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<title>sched: Always inline is_percpu_thread()</title>
<updated>2021-10-01T11:57:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2021-09-20T13:31:11Z</published>
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  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: check_preemption_disabled()+0x81: call to is_percpu_thread() leaves .noinstr.text section

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928084218.063371959@infradead.org
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<title>Merge tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.15_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-09-19T20:29:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-09-19T20:29:36Z</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Prevent a infinite loop in the MCE recovery on return to user space,
   which was caused by a second MCE queueing work for the same page and
   thereby creating a circular work list.

 - Make kern_addr_valid() handle existing PMD entries, which are marked
   not present in the higher level page table, correctly instead of
   blindly dereferencing them.

 - Pass a valid address to sanitize_phys(). This was caused by the
   mixture of inclusive and exclusive ranges. memtype_reserve() expect
   'end' being exclusive, but sanitize_phys() wants it inclusive. This
   worked so far, but with end being the end of the physical address
   space the fail is exposed.

 - Increase the maximum supported GPIO numbers for 64bit. Newer SoCs
   exceed the previous maximum.

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.15_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
  x86/mm: Fix kern_addr_valid() to cope with existing but not present entries
  x86/platform: Increase maximum GPIO number for X86_64
  x86/pat: Pass valid address to sanitize_phys()
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<title>x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery</title>
<updated>2021-09-14T08:27:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-13T21:52:39Z</published>
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There are two cases for machine check recovery:

1) The machine check was triggered by ring3 (application) code.
   This is the simpler case. The machine check handler simply queues
   work to be executed on return to user. That code unmaps the page
   from all users and arranges to send a SIGBUS to the task that
   triggered the poison.

2) The machine check was triggered in kernel code that is covered by
   an exception table entry. In this case the machine check handler
   still queues a work entry to unmap the page, etc. but this will
   not be called right away because the #MC handler returns to the
   fix up code address in the exception table entry.

Problems occur if the kernel triggers another machine check before the
return to user processes the first queued work item.

Specifically, the work is queued using the -&gt;mce_kill_me callback
structure in the task struct for the current thread. Attempting to queue
a second work item using this same callback results in a loop in the
linked list of work functions to call. So when the kernel does return to
user, it enters an infinite loop processing the same entry for ever.

There are some legitimate scenarios where the kernel may take a second
machine check before returning to the user.

1) Some code (e.g. futex) first tries a get_user() with page faults
   disabled. If this fails, the code retries with page faults enabled
   expecting that this will resolve the page fault.

2) Copy from user code retries a copy in byte-at-time mode to check
   whether any additional bytes can be copied.

On the other side of the fence are some bad drivers that do not check
the return value from individual get_user() calls and may access
multiple user addresses without noticing that some/all calls have
failed.

Fix by adding a counter (current-&gt;mce_count) to keep track of repeated
machine checks before task_work() is called. First machine check saves
the address information and calls task_work_add(). Subsequent machine
checks before that task_work call back is executed check that the address
is in the same page as the first machine check (since the callback will
offline exactly one page).

Expected worst case is four machine checks before moving on (e.g. one
user access with page faults disabled, then a repeat to the same address
with page faults enabled ... repeat in copy tail bytes). Just in case
there is some code that loops forever enforce a limit of 10.

 [ bp: Massage commit message, drop noinstr, fix typo, extend panic
   messages. ]

Fixes: 5567d11c21a1 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work")
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YT/IJ9ziLqmtqEPu@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2021-08-31T23:43:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-31T23:43:06Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - Enable memcg accounting for various networking objects.

  BPF:

   - Introduce bpf timers.

   - Add perf link and opaque bpf_cookie which the program can read out
     again, to be used in libbpf-based USDT library.

   - Add bpf_task_pt_regs() helper to access user space pt_regs in
     kprobes, to help user space stack unwinding.

   - Add support for UNIX sockets for BPF sockmap.

   - Extend BPF iterator support for UNIX domain sockets.

   - Allow BPF TCP congestion control progs and bpf iterators to call
     bpf_setsockopt(), e.g. to switch to another congestion control
     algorithm.

  Protocols:

   - Support IOAM Pre-allocated Trace with IPv6.

   - Support Management Component Transport Protocol.

   - bridge: multicast: add vlan support.

   - netfilter: add hooks for the SRv6 lightweight tunnel driver.

   - tcp:
       - enable mid-stream window clamping (by user space or BPF)
       - allow data-less, empty-cookie SYN with TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD
       - more accurate DSACK processing for RACK-TLP

   - mptcp:
       - add full mesh path manager option
       - add partial support for MP_FAIL
       - improve use of backup subflows
       - optimize option processing

   - af_unix: add OOB notification support.

   - ipv6: add IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to expose MTU value advertised by the
     router.

   - mac80211: Target Wake Time support in AP mode.

   - can: j1939: extend UAPI to notify about RX status.

  Driver APIs:

   - Add page frag support in page pool API.

   - Many improvements to the DSA (distributed switch) APIs.

   - ethtool: extend IRQ coalesce uAPI with timer reset modes.

   - devlink: control which auxiliary devices are created.

   - Support CAN PHYs via the generic PHY subsystem.

   - Proper cross-chip support for tag_8021q.

   - Allow TX forwarding for the software bridge data path to be
     offloaded to capable devices.

  Drivers:

   - veth: more flexible channels number configuration.

   - openvswitch: introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch.

   - Add internet mix (IMIX) mode to pktgen.

   - Transparently handle XDP operations in the bonding driver.

   - Add LiteETH network driver.

   - Renesas (ravb):
       - support Gigabit Ethernet IP

   - NXP Ethernet switch (sja1105):
       - fast aging support
       - support for "H" switch topologies
       - traffic termination for ports under VLAN-aware bridge

   - Intel 1G Ethernet
       - support getcrosststamp() with PCIe PTM (Precision Time
         Measurement) for better time sync
       - support Credit-Based Shaper (CBS) offload, enabling HW traffic
         prioritization and bandwidth reservation

   - Broadcom Ethernet (bnxt)
       - support pulse-per-second output
       - support larger Rx rings

   - Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5)
       - support ethtool RSS contexts and MQPRIO channel mode
       - support LAG offload with bridging
       - support devlink rate limit API
       - support packet sampling on tunnels

   - Huawei Ethernet (hns3):
       - basic devlink support
       - add extended IRQ coalescing support
       - report extended link state

   - Netronome Ethernet (nfp):
       - add conntrack offload support

   - Broadcom WiFi (brcmfmac):
       - add WPA3 Personal with FT to supported cipher suites
       - support 43752 SDIO device

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
       - support scanning hidden 6GHz networks
       - support for a new hardware family (Bz)

   - Xen pv driver:
       - harden netfront against malicious backends

   - Qualcomm mobile
       - ipa: refactor power management and enable automatic suspend
       - mhi: move MBIM to WWAN subsystem interfaces

  Refactor:

   - Ambient BPF run context and cgroup storage cleanup.

   - Compat rework for ndo_ioctl.

  Old code removal:

   - prism54 remove the obsoleted driver, deprecated by the p54 driver.

   - wan: remove sbni/granch driver"

* tag 'net-next-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1715 commits)
  net: Add depends on OF_NET for LiteX's LiteETH
  ipv6: seg6: remove duplicated include
  net: hns3: remove unnecessary spaces
  net: hns3: add some required spaces
  net: hns3: clean up a type mismatch warning
  net: hns3: refine function hns3_set_default_feature()
  ipv6: remove duplicated 'net/lwtunnel.h' include
  net: w5100: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()
  net/mlxbf_gige: Make use of devm_platform_ioremap_resourcexxx()
  net: mdio: mscc-miim: Make use of the helper function devm_platform_ioremap_resource()
  net: mdio-ipq4019: Make use of devm_platform_ioremap_resource()
  fou: remove sparse errors
  ipv4: fix endianness issue in inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb()
  octeontx2-af: Set proper errorcode for IPv4 checksum errors
  octeontx2-af: Fix static code analyzer reported issues
  octeontx2-af: Fix mailbox errors in nix_rss_flowkey_cfg
  octeontx2-af: Fix loop in free and unmap counter
  af_unix: fix potential NULL deref in unix_dgram_connect()
  dpaa2-eth: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
  octeontx2-af: Use NDC TX for transmit packet data
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'x86-cpu-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-08-30T22:00:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-30T22:00:33Z</published>
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Pull x86 cache flush updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A reworked version of the opt-in L1D flush mechanism.

  This is a stop gap for potential future speculation related hardware
  vulnerabilities and a mechanism for truly security paranoid
  applications.

  It allows a task to request that the L1D cache is flushed when the
  kernel switches to a different mm. This can be requested via prctl().

  Changes vs the previous versions:

   - Get rid of the software flush fallback

   - Make the handling consistent with other mitigations

   - Kill the task when it ends up on a SMT enabled core which defeats
     the purpose of L1D flushing obviously"

* tag 'x86-cpu-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation: Add L1D flushing Documentation
  x86, prctl: Hook L1D flushing in via prctl
  x86/mm: Prepare for opt-in based L1D flush in switch_mm()
  x86/process: Make room for TIF_SPEC_L1D_FLUSH
  sched: Add task_work callback for paranoid L1D flush
  x86/mm: Refactor cond_ibpb() to support other use cases
  x86/smp: Add a per-cpu view of SMT state
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-08-30T21:26:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-30T21:26:36Z</published>
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Pull locking and atomics updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The regular pile:

   - A few improvements to the mutex code

   - Documentation updates for atomics to clarify the difference between
     cmpxchg() and try_cmpxchg() and to explain the forward progress
     expectations.

   - Simplification of the atomics fallback generator

   - The addition of arch_atomic_long*() variants and generic arch_*()
     bitops based on them.

   - Add the missing might_sleep() invocations to the down*() operations
     of semaphores.

  The PREEMPT_RT locking core:

   - Scheduler updates to support the state preserving mechanism for
     'sleeping' spin- and rwlocks on RT.

     This mechanism is carefully preserving the state of the task when
     blocking on a 'sleeping' spin- or rwlock and takes regular wake-ups
     targeted at the same task into account. The preserved or updated
     (via a regular wakeup) state is restored when the lock has been
     acquired.

   - Restructuring of the rtmutex code so it can be utilized and
     extended for the RT specific lock variants.

   - Restructuring of the ww_mutex code to allow sharing of the ww_mutex
     specific functionality for rtmutex based ww_mutexes.

   - Header file disentangling to allow substitution of the regular lock
     implementations with the PREEMPT_RT variants without creating an
     unmaintainable #ifdef mess.

   - Shared base code for the PREEMPT_RT specific rw_semaphore and
     rwlock implementations.

     Contrary to the regular rw_semaphores and rwlocks the PREEMPT_RT
     implementation is writer unfair because it is infeasible to do
     priority inheritance on multiple readers. Experience over the years
     has shown that real-time workloads are not the typical workloads
     which are sensitive to writer starvation.

     The alternative solution would be to allow only a single reader
     which has been tried and discarded as it is a major bottleneck
     especially for mmap_sem. Aside of that many of the writer
     starvation critical usage sites have been converted to a writer
     side mutex/spinlock and RCU read side protections in the past
     decade so that the issue is less prominent than it used to be.

   - The actual rtmutex based lock substitutions for PREEMPT_RT enabled
     kernels which affect mutex, ww_mutex, rw_semaphore, spinlock_t and
     rwlock_t. The spin/rw_lock*() functions disable migration across
     the critical section to preserve the existing semantics vs per-CPU
     variables.

   - Rework of the futex REQUEUE_PI mechanism to handle the case of
     early wake-ups which interleave with a re-queue operation to
     prevent the situation that a task would be blocked on both the
     rtmutex associated to the outer futex and the rtmutex based hash
     bucket spinlock.

     While this situation cannot happen on !RT enabled kernels the
     changes make the underlying concurrency problems easier to
     understand in general. As a result the difference between !RT and
     RT kernels is reduced to the handling of waiting for the critical
     section. !RT kernels simply spin-wait as before and RT kernels
     utilize rcu_wait().

   - The substitution of local_lock for PREEMPT_RT with a spinlock which
     protects the critical section while staying preemptible. The CPU
     locality is established by disabling migration.

  The underlying concepts of this code have been in use in PREEMPT_RT for
  way more than a decade. The code has been refactored several times over
  the years and this final incarnation has been optimized once again to be
  as non-intrusive as possible, i.e. the RT specific parts are mostly
  isolated.

  It has been extensively tested in the 5.14-rt patch series and it has
  been verified that !RT kernels are not affected by these changes"

* tag 'locking-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (92 commits)
  locking/rtmutex: Return success on deadlock for ww_mutex waiters
  locking/rtmutex: Prevent spurious EDEADLK return caused by ww_mutexes
  locking/rtmutex: Dequeue waiter on ww_mutex deadlock
  locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless
  locking/semaphore: Add might_sleep() to down_*() family
  locking/ww_mutex: Initialize waiter.ww_ctx properly
  static_call: Update API documentation
  locking/local_lock: Add PREEMPT_RT support
  locking/spinlock/rt: Prepare for RT local_lock
  locking/rtmutex: Add adaptive spinwait mechanism
  locking/rtmutex: Implement equal priority lock stealing
  preempt: Adjust PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET for RT
  locking/rtmutex: Prevent lockdep false positive with PI futexes
  futex: Prevent requeue_pi() lock nesting issue on RT
  futex: Simplify handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup()
  futex: Reorder sanity checks in futex_requeue()
  futex: Clarify comment in futex_requeue()
  futex: Restructure futex_requeue()
  futex: Correct the number of requeued waiters for PI
  futex: Remove bogus condition for requeue PI
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-08-30T20:42:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-30T20:42:10Z</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change in this cycle is scheduler support for asymmetric
   scheduling affinity, to support the execution of legacy 32-bit tasks
   on AArch32 systems that also have 64-bit-only CPUs.

   Architectures can fill in this functionality by defining their own
   task_cpu_possible_mask(p). When this is done, the scheduler will make
   sure the task will only be scheduled on CPUs that support it.

   (The actual arm64 specific changes are not part of this tree.)

   For other architectures there will be no change in functionality.

 - Add cgroup SCHED_IDLE support

 - Increase node-distance flexibility &amp; delay determining it until a CPU
   is brought online. (This enables platforms where node distance isn't
   final until the CPU is only.)

 - Deadline scheduler enhancements &amp; fixes

 - Misc fixes &amp; cleanups.

* tag 'sched-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit
  sched/fair: Mark tg_is_idle() an inline in the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case
  sched: Introduce dl_task_check_affinity() to check proposed affinity
  sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be restricted on asymmetric systems
  sched: Split the guts of sched_setaffinity() into a helper function
  sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity
  sched: Reject CPU affinity changes based on task_cpu_possible_mask()
  cpuset: Cleanup cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() use in select_fallback_rq()
  cpuset: Honour task_cpu_possible_mask() in guarantee_online_cpus()
  cpuset: Don't use the cpu_possible_mask as a last resort for cgroup v1
  sched: Introduce task_cpu_possible_mask() to limit fallback rq selection
  sched: Cgroup SCHED_IDLE support
  sched/topology: Skip updating masks for non-online nodes
  sched: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  sched: Skip priority checks with SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_PARAMS
  sched: Fix UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE setting
  sched/deadline: Fix missing clock update in migrate_task_rq_dl()
  sched/fair: Avoid a second scan of target in select_idle_cpu
  sched/fair: Use prev instead of new target as recent_used_cpu
  sched: Don't report SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV in sched_getattr()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit</title>
<updated>2021-08-27T23:33:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-29T11:01:59Z</published>
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The recursion protection for eventfd_signal() is based on a per CPU
variable and relies on the !RT semantics of spin_lock_irqsave() for
protecting this per CPU variable. On RT kernels spin_lock_irqsave() neither
disables preemption nor interrupts which allows the spin lock held section
to be preempted. If the preempting task invokes eventfd_signal() as well,
then the recursion warning triggers.

Paolo suggested to protect the per CPU variable with a local lock, but
that's heavyweight and actually not necessary. The goal of this protection
is to prevent the task stack from overflowing, which can be achieved with a
per task recursion protection as well.

Replace the per CPU variable with a per task bit similar to other recursion
protection bits like task_struct::in_page_owner. This works on both !RT and
RT kernels and removes as a side effect the extra per CPU storage.

No functional change for !RT kernels.

Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnp9idso.ffs@tglx

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<entry>
<title>sched: Introduce dl_task_check_affinity() to check proposed affinity</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:33:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:36Z</published>
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In preparation for restricting the affinity of a task during execve()
on arm64, introduce a new dl_task_check_affinity() helper function to
give an indication as to whether the restricted mask is admissible for
a deadline task.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-10-will@kernel.org
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<title>sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be restricted on asymmetric systems</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:33:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:35Z</published>
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Asymmetric systems may not offer the same level of userspace ISA support
across all CPUs, meaning that some applications cannot be executed by
some CPUs. As a concrete example, upcoming arm64 big.LITTLE designs do
not feature support for 32-bit applications on both clusters.

Although userspace can carefully manage the affinity masks for such
tasks, one place where it is particularly problematic is execve()
because the CPU on which the execve() is occurring may be incompatible
with the new application image. In such a situation, it is desirable to
restrict the affinity mask of the task and ensure that the new image is
entered on a compatible CPU. From userspace's point of view, this looks
the same as if the incompatible CPUs have been hotplugged off in the
task's affinity mask. Similarly, if a subsequent execve() reverts to
a compatible image, then the old affinity is restored if it is still
valid.

In preparation for restricting the affinity mask for compat tasks on
arm64 systems without uniform support for 32-bit applications, introduce
{force,relax}_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(), which respectively restrict
and restore the affinity mask for a task based on the compatible CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-9-will@kernel.org
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