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Before the previous patch ("memcg: unify slab and other kmem pages
charging"), __mem_cgroup_from_kmem had to handle two types of kmem - slab
pages and pages allocated with alloc_kmem_pages - memcg in the page
struct. Now we can unify it. Since after it, this function becomes tiny
we can fold it into mem_cgroup_from_kmem.
[hughd@google.com: move mem_cgroup_from_kmem into list_lru.c]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We have memcg_kmem_charge and memcg_kmem_uncharge methods for charging and
uncharging kmem pages to memcg, but currently they are not used for
charging slab pages (i.e. they are only used for charging pages allocated
with alloc_kmem_pages). The only reason why the slab subsystem uses
special helpers, memcg_charge_slab and memcg_uncharge_slab, is that it
needs to charge to the memcg of kmem cache while memcg_charge_kmem charges
to the memcg that the current task belongs to.
To remove this diversity, this patch adds an extra argument to
__memcg_kmem_charge that can be a pointer to a memcg or NULL. If it is
not NULL, the function tries to charge to the memcg it points to,
otherwise it charge to the current context. Next, it makes the slab
subsystem use this function to charge slab pages.
Since memcg_charge_kmem and memcg_uncharge_kmem helpers are now used only
in __memcg_kmem_charge and __memcg_kmem_uncharge, they are inlined. Since
__memcg_kmem_charge stores a pointer to the memcg in the page struct, we
don't need memcg_uncharge_slab anymore and can use free_kmem_pages.
Besides, one can now detect which memcg a slab page belongs to by reading
/proc/kpagecgroup.
Note, this patch switches slab to charge-after-alloc design. Since this
design is already used for all other memcg charges, it should not make any
difference.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: better to have an outer function than a magic parameter for the memcg lookup]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Charging kmem pages proceeds in two steps. First, we try to charge the
allocation size to the memcg the current task belongs to, then we allocate
a page and "commit" the charge storing the pointer to the memcg in the
page struct.
Such a design looks overcomplicated, because there is not much sense in
trying charging the allocation before actually allocating a page: we won't
be able to consume much memory over the limit even if we charge after
doing the actual allocation, besides we already charge user pages post
factum, so being pedantic with kmem pages just looks pointless.
So this patch simplifies the design by merging the "charge" and the
"commit" steps into the same function, which takes the allocated page.
Also, rename the charge and uncharge methods to memcg_kmem_charge and
memcg_kmem_uncharge and make the charge method return error code instead
of bool to conform to mem_cgroup_try_charge.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Change HIGHMEM_ZONE to be the same as the DMA_ZONE macro.
Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With x86_64 (config http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt) and old gcc
(4.4.4), drivers/base/node.c:node_read_meminfo() is using 2344 bytes of
stack. Uninlining node_page_state() reduces this to 440 bytes.
The stack consumption issue is fixed by newer gcc (4.8.4) however with
that compiler this patch reduces the node.o text size from 7314 bytes to
4578.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This came up when implementing HIHGMEM/PAE40 for ARC. The kmap() /
kmap_atomic() generated code seemed needlessly bloated due to the way
PageHighMem() macro is implemented. It derives the exact zone for page
and then does pointer subtraction with first zone to infer the zone_type.
The pointer arithmatic in turn generates the code bloat.
PageHighMem(page)
is_highmem(page_zone(page))
zone_off = (char *)zone - (char *)zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones
Instead use is_highmem_idx() to work on zone_type available in page flags
----- Before -----
80756348: mov_s r13,r0
8075634a: ld_s r2,[r13,0]
8075634c: lsr_s r2,r2,30
8075634e: mpy r2,r2,0x2a4
80756352: add_s r2,r2,0x80aef880
80756358: ld_s r3,[r2,28]
8075635a: sub_s r2,r2,r3
8075635c: breq r2,0x2a4,80756378 <kmap+0x48>
80756364: breq r2,0x548,80756378 <kmap+0x48>
----- After -----
80756330: mov_s r13,r0
80756332: ld_s r2,[r13,0]
80756334: lsr_s r2,r2,30
80756336: sub_s r2,r2,1
80756338: brlo r2,2,80756348 <kmap+0x30>
For x86 defconfig build (32 bit only) it saves around 900 bytes.
For ARC defconfig with HIGHMEM, it saved around 2K bytes.
---->8-------
./scripts/bloat-o-meter x86/vmlinux-defconfig-pre x86/vmlinux-defconfig-post
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/36 up/down: 0/-934 (-934)
function old new delta
saveable_page 162 154 -8
saveable_highmem_page 154 146 -8
skb_gro_reset_offset 147 131 -16
...
...
__change_page_attr_set_clr 1715 1678 -37
setup_data_read 434 394 -40
mon_bin_event 1967 1927 -40
swsusp_save 1148 1105 -43
_set_pages_array 549 493 -56
---->8-------
e.g. For ARC kmap()
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jennifer Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The oom killer takes task_lock() in a couple of places solely to protect
printing the task's comm.
A process's comm, including current's comm, may change due to
/proc/pid/comm or PR_SET_NAME.
The comm will always be NULL-terminated, so the worst race scenario would
only be during update. We can tolerate a comm being printed that is in
the middle of an update to avoid taking the lock.
Other locations in the kernel have already dropped task_lock() when
printing comm, so this is consistent.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Compaction returns prematurely with COMPACT_PARTIAL when contended or has
fatal signal pending. This is ok for the callers, but might be misleading
in the traces, as the usual reason to return COMPACT_PARTIAL is that we
think the allocation should succeed. After this patch we distinguish the
premature ending condition in the mm_compaction_finished and
mm_compaction_end tracepoints.
The contended status covers the following reasons:
- lock contention or need_resched() detected in async compaction
- fatal signal pending
- too many pages isolated in the zone (only for async compaction)
Further distinguishing the exact reason seems unnecessary for now.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some compaction tracepoints use zone->name to print which zone is being
compacted. This works for in-kernel printing, but not userspace trace
printing of raw captured trace such as via trace-cmd report.
This patch uses zone_idx() instead of zone->name as the raw value, and
when printing, converts the zone_type to string using the appropriate EM()
macros and some ugly tricks to overcome the problem that half the values
depend on CONFIG_ options and one does not simply use #ifdef inside of
#define.
trace-cmd output before:
transhuge-stres-4235 [000] 453.149280: mm_compaction_finished: node=0
zone=ffffffff81815d7a order=9 ret=partial
after:
transhuge-stres-4235 [000] 453.149280: mm_compaction_finished: node=0
zone=Normal order=9 ret=partial
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some compaction tracepoints convert the integer return values to strings
using the compaction_status_string array. This works for in-kernel
printing, but not userspace trace printing of raw captured trace such as
via trace-cmd report.
This patch converts the private array to appropriate tracepoint macros
that result in proper userspace support.
trace-cmd output before:
transhuge-stres-4235 [000] 453.149280: mm_compaction_finished: node=0
zone=ffffffff81815d7a order=9 ret=
after:
transhuge-stres-4235 [000] 453.149280: mm_compaction_finished: node=0
zone=ffffffff81815d7a order=9 ret=partial
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low return bool due to this particular
function only using either one or zero as its return value.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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filemap_fdatawait() is a function to wait for on-going writeback to
complete but also consume and clear error status of the mapping set during
writeback.
The latter functionality is critical for applications to detect writeback
error with system calls like fsync(2)/fdatasync(2).
However filemap_fdatawait() is also used by sync(2) or FIFREEZE ioctl,
which don't check error status of individual mappings.
As a result, fsync() may not be able to detect writeback error if events
happen in the following order:
Application System admin
----------------------------------------------------------
write data on page cache
Run sync command
writeback completes with error
filemap_fdatawait() clears error
fsync returns success
(but the data is not on disk)
This patch adds filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors() for call sites where
writeback error is not handled so that they don't clear error status.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently there's no easy way to get per-process usage of hugetlb pages,
which is inconvenient because userspace applications which use hugetlb
typically want to control their processes on the basis of how much memory
(including hugetlb) they use. So this patch simply provides easy access
to the info via /proc/PID/status.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Maximal readahead size is limited now by two values:
1) by global 2Mb constant (MAX_READAHEAD in max_sane_readahead())
2) by configurable per-device value* (bdi->ra_pages)
There are devices, which require custom readahead limit.
For instance, for RAIDs it's calculated as number of devices
multiplied by chunk size times 2.
Readahead size can never be larger than bdi->ra_pages * 2 value
(POSIX_FADV_SEQUNTIAL doubles readahead size).
If so, why do we need two limits?
I suggest to completely remove this max_sane_readahead() stuff and
use per-device readahead limit everywhere.
Also, using right readahead size for RAID disks can significantly
increase i/o performance:
before:
dd if=/dev/md2 of=/dev/null bs=100M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 12.9741 s, 808 MB/s
after:
$ dd if=/dev/md2 of=/dev/null bs=100M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 8.91317 s, 1.2 GB/s
(It's an 8-disks RAID5 storage).
This patch doesn't change sys_readahead and madvise(MADV_WILLNEED)
behavior introduced by 6d2be915e589b58 ("mm/readahead.c: fix readahead
failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages").
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: onstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit a2f3aa025766 ("[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell") fixed an oops
experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions,
early_*(), are called at runtime by introducing an 'enum memmap_context'
parameter to memmap_init_zone() and init_currently_empty_zone(). This
parameter is intended to be used to tell whether the call of these two
functions is being made on behalf of a hotplug event, or happening at
boot-time. However, init_currently_empty_zone() does not use this
parameter at all, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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memblock_remove_range() is only used in the mm/memblock.c, so we can make
it static.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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__memcg_kmem_bypass() decides whether a kmem allocation should be bypassed
to the root memcg. Some conditions that it tests are valid criteria
regarding who should be held accountable; however, there are a couple
unnecessary tests for cold paths - __GFP_FAIL and fatal_signal_pending().
The previous patch updated try_charge() to handle both __GFP_FAIL and
dying tasks correctly and the only thing these two tests are doing is
making accounting less accurate and sprinkling tests for cold path
conditions in the hot paths. There's nothing meaningful gained by these
extra tests.
This patch removes the two unnecessary tests from __memcg_kmem_bypass().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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memcg_kmem_newpage_charge() and memcg_kmem_get_cache() are testing the
same series of conditions to decide whether to bypass kmem accounting.
Collect the tests into __memcg_kmem_bypass().
This is pure refactoring.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, try_charge() tries to reclaim memory synchronously when the
high limit is breached; however, if the allocation doesn't have
__GFP_WAIT, synchronous reclaim is skipped. If a process performs only
speculative allocations, it can blow way past the high limit. This is
actually easily reproducible by simply doing "find /". slab/slub
allocator tries speculative allocations first, so as long as there's
memory which can be consumed without blocking, it can keep allocating
memory regardless of the high limit.
This patch makes try_charge() always punt the over-high reclaim to the
return-to-userland path. If try_charge() detects that high limit is
breached, it adds the overage to current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high and
schedules execution of mem_cgroup_handle_over_high() which performs
synchronous reclaim from the return-to-userland path.
As long as kernel doesn't have a run-away allocation spree, this should
provide enough protection while making kmemcg behave more consistently.
It also has the following benefits.
- All over-high reclaims can use GFP_KERNEL regardless of the specific
gfp mask in use, e.g. GFP_NOFS, when the limit was breached.
- It copes with prio inversion. Previously, a low-prio task with
small memory.high might perform over-high reclaim with a bunch of
locks held. If a higher prio task needed any of these locks, it
would have to wait until the low prio task finished reclaim and
released the locks. By handing over-high reclaim to the task exit
path this issue can be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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task_struct->memcg_oom is a sub-struct containing fields which are used
for async memcg oom handling. Most task_struct fields aren't packaged
this way and it can lead to unnecessary alignment paddings. This patch
flattens it.
* task.memcg_oom.memcg -> task.memcg_in_oom
* task.memcg_oom.gfp_mask -> task.memcg_oom_gfp_mask
* task.memcg_oom.order -> task.memcg_oom_order
* task.memcg_oom.may_oom -> task.memcg_may_oom
In addition, task.memcg_may_oom is relocated to where other bitfields are
which reduces the size of task_struct.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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probe_kernel_address() is basically the same as the (later added)
probe_kernel_read().
The return value on EFAULT is a bit different: probe_kernel_address()
returns number-of-bytes-not-copied whereas probe_kernel_read() returns
-EFAULT. All callers have been checked, none cared.
probe_kernel_read() can be overridden by the architecture whereas
probe_kernel_address() cannot. parisc, blackfin and um do this, to insert
additional checking. Hence this patch possibly fixes obscure bugs,
although there are only two probe_kernel_address() callsites outside
arch/.
My first attempt involved removing probe_kernel_address() entirely and
converting all callsites to use probe_kernel_read() directly, but that got
tiresome.
This patch shrinks mm/slab_common.o by 218 bytes. For a single
probe_kernel_address() callsite.
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The patch "slab.h: sprinkle __assume_aligned attributes" causes *tons* of
whinges if you do 'make C=2' with sparse 0.5.0:
CHECK drivers/media/usb/pwc/pwc-if.c
include/linux/slab.h:307:43: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute
include/linux/slab.h:308:58: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute
include/linux/slab.h:337:73: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute
include/linux/slab.h:375:74: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute
include/linux/slab.h:378:80: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute
sparse apparently pretends to be gcc >= 4.9, yet isn't prepared to handle
all the function attributes supported by those gccs and complains loudly.
So hide the definition of __assume_aligned from it (so that the generic
one in compiler.h gets used).
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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gcc 4.9 added the function attribute assume_aligned, indicating to the
caller that the returned pointer may be assumed to have a certain minimal
alignment. This is useful if, for example, the return value is passed to
memset(). Add a shorthand macro for that.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A good candidate to return a boolean result.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The only way to enable a hardlockup to panic the machine is to set
'nmi_watchdog=panic' on the kernel command line.
This makes it awkward for end users and folks who want to run automate
tests (like myself).
Mimic the softlockup_panic knob and create a /proc/sys/kernel/hardlockup_panic
knob.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know
why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a
resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding.
IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the
actual offender.
Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have
hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make struct callback_head aligned to size of pointer. On most
architectures it happens naturally due ABI requirements, but some
architectures (like CRIS) have weird ABI and we need to ask it explicitly.
The alignment is required to guarantee that bits 0 and 1 of @next will be
clear under normal conditions -- as long as we use call_rcu(),
call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu() to queue callback.
This guarantee is important for few reasons:
- future call_rcu_lazy() will make use of lower bits in the pointer;
- the structure shares storage spacer in struct page with @compound_head,
which encode PageTail() in bit 0. The guarantee is needed to avoid
false-positive PageTail().
False postive PageTail() caused crash on crisv32[1]. It happend due
misaligned task_struct->rcu, which was byte-aligned.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55FAEA67.9000102@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of
different driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest
with the addition of some new platforms that are now supported. Full
details in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (181 commits)
fpga: socfpga: Fix check of return value of devm_request_irq
lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test
mcb: Destroy IDA on module unload
mcb: Do not return zero on error path in mcb_pci_probe()
mei: bus: set the device name before running fixup
mei: bus: use correct lock ordering
mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output
char: ipmi: ipmi_ssif: Replace timeval with timespec64
fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix issue with drvdata being overwritten.
fpga manager: remove unnecessary null pointer checks
fpga manager: ensure lifetime with of_fpga_mgr_get
fpga: zynq-fpga: Change fw format to handle bin instead of bit.
fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix unbalanced clock handling
misc: sram: partition base address belongs to __iomem space
coresight: etm3x: adding documentation for sysFS's cpu interface
vme: 8-bit status/id takes 256 values, not 255
fpga manager: Adding FPGA Manager support for Xilinx Zynq 7000
ARM: zynq: dt: Updated devicetree for Zynq 7000 platform.
ARM: dt: fpga: Added binding docs for Xilinx Zynq FPGA manager.
ver_linux: proc/modules, limit text processing to 'sed'
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the "big" driver core updates for 4.4-rc1. Primarily a bunch
of debugfs updates, with a smattering of minor driver core fixes and
updates as well.
All have been in linux-next for a long time"
* tag 'driver-core-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong()
of: to support binding numa node to specified device in devicetree
debugfs: Add read-only/write-only bool file ops
debugfs: Add read-only/write-only size_t file ops
debugfs: Add read-only/write-only x64 file ops
debugfs: Consolidate file mode checks in debugfs_create_*()
Revert "mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering"
driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules
mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering
devres: fix a for loop bounds check
CMA: fix CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES overflow in 64bit
base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain callbacks are called unconditionally
sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.
base: soc: siplify ida usage
kobject: move EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros next to corresponding definitions
kobject: explain what kobject's sd field is
debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values
debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool()
ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock'
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big staging driver update for 4.4-rc1. If you were
disappointed for 4.3-rc1 that we didn't contribute enough changesets,
you should be happy with this pull request of over 2400 patches.
But overall we removed more lines of code than we added, which is nice
to see. Full details in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while"
Greg, I've never been disappointed in how few commits Staging
contributes to the kernel.. Never.
* tag 'staging-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (2431 commits)
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: added missing blank lines
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: removed unnecessary braces
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: corrected block comments
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: corrected indent
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: added missing spaces after if
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: added missing space around '='
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: fixed position of else statements
Staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: fixed open brace positions
staging: rdma: ipath: Remove unneeded vairable.
staging: rtl8188eu: pwrGrpCnt variable removed in store_pwrindex_offset function
staging: rtl8188eu: new variable for hal_data->MCSTxPowerLevelOriginalOffset[pwrGrpCnt] in store_pwrindex_offset function
staging: rtl8188eu: checkpatch fixes: 'Avoid CamelCase' in hal/bb_cfg.c
staging: rtl8188eu: checkpatch fixes: line over 80 characters splited into two parts
staging: rtl8188eu: checkpatch fixes: alignment should match open parenthesis
staging: rtl8188eu: checkpatch fixes: unnecessary parentheses removed in hal/bb_cfg.c
staging: rtl8188eu: checkpatch fixes: spaces preferred around that '|' in hal/bb_cfg.c
staging: rtl8188eu: operator = replaced by += in loop increment
staging: rtl8188eu: occurrence of the 5 GHz code marked
staging: rtl8188eu: increment placed into for loop header
staging: rtl8188eu: while loop replaced by for loop in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big tty and serial driver update for 4.4-rc1.
Lots of serial driver updates and a few small tty core changes. Full
details in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'tty-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (148 commits)
tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers
tty: Abstract tty buffer work
tty: Prevent tty teardown during tty_write_message()
tty: core: Use correct spinlock flavor in tiocspgrp()
tty: Combine SIGTTOU/SIGTTIN handling
serial: amba-pl011: fix incorrect integer size in pl011_fifo_to_tty()
ttyFDC: Fix build problems due to use of module_{init,exit}
tty: remove unneeded return statement
serial: 8250_mid: add support for DMA engine handling from UART MMIO
dmaengine: hsu: remove platform data
dmaengine: hsu: introduce stubs for the exported functions
dmaengine: hsu: make the UART driver in control of selecting this driver
serial: fix mctrl helper functions
serial: 8250_pci: Intel MID UART support to its own driver
serial: fsl_lpuart: add earlycon support
tty: disable unbind for old 74xx based serial/mpsc console port
serial: pl011: Spelling s/clocks-names/clock-names/
n_tty: Remove reader wakeups for TTY_BREAK/TTY_PARITY chars
tty: synclink, fix indentation
serial: at91, fix rs485 properties
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big USB patchset for 4.4-rc1.
As usual, most of the changes are in the gadget subsystem, and we
removed a host controller for a device that is no longer in existance,
and probably never was even made public. There is also other minor
driver updates and new device ids, full details in the changelog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'usb-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (233 commits)
USB: core: Codestyle fix in urb.c
usb: misc: usb3503: Use i2c_add_driver helper macro
usb: host: lpc32xx: don't unregister phy device
usb: host: lpc32xx: balance clk enable/disable on removal
usb: host: lpc32xx: fix warnings caused by enabling unprepared clock
uwb: drp: Use setup_timer
uwb: neh: Use setup_timer
uwb: rsv: Use setup_timer
USB: qcserial: add Sierra Wireless MC74xx/EM74xx
usb: chipidea: otg: don't wait vbus drops below BSV when starts host
chipidea: ci_hdrc_pci: use PCI_VDEVICE() instead of PCI_DEVICE()
doc: dt-binding: ci-hdrc-usb2: split vendor specific properties
usb: chipidea: imx: add imx6ul usb support
doc: dt-binding: ci-hdrc-usb2: improve property description
usb: chipidea: imx: add usb support for imx7d
Doc: usb: ci-hdrc-usb2: Add phy-clkgate-delay-us entry
usb: chipidea: Add support for 'phy-clkgate-delay-us' property
usb: chipidea: Use extcon framework for VBUS and ID detect
usb: gadget: net2280: restore ep_cfg after defect7374 workaround
usb: dwc2: host: Fix use after free w/ simultaneous irqs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
"Smaller set of DM changes for this merge. I've based these changes on
Jens' for-4.4/reservations branch because the associated DM changes
required it.
- Revert a dm-multipath change that caused a regression for
unprivledged users (e.g. kvm guests) that issued ioctls when a
multipath device had no available paths.
- Include Christoph's refactoring of DM's ioctl handling and add
support for passing through persistent reservations with DM
multipath.
- All other changes are very simple cleanups"
* tag 'dm-4.4-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm switch: simplify conditional in alloc_region_table()
dm delay: document that offsets are specified in sectors
dm delay: capitalize the start of an delay_ctr() error message
dm delay: Use DM_MAPIO macros instead of open-coded equivalents
dm linear: remove redundant target name from error messages
dm persistent data: eliminate unnecessary return values
dm: eliminate unused "bioset" process for each bio-based DM device
dm: convert ffs to __ffs
dm: drop NULL test before kmem_cache_destroy() and mempool_destroy()
dm: add support for passing through persistent reservations
dm: refactor ioctl handling
Revert "dm mpath: fix stalls when handling invalid ioctls"
dm: initialize non-blk-mq queue data before queue is used
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
"Two major components to this update.
1) The clustered-raid1 support from SUSE is nearly complete. There
are a few outstanding issues being worked on. Maybe half a dozen
patches will bring this to a usable state.
2) The first stage of journalled-raid5 support from Facebook makes an
appearance. With a journal device configured (typically NVRAM or
SSD), the "RAID5 write hole" should be closed - a crash during
degraded operations cannot result in data corruption.
The next stage will be to use the journal as a write-behind cache
so that latency can be reduced and in some cases throughput
increased by performing more full-stripe writes.
* tag 'md/4.4' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (66 commits)
MD: when RAID journal is missing/faulty, block RESTART_ARRAY_RW
MD: set journal disk ->raid_disk
MD: kick out journal disk if it's not fresh
raid5-cache: start raid5 readonly if journal is missing
MD: add new bit to indicate raid array with journal
raid5-cache: IO error handling
raid5: journal disk can't be removed
raid5-cache: add trim support for log
MD: fix info output for journal disk
raid5-cache: use bio chaining
raid5-cache: small log->seq cleanup
raid5-cache: new helper: r5_reserve_log_entry
raid5-cache: inline r5l_alloc_io_unit into r5l_new_meta
raid5-cache: take rdev->data_offset into account early on
raid5-cache: refactor bio allocation
raid5-cache: clean up r5l_get_meta
raid5-cache: simplify state machine when caches flushes are not needed
raid5-cache: factor out a helper to run all stripes for an I/O unit
raid5-cache: rename flushed_ios to finished_ios
raid5-cache: free I/O units earlier
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Pull block reservation support from Jens Axboe:
"This adds support for persistent reservations, both at the core level,
as well as for sd and NVMe"
[ Background from the docs: "Persistent Reservations allow restricting
access to block devices to specific initiators in a shared storage
setup. All implementations are expected to ensure the reservations
survive a power loss and cover all connections in a multi path
environment" ]
* 'for-4.4/reservations' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
NVMe: Precedence error in nvme_pr_clear()
nvme: add missing endianess annotations in nvme_pr_command
NVMe: Add persistent reservation ops
sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API
block: add an API for Persistent Reservations
block: cleanup blkdev_ioctl
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Pull block integrity updates from Jens Axboe:
""This is the joint work of Dan and Martin, cleaning up and improving
the support for block data integrity"
* 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block, libnvdimm, nvme: provide a built-in blk_integrity nop profile
block: blk_flush_integrity() for bio-based drivers
block: move blk_integrity to request_queue
block: generic request_queue reference counting
nvme: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
md: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
md, dm, scsi, nvme, libnvdimm: drop blk_integrity_unregister() at shutdown
block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk
block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs
block: Reduce the size of struct blk_integrity
block: Consolidate static integrity profile properties
block: Move integrity kobject to struct gendisk
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Pull lightnvm support from Jens Axboe:
"This adds support for lightnvm, and adds support to NVMe as well.
This is pretty exciting, in that it enables new and interesting use
cases for compatible flash devices. There's a LWN writeup about an
earlier posting here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/641247/
This has been underway for a while, and should be ready for merging at
this point"
* 'for-4.4/lightnvm' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
nvme: lightnvm: clean up a data type
lightnvm: refactor phys addrs type to u64
nvme: LightNVM support
rrpc: Round-robin sector target with cost-based gc
gennvm: Generic NVM manager
lightnvm: Support for Open-Channel SSDs
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"Here are the block driver changes for 4.4. This pull request
contains:
- NVMe:
- Refactor and moving of code to prepare for proper target
support. From Christoph and Jay.
- 32-bit nvme warning fix from Arnd.
- Error initialization fix from me.
- Proper namespace removal and reference counting support from
Keith.
- Device resume fix on IO failure, also from Keith.
- Dependency fix from Keith, now that nvme isn't under the
umbrella of the block anymore.
- Target location and maintainers update from Jay.
- From Ming Lei, the long awaited DIO/AIO support for loop.
- Enable BD-RE writeable opens, from Georgios"
* 'for-4.4/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
Update target repo for nvme patch contributions
NVMe: initialize error to '0'
nvme: use an integer value to Linux errno values
nvme: fix 32-bit build warning
NVMe: Add explicit block config dependency
nvme: include <linux/types.ĥ> in <linux/nvme.h>
nvme: move to a new drivers/nvme/host directory
nvme.h: add missing nvme_id_ctrl endianess annotations
nvme: move hardware structures out of the uapi version of nvme.h
nvme: add a local nvme.h header
nvme: properly handle partially initialized queues in nvme_create_io_queues
nvme: merge nvme_dev_start, nvme_dev_resume and nvme_async_probe
nvme: factor reset code into a common helper
nvme: merge nvme_dev_reset into nvme_reset_failed_dev
nvme: delete dev from dev_list in nvme_reset
NVMe: Simplify device resume on io queue failure
NVMe: Namespace removal simplifications
NVMe: Reference count open namespaces
cdrom: Random writing support for BD-RE media
block: loop: support DIO & AIO
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Quite a new features are included this time.
First off, the Collaborative Processor Performance Control interface
(version 2) defined by ACPI will now be supported on ARM64 along with
a cpufreq frontend for CPU performance scaling.
Second, ACPI gets a new infrastructure for the early probing of IRQ
chips and clock sources (along the lines of the existing similar
mechanism for DT).
Next, the ACPI core and the generic device properties API will now
support a recently introduced hierarchical properties extension of the
_DSD (Device Specific Data) ACPI device configuration object. If the
ACPI platform firmware uses that extension to organize device
properties in a hierarchical way, the kernel will automatically handle
it and make those properties available to device drivers via the
generic device properties API.
It also will be possible to build the ACPICA's AML interpreter
debugger into the kernel now and use that to diagnose AML-related
problems more efficiently. In the future, this should make it
possible to single-step AML execution and do similar things.
Interesting stuff, although somewhat experimental at this point.
Finally, the PM core gets a new mechanism that can be used by device
drivers to distinguish between suspend-to-RAM (based on platform
firmware support) and suspend-to-idle (or other variants of system
suspend the platform firmware is not involved in) and possibly
optimize their device suspend/resume handling accordingly.
In addition to that, some existing features are re-organized quite
substantially.
First, the ACPI-based handling of PCI host bridges on x86 and ia64 is
unified and the common code goes into the ACPI core (so as to reduce
code duplication and eliminate non-essential differences between the
two architectures in that area).
Second, the Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework is
reorganized to make the code easier to find and follow.
Next, the cpufreq core's sysfs interface is reorganized to get rid of
the "primary CPU" concept for configurations in which the same
performance scaling settings are shared between multiple CPUs.
Finally, some interfaces that aren't necessary any more are dropped
from the generic power domains framework.
On top of the above we have some minor extensions, cleanups and bug
fixes in multiple places, as usual.
Specifics:
- ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150930 (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng).
The most significant change is to allow the AML debugger to be
built into the kernel. On top of that there is an update related
to the NFIT table (the ACPI persistent memory interface) and a few
fixes and cleanups.
- ACPI CPPC2 (Collaborative Processor Performance Control v2) support
along with a cpufreq frontend (Ashwin Chaugule).
This can only be enabled on ARM64 at this point.
- New ACPI infrastructure for the early probing of IRQ chips and
clock sources (Marc Zyngier).
- Support for a new hierarchical properties extension of the ACPI
_DSD (Device Specific Data) device configuration object allowing
the kernel to handle hierarchical properties (provided by the
platform firmware this way) automatically and make them available
to device drivers via the generic device properties interface
(Rafael Wysocki).
- Generic device properties API extension to obtain an index of
certain string value in an array of strings, along the lines of
of_property_match_string(), but working for all of the supported
firmware node types, and support for the "dma-names" device
property based on it (Mika Westerberg).
- ACPI core fix to parse the MADT (Multiple APIC Description Table)
entries in the order expected by platform firmware (and mandated by
the specification) to avoid confusion on systems with more than 255
logical CPUs (Lukasz Anaczkowski).
- Consolidation of the ACPI-based handling of PCI host bridges on x86
and ia64 (Jiang Liu).
- ACPI core fixes to ensure that the correct IRQ number is used to
represent the SCI (System Control Interrupt) in the cases when it
has been re-mapped (Chen Yu).
- New ACPI backlight quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad S405 (Hans de Goede).
- ACPI EC driver fixes (Lv Zheng).
- Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Dan Carpenter, Insu Yun, Jiri
Kosina, Rami Rosen, Rasmus Villemoes).
- New mechanism in the PM core allowing drivers to check if the
platform firmware is going to be involved in the upcoming system
suspend or if it has been involved in the suspend the system is
resuming from at the moment (Rafael Wysocki).
This should allow drivers to optimize their suspend/resume handling
in some cases and the changes include a couple of users of it (the
i8042 input driver, PCI PM).
- PCI PM fix to prevent runtime-suspended devices with PME enabled
from being resumed during system suspend even if they aren't
configured to wake up the system from sleep (Rafael Wysocki).
- New mechanism to report the number of a wakeup IRQ that woke up the
system from sleep last time (Alexandra Yates).
- Removal of unused interfaces from the generic power domains
framework and fixes related to latency measurements in that code
(Ulf Hansson, Daniel Lezcano).
- cpufreq core sysfs interface rework to make it handle CPUs that
share performance scaling settings (represented by a common cpufreq
policy object) more symmetrically (Viresh Kumar).
This should help to simplify the CPU offline/online handling among
other things.
- cpufreq core fixes and cleanups (Viresh Kumar).
- intel_pstate fixes related to the Turbo Activation Ratio (TAR)
mechanism on client platforms which causes the turbo P-states range
to vary depending on platform firmware settings (Srinivas
Pandruvada).
- intel_pstate sysfs interface fix (Prarit Bhargava).
- Assorted cpufreq driver (imx, tegra20, powernv, integrator) fixes
and cleanups (Bai Ping, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Shilpasri G
Bhat, Luis de Bethencourt).
- cpuidle mvebu driver cleanups (Russell King).
- OPP (Operating Performance Points) framework code reorganization to
make it more maintainable (Viresh Kumar).
- Intel Broxton support for the RAPL (Running Average Power Limits)
power capping driver (Amy Wiles).
- Assorted power management code fixes and cleanups (Dan Carpenter,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Luis de Bethencourt, Rasmus
Villemoes)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.4-rc1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (108 commits)
cpufreq: postfix policy directory with the first CPU in related_cpus
cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories
cpufreq: remove cpufreq_sysfs_{create|remove}_file()
cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq at boot time
cpufreq: Use cpumask_copy instead of cpumask_or to copy a mask
cpufreq: ondemand: Drop unnecessary locks from update_sampling_rate()
PM / Domains: Merge measurements for PM QoS device latencies
PM / Domains: Don't measure ->start|stop() latency in system PM callbacks
PM / clk: Fix broken build due to non-matching code and header #ifdefs
ACPI / Documentation: add copy_dsdt to ACPI format options
ACPI / sysfs: correctly check failing memory allocation
ACPI / video: Add a quirk to force native backlight on Lenovo IdeaPad S405
ACPI / CPPC: Fix potential memory leak
ACPI / CPPC: signedness bug in register_pcc_channel()
ACPI / PAD: power_saving_thread() is not freezable
ACPI / PM: Fix incorrect wakeup IRQ setting during suspend-to-idle
ACPI: Using correct irq when waiting for events
ACPI: Use correct IRQ when uninstalling ACPI interrupt handler
cpuidle: mvebu: disable the bind/unbind attributes and use builtin_platform_driver
cpuidle: mvebu: clean up multiple platform drivers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
- Improve balloon driver memory hotplug placement.
- Use unpopulated hotplugged memory for foreign pages (if
supported/enabled).
- Support 64 KiB guest pages on arm64.
- CPU hotplug support on arm/arm64.
* tag 'for-linus-4.4-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (44 commits)
xen: fix the check of e_pfn in xen_find_pfn_range
x86/xen: add reschedule point when mapping foreign GFNs
xen/arm: don't try to re-register vcpu_info on cpu_hotplug.
xen, cpu_hotplug: call device_offline instead of cpu_down
xen/arm: Enable cpu_hotplug.c
xenbus: Support multiple grants ring with 64KB
xen/grant-table: Add an helper to iterate over a specific number of grants
xen/xenbus: Rename *RING_PAGE* to *RING_GRANT*
xen/arm: correct comment in enlighten.c
xen/gntdev: use types from linux/types.h in userspace headers
xen/gntalloc: use types from linux/types.h in userspace headers
xen/balloon: Use the correct sizeof when declaring frame_list
xen/swiotlb: Add support for 64KB page granularity
xen/swiotlb: Pass addresses rather than frame numbers to xen_arch_need_swiotlb
arm/xen: Add support for 64KB page granularity
xen/privcmd: Add support for Linux 64KB page granularity
net/xen-netback: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
net/xen-netfront: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
block/xen-blkback: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
block/xen-blkfront: Make it running on 64KB page granularity
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"There is only one new feature in this pull for the 4.4 merge window,
most of it is small enhancements, cleanup and bug fixes:
- Add the s390 backend for the software dirty bit tracking. This
adds two new pgtable functions pte_clear_soft_dirty and
pmd_clear_soft_dirty which is why there is a hit to
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h in this pull request.
- A series of cleanup patches for the AP bus, this includes the
removal of the support for two outdated crypto cards (PCICC and
PCICA).
- The irq handling / signaling on buffer full in the runtime
instrumentation code is dropped.
- Some micro optimizations: remove unnecessary memory barriers for a
couple of functions: [smb_]rmb, [smb_]wmb, atomics, bitops, and for
spin_unlock. Use the builtin bswap if available and make
test_and_set_bit_lock more cache friendly.
- Statistics and a tracepoint for the diagnose calls to the
hypervisor.
- The CPU measurement facility support to sample KVM guests is
improved.
- The vector instructions are now always enabled for user space
processes if the hardware has the vector facility. This simplifies
the FPU handling code. The fpu-internal.h header is split into fpu
internals, api and types just like x86.
- Cleanup and improvements for the common I/O layer.
- Rework udelay to solve a problem with kprobe. udelay has busy loop
semantics but still uses an idle processor state for the wait"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (66 commits)
s390: remove runtime instrumentation interrupts
s390/cio: de-duplicate subchannel validation
s390/css: unneeded initialization in for_each_subchannel
s390/Kconfig: use builtin bswap
s390/dasd: fix disconnected device with valid path mask
s390/dasd: fix invalid PAV assignment after suspend/resume
s390/dasd: fix double free in dasd_eckd_read_conf
s390/kernel: fix ptrace peek/poke for floating point registers
s390/cio: move ccw_device_stlck functions
s390/cio: move ccw_device_call_handler
s390/topology: reduce per_cpu() invocations
s390/nmi: reduce size of percpu variable
s390/nmi: fix terminology
s390/nmi: remove casts
s390/nmi: remove pointless error strings
s390: don't store registers on disabled wait anymore
s390: get rid of __set_psw_mask()
s390/fpu: split fpu-internal.h into fpu internals, api, and type headers
s390/dasd: fix list_del corruption after lcu changes
s390/spinlock: remove unneeded serializations at unlock
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"The most important change is that we reduce L1_CACHE_BYTES to 16
bytes, for which a trivial patch for XPS in the network layer was
needed. Then we wire up the sys_membarrier and userfaultfd syscalls
and added two other small cleanups"
* 'parisc-4.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Change L1_CACHE_BYTES to 16
net/xps: Fix calculation of initial number of xps queues
parisc: reduce syslog debug output
parisc: serial/mux: Convert to uart_console_device instead of open-coded
parisc: Wire up userfaultfd syscall
parisc: allocate sys_membarrier system call number
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
Changes of note:
1) Allow to schedule ICMP packets in IPVS, from Alex Gartrell.
2) Provide FIB table ID in ipv4 route dumps just as ipv6 does, from
David Ahern.
3) Allow the user to ask for the statistics to be filtered out of
ipv4/ipv6 address netlink dumps. From Sowmini Varadhan.
4) More work to pass the network namespace context around deep into
various packet path APIs, starting with the netfilter hooks. From
Eric W Biederman.
5) Add layer 2 TX/RX checksum offloading to qeth driver, from Thomas
Richter.
6) Use usec resolution for SYN/ACK RTTs in TCP, from Yuchung Cheng.
7) Support Very High Throughput in wireless MESH code, from Bob
Copeland.
8) Allow setting the ageing_time in switchdev/rocker. From Scott
Feldman.
9) Properly autoload L2TP type modules, from Stephen Hemminger.
10) Fix and enable offload features by default in 8139cp driver, from
David Woodhouse.
11) Support both ipv4 and ipv6 sockets in a single vxlan device, from
Jiri Benc.
12) Fix CWND limiting of thin streams in TCP, from Bendik Rønning
Opstad.
13) Fix IPSEC flowcache overflows on large systems, from Steffen
Klassert.
14) Convert bridging to track VLANs using rhashtable entries rather than
a bitmap. From Nikolay Aleksandrov.
15) Make TCP listener handling completely lockless, this is a major
accomplishment. Incoming request sockets now live in the
established hash table just like any other socket too.
From Eric Dumazet.
15) Provide more bridging attributes to netlink, from Nikolay
Aleksandrov.
16) Use hash based algorithm for ipv4 multipath routing, this was very
long overdue. From Peter Nørlund.
17) Several y2038 cures, mostly avoiding timespec. From Arnd Bergmann.
18) Allow non-root execution of EBPF programs, from Alexei Starovoitov.
19) Support SO_INCOMING_CPU as setsockopt, from Eric Dumazet. This
influences the port binding selection logic used by SO_REUSEPORT.
20) Add ipv6 support to VRF, from David Ahern.
21) Add support for Mellanox Spectrum switch ASIC, from Jiri Pirko.
22) Add rtl8xxxu Realtek wireless driver, from Jes Sorensen.
23) Implement RACK loss recovery in TCP, from Yuchung Cheng.
24) Support multipath routes in MPLS, from Roopa Prabhu.
25) Fix POLLOUT notification for listening sockets in AF_UNIX, from Eric
Dumazet.
26) Add new QED Qlogic river, from Yuval Mintz, Manish Chopra, and
Sudarsana Kalluru.
27) Don't fetch timestamps on AF_UNIX sockets, from Hannes Frederic
Sowa.
28) Support ipv6 geneve tunnels, from John W Linville.
29) Add flood control support to switchdev layer, from Ido Schimmel.
30) Fix CHECKSUM_PARTIAL handling of potentially fragmented frames, from
Hannes Frederic Sowa.
31) Support persistent maps and progs in bpf, from Daniel Borkmann.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1790 commits)
sh_eth: use DMA barriers
switchdev: respect SKIP_EOPNOTSUPP flag in case there is no recursion
net: sched: kill dead code in sch_choke.c
irda: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "irlmp_unregister_service"
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: include DSA ports in VLANs
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: disable SA learning for DSA and CPU ports
net/core: fix for_each_netdev_feature
vlan: Invoke driver vlan hooks only if device is present
arcnet/com20020: add LEDS_CLASS dependency
bpf, verifier: annotate verbose printer with __printf
dp83640: Only wait for timestamps for packets with timestamping enabled.
ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask
dp83640: Prune rx timestamp list before reading from it
dp83640: Delay scheduled work.
dp83640: Include hash in timestamp/packet matching
ipv6: fix tunnel error handling
net/mlx5e: Fix LSO vlan insertion
net/mlx5e: Re-eanble client vlan TX acceleration
net/mlx5e: Return error in case mlx5e_set_features() fails
net/mlx5e: Don't allow more than max supported channels
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Add support for cipher output IVs in testmgr
- Add missing crypto_ahash_blocksize helper
- Mark authenc and des ciphers as not allowed under FIPS.
Algorithms:
- Add CRC support to 842 compression
- Add keywrap algorithm
- A number of changes to the akcipher interface:
+ Separate functions for setting public/private keys.
+ Use SG lists.
Drivers:
- Add Intel SHA Extension optimised SHA1 and SHA256
- Use dma_map_sg instead of custom functions in crypto drivers
- Add support for STM32 RNG
- Add support for ST RNG
- Add Device Tree support to exynos RNG driver
- Add support for mxs-dcp crypto device on MX6SL
- Add xts(aes) support to caam
- Add ctr(aes) and xts(aes) support to qat
- A large set of fixes from Russell King for the marvell/cesa driver"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (115 commits)
crypto: asymmetric_keys - Fix unaligned access in x509_get_sig_params()
crypto: akcipher - Don't #include crypto/public_key.h as the contents aren't used
hwrng: exynos - Add Device Tree support
hwrng: exynos - Fix missing configuration after suspend to RAM
hwrng: exynos - Add timeout for waiting on init done
dt-bindings: rng: Describe Exynos4 PRNG bindings
crypto: marvell/cesa - use __le32 for hardware descriptors
crypto: marvell/cesa - fix missing cpu_to_le32() in mv_cesa_dma_add_op()
crypto: marvell/cesa - use memcpy_fromio()/memcpy_toio()
crypto: marvell/cesa - use gfp_t for gfp flags
crypto: marvell/cesa - use dma_addr_t for cur_dma
crypto: marvell/cesa - use readl_relaxed()/writel_relaxed()
crypto: caam - fix indentation of close braces
crypto: caam - only export the state we really need to export
crypto: caam - fix non-block aligned hash calculation
crypto: caam - avoid needlessly saving and restoring caam_hash_ctx
crypto: caam - print errno code when hash registration fails
crypto: marvell/cesa - fix memory leak
crypto: marvell/cesa - fix first-fragment handling in mv_cesa_ahash_dma_last_req()
crypto: marvell/cesa - rearrange handling for sw padded hashes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- sched/fair load tracking fixes and cleanups (Byungchul Park)
- Make load tracking frequency scale invariant (Dietmar Eggemann)
- sched/deadline updates (Juri Lelli)
- stop machine fixes, cleanups and enhancements for bugs triggered by
CPU hotplug stress testing (Oleg Nesterov)
- scheduler preemption code rework: remove PREEMPT_ACTIVE and related
cleanups (Peter Zijlstra)
- Rework the sched_info::run_delay code to fix races (Peter Zijlstra)
- Optimize per entity utilization tracking (Peter Zijlstra)
- ... misc other fixes, cleanups and smaller updates"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
sched: Don't scan all-offline ->cpus_allowed twice if !CONFIG_CPUSETS
sched: Move cpu_active() tests from stop_two_cpus() into migrate_swap_stop()
sched: Start stopper early
stop_machine: Kill cpu_stop_threads->setup() and cpu_stop_unpark()
stop_machine: Kill smp_hotplug_thread->pre_unpark, introduce stop_machine_unpark()
stop_machine: Change cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to rely on stopper->enabled
stop_machine: Introduce __cpu_stop_queue_work() and cpu_stop_queue_two_works()
stop_machine: Ensure that a queued callback will be called before cpu_stop_park()
sched/x86: Fix typo in __switch_to() comments
sched/core: Remove a parameter in the migrate_task_rq() function
sched/core: Drop unlikely behind BUG_ON()
sched/core: Fix task and run queue sched_info::run_delay inconsistencies
sched/numa: Fix task_tick_fair() from disabling numa_balancing
sched/core: Add preempt_count invariant check
sched/core: More notrace annotations
sched/core: Kill PREEMPT_ACTIVE
sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count
sched/core: Simplify preempt_count tests
sched/core: Robustify preemption leak checks
sched/core: Stop setting PREEMPT_ACTIVE
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Improve accuracy of perf/sched clock on x86. (Adrian Hunter)
- Intel DS and BTS updates. (Alexander Shishkin)
- Intel cstate PMU support. (Kan Liang)
- Add group read support to perf_event_read(). (Peter Zijlstra)
- Branch call hardware sampling support, implemented on x86 and
PowerPC. (Stephane Eranian)
- Event groups transactional interface enhancements. (Sukadev
Bhattiprolu)
- Enable proper x86/intel/uncore PMU support on multi-segment PCI
systems. (Taku Izumi)
- ... misc fixes and cleanups.
The perf tooling team was very busy again with 200+ commits, the full
diff doesn't fit into lkml size limits. Here's an (incomplete) list
of the tooling highlights:
New features:
- Change the default event used in all tools (record/top): use the
most precise "cycles" hw counter available, i.e. when the user
doesn't specify any event, it will try using cycles:ppp, cycles:pp,
etc and fall back transparently until it finds a working counter.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Integration of perf with eBPF that, given an eBPF .c source file
(or .o file built for the 'bpf' target with clang), will get it
automatically built, validated and loaded into the kernel via the
sys_bpf syscall, which can then be used and seen using 'perf trace'
and other tools.
(Wang Nan)
Various user interface improvements:
- Automatic pager invocation on long help output. (Namhyung Kim)
- Search for more options when passing args to -h, e.g.: (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
$ perf report -h interface
Usage: perf report [<options>]
--gtk Use the GTK2 interface
--stdio Use the stdio interface
--tui Use the TUI interface
- Show ordered command line options when -h is used or when an
unknown option is specified. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- If options are passed after -h, show just its descriptions, not all
options. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Implement column based horizontal scrolling in the hists browser
(top, report), making it possible to use the TUI for things like
'perf mem report' where there are many more columns than can fit in
a terminal. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Enhance the error reporting of tracepoint event parsing, e.g.:
$ oldperf record -e sched:sched_switc usleep 1
event syntax error: 'sched:sched_switc'
\___ unknown tracepoint
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Now we get the much nicer:
$ perf record -e sched:sched_switc ls
event syntax error: 'sched:sched_switc'
\___ can't access trace events
Error: No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switc
Hint: Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug'
And after we have those mount point permissions fixed:
$ perf record -e sched:sched_switc ls
event syntax error: 'sched:sched_switc'
\___ unknown tracepoint
Error: File /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switc not found.
Hint: Perhaps this kernel misses some CONFIG_ setting to enable this feature?.
I.e. basically now the event parsing routing uses the strerror_open()
routines introduced by and used in 'perf trace' work. (Jiri Olsa)
- Fail properly when pattern matching fails to find a tracepoint,
i.e. '-e non:existent' was being correctly handled, with a proper
error message about that not being a valid event, but '-e
non:existent*' wasn't, fix it. (Jiri Olsa)
- Do event name substring search as last resort in 'perf list'.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
E.g.:
# perf list clock
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
cpu-clock [Software event]
task-clock [Software event]
uncore_cbox_0/clockticks/ [Kernel PMU event]
uncore_cbox_1/clockticks/ [Kernel PMU event]
kvm:kvm_pvclock_update [Tracepoint event]
kvm:kvm_update_master_clock [Tracepoint event]
power:clock_disable [Tracepoint event]
power:clock_enable [Tracepoint event]
power:clock_set_rate [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_clock_adjtime [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_clock_getres [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_clock_gettime [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_clock_nanosleep [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_enter_clock_settime [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_clock_adjtime [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_clock_getres [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_clock_gettime [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_clock_nanosleep [Tracepoint event]
syscalls:sys_exit_clock_settime [Tracepoint event]
Intel PT hardware tracing enhancements:
- Accept a zero --itrace period, meaning "as often as possible". In
the case of Intel PT that is the same as a period of 1 and a unit
of 'instructions' (i.e. --itrace=i1i). (Adrian Hunter)
- Harmonize itrace's synthesized callchains with the existing
--max-stack tool option. (Adrian Hunter)
- Allow time to be displayed in nanoseconds in 'perf script'.
(Adrian Hunter)
- Fix potential infinite loop when handling Intel PT timestamps.
(Adrian Hunter)
- Slighly improve Intel PT debug logging. (Adrian Hunter)
- Warn when AUX data has been lost, just like when processing
PERF_RECORD_LOST. (Adrian Hunter)
- Further document export-to-postgresql.py script. (Adrian Hunter)
- Add option to synthesize branch stack from auxtrace data. (Adrian
Hunter)
Misc notable changes:
- Switch the default callchain output mode to 'graph,0.5,caller', to
make it look like the default for other tools, reducing the
learning curve for people used to 'caller' based viewing. (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- various call chain usability enhancements. (Namhyung Kim)
- Introduce the 'P' event modifier, meaning 'max precision level,
please', i.e.:
$ perf record -e cycles:P usleep 1
Is now similar to:
$ perf record usleep 1
Useful, for instance, when specifying multiple events. (Jiri Olsa)
- Add 'socket' sort entry, to sort by the processor socket in 'perf
top' and 'perf report'. (Kan Liang)
- Introduce --socket-filter to 'perf report', for filtering by
processor socket. (Kan Liang)
- Add new "Zoom into Processor Socket" operation in the perf hists
browser, used in 'perf top' and 'perf report'. (Kan Liang)
- Allow probing on kmodules without DWARF. (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Fix 'perf probe -l' for probes added to kernel module functions.
(Masami Hiramatsu)
- Preparatory work for the 'perf stat record' feature that will allow
generating perf.data files with counting data in addition to the
sampling mode we have now (Jiri Olsa)
- Update libtraceevent KVM plugin. (Paolo Bonzini)
- ... plus lots of other enhancements that I failed to list properly,
by: Adrian Hunter, Alexander Shishkin, Andi Kleen, Andrzej Hajda,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Dima Kogan, Don Zickus, Geliang Tang, He
Kuang, Huaitong Han, Ingo Molnar, Jan Stancek, Jiri Olsa, Kan
Liang, Kirill Tkhai, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Fleming, Namhyung Kim,
Paolo Bonzini, Peter Zijlstra, Rabin Vincent, Scott Wood, Stephane
Eranian, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Taku Izumi, Vaishali Thakkar, Wang
Nan, Yang Shi and Yunlong Song"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (260 commits)
perf unwind: Pass symbol source to libunwind
tools build: Fix libiberty feature detection
perf tools: Compile scriptlets to BPF objects when passing '.c' to --event
perf record: Add clang options for compiling BPF scripts
perf bpf: Attach eBPF filter to perf event
perf tools: Make sure fixdep is built before libbpf
perf script: Enable printing of branch stack
perf trace: Add cmd string table to decode sys_bpf first arg
perf bpf: Collect perf_evsel in BPF object files
perf tools: Load eBPF object into kernel
perf tools: Create probe points for BPF programs
perf tools: Enable passing bpf object file to --event
perf ebpf: Add the libbpf glue
perf tools: Make perf depend on libbpf
perf symbols: Fix endless loop in dso__split_kallsyms_for_kcore
perf tools: Enable pre-event inherit setting by config terms
perf symbols: we can now read separate debug-info files based on a build ID
perf symbols: Fix type error when reading a build-id
perf tools: Search for more options when passing args to -h
perf stat: Cache aggregated map entries in extra cpumap
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This seems to be a mis-reading of how alpha memory ordering works, and
is not backed up by the alpha architecture manual. The helper functions
don't do anything special on any other architectures, and the arguments
that support them being safe on other architectures also argue that they
are safe on alpha.
Basically, the "control dependency" is between a previous read and a
subsequent write that is dependent on the value read. Even if the
subsequent write is actually done speculatively, there is no way that
such a speculative write could be made visible to other cpu's until it
has been committed, which requires validating the speculation.
Note that most weakely ordered architectures (very much including alpha)
do not guarantee any ordering relationship between two loads that depend
on each other on a control dependency:
read A
if (val == 1)
read B
because the conditional may be predicted, and the "read B" may be
speculatively moved up to before reading the value A. So we require the
user to insert a smp_rmb() between the two accesses to be correct:
read A;
if (A == 1)
smp_rmb()
read B
Alpha is further special in that it can break that ordering even if the
*address* of B depends on the read of A, because the cacheline that is
read later may be stale unless you have a memory barrier in between the
pointer read and the read of the value behind a pointer:
read ptr
read offset(ptr)
whereas all other weakly ordered architectures guarantee that the data
dependency (as opposed to just a control dependency) will order the two
accesses. As a result, alpha needs a "smp_read_barrier_depends()" in
between those two reads for them to be ordered.
The coontrol dependency that "READ_ONCE_CTRL()" and "atomic_read_ctrl()"
had was a control dependency to a subsequent *write*, however, and
nobody can finalize such a subsequent write without having actually done
the read. And were you to write such a value to a "stale" cacheline
(the way the unordered reads came to be), that would seem to lose the
write entirely.
So the things that make alpha able to re-order reads even more
aggressively than other weak architectures do not seem to be relevant
for a subsequent write. Alpha memory ordering may be strange, but
there's no real indication that it is *that* strange.
Also, the alpha architecture reference manual very explicitly talks
about the definition of "Dependence Constraints" in section 5.6.1.7,
where a preceding read dominates a subsequent write.
Such a dependence constraint admittedly does not impose a BEFORE (alpha
architecture term for globally visible ordering), but it does guarantee
that there can be no "causal loop". I don't see how you could avoid
such a loop if another cpu could see the stored value and then impact
the value of the first read. Put another way: the read and the write
could not be seen as being out of order wrt other cpus.
So I do not see how these "x_ctrl()" functions can currently be necessary.
I may have to eat my words at some point, but in the absense of clear
proof that alpha actually needs this, or indeed even an explanation of
how alpha could _possibly_ need it, I do not believe these functions are
called for.
And if it turns out that alpha really _does_ need a barrier for this
case, that barrier still should not be "smp_read_barrier_depends()".
We'd have to make up some new speciality barrier just for alpha, along
with the documentation for why it really is necessary.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl()
ops, synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between
architectures, add atomic_long_t bitops. (Peter Zijlstra)
- Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics and
use them in various locking primitives: mutex, rtmutex, mcs, rwsem.
This enables weakly ordered architectures (such as arm64) to make
use of more locking related optimizations. (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Implement atomic[64]_{inc,dec}_relaxed() on ARM. (Will Deacon)
- Futex kernel data cache footprint micro-optimization. (Rasmus
Villemoes)
- pvqspinlock runtime overhead micro-optimization. (Waiman Long)
- misc smaller fixlets"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ARM, locking/atomics: Implement _relaxed variants of atomic[64]_{inc,dec}
locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics
atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl()
atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}()
atomic: Add atomic_long_t bitops
futex: Force hot variables into a single cache line
locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL
locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics
locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock
locking/Documentation/lockstat: Fix typo - lokcing -> locking
locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Improvements to expedited grace periods (Paul E McKenney)
- Performance improvements to and locktorture tests for percpu-rwsem
(Oleg Nesterov, Paul E McKenney)
- Torture-test changes (Paul E McKenney, Davidlohr Bueso)
- Documentation updates (Paul E McKenney)
- Miscellaneous fixes (Paul E McKenney, Boqun Feng, Oleg Nesterov,
Patrick Marlier)"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
fs/writeback, rcu: Don't use list_entry_rcu() for pointer offsetting in bdi_split_work_to_wbs()
rcu: Better hotplug handling for synchronize_sched_expedited()
rcu: Enable stall warnings for synchronize_rcu_expedited()
rcu: Add tasks to expedited stall-warning messages
rcu: Add online/offline info to expedited stall warning message
rcu: Consolidate expedited CPU selection
rcu: Prepare for consolidating expedited CPU selection
cpu: Remove try_get_online_cpus()
rcu: Stop excluding CPU hotplug in synchronize_sched_expedited()
rcu: Stop silencing lockdep false positive for expedited grace periods
rcu: Switch synchronize_sched_expedited() to IPI
locktorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified
torture: Forgive non-plural arguments
rcutorture: Fix unused-function warning for torturing_tasks()
rcutorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified
rcu_sync: Cleanup the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks
locking/percpu-rwsem: Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read()
locking/percpu-rwsem: Fix the comments outdated by rcu_sync
locking/percpu-rwsem: Make use of the rcu_sync infrastructure
locking/percpu-rwsem: Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safe
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- further EFI code generalization to make it more workable for ARM64
- various extensions, such as 64-bit framebuffer address support,
UEFI v2.5 EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE support
- code modularization simplifications and cleanups
- new debugging parameters
- various fixes and smaller additions"
* 'core-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
efi: Fix warning of int-to-pointer-cast on x86 32-bit builds
efi: Use correct type for struct efi_memory_map::phys_map
x86/efi: Fix kernel panic when CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled
efi: Add "efi_fake_mem" boot option
x86/efi: Rename print_efi_memmap() to efi_print_memmap()
efi: Auto-load the efi-pstore module
efi: Introduce EFI_NX_PE_DATA bit and set it from properties table
efi: Add support for UEFIv2.5 Properties table
efi: Add EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE support to efi_md_typeattr_format()
efifb: Add support for 64-bit frame buffer addresses
efi/arm64: Clean up efi_get_fdt_params() interface
arm64: Use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug command line parameter
efi/x86: Move efi=debug option parsing to core
drivers/firmware: Make efi/esrt.c driver explicitly non-modular
efi: Use the generic efi.memmap instead of 'memmap'
acpi/apei: Use appropriate pgprot_t to map GHES memory
arm64, acpi/apei: Implement arch_apei_get_mem_attributes()
arm64/mm: Add PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE and PROT_NORMAL_WT
acpi, x86: Implement arch_apei_get_mem_attributes()
efi, x86: Rearrange efi_mem_attributes()
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