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<title>linux.git/arch/xtensa/include/asm, branch v5.4-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming</title>
<updated>2019-09-26T17:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-25T23:49:46+00:00</published>
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The naming of pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() seems to have confused a few
people, and until recently arm64 used these erroneously/pointlessly for
other levels of page table.

To make it incredibly clear that these only apply to the PTE level, and to
align with the naming of pgtable_pmd_page_{ctor,dtor}(), let's rename them
to pgtable_pte_page_{ctor,dtor}().

These changes were generated with the following shell script:

----
git grep -lw 'pgtable_page_.tor' | while read FILE; do
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_ctor/pgtable_pte_page_ctor/}' $FILE;
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_dtor/pgtable_pte_page_dtor/}' $FILE;
done
----

... with the documentation re-flowed to remain under 80 columns, and
whitespace fixed up in macros to keep backslashes aligned.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722141133.3116-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@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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<pre>
The naming of pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() seems to have confused a few
people, and until recently arm64 used these erroneously/pointlessly for
other levels of page table.

To make it incredibly clear that these only apply to the PTE level, and to
align with the naming of pgtable_pmd_page_{ctor,dtor}(), let's rename them
to pgtable_pte_page_{ctor,dtor}().

These changes were generated with the following shell script:

----
git grep -lw 'pgtable_page_.tor' | while read FILE; do
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_ctor/pgtable_pte_page_ctor/}' $FILE;
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_dtor/pgtable_pte_page_dtor/}' $FILE;
done
----

... with the documentation re-flowed to remain under 80 columns, and
whitespace fixed up in macros to keep backslashes aligned.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722141133.3116-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: consolidate pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init()</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:35:31+00:00</published>
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Both pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init() are used to initialize kmem
cache for page table allocations on several architectures that do not use
PAGE_SIZE tables for one or more levels of the page table hierarchy.

Most architectures do not implement these functions and use __weak default
NOP implementation of pgd_cache_init().  Since there is no such default
for pgtable_cache_init(), its empty stub is duplicated among most
architectures.

Rename the definitions of pgd_cache_init() to pgtable_cache_init() and
drop empty stubs of pgtable_cache_init().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566457046-22637-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;	[x86]
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.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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<pre>
Both pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init() are used to initialize kmem
cache for page table allocations on several architectures that do not use
PAGE_SIZE tables for one or more levels of the page table hierarchy.

Most architectures do not implement these functions and use __weak default
NOP implementation of pgd_cache_init().  Since there is no such default
for pgtable_cache_init(), its empty stub is duplicated among most
architectures.

Rename the definitions of pgd_cache_init() to pgtable_cache_init() and
drop empty stubs of pgtable_cache_init().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566457046-22637-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;	[x86]
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&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 quicklist page table caches</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:35:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=13224794cb0832caa403ad583d8605202cabc6bc'/>
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<content type='text'>
Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".

A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].

I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com

This patch (of 3):

Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.

The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.

Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".

A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].

I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com

This patch (of 3):

Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.

The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.

Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&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>xtensa: virt: move PCI root complex to KIO range</title>
<updated>2019-09-02T07:09:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-02T06:55:49+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Move PCI configuration space, MMIO and memory to the KIO range to free
vmalloc area and use static TLB to access them. Move MMIO to the
beginning of KIO and define PCI_IOBASE as XCHAL_KIO_BYPASS_VADDR to
match it. Reduce number of supported PCI buses to 0x3f so that ECAM
window fits into first 64MB of the KIO. Reduce size of the PCI memory
window to 128MB so that it fits into KIO.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Move PCI configuration space, MMIO and memory to the KIO range to free
vmalloc area and use static TLB to access them. Move MMIO to the
beginning of KIO and define PCI_IOBASE as XCHAL_KIO_BYPASS_VADDR to
match it. Reduce number of supported PCI buses to 0x3f so that ECAM
window fits into first 64MB of the KIO. Reduce size of the PCI memory
window to 128MB so that it fits into KIO.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: add support for call0 ABI in userspace</title>
<updated>2019-09-01T20:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-12T06:44:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=09f8a6db20e6ed8eab1b2b23d09d2458f6e15062'/>
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<content type='text'>
Provide a Kconfig choice to select whether only the default ABI, only
call0 ABI or both are supported. The default for XEA2 is windowed, but
it may change for XEA3. Call0 only runs userspace with PS.WOE disabled.
Supporting both windowed and call0 ABIs is tricky, as there's no
indication in the ELF binaries which ABI they use. So it is done by
probing: each process is started with PS.WOE disabled, but the handler
of an illegal instruction exception taken with PS.WOE retries faulting
instruction after enabling PS.WOE. It must happen before any signal is
delivered to the process, otherwise it may be delivered incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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Provide a Kconfig choice to select whether only the default ABI, only
call0 ABI or both are supported. The default for XEA2 is windowed, but
it may change for XEA3. Call0 only runs userspace with PS.WOE disabled.
Supporting both windowed and call0 ABIs is tricky, as there's no
indication in the ELF binaries which ABI they use. So it is done by
probing: each process is started with PS.WOE disabled, but the handler
of an illegal instruction exception taken with PS.WOE retries faulting
instruction after enabling PS.WOE. It must happen before any signal is
delivered to the process, otherwise it may be delivered incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: clean up PS_WOE_BIT usage</title>
<updated>2019-09-01T20:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-30T18:16:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9e1e41c44782741c727688a19e5624d039b0de7e'/>
<id>9e1e41c44782741c727688a19e5624d039b0de7e</id>
<content type='text'>
PS_WOE_BIT is mainly used to generate PS.WOE mask in the code. Introduce
PS_WOE_MASK macro and use it instead.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
PS_WOE_BIT is mainly used to generate PS.WOE mask in the code. Introduce
PS_WOE_MASK macro and use it instead.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T19:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T19:21:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c309b6f24222246c18a8b65d3950e6e755440865'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
  ...
</content>
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<pre>
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T19:17:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T19:17:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3e859477a1db52a0435d06a55fdb54f62d69c292'/>
<id>3e859477a1db52a0435d06a55fdb54f62d69c292</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - clean up PCI support code

 - add defconfig and DTS for the 'virt' board

 - abstract 'entry' and 'retw' uses in xtensa assembly in preparation
   for XEA3/NX pipeline support

 - random small cleanups

* tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa:
  xtensa: virt: add defconfig and DTS
  xtensa: abstract 'entry' and 'retw' in assembly code
  xtensa: One function call less in bootmem_init()
  xtensa: remove arch/xtensa/include/asm/types.h
  xtensa: use generic pcibios_set_master and pcibios_enable_device
  xtensa: drop dead PCI support code
  xtensa/PCI: Remove unused variable
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<pre>
Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - clean up PCI support code

 - add defconfig and DTS for the 'virt' board

 - abstract 'entry' and 'retw' uses in xtensa assembly in preparation
   for XEA3/NX pipeline support

 - random small cleanups

* tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa:
  xtensa: virt: add defconfig and DTS
  xtensa: abstract 'entry' and 'retw' in assembly code
  xtensa: One function call less in bootmem_init()
  xtensa: remove arch/xtensa/include/asm/types.h
  xtensa: use generic pcibios_set_master and pcibios_enable_device
  xtensa: drop dead PCI support code
  xtensa/PCI: Remove unused variable
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: xtensa: convert to ReST</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T12:20:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-18T17:34:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8ea0afa3b801e9fe3ff676c3e60e74afa1a0848a'/>
<id>8ea0afa3b801e9fe3ff676c3e60e74afa1a0848a</id>
<content type='text'>
Rename the xtensa documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Rename the xtensa documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T17:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T17:09:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8f6ccf6159aed1f04c6d179f61f6fb2691261e84'/>
<id>8f6ccf6159aed1f04c6d179f61f6fb2691261e84</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
  after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
  window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
  and thus all legacy workloads.

  There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
  First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
  this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
  EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
  argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
  third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
  clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
  argument.

  The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:

    /* uapi */
    struct clone_args {
            __aligned_u64 flags;
            __aligned_u64 pidfd;
            __aligned_u64 child_tid;
            __aligned_u64 parent_tid;
            __aligned_u64 exit_signal;
            __aligned_u64 stack;
            __aligned_u64 stack_size;
            __aligned_u64 tls;
    };

  and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:

    /* kernel internal */
    struct kernel_clone_args {
            u64 flags;
            int __user *pidfd;
            int __user *child_tid;
            int __user *parent_tid;
            int exit_signal;
            unsigned long stack;
            unsigned long stack_size;
            unsigned long tls;
    };

  The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
  detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
  validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
  are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.

  A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
  simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
  internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
  legacy clone().

  This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
  introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.

  Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
  xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
  massaging.

  Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
  after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
  dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
  leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
  there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
  which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
  clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
  such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
  including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
  __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"

* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
  arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
  fork: add clone3
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Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
  after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
  window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
  and thus all legacy workloads.

  There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
  First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
  this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
  EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
  argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
  third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
  clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
  argument.

  The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:

    /* uapi */
    struct clone_args {
            __aligned_u64 flags;
            __aligned_u64 pidfd;
            __aligned_u64 child_tid;
            __aligned_u64 parent_tid;
            __aligned_u64 exit_signal;
            __aligned_u64 stack;
            __aligned_u64 stack_size;
            __aligned_u64 tls;
    };

  and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:

    /* kernel internal */
    struct kernel_clone_args {
            u64 flags;
            int __user *pidfd;
            int __user *child_tid;
            int __user *parent_tid;
            int exit_signal;
            unsigned long stack;
            unsigned long stack_size;
            unsigned long tls;
    };

  The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
  detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
  validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
  are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.

  A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
  simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
  internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
  legacy clone().

  This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
  introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.

  Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
  xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
  massaging.

  Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
  after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
  dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
  leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
  there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
  which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
  clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
  such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
  including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
  __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"

* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
  arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
  fork: add clone3
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