Merge tag 'v5.5-rc5' into patchwork

Linux 5.5-rc5

* tag 'v5.5-rc5': (1006 commits)
  Linux 5.5-rc5
  Documentation: riscv: add patch acceptance guidelines
  riscv: prefix IRQ_ macro names with an RV_ namespace
  clocksource: riscv: add notrace to riscv_sched_clock
  apparmor: fix aa_xattrs_match() may sleep while holding a RCU lock
  hexagon: define ioremap_uc
  ocfs2: fix the crash due to call ocfs2_get_dlm_debug once less
  ocfs2: call journal flush to mark journal as empty after journal recovery when mount
  mm/hugetlb: defer freeing of huge pages if in non-task context
  mm/gup: fix memory leak in __gup_benchmark_ioctl
  mm/oom: fix pgtables units mismatch in Killed process message
  fs/posix_acl.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  hexagon: work around compiler crash
  hexagon: parenthesize registers in asm predicates
  fs/namespace.c: make to_mnt_ns() static
  fs/nsfs.c: include headers for missing declarations
  fs/direct-io.c: include fs/internal.h for missing prototype
  mm: move_pages: return valid node id in status if the page is already on the target node
  memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg
  kcov: fix struct layout for kcov_remote_arg
  ...

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 4993db40482c..ee26f9a4575d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -49,8 +49,26 @@ struct thread_info {
 	.addr_limit	= KERNEL_DS,		\
 }
 
-/* How to get the thread information struct from C.  */
+/*
+ * A pointer to the struct thread_info for the currently executing thread is
+ * held in register $28/$gp.
+ *
+ * We declare __current_thread_info as a global register variable rather than a
+ * local register variable within current_thread_info() because clang doesn't
+ * support explicit local register variables.
+ *
+ * When building the VDSO we take care not to declare the global register
+ * variable because this causes GCC to not preserve the value of $28/$gp in
+ * functions that change its value (which is common in the PIC VDSO when
+ * accessing the GOT). Since the VDSO shouldn't be accessing
+ * __current_thread_info anyway we declare it extern in order to cause a link
+ * failure if it's referenced.
+ */
+#ifdef __VDSO__
+extern struct thread_info *__current_thread_info;
+#else
 register struct thread_info *__current_thread_info __asm__("$28");
+#endif
 
 static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
 {