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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2018-06-09T00:21:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-09T00:21:52+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This adds a user for the new 'bytes-remaining' updates to
  memcpy_mcsafe() that you already received through Ingo via the
  x86-dax- for-linus pull.

  Not included here, but still targeting this cycle, is support for
  handling memory media errors (poison) consumed via userspace dax
  mappings.

  Summary:

   - DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped
     pages. The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a
     pinned page from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical
     block. With DAX the page is equivalent to the filesystem block.
     Introduce dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for
     pinned DAX pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem
     could allocate blocks under active device-DMA to a new file.

   - DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses
     dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls.
     However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem
     block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX
     block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe().

   - Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform
     Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they
     are not necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are
     power-fail protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed
     on REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers
  libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches
  libnvdimm, pmem: Unconditionally deep flush on *sync
  libnvdimm, pmem: Complete REQ_FLUSH =&gt; REQ_PREFLUSH
  acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size
  dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds
  libnvdimm, e820: Register all pmem resources
  libnvdimm: Debug probe times
  linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices
  x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()
  pmem: Switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()
  dax: Introduce a -&gt;copy_to_iter dax operation
  uio, lib: Fix CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE compilation
  xfs, dax: introduce xfs_break_dax_layouts()
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() for another layout type
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() to be called with XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL
  mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings
  mm: fix __gup_device_huge vs unmap
  mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This adds a user for the new 'bytes-remaining' updates to
  memcpy_mcsafe() that you already received through Ingo via the
  x86-dax- for-linus pull.

  Not included here, but still targeting this cycle, is support for
  handling memory media errors (poison) consumed via userspace dax
  mappings.

  Summary:

   - DAX broke a fundamental assumption of truncate of file mapped
     pages. The truncate path assumed that it is safe to disconnect a
     pinned page from a file and let the filesystem reclaim the physical
     block. With DAX the page is equivalent to the filesystem block.
     Introduce dax_layout_busy_page() to enable filesystems to wait for
     pinned DAX pages to be released. Without this wait a filesystem
     could allocate blocks under active device-DMA to a new file.

   - DAX arranges for the block layer to be bypassed and uses
     dax_direct_access() + copy_to_iter() to satisfy read(2) calls.
     However, the memcpy_mcsafe() facility is available through the pmem
     block driver. In order to safely handle media errors, via the DAX
     block-layer bypass, introduce copy_to_iter_mcsafe().

   - Fix cache management policy relative to the ACPI NFIT Platform
     Capabilities Structure to properly elide cache flushes when they
     are not necessary. The table indicates whether CPU caches are
     power-fail protected. Clarify that a deep flush is always performed
     on REQ_{FUA,PREFLUSH} requests"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  dax: Use dax_write_cache* helpers
  libnvdimm, pmem: Do not flush power-fail protected CPU caches
  libnvdimm, pmem: Unconditionally deep flush on *sync
  libnvdimm, pmem: Complete REQ_FLUSH =&gt; REQ_PREFLUSH
  acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size
  dax: dax_insert_mapping_entry always succeeds
  libnvdimm, e820: Register all pmem resources
  libnvdimm: Debug probe times
  linvdimm, pmem: Preserve read-only setting for pmem devices
  x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()
  pmem: Switch to copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  dax: Report bytes remaining in dax_iomap_actor()
  dax: Introduce a -&gt;copy_to_iter dax operation
  uio, lib: Fix CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE compilation
  xfs, dax: introduce xfs_break_dax_layouts()
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() for another layout type
  xfs: prepare xfs_break_layouts() to be called with XFS_MMAPLOCK_EXCL
  mm, fs, dax: handle layout changes to pinned dax mappings
  mm: fix __gup_device_huge vs unmap
  mm: introduce MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX and CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-dax-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T02:23:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T02:23:13+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 dax updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains x86 memcpy_mcsafe() fault handling improvements the
  nvdimm tree would like to make more use of"

* 'x86-dax-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Define copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add write-protection-fault handling
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Return bytes remaining
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add labels for __memcpy_mcsafe() write fault handling
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Remove loop unrolling
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<pre>
Pull x86 dax updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains x86 memcpy_mcsafe() fault handling improvements the
  nvdimm tree would like to make more use of"

* 'x86-dax-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Define copy_to_iter_mcsafe()
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add write-protection-fault handling
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Return bytes remaining
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add labels for __memcpy_mcsafe() write fault handling
  x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Remove loop unrolling
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<entry>
<title>x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe()</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T06:18:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-01T13:49:45+00:00</published>
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Given the fact that the ACPI "EINJ" (error injection) facility is not
universally available, implement software infrastructure to validate the
memcpy_mcsafe() exception handling implementation.

For each potential read exception point in memcpy_mcsafe(), inject a
emulated exception point at the address identified by 'mcsafe_inject'
variable. With this infrastructure implement a test to validate that the
'bytes remaining' calculation is correct for a range of various source
buffer alignments.

This code is compiled out by default. The CONFIG_MCSAFE_DEBUG
configuration symbol needs to be manually enabled by editing
Kconfig.debug. I.e. this functionality can not be accidentally enabled
by a user / distro, it's only for development.

Cc: &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Given the fact that the ACPI "EINJ" (error injection) facility is not
universally available, implement software infrastructure to validate the
memcpy_mcsafe() exception handling implementation.

For each potential read exception point in memcpy_mcsafe(), inject a
emulated exception point at the address identified by 'mcsafe_inject'
variable. With this infrastructure implement a test to validate that the
'bytes remaining' calculation is correct for a range of various source
buffer alignments.

This code is compiled out by default. The CONFIG_MCSAFE_DEBUG
configuration symbol needs to be manually enabled by editing
Kconfig.debug. I.e. this functionality can not be accidentally enabled
by a user / distro, it's only for development.

Cc: &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add write-protection-fault handling</title>
<updated>2018-05-15T06:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T00:06:26+00:00</published>
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In preparation for using memcpy_mcsafe() to handle user copies it needs
to be to handle write-protection faults while writing user pages. Add
MMU-fault handlers alongside the machine-check exception handlers.

Note that the machine check fault exception handling makes assumptions
about source buffer alignment and poison alignment. In the write fault
case, given the destination buffer is arbitrarily aligned, it needs a
separate / additional fault handling approach. The mcsafe_handle_tail()
helper is reused. The @limit argument is set to @len since there is no
safety concern about retriggering an MMU fault, and this simplifies the
assembly.

Co-developed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mika Penttilä &lt;mika.penttila@nextfour.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238635.31796.14056325365122961778.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
In preparation for using memcpy_mcsafe() to handle user copies it needs
to be to handle write-protection faults while writing user pages. Add
MMU-fault handlers alongside the machine-check exception handlers.

Note that the machine check fault exception handling makes assumptions
about source buffer alignment and poison alignment. In the write fault
case, given the destination buffer is arbitrarily aligned, it needs a
separate / additional fault handling approach. The mcsafe_handle_tail()
helper is reused. The @limit argument is set to @len since there is no
safety concern about retriggering an MMU fault, and this simplifies the
assembly.

Co-developed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mika Penttilä &lt;mika.penttila@nextfour.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238635.31796.14056325365122961778.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Return bytes remaining</title>
<updated>2018-05-15T06:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T00:06:21+00:00</published>
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Machine check safe memory copies are currently deployed in the pmem
driver whenever reading from persistent memory media, so that -EIO is
returned rather than triggering a kernel panic. While this protects most
pmem accesses, it is not complete in the filesystem-dax case. When
filesystem-dax is enabled reads may bypass the block layer and the
driver via dax_iomap_actor() and its usage of copy_to_iter().

In preparation for creating a copy_to_iter() variant that can handle
machine checks, teach memcpy_mcsafe() to return the number of bytes
remaining rather than -EFAULT when an exception occurs.

Co-developed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238119.31796.14318473522414462886.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Machine check safe memory copies are currently deployed in the pmem
driver whenever reading from persistent memory media, so that -EIO is
returned rather than triggering a kernel panic. While this protects most
pmem accesses, it is not complete in the filesystem-dax case. When
filesystem-dax is enabled reads may bypass the block layer and the
driver via dax_iomap_actor() and its usage of copy_to_iter().

In preparation for creating a copy_to_iter() variant that can handle
machine checks, teach memcpy_mcsafe() to return the number of bytes
remaining rather than -EFAULT when an exception occurs.

Co-developed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238119.31796.14318473522414462886.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add labels for __memcpy_mcsafe() write fault handling</title>
<updated>2018-05-15T06:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T00:06:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bd131544aa7e318a5735cbcbad46c4a5ee6b9d42'/>
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The memcpy_mcsafe() implementation handles CPU exceptions when reading
from the source address. Before it can be used for user copies it needs
to grow support for handling write faults. In preparation for adding
that exception handling update the labels for the read cache word X case
(.L_cache_rX) and write cache word X case (.L_cache_wX).

Reported-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539237606.31796.6719743548991782264.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The memcpy_mcsafe() implementation handles CPU exceptions when reading
from the source address. Before it can be used for user copies it needs
to grow support for handling write faults. In preparation for adding
that exception handling update the labels for the read cache word X case
(.L_cache_rX) and write cache word X case (.L_cache_wX).

Reported-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539237606.31796.6719743548991782264.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Remove loop unrolling</title>
<updated>2018-05-15T06:32:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T00:06:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=da7bc9c57eb0e91e048d05f7dbe5014a8b81ccfa'/>
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<content type='text'>
In preparation for teaching memcpy_mcsafe() to return 'bytes remaining'
rather than pass / fail, simplify the implementation to remove loop
unrolling. The unrolling complicates the fault handling for negligible
benefit given modern CPUs perform loop stream detection.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539237092.31796.9115692316555638048.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In preparation for teaching memcpy_mcsafe() to return 'bytes remaining'
rather than pass / fail, simplify the implementation to remove loop
unrolling. The unrolling complicates the fault handling for negligible
benefit given modern CPUs perform loop stream detection.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539237092.31796.9115692316555638048.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/asm/64: Micro-optimize __clear_user() - Use immediate constants</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T09:38:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-07T21:39:37+00:00</published>
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Save two registers. Adding constants should be just as fast as adding registers.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180507213937.GB32406@avx2
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Save two registers. Adding constants should be just as fast as adding registers.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180507213937.GB32406@avx2
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T22:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T22:16:43+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups and msr updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change is a performance/latency improvement to /dev/msr
  access. The rest are misc cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/msr: Make rdmsrl_safe_on_cpu() scheduling safe as well
  x86/cpuid: Allow cpuid_read() to schedule
  x86/msr: Allow rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to schedule
  x86/rtc: Stop using deprecated functions
  x86/dumpstack: Unify show_regs()
  x86/fault: Do not print IP in show_fault_oops()
  x86/MSR: Move native_* variants to msr.h
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Pull x86 cleanups and msr updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change is a performance/latency improvement to /dev/msr
  access. The rest are misc cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/msr: Make rdmsrl_safe_on_cpu() scheduling safe as well
  x86/cpuid: Allow cpuid_read() to schedule
  x86/msr: Allow rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to schedule
  x86/rtc: Stop using deprecated functions
  x86/dumpstack: Unify show_regs()
  x86/fault: Do not print IP in show_fault_oops()
  x86/MSR: Move native_* variants to msr.h
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T21:06:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T21:06:47+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm fixlets from Ingo Molnar:
 "A clobber list fix and cleanups"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm: Trim clear_page.S includes
  x86/asm: Clobber flags in clear_page()
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Pull x86 asm fixlets from Ingo Molnar:
 "A clobber list fix and cleanups"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm: Trim clear_page.S includes
  x86/asm: Clobber flags in clear_page()
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