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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS</title>
<updated>2017-03-01T09:26:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-16T06:00:50+00:00</published>
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We have uses of CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT as
well as CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS.

Consistently use the plurals.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170216060050.20866-1-anton@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We have uses of CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT as
well as CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS.

Consistently use the plurals.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170216060050.20866-1-anton@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2017-02-27T21:26:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T21:26:17+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser-&gt;buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd-&gt;hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser-&gt;buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd-&gt;hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment</title>
<updated>2017-02-17T14:56:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes</name>
<email>joelaf@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-17T04:10:58+00:00</published>
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The comment about ring buffer's organization is outdated and the code sits
elsewhere, remove the comment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217041058.23904-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The comment about ring buffer's organization is outdated and the code sits
elsewhere, remove the comment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217041058.23904-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Reset parser-&gt;buffer to allow multiple "puts"</title>
<updated>2017-02-03T15:59:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T22:58:18+00:00</published>
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trace_parser_put() simply frees the allocated parser buffer. But it does not
reset the pointer that was freed. This means that if trace_parser_put() is
called on the same parser more than once, it will corrupt the allocation
system. Setting parser-&gt;buffer to NULL after free allows it to be called
more than once without any ill effect.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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trace_parser_put() simply frees the allocated parser buffer. But it does not
reset the pointer that was freed. This means that if trace_parser_put() is
called on the same parser more than once, it will corrupt the allocation
system. Setting parser-&gt;buffer to NULL after free allows it to be called
more than once without any ill effect.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Better permission checking for submounts</title>
<updated>2017-02-01T15:36:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T17:06:16+00:00</published>
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To support unprivileged users mounting filesystems two permission
checks have to be performed: a test to see if the user allowed to
create a mount in the mount namespace, and a test to see if
the user is allowed to access the specified filesystem.

The automount case is special in that mounting the original filesystem
grants permission to mount the sub-filesystems, to any user who
happens to stumble across the their mountpoint and satisfies the
ordinary filesystem permission checks.

Attempting to handle the automount case by using override_creds
almost works.  It preserves the idea that permission to mount
the original filesystem is permission to mount the sub-filesystem.
Unfortunately using override_creds messes up the filesystems
ordinary permission checks.

Solve this by being explicit that a mount is a submount by introducing
vfs_submount, and using it where appropriate.

vfs_submount uses a new mount internal mount flags MS_SUBMOUNT, to let
sget and friends know that a mount is a submount so they can take appropriate
action.

sget and sget_userns are modified to not perform any permission checks
on submounts.

follow_automount is modified to stop using override_creds as that
has proven problemantic.

do_mount is modified to always remove the new MS_SUBMOUNT flag so
that we know userspace will never by able to specify it.

autofs4 is modified to stop using current_real_cred that was put in
there to handle the previous version of submount permission checking.

cifs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to vfs_submount.

debugfs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to
trace_automount by adding a new parameter.  To make this change easier
a new typedef debugfs_automount_t is introduced to capture the type of
the debugfs automount function.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 069d5ac9ae0d ("autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()-&gt;uid")
Fixes: aeaa4a79ff6a ("fs: Call d_automount with the filesystems creds")
Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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To support unprivileged users mounting filesystems two permission
checks have to be performed: a test to see if the user allowed to
create a mount in the mount namespace, and a test to see if
the user is allowed to access the specified filesystem.

The automount case is special in that mounting the original filesystem
grants permission to mount the sub-filesystems, to any user who
happens to stumble across the their mountpoint and satisfies the
ordinary filesystem permission checks.

Attempting to handle the automount case by using override_creds
almost works.  It preserves the idea that permission to mount
the original filesystem is permission to mount the sub-filesystem.
Unfortunately using override_creds messes up the filesystems
ordinary permission checks.

Solve this by being explicit that a mount is a submount by introducing
vfs_submount, and using it where appropriate.

vfs_submount uses a new mount internal mount flags MS_SUBMOUNT, to let
sget and friends know that a mount is a submount so they can take appropriate
action.

sget and sget_userns are modified to not perform any permission checks
on submounts.

follow_automount is modified to stop using override_creds as that
has proven problemantic.

do_mount is modified to always remove the new MS_SUBMOUNT flag so
that we know userspace will never by able to specify it.

autofs4 is modified to stop using current_real_cred that was put in
there to handle the previous version of submount permission checking.

cifs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to vfs_submount.

debugfs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to
trace_automount by adding a new parameter.  To make this change easier
a new typedef debugfs_automount_t is introduced to capture the type of
the debugfs automount function.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 069d5ac9ae0d ("autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()-&gt;uid")
Fixes: aeaa4a79ff6a ("fs: Call d_automount with the filesystems creds")
Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T10:04:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-21T19:32:01+00:00</published>
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There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T21:49:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-15T21:49:34+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has a few updates:

   - STM can hook into the function tracer
   - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching
   - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests
   - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs
   - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time
   - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input
   - Optimizations to the ring buffer
   - Removal of kmap in trace_marker
   - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file
   - Other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc
  tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits
  tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation
  tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
  tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
  fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace
  tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing
  ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall()
  tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
  tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up
  tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail
  ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline
  ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined
  ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions
  tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline
  tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
  ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()
  ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has a few updates:

   - STM can hook into the function tracer
   - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching
   - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests
   - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs
   - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time
   - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input
   - Optimizations to the ring buffer
   - Removal of kmap in trace_marker
   - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file
   - Other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc
  tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits
  tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation
  tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
  tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
  fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace
  tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing
  ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall()
  tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
  tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up
  tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail
  ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline
  ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined
  ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions
  tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline
  tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
  ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()
  ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T03:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T03:56:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9465d9cc31fa732089cd8bec9f1bdfcdc174a5ce'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The time/timekeeping/timer folks deliver with this update:

   - Fix a reintroduced signed/unsigned issue and cleanup the whole
     signed/unsigned mess in the timekeeping core so this wont happen
     accidentaly again.

   - Add a new trace clock based on boot time

   - Prevent injection of random sleep times when PM tracing abuses the
     RTC for storage

   - Make posix timers configurable for real tiny systems

   - Add tracepoints for the alarm timer subsystem so timer based
     suspend wakeups can be instrumented

   - The usual pile of fixes and updates to core and drivers"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  timekeeping: Use mul_u64_u32_shr() instead of open coding it
  timekeeping: Get rid of pointless typecasts
  timekeeping: Make the conversion call chain consistently unsigned
  timekeeping_Force_unsigned_clocksource_to_nanoseconds_conversion
  alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers
  trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
  trace: Add an option for boot clock as trace clock
  timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock
  timekeeping/clocksource_cyc2ns: Document intended range limitation
  timekeeping: Ignore the bogus sleep time if pm_trace is enabled
  selftests/timers: Fix spelling mistake "Asyncrhonous" -&gt; "Asynchronous"
  clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Map frame with of_io_request_and_map()
  arm64: dts: rockchip: Arch counter doesn't tick in system suspend
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Don't assume clock runs in suspend
  posix-timers: Make them configurable
  posix_cpu_timers: Move the add_device_randomness() call to a proper place
  timer: Move sys_alarm from timer.c to itimer.c
  ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional
  Kconfig: Regenerate *.c_shipped files after previous changes
  ...
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<pre>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The time/timekeeping/timer folks deliver with this update:

   - Fix a reintroduced signed/unsigned issue and cleanup the whole
     signed/unsigned mess in the timekeeping core so this wont happen
     accidentaly again.

   - Add a new trace clock based on boot time

   - Prevent injection of random sleep times when PM tracing abuses the
     RTC for storage

   - Make posix timers configurable for real tiny systems

   - Add tracepoints for the alarm timer subsystem so timer based
     suspend wakeups can be instrumented

   - The usual pile of fixes and updates to core and drivers"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  timekeeping: Use mul_u64_u32_shr() instead of open coding it
  timekeeping: Get rid of pointless typecasts
  timekeeping: Make the conversion call chain consistently unsigned
  timekeeping_Force_unsigned_clocksource_to_nanoseconds_conversion
  alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers
  trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
  trace: Add an option for boot clock as trace clock
  timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock
  timekeeping/clocksource_cyc2ns: Document intended range limitation
  timekeeping: Ignore the bogus sleep time if pm_trace is enabled
  selftests/timers: Fix spelling mistake "Asyncrhonous" -&gt; "Asynchronous"
  clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Map frame with of_io_request_and_map()
  arm64: dts: rockchip: Arch counter doesn't tick in system suspend
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Don't assume clock runs in suspend
  posix-timers: Make them configurable
  posix_cpu_timers: Move the add_device_randomness() call to a proper place
  timer: Move sys_alarm from timer.c to itimer.c
  ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional
  Kconfig: Regenerate *.c_shipped files after previous changes
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T18:51:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavankumar Kondeti</name>
<email>pkondeti@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-09T16:20:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The 's' flag is supposed to indicate that a softirq is running. This
can be detected by testing the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_OFFSET.

The current code tests the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_MASK, which
would be true even when softirqs are disabled but not serving a
softirq.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481300417-3564-1-git-send-email-pkondeti@codeaurora.org

Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti &lt;pkondeti@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
The 's' flag is supposed to indicate that a softirq is running. This
can be detected by testing the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_OFFSET.

The current code tests the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_MASK, which
would be true even when softirqs are disabled but not serving a
softirq.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481300417-3564-1-git-send-email-pkondeti@codeaurora.org

Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti &lt;pkondeti@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing</title>
<updated>2016-12-09T14:18:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-08T17:40:18+00:00</published>
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Instead of using get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic() when writing
to the trace_marker file, just allocate enough space on the ring buffer
directly, and write into it via copy_from_user().

Writing into the trace_marker file use to allocate a temporary buffer
to perform the copy_from_user(), as we didn't want to write into the
ring buffer if the copy failed. But as a trace_marker write is suppose
to be extremely fast, and allocating memory causes other tracepoints to
trigger, Peter Zijlstra suggested using get_user_pages_fast() and
kmap_atomic() to keep the user space pages in memory and reading it
directly. But Henrik Austad had issues with this because it required taking
the mm-&gt;mmap_sem and causing long delays with the write.

Instead, just allocate the space in the ring buffer and use
copy_from_user() directly. If it faults, return -EFAULT and write
"&lt;faulted&gt;" into the ring buffer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208124018.72dd0f86@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Henrik Austad &lt;henrik@austad.us&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Updates: d696b58ca2c3ca "tracing: Do not allocate buffer for trace_marker"
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
Instead of using get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic() when writing
to the trace_marker file, just allocate enough space on the ring buffer
directly, and write into it via copy_from_user().

Writing into the trace_marker file use to allocate a temporary buffer
to perform the copy_from_user(), as we didn't want to write into the
ring buffer if the copy failed. But as a trace_marker write is suppose
to be extremely fast, and allocating memory causes other tracepoints to
trigger, Peter Zijlstra suggested using get_user_pages_fast() and
kmap_atomic() to keep the user space pages in memory and reading it
directly. But Henrik Austad had issues with this because it required taking
the mm-&gt;mmap_sem and causing long delays with the write.

Instead, just allocate the space in the ring buffer and use
copy_from_user() directly. If it faults, return -EFAULT and write
"&lt;faulted&gt;" into the ring buffer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208124018.72dd0f86@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Henrik Austad &lt;henrik@austad.us&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Updates: d696b58ca2c3ca "tracing: Do not allocate buffer for trace_marker"
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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