user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/features, branch v4.9.296

Documentation: MIPS supports HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API

2016-10-13T15:19:19Z

This should have been part of 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.'). Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Fixes: 40e084a506eb ("MIPS: Add uprobes support.") Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14392/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

powerpc: Add HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP support

2016-05-11T11:54:05Z

With perf regs support enabled for powerpc, in commit ed4a4ef85cf5 ("powerpc/perf: Add support for sampling interrupt register state"), the support for obtaining perf user stack dump is already enabled. This patch declares the support for same and also updates documentation to mark the support for perf-regs and perf-stackdump. Signed-off-by: Chandan Kumar Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2016-03-18T03:03:47Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6. There are some relatively intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel virtual memory layout and initial page table creation. Summary: - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones. The ARM architecture requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but that's not always possible on live page tables - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly) anywhere in physical RAM - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming) - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge dependencies) - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using LDTR/STTR instructions. Such instructions, when run by the kernel, perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection. The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to privileged accesses via the UAO bit - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2) - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using run-time code patching) - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g. weird big.LITTLE configurations) - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the sigcontext information (restored pstate information) - ACPI parking protocol implementation - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default - VDSO code marked as read-only - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings - Code clean-ups" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits) arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission arm64: Fix misspellings in comments. arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default arm64: Rework valid_user_regs arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456 arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO ...

arm64: add support for ioremap() block mappings

2016-02-18T18:16:16Z

This wires up the existing generic huge-vmap feature, which allows ioremap() to use PMD or PUD sized block mappings. It also adds support to the unmap path for dealing with block mappings, which will allow us to unmap the __init region using unmap_kernel_range() in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Remove "arch" usage in Documentation/features/list-arch.sh

2016-01-26T22:19:08Z

Commit 669f6f96c680a741257ada44a28b580df2e1fc25 introduced the script list-arch.sh, which uses the command "arch": ARCH=${1:-$(arch | sed 's/x86_64/x86/' | sed 's/i386/x86/')} It turns out that the "arch" command does not exist in my system (arch distro). Google found man pages which say "arch is deprecated command since release util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m" (util-linux 2.13 was released in 2007). I also found a debian bug reporting the lack of arch and being told to use uname -m https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446023 But then, why it works in some distros? Apparently coreutils gained an optional arch command that needs to be explicitly enabled during compilation. Some distros enable it, others don't. Sigh. Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

Move the generic implementation to now that all architectures support it and remove the HAVE_DMA_ATTR Kconfig symbol now that everyone supports them. [valentinrothberg@gmail.com: remove leftovers in Kconfig] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: David Howells Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Hogan Cc: Jesper Nilsson Cc: Koichi Yasutake Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Steven Miao Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Sebastian Ott Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

2016-01-16T01:56:32Z

With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting. Let's drop code to handle this. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Tested-by: Sasha Levin Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Jerome Marchand Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Steve Capper Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus-4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml

2016-01-12T21:27:18Z

Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger: "This contains beside of random fixes/cleanups two bigger changes: - seccomp support by Mickaël Salaün - IRQ rework by Anton Ivanov" * 'for-linus-4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: um: Use race-free temporary file creation um: Do not set unsecure permission for temporary file um: Fix build error and kconfig for i386 um: Add seccomp support um: Add full asm/syscall.h support selftests/seccomp: Remove the need for HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK um: Fix ptrace GETREGS/SETREGS bugs um: link with -lpthread um: Update UBD to use pread/pwrite family of functions um: Do not change hard IRQ flags in soft IRQ processing um: Prevent IRQ handler reentrancy uml: flush stdout before forking uml: fix hostfs mknod()

um: Add seccomp support

2016-01-10T20:49:49Z

This brings SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT and SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER support through prctl(2) and seccomp(2) to User-mode Linux for i386 and x86_64 subarchitectures. secure_computing() is called first in handle_syscall() so that the syscall emulation will be aborted quickly if matching a seccomp rule. This is inspired from Meredydd Luff's patch (https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/21425). Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Will Drewry Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: James Hogan Cc: Meredydd Luff Cc: David Drysdale Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Acked-by: Kees Cook

arm64: enable HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING

2015-12-03T19:37:10Z

arm64 relies on the arm_arch_timer for sched_clock, so we can select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING and have the core sched-clock code enable the feature at runtime based on the rate. Reported-by: Mario Smarduch Signed-off-by: Will Deacon