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# d8ae8a37 13-May-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

initramfs: move the legacy keepinitrd parameter to core code

No need to handle the freeing disable in arch code when we already have a
core hook (and a different name for the option) for it.

Link:

initramfs: move the legacy keepinitrd parameter to core code

No need to handle the freeing disable in arch code when we already have a
core hook (and a different name for the option) for it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# d253ca0c 25-Apr-2019 Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

x86/mm/cpa: Add set_direct_map_*() functions

Add two new functions set_direct_map_default_noflush() and
set_direct_map_invalid_noflush() for setting the direct map alias for the
page to its default

x86/mm/cpa: Add set_direct_map_*() functions

Add two new functions set_direct_map_default_noflush() and
set_direct_map_invalid_noflush() for setting the direct map alias for the
page to its default valid permissions and to an invalid state that cannot
be cached in a TLB, respectively. These functions do not flush the TLB.

Note, __kernel_map_pages() does something similar but flushes the TLB and
doesn't reset the permission bits to default on all architectures.

Also add an ARCH config ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP for specifying whether
these have an actual implementation or a default empty one.

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: <deneen.t.dock@intel.com>
Cc: <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <linux_dti@icloud.com>
Cc: <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-15-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# f3d96467 29-Apr-2019 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

y2038: Make CONFIG_64BIT_TIME unconditional

As Stepan Golosunov points out, there is a small mistake in the
get_timespec64() function in the kernel. It was originally added under the
assumption that

y2038: Make CONFIG_64BIT_TIME unconditional

As Stepan Golosunov points out, there is a small mistake in the
get_timespec64() function in the kernel. It was originally added under the
assumption that CONFIG_64BIT_TIME would get enabled on all 32-bit and
64-bit architectures, but when the conversion was done, it was only turned
on for 32-bit ones.

The effect is that the get_timespec64() function never clears the upper
half of the tv_nsec field for 32-bit tasks in compat mode. Clearing this is
required for POSIX compliant behavior of functions that pass a 'timespec'
structure with a 64-bit tv_sec and a 32-bit tv_nsec, plus uninitialized
padding.

The easiest fix for linux-5.1 is to just make the Kconfig symbol
unconditional, as it was originally intended. As a follow-up, the #ifdef
CONFIG_64BIT_TIME can be removed completely..

Note: for native 32-bit mode, no change is needed, this works as
designed and user space should never need to clear the upper 32
bits of the tv_nsec field, in or out of the kernel.

Fixes: 00bf25d693e7 ("y2038: use time32 syscall names on 32-bit")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
Cc: Stepan Golosunov <stepan@golosunov.pp.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190422090710.bmxdhhankurhafxq@sghpc.golosunov.pp.ru/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190429131951.471701-1-arnd@arndb.de

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Revision tags: v5.0.9, v5.0.8, v5.0.7
# a8654596 04-Apr-2019 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

locking/rwsem: Enable lock event counting

Add lock event counting calls so that we can track the number of lock
events happening in the rwsem code.

With CONFIG_LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS on and booting a 4-

locking/rwsem: Enable lock event counting

Add lock event counting calls so that we can track the number of lock
events happening in the rwsem code.

With CONFIG_LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS on and booting a 4-socket 112-thread x86-64
system, the rwsem counts after system bootup were as follows:

rwsem_opt_fail=261
rwsem_opt_wlock=50636
rwsem_rlock=445
rwsem_rlock_fail=0
rwsem_rlock_fast=22
rwsem_rtrylock=810144
rwsem_sleep_reader=441
rwsem_sleep_writer=310
rwsem_wake_reader=355
rwsem_wake_writer=2335
rwsem_wlock=261
rwsem_wlock_fail=0
rwsem_wtrylock=20583

It can be seen that most of the lock acquisitions in the slowpath were
write-locks in the optimistic spinning code path with no sleeping at
all. For this system, over 97% of the locks are acquired via optimistic
spinning. It illustrates the importance of optimistic spinning in
improving the performance of rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404174320.22416-11-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# fb346fd9 04-Apr-2019 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

locking/lock_events: Make lock_events available for all archs & other locks

The QUEUED_LOCK_STAT option to report queued spinlocks event counts
was previously allowed only on x86 architecture. To ma

locking/lock_events: Make lock_events available for all archs & other locks

The QUEUED_LOCK_STAT option to report queued spinlocks event counts
was previously allowed only on x86 architecture. To make the locking
event counting code more useful, it is now renamed to a more generic
LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS config option. This new option will be available to
all the architectures that use qspinlock at the moment.

Other locking code can now start to use the generic locking event
counting code by including lock_events.h and put the new locking event
names into the lock_events_list.h header file.

My experience with lock event counting is that it gives valuable insight
on how the locking code works and what can be done to make it better. I
would like to extend this benefit to other locking code like mutex and
rwsem in the near future.

The PV qspinlock specific code will stay in qspinlock_stat.h. The
locking event counters will now reside in the <debugfs>/lock_event_counts
directory.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404174320.22416-9-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v5.0.6, v5.0.5, v5.0.4, v5.0.3, v4.19.29, v5.0.2, v4.19.28, v5.0.1, v4.19.27, v5.0, v4.19.26, v4.19.25, v4.19.24, v4.19.23, v4.19.22, v4.19.21, v4.19.20, v4.19.19, v4.19.18, v4.19.17, v4.19.16, v4.19.15, v4.19.14, v4.19.13, v4.19.12, v4.19.11, v4.19.10, v4.19.9, v4.19.8, v4.19.7, v4.19.6, v4.19.5, v4.19.4, v4.18.20, v4.19.3, v4.18.19, v4.19.2, v4.18.18, v4.18.17, v4.19.1, v4.19, v4.18.16, v4.18.15, v4.18.14, v4.18.13, v4.18.12, v4.18.11, v4.18.10, v4.18.9
# 952a31c9 18-Sep-2018 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

asm-generic/tlb: Introduce CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER=y

Add the Kconfig option HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER to the generic
mmu_gather code. If the option is set the mmu_gather will not
track indi

asm-generic/tlb: Introduce CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER=y

Add the Kconfig option HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER to the generic
mmu_gather code. If the option is set the mmu_gather will not
track individual pages for delayed page free anymore. A platform
that enables the option needs to provide its own implementation
of the __tlb_remove_page_size() function to free pages.

No change in behavior intended.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180918125151.31744-2-schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# 96bc9567 19-Sep-2018 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

asm-generic/tlb, arch: Invert CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE

Make issuing a TLB invalidate for page-table pages the normal case.

The reason is twofold:

- too many invalidates is safer than too

asm-generic/tlb, arch: Invert CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE

Make issuing a TLB invalidate for page-table pages the normal case.

The reason is twofold:

- too many invalidates is safer than too few,
- most architectures use the linux page-tables natively
and would thus require this.

Make it an opt-out, instead of an opt-in.

No change in behavior intended.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v4.18.7, v4.18.6
# ed6a7935 31-Aug-2018 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

asm-generic/tlb, arch: Provide CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE

Move the mmu_gather::page_size things into the generic code instead of
PowerPC specific bits.

No change in behavior intended.

Signed

asm-generic/tlb, arch: Provide CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE

Move the mmu_gather::page_size things into the generic code instead of
PowerPC specific bits.

No change in behavior intended.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v4.18.5, v4.17.18, v4.18.4, v4.18.3, v4.17.17, v4.18.2, v4.17.16, v4.17.15, v4.18.1, v4.18, v4.17.14, v4.17.13, v4.17.12, v4.17.11, v4.17.10, v4.17.9, v4.17.8, v4.17.7, v4.17.6, v4.17.5, v4.17.4, v4.17.3, v4.17.2, v4.17.1, v4.17
# 942fa985 16-May-2018 Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>

32-bit userspace ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config option

All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit userspace off_t type, but
existing architectures has 32-bit ones.

To enforce the rule,

32-bit userspace ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config option

All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit userspace off_t type, but
existing architectures has 32-bit ones.

To enforce the rule, new config option is added to arch/Kconfig that defaults
ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T to be disabled for new 32-bit architectures. All existing
32-bit architectures enable it explicitly.

New option affects force_o_largefile() behaviour. Namely, if userspace
off_t is 64-bits long, we have no reason to reject user to open big files.

Note that even if architectures has only 64-bit off_t in the kernel
(arc, c6x, h8300, hexagon, nios2, openrisc, and unicore32),
a libc may use 32-bit off_t, and therefore want to limit the file size
to 4GB unless specified differently in the open flags.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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# 00bf25d6 31-Dec-2018 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

y2038: use time32 syscall names on 32-bit

This is the big flip, where all 32-bit architectures set COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
and use the _time32 system calls from the former compat layer instead
of the syst

y2038: use time32 syscall names on 32-bit

This is the big flip, where all 32-bit architectures set COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
and use the _time32 system calls from the former compat layer instead
of the system calls that take __kernel_timespec and similar arguments.

The temporary redirects for __kernel_timespec, __kernel_itimerspec
and __kernel_timex can get removed with this.

It would be easy to split this commit by architecture, but with the new
generated system call tables, it's easy enough to do it all at once,
which makes it a little easier to check that the changes are the same
in each table.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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# ce9084ba 02-Feb-2019 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

x86: Make ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT a generic Kconfig symbol

Turn ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT into a generic Kconfig symbol, and fix the
dependency expression to reflect that AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT depends on it,

x86: Make ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT a generic Kconfig symbol

Turn ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT into a generic Kconfig symbol, and fix the
dependency expression to reflect that AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT depends on it,
instead of the other way around. This will permit ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT
to be selected by other architectures.

Note that the encryption related early memremap routines in
arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c cannot be built for 32-bit x86 without triggering
the following warning:

arch/x86//mm/ioremap.c: In function 'early_memremap_encrypted':
>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h:193:27: warning: conversion from
'long long unsigned int' to 'long unsigned int' changes
value from '9223372036854776163' to '355' [-Woverflow]
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_ENC (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_ENC)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/x86//mm/ioremap.c:713:46: note: in expansion of macro '__PAGE_KERNEL_ENC'
return early_memremap_prot(phys_addr, size, __PAGE_KERNEL_ENC);

which essentially means they are 64-bit only anyway. However, we cannot
make them dependent on CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT, since that is always
defined, even for i386 (and changing that results in a slew of build errors)

So instead, build those routines only if CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT is
defined.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190202094119.13230-9-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# 666047fe 14-Jan-2019 Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>

m68k/atari: Implement arch_nvram_ops methods and enable CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS

Atari RTC NVRAM uses a checksum so implement the remaining arch_nvram_ops
methods for the set_checksum and initiali

m68k/atari: Implement arch_nvram_ops methods and enable CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS

Atari RTC NVRAM uses a checksum so implement the remaining arch_nvram_ops
methods for the set_checksum and initialize ioctls. Enable
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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# e9666d10 30-Dec-2018 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig

Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this

jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig

Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:

#if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) && defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
# define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
#endif

We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.

Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>

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# 2c91bd4a 03-Jan-2019 Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions

Android needs to mremap large regions of memory during memory management
related operations. The mremap system call can be really slow if THP is
not enab

mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions

Android needs to mremap large regions of memory during memory management
related operations. The mremap system call can be really slow if THP is
not enabled. The bottleneck is move_page_tables, which is copying each
pte at a time, and can be really slow across a large map. Turning on
THP may not be a viable option, and is not for us. This patch speeds up
the performance for non-THP system by copying at the PMD level when
possible.

The speedup is an order of magnitude on x86 (~20x). On a 1GB mremap,
the mremap completion times drops from 3.4-3.6 milliseconds to 144-160
microseconds.

Before:
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3521942 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3449229 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3488230 nanoseconds.

After:
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 150279 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 144665 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 158708 nanoseconds.

If THP is enabled the optimization is mostly skipped except in certain
situations.

[joel@joelfernandes.org: fix 'move_normal_pmd' unused function warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108224457.GB209347@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-3-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3c88ee19 25-Apr-2018 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API

Add regs_get_argument() which returns N th argument of the
function call.
Note that this chooses most probably assignment, in some case
it can be incorr

x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API

Add regs_get_argument() which returns N th argument of the
function call.
Note that this chooses most probably assignment, in some case
it can be incorrect (e.g. passing data structure or floating
point etc.)

This is expected to be called from kprobes or ftrace with regs
where the top of stack is the return address.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465885737.26224.2822487520472783854.stgit@devbox

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# 50ff18ab 19-Sep-2018 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

jump_label: Implement generic support for relative references

To reduce the size taken up by absolute references in jump label
entries themselves and the associated relocation records in the
.init s

jump_label: Implement generic support for relative references

To reduce the size taken up by absolute references in jump label
entries themselves and the associated relocation records in the
.init segment, add support for emitting them as relative references
instead.

Note that this requires some extra care in the sorting routine, given
that the offsets change when entries are moved around in the jump_entry
table.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919065144.25010-3-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org

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# afaef01c 16-Aug-2018 Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>

x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls

The STACKLEAK feature (initially developed by PaX Team) has the following
benefits:

1. Reduces the information that can be r

x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls

The STACKLEAK feature (initially developed by PaX Team) has the following
benefits:

1. Reduces the information that can be revealed through kernel stack leak
bugs. The idea of erasing the thread stack at the end of syscalls is
similar to CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and memzero_explicit() in kernel
crypto, which all comply with FDP_RIP.2 (Full Residual Information
Protection) of the Common Criteria standard.

2. Blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks (e.g. CVE-2017-17712,
CVE-2010-2963). That kind of bugs should be killed by improving C
compilers in future, which might take a long time.

This commit introduces the code filling the used part of the kernel
stack with a poison value before returning to userspace. Full
STACKLEAK feature also contains the gcc plugin which comes in a
separate commit.

The STACKLEAK feature is ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
https://grsecurity.net/
https://pax.grsecurity.net/

This code is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last
public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on our understanding of the code.
Changes or omissions from the original code are ours and don't reflect
the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Performance impact:

Hardware: Intel Core i7-4770, 16 GB RAM

Test #1: building the Linux kernel on a single core
0.91% slowdown

Test #2: hackbench -s 4096 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P
4.2% slowdown

So the STACKLEAK description in Kconfig includes: "The tradeoff is the
performance impact: on a single CPU system kernel compilation sees a 1%
slowdown, other systems and workloads may vary and you are advised to
test this feature on your expected workload before deploying it".

Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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# d86564a2 22-Aug-2018 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE

Jann reported that x86 was missing required TLB invalidates when he
hit the !*batch slow path in tlb_remove_table().

This is indee

mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE

Jann reported that x86 was missing required TLB invalidates when he
hit the !*batch slow path in tlb_remove_table().

This is indeed the case; RCU_TABLE_FREE does not provide TLB (cache)
invalidates, the PowerPC-hash where this code originated and the
Sparc-hash where this was subsequently used did not need that. ARM
which later used this put an explicit TLB invalidate in their
__p*_free_tlb() functions, and PowerPC-radix followed that example.

But when we hooked up x86 we failed to consider this. Fix this by
(optionally) hooking tlb_remove_table() into the TLB invalidate code.

NOTE: s390 was also needing something like this and might now
be able to use the generic code again.

[ Modified to be on top of Nick's cleanups, which simplified this patch
now that tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() really only flushes the TLB - Linus ]

Fixes: 9e52fc2b50de ("x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 271ca788 21-Aug-2018 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86

Patch series "add support for relative references in special sections", v10.

This adds support for emitting special sections such as initc

arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86

Patch series "add support for relative references in special sections", v10.

This adds support for emitting special sections such as initcall arrays,
PCI fixups and tracepoints as relative references rather than absolute
references. This reduces the size by 50% on 64-bit architectures, but
more importantly, it removes the need for carrying relocation metadata for
these sections in relocatable kernels (e.g., for KASLR) that needs to be
fixed up at boot time. On arm64, this reduces the vmlinux footprint of
such a reference by 8x (8 byte absolute reference + 24 byte RELA entry vs
4 byte relative reference)

Patch #3 was sent out before as a single patch. This series supersedes
the previous submission. This version makes relative ksymtab entries
dependent on the new Kconfig symbol HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS rather
than trying to infer from kbuild test robot replies for which
architectures it should be blacklisted.

Patch #1 introduces the new Kconfig symbol HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS,
and sets it for the main architectures that are expected to benefit the
most from this feature, i.e., 64-bit architectures or ones that use
runtime relocations.

Patch #2 add support for #define'ing __DISABLE_EXPORTS to get rid of
ksymtab/kcrctab sections in decompressor and EFI stub objects when
rebuilding existing C files to run in a different context.

Patches #4 - #6 implement relative references for initcalls, PCI fixups
and tracepoints, respectively, all of which produce sections with order
~1000 entries on an arm64 defconfig kernel with tracing enabled. This
means we save about 28 KB of vmlinux space for each of these patches.

[From the v7 series blurb, which included the jump_label patches as well]:

For the arm64 kernel, all patches combined reduce the memory footprint
of vmlinux by about 1.3 MB (using a config copied from Ubuntu that has
KASLR enabled), of which ~1 MB is the size reduction of the RELA section
in .init, and the remaining 300 KB is reduction of .text/.data.

This patch (of 6):

Before updating certain subsystems to use place relative 32-bit
relocations in special sections, to save space and reduce the number of
absolute relocations that need to be processed at runtime by relocatable
kernels, introduce the Kconfig symbol and define it for some architectures
that should be able to support and benefit from it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180704083651.24360-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Cc: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 04f264d3 20-Aug-2018 Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>

compiler.h: Allow arch-specific asm/compiler.h

We have a need to override the definition of
barrier_before_unreachable() for MIPS, which means we either need to add
architecture-specific code into l

compiler.h: Allow arch-specific asm/compiler.h

We have a need to override the definition of
barrier_before_unreachable() for MIPS, which means we either need to add
architecture-specific code into linux/compiler-gcc.h or we need to allow
the architecture to provide a header that can define the macro before
the generic definition. The latter seems like the better approach.

A straightforward approach to the per-arch header is to make use of
asm-generic to provide a default empty header & adjust architectures
which don't need anything specific to make use of that by adding the
header to generic-y. Unfortunately this doesn't work so well due to
commit 28128c61e08e ("kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed
struct attributes") which caused linux/compiler_types.h to be included
in the compilation of every C file via the -include linux/kconfig.h flag
in c_flags.

Because the -include flag is present for all C files we compile, we need
the architecture-provided header to be present before any C files are
compiled. If any C files can be compiled prior to the asm-generic header
wrappers being generated then we hit a build failure due to missing
header. Such cases do exist - one pointed out by the kbuild test robot
is the compilation of arch/ia64/kernel/nr-irqs.c, which occurs as part
of the archprepare target [1].

This leaves us with a few options:

1) Use generic-y & fix any build failures we find by enforcing
ordering such that the asm-generic target occurs before any C
compilation, such that linux/compiler_types.h can always include
the generated asm-generic wrapper which in turn includes the empty
asm-generic header. This would rely on us finding all the
problematic cases - I don't know for sure that the ia64 issue is
the only one.

2) Add an actual empty header to each architecture, so that we don't
need the generated asm-generic wrapper. This seems messy.

3) Give up & add #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS or similar to
linux/compiler_types.h. This seems messy too.

4) Include the arch header only when it's actually needed, removing
the need for the asm-generic wrapper for all other architectures.

This patch allows us to use approach 4, by including an asm/compiler.h
header from linux/compiler_types.h after the inclusion of the
compiler-specific linux/compiler-*.h header(s). We do this
conditionally, only when CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H is selected, in
order to avoid the need for asm-generic wrappers & the associated build
ordering issue described above. The asm/compiler.h header is included
after the generic linux/compiler-*.h header(s) for consistency with the
way linux/compiler-intel.h & linux/compiler-clang.h are included after
the linux/compiler-gcc.h header that they override.

[1] https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2018-August/051175.html

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20269/
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org

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# 22471e13 31-Jul-2018 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

kconfig: use a menu in arch/Kconfig to reduce clutter

Put everything in arch/Kconfig into a General options menu
so that they don't clutter up the main/major/primary list of
menu options.

Signed-of

kconfig: use a menu in arch/Kconfig to reduce clutter

Put everything in arch/Kconfig into a General options menu
so that they don't clutter up the main/major/primary list of
menu options.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

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# 87a4c375 31-Jul-2018 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

kconfig: include kernel/Kconfig.preempt from init/Kconfig

Almost all architectures include it. Add a ARCH_NO_PREEMPT symbol to
disable preempt support for alpha, hexagon, non-coldfire m68k and
user

kconfig: include kernel/Kconfig.preempt from init/Kconfig

Almost all architectures include it. Add a ARCH_NO_PREEMPT symbol to
disable preempt support for alpha, hexagon, non-coldfire m68k and
user mode Linux.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

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# 1572497c 31-Jul-2018 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

kconfig: include common Kconfig files from top-level Kconfig

Instead of duplicating the source statements in every architecture just
do it once in the toplevel Kconfig file.

Note that with this the

kconfig: include common Kconfig files from top-level Kconfig

Instead of duplicating the source statements in every architecture just
do it once in the toplevel Kconfig file.

Note that with this the inclusion of arch/$(SRCARCH/Kconfig moves out of
the top-level Kconfig into arch/Kconfig so that don't violate ordering
constraits while keeping a sensible menu structure.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

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# 45332b1b 05-Jul-2018 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

gcc-plugins: split out Kconfig entries to scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig

Collect relevant code into the scripts/gcc-plugins directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Si

gcc-plugins: split out Kconfig entries to scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig

Collect relevant code into the scripts/gcc-plugins directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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# 05736e4a 29-May-2018 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT

Provide a command line and a sysfs knob to control SMT.

The command line options are:

'nosmt': Enumerate secondary threads, but do not online them

'

cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT

Provide a command line and a sysfs knob to control SMT.

The command line options are:

'nosmt': Enumerate secondary threads, but do not online them

'nosmt=force': Ignore secondary threads completely during enumeration
via MP table and ACPI/MADT.

The sysfs control file has the following states (read/write):

'on': SMT is enabled. Secondary threads can be freely onlined
'off': SMT is disabled. Secondary threads, even if enumerated
cannot be onlined
'forceoff': SMT is permanentely disabled. Writes to the control
file are rejected.
'notsupported': SMT is not supported by the CPU

The command line option 'nosmt' sets the sysfs control to 'off'. This
can be changed to 'on' to reenable SMT during runtime.

The command line option 'nosmt=force' sets the sysfs control to
'forceoff'. This cannot be changed during runtime.

When SMT is 'on' and the control file is changed to 'off' then all online
secondary threads are offlined and attempts to online a secondary thread
later on are rejected.

When SMT is 'off' and the control file is changed to 'on' then secondary
threads can be onlined again. The 'off' -> 'on' transition does not
automatically online the secondary threads.

When the control file is set to 'forceoff', the behaviour is the same as
setting it to 'off', but the operation is irreversible and later writes to
the control file are rejected.

When the control status is 'notsupported' then writes to the control file
are rejected.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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