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When a process expects no accesses to a certain memory range for a long
time, it could hint kernel that the pages can be reclaimed instantly but
data should be preserved for future use. This could reduce workingset
eviction so it ends up increasing performance.
This patch introduces the new MADV_PAGEOUT hint to madvise(2) syscall.
MADV_PAGEOUT can be used by a process to mark a memory range as not
expected to be used for a long time so that kernel reclaims *any LRU*
pages instantly. The hint can help kernel in deciding which pages to
evict proactively.
A note: It doesn't apply SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX LRU page isolation limit
intentionally because it's automatically bounded by PMD size. If PMD
size(e.g., 256) makes some trouble, we could fix it later by limit it to
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX[1].
- man-page material
MADV_PAGEOUT (since Linux x.x)
Do not expect access in the near future so pages in the specified
regions could be reclaimed instantly regardless of memory pressure.
Thus, access in the range after successful operation could cause
major page fault but never lose the up-to-date contents unlike
MADV_DONTNEED. Pages belonging to a shared mapping are only processed
if a write access is allowed for the calling process.
MADV_PAGEOUT cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB pages, or
VM_PFNMAP pages.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190710194719.GS29695@dhcp22.suse.cz/
[minchan@kernel.org: clear PG_active on MADV_PAGEOUT]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190802200643.GA181880@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: resolve conflicts with hmm.git]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726023435.214162-5-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Introduce MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT", v7.
- Background
The Android terminology used for forking a new process and starting an app
from scratch is a cold start, while resuming an existing app is a hot
start. While we continually try to improve the performance of cold
starts, hot starts will always be significantly less power hungry as well
as faster so we are trying to make hot start more likely than cold start.
To increase hot start, Android userspace manages the order that apps
should be killed in a process called ActivityManagerService.
ActivityManagerService tracks every Android app or service that the user
could be interacting with at any time and translates that into a ranked
list for lmkd(low memory killer daemon). They are likely to be killed by
lmkd if the system has to reclaim memory. In that sense they are similar
to entries in any other cache. Those apps are kept alive for
opportunistic performance improvements but those performance improvements
will vary based on the memory requirements of individual workloads.
- Problem
Naturally, cached apps were dominant consumers of memory on the system.
However, they were not significant consumers of swap even though they are
good candidate for swap. Under investigation, swapping out only begins
once the low zone watermark is hit and kswapd wakes up, but the overall
allocation rate in the system might trip lmkd thresholds and cause a
cached process to be killed(we measured performance swapping out vs.
zapping the memory by killing a process. Unsurprisingly, zapping is 10x
times faster even though we use zram which is much faster than real
storage) so kill from lmkd will often satisfy the high zone watermark,
resulting in very few pages actually being moved to swap.
- Approach
The approach we chose was to use a new interface to allow userspace to
proactively reclaim entire processes by leveraging platform information.
This allowed us to bypass the inaccuracy of the kernel’s LRUs for pages
that are known to be cold from userspace and to avoid races with lmkd by
reclaiming apps as soon as they entered the cached state. Additionally,
it could provide many chances for platform to use much information to
optimize memory efficiency.
To achieve the goal, the patchset introduce two new options for madvise.
One is MADV_COLD which will deactivate activated pages and the other is
MADV_PAGEOUT which will reclaim private pages instantly. These new
options complement MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE by adding non-destructive
ways to gain some free memory space. MADV_PAGEOUT is similar to
MADV_DONTNEED in a way that it hints the kernel that memory region is not
currently needed and should be reclaimed immediately; MADV_COLD is similar
to MADV_FREE in a way that it hints the kernel that memory region is not
currently needed and should be reclaimed when memory pressure rises.
This patch (of 5):
When a process expects no accesses to a certain memory range, it could
give a hint to kernel that the pages can be reclaimed when memory pressure
happens but data should be preserved for future use. This could reduce
workingset eviction so it ends up increasing performance.
This patch introduces the new MADV_COLD hint to madvise(2) syscall.
MADV_COLD can be used by a process to mark a memory range as not expected
to be used in the near future. The hint can help kernel in deciding which
pages to evict early during memory pressure.
It works for every LRU pages like MADV_[DONTNEED|FREE]. IOW, It moves
active file page -> inactive file LRU
active anon page -> inacdtive anon LRU
Unlike MADV_FREE, it doesn't move active anonymous pages to inactive file
LRU's head because MADV_COLD is a little bit different symantic.
MADV_FREE means it's okay to discard when the memory pressure because the
content of the page is *garbage* so freeing such pages is almost zero
overhead since we don't need to swap out and access afterward causes just
minor fault. Thus, it would make sense to put those freeable pages in
inactive file LRU to compete other used-once pages. It makes sense for
implmentaion point of view, too because it's not swapbacked memory any
longer until it would be re-dirtied. Even, it could give a bonus to make
them be reclaimed on swapless system. However, MADV_COLD doesn't mean
garbage so reclaiming them requires swap-out/in in the end so it's bigger
cost. Since we have designed VM LRU aging based on cost-model, anonymous
cold pages would be better to position inactive anon's LRU list, not file
LRU. Furthermore, it would help to avoid unnecessary scanning if system
doesn't have a swap device. Let's start simpler way without adding
complexity at this moment. However, keep in mind, too that it's a caveat
that workloads with a lot of pages cache are likely to ignore MADV_COLD on
anonymous memory because we rarely age anonymous LRU lists.
* man-page material
MADV_COLD (since Linux x.x)
Pages in the specified regions will be treated as less-recently-accessed
compared to pages in the system with similar access frequencies. In
contrast to MADV_FREE, the contents of the region are preserved regardless
of subsequent writes to pages.
MADV_COLD cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB pages, or VM_PFNMAP
pages.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: resolve conflicts with hmm.git]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726023435.214162-2-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Both pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init() are used to initialize kmem
cache for page table allocations on several architectures that do not use
PAGE_SIZE tables for one or more levels of the page table hierarchy.
Most architectures do not implement these functions and use __weak default
NOP implementation of pgd_cache_init(). Since there is no such default
for pgtable_cache_init(), its empty stub is duplicated among most
architectures.
Rename the definitions of pgd_cache_init() to pgtable_cache_init() and
drop empty stubs of pgtable_cache_init().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566457046-22637-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> [arm64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".
A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].
I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com
This patch (of 3):
Remove page table allocator "quicklists". These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.
The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore. If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.
Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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isa_page_to_bus() is deprecated and is no longer used anywhere. Remove
it entirely.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613161155.16946-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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alpha allocates PTE pages with __get_free_page() and uses
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO for the allocations.
Switch it to the generic version that does exactly the same thing for the
kernel page tables and adds __GFP_ACCOUNT for the user PTEs.
The alpha pte_free() and pte_free_kernel() versions are identical to the
generic ones and can be simply dropped.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557296232-15361-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Some highlights from this development cycle:
1) Big refactoring of ipv6 route and neigh handling to support
nexthop objects configurable as units from userspace. From David
Ahern.
2) Convert explored_states in BPF verifier into a hash table,
significantly decreased state held for programs with bpf2bpf
calls, from Alexei Starovoitov.
3) Implement bpf_send_signal() helper, from Yonghong Song.
4) Various classifier enhancements to mvpp2 driver, from Maxime
Chevallier.
5) Add aRFS support to hns3 driver, from Jian Shen.
6) Fix use after free in inet frags by allocating fqdirs dynamically
and reworking how rhashtable dismantle occurs, from Eric Dumazet.
7) Add act_ctinfo packet classifier action, from Kevin
Darbyshire-Bryant.
8) Add TFO key backup infrastructure, from Jason Baron.
9) Remove several old and unused ISDN drivers, from Arnd Bergmann.
10) Add devlink notifications for flash update status to mlxsw driver,
from Jiri Pirko.
11) Lots of kTLS offload infrastructure fixes, from Jakub Kicinski.
12) Add support for mv88e6250 DSA chips, from Rasmus Villemoes.
13) Various enhancements to ipv6 flow label handling, from Eric
Dumazet and Willem de Bruijn.
14) Support TLS offload in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski, Dirk van
der Merwe, and others.
15) Various improvements to axienet driver including converting it to
phylink, from Robert Hancock.
16) Add PTP support to sja1105 DSA driver, from Vladimir Oltean.
17) Add mqprio qdisc offload support to dpaa2-eth, from Ioana
Radulescu.
18) Add devlink health reporting to mlx5, from Moshe Shemesh.
19) Convert stmmac over to phylink, from Jose Abreu.
20) Add PTP PHC (Physical Hardware Clock) support to mlxsw, from
Shalom Toledo.
21) Add nftables SYNPROXY support, from Fernando Fernandez Mancera.
22) Convert tcp_fastopen over to use SipHash, from Ard Biesheuvel.
23) Track spill/fill of constants in BPF verifier, from Alexei
Starovoitov.
24) Support bounded loops in BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.
25) Various page_pool API fixes and improvements, from Jesper Dangaard
Brouer.
26) Just like ipv4, support ref-countless ipv6 route handling. From
Wei Wang.
27) Support VLAN offloading in aquantia driver, from Igor Russkikh.
28) Add AF_XDP zero-copy support to mlx5, from Maxim Mikityanskiy.
29) Add flower GRE encap/decap support to nfp driver, from Pieter
Jansen van Vuuren.
30) Protect against stack overflow when using act_mirred, from John
Hurley.
31) Allow devmap map lookups from eBPF, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.
32) Use page_pool API in netsec driver, Ilias Apalodimas.
33) Add Google gve network driver, from Catherine Sullivan.
34) More indirect call avoidance, from Paolo Abeni.
35) Add kTLS TX HW offload support to mlx5, from Tariq Toukan.
36) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to bnxt_en, from Andy Gospodarek.
37) Add MPLS manipulation actions to TC, from John Hurley.
38) Add sending a packet to connection tracking from TC actions, and
then allow flower classifier matching on conntrack state. From
Paul Blakey.
39) Netfilter hw offload support, from Pablo Neira Ayuso"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2080 commits)
net/mlx5e: Return in default case statement in tx_post_resync_params
mlx5: Return -EINVAL when WARN_ON_ONCE triggers in mlx5e_tls_resync().
net: dsa: add support for BRIDGE_MROUTER attribute
pkt_sched: Include const.h
net: netsec: remove static declaration for netsec_set_tx_de()
net: netsec: remove superfluous if statement
netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support
net: flow_offload: rename tc_cls_flower_offload to flow_cls_offload
net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_is_busy() and use it
net: sched: remove tcf block API
drivers: net: use flow block API
net: sched: use flow block API
net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_{priv, incref, decref}()
net: flow_offload: add list handling functions
net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_alloc() and flow_block_cb_free()
net: flow_offload: rename TCF_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* to FLOW_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_*
net: flow_offload: rename TC_BLOCK_{UN}BIND to FLOW_BLOCK_{UN}BIND
net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_setup_simple()
net: hisilicon: Add an tx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC
net: hisilicon: Add an rx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC
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Alexei Starovoitov says:
====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2019-06-19
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
The main changes are:
1) new SO_REUSEPORT_DETACH_BPF setsocktopt, from Martin.
2) BTF based map definition, from Andrii.
3) support bpf_map_lookup_elem for xskmap, from Jonathan.
4) bounded loops and scalar precision logic in the verifier, from Alexei.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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There is SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF but there is no DETACH.
This patch adds SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF sockopt. The same
sockopt can be used to undo both SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF.
reseport_detach_prog() is added and it is mostly a mirror
of the existing reuseport_attach_prog(). The differences are,
it does not call reuseport_alloc() and returns -ENOENT when
there is no old prog.
Cc: Craig Gallek <kraig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this file is released under the gplv2
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 68 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190114.292346262@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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As a step towards making the atomic64 API use consistent types treewide,
let's have the alpha atomic64 implementation use s64 as the underlying
type for atomic64_t, rather than long, matching the generated headers.
As atomic64_read() depends on the generic defintion of atomic64_t, this
still returns long. This will be converted in a subsequent patch.
Otherwise, there should be no functional change as a result of this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aou@eecs.berkeley.edu
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: jhogan@kernel.org
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: palmer@sifive.com
Cc: paul.burton@mips.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: vgupta@synopsys.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190522132250.26499-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 or at your option any
later version you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license for example usr src linux copying if not write to the
free software foundation inc 675 mass ave cambridge ma 02139 usa
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 20 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170858.552543146@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull nommu generic uaccess updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"asm-generic: kill <asm/segment.h> and improve nommu generic uaccess helpers
Christoph Hellwig writes:
This is a series doing two somewhat interwinded things. It improves
the asm-generic nommu uaccess helper to optionally be entirely
generic and not require any arch helpers for the actual uaccess.
For the generic uaccess.h to actually be generically useful I also
had to kill off the mess we made of <asm/segment.h>, which really
shouldn't exist on most architectures"
* tag 'asm-generic-nommu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
asm-generic: optimize generic uaccess for 8-byte loads and stores
asm-generic: provide entirely generic nommu uaccess
arch: mostly remove <asm/segment.h>
asm-generic: don't include <asm/segment.h> from <asm/uaccess.h>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Highlights:
1) Support AES128-CCM ciphers in kTLS, from Vakul Garg.
2) Add fib_sync_mem to control the amount of dirty memory we allow to
queue up between synchronize RCU calls, from David Ahern.
3) Make flow classifier more lockless, from Vlad Buslov.
4) Add PHY downshift support to aquantia driver, from Heiner
Kallweit.
5) Add SKB cache for TCP rx and tx, from Eric Dumazet. This reduces
contention on SLAB spinlocks in heavy RPC workloads.
6) Partial GSO offload support in XFRM, from Boris Pismenny.
7) Add fast link down support to ethtool, from Heiner Kallweit.
8) Use siphash for IP ID generator, from Eric Dumazet.
9) Pull nexthops even further out from ipv4/ipv6 routes and FIB
entries, from David Ahern.
10) Move skb->xmit_more into a per-cpu variable, from Florian
Westphal.
11) Improve eBPF verifier speed and increase maximum program size,
from Alexei Starovoitov.
12) Eliminate per-bucket spinlocks in rhashtable, and instead use bit
spinlocks. From Neil Brown.
13) Allow tunneling with GUE encap in ipvs, from Jacky Hu.
14) Improve link partner cap detection in generic PHY code, from
Heiner Kallweit.
15) Add layer 2 encap support to bpf_skb_adjust_room(), from Alan
Maguire.
16) Remove SKB list implementation assumptions in SCTP, your's truly.
17) Various cleanups, optimizations, and simplifications in r8169
driver. From Heiner Kallweit.
18) Add memory accounting on TX and RX path of SCTP, from Xin Long.
19) Switch PHY drivers over to use dynamic featue detection, from
Heiner Kallweit.
20) Support flow steering without masking in dpaa2-eth, from Ioana
Ciocoi.
21) Implement ndo_get_devlink_port in netdevsim driver, from Jiri
Pirko.
22) Increase the strict parsing of current and future netlink
attributes, also export such policies to userspace. From Johannes
Berg.
23) Allow DSA tag drivers to be modular, from Andrew Lunn.
24) Remove legacy DSA probing support, also from Andrew Lunn.
25) Allow ll_temac driver to be used on non-x86 platforms, from Esben
Haabendal.
26) Add a generic tracepoint for TX queue timeouts to ease debugging,
from Cong Wang.
27) More indirect call optimizations, from Paolo Abeni"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1763 commits)
cxgb4: Fix error path in cxgb4_init_module
net: phy: improve pause mode reporting in phy_print_status
dt-bindings: net: Fix a typo in the phy-mode list for ethernet bindings
net: macb: Change interrupt and napi enable order in open
net: ll_temac: Improve error message on error IRQ
net/sched: remove block pointer from common offload structure
net: ethernet: support of_get_mac_address new ERR_PTR error
net: usb: smsc: fix warning reported by kbuild test robot
staging: octeon-ethernet: Fix of_get_mac_address ERR_PTR check
net: dsa: support of_get_mac_address new ERR_PTR error
net: dsa: sja1105: Fix status initialization in sja1105_get_ethtool_stats
vrf: sit mtu should not be updated when vrf netdev is the link
net: dsa: Fix error cleanup path in dsa_init_module
l2tp: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference
taprio: add null check on sched_nest to avoid potential null pointer dereference
net: mvpp2: cls: fix less than zero check on a u32 variable
net_sched: sch_fq: handle non connected flows
net_sched: sch_fq: do not assume EDT packets are ordered
net: hns3: use devm_kcalloc when allocating desc_cb
net: hns3: some cleanup for struct hns3_enet_ring
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
"We've got a reasonably broad set of audit patches for the v5.2 merge
window, the highlights are below:
- The biggest change, and the source of all the arch/* changes, is
the patchset from Dmitry to help enable some of the work he is
doing around PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO.
To be honest, including this in the audit tree is a bit of a
stretch, but it does help move audit a little further along towards
proper syscall auditing for all arches, and everyone else seemed to
agree that audit was a "good" spot for this to land (or maybe they
just didn't want to merge it? dunno.).
- We can now audit time/NTP adjustments.
- We continue the work to connect associated audit records into a
single event"
* tag 'audit-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: (21 commits)
audit: fix a memory leak bug
ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment
timekeeping: Audit clock adjustments
audit: purge unnecessary list_empty calls
audit: link integrity evm_write_xattrs record to syscall event
syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
unicore32: define syscall_get_arch()
Move EM_UNICORE to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
nios2: define syscall_get_arch()
nds32: define syscall_get_arch()
Move EM_NDS32 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
m68k: define syscall_get_arch()
hexagon: define syscall_get_arch()
Move EM_HEXAGON to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
h8300: define syscall_get_arch()
c6x: define syscall_get_arch()
arc: define syscall_get_arch()
Move EM_ARCOMPACT and EM_ARCV2 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
audit: Make audit_log_cap and audit_copy_inode static
audit: connect LOGIN record to its syscall record
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull mmiowb removal from Will Deacon:
"Remove Mysterious Macro Intended to Obscure Weird Behaviours (mmiowb())
Remove mmiowb() from the kernel memory barrier API and instead, for
architectures that need it, hide the barrier inside spin_unlock() when
MMIO has been performed inside the critical section.
The only relatively recent changes have been addressing review
comments on the documentation, which is in a much better shape thanks
to the efforts of Ben and Ingo.
I was initially planning to split this into two pull requests so that
you could run the coccinelle script yourself, however it's been plain
sailing in linux-next so I've just included the whole lot here to keep
things simple"
* tag 'arm64-mmiowb' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (23 commits)
docs/memory-barriers.txt: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread
docs/memory-barriers.txt: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section
arch: Remove dummy mmiowb() definitions from arch code
net/ethernet/silan/sc92031: Remove stale comment about mmiowb()
i40iw: Redefine i40iw_mmiowb() to do nothing
scsi/qla1280: Remove stale comment about mmiowb()
drivers: Remove explicit invocations of mmiowb()
drivers: Remove useless trailing comments from mmiowb() invocations
Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb()
riscv/mmiowb: Hook up mmwiob() implementation to asm-generic code
powerpc/mmiowb: Hook up mmwiob() implementation to asm-generic code
ia64/mmiowb: Add unconditional mmiowb() to arch_spin_unlock()
mips/mmiowb: Add unconditional mmiowb() to arch_spin_unlock()
sh/mmiowb: Add unconditional mmiowb() to arch_spin_unlock()
m68k/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()
nds32/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()
x86/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()
arm64/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()
ARM/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()
mmiowb: Hook up mmiowb helpers to spinlocks and generic I/O accessors
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Here are the locking changes in this cycle:
- rwsem unification and simpler micro-optimizations to prepare for
more intrusive (and more lucrative) scalability improvements in
v5.3 (Waiman Long)
- Lockdep irq state tracking flag usage cleanups (Frederic
Weisbecker)
- static key improvements (Jakub Kicinski, Peter Zijlstra)
- misc updates, cleanups and smaller fixes"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
locking/lockdep: Remove unnecessary unlikely()
locking/static_key: Don't take sleeping locks in __static_key_slow_dec_deferred()
locking/static_key: Factor out the fast path of static_key_slow_dec()
locking/static_key: Add support for deferred static branches
locking/lockdep: Test all incompatible scenarios at once in check_irq_usage()
locking/lockdep: Avoid bogus Clang warning
locking/lockdep: Generate LOCKF_ bit composites
locking/lockdep: Use expanded masks on find_usage_*() functions
locking/lockdep: Map remaining magic numbers to lock usage mask names
locking/lockdep: Move valid_state() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
locking/rwsem: Prevent unneeded warning during locking selftest
locking/rwsem: Optimize rwsem structure for uncontended lock acquisition
locking/rwsem: Enable lock event counting
locking/lock_events: Don't show pvqspinlock events on bare metal
locking/lock_events: Make lock_events available for all archs & other locks
locking/qspinlock_stat: Introduce generic lockevent_*() counting APIs
locking/rwsem: Enhance DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON() macro
locking/rwsem: Add debug check for __down_read*()
locking/rwsem: Micro-optimize rwsem_try_read_lock_unqueued()
locking/rwsem: Move rwsem internal function declarations to rwsem-xadd.h
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A few architectures use <asm/segment.h> internally, but nothing in
common code does. Remove all the empty or almost empty versions of it,
including the asm-generic one.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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The 'timeval' and 'timespec' data structures used for socket timestamps
are going to be redefined in user space based on 64-bit time_t in future
versions of the C library to deal with the y2038 overflow problem,
which breaks the ABI definition.
Unlike many modern ioctl commands, SIOCGSTAMP and SIOCGSTAMPNS do not
use the _IOR() macro to encode the size of the transferred data, so it
remains ambiguous whether the application uses the old or new layout.
The best workaround I could find is rather ugly: we redefine the command
code based on the size of the respective data structure with a ternary
operator. This lets it get evaluated as late as possible, hopefully after
that structure is visible to the caller. We cannot use an #ifdef here,
because inux/sockios.h might have been included before any libc header
that could determine the size of time_t.
The ioctl implementation now interprets the new command codes as always
referring to the 64-bit structure on all architectures, while the old
architecture specific command code still refers to the old architecture
specific layout. The new command number is only used when they are
actually different.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Now that no driver code is using mmiowb() directly, remove the dummy
definitions remaining in architectures that don't make use of
asm-generic/io.h, as well as the definition in asm-generic/io.h itself.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Hook up asm-generic/mmiowb.h to Kbuild for all architectures so that we
can subsequently include asm/mmiowb.h from core code.
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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As the generic rwsem-xadd code is using the appropriate acquire and
release versions of the atomic operations, the arch specific rwsem.h
files will not be that much faster than the generic code as long as the
atomic functions are properly implemented. So we can remove those arch
specific rwsem.h and stop building asm/rwsem.h to reduce maintenance
effort.
Currently, only x86, alpha and ia64 have implemented architecture
specific fast paths. I don't have access to alpha and ia64 systems for
testing, but they are legacy systems that are not likely to be updated
to the latest kernel anyway.
By using a rwsem microbenchmark, the total locking rates on a 4-socket
56-core 112-thread x86-64 system before and after the patch were as
follows (mixed means equal # of read and write locks):
Before Patch After Patch
# of Threads wlock rlock mixed wlock rlock mixed
------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
1 29,201 30,143 29,458 28,615 30,172 29,201
2 6,807 13,299 1,171 7,725 15,025 1,804
4 6,504 12,755 1,520 7,127 14,286 1,345
8 6,762 13,412 764 6,826 13,652 726
16 6,693 15,408 662 6,599 15,938 626
32 6,145 15,286 496 5,549 15,487 511
64 5,812 15,495 60 5,858 15,572 60
There were some run-to-run variations for the multi-thread tests. For
x86-64, using the generic C code fast path seems to be a little bit
faster than the assembly version with low lock contention. Looking at
the assembly version of the fast paths, there are assembly to/from C
code wrappers that save and restore all the callee-clobbered registers
(7 registers on x86-64). The assembly generated from the generic C
code doesn't need to do that. That may explain the slight performance
gain here.
The generic asm rwsem.h can also be merged into kernel/locking/rwsem.h
with no code change as no other code other than those under
kernel/locking needs to access the internal rwsem macros and functions.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190322143008.21313-2-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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For the architectures that do not implement their own tlb_flush() but
do already use the generic mmu_gather, there are two options:
1) the platform has an efficient flush_tlb_range() and
asm-generic/tlb.h doesn't need any overrides at all.
2) the platform lacks an efficient flush_tlb_range() and
we select MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE to minimize full invalidates.
Convert all 'simple' architectures to one of these two forms.
alpha: has no range invalidate -> 2
arc: already used flush_tlb_range() -> 1
c6x: has no range invalidate -> 2
hexagon: has an efficient flush_tlb_range() -> 1
(flush_tlb_mm() is in fact a full range invalidate,
so no need to shoot down everything)
m68k: has inefficient flush_tlb_range() -> 2
microblaze: has no flush_tlb_range() -> 2
mips: has efficient flush_tlb_range() -> 1
(even though it currently seems to use flush_tlb_mm())
nds32: already uses flush_tlb_range() -> 1
nios2: has inefficient flush_tlb_range() -> 2
(no limit on range iteration)
openrisc: has inefficient flush_tlb_range() -> 2
(no limit on range iteration)
parisc: already uses flush_tlb_range() -> 1
sparc32: already uses flush_tlb_range() -> 1
unicore32: has inefficient flush_tlb_range() -> 2
(no limit on range iteration)
xtensa: has efficient flush_tlb_range() -> 1
Note this also fixes a bug in the existing code for a number
platforms. Those platforms that did:
tlb_end_vma() -> if (!full_mm) flush_tlb_*()
tlb_flush -> if (full_mm) flush_tlb_mm()
missed the case of shift_arg_pages(), which doesn't have @fullmm set,
nor calls into tlb_*vma(), but still frees page-tables and thus needs
an invalidate. The new code handles this by detecting a non-empty
range, and either issuing the matching range invalidate or a full
invalidate, depending on the capabilities.
No change in behavior intended.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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I do not see any consistency about headers_install of <linux/kvm_para.h>
and <asm/kvm_para.h>.
According to my analysis of Linux 5.1-rc1, there are 3 groups:
[1] Both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> are exported
alpha, arm, hexagon, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86
[2] <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported, but <linux/kvm_para.h> is not
arc, arm64, c6x, h8300, ia64, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc,
parisc, sh, unicore32, xtensa
[3] Neither <linux/kvm_para.h> nor <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported
csky, nds32, riscv
This does not match to the actual KVM support. At least, [2] is
half-baked.
Nor do arch maintainers look like they care about this. For example,
commit 0add53713b1c ("microblaze: Add missing kvm_para.h to Kbuild")
exported <asm/kvm_para.h> to user-space in order to fix an in-kernel
build error.
We have two ways to make this consistent:
[A] export both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> for all
architectures, irrespective of the KVM support
[B] Match the header export of <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h>
to the KVM support
My first attempt was [A] because the code looks cleaner, but Paolo
suggested [B].
So, this commit goes with [B].
For most architectures, <asm/kvm_para.h> was moved to the kernel-space.
I changed include/uapi/linux/Kbuild so that it checks generated
asm/kvm_para.h as well as check-in ones.
After this commit, there will be two groups:
[1] Both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> are exported
arm, arm64, mips, powerpc, s390, x86
[2] Neither <linux/kvm_para.h> nor <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported
alpha, arc, c6x, csky, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m68k, microblaze,
nds32, nios2, openrisc, parisc, riscv, sh, sparc, unicore32, xtensa
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This argument is required to extend the generic ptrace API with
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request: syscall_get_arch() is going
to be called from ptrace_request() along with syscall_get_nr(),
syscall_get_arguments(), syscall_get_error(), and
syscall_get_return_value() functions with a tracee as their argument.
The primary intent is that the triple (audit_arch, syscall_nr, arg1..arg6)
should describe what system call is being called and what its arguments
are.
Reverts: 5e937a9ae913 ("syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments")
Reverts: 1002d94d3076 ("syscall.h: fix doc text for syscall_get_arch()")
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> # for x86
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> # seccomp parts
Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> # for the c6x bit
Cc: Elvira Khabirova <lineprinter@altlinux.org>
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov <esyr@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- add more Build-Depends to Debian source package
- prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/
- make modpost show verbose section mismatch warnings
- avoid hard-coded CROSS_COMPILE for h8300
- fix regression for Debian make-kpkg command
- add semantic patch to detect missing put_device()
- fix some warnings of 'make deb-pkg'
- optimize NOSTDINC_FLAGS evaluation
- add warnings about redundant generic-y
- clean up Makefiles and scripts
* tag 'kbuild-v5.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: remove stale lxdialog/.gitignore
kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y
kbuild: warn redundant generic-y
Revert "modsign: Abort modules_install when signing fails"
kbuild: Make NOSTDINC_FLAGS a simply expanded variable
kbuild: deb-pkg: avoid implicit effects
coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put_device()
kbuild: pkg: grep include/config/auto.conf instead of $KCONFIG_CONFIG
kbuild: deb-pkg: introduce is_enabled and if_enabled_echo to builddeb
kbuild: deb-pkg: add CONFIG_ prefix to kernel config options
kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg
kbuild: source include/config/auto.conf instead of ${KCONFIG_CONFIG}
unicore32: simplify linker script generation for decompressor
h8300: use cc-cross-prefix instead of hardcoding h8300-unknown-linux-
kbuild: move archive command to scripts/Makefile.lib
modpost: always show verbose warning for section mismatch
ia64: prefix header search path with $(srctree)/
libfdt: prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/
deb-pkg: generate correct build dependencies
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Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.
um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
"More fixes in the queue:
1) Netfilter nat can erroneously register the device notifier twice,
fix from Florian Westphal.
2) Use after free in nf_tables, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
3) Parallel update of steering rule fix in mlx5 river, from Eli
Britstein.
4) RX processing panic in lan743x, fix from Bryan Whitehead.
5) Use before initialization of TCP_SKB_CB, fix from Christoph Paasch.
6) Fix locking in SRIOV mode of mlx4 driver, from Jack Morgenstein.
7) Fix TX stalls in lan743x due to mishandling of interrupt ACKing
modes, from Bryan Whitehead.
8) Fix infoleak in l2tp_ip6_recvmsg(), from Eric Dumazet"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (43 commits)
pptp: dst_release sk_dst_cache in pptp_sock_destruct
MAINTAINERS: GENET & SYSTEMPORT: Add internal Broadcom list
l2tp: fix infoleak in l2tp_ip6_recvmsg()
net/tls: Inform user space about send buffer availability
net_sched: return correct value for *notify* functions
lan743x: Fix TX Stall Issue
net/mlx4_core: Fix qp mtt size calculation
net/mlx4_core: Fix locking in SRIOV mode when switching between events and polling
net/mlx4_core: Fix reset flow when in command polling mode
mlxsw: minimal: Initialize base_mac
mlxsw: core: Prevent duplication during QSFP module initialization
net: dwmac-sun8i: fix a missing check of of_get_phy_mode
net: sh_eth: fix a missing check of of_get_phy_mode
net: 8390: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences
net: fujitsu: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
net: qlogic: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
isdn: hfcpci: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Documentation: devicetree: add a new optional property for port mac address
net: rocker: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
net: qlge: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
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Referencing the __kernel_long_t type caused some user space applications
to stop compiling when they had not already included linux/posix_types.h,
e.g.
s/multicast.c -o ext/sockets/multicast.lo
In file included from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/main/php.h:468,
from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:27:
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c: In function 'zm_startup_sockets':
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:776:40: error: '__kernel_long_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
776 | REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT("SO_SNDTIMEO", SO_SNDTIMEO, CONST_CS | CONST_PERSISTENT);
It is safe to include that header here, since it only contains kernel
internal types that do not conflict with other user space types.
It's still possible that some related build failures remain, but those
are likely to be for code that is not already y2038 safe.
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Fixes: a9beb86ae6e5 ("sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- ocfs2 updates
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (159 commits)
tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include
proc: more robust bulk read test
proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm
proc: use seq_puts() everywhere
proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once
proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup()
fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self()
fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()
proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests
mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure
mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison
mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment
mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used
mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment
mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak
mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone
mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"Only a few small changes this time:
- Michael S. Tsirkin cleans up linux/mman.h
- Mike Rapoport found a typo
I had originally merged another cleanup series for I/O accessors from
Hugo Lefeuvre as well, but dropped it after the discussion of the
barrier semantics and some conflicts. I expect this series to get
merged for a later release though"
* tag 'asm-generic-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
asm-generic/page.h: fix typo in #error text requiring a real asm/page.h
arch: move common mmap flags to linux/mman.h
drm: tweak header name
x86/mpx: tweak header name
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Patch series "Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE", v3.
All these places for replacement were found by running the following
grep patterns on the entire kernel code. Please let me know if this
might have missed some instances. This might also have replaced some
false positives. I will appreciate suggestions, inputs and review.
1. git grep "nid == -1"
2. git grep "node == -1"
3. git grep "nid = -1"
4. git grep "node = -1"
This patch (of 2):
At present there are multiple places where invalid node number is
encoded as -1. Even though implicitly understood it is always better to
have macros in there. Replace these open encodings for an invalid node
number with the global macro NUMA_NO_NODE. This helps remove NUMA
related assumptions like 'invalid node' from various places redirecting
them to a common definition.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545127933-10711-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> [ixgbe]
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> [mtip32xx]
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> [dmaengine.c]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc]
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> [drivers/infiniband]
Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull year 2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another round of changes to make the kernel ready for 2038. After lots
of preparatory work this is the first set of syscalls which are 2038
safe:
403 clock_gettime64
404 clock_settime64
405 clock_adjtime64
406 clock_getres_time64
407 clock_nanosleep_time64
408 timer_gettime64
409 timer_settime64
410 timerfd_gettime64
411 timerfd_settime64
412 utimensat_time64
413 pselect6_time64
414 ppoll_time64
416 io_pgetevents_time64
417 recvmmsg_time64
418 mq_timedsend_time64
419 mq_timedreceiv_time64
420 semtimedop_time64
421 rt_sigtimedwait_time64
422 futex_time64
423 sched_rr_get_interval_time64
The syscall numbers are identical all over the architectures"
* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
riscv: Use latest system call ABI
checksyscalls: fix up mq_timedreceive and stat exceptions
unicore32: Fix __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 definition
asm-generic: Make time32 syscall numbers optional
asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from default list
32-bit userspace ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config option
compat ABI: use non-compat openat and open_by_handle_at variants
y2038: add 64-bit time_t syscalls to all 32-bit architectures
y2038: rename old time and utime syscalls
y2038: remove struct definition redirects
y2038: use time32 syscall names on 32-bit
syscalls: remove obsolete __IGNORE_ macros
y2038: syscalls: rename y2038 compat syscalls
x86/x32: use time64 versions of sigtimedwait and recvmmsg
timex: change syscalls to use struct __kernel_timex
timex: use __kernel_timex internally
sparc64: add custom adjtimex/clock_adjtime functions
time: fix sys_timer_settime prototype
time: Add struct __kernel_timex
time: make adjtime compat handling available for 32 bit
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We're (finally) phasing out a.out support for good. As Borislav Petkov
points out, we've supported ELF binaries for about 25 years by now, and
coredumping in particular has bitrotted over the years.
None of the tool chains even support generating a.out binaries any more,
and the plan is to deprecate a.out support entirely for the kernel. But
I want to start with just removing the core dumping code, because I can
still imagine that somebody actually might want to support a.out as a
simpler biinary format.
Particularly if you generate some random binaries on the fly, ELF is a
much more complicated format (admittedly ELF also does have a lot of
toolchain support, mitigating that complexity a lot and you really
should have moved over in the last 25 years).
So it's at least somewhat possible that somebody out there has some
workflow that still involves generating and running a.out executables.
In contrast, it's very unlikely that anybody depends on debugging any
legacy a.out core files. But regardless, I want this phase-out to be
done in two steps, so that we can resurrect a.out support (if needed)
without having to resurrect the core file dumping that is almost
certainly not needed.
Jann Horn pointed to the <asm/a.out-core.h> file that my first trivial
cut at this had missed.
And Alan Cox points out that the a.out binary loader _could_ be done in
user space if somebody wants to, but we might keep just the loader in
the kernel if somebody really wants it, since the loader isn't that big
and has no really odd special cases like the core dumping does.
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Here we go, another merge window full of networking and #ebpf changes:
1) Snoop DHCPACKS in batman-adv to learn MAC/IP pairs in the DHCP
range without dealing with floods of ARP traffic, from Linus
Lüssing.
2) Throttle buffered multicast packet transmission in mt76, from
Felix Fietkau.
3) Support adaptive interrupt moderation in ice, from Brett Creeley.
4) A lot of struct_size conversions, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
5) Add peek/push/pop commands to bpftool, as well as bash completion,
from Stanislav Fomichev.
6) Optimize sk_msg_clone(), from Vakul Garg.
7) Add SO_BINDTOIFINDEX, from David Herrmann.
8) Be more conservative with local resends due to local congestion,
from Yuchung Cheng.
9) Allow vetoing of unsupported VXLAN FDBs, from Petr Machata.
10) Add health buffer support to devlink, from Eran Ben Elisha.
11) Add TXQ scheduling API to mac80211, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen.
12) Add statistics to basic packet scheduler filter, from Cong Wang.
13) Add GRE tunnel support for mlxsw Spectrum-2, from Nir Dotan.
14) Lots of new IP tunneling forwarding tests, also from Nir Dotan.
15) Add 3ad stats to bonding, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.
16) Lots of probing improvements for bpftool, from Quentin Monnet.
17) Various nfp drive #ebpf JIT improvements from Jakub Kicinski.
18) Allow #ebpf programs to access gso_segs from skb shared info, from
Eric Dumazet.
19) Add sock_diag support for AF_XDP sockets, from Björn Töpel.
20) Support 22260 iwlwifi devices, from Luca Coelho.
21) Use rbtree for ipv6 defragmentation, from Peter Oskolkov.
22) Add JMP32 instruction class support to #ebpf, from Jiong Wang.
23) Add spinlock support to #ebpf, from Alexei Starovoitov.
24) Support 256-bit keys and TLS 1.3 in ktls, from Dave Watson.
25) Add device infomation API to devlink, from Jakub Kicinski.
26) Add new timestamping socket options which are y2038 safe, from
Deepa Dinamani.
27) Add RX checksum offloading for various sh_eth chips, from Sergei
Shtylyov.
28) Flow offload infrastructure, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
29) Numerous cleanups, improvements, and bug fixes to the PHY layer
and many drivers from Heiner Kallweit.
30) Lots of changes to try and make packet scheduler classifiers run
lockless as much as possible, from Vlad Buslov.
31) Support BCM957504 chip in bnxt_en driver, from Erik Burrows.
32) Add concurrency tests to tc-tests infrastructure, from Vlad
Buslov.
33) Add hwmon support to aquantia, from Heiner Kallweit.
34) Allow 64-bit values for SO_MAX_PACING_RATE, from Eric Dumazet.
And I would be remiss if I didn't thank the various major networking
subsystem maintainers for integrating much of this work before I even
saw it. Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
Johannes Berg, Kalle Valo, and many others. Thank you!"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2207 commits)
net/sched: avoid unused-label warning
net: ignore sysctl_devconf_inherit_init_net without SYSCTL
phy: mdio-mux: fix Kconfig dependencies
net: phy: use phy_modify_mmd_changed in genphy_c45_an_config_aneg
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add call to mv88e6xxx_ports_cmode_init to probe for new DSA framework
selftest/net: Remove duplicate header
sky2: Disable MSI on Dell Inspiron 1545 and Gateway P-79
net/mlx5e: Update tx reporter status in case channels were successfully opened
devlink: Add support for direct reporter health state update
devlink: Update reporter state to error even if recover aborted
sctp: call iov_iter_revert() after sending ABORT
team: Free BPF filter when unregistering netdev
ip6mr: Do not call __IP6_INC_STATS() from preemptible context
isdn: mISDN: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference of kzalloc
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: support in-band signalling on SGMII ports with external PHYs
cxgb4/chtls: Prefix adapter flags with CXGB4
net-sysfs: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
mellanox: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
bpf: add test cases for non-pointer sanitiation logic
mlxsw: i2c: Extend initialization by querying resources data
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Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as
an actual define, or as an inline function). It's an entirely
historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the
segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86.
Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS.
Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small
subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script.
I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining
gunk.
Roughly scripted with
git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/'
git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d'
plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of
inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale.
The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user
space it actually does something relevant.
Inspired-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that we have 3 mmap flags shared by all architectures,
let's move them into the common header.
This will help discourage future architectures from duplicating code.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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The netfilter conflicts were rather simple overlapping
changes.
However, the cls_tcindex.c stuff was a bit more complex.
On the 'net' side, Cong is fixing several races and memory
leaks. Whilst on the 'net-next' side we have Vlad adding
the rtnl-ness support.
What I've decided to do, in order to resolve this, is revert the
conversion over to using a workqueue that Cong did, bringing us back
to pure RCU. I did it this way because I believe that either Cong's
races don't apply with have Vlad did things, or Cong will have to
implement the race fix slightly differently.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eiger machine vector definition has nr_irqs 128, and working 2.6.26
boot shows SCSI getting IRQ-s 64 and 65. Current kernel boot fails
because Symbios SCSI fails to request IRQ-s and does not find the disks.
It has been broken at least since 3.18 - the earliest I could test with
my gcc-5.
The headers have moved around and possibly another order of defines has
worked in the past - but since 128 seems to be correct and used, fix
arch/alpha/include/asm/irq.h to have NR_IRQS=128 for Eiger.
This fixes 4.19-rc7 boot on my Force Flexor A264 (Eiger subarch).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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Add new socket timeout options that are y2038 safe.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches in the series add support for new socket
timeout options with _NEW suffix that will use y2038 safe
data structures. Although the existing struct timeval layout
is sufficiently wide to represent timeouts, because of the way
libc will interpret time_t based on user defined flag, these
new flags provide a way of having a structure that is the same
for all architectures consistently.
Rename the existing options with _OLD suffix forms so that the
right option is enabled for userspace applications according
to the architecture and time_t definition of libc.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW variant of socket timestamp options.
This is the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD
for all architectures.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: chris@zankel.net
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: ubraun@linux.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add SO_TIMESTAMP_NEW and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_NEW variants of
socket timestamp options.
These are the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMP_OLD
and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_OLD for all architectures.
Note that the format of scm_timestamping.ts[0] is not changed
in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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SO_TIMESTAMP, SO_TIMESTAMPNS and SO_TIMESTAMPING options, the
way they are currently defined, are not y2038 safe.
Subsequent patches in the series add new y2038 safe versions
of these options which provide 64 bit timestamps on all
architectures uniformly.
Hence, rename existing options with OLD tag suffixes.
Also note that kernel will not use the untagged SO_TIMESTAMP*
and SCM_TIMESTAMP* options internally anymore.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alpha has traditionally followed the OSF1 calling conventions
here, with its getxpid, getxuid, getxgid system calls returning
two different values in separate registers.
Following what glibc has done here, we can define getpid,
getuid and getgid to be aliases for getxpid, getxuid and getxgid
respectively, and add new system call numbers for getppid, geteuid
and getegid.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Most architectures define system call numbers for the rseq and pkey system
calls, even when they don't support the features, and perhaps never will.
Only a few architectures are missing these, so just define them anyway
for consistency. If we decide to add them later to one of these, the
system call numbers won't get out of sync then.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Other architectures commonly use __NR_umount2 for sys_umount,
only ia64 and alpha use __NR_umount here. In order to synchronize
the generated tables, use umount2 like everyone else, and add back
the old name from asm/unistd.h for compatibility.
For shmat, alpha uses the osf_shmat name, we can do the same thing
here, which means we don't have to add an entry in the __IGNORE
list now that shmat is mandatory everywhere
alarm, creat, pause, time, and utime are optional everywhere
these days, no need to list them here any more.
I considered also adding the regular versions of the get*id system
calls that have different names and calling conventions on alpha,
which would further help unify the syscall ABI, but for now
I decided against that.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called
SO_BINDTOIFINDEX. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a
network interface index as argument, rather than the network interface
name.
User-space often refers to network-interfaces via their index, but has
to temporarily resolve it to a name for a call into SO_BINDTODEVICE.
This might pose problems when the network-device is renamed
asynchronously by other parts of the system. When this happens, the
SO_BINDTODEVICE might either fail, or worse, it might bind to the wrong
device.
In most cases user-space only ever operates on devices which they
either manage themselves, or otherwise have a guarantee that the device
name will not change (e.g., devices that are UP cannot be renamed).
However, particularly in libraries this guarantee is non-obvious and it
would be nice if that race-condition would simply not exist. It would
make it easier for those libraries to operate even in situations where
the device-name might change under the hood.
A real use-case that we recently hit is trying to start the network
stack early in the initrd but make it survive into the real system.
Existing distributions rename network-interfaces during the transition
from initrd into the real system. This, obviously, cannot affect
devices that are up and running (unless you also consider moving them
between network-namespaces). However, the network manager now has to
make sure its management engine for dormant devices will not run in
parallel to these renames. Particularly, when you offload operations
like DHCP into separate processes, these might setup their sockets
early, and thus have to resolve the device-name possibly running into
this race-condition.
By avoiding a call to resolve the device-name, we no longer depend on
the name and can run network setup of dormant devices in parallel to
the transition off the initrd. The SO_BINDTOIFINDEX ioctl plugs this
race.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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