In
all architectures this function just returns 0 when
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE is N.

This patch puts the default implementation in mm/hugetlb.c and lets these
architectures use the common code.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen &lt;zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Yang &lt;James.Yang@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/fault, arch: Use pagefault_disable() to check for disabled pagefaults in the handler</title>
<updated>2015-05-19T06:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-11T15:52:11+00:00</published>
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Introduce faulthandler_disabled() and use it to check for irq context and
disabled pagefaults (via pagefault_disable()) in the pagefault handlers.

Please note that we keep the in_atomic() checks in place - to detect
whether in irq context (in which case preemption is always properly
disabled).

In contrast, preempt_disable() should never be used to disable pagefaults.
With !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT, preempt_disable() doesn't modify the preempt
counter, and therefore the result of in_atomic() differs.
We validate that condition by using might_fault() checks when calling
might_sleep().

Therefore, add a comment to faulthandler_disabled(), describing why this
is needed.

faulthandler_disabled() and pagefault_disable() are defined in
linux/uaccess.h, so let's properly add that include to all relevant files.

This patch is based on a patch from Thomas Gleixner.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-7-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce faulthandler_disabled() and use it to check for irq context and
disabled pagefaults (via pagefault_disable()) in the pagefault handlers.

Please note that we keep the in_atomic() checks in place - to detect
whether in irq context (in which case preemption is always properly
disabled).

In contrast, preempt_disable() should never be used to disable pagefaults.
With !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT, preempt_disable() doesn't modify the preempt
counter, and therefore the result of in_atomic() differs.
We validate that condition by using might_fault() checks when calling
might_sleep().

Therefore, add a comment to faulthandler_disabled(), describing why this
is needed.

faulthandler_disabled() and pagefault_disable() are defined in
linux/uaccess.h, so let's properly add that include to all relevant files.

This patch is based on a patch from Thomas Gleixner.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-7-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linux</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T18:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-14T18:54:28+00:00</published>
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Pull ACCESS_ONCE() rule tightening from Christian Borntraeger:
 "Tighten rules for ACCESS_ONCE

  This series tightens the rules for ACCESS_ONCE to only work on scalar
  types.  It also contains the necessary fixups as indicated by build
  bots of linux-next.  Now everything is in place to prevent new
  non-scalar users of ACCESS_ONCE and we can continue to convert code to
  READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linux:
  kernel: Fix sparse warning for ACCESS_ONCE
  next: sh: Fix compile error
  kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE
  mm/gup: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  x86/spinlock: Leftover conversion ACCESS_ONCE-&gt;READ_ONCE
  x86/xen/p2m: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  ppc/hugetlbfs: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  ppc/kvm: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
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Pull ACCESS_ONCE() rule tightening from Christian Borntraeger:
 "Tighten rules for ACCESS_ONCE

  This series tightens the rules for ACCESS_ONCE to only work on scalar
  types.  It also contains the necessary fixups as indicated by build
  bots of linux-next.  Now everything is in place to prevent new
  non-scalar users of ACCESS_ONCE and we can continue to convert code to
  READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linux:
  kernel: Fix sparse warning for ACCESS_ONCE
  next: sh: Fix compile error
  kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE
  mm/gup: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  x86/spinlock: Leftover conversion ACCESS_ONCE-&gt;READ_ONCE
  x86/xen/p2m: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  ppc/hugetlbfs: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  ppc/kvm: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: gup: use get_user_pages_unlocked within get_user_pages_fast</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:27:23+00:00</published>
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This allows the get_user_pages_fast slow path to release the mmap_sem
before blocking.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.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 allows the get_user_pages_fast slow path to release the mmap_sem
before blocking.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around follow_huge_*</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:25:15+00:00</published>
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Currently we have many duplicates in definitions around
follow_huge_addr(), follow_huge_pmd(), and follow_huge_pud(), so this
patch tries to remove the m.  The basic idea is to put the default
implementation for these functions in mm/hugetlb.c as weak symbols
(regardless of CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETL B), and to implement
arch-specific code only when the arch needs it.

For follow_huge_addr(), only powerpc and ia64 have their own
implementation, and in all other architectures this function just returns
ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).  So this patch sets returning ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) as
default.

As for follow_huge_(pmd|pud)(), if (pmd|pud)_huge() is implemented to
always return 0 in your architecture (like in ia64 or sparc,) it's never
called (the callsite is optimized away) no matter how implemented it is.
So in such architectures, we don't need arch-specific implementation.

In some architecture (like mips, s390 and tile,) their current
arch-specific follow_huge_(pmd|pud)() are effectively identical with the
common code, so this patch lets these architecture use the common code.

One exception is metag, where pmd_huge() could return non-zero but it
expects follow_huge_pmd() to always return NULL.  This means that we need
arch-specific implementation which returns NULL.  This behavior looks
strange to me (because non-zero pmd_huge() implies that the architecture
supports PMD-based hugepage, so follow_huge_pmd() can/should return some
relevant value,) but that's beyond this cleanup patch, so let's keep it.

Justification of non-trivial changes:
- in s390, follow_huge_pmd() checks !MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE at first, and this
  patch removes the check. This is OK because we can assume MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE
  is true when follow_huge_pmd() can be called (note that pmd_huge() has
  the same check and always returns 0 for !MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE.)
- in s390 and mips, we use HPAGE_MASK instead of PMD_MASK as done in common
  code. This patch forces these archs use PMD_MASK, but it's OK because
  they are identical in both archs.
  In s390, both of HPAGE_SHIFT and PMD_SHIFT are 20.
  In mips, HPAGE_SHIFT is defined as (PAGE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT - 3) and
  PMD_SHIFT is define as (PAGE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT + PTE_ORDER - 3), but
  PTE_ORDER is always 0, so these are identical.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently we have many duplicates in definitions around
follow_huge_addr(), follow_huge_pmd(), and follow_huge_pud(), so this
patch tries to remove the m.  The basic idea is to put the default
implementation for these functions in mm/hugetlb.c as weak symbols
(regardless of CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETL B), and to implement
arch-specific code only when the arch needs it.

For follow_huge_addr(), only powerpc and ia64 have their own
implementation, and in all other architectures this function just returns
ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).  So this patch sets returning ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) as
default.

As for follow_huge_(pmd|pud)(), if (pmd|pud)_huge() is implemented to
always return 0 in your architecture (like in ia64 or sparc,) it's never
called (the callsite is optimized away) no matter how implemented it is.
So in such architectures, we don't need arch-specific implementation.

In some architecture (like mips, s390 and tile,) their current
arch-specific follow_huge_(pmd|pud)() are effectively identical with the
common code, so this patch lets these architecture use the common code.

One exception is metag, where pmd_huge() could return non-zero but it
expects follow_huge_pmd() to always return NULL.  This means that we need
arch-specific implementation which returns NULL.  This behavior looks
strange to me (because non-zero pmd_huge() implies that the architecture
supports PMD-based hugepage, so follow_huge_pmd() can/should return some
relevant value,) but that's beyond this cleanup patch, so let's keep it.

Justification of non-trivial changes:
- in s390, follow_huge_pmd() checks !MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE at first, and this
  patch removes the check. This is OK because we can assume MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE
  is true when follow_huge_pmd() can be called (note that pmd_huge() has
  the same check and always returns 0 for !MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE.)
- in s390 and mips, we use HPAGE_MASK instead of PMD_MASK as done in common
  code. This patch forces these archs use PMD_MASK, but it's OK because
  they are identical in both archs.
  In s390, both of HPAGE_SHIFT and PMD_SHIFT are 20.
  In mips, HPAGE_SHIFT is defined as (PAGE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT - 3) and
  PMD_SHIFT is define as (PAGE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT + PTE_ORDER - 3), but
  PTE_ORDER is always 0, so these are identical.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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<id>33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7</id>
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>next: sh: Fix compile error</title>
<updated>2015-01-19T13:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-07T20:32:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=378af02b1aecabb3756e19c0cbb8cdd9c3b9637f'/>
<id>378af02b1aecabb3756e19c0cbb8cdd9c3b9637f</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 927609d622a3 ("kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE") results in a
compile failure for sh builds with CONFIG_X2TLB enabled.

arch/sh/mm/gup.c: In function 'gup_get_pte':
arch/sh/mm/gup.c:20:2: error: invalid initializer
make[1]: *** [arch/sh/mm/gup.o] Error 1

Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE to fix the problem.

Fixes: 927609d622a3 ("kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE")
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Commit 927609d622a3 ("kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE") results in a
compile failure for sh builds with CONFIG_X2TLB enabled.

arch/sh/mm/gup.c: In function 'gup_get_pte':
arch/sh/mm/gup.c:20:2: error: invalid initializer
make[1]: *** [arch/sh/mm/gup.o] Error 1

Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE to fix the problem.

Fixes: 927609d622a3 ("kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE")
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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