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<title>sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T08:45:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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commit 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 upstream.

As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>cpu/hotplug: Convert hotplug locking to percpu rwsem</title>
<updated>2017-05-26T08:10:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T08:15:40Z</published>
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There are no more (known) nested calls to get_online_cpus() and all
observed lock ordering problems have been addressed.

Replace the magic nested 'rwsem' hackery with a percpu-rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081549.447014063@linutronix.de

</content>
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<entry>
<title>cpu/hotplug: Provide lockdep_assert_cpus_held()</title>
<updated>2017-05-26T08:10:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T08:15:13Z</published>
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Provide a stub function which can be used in places where existing
get_online_cpus() calls are moved to call sites.

This stub is going to be filled by the final conversion of the hotplug
locking mechanism to a percpu rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.161282442@linutronix.de

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<title>cpu/hotplug: Provide cpus_read|write_[un]lock()</title>
<updated>2017-05-26T08:10:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-24T08:15:12Z</published>
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The counting 'rwsem' hackery of get|put_online_cpus() is going to be
replaced by percpu rwsem.

Rename the functions to make it clear that it's locking and not some
refcount style interface. These new functions will be used for the
preparatory patches which make the code ready for the percpu rwsem
conversion.

Rename all instances in the cpu hotplug code while at it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.080397752@linutronix.de

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<title>sched/headers: Prepare to move _init() prototypes from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to &lt;linux/sched/init.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-05T13:47:12Z</published>
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But first introduce a trivial header and update usage sites.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug register/unregister functions</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T09:47:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-21T19:19:53Z</published>
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hotcpu_notifier(), cpu_notifier(), __hotcpu_notifier(), __cpu_notifier(),
register_hotcpu_notifier(), register_cpu_notifier(),
__register_hotcpu_notifier(), __register_cpu_notifier(),
unregister_hotcpu_notifier(), unregister_cpu_notifier(),
__unregister_hotcpu_notifier(), __unregister_cpu_notifier()

are unused now. Remove them and all related code.

Remove also the now pointless cpu notifier error injection mechanism. The
states can be executed step by step and error rollback is the same as cpu
down, so any state transition can be tested w/o requiring the notifier
error injection.

Some CPU hotplug states are kept as they are (ab)used for hotplug state
tracking.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.005642358@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<title>Merge tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T18:41:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T18:41:53Z</published>
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Again, cpufreq gets more changes than the other parts this time (one
  new driver, one old driver less, a bunch of enhancements of the
  existing code, new CPU IDs, fixes, cleanups)

  There also are some changes in cpuidle (idle injection rework, a
  couple of new CPU IDs, online/offline rework in intel_idle, fixes and
  cleanups), in the generic power domains framework (mostly related to
  supporting power domains containing CPUs), and in the Operating
  Performance Points (OPP) library (mostly related to supporting devices
  with multiple voltage regulators)

  In addition to that, the system sleep state selection interface is
  modified to make it easier for distributions with unchanged user space
  to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method, some
  issues are fixed in the PM core, the latency tolerance PM QoS
  framework is improved a bit, the Intel RAPL power capping driver is
  cleaned up and there are some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq
  subsystem

  Specifics:

   - New cpufreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs and a Device Tree binding
     for it (Markus Mayer)

   - Support for ARM Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP in the generic DT
     cpufreq driver and elimination of the old Integrator cpufreq driver
     (Linus Walleij)

   - Support for the zx296718, r8a7743 and r8a7745, Socionext UniPhier,
     and PXA SoCs in the the generic DT cpufreq driver (Baoyou Xie,
     Geert Uytterhoeven, Masahiro Yamada, Robert Jarzmik)

   - cpufreq core fix to eliminate races that may lead to using inactive
     policy objects and related cleanups (Rafael Wysocki)

   - cpufreq schedutil governor update to make it use SCHED_FIFO kernel
     threads (instead of regular workqueues) for doing delayed work (to
     reduce the response latency in some cases) and related cleanups
     (Viresh Kumar)

   - New cpufreq sysfs attribute for resetting statistics (Markus Mayer)

   - cpufreq governors fixes and cleanups (Chen Yu, Stratos Karafotis,
     Viresh Kumar)

   - Support for using generic cpufreq governors in the intel_pstate
     driver (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Support for per-logical-CPU P-state limits and the EPP/EPB (Energy
     Performance Preference/Energy Performance Bias) knobs in the
     intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada)

   - New CPU ID for Knights Mill in intel_pstate (Piotr Luc)

   - intel_pstate driver modification to use the P-state selection
     algorithm based on CPU load on platforms with the system profile in
     the ACPI tables set to "mobile" (Srinivas Pandruvada)

   - intel_pstate driver cleanups (Arnd Bergmann, Rafael Wysocki,
     Srinivas Pandruvada)

   - cpufreq powernv driver updates including fast switching support
     (for the schedutil governor), fixes and cleanus (Akshay Adiga,
     Andrew Donnellan, Denis Kirjanov)

   - acpi-cpufreq driver rework to switch it over to the new CPU
     offline/online state machine (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)

   - Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers (Wei Yongjun, Prashanth
     Prakash)

   - Idle injection rework (to make it use the regular idle path instead
     of a home-grown custom one) and related powerclamp thermal driver
     updates (Peter Zijlstra, Jacob Pan, Petr Mladek, Sebastian Andrzej
     Siewior)

   - New CPU IDs for Atom Z34xx and Knights Mill in intel_idle (Andy
     Shevchenko, Piotr Luc)

   - intel_idle driver cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU
     offline/online state machine (Anna-Maria Gleixner, Sebastian
     Andrzej Siewior)

   - cpuidle DT driver update to support suspend-to-idle properly
     (Sudeep Holla)

   - cpuidle core cleanups and misc updates (Daniel Lezcano, Pan Bian,
     Rafael Wysocki)

   - Preliminary support for power domains including CPUs in the generic
     power domains (genpd) framework and related DT bindings (Lina Iyer)

   - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the generic power domains (genpd)
     framework (Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven)

   - Preliminary support for devices with multiple voltage regulators
     and related fixes and cleanups in the Operating Performance Points
     (OPP) library (Viresh Kumar, Masahiro Yamada, Stephen Boyd)

   - System sleep state selection interface rework to make it easier to
     support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method
     (Rafael Wysocki)

   - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly related to the interactions
     between the system suspend and runtime PM frameworks (Ulf Hansson,
     Sahitya Tummala, Tony Lindgren)

   - Latency tolerance PM QoS framework imorovements (Andrew Lutomirski)

   - New Knights Mill CPU ID for the Intel RAPL power capping driver
     (Piotr Luc)

   - Intel RAPL power capping driver fixes, cleanups and switch over to
     using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Jacob Pan, Thomas
     Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)

   - Fixes and cleanups in the exynos-ppmu, exynos-nocp, rk3399_dmc,
     rockchip-dfi devfreq drivers and the devfreq core (Axel Lin,
     Chanwoo Choi, Javier Martinez Canillas, MyungJoo Ham, Viresh Kumar)

   - Fix for false-positive KASAN warnings during resume from ACPI S3
     (suspend-to-RAM) on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - Memory map verification during resume from hibernation on x86 to
     ensure a consistent address space layout (Chen Yu)

   - Wakeup sources debugging enhancement (Xing Wei)

   - rockchip-io AVS driver cleanup (Shawn Lin)"

* tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (127 commits)
  devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks
  devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Remove dangling rcu_read_unlock()
  devfreq: exynos: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks
  Documentation: intel_pstate: Document HWP energy/performance hints
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Support for energy performance hints with HWP
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add locking around HWP requests
  PM / sleep: Print active wakeup sources when blocking on wakeup_count reads
  PM / core: Fix bug in the error handling of async suspend
  PM / wakeirq: Fix dedicated wakeirq for drivers not using autosuspend
  PM / Domains: Fix compatible for domain idle state
  PM / OPP: Don't WARN on multiple calls to dev_pm_opp_set_regulators()
  PM / OPP: Allow platform specific custom set_opp() callbacks
  PM / OPP: Separate out _generic_set_opp()
  PM / OPP: Add infrastructure to manage multiple regulators
  PM / OPP: Pass struct dev_pm_opp_supply to _set_opp_voltage()
  PM / OPP: Manage supply's voltage/current in a separate structure
  PM / OPP: Don't use OPP structure outside of rcu protected section
  PM / OPP: Reword binding supporting multiple regulators per device
  PM / OPP: Fix incorrect cpu-supply property in binding
  cpuidle: Add a kerneldoc comment to cpuidle_use_deepest_state()
  ..
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<entry>
<title>hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric</title>
<updated>2016-12-08T09:08:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-07T13:54:38Z</published>
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Yu Zhao has noticed that __unregister_cpu_notifier only unregisters its
notifiers when HOTPLUG_CPU=y while the registration might succeed even
when HOTPLUG_CPU=n if MODULE is enabled. This means that e.g. zswap
might keep a stale notifier on the list on the manual clean up during
the pool tear down and thus corrupt the list. Resulting in the following

[  144.964346] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880658a2be78
[  144.971337] IP: [&lt;ffffffffa290b00b&gt;] raw_notifier_chain_register+0x1b/0x40
&lt;snipped&gt;
[  145.122628] Call Trace:
[  145.125086]  [&lt;ffffffffa28e5cf8&gt;] __register_cpu_notifier+0x18/0x20
[  145.131350]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a5dd73&gt;] zswap_pool_create+0x273/0x400
[  145.137268]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a5e0fc&gt;] __zswap_param_set+0x1fc/0x300
[  145.143188]  [&lt;ffffffffa2944c1d&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[  145.149018]  [&lt;ffffffffa2908798&gt;] ? kernel_param_lock+0x28/0x30
[  145.154940]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a3e8cf&gt;] ? __might_fault+0x4f/0xa0
[  145.160511]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a5e237&gt;] zswap_compressor_param_set+0x17/0x20
[  145.167035]  [&lt;ffffffffa2908d3c&gt;] param_attr_store+0x5c/0xb0
[  145.172694]  [&lt;ffffffffa290848d&gt;] module_attr_store+0x1d/0x30
[  145.178443]  [&lt;ffffffffa2b2b41f&gt;] sysfs_kf_write+0x4f/0x70
[  145.183925]  [&lt;ffffffffa2b2a5b9&gt;] kernfs_fop_write+0x149/0x180
[  145.189761]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a99248&gt;] __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
[  145.194982]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a9a412&gt;] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1a0
[  145.200122]  [&lt;ffffffffa2a9a732&gt;] SyS_write+0x52/0xa0
[  145.205177]  [&lt;ffffffffa2ff4d97&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x17

This can be even triggered manually by changing
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor multiple times.

Fix this issue by making unregister APIs symmetric to the register so
there are no surprises.

Fixes: 47e627bc8c9a ("[PATCH] hotplug: Allow modules to use the cpu hotplug notifiers even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU")
Reported-and-tested-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207135438.4310-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle</title>
<updated>2016-11-29T13:02:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-29T07:03:05Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Idle injection drivers such as Intel powerclamp and ACPI PAD drivers use
realtime tasks to take control of CPU then inject idle. There are two
issues with this approach:

 1. Low efficiency: injected idle task is treated as busy so sched ticks
    do not stop during injected idle period, the result of these
    unwanted wakeups can be ~20% loss in power savings.

 2. Idle accounting: injected idle time is presented to user as busy.

This patch addresses the issues by introducing a new PF_IDLE flag which
allows any given task to be treated as idle task while the flag is set.
Therefore, idle injection tasks can run through the normal flow of NOHZ
idle enter/exit to get the correct accounting as well as tick stop when
possible.

The implication is that idle task is then no longer limited to PID == 0.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan &lt;jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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