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<title>kasan, arm64: only use kasan_depth for software modes</title>
<updated>2020-12-22T20:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T20:00:56+00:00</published>
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This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.

Hardware tag-based KASAN won't use kasan_depth.  Only define and use it
when one of the software KASAN modes are enabled.

No functional changes for software modes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16f15aeda90bc7fb4dfc2e243a14b74cc5c8219.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.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 is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.

Hardware tag-based KASAN won't use kasan_depth.  Only define and use it
when one of the software KASAN modes are enabled.

No functional changes for software modes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16f15aeda90bc7fb4dfc2e243a14b74cc5c8219.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.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>
<title>Merge tag 'core-mm-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T02:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T02:35:53+00:00</published>
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Pull kmap updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The new preemtible kmap_local() implementation:

   - Consolidate all kmap_atomic() internals into a generic
     implementation which builds the base for the kmap_local() API and
     make the kmap_atomic() interface wrappers which handle the
     disabling/enabling of preemption and pagefaults.

   - Switch the storage from per-CPU to per task and provide scheduler
     support for clearing mapping when scheduling out and restoring them
     when scheduling back in.

   - Merge the migrate_disable/enable() code, which is also part of the
     scheduler pull request. This was required to make the kmap_local()
     interface available which does not disable preemption when a
     mapping is established. It has to disable migration instead to
     guarantee that the virtual address of the mapped slot is the same
     across preemption.

   - Provide better debug facilities: guard pages and enforced
     utilization of the mapping mechanics on 64bit systems when the
     architecture allows it.

   - Provide the new kmap_local() API which can now be used to cleanup
     the kmap_atomic() usage sites all over the place. Most of the usage
     sites do not require the implicit disabling of preemption and
     pagefaults so the penalty on 64bit and 32bit non-highmem systems is
     removed and quite some of the code can be simplified. A wholesale
     conversion is not possible because some usage depends on the
     implicit side effects and some need to be cleaned up because they
     work around these side effects.

     The migrate disable side effect is only effective on highmem
     systems and when enforced debugging is enabled. On 64bit and 32bit
     non-highmem systems the overhead is completely avoided"

* tag 'core-mm-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  ARM: highmem: Fix cache_is_vivt() reference
  x86/crashdump/32: Simplify copy_oldmem_page()
  io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant
  mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*
  sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct
  x86: Support kmap_local() forced debugging
  mm/highmem: Provide CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
  mm/highmem: Provide and use CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
  microblaze/mm/highmem: Add dropped #ifdef back
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Make generic kmap_atomic() work correctly
  mm/highmem: Take kmap_high_get() properly into account
  highmem: High implementation details and document API
  Documentation/io-mapping: Remove outdated blurb
  io-mapping: Cleanup atomic iomap
  mm/highmem: Remove the old kmap_atomic cruft
  highmem: Get rid of kmap_types.h
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  sparc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  powerpc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  nds32/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  ...
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<pre>
Pull kmap updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The new preemtible kmap_local() implementation:

   - Consolidate all kmap_atomic() internals into a generic
     implementation which builds the base for the kmap_local() API and
     make the kmap_atomic() interface wrappers which handle the
     disabling/enabling of preemption and pagefaults.

   - Switch the storage from per-CPU to per task and provide scheduler
     support for clearing mapping when scheduling out and restoring them
     when scheduling back in.

   - Merge the migrate_disable/enable() code, which is also part of the
     scheduler pull request. This was required to make the kmap_local()
     interface available which does not disable preemption when a
     mapping is established. It has to disable migration instead to
     guarantee that the virtual address of the mapped slot is the same
     across preemption.

   - Provide better debug facilities: guard pages and enforced
     utilization of the mapping mechanics on 64bit systems when the
     architecture allows it.

   - Provide the new kmap_local() API which can now be used to cleanup
     the kmap_atomic() usage sites all over the place. Most of the usage
     sites do not require the implicit disabling of preemption and
     pagefaults so the penalty on 64bit and 32bit non-highmem systems is
     removed and quite some of the code can be simplified. A wholesale
     conversion is not possible because some usage depends on the
     implicit side effects and some need to be cleaned up because they
     work around these side effects.

     The migrate disable side effect is only effective on highmem
     systems and when enforced debugging is enabled. On 64bit and 32bit
     non-highmem systems the overhead is completely avoided"

* tag 'core-mm-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  ARM: highmem: Fix cache_is_vivt() reference
  x86/crashdump/32: Simplify copy_oldmem_page()
  io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant
  mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*
  sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct
  x86: Support kmap_local() forced debugging
  mm/highmem: Provide CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
  mm/highmem: Provide and use CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
  microblaze/mm/highmem: Add dropped #ifdef back
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Make generic kmap_atomic() work correctly
  mm/highmem: Take kmap_high_get() properly into account
  highmem: High implementation details and document API
  Documentation/io-mapping: Remove outdated blurb
  io-mapping: Cleanup atomic iomap
  mm/highmem: Remove the old kmap_atomic cruft
  highmem: Get rid of kmap_types.h
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  sparc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  powerpc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  nds32/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T02:29:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T02:29:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=adb35e8dc98ba9bda99ff79ac6a05b8fcde2a762'/>
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Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - migrate_disable/enable() support which originates from the RT tree
   and is now a prerequisite for the new preemptible kmap_local() API
   which aims to replace kmap_atomic().

 - A fair amount of topology and NUMA related improvements

 - Improvements for the frequency invariant calculations

 - Enhanced robustness for the global CPU priority tracking and decision
   making

 - The usual small fixes and enhancements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
  sched/fair: Trivial correction of the newidle_balance() comment
  sched/fair: Clear SMT siblings after determining the core is not idle
  sched: Fix kernel-doc markup
  x86: Print ratio freq_max/freq_base used in frequency invariance calculations
  x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC
  x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD systems
  irq_work: Optimize irq_work_single()
  smp: Cleanup smp_call_function*()
  irq_work: Cleanup
  sched: Limit the amount of NUMA imbalance that can exist at fork time
  sched/numa: Allow a floating imbalance between NUMA nodes
  sched: Avoid unnecessary calculation of load imbalance at clone time
  sched/numa: Rename nr_running and break out the magic number
  sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT
  sched/topology: Condition EAS enablement on FIE support
  arm64: Rebuild sched domains on invariance status changes
  sched/topology,schedutil: Wrap sched domains rebuild
  sched/uclamp: Allow to reset a task uclamp constraint value
  sched/core: Fix typos in comments
  Documentation: scheduler: fix information on arch SD flags, sched_domain and sched_debug
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - migrate_disable/enable() support which originates from the RT tree
   and is now a prerequisite for the new preemptible kmap_local() API
   which aims to replace kmap_atomic().

 - A fair amount of topology and NUMA related improvements

 - Improvements for the frequency invariant calculations

 - Enhanced robustness for the global CPU priority tracking and decision
   making

 - The usual small fixes and enhancements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
  sched/fair: Trivial correction of the newidle_balance() comment
  sched/fair: Clear SMT siblings after determining the core is not idle
  sched: Fix kernel-doc markup
  x86: Print ratio freq_max/freq_base used in frequency invariance calculations
  x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC
  x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD systems
  irq_work: Optimize irq_work_single()
  smp: Cleanup smp_call_function*()
  irq_work: Cleanup
  sched: Limit the amount of NUMA imbalance that can exist at fork time
  sched/numa: Allow a floating imbalance between NUMA nodes
  sched: Avoid unnecessary calculation of load imbalance at clone time
  sched/numa: Rename nr_running and break out the magic number
  sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT
  sched/topology: Condition EAS enablement on FIE support
  arm64: Rebuild sched domains on invariance status changes
  sched/topology,schedutil: Wrap sched domains rebuild
  sched/uclamp: Allow to reset a task uclamp constraint value
  sched/core: Fix typos in comments
  Documentation: scheduler: fix information on arch SD flags, sched_domain and sched_debug
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-kprobes-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T01:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T01:41:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=76d4acf22b4847f6c7b2f9042366fbdc3d20f578'/>
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Pull perf/kprobes updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Make kretprobes lockless to avoid the rp-&gt;lock performance and
  potential lock ordering issues"

* tag 'perf-kprobes-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/atomics: Regenerate the atomics-check SHA1's
  kprobes: Replace rp-&gt;free_instance with freelist
  freelist: Implement lockless freelist
  asm-generic/atomic: Add try_cmpxchg() fallbacks
  kprobes: Remove kretprobe hash
  llist: Add nonatomic __llist_add() and __llist_dell_all()
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Pull perf/kprobes updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Make kretprobes lockless to avoid the rp-&gt;lock performance and
  potential lock ordering issues"

* tag 'perf-kprobes-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/atomics: Regenerate the atomics-check SHA1's
  kprobes: Replace rp-&gt;free_instance with freelist
  freelist: Implement lockless freelist
  asm-generic/atomic: Add try_cmpxchg() fallbacks
  kprobes: Remove kretprobe hash
  llist: Add nonatomic __llist_add() and __llist_dell_all()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-entry-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T01:13:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T01:13:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1ac0884d5474fea8dc6ceabbd0e870d1bf4b7b42'/>
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Pull core entry/exit updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of updates for entry/exit handling:

   - More generalization of entry/exit functionality

   - The consolidation work to reclaim TIF flags on x86 and also for
     non-x86 specific TIF flags which are solely relevant for syscall
     related work and have been moved into their own storage space. The
     x86 specific part had to be merged in to avoid a major conflict.

   - The TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL work which replaces the inefficient signal
     delivery mode of task work and results in an impressive performance
     improvement for io_uring. The non-x86 consolidation of this is
     going to come seperate via Jens.

   - The selective syscall redirection facility which provides a clean
     and efficient way to support the non-Linux syscalls of WINE by
     catching them at syscall entry and redirecting them to the user
     space emulation. This can be utilized for other purposes as well
     and has been designed carefully to avoid overhead for the regular
     fastpath. This includes the core changes and the x86 support code.

   - Simplification of the context tracking entry/exit handling for the
     users of the generic entry code which guarantee the proper ordering
     and protection.

   - Preparatory changes to make the generic entry code accomodate S390
     specific requirements which are mostly related to their syscall
     restart mechanism"

* tag 'core-entry-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  entry: Add syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work()
  entry: Add exit_to_user_mode() wrapper
  entry_Add_enter_from_user_mode_wrapper
  entry: Rename exit_to_user_mode()
  entry: Rename enter_from_user_mode()
  docs: Document Syscall User Dispatch
  selftests: Add benchmark for syscall user dispatch
  selftests: Add kselftest for syscall user dispatch
  entry: Support Syscall User Dispatch on common syscall entry
  kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection
  signal: Expose SYS_USER_DISPATCH si_code type
  x86: vdso: Expose sigreturn address on vdso to the kernel
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for common entry code
  entry: Fix boot for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY
  x86: Support HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Only define schedule_user() on !HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK archs
  sched: Detect call to schedule from critical entry code
  context_tracking: Don't implement exception_enter/exit() on CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Introduce HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  x86: Reclaim unused x86 TI flags
  ...
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<pre>
Pull core entry/exit updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of updates for entry/exit handling:

   - More generalization of entry/exit functionality

   - The consolidation work to reclaim TIF flags on x86 and also for
     non-x86 specific TIF flags which are solely relevant for syscall
     related work and have been moved into their own storage space. The
     x86 specific part had to be merged in to avoid a major conflict.

   - The TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL work which replaces the inefficient signal
     delivery mode of task work and results in an impressive performance
     improvement for io_uring. The non-x86 consolidation of this is
     going to come seperate via Jens.

   - The selective syscall redirection facility which provides a clean
     and efficient way to support the non-Linux syscalls of WINE by
     catching them at syscall entry and redirecting them to the user
     space emulation. This can be utilized for other purposes as well
     and has been designed carefully to avoid overhead for the regular
     fastpath. This includes the core changes and the x86 support code.

   - Simplification of the context tracking entry/exit handling for the
     users of the generic entry code which guarantee the proper ordering
     and protection.

   - Preparatory changes to make the generic entry code accomodate S390
     specific requirements which are mostly related to their syscall
     restart mechanism"

* tag 'core-entry-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  entry: Add syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work()
  entry: Add exit_to_user_mode() wrapper
  entry_Add_enter_from_user_mode_wrapper
  entry: Rename exit_to_user_mode()
  entry: Rename enter_from_user_mode()
  docs: Document Syscall User Dispatch
  selftests: Add benchmark for syscall user dispatch
  selftests: Add kselftest for syscall user dispatch
  entry: Support Syscall User Dispatch on common syscall entry
  kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection
  signal: Expose SYS_USER_DISPATCH si_code type
  x86: vdso: Expose sigreturn address on vdso to the kernel
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for common entry code
  entry: Fix boot for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY
  x86: Support HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Only define schedule_user() on !HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK archs
  sched: Detect call to schedule from critical entry code
  context_tracking: Don't implement exception_enter/exit() on CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  context_tracking: Introduce HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK
  x86: Reclaim unused x86 TI flags
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection</title>
<updated>2020-12-02T14:07:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Krisman Bertazi</name>
<email>krisman@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-27T19:32:34+00:00</published>
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Introduce a mechanism to quickly disable/enable syscall handling for a
specific process and redirect to userspace via SIGSYS.  This is useful
for processes with parts that require syscall redirection and parts that
don't, but who need to perform this boundary crossing really fast,
without paying the cost of a system call to reconfigure syscall handling
on each boundary transition.  This is particularly important for Windows
games running over Wine.

The proposed interface looks like this:

  prctl(PR_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH, &lt;op&gt;, &lt;off&gt;, &lt;length&gt;, [selector])

The range [&lt;offset&gt;,&lt;offset&gt;+&lt;length&gt;) is a part of the process memory
map that is allowed to by-pass the redirection code and dispatch
syscalls directly, such that in fast paths a process doesn't need to
disable the trap nor the kernel has to check the selector.  This is
essential to return from SIGSYS to a blocked area without triggering
another SIGSYS from rt_sigreturn.

selector is an optional pointer to a char-sized userspace memory region
that has a key switch for the mechanism. This key switch is set to
either PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON, PR_SYS_DISPATCH_OFF to enable and disable the
redirection without calling the kernel.

The feature is meant to be set per-thread and it is disabled on
fork/clone/execv.

Internally, this doesn't add overhead to the syscall hot path, and it
requires very little per-architecture support.  I avoided using seccomp,
even though it duplicates some functionality, due to previous feedback
that maybe it shouldn't mix with seccomp since it is not a security
mechanism.  And obviously, this should never be considered a security
mechanism, since any part of the program can by-pass it by using the
syscall dispatcher.

For the sysinfo benchmark, which measures the overhead added to
executing a native syscall that doesn't require interception, the
overhead using only the direct dispatcher region to issue syscalls is
pretty much irrelevant.  The overhead of using the selector goes around
40ns for a native (unredirected) syscall in my system, and it is (as
expected) dominated by the supervisor-mode user-address access.  In
fact, with SMAP off, the overhead is consistently less than 5ns on my
test box.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193238.821364-4-krisman@collabora.com

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<pre>
Introduce a mechanism to quickly disable/enable syscall handling for a
specific process and redirect to userspace via SIGSYS.  This is useful
for processes with parts that require syscall redirection and parts that
don't, but who need to perform this boundary crossing really fast,
without paying the cost of a system call to reconfigure syscall handling
on each boundary transition.  This is particularly important for Windows
games running over Wine.

The proposed interface looks like this:

  prctl(PR_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH, &lt;op&gt;, &lt;off&gt;, &lt;length&gt;, [selector])

The range [&lt;offset&gt;,&lt;offset&gt;+&lt;length&gt;) is a part of the process memory
map that is allowed to by-pass the redirection code and dispatch
syscalls directly, such that in fast paths a process doesn't need to
disable the trap nor the kernel has to check the selector.  This is
essential to return from SIGSYS to a blocked area without triggering
another SIGSYS from rt_sigreturn.

selector is an optional pointer to a char-sized userspace memory region
that has a key switch for the mechanism. This key switch is set to
either PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON, PR_SYS_DISPATCH_OFF to enable and disable the
redirection without calling the kernel.

The feature is meant to be set per-thread and it is disabled on
fork/clone/execv.

Internally, this doesn't add overhead to the syscall hot path, and it
requires very little per-architecture support.  I avoided using seccomp,
even though it duplicates some functionality, due to previous feedback
that maybe it shouldn't mix with seccomp since it is not a security
mechanism.  And obviously, this should never be considered a security
mechanism, since any part of the program can by-pass it by using the
syscall dispatcher.

For the sysinfo benchmark, which measures the overhead added to
executing a native syscall that doesn't require interception, the
overhead using only the direct dispatcher region to issue syscalls is
pretty much irrelevant.  The overhead of using the selector goes around
40ns for a native (unredirected) syscall in my system, and it is (as
expected) dominated by the supervisor-mode user-address access.  In
fact, with SMAP off, the overhead is consistently less than 5ns on my
test box.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193238.821364-4-krisman@collabora.com

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve semantic conflict</title>
<updated>2020-11-27T10:10:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-27T10:09:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct</title>
<updated>2020-11-24T13:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-18T19:48:43+00:00</published>
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Instead of storing the map per CPU provide and use per task storage. That
prepares for local kmaps which are preemptible.

The context switch code is preparatory and not yet in use because
kmap_atomic() runs with preemption disabled. Will be made usable in the
next step.

The context switch logic is safe even when an interrupt happens after
clearing or before restoring the kmaps. The kmap index in task struct is
not modified so any nesting kmap in an interrupt will use unused indices
and on return the counter is the same as before.

Also add an assert into the return to user space code. Going back to user
space with an active kmap local is a nono.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.372935758@linutronix.de

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Instead of storing the map per CPU provide and use per task storage. That
prepares for local kmaps which are preemptible.

The context switch code is preparatory and not yet in use because
kmap_atomic() runs with preemption disabled. Will be made usable in the
next step.

The context switch logic is safe even when an interrupt happens after
clearing or before restoring the kmaps. The kmap index in task struct is
not modified so any nesting kmap in an interrupt will use unused indices
and on return the counter is the same as before.

Also add an assert into the return to user space code. Going back to user
space with an active kmap local is a nono.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.372935758@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT</title>
<updated>2020-11-24T10:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-18T19:48:42+00:00</published>
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Now that the scheduler can deal with migrate disable properly, there is no
real compelling reason to make it only available for RT.

There are quite some code pathes which needlessly disable preemption in
order to prevent migration and some constructs like kmap_atomic() enforce
it implicitly.

Making it available independent of RT allows to provide a preemptible
variant of kmap_atomic() and makes the code more consistent in general.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Grudgingly-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.269943012@linutronix.de

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Now that the scheduler can deal with migrate disable properly, there is no
real compelling reason to make it only available for RT.

There are quite some code pathes which needlessly disable preemption in
order to prevent migration and some constructs like kmap_atomic() enforce
it implicitly.

Making it available independent of RT allows to provide a preemptible
variant of kmap_atomic() and makes the code more consistent in general.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Grudgingly-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.269943012@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2020-11-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T21:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-22T21:26:07+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A couple of scheduler fixes:

   - Make the conditional update of the overutilized state work
     correctly by caching the relevant flags state before overwriting
     them and checking them afterwards.

   - Fix a data race in the wakeup path which caused loadavg on ARM64
     platforms to become a random number generator.

   - Fix the ordering of the iowaiter accounting operations so it can't
     be decremented before it is incremented.

   - Fix a bug in the deadline scheduler vs. priority inheritance when a
     non-deadline task A has inherited the parameters of a deadline task
     B and then blocks on a non-deadline task C.

     The second inheritance step used the static deadline parameters of
     task A, which are usually 0, instead of further propagating task
     B's parameters. The zero initialized parameters trigger a bug in
     the deadline scheduler"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2020-11-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Fix priority inheritance with multiple scheduling classes
  sched: Fix rq-&gt;nr_iowait ordering
  sched: Fix data-race in wakeup
  sched/fair: Fix overutilized update in enqueue_task_fair()
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Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A couple of scheduler fixes:

   - Make the conditional update of the overutilized state work
     correctly by caching the relevant flags state before overwriting
     them and checking them afterwards.

   - Fix a data race in the wakeup path which caused loadavg on ARM64
     platforms to become a random number generator.

   - Fix the ordering of the iowaiter accounting operations so it can't
     be decremented before it is incremented.

   - Fix a bug in the deadline scheduler vs. priority inheritance when a
     non-deadline task A has inherited the parameters of a deadline task
     B and then blocks on a non-deadline task C.

     The second inheritance step used the static deadline parameters of
     task A, which are usually 0, instead of further propagating task
     B's parameters. The zero initialized parameters trigger a bug in
     the deadline scheduler"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2020-11-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Fix priority inheritance with multiple scheduling classes
  sched: Fix rq-&gt;nr_iowait ordering
  sched: Fix data-race in wakeup
  sched/fair: Fix overutilized update in enqueue_task_fair()
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