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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-04-20T16:34:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-20T16:34:39+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Unbalanced refcounting in TIPC, from Jon Maloy.

 2) Only allow TCP_MD5SIG to be set on sockets in close or listen state.
    Once the connection is established it makes no sense to change this.
    From Eric Dumazet.

 3) Missing attribute validation in neigh_dump_table(), also from Eric
    Dumazet.

 4) Fix address comparisons in SCTP, from Xin Long.

 5) Neigh proxy table clearing can deadlock, from Wolfgang Bumiller.

 6) Fix tunnel refcounting in l2tp, from Guillaume Nault.

 7) Fix double list insert in team driver, from Paolo Abeni.

 8) af_vsock.ko module was accidently made unremovable, from Stefan
    Hajnoczi.

 9) Fix reference to freed llc_sap object in llc stack, from Cong Wang.

10) Don't assume netdevice struct is DMA'able memory in virtio_net
    driver, from Michael S. Tsirkin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (62 commits)
  net/smc: fix shutdown in state SMC_LISTEN
  bnxt_en: Fix memory fault in bnxt_ethtool_init()
  virtio_net: sparse annotation fix
  virtio_net: fix adding vids on big-endian
  virtio_net: split out ctrl buffer
  net: hns: Avoid action name truncation
  docs: ip-sysctl.txt: fix name of some ipv6 variables
  vmxnet3: fix incorrect dereference when rxvlan is disabled
  llc: hold llc_sap before release_sock()
  MAINTAINERS: Direct networking documentation changes to netdev
  atm: iphase: fix spelling mistake: "Tansmit" -&gt; "Transmit"
  net: qmi_wwan: add Wistron Neweb D19Q1
  net: caif: fix spelling mistake "UKNOWN" -&gt; "UNKNOWN"
  net: stmmac: Disable ACS Feature for GMAC &gt;= 4
  net: mvpp2: Fix DMA address mask size
  net: change the comment of dev_mc_init
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix warning seen with fill_info
  tun: fix vlan packet truncation
  tipc: fix infinite loop when dumping link monitor summary
  tipc: fix use-after-free in tipc_nametbl_stop
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Unbalanced refcounting in TIPC, from Jon Maloy.

 2) Only allow TCP_MD5SIG to be set on sockets in close or listen state.
    Once the connection is established it makes no sense to change this.
    From Eric Dumazet.

 3) Missing attribute validation in neigh_dump_table(), also from Eric
    Dumazet.

 4) Fix address comparisons in SCTP, from Xin Long.

 5) Neigh proxy table clearing can deadlock, from Wolfgang Bumiller.

 6) Fix tunnel refcounting in l2tp, from Guillaume Nault.

 7) Fix double list insert in team driver, from Paolo Abeni.

 8) af_vsock.ko module was accidently made unremovable, from Stefan
    Hajnoczi.

 9) Fix reference to freed llc_sap object in llc stack, from Cong Wang.

10) Don't assume netdevice struct is DMA'able memory in virtio_net
    driver, from Michael S. Tsirkin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (62 commits)
  net/smc: fix shutdown in state SMC_LISTEN
  bnxt_en: Fix memory fault in bnxt_ethtool_init()
  virtio_net: sparse annotation fix
  virtio_net: fix adding vids on big-endian
  virtio_net: split out ctrl buffer
  net: hns: Avoid action name truncation
  docs: ip-sysctl.txt: fix name of some ipv6 variables
  vmxnet3: fix incorrect dereference when rxvlan is disabled
  llc: hold llc_sap before release_sock()
  MAINTAINERS: Direct networking documentation changes to netdev
  atm: iphase: fix spelling mistake: "Tansmit" -&gt; "Transmit"
  net: qmi_wwan: add Wistron Neweb D19Q1
  net: caif: fix spelling mistake "UKNOWN" -&gt; "UNKNOWN"
  net: stmmac: Disable ACS Feature for GMAC &gt;= 4
  net: mvpp2: Fix DMA address mask size
  net: change the comment of dev_mc_init
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix warning seen with fill_info
  tun: fix vlan packet truncation
  tipc: fix infinite loop when dumping link monitor summary
  tipc: fix use-after-free in tipc_nametbl_stop
  ...
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<entry>
<title>textsearch: fix kernel-doc warnings and add kernel-api section</title>
<updated>2018-04-16T22:53:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T19:32:55+00:00</published>
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Make lib/textsearch.c usable as kernel-doc.
Add textsearch() function family to kernel-api documentation.
Fix kernel-doc warnings in &lt;linux/textsearch.h&gt;:
  ../include/linux/textsearch.h:65: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
	* get_next_block - fetch next block of data
  ../include/linux/textsearch.h:82: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
	* finish - finalize/clean a series of get_next_block() calls

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make lib/textsearch.c usable as kernel-doc.
Add textsearch() function family to kernel-api documentation.
Fix kernel-doc warnings in &lt;linux/textsearch.h&gt;:
  ../include/linux/textsearch.h:65: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
	* get_next_block - fetch next block of data
  ../include/linux/textsearch.h:82: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
	* finish - finalize/clean a series of get_next_block() calls

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-15T23:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-15T23:12:35+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes and updates for x86:

   - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA
     rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned
     false

   - Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid
     APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible
     space.

   - Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535
     driver.

   - Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption
     has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite
     the reduced bit information with the original value.

   - Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture
     specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the
     same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based
     syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in
     the entry patch to the lower registers"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks
  x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption
  x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration
  swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops
  syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers
  syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32
  syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls
  syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y
  x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number
  x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging
  x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes and updates for x86:

   - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA
     rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned
     false

   - Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid
     APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible
     space.

   - Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535
     driver.

   - Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption
     has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite
     the reduced bit information with the original value.

   - Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture
     specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the
     same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based
     syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in
     the entry patch to the lower registers"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks
  x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption
  x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration
  swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops
  syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention
  syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers
  syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32
  syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls
  syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls
  syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y
  x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number
  x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging
  x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
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<entry>
<title>kernel/kexec_file.c: move purgatories sha256 to common code</title>
<updated>2018-04-14T00:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Philipp Rudo</name>
<email>prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-13T22:36:46+00:00</published>
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The code to verify the new kernels sha digest is applicable for all
architectures.  Move it to common code.

One problem is the string.c implementation on x86.  Currently sha256
includes x86/boot/string.h which defines memcpy and memset to be gcc
builtins.  By moving the sha256 implementation to common code and
changing the include to linux/string.h both functions are no longer
defined.  Thus definitions have to be provided in x86/purgatory/string.c

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180321112751.22196-12-prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo &lt;prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@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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The code to verify the new kernels sha digest is applicable for all
architectures.  Move it to common code.

One problem is the string.c implementation on x86.  Currently sha256
includes x86/boot/string.h which defines memcpy and memset to be gcc
builtins.  By moving the sha256 implementation to common code and
changing the include to linux/string.h both functions are no longer
defined.  Thus definitions have to be provided in x86/purgatory/string.c

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180321112751.22196-12-prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo &lt;prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gfs2-4.17.fixes2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T20:00:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T20:00:44+00:00</published>
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Pull more gfs2 updates from Bob Peterson:
 "We decided to request the latest three patches to be merged into this
  merge window while it's still open.

   - The first patch adds a new function to lockref:
     lockref_put_not_zero

   - The second patch fixes GFS2's glock dump code so it uses the new
     lockref function. This fixes a problem whereby lock dumps could
     miss glocks.

   - I made a minor patch to update some comments and fix the lock
     ordering text in our gfs2-glocks.txt Documentation file"

* tag 'gfs2-4.17.fixes2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
  GFS2: Minor improvements to comments and documentation
  gfs2: Stop using rhashtable_walk_peek
  lockref: Add lockref_put_not_zero
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Pull more gfs2 updates from Bob Peterson:
 "We decided to request the latest three patches to be merged into this
  merge window while it's still open.

   - The first patch adds a new function to lockref:
     lockref_put_not_zero

   - The second patch fixes GFS2's glock dump code so it uses the new
     lockref function. This fixes a problem whereby lock dumps could
     miss glocks.

   - I made a minor patch to update some comments and fix the lock
     ordering text in our gfs2-glocks.txt Documentation file"

* tag 'gfs2-4.17.fixes2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
  GFS2: Minor improvements to comments and documentation
  gfs2: Stop using rhashtable_walk_peek
  lockref: Add lockref_put_not_zero
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.17-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T18:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T18:00:48+00:00</published>
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Pull dma-mapping fix from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Fix for one swiotlb regression in 2.16 from Takashi"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.17-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
  swiotlb: fix unexpected swiotlb_alloc_coherent failures
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Pull dma-mapping fix from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Fix for one swiotlb regression in 2.16 from Takashi"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.17-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
  swiotlb: fix unexpected swiotlb_alloc_coherent failures
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lockref: Add lockref_put_not_zero</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T16:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-29T07:07:46+00:00</published>
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Put a lockref unless the lockref is dead or its count would become zero.
This is the same as lockref_put_or_lock except that the lock is never
left held.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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Put a lockref unless the lockref is dead or its count would become zero.
This is the same as lockref_put_or_lock except that the lock is never
left held.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'WIP.x86/asm' into x86/urgent, because the topic is ready</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T07:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T07:42:34+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>radix tree: use GFP_ZONEMASK bits of gfp_t for flags</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:36:28+00:00</published>
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Patch series "XArray", v9.  (First part thereof).

This patchset is, I believe, appropriate for merging for 4.17.  It
contains the XArray implementation, to eventually replace the radix
tree, and converts the page cache to use it.

This conversion keeps the radix tree and XArray data structures in sync
at all times.  That allows us to convert the page cache one function at
a time and should allow for easier bisection.  Other than renaming some
elements of the structures, the data structures are fundamentally
unchanged; a radix tree walk and an XArray walk will touch the same
number of cachelines.  I have changes planned to the XArray data
structure, but those will happen in future patches.

Improvements the XArray has over the radix tree:

 - The radix tree provides operations like other trees do; 'insert' and
   'delete'. But what most users really want is an automatically
   resizing array, and so it makes more sense to give users an API that
   is like an array -- 'load' and 'store'. We still have an 'insert'
   operation for users that really want that semantic.

 - The XArray considers locking as part of its API. This simplifies a
   lot of users who formerly had to manage their own locking just for
   the radix tree. It also improves code generation as we can now tell
   RCU that we're holding a lock and it doesn't need to generate as much
   fencing code. The other advantage is that tree nodes can be moved
   (not yet implemented).

 - GFP flags are now parameters to calls which may need to allocate
   memory. The radix tree forced users to decide what the allocation
   flags would be at creation time. It's much clearer to specify them at
   allocation time.

 - Memory is not preloaded; we don't tie up dozens of pages on the off
   chance that the slab allocator fails. Instead, we drop the lock,
   allocate a new node and retry the operation. We have to convert all
   the radix tree, IDA and IDR preload users before we can realise this
   benefit, but I have not yet found a user which cannot be converted.

 - The XArray provides a cmpxchg operation. The radix tree forces users
   to roll their own (and at least four have).

 - Iterators take a 'max' parameter. That simplifies many users and will
   reduce the amount of iteration done.

 - Iteration can proceed backwards. We only have one user for this, but
   since it's called as part of the pagefault readahead algorithm, that
   seemed worth mentioning.

 - RCU-protected pointers are not exposed as part of the API. There are
   some fun bugs where the page cache forgets to use rcu_dereference()
   in the current codebase.

 - Value entries gain an extra bit compared to radix tree exceptional
   entries. That gives us the extra bit we need to put huge page swap
   entries in the page cache.

 - Some iterators now take a 'filter' argument instead of having
   separate iterators for tagged/untagged iterations.

The page cache is improved by this:

 - Shorter, easier to read code

 - More efficient iterations

 - Reduction in size of struct address_space

 - Fewer walks from the top of the data structure; the XArray API
   encourages staying at the leaf node and conducting operations there.

This patch (of 8):

None of these bits may be used for slab allocations, so we can use them
as radix tree flags as long as we mask them off before passing them to
the slab allocator. Move the IDR flag from the high bits to the
GFP_ZONEMASK bits.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&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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Patch series "XArray", v9.  (First part thereof).

This patchset is, I believe, appropriate for merging for 4.17.  It
contains the XArray implementation, to eventually replace the radix
tree, and converts the page cache to use it.

This conversion keeps the radix tree and XArray data structures in sync
at all times.  That allows us to convert the page cache one function at
a time and should allow for easier bisection.  Other than renaming some
elements of the structures, the data structures are fundamentally
unchanged; a radix tree walk and an XArray walk will touch the same
number of cachelines.  I have changes planned to the XArray data
structure, but those will happen in future patches.

Improvements the XArray has over the radix tree:

 - The radix tree provides operations like other trees do; 'insert' and
   'delete'. But what most users really want is an automatically
   resizing array, and so it makes more sense to give users an API that
   is like an array -- 'load' and 'store'. We still have an 'insert'
   operation for users that really want that semantic.

 - The XArray considers locking as part of its API. This simplifies a
   lot of users who formerly had to manage their own locking just for
   the radix tree. It also improves code generation as we can now tell
   RCU that we're holding a lock and it doesn't need to generate as much
   fencing code. The other advantage is that tree nodes can be moved
   (not yet implemented).

 - GFP flags are now parameters to calls which may need to allocate
   memory. The radix tree forced users to decide what the allocation
   flags would be at creation time. It's much clearer to specify them at
   allocation time.

 - Memory is not preloaded; we don't tie up dozens of pages on the off
   chance that the slab allocator fails. Instead, we drop the lock,
   allocate a new node and retry the operation. We have to convert all
   the radix tree, IDA and IDR preload users before we can realise this
   benefit, but I have not yet found a user which cannot be converted.

 - The XArray provides a cmpxchg operation. The radix tree forces users
   to roll their own (and at least four have).

 - Iterators take a 'max' parameter. That simplifies many users and will
   reduce the amount of iteration done.

 - Iteration can proceed backwards. We only have one user for this, but
   since it's called as part of the pagefault readahead algorithm, that
   seemed worth mentioning.

 - RCU-protected pointers are not exposed as part of the API. There are
   some fun bugs where the page cache forgets to use rcu_dereference()
   in the current codebase.

 - Value entries gain an extra bit compared to radix tree exceptional
   entries. That gives us the extra bit we need to put huge page swap
   entries in the page cache.

 - Some iterators now take a 'filter' argument instead of having
   separate iterators for tagged/untagged iterations.

The page cache is improved by this:

 - Shorter, easier to read code

 - More efficient iterations

 - Reduction in size of struct address_space

 - Fewer walks from the top of the data structure; the XArray API
   encourages staying at the leaf node and conducting operations there.

This patch (of 8):

None of these bits may be used for slab allocations, so we can use them
as radix tree flags as long as we mask them off before passing them to
the slab allocator. Move the IDR flag from the high bits to the
GFP_ZONEMASK bits.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&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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<title>lib/list_debug.c: print unmangled addresses</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:33:06+00:00</published>
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The entire point of printing the pointers in list_debug is to see if
there's any useful information in them (eg poison values, ASCII, etc);
obscuring them to see if they compare equal makes them much less useful.
If an attacker can force this message to be printed, we've already lost.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180401223237.GV13332@bombadil.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;me@tobin.cc&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The entire point of printing the pointers in list_debug is to see if
there's any useful information in them (eg poison values, ASCII, etc);
obscuring them to see if they compare equal makes them much less useful.
If an attacker can force this message to be printed, we've already lost.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180401223237.GV13332@bombadil.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;me@tobin.cc&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&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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