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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Use async IPIs for arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T09:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T17:55:46+00:00</published>
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commit b63e132b6433a41cf311e8bc382d33fd2b73b505 upstream.

The current MIPS implementation of arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() is
broken because it attempts to use synchronous IPIs despite the fact that
it may be run with interrupts disabled.

This means that when arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() is invoked, for
example by the RCU CPU stall watchdog, we may:

  - Deadlock due to use of synchronous IPIs with interrupts disabled,
    causing the CPU that's attempting to generate the backtrace output
    to hang itself.

  - Not succeed in generating the desired output from remote CPUs.

  - Produce warnings about this from smp_call_function_many(), for
    example:

    [42760.526910] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
    [42760.535755]  0-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=ade/140000000000000/0 softirq=526944/526945 fqs=0
    [42760.547874]  1-...!: (0 ticks this GP) idle=e4a/140000000000000/0 softirq=547885/547885 fqs=0
    [42760.559869]  (detected by 2, t=2162 jiffies, g=266689, c=266688, q=33)
    [42760.568927] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [42760.576146] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1216 at kernel/smp.c:416 smp_call_function_many+0x88/0x20c
    [42760.587839] Modules linked in:
    [42760.593152] CPU: 2 PID: 1216 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.15.4-00373-gee058bb4d0c2 #2
    [42760.603767] Stack : 8e09bd20 8e09bd20 8e09bd20 fffffff0 00000007 00000006 00000000 8e09bca8
    [42760.616937]         95b2b379 95b2b379 807a0080 00000007 81944518 0000018a 00000032 00000000
    [42760.630095]         00000000 00000030 80000000 00000000 806eca74 00000009 8017e2b8 000001a0
    [42760.643169]         00000000 00000002 00000000 8e09baa4 00000008 808b8008 86d69080 8e09bca0
    [42760.656282]         8e09ad50 805e20aa 00000000 00000000 00000000 8017e2b8 00000009 801070ca
    [42760.669424]         ...
    [42760.673919] Call Trace:
    [42760.678672] [&lt;27fde568&gt;] show_stack+0x70/0xf0
    [42760.685417] [&lt;84751641&gt;] dump_stack+0xaa/0xd0
    [42760.692188] [&lt;699d671c&gt;] __warn+0x80/0x92
    [42760.698549] [&lt;68915d41&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x28/0x36
    [42760.705912] [&lt;f7c76c1c&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x88/0x20c
    [42760.713696] [&lt;6bbdfc2a&gt;] arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x30/0x4a
    [42760.722216] [&lt;f845bd33&gt;] rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x6a/0x98
    [42760.729580] [&lt;796e7629&gt;] rcu_check_callbacks+0x672/0x6ac
    [42760.737476] [&lt;059b3b43&gt;] update_process_times+0x18/0x34
    [42760.744981] [&lt;6eb94941&gt;] tick_sched_handle.isra.5+0x26/0x38
    [42760.752793] [&lt;478d3d70&gt;] tick_sched_timer+0x1c/0x50
    [42760.759882] [&lt;e56ea39f&gt;] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc6/0x226
    [42760.767418] [&lt;e88bbcae&gt;] hrtimer_interrupt+0x88/0x19a
    [42760.775031] [&lt;6765a19e&gt;] gic_compare_interrupt+0x2e/0x3a
    [42760.782761] [&lt;0558bf5f&gt;] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x78/0x168
    [42760.790795] [&lt;90c11ba2&gt;] generic_handle_irq+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.798117] [&lt;1b6d462c&gt;] gic_handle_local_int+0x38/0x86
    [42760.805545] [&lt;b2ada1c7&gt;] gic_irq_dispatch+0xa/0x14
    [42760.812534] [&lt;90c11ba2&gt;] generic_handle_irq+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.820086] [&lt;c7521934&gt;] do_IRQ+0x16/0x20
    [42760.826274] [&lt;9aef3ce6&gt;] plat_irq_dispatch+0x62/0x94
    [42760.833458] [&lt;6a94b53c&gt;] except_vec_vi_end+0x70/0x78
    [42760.840655] [&lt;22284043&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x1ba/0x20c
    [42760.848501] [&lt;54022b58&gt;] smp_call_function+0x1e/0x2c
    [42760.855693] [&lt;ab9fc705&gt;] flush_tlb_mm+0x2a/0x98
    [42760.862730] [&lt;0844cdd0&gt;] tlb_flush_mmu+0x1c/0x44
    [42760.869628] [&lt;cb259b74&gt;] arch_tlb_finish_mmu+0x26/0x3e
    [42760.877021] [&lt;1aeaaf74&gt;] tlb_finish_mmu+0x18/0x66
    [42760.883907] [&lt;b3fce717&gt;] exit_mmap+0x76/0xea
    [42760.890428] [&lt;c4c8a2f6&gt;] mmput+0x80/0x11a
    [42760.896632] [&lt;a41a08f4&gt;] do_exit+0x1f4/0x80c
    [42760.903158] [&lt;ee01cef6&gt;] do_group_exit+0x20/0x7e
    [42760.909990] [&lt;13fa8d54&gt;] __wake_up_parent+0x0/0x1e
    [42760.917045] [&lt;46cf89d0&gt;] smp_call_function_many+0x1a2/0x20c
    [42760.924893] [&lt;8c21a93b&gt;] syscall_common+0x14/0x1c
    [42760.931765] ---[ end trace 02aa09da9dc52a60 ]---
    [42760.938342] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [42760.945311] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1216 at kernel/smp.c:291 smp_call_function_single+0xee/0xf8
    ...

This patch switches MIPS' arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() to use async
IPIs &amp; smp_call_function_single_async() in order to resolve this
problem. We ensure use of the pre-allocated call_single_data_t
structures is serialized by maintaining a cpumask indicating that
they're busy, and refusing to attempt to send an IPI when a CPU's bit is
set in this mask. This should only happen if a CPU hasn't responded to a
previous backtrace IPI - ie. if it's hung - and we print a warning to
the console in this case.

I've marked this for stable branches as far back as v4.9, to which it
applies cleanly. Strictly speaking the faulty MIPS implementation can be
traced further back to commit 856839b76836 ("MIPS: Add
arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function") in v3.19, but kernel
versions v3.19 through v4.8 will require further work to backport due to
the rework performed in commit 9a01c3ed5cdb ("nmi_backtrace: add more
trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19597/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Fixes: 856839b76836 ("MIPS: Add arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function")
Fixes: 9a01c3ed5cdb ("nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Call dump_stack() from show_regs()</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T09:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T17:55:45+00:00</published>
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commit 5a267832c2ec47b2dad0fdb291a96bb5b8869315 upstream.

The generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() function calls show_regs() when a struct
pt_regs is available, and dump_stack() otherwise. If we were to make use
of the generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() with MIPS' current implementation of
show_regs() this would mean that we see only register data with no
accompanying stack information, in contrast with our current
implementation which calls dump_stack() regardless of whether register
state is available.

In preparation for making use of the generic nmi_cpu_backtrace() to
implement arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(), have our implementation of
show_regs() call dump_stack() and drop the explicit dump_stack() call in
arch_dump_stack() which is invoked by arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace().

This will allow the output we produce to remain the same after a later
patch switches to using nmi_cpu_backtrace(). It may mean that we produce
extra stack output in other uses of show_regs(), but this:

  1) Seems harmless.
  2) Is good for consistency between arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()
     and other users of show_regs().
  3) Matches the behaviour of the ARM &amp; PowerPC architectures.

Marked for stable back to v4.9 as a prerequisite of the following patch
"MIPS: Call dump_stack() from show_regs()".

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19596/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mips: ftrace: fix static function graph tracing</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Schiffer</name>
<email>mschiffer@universe-factory.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-24T16:57:49+00:00</published>
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commit 6fb8656646f996d1eef42e6d56203c4915cb9e08 upstream.

ftrace_graph_caller was never run after calling ftrace_trace_function,
breaking the function graph tracer. Fix this, bringing it in line with the
x86 implementation.

While we're at it, also streamline the control flow of _mcount a bit to
reduce the number of branches.

This issue was reported before:
https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2014-11/msg00295.html

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer &lt;mschiffer@universe-factory.net&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18929/
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: ptrace: Fix PTRACE_PEEKUSR requests for 64-bit FGRs</title>
<updated>2018-05-24T13:03:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-16T15:39:58+00:00</published>
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Use 64-bit accesses for 64-bit floating-point general registers with
PTRACE_PEEKUSR, removing the truncation of their upper halves in the
FR=1 mode, caused by commit bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context
access"), which inadvertently switched them to using 32-bit accesses.

The PTRACE_POKEUSR side is fine as it's never been broken and continues
using 64-bit accesses.

Fixes: bbd426f542cb ("MIPS: Simplify FP context access")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.15+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19334/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: prctl: Disallow FRE without FR with PR_SET_FP_MODE requests</title>
<updated>2018-05-24T12:45:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-15T22:04:44+00:00</published>
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Having PR_FP_MODE_FRE (i.e. Config5.FRE) set without PR_FP_MODE_FR (i.e.
Status.FR) is not supported as the lone purpose of Config5.FRE is to
emulate Status.FR=0 handling on FPU hardware that has Status.FR=1
hardwired[1][2].  Also we do not handle this case elsewhere, and assume
throughout our code that TIF_HYBRID_FPREGS and TIF_32BIT_FPREGS cannot
be set both at once for a task, leading to inconsistent behaviour if
this does happen.

Return unsuccessfully then from prctl(2) PR_SET_FP_MODE calls requesting
PR_FP_MODE_FRE to be set with PR_FP_MODE_FR clear.  This corresponds to
modes allowed by `mips_set_personality_fp'.

References:

[1] "MIPS Architecture For Programmers, Vol. III: MIPS32 / microMIPS32
    Privileged Resource Architecture", Imagination Technologies,
    Document Number: MD00090, Revision 6.02, July 10, 2015, Table 9.69
    "Config5 Register Field Descriptions", p. 262

[2] "MIPS Architecture For Programmers, Volume III: MIPS64 / microMIPS64
    Privileged Resource Architecture", Imagination Technologies,
    Document Number: MD00091, Revision 6.03, December 22, 2015, Table
    9.72 "Config5 Register Field Descriptions", p. 288

Fixes: 9791554b45a2 ("MIPS,prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_FP_MODE prctl options for MIPS")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.0+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19327/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix ptrace(2) PTRACE_PEEKUSR and PTRACE_POKEUSR accesses to o32 FGRs</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T22:54:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-14T15:49:43+00:00</published>
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Check the TIF_32BIT_FPREGS task setting of the tracee rather than the
tracer in determining the layout of floating-point general registers in
the floating-point context, correcting access to odd-numbered registers
for o32 tracees where the setting disagrees between the two processes.

Fixes: 597ce1723e0f ("MIPS: Support for 64-bit FP with O32 binaries")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: ptrace: Expose FIR register through FP regset</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T22:54:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-30T14:56:47+00:00</published>
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Correct commit 7aeb753b5353 ("MIPS: Implement task_user_regset_view.")
and expose the FIR register using the unused 4 bytes at the end of the
NT_PRFPREG regset.  Without that register included clients cannot use
the PTRACE_GETREGSET request to retrieve the complete FPU register set
and have to resort to one of the older interfaces, either PTRACE_PEEKUSR
or PTRACE_GETFPREGS, to retrieve the missing piece of data.  Also the
register is irreversibly missing from core dumps.

This register is architecturally hardwired and read-only so the write
path does not matter.  Ignore data supplied on writes then.

Fixes: 7aeb753b5353 ("MIPS: Implement task_user_regset_view.")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.13+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19273/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mips_4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips</title>
<updated>2018-04-10T18:39:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T18:39:22+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from James Hogan:
 "These are the main MIPS changes for 4.17. Rough overview:

   (1) generic platform: Add support for Microsemi Ocelot SoCs

   (2) crypto: Add CRC32 and CRC32C HW acceleration module

   (3) Various cleanups and misc improvements

  More detailed summary:

  Miscellaneous:
   - hang more efficiently on halt/powerdown/restart
   - pm-cps: Block system suspend when a JTAG probe is present
   - expand make help text for generic defconfigs
   - refactor handling of legacy defconfigs
   - determine the entry point from the ELF file header to fix microMIPS
     for certain toolchains
   - introduce isa-rev.h for MIPS_ISA_REV and use to simplify other code

  Minor cleanups:
   - DTS: boston/ci20: Unit name cleanups and correction
   - kdump: Make the default for PHYSICAL_START always 64-bit
   - constify gpio_led in Alchemy, AR7, and TXX9
   - silence a couple of W=1 warnings
   - remove duplicate includes

  Platform support:
  Generic platform:
   - add support for Microsemi Ocelot
   - dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for Microsemi Corporation
   - dt-bindings: Add bindings for Microsemi SoCs
   - add ocelot SoC &amp; PCB123 board DTS files
   - MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Microsemi MIPS SoCs
   - enable crc32-mips on r6 configs

  ath79:
   - fix AR724X_PLL_REG_PCIE_CONFIG offset

  BCM47xx:
   - firmware: Use mac_pton() for MAC address parsing
   - add Luxul XAP1500/XWR1750 WiFi LEDs
   - use standard reset button for Luxul XWR-1750

  BMIPS:
   - enable CONFIG_BRCMSTB_PM in bmips_stb_defconfig for build coverage
   - add STB PM, wake-up timer, watchdog DT nodes

  Octeon:
   - drop '.' after newlines in printk calls

  ralink:
   - pci-mt7621: Enable PCIe on MT7688"

* tag 'mips_4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/mips: (37 commits)
  MIPS: BCM47XX: Use standard reset button for Luxul XWR-1750
  MIPS: BCM47XX: Add Luxul XAP1500/XWR1750 WiFi LEDs
  MIPS: Make the default for PHYSICAL_START always 64-bit
  MIPS: Use the entry point from the ELF file header
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Microsemi MIPS SoCs
  MIPS: generic: Add support for Microsemi Ocelot
  MIPS: mscc: Add ocelot PCB123 device tree
  MIPS: mscc: Add ocelot dtsi
  dt-bindings: mips: Add bindings for Microsemi SoCs
  dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for Microsemi Corporation
  MIPS: ath79: Fix AR724X_PLL_REG_PCIE_CONFIG offset
  MIPS: pci-mt7620: Enable PCIe on MT7688
  MIPS: pm-cps: Block system suspend when a JTAG probe is present
  MIPS: VDSO: Replace __mips_isa_rev with MIPS_ISA_REV
  MIPS: BPF: Replace __mips_isa_rev with MIPS_ISA_REV
  MIPS: cpu-features.h: Replace __mips_isa_rev with MIPS_ISA_REV
  MIPS: Introduce isa-rev.h to define MIPS_ISA_REV
  MIPS: Hang more efficiently on halt/powerdown/restart
  FIRMWARE: bcm47xx_nvram: Replace mac address parsing
  MIPS: BMIPS: Add Broadcom STB watchdog nodes
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux</title>
<updated>2018-04-03T04:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-03T04:22:12+00:00</published>
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Pull removal of in-kernel calls to syscalls from Dominik Brodowski:
 "System calls are interaction points between userspace and the kernel.
  Therefore, system call functions such as sys_xyzzy() or
  compat_sys_xyzzy() should only be called from userspace via the
  syscall table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel.

  At least on 64-bit x86, it will likely be a hard requirement from
  v4.17 onwards to not call system call functions in the kernel: It is
  better to use use a different calling convention for system calls
  there, where struct pt_regs is decoded on-the-fly in a syscall wrapper
  which then hands processing over to the actual syscall function. This
  means that only those parameters which are actually needed for a
  specific syscall are passed on during syscall entry, instead of
  filling in six CPU registers with random user space content all the
  time (which may cause serious trouble down the call chain). Those
  x86-specific patches will be pushed through the x86 tree in the near
  future.

  Moreover, rules on how data may be accessed may differ between kernel
  data and user data. This is another reason why calling sys_xyzzy() is
  generally a bad idea, and -- at most -- acceptable in arch-specific
  code.

  This patchset removes all in-kernel calls to syscall functions in the
  kernel with the exception of arch/. On top of this, it cleans up the
  three places where many syscalls are referenced or prototyped, namely
  kernel/sys_ni.c, include/linux/syscalls.h and include/linux/compat.h"

* 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux: (109 commits)
  bpf: whitelist all syscalls for error injection
  kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions
  kernel/sys_ni: sort cond_syscall() entries
  syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes
  syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h
  net: remove compat_sys_*() prototypes from net/compat.h
  syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h
  kexec: move sys_kexec_load() prototype to syscalls.h
  x86/sigreturn: use SYSCALL_DEFINE0
  x86: fix sys_sigreturn() return type to be long, not unsigned long
  x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()
  mm: add ksys_readahead() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_readahead()
  mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()
  mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64()
  fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate()
  fs: add ksys_p{read,write}64() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
  fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate()
  fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall
  kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid()
  kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-wait-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T23:50:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T23:50:39+00:00</published>
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Pull wait_var_event updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This introduces the new wait_var_event() API, which is a more flexible
  waiting primitive than wait_on_atomic_t().

  All wait_on_atomic_t() users are migrated over to the new API and
  wait_on_atomic_t() is removed. The migration fixes one bug and should
  result in no functional changes for the other usecases"

* 'sched-wait-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/wait: Improve __var_waitqueue() code generation
  sched/wait: Remove the wait_on_atomic_t() API
  sched/wait, arch/mips: Fix and convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, fs/ocfs2: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, fs/nfs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, fs/fscache: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, fs/btrfs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, fs/afs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, drivers/media: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait, drivers/drm: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
  sched/wait: Introduce wait_var_event()
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