linux.git/include/linux, branch v4.4-rc2

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-22T23:21:40+00:00

Merge slub bulk allocator updates from Andrew Morton:
 "This missed the merge window because I was waiting for some repairs to
  come in.  Nothing actually uses the bulk allocator yet and the changes
  to other code paths are pretty small.  And the net guys are waiting
  for this so they can start merging the client code"

More comments from Jesper Dangaard Brouer:
 "The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() call, in mm/slub.c, were included in
  previous kernel.  The present version contains a bug.  Vladimir
  Davydov noticed it contained a bug, when kernel is compiled with
  CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM (see commit 03ec0ed57ffc: "slub: fix kmem cgroup
  bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk").  Plus the mem cgroup counterpart in
  kmem_cache_free_bulk() were missing (see commit 033745189b1b "slub:
  add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk").

  I don't consider the fix stable-material because there are no in-tree
  users of the API.

  But with known bugs (for memcg) I cannot start using the API in the
  net-tree"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton :
  slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API
  slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk
  slub: fix kmem cgroup bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  slub: optimize bulk slowpath free by detached freelist
  slub: support for bulk free with SLUB freelists

Merge tag 'tty-4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2015-11-22T23:10:57+00:00

Pull tty/serial fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are a few small tty/serial driver fixes for 4.4-rc2 that resolve
  some reported problems.

  All have been in linux-next, full details are in the shortlog below"

* tag 'tty-4.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  serial: export fsl8250_handle_irq
  serial: 8250_mid: Add missing dependency
  tty: audit: Fix audit source
  serial: etraxfs-uart: Fix crash
  serial: fsl_lpuart: Fix earlycon support
  bcm63xx_uart: Use the device name when registering an interrupt
  tty: Fix direct use of tty buffer work
  tty: Fix tty_send_xchar() lock order inversion

slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API

2015-11-22T19:58:44+00:00

Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users.

Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'.  This
is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API.

A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when
specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects.

The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc
run without local IRQs disabled.  With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing"
the entire c->freelist or page->freelist.  To avoid overshooting we would
stop processing at a slab-page boundary.  Else we always end up returning
some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg.

To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older
kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated
objects with this API change.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-21T18:49:13+00:00

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "A bunch of fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton :
  slub: mark the dangling ifdef #else of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
  slub: avoid irqoff/on in bulk allocation
  slub: create new ___slab_alloc function that can be called with irqs disabled
  mm: fix up sparse warning in gfpflags_allow_blocking
  ocfs2: fix umask ignored issue
  PM/OPP: add entry in MAINTAINERS
  kernel/panic.c: turn off locks debug before releasing console lock
  kernel/signal.c: unexport sigsuspend()
  kasan: fix kmemleak false-positive in kasan_module_alloc()
  fat: fix fake_offset handling on error path
  mm/hugetlbfs: fix bugs in fallocate hole punch of areas with holes
  mm/page-writeback.c: initialize m_dirty to avoid compile warning
  various: fix pci_set_dma_mask return value checking
  mm: loosen MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to enable Qemu postcopy on s390
  mm: vmalloc: don't remove inexistent guard hole in remove_vm_area()
  tools/vm/page-types.c: support KPF_IDLE
  ncpfs: don't allow negative timeouts
  configfs: allow dynamic group creation
  MAINTAINERS: add Moritz as reviewer for FPGA Manager Framework
  slab.h: sprinkle __assume_aligned attributes

tty: audit: Fix audit source

2015-11-21T00:19:54+00:00

The data to audit/record is in the 'from' buffer (ie., the input
read buffer).

Fixes: 72586c6061ab ("n_tty: Fix auditing support for cannonical mode")
Cc: stable  # 4.1+
Cc: Miloslav Trmač 
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Acked-by: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix up sparse warning in gfpflags_allow_blocking

2015-11-21T00:17:32+00:00

sparse says:

    include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different base types)
    include/linux/gfp.h:274:26:    expected bool
    include/linux/gfp.h:274:26:    got restricted gfp_t

...add a forced cast to silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/signal.c: unexport sigsuspend()

2015-11-21T00:17:32+00:00

sigsuspend() is nowhere used except in signal.c itself, so we can mark it
static do not pollute the global namespace.

But this patch is more than a boring cleanup patch, it fixes a real issue
on UserModeLinux.  UML has a special console driver to display ttys using
xterm, or other terminal emulators, on the host side.  Vegard reported
that sometimes UML is unable to spawn a xterm and he's facing the
following warning:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 908 at include/linux/thread_info.h:128 sigsuspend+0xab/0xc0()

It turned out that this warning makes absolutely no sense as the UML
xterm code calls sigsuspend() on the host side, at least it tries.  But
as the kernel itself offers a sigsuspend() symbol the linker choose this
one instead of the glibc wrapper.  Interestingly this code used to work
since ever but always blocked signals on the wrong side.  Some recent
kernel change made the WARN_ON() trigger and uncovered the bug.

It is a wonderful example of how much works by chance on computers. :-)

Fixes: 68f3f16d9ad0f1 ("new helper: sigsuspend()")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum 
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: 	[3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

configfs: allow dynamic group creation

2015-11-21T00:17:32+00:00

This patchset introduces IIO software triggers, offers a way of configuring
them via configfs and adds the IIO hrtimer based interrupt source to be used
with software triggers.

The architecture is now split in 3 parts, to remove all IIO trigger specific
parts from IIO configfs core:

(1) IIO configfs - creates the root of the IIO configfs subsys.
(2) IIO software triggers - software trigger implementation, dynamically
    creating /config/iio/triggers group.
(3) IIO hrtimer trigger - is the first interrupt source for software triggers
    (with syfs to follow). Each trigger type can implement its own set of
    attributes.

Lockdep seems to be happy with the locking in configfs patch.

This patch (of 5):

We don't want to hardcode default groups at subsystem
creation time. We export:
	* configfs_register_group
	* configfs_unregister_group
to allow drivers to programatically create/destroy groups
later, after module init time.

This is needed for IIO configfs support.

(akpm: the other 4 patches to be merged via the IIO tree)

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta 
Suggested-by: Lars-Peter Clausen 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Joel Becker 
Cc: Hartmut Knaack 
Cc: Octavian Purdila 
Cc: Paul Bolle 
Cc: Adriana Reus 
Cc: Cristina Opriceana 
Cc: Peter Meerwald 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab.h: sprinkle __assume_aligned attributes

2015-11-21T00:17:32+00:00

The various allocators return aligned memory.  Telling the compiler that
allows it to generate better code in many cases, for example when the
return value is immediately passed to memset().

Some code does become larger, but at least we win twice as much as we lose:

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter /tmp/vmlinux vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 13/52 up/down: 995/-2140 (-1145)

An example of the different (and smaller) code can be seen in mm_alloc(). Before:

:       48 8d 78 08             lea    0x8(%rax),%rdi
:       48 89 c1                mov    %rax,%rcx
:       48 89 c2                mov    %rax,%rdx
:       48 c7 00 00 00 00 00    movq   $0x0,(%rax)
:       48 c7 80 48 03 00 00    movq   $0x0,0x348(%rax)
:       00 00 00 00
:       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
:       48 83 e7 f8             and    $0xfffffffffffffff8,%rdi
:       48 29 f9                sub    %rdi,%rcx
:       81 c1 50 03 00 00       add    $0x350,%ecx
:       c1 e9 03                shr    $0x3,%ecx
:       f3 48 ab                rep stos %rax,%es:(%rdi)

After:

:       48 89 c2                mov    %rax,%rdx
:       b9 6a 00 00 00          mov    $0x6a,%ecx
:       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
:       48 89 d7                mov    %rdx,%rdi
:       f3 48 ab                rep stos %rax,%es:(%rdi)

So gcc's strategy is to do two possibly (but not really, of course)
unaligned stores to the first and last word, then do an aligned rep stos
covering the middle part with a little overlap.  Maybe arches which do not
allow unaligned stores gain even more.

I don't know if gcc can actually make use of alignments greater than 8 for
anything, so one could probably drop the __assume_xyz_alignment macros and
just use __assume_aligned(8).

The increases in code size are mostly caused by gcc deciding to
opencode strlen() using the check-four-bytes-at-a-time trick when it
knows the buffer is sufficiently aligned (one function grew by 200
bytes). Now it turns out that many of these strlen() calls showing up
were in fact redundant, and they're gone from -next. Applying the two
patches to next-20151001 bloat-o-meter instead says

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 6/52 up/down: 244/-2140 (-1896)

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2015-11-20T23:00:50+00:00

Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:

 - A collection of crash and deadlock fixes for DAX that are also tagged
   for -stable.  We will look to re-enable DAX pmd mappings in 4.5, but
   for now 4.4 and -stable should disable it by default.

 - A fixup to ext2 and ext4 to mirror the same warning emitted by XFS
   when mounting with "-o dax"

* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  block: protect rw_page against device teardown
  mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks (COW fault)
  dax: disable pmd mappings
  ext2, ext4: warn when mounting with dax enabled