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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2013-07-07T18:01:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-07T18:01:19+00:00</published>
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Pull first stage of __cpuinit removal from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The two commits here 1) dummy out all the __cpuinit macros so that we
  no longer generate such sections, and then 2) remove all the section
  processing that we used to do for those sections.

  This makes all the __cpuinit and friends no-ops, so that we can remove
  the use cases of it at our leisure.  Expect stage 2, which does the
  tree wide removal sweep at the end of the merge window."

* 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
  init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
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Pull first stage of __cpuinit removal from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The two commits here 1) dummy out all the __cpuinit macros so that we
  no longer generate such sections, and then 2) remove all the section
  processing that we used to do for those sections.

  This makes all the __cpuinit and friends no-ops, so that we can remove
  the use cases of it at our leisure.  Expect stage 2, which does the
  tree wide removal sweep at the end of the merge window."

* 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
  init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2013-07-04T17:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T17:29:23+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window.  In addition to
  the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:

   - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
     server processors.  This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
     huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.

   - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy

   - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
     putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah

   - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
     and recovery) infrastructure.  It is no longer specific to pseries
     but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
     hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.

   - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
     usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
     hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
     processors).

   - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
     Ellerman.  This facility allows what is basically "userspace
     interrupts" for performance monitor events.

   - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs.  Signals bug fixes and HW
     breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.

  And more ...  I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
  something that somebody deemed worth it."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
  pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
  powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
  powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
  powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
  powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
  powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
  powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
  powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
  powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
  powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
  powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
  powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
  powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
  pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
  powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
  powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
  powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
  powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
  powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
  ...
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<entry>
<title>rapidio: convert switch drivers to modules</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Bounine</name>
<email>alexandre.bounine@idt.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:08:50+00:00</published>
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Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable
kernel modules.

This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch
drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method.  To simplify
registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces
rio_switch_ops data structure.  The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from
the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its
functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines.

If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem
core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch.
Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method
relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management,
switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO
enumeration/discovery starts.

This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery
module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations
accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine &lt;alexandre.bounine@idt.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Porter &lt;mporter@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Li Yang &lt;leoli@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Andre van Herk &lt;andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl&gt;
Cc: Micha Nelissen &lt;micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl&gt;
Cc: Stef van Os &lt;stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&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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Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable
kernel modules.

This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch
drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method.  To simplify
registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces
rio_switch_ops data structure.  The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from
the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its
functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines.

If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem
core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch.
Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method
relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management,
switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO
enumeration/discovery starts.

This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery
module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations
accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine &lt;alexandre.bounine@idt.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Porter &lt;mporter@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Li Yang &lt;leoli@freescale.com&gt;
Cc: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Andre van Herk &lt;andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl&gt;
Cc: Micha Nelissen &lt;micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl&gt;
Cc: Stef van Os &lt;stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&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>vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:07:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Liu</name>
<email>liuj97@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:03:33+00:00</published>
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The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been
expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion.

Patch 1-7:
	1) add comments for global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
	2) normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
Patch 8:
	Introduce helper functions mem_init_print_info() and
	get_num_physpages()
Patch 9:
	Avoid using global variable num_physpages at runtime
Patch 10:
	Don't update num_physpages in memory_hotplug.c
Patch 11-40:
	Modify arch mm initialization code to:
	1) Simplify mem_init() by using mem_init_print_info()
	2) Prepare for killing global variable num_physpages
Patch 41:
	Kill the global variable num_physpages

With all patches applied, mem_init(), free_initmem(), free_initrd_mem()
could be as simple as below.  This patch series has reduced about 1.2K
lines of code in total.

#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
void __init
mem_init(void)
{
	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
	free_all_bootmem();
	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);

	mem_init_print_info(NULL);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */

void
free_initmem(void)
{
	free_initmem_default(-1);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
void
free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	free_reserved_area(start, end, -1, "initrd");
}
#endif

Due to hardware resource limitations, I have only tested this on x86_64.
And the messages reported on an x86_64 system are:

Log message before applying patches:
Memory: 7745676k/8910848k available (6934k kernel code, 836024k absent, 329148k reserved, 6343k data, 1012k init)

Log message after applying patches:
Memory: 7744624K/8074824K available (6969K kernel code, 1011K data, 2828K rodata, 1016K init, 9640K bss, 330200K reserved)

Great thanks to Vineet Gupta for testing on ARC.

This patch:

Document global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.

1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported
   from vmlinux.lds.S.
2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[].

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.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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The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been
expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion.

Patch 1-7:
	1) add comments for global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
	2) normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
Patch 8:
	Introduce helper functions mem_init_print_info() and
	get_num_physpages()
Patch 9:
	Avoid using global variable num_physpages at runtime
Patch 10:
	Don't update num_physpages in memory_hotplug.c
Patch 11-40:
	Modify arch mm initialization code to:
	1) Simplify mem_init() by using mem_init_print_info()
	2) Prepare for killing global variable num_physpages
Patch 41:
	Kill the global variable num_physpages

With all patches applied, mem_init(), free_initmem(), free_initrd_mem()
could be as simple as below.  This patch series has reduced about 1.2K
lines of code in total.

#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
void __init
mem_init(void)
{
	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
	free_all_bootmem();
	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);

	mem_init_print_info(NULL);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */

void
free_initmem(void)
{
	free_initmem_default(-1);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
void
free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	free_reserved_area(start, end, -1, "initrd");
}
#endif

Due to hardware resource limitations, I have only tested this on x86_64.
And the messages reported on an x86_64 system are:

Log message before applying patches:
Memory: 7745676k/8910848k available (6934k kernel code, 836024k absent, 329148k reserved, 6343k data, 1012k init)

Log message after applying patches:
Memory: 7744624K/8074824K available (6969K kernel code, 1011K data, 2828K rodata, 1016K init, 9640K bss, 330200K reserved)

Great thanks to Vineet Gupta for testing on ARC.

This patch:

Document global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.

1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported
   from vmlinux.lds.S.
2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[].

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.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: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:07:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Emelyanov</name>
<email>xemul@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:01:20+00:00</published>
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The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to.  In order to do this tracking one should

  1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 &gt; /proc/PID/clear_refs)
  2. Wait some time.
  3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)

To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is.  Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.

Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast.  This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.

Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to.  In order to do this tracking one should

  1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 &gt; /proc/PID/clear_refs)
  2. Wait some time.
  3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)

To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is.  Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.

Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast.  This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.

Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:19:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:19:24+00:00</published>
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Pull voluntary preemption fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains a speedup which is achieved through better
  might_sleep()/might_fault() preemption point annotations for uaccess
  functions, by Michael S Tsirkin:

  1. The only reason uaccess routines might sleep is if they fault.
     Make this explicit for all architectures.

  2. A voluntary preemption point in uaccess functions means compiler
     can't inline them efficiently, this breaks assumptions that they
     are very fast and small that e.g.  net code seems to make.  Remove
     this preemption point so behaviour matches with what callers
     assume.

  3. Accesses (e.g through socket ops) to kernel memory with KERNEL_DS
     like net/sunrpc does will never sleep.  Remove an unconditinal
     might_sleep() in the might_fault() inline in kernel.h (used when
     PROVE_LOCKING is not set).

  4. Accesses with pagefault_disable() return EFAULT but won't cause
     caller to sleep.  Check for that and thus avoid might_sleep() when
     PROVE_LOCKING is set.

  These changes offer a nice speedup for CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
  kernels, here's a network bandwidth measurement between a virtual
  machine and the host:

   before:
        incoming: 7122.77   Mb/s
        outgoing: 8480.37   Mb/s

   after:
        incoming: 8619.24   Mb/s   [ +21.0% ]
        outgoing: 9455.42   Mb/s   [ +11.5% ]

  I kept these changes in a separate tree, separate from scheduler
  changes, because it's a mixed MM and scheduler topic"

* 'sched-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable()
  mm, sched: Drop voluntary schedule from might_fault()
  x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  tile: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  powerpc: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  mn10300: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  microblaze: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  m32r: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  frv: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  arm64: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  asm-generic: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
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Pull voluntary preemption fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains a speedup which is achieved through better
  might_sleep()/might_fault() preemption point annotations for uaccess
  functions, by Michael S Tsirkin:

  1. The only reason uaccess routines might sleep is if they fault.
     Make this explicit for all architectures.

  2. A voluntary preemption point in uaccess functions means compiler
     can't inline them efficiently, this breaks assumptions that they
     are very fast and small that e.g.  net code seems to make.  Remove
     this preemption point so behaviour matches with what callers
     assume.

  3. Accesses (e.g through socket ops) to kernel memory with KERNEL_DS
     like net/sunrpc does will never sleep.  Remove an unconditinal
     might_sleep() in the might_fault() inline in kernel.h (used when
     PROVE_LOCKING is not set).

  4. Accesses with pagefault_disable() return EFAULT but won't cause
     caller to sleep.  Check for that and thus avoid might_sleep() when
     PROVE_LOCKING is set.

  These changes offer a nice speedup for CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
  kernels, here's a network bandwidth measurement between a virtual
  machine and the host:

   before:
        incoming: 7122.77   Mb/s
        outgoing: 8480.37   Mb/s

   after:
        incoming: 8619.24   Mb/s   [ +21.0% ]
        outgoing: 9455.42   Mb/s   [ +11.5% ]

  I kept these changes in a separate tree, separate from scheduler
  changes, because it's a mixed MM and scheduler topic"

* 'sched-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable()
  mm, sched: Drop voluntary schedule from might_fault()
  x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  tile: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  powerpc: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  mn10300: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  microblaze: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  m32r: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  frv: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  arm64: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
  asm-generic: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-mutexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T23:09:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T23:09:13+00:00</published>
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Pull WW mutex support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for wound/wait style locks, which the graphics
  guys would like to make use of in the TTM graphics subsystem.

  Wound/wait mutexes are used when other multiple lock acquisitions of a
  similar type can be done in an arbitrary order.  The deadlock handling
  used here is called wait/wound in the RDBMS literature: The older
  tasks waits until it can acquire the contended lock.  The younger
  tasks needs to back off and drop all the locks it is currently
  holding, ie the younger task is wounded.

  See this LWN.net description of W/W mutexes:

     https://lwn.net/Articles/548909/

  The comments there outline specific usecases for this facility (which
  have already been implemented for the DRM tree).

  Also see Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt for more details"

* 'core-mutexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking-selftests: Handle unexpected failures more strictly
  mutex: Add more w/w tests to test EDEADLK path handling
  mutex: Add more tests to lib/locking-selftest.c
  mutex: Add w/w tests to lib/locking-selftest.c
  mutex: Add w/w mutex slowpath debugging
  mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks
  arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not
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Pull WW mutex support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for wound/wait style locks, which the graphics
  guys would like to make use of in the TTM graphics subsystem.

  Wound/wait mutexes are used when other multiple lock acquisitions of a
  similar type can be done in an arbitrary order.  The deadlock handling
  used here is called wait/wound in the RDBMS literature: The older
  tasks waits until it can acquire the contended lock.  The younger
  tasks needs to back off and drop all the locks it is currently
  holding, ie the younger task is wounded.

  See this LWN.net description of W/W mutexes:

     https://lwn.net/Articles/548909/

  The comments there outline specific usecases for this facility (which
  have already been implemented for the DRM tree).

  Also see Documentation/ww-mutex-design.txt for more details"

* 'core-mutexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking-selftests: Handle unexpected failures more strictly
  mutex: Add more w/w tests to test EDEADLK path handling
  mutex: Add more tests to lib/locking-selftest.c
  mutex: Add w/w tests to lib/locking-selftest.c
  mutex: Add w/w mutex slowpath debugging
  mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks
  arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2013-07-02T18:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-02T18:44:19+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core merge for 3.11-rc1

  Lots of little things, and larger firmware subsystem updates, all
  described in the shortlog.  Nice thing here is that we finally get rid
  of CONFIG_HOTPLUG, after 10+ years, thanks to Stephen Rohtwell (it had
  been always on for a number of kernel releases, now it's just
  removed)"

* tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (27 commits)
  driver core: device.h: fix doc compilation warnings
  firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unset
  build some drivers only when compile-testing
  firmware loader: fix compile warning with PM_SLEEP set
  kobject: sanitize argument for format string
  sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes
  firmware loader: simplify holding module for request_firmware
  firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
  drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
  firmware loader: fix compile warning
  firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
  Documentation: Updated broken link in HOWTO
  Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
  driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend
  driver core: firmware loader: don't cache FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG firmware
  Documentation: Tidy up some drivers/base/core.c kerneldoc content.
  platform_device: use a macro instead of platform_driver_register
  firmware: move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations
  firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown
  dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core merge for 3.11-rc1

  Lots of little things, and larger firmware subsystem updates, all
  described in the shortlog.  Nice thing here is that we finally get rid
  of CONFIG_HOTPLUG, after 10+ years, thanks to Stephen Rohtwell (it had
  been always on for a number of kernel releases, now it's just
  removed)"

* tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (27 commits)
  driver core: device.h: fix doc compilation warnings
  firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unset
  build some drivers only when compile-testing
  firmware loader: fix compile warning with PM_SLEEP set
  kobject: sanitize argument for format string
  sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes
  firmware loader: simplify holding module for request_firmware
  firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
  drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
  firmware loader: fix compile warning
  firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
  Documentation: Updated broken link in HOWTO
  Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
  driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend
  driver core: firmware loader: don't cache FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG firmware
  Documentation: Tidy up some drivers/base/core.c kerneldoc content.
  platform_device: use a macro instead of platform_driver_register
  firmware: move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations
  firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown
  dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>consolidate io_remap_pfn_range definitions</title>
<updated>2013-06-29T08:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-11T16:13:10+00:00</published>
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<id>40d158e61840fbbe23be3f37302a3ca237c15491</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections</title>
<updated>2013-06-26T16:17:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-19T23:30:48+00:00</published>
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Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ
related sections were inter-operating with other __init
like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone.  Update the linker
script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections.

[lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;]

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ
related sections were inter-operating with other __init
like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone.  Update the linker
script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections.

[lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;]

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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