linux/arch/arc/kernel/process.c, branch v6.3

arch/idle: Change arch_cpu_idle() behavior: always exit with IRQs disabled

2023-01-13T10:48:15Z

Current arch_cpu_idle() is called with IRQs disabled, but will return with IRQs enabled. However, the very first thing the generic code does after calling arch_cpu_idle() is raw_local_irq_disable(). This means that architectures that can idle with IRQs disabled end up doing a pointless 'enable-disable' dance. Therefore, push this IRQ disabling into the idle function, meaning that those architectures can avoid the pointless IRQ state flipping. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Tested-by: Ulf Hansson Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Acked-by: Mark Rutland [arm64] Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Guo Ren Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.618076436@infradead.org

fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling

2022-05-07T14:01:59Z

Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER). This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs in kernel mode to use this functionality. The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly differently than user space tasks that start with a function. The functions that created tasks that start with a function have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of ".stack" and ".stack_size". These functions are fork_idle(), create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread

2022-05-07T14:01:48Z

With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode. The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code until they call kernel execve. Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily. v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

uaccess: fix type mismatch warnings from access_ok()

2022-02-25T08:36:05Z

On some architectures, access_ok() does not do any argument type checking, so replacing the definition with a generic one causes a few warnings for harmless issues that were never caught before. Fix the ones that I found either through my own test builds or that were reported by the 0-day bot. Reported-by: kernel test robot Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)

2021-10-29T19:31:34Z

Now that force_fatal_sig exists it is unnecessary and a bit confusing to use force_sigsegv in cases where the simpler force_fatal_sig is wanted. So change every instance we can to make the code clearer. Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/877de7jrev.fsf@disp2133 Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

arc: Fix typos/spellos

2021-05-10T19:38:59Z

s/commiting/committing/ s/defintion/definition/ s/gaurantees/guarantees/ s/interrpted/interrupted/ s/interrutps/interrupts/ s/succeded/succeeded/ s/unconditonally/unconditionally/ Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

arch: setup PF_IO_WORKER threads like PF_KTHREAD

2021-02-22T00:25:22Z

PF_IO_WORKER are kernel threads too, but they aren't PF_KTHREAD in the sense that we don't assign ->set_child_tid with our own structure. Just ensure that every arch sets up the PF_IO_WORKER threads like kthreads in the arch implementation of copy_thread(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ARC: [plat-eznps]: Drop support for EZChip NPS platform

2020-10-06T04:02:29Z

NPS customers are no longer doing active development, as evident from rand config build failures reported in recent times, so drop support for NPS platform. Tested-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code

2020-08-12T17:58:04Z

After the cleanup of page fault accounting, gup does not need to pass task_struct around any more. Remove that parameter in the whole gup stack. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: John Hubbard Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-26-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2020-08-09T20:33:54Z

Pull regset conversion fix from Al Viro: "Fix a regression from an unnoticed bisect hazard in the regset series. A bunch of old (aout, originally) primitives used by coredumps became dead code after fdpic conversion to regsets. Removal of that dead code had been the first commit in the followups to regset series; unfortunately, it happened to hide the bisect hazard on sh (extern for fpregs_get() had not been updated in the main series when it should have been; followup simply made fpregs_get() static). And without that followup commit this bisect hazard became breakage in the mainline" Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: kill unused dump_fpu() instances