linux/init/main.c, branch v4.6

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2016-03-16T18:51:08Z

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - some misc things - ofs2 updates - about half of MM - checkpatch updates - autofs4 update * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (120 commits) autofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h autofs4: use pr_xxx() macros directly for logging autofs4: change log print macros to not insert newline autofs4: make autofs log prints consistent autofs4: fix some white space errors autofs4: fix invalid ioctl return in autofs4_root_ioctl_unlocked() autofs4: fix coding style line length in autofs4_wait() autofs4: fix coding style problem in autofs4_get_set_timeout() autofs4: coding style fixes autofs: show pipe inode in mount options kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table kallsyms: don't overload absolute symbol type for percpu symbols x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP checkpatch: fix another left brace warning checkpatch: improve UNSPECIFIED_INT test for bare signed/unsigned uses checkpatch: warn on bare unsigned or signed declarations without int checkpatch: exclude asm volatile from complex macro check mm: memcontrol: drop unnecessary lru locking from mem_cgroup_migrate() mm: migrate: consolidate mem_cgroup_migrate() calls mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous ...

init/main.c: use list_for_each_entry()

2016-03-15T23:55:16Z

Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2016-03-15T20:50:29Z

Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner: "This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework: - Initial implementation of the state machine - Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and not on some random processor - Replaces busy loop waiting with completions - Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed" More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email: "What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure? - Asymmetry The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and teardown. This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism. - Largely undocumented dependencies While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities, we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to express dependencies without any documentation why. - Control processor driven Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control processor. While it is understandable, that preperatory steps, like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot, there is no reason why everything else must run on a control processor. Before this patch series, bringup looks like this: Control CPU Booting CPU do preparatory steps kick cpu into life do low level init sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu bring the rest up - All or nothing approach There is no way to do partial bringups. That's something which is really desired because we waste e.g. at boot substantial amount of time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life. That's stupid as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level synchronization with the freshly booted cpu. - Minimal debuggability Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test the correctness. So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested. - Notifier [un]registering is tedious To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at every callsite. There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to do it itself. That also includes error rollback. What's the new design? The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well defined set of states. Each state is symmetric in the end, except for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be stopped and reversed at almost all states. So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future: Control CPU Booting CPU do preparatory steps kick cpu into life do low level init sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu bring itself up The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait. That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some other mechanism. The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans up and brings itself down. Cleanups which need to be done after the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well. There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a cpu is available. Today we set the cpu online right after it comes out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct. The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so general workloads can be scheduled on it. The reverse happens on teardown. First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it off completely. This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the core level. This includes the following: - Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so ordering and prioritization can be expressed. - Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in the state machine array. For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an explicit hotplug state. If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the previous state. - Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step. This is only partially functional today. Full functionality and therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme. - Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying processor: Control CPU Booting CPU do preparatory steps kick cpu into life do low level init sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu wait for boot bring itself up Signal completion to control cpu In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme. The balance is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code. This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a different approach. Instead of mechanically converting everything over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme. I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is completely buggered anyway. So there is no point to do a mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and testable behaviour" * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) cpu/hotplug: Document states better cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints ...

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

2016-03-14T23:58:50Z

Pull read-only kernel memory updates from Ingo Molnar: "This tree adds two (security related) enhancements to the kernel's handling of read-only kernel memory: - extend read-only kernel memory to a new class of formerly writable kernel data: 'post-init read-only memory' via the __ro_after_init attribute, and mark the ARM and x86 vDSO as such read-only memory. This kind of attribute can be used for data that requires a once per bootup initialization sequence, but is otherwise never modified after that point. This feature was based on the work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler. (by Kees Cook, the ARM vDSO bits by David Brown.) - make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA always enabled on x86 and remove the Kconfig option. This simplifies the kernel and also signals that read-only memory is the default model and a first-class citizen. (Kees Cook)" * 'mm-readonly-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ARM/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init x86/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init lkdtm: Verify that '__ro_after_init' works correctly arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory x86/mm: Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings asm-generic: Consolidate mark_rodata_ro()

cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine

2016-03-01T19:36:56Z

Handle the smpboot threads in the state machine. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rafael Wysocki Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Sebastian Siewior Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Turner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.295777684@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor

2016-03-01T19:36:54Z

Move the split out steps into a callback array and let the cpu_up/down code iterate through the array functions. For now most of the callbacks are asymmetric to resemble the current hotplug maze. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rafael Wysocki Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Sebastian Siewior Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul Turner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182340.671816690@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings

2016-02-22T07:51:37Z

It may be useful to debug writes to the readonly sections of memory, so provide a cmdline "rodata=off" to allow for this. This can be expanded in the future to support "log" and "write" modes, but that will need to be architecture-specific. This also makes KDB software breakpoints more usable, as read-only mappings can now be disabled on any kernel. Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: David Brown Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Emese Revfy Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mathias Krause Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: PaX Team Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: linux-arch Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/lockdep: Eliminate lockdep_init()

2016-02-09T11:03:25Z

Lockdep is initialized at compile time now. Get rid of lockdep_init(). Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Krinkin Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

init/main.c: obsolete_checksetup can be boolean

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

Make obsolete_checksetup() return bool due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: Wire up rcu_end_inkernel_boot()

2015-12-04T20:26:54Z

This commit adds the invocation of rcu_end_inkernel_boot() just before init is invoked. This allows the CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig option to do something useful and prepares for the upcoming rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel parameter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney