user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/cache.h, branch v4.9.147

arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory

2016-02-22T07:51:38Z

One of the easiest ways to protect the kernel from attack is to reduce the internal attack surface exposed when a "write" flaw is available. By making as much of the kernel read-only as possible, we reduce the attack surface. Many things are written to only during __init, and never changed again. These cannot be made "const" since the compiler will do the wrong thing (we do actually need to write to them). Instead, move these items into a memory region that will be made read-only during mark_rodata_ro() which happens after all kernel __init code has finished. This introduces __ro_after_init as a way to mark such memory, and adds some documentation about the existing __read_mostly marking. This improves the security of the Linux kernel by marking formerly read-write memory regions as read-only on a fully booted up system. Based on work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brad Spengler Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: David Brown Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Emese Revfy Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mathias Krause Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: PaX Team Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: linux-arch Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-5-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

printk/cache: mark printk_once test variable __read_mostly

2014-01-24T00:36:56Z

Add #include to define __read_mostly. Convert cache.h to use uapi/linux/kernel.h instead of linux/kernel.h to avoid recursive #includes. Convert the ALIGN macro to __ALIGN_KERNEL. printk_once only sets the bool variable tested once so mark it __read_mostly. Neaten the alignment so it matches the rest of the pr__once #defines too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Reviewed-by: James Hogan Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Rename .data.cacheline_aligned to .data..cacheline_aligned.

2010-03-03T10:25:58Z

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

mm: move cache_line_size() to

2008-04-28T15:58:19Z

Not all architectures define cache_line_size() so as suggested by Andrew move the private implementations in mm/slab.c and mm/slob.c to . Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: H. Peter Anvin Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/

2006-04-26T11:56:16Z

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

[PATCH] Move read_mostly definition to asm/cache.h

2006-03-23T15:38:10Z

Seems like needless clutter having a bunch of #if defined(CONFIG_$ARCH) in include/linux/cache.h. Move the per architecture section definition to asm/cache.h, and keep the if-not-defined dummy case in linux/cache.h to catch architectures which don't implement the section. Verified that symbols still go in .data.read_mostly on parisc, and the compile doesn't break. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PARISC] Add __read_mostly section for parisc

2006-01-11T01:35:03Z

Flag a whole bunch of things as __read_mostly on parisc. Also flag a few branches as unlikely() and cleanup a bit of code. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin

[PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros

2006-01-09T04:13:38Z

____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp is currently used to align critical structures and avoid false sharing. It uses per-arch L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX and people find L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX useless. However, we have been using ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp to align structures on the internode cacheline size. As per Andi's suggestion, following patch kills ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp and introduces INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, which defaults to L1_CACHE_SHIFT for all arches. Arches needing L3/Internode cacheline alignment can define INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT in the arch asm/cache.h. Patch replaces ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp with ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp With this patch, L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX can be killed Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[IA64] Add __read_mostly support for IA64

2005-12-16T18:52:46Z

sparc64, i386 and x86_64 have support for a special data section dedicated to rarely updated data that is frequently read. The section was created to avoid false sharing of those rarely read data with frequently written kernel data. This patch creates such a data section for ia64 and will group rarely written data into this section. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[SPARC64]: Add __read_mostly support.

2005-07-10T22:45:11Z

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller