user/sven/linux.git/drivers/misc/sgi-gru, branch master

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

misc: sgi-gru: Don't disable preemption in GRU driver

2024-10-09T19:47:01Z

Disabling preemption in the GRU driver is unnecessary, and clashes with sleeping locks in several code paths. Remove preempt_disable and preempt_enable from the GRU driver. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/treewide: replace pmd_large() with pmd_leaf()

2024-03-06T21:04:19Z

pmd_large() is always defined as pmd_leaf(). Merge their usages. Chose pmd_leaf() because pmd_leaf() is a global API, while pmd_large() is not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240305043750.93762-8-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17Z

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some distro packages that are rarely used in practice. None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as 'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have dropped support years ago. While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64 could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case. There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64 but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64 be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead of keeping it supported is real. So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely. This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5], which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow once the kernel support is removed. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/ [2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html [3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Acked-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

mm: ptep_get() conversion

2023-06-19T23:19:25Z

Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alex Williamson Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Dimitri Sivanich Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/gup: remove unused vmas parameter from get_user_pages()

2023-06-09T23:25:25Z

Patch series "remove the vmas parameter from GUP APIs", v6. (pin_/get)_user_pages[_remote]() each provide an optional output parameter for an array of VMA objects associated with each page in the input range. These provide the means for VMAs to be returned, as long as mm->mmap_lock is never released during the GUP operation (i.e. the internal flag FOLL_UNLOCKABLE is not specified). In addition, these VMAs can only be accessed with the mmap_lock held and become invalidated the moment it is released. The vast majority of invocations do not use this functionality and of those that do, all but one case retrieve a single VMA to perform checks upon. It is not egregious in the single VMA cases to simply replace the operation with a vma_lookup(). In these cases we duplicate the (fast) lookup on a slow path already under the mmap_lock, abstracted to a new get_user_page_vma_remote() inline helper function which also performs error checking and reference count maintenance. The special case is io_uring, where io_pin_pages() specifically needs to assert that the VMAs underlying the range do not result in broken long-term GUP file-backed mappings. As GUP now internally asserts that FOLL_LONGTERM mappings are not file-backed in a broken fashion (i.e. requiring dirty tracking) - as implemented in "mm/gup: disallow FOLL_LONGTERM GUP-nonfast writing to file-backed mappings" - this logic is no longer required and so we can simply remove it altogether from io_uring. Eliminating the vmas parameter eliminates an entire class of danging pointer errors that might have occured should the lock have been incorrectly released. In addition, the API is simplified and now clearly expresses what it is intended for - applying the specified GUP flags and (if pinning) returning pinned pages. This change additionally opens the door to further potential improvements in GUP and the possible marrying of disparate code paths. I have run this series against gup_test with no issues. Thanks to Matthew Wilcox for suggesting this refactoring! This patch (of 6): No invocation of get_user_pages() use the vmas parameter, so remove it. The GUP API is confusing and caveated. Recent changes have done much to improve that, however there is more we can do. Exporting vmas is a prime target as the caller has to be extremely careful to preclude their use after the mmap_lock has expired or otherwise be left with dangling pointers. Removing the vmas parameter focuses the GUP functions upon their primary purpose - pinning (and outputting) pages as well as performing the actions implied by the input flags. This is part of a patch series aiming to remove the vmas parameter altogether. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1684350871.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/589e0c64794668ffc799651e8d85e703262b1e9d.1684350871.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Acked-by: Christian König (for radeon parts) Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Sean Christopherson (KVM) Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dennis Dalessandro Cc: Janosch Frank Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Sakari Ailus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2023-02-24T20:47:33Z

Pull char/misc and other driver subsystem updates from Greg KH: "Here is the large set of driver changes for char/misc drivers and other smaller driver subsystems that flow through this git tree. Included in here are: - New IIO drivers and features and improvments in that subsystem - New hwtracing drivers and additions to that subsystem - lots of interconnect changes and new drivers as that subsystem seems under very active development recently. This required also merging in the icc subsystem changes through this tree. - FPGA driver updates - counter subsystem and driver updates - MHI driver updates - nvmem driver updates - documentation updates - Other smaller driver updates and fixes, full details in the shortlog All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems" * tag 'char-misc-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (223 commits) scripts/tags.sh: fix incompatibility with PCRE2 firmware: coreboot: Remove GOOGLE_COREBOOT_TABLE_ACPI/OF Kconfig entries mei: lower the log level for non-fatal failed messages mei: bus: disallow driver match while dismantling device misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() nvmem: stm32: fix OPTEE dependency dt-bindings: nvmem: qfprom: add IPQ8074 compatible nvmem: qcom-spmi-sdam: register at device init time nvmem: rave-sp-eeprm: fix kernel-doc bad line warning nvmem: stm32: detect bsec pta presence for STM32MP15x nvmem: stm32: add OP-TEE support for STM32MP13x nvmem: core: use nvmem_add_one_cell() in nvmem_add_cells_from_of() nvmem: core: add nvmem_add_one_cell() nvmem: core: drop the removal of the cells in nvmem_add_cells() nvmem: core: move struct nvmem_cell_info to nvmem-provider.h nvmem: core: add an index parameter to the cell of: property: add #nvmem-cell-cells property of: property: make #.*-cells optional for simple props of: base: add of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args() net: add helper eth_addr_add() ...

mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls

2023-02-10T00:51:39Z

Replace direct modifications to vma->vm_flags with calls to modifier functions to be able to track flag changes and to keep vma locking correctness. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/misc/open-dice.c, per Hyeonggon Yoo] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126193752.297968-5-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arjun Roy Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Laurent Dufour Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Oskolkov Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Punit Agrawal Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Cc: Song Liu Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sgi-gru: grukservices: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

2023-01-20T12:06:54Z

void * pointer cb, no cast type assignment required. Signed-off-by: Li kunyu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216055910.3559-1-kunyu@nfschina.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman