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<updated>2018-10-11T21:55:29Z</updated>
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<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Fix linker warnings about orphan .LPBX sections</title>
<updated>2018-10-11T21:55:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oberparleiter</name>
<email>oberpar@linux.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2018-09-13T11:00:00Z</published>
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Enabling both CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y and
CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y results in linker warnings:

  warning: orphan section `.data..LPBX1' being placed in
  section `.data..LPBX1'.

LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION adds compiler flag -fdata-sections. This
option causes GCC to create separate data sections for data objects,
including those generated by GCC internally for gcov profiling. The
names of these objects start with a dot (.LPBX0, .LPBX1), resulting in
section names starting with 'data..'.

As section names starting with 'data..' are used for specific purposes
in the Linux kernel, the linker script does not automatically include
them in the output data section, resulting in the "orphan section"
linker warnings.

Fix this by specifically including sections named "data..LPBX*" in the
data section.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Fix incomplete .text.exit discards</title>
<updated>2018-10-11T21:54:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oberparleiter</name>
<email>oberpar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-13T10:59:59Z</published>
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Enabling CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y causes linker errors on ARM:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.ARM.exidx.text.exit':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.fini_array.00100':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

And related errors on NDS32:

  `.text.exit' referenced in section `.dtors.65435':
  defined in discarded section `.text.exit'

The gcov compiler flags cause certain compiler versions to generate
additional destructor-related sections that are not yet handled by the
linker script, resulting in references between discarded and
non-discarded sections.

Since destructors are not used in the Linux kernel, fix this by
discarding these additional sections.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>asm-generic: io: Fix ioport_map() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP &amp;&amp; CONFIG_INDIRECT_PIO</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T08:49:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Murray</name>
<email>andrew.murray@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-13T12:48:27Z</published>
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The !CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP version of ioport_map uses MMIO_UPPER_LIMIT to
prevent users from making I/O accesses outside the expected I/O range -
however it erroneously treats MMIO_UPPER_LIMIT as a mask which is
contradictory to its other users.

The introduction of CONFIG_INDIRECT_PIO, which subtracts an arbitrary
amount from IO_SPACE_LIMIT to form MMIO_UPPER_LIMIT, results in ioport_map
mangling the given port rather than capping it.

We address this by aligning more closely with the CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP
implementation of ioport_map by using the comparison operator and
returning NULL where the port exceeds MMIO_UPPER_LIMIT. Though note that
we preserve the existing behavior of masking with IO_SPACE_LIMIT such that
we don't break existing buggy drivers that somehow rely on this masking.

Fixes: 5745392e0c2b ("PCI: Apply the new generic I/O management on PCI IO hosts")
Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray &lt;andrew.murray@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-08-25T20:40:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-25T20:40:38Z</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add build_{menu,n,g,x}config targets for compile-testing Kconfig

 - fix and improve recursive dependency detection in Kconfig

 - fix parallel building of menuconfig/nconfig

 - fix syntax error in clang-version.sh

 - suppress distracting log from syncconfig

 - remove obsolete "rpm" target

 - remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL(_STR) macro entirely

 - fix microblaze build with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

 - move compiler test for dead code/data elimination to Kconfig

 - rename well-known LDFLAGS variable to KBUILD_LDFLAGS

 - misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS
  kbuild: pass LDFLAGS to recordmcount.pl
  kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig
  initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale &lt;linux/export.h&gt; include
  export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR()
  Coccinelle: remove pci_alloc_consistent semantic to detect in zalloc-simple.cocci
  kbuild: make sorting initramfs contents independent of locale
  kbuild: remove "rpm" target, which is alias of "rpm-pkg"
  kbuild: Fix LOADLIBES rename in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
  kconfig: suppress "configuration written to .config" for syncconfig
  kconfig: fix "Can't open ..." in parallel build
  kbuild: Add a space after `!` to prevent parsing as file pattern
  scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results
  kconfig: improve the recursive dependency report
  kconfig: report recursive dependency involving 'imply'
  kconfig: error out when seeing recursive dependency
  kconfig: add build-only configurator targets
  scripts/dtc: consolidate include path options in Makefile
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<title>mm: mmu_notifier fix for tlb_end_vma</title>
<updated>2018-08-23T18:55:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-23T08:47:09Z</published>
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The generic tlb_end_vma does not call invalidate_range mmu notifier, and
it resets resets the mmu_gather range, which means the notifier won't be
called on part of the range in case of an unmap that spans multiple
vmas.

ARM64 seems to be the only arch I could see that has notifiers and uses
the generic tlb_end_vma.  I have not actually tested it.

[ Catalin and Will point out that ARM64 currently only uses the
  notifiers for KVM, which doesn't use the -&gt;invalidate_range()
  callback right now, so it's a bug, but one that happens to
  not affect them.  So not necessary for stable.  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/mm/tlb: Revert the recent lazy TLB patches</title>
<updated>2018-08-23T01:22:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T15:30:13Z</published>
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Revert commits:

  95b0e6357d3e x86/mm/tlb: Always use lazy TLB mode
  64482aafe55f x86/mm/tlb: Only send page table free TLB flush to lazy TLB CPUs
  ac0315896970 x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier
  61d0beb5796a x86/mm/tlb: Restructure switch_mm_irqs_off()
  2ff6ddf19c0e x86/mm/tlb: Leave lazy TLB mode at page table free time

In order to simplify the TLB invalidate fixes for x86 and unify the
parts that need backporting.  We'll try again later.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:56:09Z</published>
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An ordinary arm64 defconfig build has ~64 KB worth of __ksymtab entries,
each consisting of two 64-bit fields containing absolute references, to
the symbol itself and to a char array containing its name, respectively.

When we build the same configuration with KASLR enabled, we end up with an
additional ~192 KB of relocations in the .init section, i.e., one 24 byte
entry for each absolute reference, which all need to be processed at boot
time.

Given how the struct kernel_symbol that describes each entry is completely
local to module.c (except for the references emitted by EXPORT_SYMBOL()
itself), we can easily modify it to contain two 32-bit relative references
instead.  This reduces the size of the __ksymtab section by 50% for all
64-bit architectures, and gets rid of the runtime relocations entirely for
architectures implementing KASLR, either via standard PIE linking (arm64)
or using custom host tools (x86).

Note that the binary search involving __ksymtab contents relies on each
section being sorted by symbol name.  This is implemented based on the
input section names, not the names in the ksymtab entries, so this patch
does not interfere with that.

Given that the use of place-relative relocations requires support both in
the toolchain and in the module loader, we cannot enable this feature for
all architectures.  So make it dependent on whether
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS is defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180704083651.24360-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include/asm-generic/bug.h: clarify valid uses of WARN()</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:24Z</published>
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Explicitly state that WARN*() should be used only for recoverable kernel
issues/bugs and that it should not be used for any kind of invalid
external inputs or transient conditions.

Motivation: it's a very useful capability to be able to understand if a
particular kernel splat means a kernel bug or simply an invalid user-space
program.  For the former one wants to notify kernel developers, while
notifying kernel developers for the latter is annoying.  Even a kernel
developer may not know what to do with a WARNING in an unfamiliar
subsystem.  This is especially critical for any automated testing systems
that may use panic_on_warn and mail kernel developers.

The clear separation also serves as an additional documentation: is it a
condition that must never occur because of additional checks/logic
elsewhere?  or is it simply a check for invalid inputs or unfortunate
conditions?

Use of pr_err() for user messages also leads to better error messages.
"Something is wrong in file foo on line X" is not particularly useful
message for end user.  pr_err() forces developers to write more meaningful
error messages for user.

As of now we are almost there.  We are doing systematic kernel testing
with panic_on_warn and are not seeing massive amounts of false positives.
But every now and then another WARN on ENOMEM or invalid inputs pops up
and leads to a lengthy argument each time.  The goal of this change is to
officially document the rules.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620103716.61636-1-dvyukov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>vmlinux.lds.h: remove stale &lt;linux/export.h&gt; include</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:21:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-20T15:06:24Z</published>
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This is unneeded since commit a62143850053 ("vmlinux.lds.h: remove
no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2018-08-18T18:44:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-18T18:44:53Z</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are all of the driver core and related patches for 4.19-rc1.

  Nothing huge here, just a number of small cleanups and the ability to
  now stop the deferred probing after init happens.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with only a merge
  issue reported"

* tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits)
  base: core: Remove WARN_ON from link dependencies check
  drivers/base: stop new probing during shutdown
  drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier
  driver core: remove unnecessary function extern declare
  sysfs.h: fix non-kernel-doc comment
  PM / Domains: Stop deferring probe at the end of initcall
  iommu: Remove IOMMU_OF_DECLARE
  iommu: Stop deferring probe at end of initcalls
  pinctrl: Support stopping deferred probe after initcalls
  dt-bindings: pinctrl: add a 'pinctrl-use-default' property
  driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init
  driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices
  sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates
  base: fix order of OF initialization
  linux/device.h: fix kernel-doc notation warning
  Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference
  kobject: Replace strncpy with memcpy
  drivers: base: cacheinfo: use OF property_read_u32 instead of get_property,read_number
  kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy
  device: Add #define dev_fmt similar to #define pr_fmt
  ...
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