linux/arch/arc/kernel, 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

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

2023-01-13T10:48:15Z

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As such, add a little validation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Tested-by: Ulf Hansson Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org

arc: ptrace: user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0

2022-11-15T22:30:39Z

Patch series "Make user_regset_copyin_ignore() *void*". user_regset_copyin_ignore() apparently cannot fail and so always returns 0. Let's first remove the result checks in several architectures that call this function and then make user_regset_copyin_ignore() return *void* instead of *int*... This patch (of 13): user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0, so checking its result seems pointless -- don't do this anymore... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-1-s.shtylyov@omp.ru Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-2-s.shtylyov@omp.ru Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy # powerpc Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ARC: Fix comment typo

2022-10-17T23:32:11Z

- Remove one of the repeated 'call' in comment line 396. - Delete the redundant word 'to', 'since' Signed-off-by: Jilin Yuan Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head

2022-10-02T09:04:05Z

The objects placed at the head of vmlinux need special treatments: - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile adds them to head-y in order to place them before other archives in the linker command line. - arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile adds them to extra-y instead of obj-y to avoid them going into built-in.a. This commit gets rid of the latter. Create vmlinux.a to collect all the objects that are unconditionally linked to vmlinux. The objects listed in head-y are moved to the head of vmlinux.a by using 'ar m'. With this, arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/Makefile can consistently use obj-y for builtin objects. There is no *.o that is directly linked to vmlinux. Drop unneeded code in scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py. $(AR) mPi needs 'T' to workaround the llvm-ar bug. The fix was suggested by Nathan Chancellor [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/YyjjT5gQ2hGMH0ni@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-08-06-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-08-07T17:03:24Z

Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton: "Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, fatfs, autofs, squashfs, procfs, etc. A relatively small amount of material this time" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-08-06-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits) scripts/gdb: ensure the absolute path is generated on initial source MAINTAINERS: kunit: add David Gow as a maintainer of KUnit mailmap: add linux.dev alias for Brendan Higgins mailmap: update Kirill's email profile: setup_profiling_timer() is moslty not implemented ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment ocfs2: use the bitmap API to simplify code ocfs2: remove some useless functions lib/mpi: fix typo 'the the' in comment proc: add some (hopefully) insightful comments bdi: remove enum wb_congested_state kernel/hung_task: fix address space of proc_dohung_task_timeout_secs lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c: replace ternary operator with min() and min_t() squashfs: support reading fragments in readahead call squashfs: implement readahead squashfs: always build "file direct" version of page actor Revert "squashfs: provide backing_dev_info in order to disable read-ahead" fs/ocfs2: Fix spelling typo in comment ia64: old_rr4 added under CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE proc: fix test for "vsyscall=xonly" boot option ...

profile: setup_profiling_timer() is moslty not implemented

2022-07-30T01:12:36Z

The setup_profiling_timer() is mostly un-implemented by many architectures. In many places it isn't guarded by CONFIG_PROFILE which is needed for it to be used. Make it a weak symbol in kernel/profile.c and remove the 'return -EINVAL' implementations from the kenrel. There are a couple of architectures which do return 0 from the setup_profiling_timer() function but they don't seem to do anything else with it. To keep the /proc compatibility for now, leave these for a future update or removal. On ARM, this fixes the following sparse warning: arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'setup_profiling_timer' was not declared. Should it be static? Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220721195509.418205-1-ben-linux@fluff.org Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

jump_label: make initial NOP patching the special case

2022-06-24T07:48:55Z

Instead of defaulting to patching NOP opcodes at init time, and leaving it to the architectures to override this if this is not needed, switch to a model where doing nothing is the default. This is the common case by far, as only MIPS requires NOP patching at init time. On all other architectures, the correct encodings are emitted by the compiler and so no initial patching is needed. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615154142.1574619-4-ardb@kernel.org

Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2022-06-03T23:03:05Z

Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman: "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode tasks. Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of struct kthread possible. Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple enough to be backportable. The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things up and cause the code to make sense. In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace thread. I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code sitting in linux-next" * tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh

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"