kernel/linux.git/arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h, branch v6.12.80

locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch

2023-08-12T16:18:47+00:00

The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -> v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1] with a changelog which does not mention it. Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling. While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire, any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the routine calls spin_lock(). It adds spurious traffic, for short. On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded purposes, making it questionable from the get go. As such, remove it. I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I can do it if that is deemed appropriate. Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy. Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1] Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()

2022-09-12T04:55:07+00:00

Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread() function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: Guo Ren [csky] Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Brian Cain Acked-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Acked-by: Stafford Horne [openrisc] Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Acked-by: Huacai Chen [LoongArch] Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Guo Ren [csky] Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xuerui Wang Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sparc64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support

2022-02-25T08:36:06+00:00

sparc64 uses address space identifiers to differentiate between kernel and user space, using ASI_P for kernel threads but ASI_AIUS for normal user space, with the option of changing between them. As nothing really changes the ASI any more, just hardcode ASI_AIUS everywhere. Kernel threads are not allowed to access __user pointers anyway. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked

2021-10-15T09:25:14+00:00

Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to stay that way while performing stack unwinding. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) [arm] Tested-by: Mark Rutland [arm64] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org

treewide: remove current_text_addr

2018-10-31T15:54:12+00:00

Prefer _THIS_IP_ defined in linux/kernel.h. Most definitions of current_text_addr were the same as _THIS_IP_, but a few archs had inline assembly instead. This patch removes the final call site of current_text_addr, making all of the definitions dead code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/csky/include/asm/processor.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180911182413.180715-1-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc

2017-11-18T04:21:44+00:00

Pull sparc updates from David Miller: 1) Add missing cmpxchg64() for 32-bit sparc. 2) Timer conversions from Allen Pais and Kees Cook. 3) vDSO support, from Nagarathnam Muthusamy. 4) Fix sparc64 huge page table walks based upon bug report by Al Viro, from Nitin Gupta. 5) Optimized fls() for T4 and above, from Vijay Kumar. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: sparc64: Fix page table walk for PUD hugepages sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup() sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup() sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above sparc64: SPARC optimized __fls function sparc64: SPARC optimized fls function sparc64: Define SPARC default __fls function sparc64: Define SPARC default fls function vDSO for sparc sparc32: Add cmpxchg64(). sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h sparc: time: Remove unneeded linux/miscdevice.h include sparc64: mmu_context: Add missing include files

vDSO for sparc

2017-11-15T05:21:03+00:00

Following patch is based on work done by Nick Alcock on 64-bit vDSO for sparc in Oracle linux. I have extended it to include support for 32-bit vDSO for sparc on 64-bit kernel. vDSO for sparc is based on the X86 implementation. This patch provides vDSO support for both 64-bit and 32-bit programs on 64-bit kernel. vDSO will be disabled on 32-bit linux kernel on sparc. *) vclock_gettime.c contains all the vdso functions. Since data page is mapped before the vdso code page, the pointer to data page is got by subracting offset from an address in the vdso code page. The return address stored in %i7 is used for this purpose. *) During compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit vdso images are compiled and are converted into raw bytes by vdso2c program to be ready for mapping into the process. 32-bit images are compiled only if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. vdso2c generates two files vdso-image-64.c and vdso-image-32.c which contains the respective vDSO image in C structure. *) During vdso initialization, required number of vdso pages are allocated and raw bytes are copied into the pages. *) During every exec, these pages are mapped into the process through arch_setup_additional_pages and the location of mapping is passed on to the process through aux vector AT_SYSINFO_EHDR which is used by glibc. *) A new update_vsyscall routine for sparc is added to keep the data page in vdso updated. *) As vDSO cannot contain dynamically relocatable references, a new version of cpu_relax is added for the use of vDSO. This change also requires a putback to glibc to use vDSO. For testing, programs planning to try vDSO can be compiled against the generated vdso(64/32).so in the source. Testing: ======== [root@localhost ~]# cat vdso_test.c int main() { struct timespec tv_start, tv_end; struct timeval tv_tmp; int i; int count = 1 * 1000 * 10000; long long diff; clock_gettime(0, &tv_start); for (i = 0; i < count; i++) gettimeofday(&tv_tmp, NULL); clock_gettime(0, &tv_end); diff = (long long)(tv_end.tv_sec - tv_start.tv_sec)*(1*1000*1000*1000); diff += (tv_end.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec); printf("Start sec: %d\n", tv_start.tv_sec); printf("End sec : %d\n", tv_end.tv_sec); printf("%d cycles in %lld ns = %f ns/cycle\n", count, diff, (double)diff / (double)count); return 0; } [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_without_fix -m32 -lrt [root@localhost ~]# ./t32_without_fix Start sec: 1502396130 End sec : 1502396140 10000000 cycles in 9565148528 ns = 956.514853 ns/cycle [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_with_fix -m32 ./vdso32.so.dbg [root@localhost ~]# ./t32_with_fix Start sec: 1502396168 End sec : 1502396169 10000000 cycles in 798141262 ns = 79.814126 ns/cycle [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_without_fix -m64 -lrt [root@localhost ~]# ./t64_without_fix Start sec: 1502396208 End sec : 1502396218 10000000 cycles in 9846091800 ns = 984.609180 ns/cycle [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_with_fix -m64 ./vdso64.so.dbg [root@localhost ~]# ./t64_with_fix Start sec: 1502396257 End sec : 1502396257 10000000 cycles in 380984048 ns = 38.098405 ns/cycle V1 to V2 Changes: ================= Added hot patching code to switch the read stick instruction to read tick instruction based on the hardware. V2 to V3 Changes: ================= Merged latest changes from sparc-next and moved the initialization of clocksource_tick.archdata.vclock_mode to time_init_early. Disabled queued spinlock and rwlock configuration when simulating 32-bit config to compile 32-bit VDSO. V3 to V4 Changes: ================= Hardcoded the page size as 8192 in linker script for both 64-bit and 32-bit binaries. Removed unused variables in vdso2c.h. Added -mv8plus flag to Makefile to prevent the generation of relocation entries for __lshrdi3 in 32-bit vdso binary. Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock Signed-off-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arch: remove unused macro/function thread_saved_pc()

2017-06-28T23:13:57+00:00

The only user of thread_saved_pc() in non-arch-specific code was removed in commit 8243d5597793 ("sched/core: Remove pointless printout in sched_show_task()"). Remove the implementations as well. Some architectures use thread_saved_pc() in their arch-specific code. Leave their thread_saved_pc() intact. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparc: remove unused wp_works_ok macro

2017-04-06T19:03:30+00:00

It's unused for ages, used to be required for ksyms.c back in the v1.1 times. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: David S. Miller