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<title>Merge tag 'apparmor-pr-2019-12-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/linux-apparmor</title>
<updated>2019-12-03T20:51:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-03T20:51:35+00:00</published>
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Pull apparmor updates from John Johansen:
 "Features:

   - increase left match history buffer size to provide improved
     conflict resolution in overlapping execution rules.

   - switch buffer allocation to use a memory pool and GFP_KERNEL where
     possible.

   - add compression of policy blobs to reduce memory usage.

  Cleanups:

   - fix spelling mistake "immutible" -&gt; "immutable"

  Bug fixes:

   - fix unsigned len comparison in update_for_len macro

   - fix sparse warning for type-casting of current-&gt;real_cred"

* tag 'apparmor-pr-2019-12-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/linux-apparmor:
  apparmor: make it so work buffers can be allocated from atomic context
  apparmor: reduce rcu_read_lock scope for aa_file_perm mediation
  apparmor: fix wrong buffer allocation in aa_new_mount
  apparmor: fix unsigned len comparison with less than zero
  apparmor: increase left match history buffer size
  apparmor: Switch to GFP_KERNEL where possible
  apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches
  apparmor: Force type-casting of current-&gt;real_cred
  apparmor: fix spelling mistake "immutible" -&gt; "immutable"
  apparmor: fix blob compression when ns is forced on a policy load
  apparmor: fix missing ZLIB defines
  apparmor: fix blob compression build failure on ppc
  apparmor: Initial implementation of raw policy blob compression
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Pull apparmor updates from John Johansen:
 "Features:

   - increase left match history buffer size to provide improved
     conflict resolution in overlapping execution rules.

   - switch buffer allocation to use a memory pool and GFP_KERNEL where
     possible.

   - add compression of policy blobs to reduce memory usage.

  Cleanups:

   - fix spelling mistake "immutible" -&gt; "immutable"

  Bug fixes:

   - fix unsigned len comparison in update_for_len macro

   - fix sparse warning for type-casting of current-&gt;real_cred"

* tag 'apparmor-pr-2019-12-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/linux-apparmor:
  apparmor: make it so work buffers can be allocated from atomic context
  apparmor: reduce rcu_read_lock scope for aa_file_perm mediation
  apparmor: fix wrong buffer allocation in aa_new_mount
  apparmor: fix unsigned len comparison with less than zero
  apparmor: increase left match history buffer size
  apparmor: Switch to GFP_KERNEL where possible
  apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches
  apparmor: Force type-casting of current-&gt;real_cred
  apparmor: fix spelling mistake "immutible" -&gt; "immutable"
  apparmor: fix blob compression when ns is forced on a policy load
  apparmor: fix missing ZLIB defines
  apparmor: fix blob compression build failure on ppc
  apparmor: Initial implementation of raw policy blob compression
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: make it so work buffers can be allocated from atomic context</title>
<updated>2019-11-23T00:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-14T10:34:06+00:00</published>
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In some situations AppArmor needs to be able to use its work buffers
from atomic context. Add the ability to specify when in atomic context
and hold a set of work buffers in reserve for atomic context to
reduce the chance that a large work buffer allocation will need to
be done.

Fixes: df323337e507 ("apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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In some situations AppArmor needs to be able to use its work buffers
from atomic context. Add the ability to specify when in atomic context
and hold a set of work buffers in reserve for atomic context to
reduce the chance that a large work buffer allocation will need to
be done.

Fixes: df323337e507 ("apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>apparmor: reduce rcu_read_lock scope for aa_file_perm mediation</title>
<updated>2019-11-23T00:40:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-14T05:24:23+00:00</published>
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Now that the buffers allocation has changed and no longer needs
the full mediation under an rcu_read_lock, reduce the rcu_read_lock
scope to only where it is necessary.

Fixes: df323337e507 ("apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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Now that the buffers allocation has changed and no longer needs
the full mediation under an rcu_read_lock, reduce the rcu_read_lock
scope to only where it is necessary.

Fixes: df323337e507 ("apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>apparmor: fix wrong buffer allocation in aa_new_mount</title>
<updated>2019-11-23T00:39:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-12T09:01:35+00:00</published>
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Fix the following trace caused by the dev_path buffer not being
allocated.

[  641.044262] AppArmor WARN match_mnt: ((devpath &amp;&amp; !devbuffer)):
[  641.044284] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 30709 at ../security/apparmor/mount.c:385 match_mnt+0x133/0x180
[  641.044286] Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_generic ledtrig_audio snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core qxl ttm snd_hwdep snd_pcm drm_kms_helper snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event drm snd_rawmidi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel iptable_mangle aesni_intel aes_x86_64 xt_tcpudp crypto_simd snd_seq cryptd bridge stp llc iptable_filter glue_helper snd_seq_device snd_timer joydev input_leds snd serio_raw fb_sys_fops 9pnet_virtio 9pnet syscopyarea sysfillrect soundcore sysimgblt qemu_fw_cfg mac_hid sch_fq_codel parport_pc ppdev lp parport ip_tables x_tables autofs4 8139too psmouse 8139cp i2c_piix4 pata_acpi mii floppy
[  641.044318] CPU: 1 PID: 30709 Comm: mount Tainted: G      D W         5.1.0-rc4+ #223
[  641.044320] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[  641.044323] RIP: 0010:match_mnt+0x133/0x180
[  641.044325] Code: 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8b 4c 24 18 eb b1 48 c7 c6 08 84 26 83 48 c7 c7 f0 56 54 83 4c 89 54 24 08 48 89 14 24 e8 7d d3 bb ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 4c 8b 54 24 08 48 8b 14 24 e9 25 ff ff ff 48 c7 c6 08 84 26
[  641.044327] RSP: 0018:ffffa9b34ac97d08 EFLAGS: 00010282
[  641.044329] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9a86725a8558 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  641.044331] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000246
[  641.044333] RBP: ffffa9b34ac97db0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  641.044334] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000077f5 R12: 0000000000000000
[  641.044336] R13: ffffa9b34ac97e98 R14: ffff9a865e000008 R15: ffff9a86c4cf42b8
[  641.044338] FS:  00007fab73969740(0000) GS:ffff9a86fbb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  641.044340] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  641.044342] CR2: 000055f90bc62035 CR3: 00000000aab5f006 CR4: 00000000003606e0
[  641.044346] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  641.044348] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  641.044349] Call Trace:
[  641.044355]  aa_new_mount+0x119/0x2c0
[  641.044363]  apparmor_sb_mount+0xd4/0x430
[  641.044367]  security_sb_mount+0x46/0x70
[  641.044372]  do_mount+0xbb/0xeb0
[  641.044377]  ? memdup_user+0x4b/0x70
[  641.044380]  ksys_mount+0x7e/0xd0
[  641.044384]  __x64_sys_mount+0x21/0x30
[  641.044388]  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x1a0
[  641.044392]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
[  641.044394] RIP: 0033:0x7fab73a8790a
[  641.044397] Code: 48 8b 0d 89 85 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 56 85 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[  641.044399] RSP: 002b:00007ffe0ffe4238 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[  641.044401] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fab73a8790a
[  641.044429] RDX: 000055f90bc6203b RSI: 00007ffe0ffe57b1 RDI: 00007ffe0ffe57a5
[  641.044431] RBP: 00007ffe0ffe4250 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fab73b51d80
[  641.044433] R10: 00000000c0ed0004 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055f90bc610b0
[  641.044434] R13: 00007ffe0ffe4330 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[  641.044457] irq event stamp: 0
[  641.044460] hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;]           (null)
[  641.044463] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff82290114&gt;] copy_process.part.30+0x734/0x23f0
[  641.044467] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff82290114&gt;] copy_process.part.30+0x734/0x23f0
[  641.044469] softirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;]           (null)
[  641.044470] ---[ end trace c0d54bdacf6af6b2 ]---

Fixes: df323337e507 ("apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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Fix the following trace caused by the dev_path buffer not being
allocated.

[  641.044262] AppArmor WARN match_mnt: ((devpath &amp;&amp; !devbuffer)):
[  641.044284] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 30709 at ../security/apparmor/mount.c:385 match_mnt+0x133/0x180
[  641.044286] Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_generic ledtrig_audio snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core qxl ttm snd_hwdep snd_pcm drm_kms_helper snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event drm snd_rawmidi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel iptable_mangle aesni_intel aes_x86_64 xt_tcpudp crypto_simd snd_seq cryptd bridge stp llc iptable_filter glue_helper snd_seq_device snd_timer joydev input_leds snd serio_raw fb_sys_fops 9pnet_virtio 9pnet syscopyarea sysfillrect soundcore sysimgblt qemu_fw_cfg mac_hid sch_fq_codel parport_pc ppdev lp parport ip_tables x_tables autofs4 8139too psmouse 8139cp i2c_piix4 pata_acpi mii floppy
[  641.044318] CPU: 1 PID: 30709 Comm: mount Tainted: G      D W         5.1.0-rc4+ #223
[  641.044320] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[  641.044323] RIP: 0010:match_mnt+0x133/0x180
[  641.044325] Code: 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8b 4c 24 18 eb b1 48 c7 c6 08 84 26 83 48 c7 c7 f0 56 54 83 4c 89 54 24 08 48 89 14 24 e8 7d d3 bb ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 4c 8b 54 24 08 48 8b 14 24 e9 25 ff ff ff 48 c7 c6 08 84 26
[  641.044327] RSP: 0018:ffffa9b34ac97d08 EFLAGS: 00010282
[  641.044329] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9a86725a8558 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  641.044331] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000246
[  641.044333] RBP: ffffa9b34ac97db0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  641.044334] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000077f5 R12: 0000000000000000
[  641.044336] R13: ffffa9b34ac97e98 R14: ffff9a865e000008 R15: ffff9a86c4cf42b8
[  641.044338] FS:  00007fab73969740(0000) GS:ffff9a86fbb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  641.044340] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  641.044342] CR2: 000055f90bc62035 CR3: 00000000aab5f006 CR4: 00000000003606e0
[  641.044346] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  641.044348] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  641.044349] Call Trace:
[  641.044355]  aa_new_mount+0x119/0x2c0
[  641.044363]  apparmor_sb_mount+0xd4/0x430
[  641.044367]  security_sb_mount+0x46/0x70
[  641.044372]  do_mount+0xbb/0xeb0
[  641.044377]  ? memdup_user+0x4b/0x70
[  641.044380]  ksys_mount+0x7e/0xd0
[  641.044384]  __x64_sys_mount+0x21/0x30
[  641.044388]  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x1a0
[  641.044392]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
[  641.044394] RIP: 0033:0x7fab73a8790a
[  641.044397] Code: 48 8b 0d 89 85 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 56 85 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[  641.044399] RSP: 002b:00007ffe0ffe4238 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[  641.044401] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fab73a8790a
[  641.044429] RDX: 000055f90bc6203b RSI: 00007ffe0ffe57b1 RDI: 00007ffe0ffe57a5
[  641.044431] RBP: 00007ffe0ffe4250 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fab73b51d80
[  641.044433] R10: 00000000c0ed0004 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055f90bc610b0
[  641.044434] R13: 00007ffe0ffe4330 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[  641.044457] irq event stamp: 0
[  641.044460] hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;]           (null)
[  641.044463] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff82290114&gt;] copy_process.part.30+0x734/0x23f0
[  641.044467] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff82290114&gt;] copy_process.part.30+0x734/0x23f0
[  641.044469] softirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;]           (null)
[  641.044470] ---[ end trace c0d54bdacf6af6b2 ]---

Fixes: df323337e507 ("apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>apparmor: fix unsigned len comparison with less than zero</title>
<updated>2019-11-23T00:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-27T13:09:04+00:00</published>
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The sanity check in macro update_for_len checks to see if len
is less than zero, however, len is a size_t so it can never be
less than zero, so this sanity check is a no-op.  Fix this by
making len a ssize_t so the comparison will work and add ulen
that is a size_t copy of len so that the min() macro won't
throw warnings about comparing different types.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Macro compares unsigned to 0")
Fixes: f1bd904175e8 ("apparmor: add the base fns() for domain labels")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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The sanity check in macro update_for_len checks to see if len
is less than zero, however, len is a size_t so it can never be
less than zero, so this sanity check is a no-op.  Fix this by
making len a ssize_t so the comparison will work and add ulen
that is a size_t copy of len so that the min() macro won't
throw warnings about comparing different types.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Macro compares unsigned to 0")
Fixes: f1bd904175e8 ("apparmor: add the base fns() for domain labels")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-07-19T17:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-19T17:42:02+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
 "The first part of mount updates.

  Convert filesystems to use the new mount API"

* 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  mnt_init(): call shmem_init() unconditionally
  constify ksys_mount() string arguments
  don't bother with registering rootfs
  init_rootfs(): don't bother with init_ramfs_fs()
  vfs: Convert smackfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert selinuxfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert openpromfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert xenfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert gadgetfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert oprofilefs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert ibmasmfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert qib_fs/ipathfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert efivarfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert configfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert binfmt_misc to use the new mount API
  convenience helper: get_tree_single()
  convenience helper get_tree_nodev()
  vfs: Kill sget_userns()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
 "The first part of mount updates.

  Convert filesystems to use the new mount API"

* 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  mnt_init(): call shmem_init() unconditionally
  constify ksys_mount() string arguments
  don't bother with registering rootfs
  init_rootfs(): don't bother with init_ramfs_fs()
  vfs: Convert smackfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert selinuxfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert openpromfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert xenfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert gadgetfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert oprofilefs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert ibmasmfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert qib_fs/ipathfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert efivarfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert configfs to use the new mount API
  vfs: Convert binfmt_misc to use the new mount API
  convenience helper: get_tree_single()
  convenience helper get_tree_nodev()
  vfs: Kill sget_userns()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T23:12:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T23:12:03+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
     rather impressive:

       "On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
        and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
        done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255

        After the patchset, they became:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"

     There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
     it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
     locking.

     Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
     improvements are:

       "With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
        total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
        with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
        after this patchset were:

        # of Threads   Before Patch      After Patch
        ------------   ------------      -----------
             2            2,618             4,193
             4            1,202             3,726
             8              802             3,622
            16              729             3,359
            32              319             2,826
            64              102             2,744"

     The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
     several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
     might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
     believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
     going forward.

   - jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
     motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
     CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
     updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
     kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
     overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
     as well.

   - atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
     ~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
     APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
     which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
     Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
     implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
     to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
     return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.

   - A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
     cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
     all around the place.

   - A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.

   - Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
  locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
  locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
  x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
  x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
  x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
  x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
  x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
  locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
  locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
  locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem-&gt;owner an atomic_long_t
  locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
  locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
  locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
  locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
  locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
  locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
  ...
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<pre>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
     rather impressive:

       "On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
        and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
        done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255

        After the patchset, they became:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"

     There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
     it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
     locking.

     Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
     improvements are:

       "With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
        total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
        with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
        after this patchset were:

        # of Threads   Before Patch      After Patch
        ------------   ------------      -----------
             2            2,618             4,193
             4            1,202             3,726
             8              802             3,622
            16              729             3,359
            32              319             2,826
            64              102             2,744"

     The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
     several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
     might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
     believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
     going forward.

   - jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
     motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
     CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
     updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
     kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
     overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
     as well.

   - atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
     ~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
     APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
     which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
     Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
     implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
     to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
     return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.

   - A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
     cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
     all around the place.

   - A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.

   - Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
  locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
  locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
  x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
  x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
  x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
  x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
  x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
  locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
  locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
  locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem-&gt;owner an atomic_long_t
  locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
  locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
  locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
  locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
  locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
  locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API</title>
<updated>2019-07-05T02:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-25T16:38:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b0ecc9da5ff64b59c810d1e9c82d06488805da77'/>
<id>b0ecc9da5ff64b59c810d1e9c82d06488805da77</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert the apparmorfs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed.  This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
cc: apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com
cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Convert the apparmorfs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed.  This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
cc: apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com
cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>apparmor: increase left match history buffer size</title>
<updated>2019-06-20T17:33:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T13:54:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=136db994852a9b405ac1074de0e7a1c4c840b8ee'/>
<id>136db994852a9b405ac1074de0e7a1c4c840b8ee</id>
<content type='text'>
There have been cases reported where a history buffer size of 8 was
not enough to resolve conflict overlaps. Increase the buffer to and
get rid of the size element which is currently just storing the
constant WB_HISTORY_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There have been cases reported where a history buffer size of 8 was
not enough to resolve conflict overlaps. Increase the buffer to and
get rid of the size element which is currently just storing the
constant WB_HISTORY_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>apparmor: Switch to GFP_KERNEL where possible</title>
<updated>2019-06-20T17:33:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-05T13:34:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8ac2ca328ec9356f56d0dad3aa350d9600db951a'/>
<id>8ac2ca328ec9356f56d0dad3aa350d9600db951a</id>
<content type='text'>
After removing preempt_disable() from get_buffers() it is possible to
replace a few GFP_ATOMIC allocations with GFP_KERNEL.

Replace GFP_ATOMIC allocations with GFP_KERNEL where the context looks
to bee preepmtible.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
After removing preempt_disable() from get_buffers() it is possible to
replace a few GFP_ATOMIC allocations with GFP_KERNEL.

Replace GFP_ATOMIC allocations with GFP_KERNEL where the context looks
to bee preepmtible.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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