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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user()</title>
<updated>2019-10-01T13:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>cyphar@cyphar.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-01T01:10:55+00:00</published>
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Switch perf_event_open() syscall from it's own copying
struct perf_event_attr from userspace to the new dedicated
copy_struct_from_user() helper.

The change is very straightforward, and helps unify the syscall
interface for struct-from-userspace syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
[christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: improve commit message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001011055.19283-5-cyphar@cyphar.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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Switch perf_event_open() syscall from it's own copying
struct perf_event_attr from userspace to the new dedicated
copy_struct_from_user() helper.

The change is very straightforward, and helps unify the syscall
interface for struct-from-userspace syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
[christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: improve commit message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001011055.19283-5-cyphar@cyphar.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T15:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-28T15:14:15+00:00</published>
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Pull kernel lockdown mode from James Morris:
 "This is the latest iteration of the kernel lockdown patchset, from
  Matthew Garrett, David Howells and others.

  From the original description:

    This patchset introduces an optional kernel lockdown feature,
    intended to strengthen the boundary between UID 0 and the kernel.
    When enabled, various pieces of kernel functionality are restricted.
    Applications that rely on low-level access to either hardware or the
    kernel may cease working as a result - therefore this should not be
    enabled without appropriate evaluation beforehand.

    The majority of mainstream distributions have been carrying variants
    of this patchset for many years now, so there's value in providing a
    doesn't meet every distribution requirement, but gets us much closer
    to not requiring external patches.

  There are two major changes since this was last proposed for mainline:

   - Separating lockdown from EFI secure boot. Background discussion is
     covered here: https://lwn.net/Articles/751061/

   -  Implementation as an LSM, with a default stackable lockdown LSM
      module. This allows the lockdown feature to be policy-driven,
      rather than encoding an implicit policy within the mechanism.

  The new locked_down LSM hook is provided to allow LSMs to make a
  policy decision around whether kernel functionality that would allow
  tampering with or examining the runtime state of the kernel should be
  permitted.

  The included lockdown LSM provides an implementation with a simple
  policy intended for general purpose use. This policy provides a coarse
  level of granularity, controllable via the kernel command line:

    lockdown={integrity|confidentiality}

  Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to integrity, kernel features
  that allow userland to modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
  confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland to extract
  confidential information from the kernel are also disabled.

  This may also be controlled via /sys/kernel/security/lockdown and
  overriden by kernel configuration.

  New or existing LSMs may implement finer-grained controls of the
  lockdown features. Refer to the lockdown_reason documentation in
  include/linux/security.h for details.

  The lockdown feature has had signficant design feedback and review
  across many subsystems. This code has been in linux-next for some
  weeks, with a few fixes applied along the way.

  Stephen Rothwell noted that commit 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf: Restrict bpf
  when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode") is missing a
  Signed-off-by from its author. Matthew responded that he is providing
  this under category (c) of the DCO"

* 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (31 commits)
  kexec: Fix file verification on S390
  security: constify some arrays in lockdown LSM
  lockdown: Print current-&gt;comm in restriction messages
  efi: Restrict efivar_ssdt_load when the kernel is locked down
  tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down
  debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down
  kexec: Allow kexec_file() with appropriate IMA policy when locked down
  lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode
  bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down tracing and perf kprobes when in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down /proc/kcore
  x86/mmiotrace: Lock down the testmmiotrace module
  lockdown: Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
  lockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
  lockdown: Prohibit PCMCIA CIS storage when the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Disable ACPI table override if the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been locked down
  ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel is locked down
  x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
  x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down
  ...
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Pull kernel lockdown mode from James Morris:
 "This is the latest iteration of the kernel lockdown patchset, from
  Matthew Garrett, David Howells and others.

  From the original description:

    This patchset introduces an optional kernel lockdown feature,
    intended to strengthen the boundary between UID 0 and the kernel.
    When enabled, various pieces of kernel functionality are restricted.
    Applications that rely on low-level access to either hardware or the
    kernel may cease working as a result - therefore this should not be
    enabled without appropriate evaluation beforehand.

    The majority of mainstream distributions have been carrying variants
    of this patchset for many years now, so there's value in providing a
    doesn't meet every distribution requirement, but gets us much closer
    to not requiring external patches.

  There are two major changes since this was last proposed for mainline:

   - Separating lockdown from EFI secure boot. Background discussion is
     covered here: https://lwn.net/Articles/751061/

   -  Implementation as an LSM, with a default stackable lockdown LSM
      module. This allows the lockdown feature to be policy-driven,
      rather than encoding an implicit policy within the mechanism.

  The new locked_down LSM hook is provided to allow LSMs to make a
  policy decision around whether kernel functionality that would allow
  tampering with or examining the runtime state of the kernel should be
  permitted.

  The included lockdown LSM provides an implementation with a simple
  policy intended for general purpose use. This policy provides a coarse
  level of granularity, controllable via the kernel command line:

    lockdown={integrity|confidentiality}

  Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to integrity, kernel features
  that allow userland to modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
  confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland to extract
  confidential information from the kernel are also disabled.

  This may also be controlled via /sys/kernel/security/lockdown and
  overriden by kernel configuration.

  New or existing LSMs may implement finer-grained controls of the
  lockdown features. Refer to the lockdown_reason documentation in
  include/linux/security.h for details.

  The lockdown feature has had signficant design feedback and review
  across many subsystems. This code has been in linux-next for some
  weeks, with a few fixes applied along the way.

  Stephen Rothwell noted that commit 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf: Restrict bpf
  when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode") is missing a
  Signed-off-by from its author. Matthew responded that he is providing
  this under category (c) of the DCO"

* 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (31 commits)
  kexec: Fix file verification on S390
  security: constify some arrays in lockdown LSM
  lockdown: Print current-&gt;comm in restriction messages
  efi: Restrict efivar_ssdt_load when the kernel is locked down
  tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down
  debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down
  kexec: Allow kexec_file() with appropriate IMA policy when locked down
  lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode
  bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down tracing and perf kprobes when in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down /proc/kcore
  x86/mmiotrace: Lock down the testmmiotrace module
  lockdown: Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
  lockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
  lockdown: Prohibit PCMCIA CIS storage when the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Disable ACPI table override if the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been locked down
  ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel is locked down
  x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
  x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-26T22:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-26T22:38:07+00:00</published>
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Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The only kernel change is comment typo fixes.

  The rest is mostly tooling fixes, but also new vendor event additions
  and updates, a bigger libperf/libtraceevent library and a header files
  reorganization that came in a bit late"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (108 commits)
  perf unwind: Fix libunwind build failure on i386 systems
  perf parser: Remove needless include directives
  perf build: Add detection of java-11-openjdk-devel package
  perf jvmti: Include JVMTI support for s390
  perf vendor events: Remove P8 HW events which are not supported
  perf evlist: Fix access of freed id arrays
  perf stat: Fix free memory access / memory leaks in metrics
  perf tools: Replace needless mmap.h with what is needed, event.h
  perf evsel: Move config terms to a separate header
  perf evlist: Remove unused perf_evlist__fprintf() method
  perf evsel: Introduce evsel_fprintf.h
  perf evsel: Remove need for symbol_conf in evsel_fprintf.c
  perf copyfile: Move copyfile routines to separate files
  libperf: Add perf_evlist__poll() function
  libperf: Add perf_evlist__add_pollfd() function
  libperf: Add perf_evlist__alloc_pollfd() function
  libperf: Add libperf_init() call to the tests
  libperf: Merge libperf_set_print() into libperf_init()
  libperf: Add libperf dependency for tests targets
  libperf: Use sys/types.h to get ssize_t, not unistd.h
  ...
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Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The only kernel change is comment typo fixes.

  The rest is mostly tooling fixes, but also new vendor event additions
  and updates, a bigger libperf/libtraceevent library and a header files
  reorganization that came in a bit late"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (108 commits)
  perf unwind: Fix libunwind build failure on i386 systems
  perf parser: Remove needless include directives
  perf build: Add detection of java-11-openjdk-devel package
  perf jvmti: Include JVMTI support for s390
  perf vendor events: Remove P8 HW events which are not supported
  perf evlist: Fix access of freed id arrays
  perf stat: Fix free memory access / memory leaks in metrics
  perf tools: Replace needless mmap.h with what is needed, event.h
  perf evsel: Move config terms to a separate header
  perf evlist: Remove unused perf_evlist__fprintf() method
  perf evsel: Introduce evsel_fprintf.h
  perf evsel: Remove need for symbol_conf in evsel_fprintf.c
  perf copyfile: Move copyfile routines to separate files
  libperf: Add perf_evlist__poll() function
  libperf: Add perf_evlist__add_pollfd() function
  libperf: Add perf_evlist__alloc_pollfd() function
  libperf: Add libperf_init() call to the tests
  libperf: Merge libperf_set_print() into libperf_init()
  libperf: Add libperf dependency for tests targets
  libperf: Use sys/types.h to get ssize_t, not unistd.h
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uprobe: collapse THP pmd after removing all uprobes</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>songliubraving@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:38:33+00:00</published>
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After all uprobes are removed from the huge page (with PTE pgtable), it is
possible to collapse the pmd and benefit from THP again.  This patch does
the collapse by calling collapse_pte_mapped_thp().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-7-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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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After all uprobes are removed from the huge page (with PTE pgtable), it is
possible to collapse the pmd and benefit from THP again.  This patch does
the collapse by calling collapse_pte_mapped_thp().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-7-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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>uprobe: use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD instead of FOLL_SPLIT</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>songliubraving@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:38:27+00:00</published>
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Use the newly added FOLL_SPLIT_PMD in uprobe.  This preserves the huge
page when the uprobe is enabled.  When the uprobe is disabled, newer
instances of the same application could still benefit from huge page.

For the next step, we will enable khugepaged to regroup the pmd, so that
existing instances of the application could also benefit from huge page
after the uprobe is disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-5-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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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Use the newly added FOLL_SPLIT_PMD in uprobe.  This preserves the huge
page when the uprobe is enabled.  When the uprobe is disabled, newer
instances of the same application could still benefit from huge page.

For the next step, we will enable khugepaged to regroup the pmd, so that
existing instances of the application could also benefit from huge page
after the uprobe is disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-5-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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>uprobe: use original page when all uprobes are removed</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>songliubraving@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:38:22+00:00</published>
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Currently, uprobe swaps the target page with a anonymous page in both
install_breakpoint() and remove_breakpoint().  When all uprobes on a page
are removed, the given mm is still using an anonymous page (not the
original page).

This patch allows uprobe to use original page when possible (all uprobes
on the page are already removed, and the original page is in page cache
and uptodate).

As suggested by Oleg, we unmap the old_page and let the original page
fault in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-3-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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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Currently, uprobe swaps the target page with a anonymous page in both
install_breakpoint() and remove_breakpoint().  When all uprobes on a page
are removed, the given mm is still using an anonymous page (not the
original page).

This patch allows uprobe to use original page when possible (all uprobes
on the page are already removed, and the original page is in page cache
and uptodate).

As suggested by Oleg, we unmap the old_page and let the original page
fault in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-3-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix several typos in comments</title>
<updated>2019-09-20T19:05:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roy Ben Shlomo</name>
<email>roy.benshlomo@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-20T17:12:53+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix typos in a few functions' documentation comments.

Signed-off-by: Roy Ben Shlomo &lt;royb@sentinelone.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: royb@sentinelone.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190920171254.31373-1-royb@sentinelone.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Fix typos in a few functions' documentation comments.

Signed-off-by: Roy Ben Shlomo &lt;royb@sentinelone.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: royb@sentinelone.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190920171254.31373-1-royb@sentinelone.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-17T19:35:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T19:35:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7f2444d38f6bbfa12bc15e2533d8f9daa85ca02b'/>
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Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Timers and timekeeping updates:

   - A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation
     for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be
     properly accounted on the task/process.

     An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the
     merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for
     travel.

   - Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the
     homebrewn caching of the leftmost node.

   - Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a
     single function

   - Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard
     interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the
     affected timers accordingly.

   - Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect
     RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer
     which should be canceled is currently executing the callback.
     Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the
     timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and
     released by the (hr)timer expiry code.

   - Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests
     resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions.

   - Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device
     tree bindings.

   - The usual small improvements all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression
  posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue
  hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP
  posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly
  posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build
  tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context
  hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD
  x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
  posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage
  posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers
  posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling
  posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons
  posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions
  posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further
  posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks
  rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment
  posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit
  posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array
  posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array
  posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires
  ...
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<pre>
Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Timers and timekeeping updates:

   - A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation
     for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be
     properly accounted on the task/process.

     An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the
     merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for
     travel.

   - Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the
     homebrewn caching of the leftmost node.

   - Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a
     single function

   - Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard
     interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the
     affected timers accordingly.

   - Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect
     RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer
     which should be canceled is currently executing the callback.
     Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the
     timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and
     released by the (hr)timer expiry code.

   - Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests
     resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions.

   - Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device
     tree bindings.

   - The usual small improvements all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression
  posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue
  hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP
  posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly
  posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build
  tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context
  hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD
  x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
  posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage
  posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers
  posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling
  posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons
  posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions
  posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further
  posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks
  rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment
  posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit
  posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array
  posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array
  posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-17T00:25:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T00:25:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7e67a859997aad47727aff9c5a32e160da079ce3'/>
<id>7e67a859997aad47727aff9c5a32e160da079ce3</id>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - MAINTAINERS: Add Mark Rutland as perf submaintainer, Juri Lelli and
   Vincent Guittot as scheduler submaintainers. Add Dietmar Eggemann,
   Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall and Mel Gorman as scheduler reviewers.

   As perf and the scheduler is getting bigger and more complex,
   document the status quo of current responsibilities and interests,
   and spread the review pain^H^H^H^H fun via an increase in the Cc:
   linecount generated by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. :-)

 - Add another series of patches that brings the -rt (PREEMPT_RT) tree
   closer to mainline: split the monolithic CONFIG_PREEMPT dependencies
   into a new CONFIG_PREEMPTION category that will allow the eventual
   introduction of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Still a few more hundred patches
   to go though.

 - Extend the CPU cgroup controller with uclamp.min and uclamp.max to
   allow the finer shaping of CPU bandwidth usage.

 - Micro-optimize energy-aware wake-ups from O(CPUS^2) to O(CPUS).

 - Improve the behavior of high CPU count, high thread count
   applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints.

 - Improve balancing with SCHED_IDLE (SCHED_BATCH) tasks present.

 - Improve CPU isolation housekeeping CPU allocation NUMA locality.

 - Fix deadline scheduler bandwidth calculations and logic when cpusets
   rebuilds the topology, or when it gets deadline-throttled while it's
   being offlined.

 - Convert the cpuset_mutex to percpu_rwsem, to allow it to be used from
   setscheduler() system calls without creating global serialization.
   Add new synchronization between cpuset topology-changing events and
   the deadline acceptance tests in setscheduler(), which were broken
   before.

 - Rework the active_mm state machine to be less confusing and more
   optimal.

 - Rework (simplify) the pick_next_task() slowpath.

 - Improve load-balancing on AMD EPYC systems.

 - ... and misc cleanups, smaller fixes and improvements - please see
   the Git log for more details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
  sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
  sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups
  sched/uclamp: Always use 'enum uclamp_id' for clamp_id values
  sched/uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes
  sched/uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps
  sched/uclamp: Propagate system defaults to the root group
  sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps
  sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
  sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems
  arch, ia64: Make NUMA select SMP
  sched, perf: MAINTAINERS update, add submaintainers and reviewers
  sched/fair: Use rq_lock/unlock in online_fair_sched_group
  cpufreq: schedutil: fix equation in comment
  sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
  sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq-&gt;lock
  sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance()
  sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task
  sched: Rework CPU hotplug task selection
  sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task
  sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - MAINTAINERS: Add Mark Rutland as perf submaintainer, Juri Lelli and
   Vincent Guittot as scheduler submaintainers. Add Dietmar Eggemann,
   Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall and Mel Gorman as scheduler reviewers.

   As perf and the scheduler is getting bigger and more complex,
   document the status quo of current responsibilities and interests,
   and spread the review pain^H^H^H^H fun via an increase in the Cc:
   linecount generated by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. :-)

 - Add another series of patches that brings the -rt (PREEMPT_RT) tree
   closer to mainline: split the monolithic CONFIG_PREEMPT dependencies
   into a new CONFIG_PREEMPTION category that will allow the eventual
   introduction of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Still a few more hundred patches
   to go though.

 - Extend the CPU cgroup controller with uclamp.min and uclamp.max to
   allow the finer shaping of CPU bandwidth usage.

 - Micro-optimize energy-aware wake-ups from O(CPUS^2) to O(CPUS).

 - Improve the behavior of high CPU count, high thread count
   applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints.

 - Improve balancing with SCHED_IDLE (SCHED_BATCH) tasks present.

 - Improve CPU isolation housekeeping CPU allocation NUMA locality.

 - Fix deadline scheduler bandwidth calculations and logic when cpusets
   rebuilds the topology, or when it gets deadline-throttled while it's
   being offlined.

 - Convert the cpuset_mutex to percpu_rwsem, to allow it to be used from
   setscheduler() system calls without creating global serialization.
   Add new synchronization between cpuset topology-changing events and
   the deadline acceptance tests in setscheduler(), which were broken
   before.

 - Rework the active_mm state machine to be less confusing and more
   optimal.

 - Rework (simplify) the pick_next_task() slowpath.

 - Improve load-balancing on AMD EPYC systems.

 - ... and misc cleanups, smaller fixes and improvements - please see
   the Git log for more details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
  sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
  sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups
  sched/uclamp: Always use 'enum uclamp_id' for clamp_id values
  sched/uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes
  sched/uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps
  sched/uclamp: Propagate system defaults to the root group
  sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps
  sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
  sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems
  arch, ia64: Make NUMA select SMP
  sched, perf: MAINTAINERS update, add submaintainers and reviewers
  sched/fair: Use rq_lock/unlock in online_fair_sched_group
  cpufreq: schedutil: fix equation in comment
  sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
  sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq-&gt;lock
  sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance()
  sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task
  sched: Rework CPU hotplug task selection
  sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task
  sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-17T00:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T00:06:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=772c1d06bd402f7ee72c61a18c2db74cd74b6758'/>
<id>772c1d06bd402f7ee72c61a18c2db74cd74b6758</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Improved kbprobes robustness

   - Intel PEBS support for PT hardware tracing

   - Other Intel PT improvements: high order pages memory footprint
     reduction and various related cleanups

   - Misc cleanups

  The perf tooling side has been very busy in this cycle, with over 300
  commits. This is an incomplete high-level summary of the many
  improvements done by over 30 developers:

   - Lots of updates to the following tools:

      'perf c2c'
      'perf config'
      'perf record'
      'perf report'
      'perf script'
      'perf test'
      'perf top'
      'perf trace'

   - Updates to libperf and libtraceevent, and a consolidation of the
     proliferation of x86 instruction decoder libraries.

   - Vendor event updates for Intel and PowerPC CPUs,

   - Updates to hardware tracing tooling for ARM and Intel CPUs,

   - ... and lots of other changes and cleanups - see the shortlog and
     Git log for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (322 commits)
  kprobes: Prohibit probing on BUG() and WARN() address
  perf/x86: Make more stuff static
  x86, perf: Fix the dependency of the x86 insn decoder selftest
  objtool: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder
  objtool: Update sync-check.sh from perf's check-headers.sh
  perf build: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder
  perf intel-pt: Use shared x86 insn decoder
  perf intel-pt: Remove inat.c from build dependency list
  perf: Update .gitignore file
  objtool: Move x86 insn decoder to a common location
  perf metricgroup: Support multiple events for metricgroup
  perf metricgroup: Scale the metric result
  perf pmu: Change convert_scale from static to global
  perf symbols: Move mem_info and branch_info out of symbol.h
  perf auxtrace: Uninline functions that touch perf_session
  perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless thread_map.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless thread.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless map.h include directives
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Improved kbprobes robustness

   - Intel PEBS support for PT hardware tracing

   - Other Intel PT improvements: high order pages memory footprint
     reduction and various related cleanups

   - Misc cleanups

  The perf tooling side has been very busy in this cycle, with over 300
  commits. This is an incomplete high-level summary of the many
  improvements done by over 30 developers:

   - Lots of updates to the following tools:

      'perf c2c'
      'perf config'
      'perf record'
      'perf report'
      'perf script'
      'perf test'
      'perf top'
      'perf trace'

   - Updates to libperf and libtraceevent, and a consolidation of the
     proliferation of x86 instruction decoder libraries.

   - Vendor event updates for Intel and PowerPC CPUs,

   - Updates to hardware tracing tooling for ARM and Intel CPUs,

   - ... and lots of other changes and cleanups - see the shortlog and
     Git log for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (322 commits)
  kprobes: Prohibit probing on BUG() and WARN() address
  perf/x86: Make more stuff static
  x86, perf: Fix the dependency of the x86 insn decoder selftest
  objtool: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder
  objtool: Update sync-check.sh from perf's check-headers.sh
  perf build: Ignore intentional differences for the x86 insn decoder
  perf intel-pt: Use shared x86 insn decoder
  perf intel-pt: Remove inat.c from build dependency list
  perf: Update .gitignore file
  objtool: Move x86 insn decoder to a common location
  perf metricgroup: Support multiple events for metricgroup
  perf metricgroup: Scale the metric result
  perf pmu: Change convert_scale from static to global
  perf symbols: Move mem_info and branch_info out of symbol.h
  perf auxtrace: Uninline functions that touch perf_session
  perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless evlist.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless thread_map.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless thread.h include directives
  perf tools: Remove needless map.h include directives
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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