user/sven/linux.git/arch/alpha, branch v4.18-rc2

alpha: Remove custom dec_and_lock() implementation

2018-06-12T21:33:24Z

Alpha provides a custom implementation of dec_and_lock(). The functions is split into two parts: - atomic_add_unless() + return 0 (fast path in assembly) - remaining part including locking (slow path in C) Comparing the result of the alpha implementation with the generic implementation compiled by gcc it looks like the fast path is optimized by avoiding a stack frame (and reloading the GP), register store and all this. This is only done in the slowpath. After marking the slowpath (atomic_dec_and_lock_1()) as "noinline" and doing the slowpath in C (the atomic_add_unless(atomic, -1, 1) part) I noticed differences in the resulting assembly: - the GP is still reloaded - atomic_add_unless() adds more memory barriers compared to the custom assembly - the custom assembly here does "load, sub, beq" while atomic_add_unless() does "load, cmpeq, add, bne". This is okay because it compares against zero after subtraction while the generic code compares against 1 before. I'm not sure if avoiding the stack frame (and GP reloading) brings a lot in terms of performance. Regarding the different barriers, Peter Zijlstra says: |refcount decrement needs to be a RELEASE operation, such that all the |load/stores to the object happen before we decrement the refcount. | |Otherwise things like: | | obj->foo = 5; | refcnt_dec(&obj->ref); | |can be re-ordered, which then allows fun scenarios like: | | CPU0 CPU1 | | refcnt_dec(&obj->ref); | if (dec_and_test(&obj->ref)) | free(obj); | obj->foo = 5; // oops UaF | | |This means (for alpha) that there should be a memory barrier _before_ |the decrement, however the dec_and_lock asm thing only has one _after_, |which, per the above, is too late. | |The generic version using add_unless will result in memory barrier |before and after (because that is the rule for atomic ops with a return |value) which is strictly too many barriers for the refcount story, but |who knows what other ordering requirements code has. Remove the custom alpha implementation of dec_and_lock() and if it is an issue (performance wise) then the fast path could still be inlined. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180606115918.GG12198@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r20180612161621.22645-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de

Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2018-06-06T18:00:15Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files - fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script - remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up several tools and linker scripts - clean-up modpost - allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT mode - improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance - pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture - misc fixes * tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits) kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo() checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL() kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support ...

Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-05T04:02:18Z

Pull time/Y2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Consolidate SySV IPC UAPI headers - Convert SySV IPC to the new COMPAT_32BIT_TIME mechanism - Cleanup the core interfaces and standardize on the ktime_get_* naming convention. - Convert the X86 platform ops to timespec64 - Remove the ugly temporary timespec64 hack * 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits) x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64 timekeeping: Add more coarse clocktai/boottime interfaces timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset timekeeping: Standardize on ktime_get_*() naming timekeeping: Clean up ktime_get_real_ts64 timekeeping: Remove timespec64 hack y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop y2038: ipc: Enable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec y2038: ipc: Report long times to user space y2038: ipc: Use ktime_get_real_seconds consistently y2038: xtensa: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: powerpc: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: sparc: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: parisc: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: arm64: Extend sysvipc compat data structures y2038: s390: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files y2038: alpha: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files ...

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-05T03:27:54Z

Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Core infrastucture work for Y2038 to address the COMPAT interfaces: + Add a new Y2038 safe __kernel_timespec and use it in the core code + Introduce config switches which allow to control the various compat mechanisms + Use the new config switch in the posix timer code to control the 32bit compat syscall implementation. - Prevent bogus selection of CPU local clocksources which causes an endless reselection loop - Remove the extra kthread in the clocksource code which has no value and just adds another level of indirection - The usual bunch of trivial updates, cleanups and fixlets all over the place - More SPDX conversions * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Switch to SPDX identifier clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-tpm: Switch to SPDX identifier clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Remove outdated file path clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Add comments about locking while read GFRC clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations timer_list: Remove unused function pointer typedef timers: Adjust a kernel-doc comment tick: Prefer a lower rating device only if it's CPU local device clocksource: Remove kthread time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces time: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec posix-timers: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME time: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME time: Introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME in architectures compat: Enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always ...

Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2018-06-04T22:23:48Z

Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman: "This set of changes close the known issues with setting si_code to an invalid value, and with not fully initializing struct siginfo. There remains work to do on nds32, arc, unicore32, powerpc, arm, arm64, ia64 and x86 to get the code that generates siginfo into a simpler and more maintainable state. Most of that work involves refactoring the signal handling code and thus careful code review. Also not included is the work to shrink the in kernel version of struct siginfo. That depends on getting the number of places that directly manipulate struct siginfo under control, as it requires the introduction of struct kernel_siginfo for the in kernel things. Overall this set of changes looks like it is making good progress, and with a little luck I will be wrapping up the siginfo work next development cycle" * 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits) signal/sh: Stop gcc warning about an impossible case in do_divide_error signal/mips: Report FPE_FLTUNK for undiagnosed floating point exceptions signal/um: More carefully relay signals in relay_signal. signal: Extend siginfo_layout with SIL_FAULT_{MCEERR|BNDERR|PKUERR} signal: Remove unncessary #ifdef SEGV_PKUERR in 32bit compat code signal/signalfd: Add support for SIGSYS signal/signalfd: Remove __put_user from signalfd_copyinfo signal/xtensa: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/xtensa: Consistenly use SIGBUS in do_unaligned_user signal/um: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/sparc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/sparc: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate signal/sh: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/s390: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/riscv: Replace do_trap_siginfo with force_sig_fault signal/riscv: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/parisc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/parisc: Use force_sig_mceerr where appropriate signal/openrisc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate signal/nios2: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate ...

Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-06-04T19:34:27Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...

Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping

2018-06-04T17:58:12Z

Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig: - replace the force_dma flag with a dma_configure bus method. (Nipun Gupta, although one patch is іncorrectly attributed to me due to a git rebase bug) - use GFP_DMA32 more agressively in dma-direct. (Takashi Iwai) - remove PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS and rely on the dma-mapping API to do the right thing for bounce buffering. - move dma-debug initialization to common code, and apply a few cleanups to the dma-debug code. - cleanup the Kconfig mess around swiotlb selection - swiotlb comment fixup (Yisheng Xie) - a trivial swiotlb fix. (Dan Carpenter) - support swiotlb on RISC-V. (based on a patch from Palmer Dabbelt) - add a new generic dma-noncoherent dma_map_ops implementation and use it for arc, c6x and nds32. - improve scatterlist validity checking in dma-debug. (Robin Murphy) - add a struct device quirk to limit the dma-mask to 32-bit due to bridge/system issues, and switch x86 to use it instead of a local hack for VIA bridges. - handle devices without a dma_mask more gracefully in the dma-direct code. * tag 'dma-mapping-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (48 commits) dma-direct: don't crash on device without dma_mask nds32: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops nds32: implement the unmap_sg DMA operation nds32: consolidate DMA cache maintainance routines x86/pci-dma: switch the VIA 32-bit DMA quirk to use the struct device flag x86/pci-dma: remove the explicit nodac and allowdac option x86/pci-dma: remove the experimental forcesac boot option Documentation/x86: remove a stray reference to pci-nommu.c core, dma-direct: add a flag 32-bit dma limits dma-mapping: remove unused gfp_t parameter to arch_dma_alloc_attrs dma-debug: check scatterlist segments c6x: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops arc: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops arc: fix arc_dma_{map,unmap}_page arc: fix arc_dma_sync_sg_for_{cpu,device} arc: simplify arc_dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device} dma-mapping: provide a generic dma-noncoherent implementation dma-mapping: simplify Kconfig dependencies riscv: add swiotlb support riscv: only enable ZONE_DMA32 for 64-bit ...

kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS

2018-06-01T02:36:58Z

By default, sparse assumes a 64bit machine when compiled on x86-64 and 32bit when compiled on anything else. This can of course create all sort of problems for the other archs, like issuing false warnings ('shift too big (32) for type unsigned long'), or worse, failing to emit legitimate warnings. Fix this by adding the -m32/-m64 flag, depending on CONFIG_64BIT, to CHECKFLAGS in the main Makefile (and so for all archs). Also, remove the now unneeded -m32/-m64 in arch specific Makefiles. Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering #2

2018-05-23T01:10:36Z

memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement. "When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO region." Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write. Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW observes memory changes before performing register operations. Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: simplify get_arch_dma_ops

2018-05-23T01:10:36Z

Remove the dma_ops indirection. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Matt Turner