Merge tag 'v5.10-rc1' into asoc-5.10

Linux 5.10-rc1

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memcg, migration,
pagemap, gup, madvise, vmalloc), ia64, and mi

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memcg, migration,
pagemap, gup, madvise, vmalloc), ia64, and misc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (31 commits)
mm: remove duplicate include statement in mmu.c
mm: remove the filename in the top of file comment in vmalloc.c
mm: cleanup the gfp_mask handling in __vmalloc_area_node
mm: remove alloc_vm_area
x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc
xen/xenbus: use apply_to_page_range directly in xenbus_map_ring_pv
drm/i915: use vmap in i915_gem_object_map
drm/i915: stop using kmap in i915_gem_object_map
drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin_map
zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area
mm: allow a NULL fn callback in apply_to_page_range
mm: add a vmap_pfn function
mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap
mm: update the documentation for vfree
mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API
pid: move pidfd_get_pid() to pid.c
mm/madvise: pass mm to do_madvise
selftests/vm: 10x speedup for hmm-tests
binfmt_elf: take the mmap lock around find_extend_vma()
mm/gup_benchmark: take the mmap lock around GUP
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mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API

There is usecase that System Management Software(SMS) want to give a
memory hint like MADV_[COLD|PAGEEOUT] to other pr

mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API

There is usecase that System Management Software(SMS) want to give a
memory hint like MADV_[COLD|PAGEEOUT] to other processes and in the
case of Android, it is the ActivityManagerService.

The information required to make the reclaim decision is not known to the
app. Instead, it is known to the centralized userspace
daemon(ActivityManagerService), and that daemon must be able to initiate
reclaim on its own without any app involvement.

To solve the issue, this patch introduces a new syscall
process_madvise(2). It uses pidfd of an external process to give the
hint. It also supports vector address range because Android app has
thousands of vmas due to zygote so it's totally waste of CPU and power if
we should call the syscall one by one for each vma.(With testing 2000-vma
syscall vs 1-vector syscall, it showed 15% performance improvement. I
think it would be bigger in real practice because the testing ran very
cache friendly environment).

Another potential use case for the vector range is to amortize the cost
ofTLB shootdowns for multiple ranges when using MADV_DONTNEED; this could
benefit users like TCP receive zerocopy and malloc implementations. In
future, we could find more usecases for other advises so let's make it
happens as API since we introduce a new syscall at this moment. With
that, existing madvise(2) user could replace it with process_madvise(2)
with their own pid if they want to have batch address ranges support
feature.

ince it could affect other process's address range, only privileged
process(PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS) or something else(e.g., being the same
UID) gives it the right to ptrace the process could use it successfully.
The flag argument is reserved for future use if we need to extend the API.

I think supporting all hints madvise has/will supported/support to
process_madvise is rather risky. Because we are not sure all hints make
sense from external process and implementation for the hint may rely on
the caller being in the current context so it could be error-prone. Thus,
I just limited hints as MADV_[COLD|PAGEOUT] in this patch.

If someone want to add other hints, we could hear the usecase and review
it for each hint. It's safer for maintenance rather than introducing a
buggy syscall but hard to fix it later.

So finally, the API is as follows,

ssize_t process_madvise(int pidfd, const struct iovec *iovec,
unsigned long vlen, int advice, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION
The process_madvise() system call is used to give advice or directions
to the kernel about the address ranges from external process as well as
local process. It provides the advice to address ranges of process
described by iovec and vlen. The goal of such advice is to improve
system or application performance.

The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file descriptor
specified in pidfd. (See pidofd_open(2) for further information)

The pointer iovec points to an array of iovec structures, defined in
<sys/uio.h> as:

struct iovec {
void *iov_base; /* starting address */
size_t iov_len; /* number of bytes to be advised */
};

The iovec describes address ranges beginning at address(iov_base)
and with size length of bytes(iov_len).

The vlen represents the number of elements in iovec.

The advice is indicated in the advice argument, which is one of the
following at this moment if the target process specified by pidfd is
external.

MADV_COLD
MADV_PAGEOUT

Permission to provide a hint to external process is governed by a
ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

The process_madvise supports every advice madvise(2) has if target
process is in same thread group with calling process so user could
use process_madvise(2) to extend existing madvise(2) to support
vector address ranges.

RETURN VALUE
On success, process_madvise() returns the number of bytes advised.
This return value may be less than the total number of requested
bytes, if an error occurred. The caller should check return value
to determine whether a partial advice occurred.

FAQ:

Q.1 - Why does any external entity have better knowledge?

Quote from Sandeep

"For Android, every application (including the special SystemServer)
are forked from Zygote. The reason of course is to share as many
libraries and classes between the two as possible to benefit from the
preloading during boot.

After applications start, (almost) all of the APIs end up calling into
this SystemServer process over IPC (binder) and back to the
application.

In a fully running system, the SystemServer monitors every single
process periodically to calculate their PSS / RSS and also decides
which process is "important" to the user for interactivity.

So, because of how these processes start _and_ the fact that the
SystemServer is looping to monitor each process, it does tend to *know*
which address range of the application is not used / useful.

Besides, we can never rely on applications to clean things up
themselves. We've had the "hey app1, the system is low on memory,
please trim your memory usage down" notifications for a long time[1].
They rely on applications honoring the broadcasts and very few do.

So, if we want to avoid the inevitable killing of the application and
restarting it, some way to be able to tell the OS about unimportant
memory in these applications will be useful.

- ssp

Q.2 - How to guarantee the race(i.e., object validation) between when
giving a hint from an external process and get the hint from the target
process?

process_madvise operates on the target process's address space as it
exists at the instant that process_madvise is called. If the space
target process can run between the time the process_madvise process
inspects the target process address space and the time that
process_madvise is actually called, process_madvise may operate on
memory regions that the calling process does not expect. It's the
responsibility of the process calling process_madvise to close this
race condition. For example, the calling process can suspend the
target process with ptrace, SIGSTOP, or the freezer cgroup so that it
doesn't have an opportunity to change its own address space before
process_madvise is called. Another option is to operate on memory
regions that the caller knows a priori will be unchanged in the target
process. Yet another option is to accept the race for certain
process_madvise calls after reasoning that mistargeting will do no
harm. The suggested API itself does not provide synchronization. It
also apply other APIs like move_pages, process_vm_write.

The race isn't really a problem though. Why is it so wrong to require
that callers do their own synchronization in some manner? Nobody
objects to write(2) merely because it's possible for two processes to
open the same file and clobber each other's writes --- instead, we tell
people to use flock or something. Think about mmap. It never
guarantees newly allocated address space is still valid when the user
tries to access it because other threads could unmap the memory right
before. That's where we need synchronization by using other API or
design from userside. It shouldn't be part of API itself. If someone
needs more fine-grained synchronization rather than process level,
there were two ideas suggested - cookie[2] and anon-fd[3]. Both are
applicable via using last reserved argument of the API but I don't
think it's necessary right now since we have already ways to prevent
the race so don't want to add additional complexity with more
fine-grained optimization model.

To make the API extend, it reserved an unsigned long as last argument
so we could support it in future if someone really needs it.

Q.3 - Why doesn't ptrace work?

Injecting an madvise in the target process using ptrace would not work
for us because such injected madvise would have to be executed by the
target process, which means that process would have to be runnable and
that creates the risk of the abovementioned race and hinting a wrong
VMA. Furthermore, we want to act the hint in caller's context, not the
callee's, because the callee is usually limited in cpuset/cgroups or
even freezed state so they can't act by themselves quick enough, which
causes more thrashing/kill. It doesn't work if the target process are
ptraced(e.g., strace, debugger, minidump) because a process can have at
most one ptracer.

[1] https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/memory"

[2] process_getinfo for getting the cookie which is updated whenever
vma of process address layout are changed - Daniel Colascione -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190520035254.57579-1-minchan@kernel.org/T/#m7694416fd179b2066a2c62b5b139b14e3894e224

[3] anonymous fd which is used for the object(i.e., address range)
validation - Michal Hocko -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120112722.GY18451@dhcp22.suse.cz/

[minchan@kernel.org: fix process_madvise build break for arm64]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303145756.GA219683@google.com
[minchan@kernel.org: fix build error for mips of process_madvise]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508052517.GA197378@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix patch ordering issue]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm64 whoops]
[minchan@kernel.org: make process_madvise() vlen arg have type size_t, per Florian]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix syscall numbering]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200905142639.49fc3f1a@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: madvise.c needs compat.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908204547.285646b4@canb.auug.org.au
[minchan@kernel.org: fix mips build]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200909173655.GC2435453@google.com
[yuehaibing@huawei.com: remove duplicate header which is included twice]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915121550.30584-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
[minchan@kernel.org: do not use helper functions for process_madvise]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921175539.GB387368@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: pidfd_get_pid() gained an argument]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix up for "iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec"]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200928212542.468e1fef@canb.auug.org.au

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302193630.68771-3-minchan@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508183320.GA125527@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622192900.22757-4-minchan@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200901000633.1920247-4-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'for-5.10/core' into for-linus

- nonblocking read semantics fix for hid-debug

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued

Sync drm-intel-gt-next here so we can have an unified fixes flow.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for Linux 5.9, take #1

- Multiple stolen time fixes, with a new capability to

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for Linux 5.9, take #1

- Multiple stolen time fixes, with a new capability to match x86
- Fix for hugetlbfs mappings when PUD and PMD are the same level
- Fix for hugetlbfs mappings when PTE mappings are enforced
(dirty logging, for example)
- Fix tracing output of 64bit values

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Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Back-merge to apply the tasklet conversion patches that are based
on the already applied tasklet API changes on 5.9-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@su

Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Back-merge to apply the tasklet conversion patches that are based
on the already applied tasklet API changes on 5.9-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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Merge branch 'topic/tasklet-convert' into for-linus

Pull tasklet API conversions.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Sync with Linus' branch in order to be able to apply fixups
of more recent patches.

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:

- Revert the wholesale conversion to platfo

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:

- Revert the wholesale conversion to platform drivers of the pdc, sysirq
and cirq drivers, as it breaks a number of platforms even when the
driver is built-in (probe ordering bites you).

- Prevent interrupt from being lost with the STM32 exti driver

- Fix wake-up interrupts for the MIPS Ingenic driver

- Fix an embarassing typo in the new module helpers, leading to the probe
failing most of the time

- The promised TI firmware rework that couldn't make it into the merge
window due to a very badly managed set of dependencies

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Merge tag 'v5.9-rc2' into regulator-5.9

Linux 5.9-rc2

Merge tag 'v5.9-rc2' into asoc-5.9

Linux 5.9-rc2

Merge tag 'v5.9-rc2' into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerge requested by Tomi for a fix to omap inconsistent
locking state issue, and because we need at least v5.9-rc2 now.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst

Merge tag 'v5.9-rc2' into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerge requested by Tomi for a fix to omap inconsistent
locking state issue, and because we need at least v5.9-rc2 now.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Merge v5.9-rc1 into drm-misc-next

Sam needs 5.9-rc1 to have dev_err_probe in to merge some patches.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/hotfixes, lz4, exec,
mailmap, mm/thp, autofs, sysctl, mm/kmemleak, m

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/hotfixes, lz4, exec,
mailmap, mm/thp, autofs, sysctl, mm/kmemleak, mm/misc and lib"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits)
virtio: pci: constify ioreadX() iomem argument (as in generic implementation)
ntb: intel: constify ioreadX() iomem argument (as in generic implementation)
rtl818x: constify ioreadX() iomem argument (as in generic implementation)
iomap: constify ioreadX() iomem argument (as in generic implementation)
sh: use generic strncpy()
sh: clkfwk: remove r8/r16/r32
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: align ro_after_init
mm: annotate a data race in page_zonenum()
mm/swap.c: annotate data races for lru_rotate_pvecs
mm/rmap: annotate a data race at tlb_flush_batched
mm/mempool: fix a data race in mempool_free()
mm/list_lru: fix a data race in list_lru_count_one
mm/memcontrol: fix a data race in scan count
mm/page_counter: fix various data races at memsw
mm/swapfile: fix and annotate various data races
mm/filemap.c: fix a data race in filemap_fault()
mm/swap_state: mark various intentional data races
mm/page_io: mark various intentional data races
mm/frontswap: mark various intentional data races
mm/kmemleak: silence KCSAN splats in checksum
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all arch: remove system call sys_sysctl

Since commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
sys_sysctl is actually unavailable: any input can only return an error.

We have been w

all arch: remove system call sys_sysctl

Since commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
sys_sysctl is actually unavailable: any input can only return an error.

We have been warning about people using the sysctl system call for years
and believe there are no more users. Even if there are users of this
interface if they have not complained or fixed their code by now they
probably are not going to, so there is no point in warning them any
longer.

So completely remove sys_sysctl on all architectures.

[nixiaoming@huawei.com: s390: fix build error for sys_call_table_emu]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618141426.16884-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> [arm/arm64]
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: chenzefeng <chenzefeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@flameeyes.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616030734.87257-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Mgerge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of
upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the
PERF_RECORD_TEX

Mgerge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of
upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the
PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE changes:

Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull close_range() implementation from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows

Merge tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull close_range() implementation from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a
range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling
task.

This is coordinated with the FreeBSD folks which have copied our
version of this syscall and in the meantime have already merged it in
April 2019:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836

The syscall originally came up in a discussion around the new mount
API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During
this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall.

First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task.
This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim):

/* that exec is sensitive */
unshare(CLONE_FILES);
/* we don't want anything past stderr here */
close_range(3, ~0U);
execve(....);

The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that
file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the
fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing
userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of
closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service
managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers
etc.).

Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file
descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on
each file descriptor and other hacks. From looking at various
large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very
common in service managers, container runtimes, and programming
language runtimes/standard libraries such as Python or Rust.

In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have
procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled
in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file
descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up
to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery.

Based on Linus' suggestion close_range() also comes with a new flag
CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE to more elegantly handle file descriptor dropping
right before exec. This would usually be expressed in the sequence:

unshare(CLONE_FILES);
close_range(3, ~0U);

as pointed out by Linus it might be desirable to have this be a part
of close_range() itself under a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE which
gets especially handy when we're closing all file descriptors above a
certain threshold.

Test-suite as always included"

* tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
tests: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE tests
close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE
tests: add close_range() tests
arch: wire-up close_range()
open: add close_range()

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Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:

- Fix atomicity of affinity update in the G

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:

- Fix atomicity of affinity update in the GIC driver
- Don't sleep in atomic when waiting for a GICv4.1 RD to respond
- Fix a couple of typos in user-visible messages

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Merge tag 'v5.8-rc3' into arm/qcom

Linux 5.8-rc3

Backmerge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Some conflicts with ttm_bo->offset removal, but drm-misc-next needs updating to v5.8.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.la

Backmerge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Some conflicts with ttm_bo->offset removal, but drm-misc-next needs updating to v5.8.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued

Catch up with upstream, in particular to get c1e8d7c6a7a6 ("mmap locking
API: convert mmap_sem comments").

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@inte

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued

Catch up with upstream, in particular to get c1e8d7c6a7a6 ("mmap locking
API: convert mmap_sem comments").

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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Merge tag 'v5.8-rc1' into regulator-5.8

Linux 5.8-rc1

arch: wire-up close_range()

This wires up the close_range() syscall into all arches at once.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.c

arch: wire-up close_range()

This wires up the close_range() syscall into all arches at once.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org

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