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<updated>2019-09-12T12:56:33Z</updated>
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<title>fork: block invalid exit signals with clone3()</title>
<updated>2019-09-12T12:56:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugene Syromiatnikov</name>
<email>esyr@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2019-09-11T17:45:40Z</published>
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Previously, higher 32 bits of exit_signal fields were lost when copied
to the kernel args structure (that uses int as a type for the respective
field). Moreover, as Oleg has noted, exit_signal is used unchecked, so
it has to be checked for sanity before use; for the legacy syscalls,
applying CSIGNAL mask guarantees that it is at least non-negative;
however, there's no such thing is done in clone3() code path, and that
can break at least thread_group_leader.

This commit adds a check to copy_clone_args_from_user() to verify that
the exit signal is limited by CSIGNAL as with legacy clone() and that
the signal is valid. With this we don't get the legacy clone behavior
were an invalid signal could be handed down and would only be detected
and ignored in do_notify_parent(). Users of clone3() will now get a
proper error when they pass an invalid exit signal. Note, that this is
not user-visible behavior since no kernel with clone3() has been
released yet.

The following program will cause a splat on a non-fixed clone3() version
and will fail correctly on a fixed version:

 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sched.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
        pid_t pid = -1;
        struct clone_args args = {0};
        args.exit_signal = -1;

        pid = syscall(__NR_clone3, &amp;args, sizeof(struct clone_args));
        if (pid &lt; 0)
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

        if (pid == 0)
                exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);

        wait(NULL);

        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }

Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3")
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b38fa4ce420b119a4c6345f42fe3cec2de9b0b5.1568223594.git.esyr@redhat.com
[christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: simplify check and rework commit message]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Don't free p-&gt;numa_faults with concurrent readers</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T13:37:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T15:20:45Z</published>
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When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of
freeing them.

During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A
concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed -&gt;numa_faults
allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace.
I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur
through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can
lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently
running task of a different CPU.

Another way to fix this would be to make -&gt;numa_faults RCU-managed or add
extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on
execve.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T18:30:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T18:30:07Z</published>
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Pull pidfd and clone3 fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains a bugfix for CLONE_PIDFD when used with the legacy clone
  syscall, two fixes to ensure that syscall numbering and clone3
  entrypoint implementations will stay consistent, and an update for the
  maintainers file:

   - The addition of clone3 broke CLONE_PIDFD for legacy clone on all
     architectures that use do_fork() directly instead of calling the
     clone syscall itself. (Fwiw, cleaning do_fork() up is on my todo.)

     The reason this happened was that during conversion of _do_fork()
     to use struct kernel_clone_args we missed that do_fork() is called
     directly by various architectures. This is fixed by making sure
     that the pidfd argument in struct kernel_clone_args is correctly
     initialized with the parent_tidptr argument passed down from
     do_fork(). Additionally, do_fork() missed a check to make
     CLONE_PIDFD and CLONE_PARENT_SETTID mutually exclusive just a
     clone() does. This is now fixed too.

   - When clone3() was introduced we skipped architectures that require
     special handling for fork-like syscalls. Their syscall tables did
     not contain any mention of clone3().

     To make sure that Arnd's work to make syscall numbers on all
     architectures identical (minus alpha) was not for naught we are
     placing a comment in all syscall tables that do not yet implement
     clone3(). The comment makes it clear that 435 is reserved for
     clone3 and should not be used.

   - Also, this contains a patch to make the clone3() syscall definition
     in asm-generic/unist.h conditional on __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3. This
     lets us catch new architectures that implicitly make use of clone3
     without setting __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 which is a good indicator
     that they did not check whether it needs special treatment or not.

   - Finally, this contains a patch to add me as maintainer for pidfd
     stuff so people can start blaming me (more)"

* tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  MAINTAINERS: add new entry for pidfd api
  unistd: protect clone3 via __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
  arch: mark syscall number 435 reserved for clone3
  clone: fix CLONE_PIDFD support
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T02:42:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-15T02:42:11Z</published>
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Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:

   - Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror'
     feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and
     nouveau to be using this API.

   - Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the
     past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree
     conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't
     make the merge window cut off.

   - Improve some core mm APIs:
       - export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
       - refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
         DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
       - refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
         struct

   - Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers
     use the simplified API directly

   - Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC

   - Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code"

* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits)
  mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR
  mm: remove the HMM config option
  mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess
  mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data
  mm: remove hmm_devmem_add
  mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page
  nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly
  nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly
  PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag
  memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops
  memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages
  memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to -&gt;kill and -&gt;cleanup
  memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure
  memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages
  mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper
  mm: export alloc_pages_vma
  ...
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<entry>
<title>clone: fix CLONE_PIDFD support</title>
<updated>2019-07-14T18:36:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry V. Levin</name>
<email>ldv@altlinux.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-14T16:20:47Z</published>
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The introduction of clone3 syscall accidentally broke CLONE_PIDFD
support in traditional clone syscall on compat x86 and those
architectures that use do_fork to implement clone syscall.

This bug was found by strace test suite.

Link: https://strace.io/logs/strace/2019-07-12
Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3")
Bisected-and-tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev &lt;matorola@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190714162047.GB10389@altlinux.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T17:09:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T17:09:44Z</published>
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Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
  after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
  window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
  and thus all legacy workloads.

  There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
  First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
  this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
  EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
  argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
  third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
  clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
  argument.

  The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:

    /* uapi */
    struct clone_args {
            __aligned_u64 flags;
            __aligned_u64 pidfd;
            __aligned_u64 child_tid;
            __aligned_u64 parent_tid;
            __aligned_u64 exit_signal;
            __aligned_u64 stack;
            __aligned_u64 stack_size;
            __aligned_u64 tls;
    };

  and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:

    /* kernel internal */
    struct kernel_clone_args {
            u64 flags;
            int __user *pidfd;
            int __user *child_tid;
            int __user *parent_tid;
            int exit_signal;
            unsigned long stack;
            unsigned long stack_size;
            unsigned long tls;
    };

  The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
  detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
  validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
  are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.

  A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
  simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
  internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
  legacy clone().

  This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
  introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.

  Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
  xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
  massaging.

  Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
  after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
  dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
  leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
  there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
  which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
  clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
  such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
  including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
  __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"

* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
  arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
  fork: add clone3
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T05:17:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T05:17:21Z</published>
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Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds two main features.

   - First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process
     managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free
     way.

     The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is
     currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's
     death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an
     {e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e.
     thread-group) exit.

   - The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible
     to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created
     using CLONE_PIDFD.

     A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
     such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these
     processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This
     is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service
     managers such as systemd.

  Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests.

  It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done
  in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see
  some adoption:

   - Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS
     kernels [1]

   - Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to
     wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption.

   - And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and
     CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too"

[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22

[2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753

* tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  tests: add pidfd_open() tests
  arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
  pid: add pidfd_open()
  pidfd: add polling selftests
  pidfd: add polling support
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T23:39:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T23:39:53Z</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove the unused per rq load array and all its infrastructure, by
   Dietmar Eggemann.

 - Add utilization clamping support by Patrick Bellasi. This is a
   refinement of the energy aware scheduling framework with support for
   boosting of interactive and capping of background workloads: to make
   sure critical GUI threads get maximum frequency ASAP, and to make
   sure background processing doesn't unnecessarily move to cpufreq
   governor to higher frequencies and less energy efficient CPU modes.

 - Add the bare minimum of tracepoints required for LISA EAS regression
   testing, by Qais Yousef - which allows automated testing of various
   power management features, including energy aware scheduling.

 - Restructure the former tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() facility that the -rt
   kernel used to modify the scheduler's CPU affinity logic such as
   migrate_disable() - introduce the task-&gt;cpus_ptr value instead of
   taking the address of &amp;task-&gt;cpus_allowed directly - by Sebastian
   Andrzej Siewior.

 - Misc optimizations, fixes, cleanups and small enhancements - see the
   Git log for details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  sched/uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute()
  sched/uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with()
  sched/cpufreq, sched/uclamp: Add clamps for FAIR and RT tasks
  sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks
  sched/uclamp: Reset uclamp values on RESET_ON_FORK
  sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping
  sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy
  sched/uclamp: Add system default clamps
  sched/uclamp: Enforce last task's UCLAMP_MAX
  sched/uclamp: Add bucket local max tracking
  sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting
  sched/fair: Rename weighted_cpuload() to cpu_runnable_load()
  sched/debug: Export the newly added tracepoints
  sched/debug: Add sched_overutilized tracepoint
  sched/debug: Add new tracepoint to track PELT at se level
  sched/debug: Add new tracepoints to track PELT at rq level
  sched/debug: Add a new sched_trace_*() helper functions
  sched/autogroup: Make autogroup_path() always available
  sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while
  sched/topology: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T23:12:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T23:12:03Z</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
     rather impressive:

       "On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
        and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
        done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255

        After the patchset, they became:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"

     There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
     it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
     locking.

     Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
     improvements are:

       "With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
        total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
        with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
        after this patchset were:

        # of Threads   Before Patch      After Patch
        ------------   ------------      -----------
             2            2,618             4,193
             4            1,202             3,726
             8              802             3,622
            16              729             3,359
            32              319             2,826
            64              102             2,744"

     The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
     several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
     might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
     believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
     going forward.

   - jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
     motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
     CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
     updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
     kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
     overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
     as well.

   - atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
     ~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
     APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
     which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
     Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
     implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
     to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
     return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.

   - A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
     cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
     all around the place.

   - A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.

   - Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
  locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
  locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
  x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
  x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
  x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
  x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
  x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
  locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
  locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
  locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem-&gt;owner an atomic_long_t
  locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
  locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
  locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
  locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
  locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
  locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T18:06:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T18:06:29Z</published>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer and timekeeping departement delivers:

  Core:

   - The consolidation of the VDSO code into a generic library including
     the conversion of x86 and ARM64. Conversion of ARM and MIPS are en
     route through the relevant maintainer trees and should end up in
     5.4.

     This gets rid of the unnecessary different copies of the same code
     and brings all architectures on the same level of VDSO
     functionality.

   - Make the NTP user space interface more robust by restricting the
     TAI offset to prevent undefined behaviour. Includes a selftest.

   - Validate user input in the compat settimeofday() syscall to catch
     invalid values which would be turned into valid values by a
     multiplication overflow

   - Consolidate the time accessors

   - Small fixes, improvements and cleanups all over the place

  Drivers:

   - Support for the NXP system counter, TI davinci timer

   - Move the Microsoft HyperV clocksource/events code into the
     drivers/clocksource directory so it can be shared between x86 and
     ARM64.

   - Overhaul of the Tegra driver

   - Delay timer support for IXP4xx

   - Small fixes, improvements and cleanups as usual"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  time: Validate user input in compat_settimeofday()
  timer: Document TIMER_PINNED
  clocksource/drivers: Continue making Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic
  clocksource/drivers: Make Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic
  MAINTAINERS: Fix Andy's surname and the directory entries of VDSO
  hrtimer: Use a bullet for the returns bullet list
  arm64: vdso: Fix compilation with clang older than 8
  arm64: compat: Fix __arch_get_hw_counter() implementation
  arm64: Fix __arch_get_hw_counter() implementation
  lib/vdso: Make delta calculation work correctly
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the generic VDSO library
  arm64: compat: No need for pre-ARMv7 barriers on an ARMv8 system
  arm64: vdso: Remove unnecessary asm-offsets.c definitions
  vdso: Remove superfluous #ifdef __KERNEL__ in vdso/datapage.h
  clocksource/drivers/davinci: Add support for clocksource
  clocksource/drivers/davinci: Add support for clockevents
  clocksource/drivers/tegra: Set up maximum-ticks limit properly
  clocksource/drivers/tegra: Cycles can't be 0
  clocksource/drivers/tegra: Restore base address before cleanup
  clocksource/drivers/tegra: Add verbose definition for 1MHz constant
  ...
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