kernel/linux.git/include/linux/syscalls.h, branch v4.18.2

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2018-07-22T19:04:51+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "Fix several places that screw up cleanups after failures halfway through opening a file (one open-coding filp_clone_open() and getting it wrong, two misusing alloc_file()). That part is -stable fodder from the 'work.open' branch. And Christoph's regression fix for uapi breakage in aio series; include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h shouldn't be pulling in the kernel definition of sigset_t, the reason for doing so in the first place had been bogus - there's no need to expose struct __aio_sigset in aio_abi.h at all" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: aio: don't expose __aio_sigset in uapi ocxlflash_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures cxl_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures drm_mode_create_lease_ioctl(): fix open-coded filp_clone_open()

aio: don't expose __aio_sigset in uapi

2018-07-18T03:26:58+00:00

glibc uses a different defintion of sigset_t than the kernel does, and the current version would pull in both. To fix this just do not expose the type at all - this somewhat mirrors pselect() where we do not even have a type for the magic sigmask argument, but just use pointer arithmetics. Fixes: 7a074e96 ("aio: implement io_pgetevents") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reported-by: Adrian Reber Signed-off-by: Al Viro

disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()

2018-06-25T14:21:13+00:00

gcc-8 warns for every single definition of a system call entry point, e.g.: include/linux/compat.h:56:18: error: 'compat_sys_rt_sigprocmask' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(int, compat_sigset_t *, compat_sigset_t *, compat_size_t)' {aka 'long int(int, struct *, struct *, unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int, long int, long int, long int)' [-Werror=attribute-alias] asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\ ^~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/compat.h:45:2: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx' COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(4, _##name, __VA_ARGS__) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kernel/signal.c:2601:1: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4' COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_sigprocmask, int, how, compat_sigset_t __user *, nset, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/compat.h:60:18: note: aliased declaration here asmlinkage long compat_SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))\ ^~~~~~~~~~ The new warning seems reasonable in principle, but it doesn't help us here, since we rely on the type mismatch to sanitize the system call arguments. After I reported this as GCC PR82435, a new -Wno-attribute-alias option was added that could be used to turn the warning off globally on the command line, but I'd prefer to do it a little more fine-grained. Interestingly, turning a warning off and on again inside of a single macro doesn't always work, in this case I had to add an extra statement inbetween and decided to copy the __SC_TEST one from the native syscall to the compat syscall macro. See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83256 for more details about this. [paul.burton@mips.com: - Rebase atop current master. - Split GCC & version arguments to __diag_ignore() in order to match changes to the preceding patch. - Add the comment argument to match the preceding patch.] Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Burton Tested-by: Christophe Leroy Tested-by: Stafford Horne Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call

2018-06-06T09:58:31+00:00

Expose a new system call allowing each thread to register one userspace memory area to be used as an ABI between kernel and user-space for two purposes: user-space restartable sequences and quick access to read the current CPU number value from user-space. * Restartable sequences (per-cpu atomics) Restartables sequences allow user-space to perform update operations on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations. The restartable critical sections (percpu atomics) work has been started by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter. It lets the kernel handle restart of critical sections. [1] [2] The re-implementation proposed here brings a few simplifications to the ABI which facilitates porting to other architectures and speeds up the user-space fast path. Here are benchmarks of various rseq use-cases. Test hardware: arm32: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) "Cubietruck", 2-core x86-64: Intel E5-2630 v3@2.40GHz, 16-core, hyperthreading The following benchmarks were all performed on a single thread. * Per-CPU statistic counter increment getcpu+atomic (ns/op) rseq (ns/op) speedup arm32: 344.0 31.4 11.0 x86-64: 15.3 2.0 7.7 * LTTng-UST: write event 32-bit header, 32-bit payload into tracer per-cpu buffer getcpu+atomic (ns/op) rseq (ns/op) speedup arm32: 2502.0 2250.0 1.1 x86-64: 117.4 98.0 1.2 * liburcu percpu: lock-unlock pair, dereference, read/compare word getcpu+atomic (ns/op) rseq (ns/op) speedup arm32: 751.0 128.5 5.8 x86-64: 53.4 28.6 1.9 * jemalloc memory allocator adapted to use rseq Using rseq with per-cpu memory pools in jemalloc at Facebook (based on rseq 2016 implementation): The production workload response-time has 1-2% gain avg. latency, and the P99 overall latency drops by 2-3%. * Reading the current CPU number Speeding up reading the current CPU number on which the caller thread is running is done by keeping the current CPU number up do date within the cpu_id field of the memory area registered by the thread. This is done by making scheduler preemption set the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag on the current thread. Upon return to user-space, a notify-resume handler updates the current CPU value within the registered user-space memory area. User-space can then read the current CPU number directly from memory. Keeping the current cpu id in a memory area shared between kernel and user-space is an improvement over current mechanisms available to read the current CPU number, which has the following benefits over alternative approaches: - 35x speedup on ARM vs system call through glibc - 20x speedup on x86 compared to calling glibc, which calls vdso executing a "lsl" instruction, - 14x speedup on x86 compared to inlined "lsl" instruction, - Unlike vdso approaches, this cpu_id value can be read from an inline assembly, which makes it a useful building block for restartable sequences. - The approach of reading the cpu id through memory mapping shared between kernel and user-space is portable (e.g. ARM), which is not the case for the lsl-based x86 vdso. On x86, yet another possible approach would be to use the gs segment selector to point to user-space per-cpu data. This approach performs similarly to the cpu id cache, but it has two disadvantages: it is not portable, and it is incompatible with existing applications already using the gs segment selector for other purposes. Benchmarking various approaches for reading the current CPU number: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) Machine model: Cubietruck - Baseline (empty loop): 8.4 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id: 16.7 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register): 19.8 ns - glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 getcpu: 301.8 ns - getcpu system call: 234.9 ns x86-64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz: - Baseline (empty loop): 0.8 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id: 0.8 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register): 0.8 ns - Read using gs segment selector: 0.8 ns - "lsl" inline assembly: 13.0 ns - glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6 getcpu: 16.6 ns - getcpu system call: 53.9 ns - Speed (benchmark taken on v8 of patchset) Running 10 runs of hackbench -l 100000 seems to indicate, contrary to expectations, that enabling CONFIG_RSEQ slightly accelerates the scheduler: Configuration: 2 sockets * 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (directly on hardware, hyperthreading disabled in BIOS, energy saving disabled in BIOS, turboboost disabled in BIOS, cpuidle.off=1 kernel parameter), with a Linux v4.6 defconfig+localyesconfig, restartable sequences series applied. * CONFIG_RSEQ=n avg.: 41.37 s std.dev.: 0.36 s * CONFIG_RSEQ=y avg.: 40.46 s std.dev.: 0.33 s - Size On x86-64, between CONFIG_RSEQ=n/y, the text size increase of vmlinux is 567 bytes, and the data size increase of vmlinux is 5696 bytes. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650333/ [2] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1695/original/LPC%20-%20PerCpu%20Atomics.pdf Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Watson Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Chris Lameter Cc: Russell King Cc: Andrew Hunter Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ben Maurer Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151027235635.16059.11630.stgit@pjt-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624222609.6116.86035.stgit@kitami.mtv.corp.google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-05T04:02:18+00:00

Pull time/Y2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Consolidate SySV IPC UAPI headers - Convert SySV IPC to the new COMPAT_32BIT_TIME mechanism - Cleanup the core interfaces and standardize on the ktime_get_* naming convention. - Convert the X86 platform ops to timespec64 - Remove the ugly temporary timespec64 hack * 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits) x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64 timekeeping: Add more coarse clocktai/boottime interfaces timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset timekeeping: Standardize on ktime_get_*() naming timekeeping: Clean up ktime_get_real_ts64 timekeeping: Remove timespec64 hack y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop y2038: ipc: Enable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec y2038: ipc: Report long times to user space y2038: ipc: Use ktime_get_real_seconds consistently y2038: xtensa: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: powerpc: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: sparc: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: parisc: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures y2038: arm64: Extend sysvipc compat data structures y2038: s390: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files y2038: alpha: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files ...

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-05T03:27:54+00:00

Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Core infrastucture work for Y2038 to address the COMPAT interfaces: + Add a new Y2038 safe __kernel_timespec and use it in the core code + Introduce config switches which allow to control the various compat mechanisms + Use the new config switch in the posix timer code to control the 32bit compat syscall implementation. - Prevent bogus selection of CPU local clocksources which causes an endless reselection loop - Remove the extra kthread in the clocksource code which has no value and just adds another level of indirection - The usual bunch of trivial updates, cleanups and fixlets all over the place - More SPDX conversions * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Switch to SPDX identifier clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-tpm: Switch to SPDX identifier clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Remove outdated file path clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Add comments about locking while read GFRC clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations timer_list: Remove unused function pointer typedef timers: Adjust a kernel-doc comment tick: Prefer a lower rating device only if it's CPU local device clocksource: Remove kthread time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces time: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec posix-timers: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME time: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME time: Introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME in architectures compat: Enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always ...

aio: implement io_pgetevents

2018-05-02T17:57:24+00:00

This is the io_getevents equivalent of ppoll/pselect and allows to properly mix signals and aio completions (especially with IOCB_CMD_POLL) and atomically executes the following sequence: sigset_t origmask; pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigmask, &origmask); ret = io_getevents(ctx, min_nr, nr, events, timeout); pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &origmask, NULL); Note that unlike many other signal related calls we do not pass a sigmask size, as that would get us to 7 arguments, which aren't easily supported by the syscall infrastructure. It seems a lot less painful to just add a new syscall variant in the unlikely case we're going to increase the sigset size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong

y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec

2018-04-20T14:20:24+00:00

This is a preparatation for changing over __kernel_timespec to 64-bit times, which involves assigning new system call numbers for mq_timedsend(), mq_timedreceive() and semtimedop() for compatibility with future y2038 proof user space. The existing ABIs will remain available through compat code. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types

2018-04-19T11:32:03+00:00

Change over clock_nanosleep syscalls to use y2038 safe __kernel_timespec times. This will enable changing over of these syscalls to use new y2038 safe syscalls when the architectures define the CONFIG_64BIT_TIME. Note that nanosleep syscall is deprecated and does not have a plan for making it y2038 safe. But, the syscall should work as before on 64 bit machines and on 32 bit machines, the syscall works correctly until y2038 as before using the existing compat syscall version. There is no new syscall for supporting 64 bit time_t on 32 bit architectures. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types

2018-04-19T11:31:49+00:00

Change over clock_settime, clock_gettime and clock_getres syscalls to use __kernel_timespec times. This will enable changing over of these syscalls to use new y2038 safe syscalls when the architectures define the CONFIG_64BIT_TIME. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann