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<title>kernel/linux.git/include/linux/seqlock.h, branch v5.8.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2020-03-21T08:43:57+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>compiler.h, seqlock.h: Remove unnecessary kcsan.h includes</title>
<updated>2020-03-21T08:43:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-11T16:04:20+00:00</published>
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No we longer have to include kcsan.h, since the required KCSAN interface
for both compiler.h and seqlock.h are now provided by kcsan-checks.h.

Acked-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v5.5-rc4' into locking/kcsan, to resolve conflicts</title>
<updated>2019-12-30T07:10:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-30T07:10:51+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Conflicts:
	init/main.c
	lib/Kconfig.debug

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcsan: Improve various small stylistic details</title>
<updated>2019-11-20T09:47:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-20T09:41:43+00:00</published>
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Tidy up a few bits:

  - Fix typos and grammar, improve wording.

  - Remove spurious newlines that are col80 warning artifacts where the
    resulting line-break is worse than the disease it's curing.

  - Use core kernel coding style to improve readability and reduce
    spurious code pattern variations.

  - Use better vertical alignment for structure definitions and initialization
    sequences.

  - Misc other small details.

No change in functionality intended.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seqlock: Require WRITE_ONCE surrounding raw_seqcount_barrier</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T15:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-14T18:03:00+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This patch proposes to require marked atomic accesses surrounding
raw_write_seqcount_barrier. We reason that otherwise there is no way to
guarantee propagation nor atomicity of writes before/after the barrier
[1]. For example, consider the compiler tears stores either before or
after the barrier; in this case, readers may observe a partial value,
and because readers are unaware that writes are going on (writes are not
in a seq-writer critical section), will complete the seq-reader critical
section while having observed some partial state.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/

This came up when designing and implementing KCSAN, because KCSAN would
flag these accesses as data-races. After careful analysis, our reasoning
as above led us to conclude that the best thing to do is to propose an
amendment to the raw_seqcount_barrier usage.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seqlock, kcsan: Add annotations for KCSAN</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T15:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-14T18:02:59+00:00</published>
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Since seqlocks in the Linux kernel do not require the use of marked
atomic accesses in critical sections, we teach KCSAN to assume such
accesses are atomic. KCSAN currently also pretends that writes to
`sequence` are atomic, although currently plain writes are used (their
corresponding reads are READ_ONCE).

Further, to avoid false positives in the absence of clear ending of a
seqlock reader critical section (only when using the raw interface),
KCSAN assumes a fixed number of accesses after start of a seqlock
critical section are atomic.

=== Commentary on design around absence of clear begin/end markings ===
Seqlock usage via seqlock_t follows a predictable usage pattern, where
clear critical section begin/end is enforced. With subtle special cases
for readers needing to be flat atomic regions, e.g. because usage such
as in:
  - fs/namespace.c:__legitimize_mnt - unbalanced read_seqretry
  - fs/dcache.c:d_walk - unbalanced need_seqretry

But, anything directly accessing seqcount_t seems to be unpredictable.
Filtering for usage of read_seqcount_retry not following 'do { .. }
while (read_seqcount_retry(..));':

  $ git grep 'read_seqcount_retry' | grep -Ev 'while \(|seqlock.h|Doc|\* '
  =&gt; about 1/3 of the total read_seqcount_retry usage.

Just looking at fs/namei.c, we conclude that it is non-trivial to
prescribe and migrate to an interface that would force clear begin/end
seqlock markings for critical sections.

As such, we concluded that the best design currently, is to simply
ensure that KCSAN works well with the existing code.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/lockdep: Remove unused @nested argument from lock_release()</title>
<updated>2019-10-09T10:46:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qian Cai</name>
<email>cai@lca.pw</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-19T16:09:40+00:00</published>
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Since the following commit:

  b4adfe8e05f1 ("locking/lockdep: Remove unused argument in __lock_release")

@nested is no longer used in lock_release(), so remove it from all
lock_release() calls and friends.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: duyuyang@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: jack@suse.com
Cc: jlbec@evilplan.or
Cc: joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com
Cc: jslaby@suse.com
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com
Cc: mark@fasheh.com
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org
Cc: mripard@kernel.org
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: rodrigo.vivi@intel.com
Cc: sean@poorly.run
Cc: st@kernel.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1568909380-32199-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seqlock: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends()</title>
<updated>2017-12-04T18:52:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-09T18:00:32+00:00</published>
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READ_ONCE() now implies smp_read_barrier_depends(), so this patch
removes the now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() from
raw_read_seqcount_latch().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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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 &amp; 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 &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;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 &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/seqcount: Re-fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()</title>
<updated>2016-06-03T06:37:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T11:11:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Commit 50755bc1c305 ("seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()") broke
raw_read_seqcount_latch().

If you look at the comment that was modified; the thing that changes is
the seq count, not the latch pointer.

 * void latch_modify(struct latch_struct *latch, ...)
 * {
 *	smp_wmb();	&lt;- Ensure that the last data[1] update is visible
 *	latch-&gt;seq++;
 *	smp_wmb();	&lt;- Ensure that the seqcount update is visible
 *
 *	modify(latch-&gt;data[0], ...);
 *
 *	smp_wmb();	&lt;- Ensure that the data[0] update is visible
 *	latch-&gt;seq++;
 *	smp_wmb();	&lt;- Ensure that the seqcount update is visible
 *
 *	modify(latch-&gt;data[1], ...);
 * }
 *
 * The query will have a form like:
 *
 * struct entry *latch_query(struct latch_struct *latch, ...)
 * {
 *	struct entry *entry;
 *	unsigned seq, idx;
 *
 *	do {
 *		seq = lockless_dereference(latch-&gt;seq);

So here we have:

		seq = READ_ONCE(latch-&gt;seq);
		smp_read_barrier_depends();

Which is exactly what we want; the new code:

		seq = ({ p = READ_ONCE(latch);
			 smp_read_barrier_depends(); p })-&gt;seq;

is just wrong; because it looses the volatile read on seq, which can now
be torn or worse 'optimized'. And the read_depend barrier is also placed
wrong, we want it after the load of seq, to match the above data[]
up-to-date wmb()s.

Such that when we dereference latch-&gt;data[] below, we're guaranteed to
observe the right data.

 *
 *		idx = seq &amp; 0x01;
 *		entry = data_query(latch-&gt;data[idx], ...);
 *
 *		smp_rmb();
 *	} while (seq != latch-&gt;seq);
 *
 *	return entry;
 * }

So yes, not passing a pointer is not pretty, but the code was correct,
and isn't anymore now.

Change to explicit READ_ONCE()+smp_read_barrier_depends() to avoid
confusion and allow strict lockless_dereference() checking.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 50755bc1c305 ("seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160527111117.GL3192@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seqlock: fix raw_read_seqcount_latch()</title>
<updated>2016-05-26T22:35:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-26T22:16:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
lockless_dereference() is supposed to take pointer not integer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160521201448.GA7429@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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