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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>local64.h: make &lt;asm/local64.h&gt; mandatory</title>
<updated>2020-12-29T23:36:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-29T23:14:49+00:00</published>
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Make &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; mandatory in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
remove all arch/*/include/asm/local64.h arch-specific files since they
only #include &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt;.

This fixes build errors on arch/c6x/ and arch/nios2/ for
block/blk-iocost.c.

Build-tested on 21 of 25 arch-es.  (tools problems on the others)

Yes, we could even rename &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; to
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; and change all #includes to use
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201227024446.17018-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;jacquiot.aurelien@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; mandatory in include/asm-generic/Kbuild and
remove all arch/*/include/asm/local64.h arch-specific files since they
only #include &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt;.

This fixes build errors on arch/c6x/ and arch/nios2/ for
block/blk-iocost.c.

Build-tested on 21 of 25 arch-es.  (tools problems on the others)

Yes, we could even rename &lt;asm-generic/local64.h&gt; to
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; and change all #includes to use
&lt;linux/local64.h&gt; instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201227024446.17018-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;jacquiot.aurelien@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T20:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T20:33:35+00:00</published>
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Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman &lt;romger@amazon.com&gt; reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...
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<pre>
Pull TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This sits on top of of the core entry/exit and x86 entry branch from
  the tip tree, which contains the generic and x86 parts of this work.

  Here we convert the rest of the archs to support TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

  With that done, we can get rid of JOBCTL_TASK_WORK from task_work and
  signal.c, and also remove a deadlock work-around in io_uring around
  knowing that signal based task_work waking is invoked with the sighand
  wait queue head lock.

  The motivation for this work is to decouple signal notify based
  task_work, of which io_uring is a heavy user of, from sighand. The
  sighand lock becomes a huge contention point, particularly for
  threaded workloads where it's shared between threads. Even outside of
  threaded applications it's slower than it needs to be.

  Roman Gershman &lt;romger@amazon.com&gt; reported that his networked
  workload dropped from 1.6M QPS at 80% CPU to 1.0M QPS at 100% CPU
  after io_uring was changed to use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The time was all
  spent hammering on the sighand lock, showing 57% of the CPU time there
  [1].

  There are further cleanups possible on top of this. One example is
  TIF_PATCH_PENDING, where a patch already exists to use
  TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL instead. Hopefully this will also lead to more
  consolidation, but the work stands on its own as well"

[1] https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/215

* tag 'tif-task_work.arch-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits)
  io_uring: remove 'twa_signal_ok' deadlock work-around
  kernel: remove checking for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  signal: kill JOBCTL_TASK_WORK
  io_uring: JOBCTL_TASK_WORK is no longer used by task_work
  task_work: remove legacy TWA_SIGNAL path
  sparc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  riscv: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  nds32: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ia64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  h8300: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  c6x: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  xtensa: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  arm: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  microblaze: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  hexagon: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  csky: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  openrisc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  sh: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  um: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-mmu-context-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T07:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T07:58:04+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic mmu-context cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a cleanup series from Nicholas Piggin, preparing for later
  changes. The asm/mmu_context.h header are generalized and common code
  moved to asm-gneneric/mmu_context.h.

  This saves a bit of code and makes it easier to change in the future"

* tag 'asm-generic-mmu-context-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (25 commits)
  h8300: Fix generic mmu_context build
  m68k: mmu_context: Fix Sun-3 build
  xtensa: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  x86: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  um: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  sparc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  sh: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  s390: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  riscv: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  powerpc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  parisc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  openrisc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  nios2: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  nds32: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  mips: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  microblaze: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  m68k: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  ia64: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  hexagon: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  csky: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  ...
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<pre>
Pull asm-generic mmu-context cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a cleanup series from Nicholas Piggin, preparing for later
  changes. The asm/mmu_context.h header are generalized and common code
  moved to asm-gneneric/mmu_context.h.

  This saves a bit of code and makes it easier to change in the future"

* tag 'asm-generic-mmu-context-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (25 commits)
  h8300: Fix generic mmu_context build
  m68k: mmu_context: Fix Sun-3 build
  xtensa: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  x86: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  um: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  sparc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  sh: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  s390: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  riscv: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  powerpc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  parisc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  openrisc: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  nios2: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  nds32: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  mips: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  microblaze: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  m68k: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  ia64: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  hexagon: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  csky: use asm-generic/mmu_context.h for no-op implementations
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T21:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T21:22:29+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - support "prefer busy polling" NAPI operation mode, where we defer
     softirq for some time expecting applications to periodically busy
     poll

   - AF_XDP: improve efficiency by more batching and hindering the
     adjacency cache prefetcher

   - af_packet: make packet_fanout.arr size configurable up to 64K

   - tcp: optimize TCP zero copy receive in presence of partial or
     unaligned reads making zero copy a performance win for much smaller
     messages

   - XDP: add bulk APIs for returning / freeing frames

   - sched: support fragmenting IP packets as they come out of conntrack

   - net: allow virtual netdevs to forward UDP L4 and fraglist GSO skbs

  BPF:

   - BPF switch from crude rlimit-based to memcg-based memory accounting

   - BPF type format information for kernel modules and related tracing
     enhancements

   - BPF implement task local storage for BPF LSM

   - allow the FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP tracing programs to use
     bpf_sk_storage

  Protocols:

   - mptcp: improve multiple xmit streams support, memory accounting and
     many smaller improvements

   - TLS: support CHACHA20-POLY1305 cipher

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT4/DT6 behavior

   - sctp: Implement RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of SCTP

   - ppp_generic: add ability to bridge channels directly

   - bridge: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) support as is defined
     in IEEE 802.1Q section 12.14.

  Drivers:

   - mlx5: make use of the new auxiliary bus to organize the driver
     internals

   - mlx5: more accurate port TX timestamping support

   - mlxsw:
      - improve the efficiency of offloaded next hop updates by using
        the new nexthop object API
      - support blackhole nexthops
      - support IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) bridging

   - rtw88: major bluetooth co-existance improvements

   - iwlwifi: support new 6 GHz frequency band

   - ath11k: Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS)

   - mt7915: dual band concurrent (DBDC) support

   - net: ipa: add basic support for IPA v4.5

  Refactor:

   - a few pieces of in_interrupt() cleanup work from Sebastian Andrzej
     Siewior

   - phy: add support for shared interrupts; get rid of multiple driver
     APIs and have the drivers write a full IRQ handler, slight growth
     of driver code should be compensated by the simpler API which also
     allows shared IRQs

   - add common code for handling netdev per-cpu counters

   - move TX packet re-allocation from Ethernet switch tag drivers to a
     central place

   - improve efficiency and rename nla_strlcpy

   - number of W=1 warning cleanups as we now catch those in a patchwork
     build bot

  Old code removal:

   - wan: delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers

   - wimax: move to staging

   - wifi: remove old WDS wifi bridging support"

* tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1922 commits)
  net: hns3: fix expression that is currently always true
  net: fix proc_fs init handling in af_packet and tls
  nfc: pn533: convert comma to semicolon
  af_vsock: Assign the vsock transport considering the vsock address flags
  af_vsock: Set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST flag on the receive path
  vsock_addr: Check for supported flag values
  vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag
  vm_sockets: Add flags field in the vsock address data structure
  net: Disable NETIF_F_HW_TLS_TX when HW_CSUM is disabled
  tcp: Add logic to check for SYN w/ data in tcp_simple_retransmit
  net: mscc: ocelot: install MAC addresses in .ndo_set_rx_mode from process context
  nfc: s3fwrn5: Release the nfc firmware
  net: vxget: clean up sparse warnings
  mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use eXtended mezzanine to offload IPv4 router
  mlxsw: spectrum: Set KVH XLT cache mode for Spectrum2/3
  mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Introduce basic XM cache flushing
  mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache Enable Register
  mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache ML Delete Register
  mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Implement L-value tracking for M-index
  mlxsw: reg: Add XM Router M Table Register
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - support "prefer busy polling" NAPI operation mode, where we defer
     softirq for some time expecting applications to periodically busy
     poll

   - AF_XDP: improve efficiency by more batching and hindering the
     adjacency cache prefetcher

   - af_packet: make packet_fanout.arr size configurable up to 64K

   - tcp: optimize TCP zero copy receive in presence of partial or
     unaligned reads making zero copy a performance win for much smaller
     messages

   - XDP: add bulk APIs for returning / freeing frames

   - sched: support fragmenting IP packets as they come out of conntrack

   - net: allow virtual netdevs to forward UDP L4 and fraglist GSO skbs

  BPF:

   - BPF switch from crude rlimit-based to memcg-based memory accounting

   - BPF type format information for kernel modules and related tracing
     enhancements

   - BPF implement task local storage for BPF LSM

   - allow the FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP tracing programs to use
     bpf_sk_storage

  Protocols:

   - mptcp: improve multiple xmit streams support, memory accounting and
     many smaller improvements

   - TLS: support CHACHA20-POLY1305 cipher

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT4/DT6 behavior

   - sctp: Implement RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of SCTP

   - ppp_generic: add ability to bridge channels directly

   - bridge: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) support as is defined
     in IEEE 802.1Q section 12.14.

  Drivers:

   - mlx5: make use of the new auxiliary bus to organize the driver
     internals

   - mlx5: more accurate port TX timestamping support

   - mlxsw:
      - improve the efficiency of offloaded next hop updates by using
        the new nexthop object API
      - support blackhole nexthops
      - support IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) bridging

   - rtw88: major bluetooth co-existance improvements

   - iwlwifi: support new 6 GHz frequency band

   - ath11k: Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS)

   - mt7915: dual band concurrent (DBDC) support

   - net: ipa: add basic support for IPA v4.5

  Refactor:

   - a few pieces of in_interrupt() cleanup work from Sebastian Andrzej
     Siewior

   - phy: add support for shared interrupts; get rid of multiple driver
     APIs and have the drivers write a full IRQ handler, slight growth
     of driver code should be compensated by the simpler API which also
     allows shared IRQs

   - add common code for handling netdev per-cpu counters

   - move TX packet re-allocation from Ethernet switch tag drivers to a
     central place

   - improve efficiency and rename nla_strlcpy

   - number of W=1 warning cleanups as we now catch those in a patchwork
     build bot

  Old code removal:

   - wan: delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers

   - wimax: move to staging

   - wifi: remove old WDS wifi bridging support"

* tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1922 commits)
  net: hns3: fix expression that is currently always true
  net: fix proc_fs init handling in af_packet and tls
  nfc: pn533: convert comma to semicolon
  af_vsock: Assign the vsock transport considering the vsock address flags
  af_vsock: Set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST flag on the receive path
  vsock_addr: Check for supported flag values
  vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag
  vm_sockets: Add flags field in the vsock address data structure
  net: Disable NETIF_F_HW_TLS_TX when HW_CSUM is disabled
  tcp: Add logic to check for SYN w/ data in tcp_simple_retransmit
  net: mscc: ocelot: install MAC addresses in .ndo_set_rx_mode from process context
  nfc: s3fwrn5: Release the nfc firmware
  net: vxget: clean up sparse warnings
  mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use eXtended mezzanine to offload IPv4 router
  mlxsw: spectrum: Set KVH XLT cache mode for Spectrum2/3
  mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Introduce basic XM cache flushing
  mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache Enable Register
  mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache ML Delete Register
  mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Implement L-value tracking for M-index
  mlxsw: reg: Add XM Router M Table Register
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:09:28+00:00</published>
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Patch series "arch, mm: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM", v2.

It's been a while since DISCONTIGMEM is generally considered deprecated,
but it is still used by four architectures.  This set replaces
DISCONTIGMEM with a different way to handle holes in the memory map and
marks DISCONTIGMEM configuration as BROKEN in Kconfigs of these
architectures with the intention to completely remove it in several
releases.

While for 64-bit alpha and ia64 the switch to SPARSEMEM is quite obvious
and was a matter of moving some bits around, for smaller 32-bit arc and
m68k SPARSEMEM is not necessarily the best thing to do.

On 32-bit machines SPARSEMEM would require large sections to make section
index fit in the page flags, but larger sections mean that more memory is
wasted for unused memory map.

Besides, pfn_to_page() and page_to_pfn() become less efficient, at least
on arc.

So I've decided to generalize arm's approach for freeing of unused parts
of the memory map with FLATMEM and enable it for both arc and m68k.  The
details are in the description of patches 10 (arc) and 13 (m68k).

This patch (of 13):

Enable SPARSEMEM support on alpha and deprecate DISCONTIGMEM.

The required changes are mostly around moving duplicated definitions of
page access and address conversion macros to a common place and making sure
they are available for all memory models.

The DISCONTINGMEM support is marked as BROKEN an will be removed in a
couple of releases.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Cc: Michael Schmitz &lt;schmitzmic@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "arch, mm: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM", v2.

It's been a while since DISCONTIGMEM is generally considered deprecated,
but it is still used by four architectures.  This set replaces
DISCONTIGMEM with a different way to handle holes in the memory map and
marks DISCONTIGMEM configuration as BROKEN in Kconfigs of these
architectures with the intention to completely remove it in several
releases.

While for 64-bit alpha and ia64 the switch to SPARSEMEM is quite obvious
and was a matter of moving some bits around, for smaller 32-bit arc and
m68k SPARSEMEM is not necessarily the best thing to do.

On 32-bit machines SPARSEMEM would require large sections to make section
index fit in the page flags, but larger sections mean that more memory is
wasted for unused memory map.

Besides, pfn_to_page() and page_to_pfn() become less efficient, at least
on arc.

So I've decided to generalize arm's approach for freeing of unused parts
of the memory map with FLATMEM and enable it for both arc and m68k.  The
details are in the description of patches 10 (arc) and 13 (m68k).

This patch (of 13):

Enable SPARSEMEM support on alpha and deprecate DISCONTIGMEM.

The required changes are mostly around moving duplicated definitions of
page access and address conversion macros to a common place and making sure
they are available for all memory models.

The DISCONTINGMEM support is marked as BROKEN an will be removed in a
couple of releases.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Cc: Michael Schmitz &lt;schmitzmic@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-mm-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T02:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T02:35:53+00:00</published>
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Pull kmap updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The new preemtible kmap_local() implementation:

   - Consolidate all kmap_atomic() internals into a generic
     implementation which builds the base for the kmap_local() API and
     make the kmap_atomic() interface wrappers which handle the
     disabling/enabling of preemption and pagefaults.

   - Switch the storage from per-CPU to per task and provide scheduler
     support for clearing mapping when scheduling out and restoring them
     when scheduling back in.

   - Merge the migrate_disable/enable() code, which is also part of the
     scheduler pull request. This was required to make the kmap_local()
     interface available which does not disable preemption when a
     mapping is established. It has to disable migration instead to
     guarantee that the virtual address of the mapped slot is the same
     across preemption.

   - Provide better debug facilities: guard pages and enforced
     utilization of the mapping mechanics on 64bit systems when the
     architecture allows it.

   - Provide the new kmap_local() API which can now be used to cleanup
     the kmap_atomic() usage sites all over the place. Most of the usage
     sites do not require the implicit disabling of preemption and
     pagefaults so the penalty on 64bit and 32bit non-highmem systems is
     removed and quite some of the code can be simplified. A wholesale
     conversion is not possible because some usage depends on the
     implicit side effects and some need to be cleaned up because they
     work around these side effects.

     The migrate disable side effect is only effective on highmem
     systems and when enforced debugging is enabled. On 64bit and 32bit
     non-highmem systems the overhead is completely avoided"

* tag 'core-mm-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  ARM: highmem: Fix cache_is_vivt() reference
  x86/crashdump/32: Simplify copy_oldmem_page()
  io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant
  mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*
  sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct
  x86: Support kmap_local() forced debugging
  mm/highmem: Provide CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
  mm/highmem: Provide and use CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
  microblaze/mm/highmem: Add dropped #ifdef back
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Make generic kmap_atomic() work correctly
  mm/highmem: Take kmap_high_get() properly into account
  highmem: High implementation details and document API
  Documentation/io-mapping: Remove outdated blurb
  io-mapping: Cleanup atomic iomap
  mm/highmem: Remove the old kmap_atomic cruft
  highmem: Get rid of kmap_types.h
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  sparc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  powerpc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  nds32/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  ...
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Pull kmap updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The new preemtible kmap_local() implementation:

   - Consolidate all kmap_atomic() internals into a generic
     implementation which builds the base for the kmap_local() API and
     make the kmap_atomic() interface wrappers which handle the
     disabling/enabling of preemption and pagefaults.

   - Switch the storage from per-CPU to per task and provide scheduler
     support for clearing mapping when scheduling out and restoring them
     when scheduling back in.

   - Merge the migrate_disable/enable() code, which is also part of the
     scheduler pull request. This was required to make the kmap_local()
     interface available which does not disable preemption when a
     mapping is established. It has to disable migration instead to
     guarantee that the virtual address of the mapped slot is the same
     across preemption.

   - Provide better debug facilities: guard pages and enforced
     utilization of the mapping mechanics on 64bit systems when the
     architecture allows it.

   - Provide the new kmap_local() API which can now be used to cleanup
     the kmap_atomic() usage sites all over the place. Most of the usage
     sites do not require the implicit disabling of preemption and
     pagefaults so the penalty on 64bit and 32bit non-highmem systems is
     removed and quite some of the code can be simplified. A wholesale
     conversion is not possible because some usage depends on the
     implicit side effects and some need to be cleaned up because they
     work around these side effects.

     The migrate disable side effect is only effective on highmem
     systems and when enforced debugging is enabled. On 64bit and 32bit
     non-highmem systems the overhead is completely avoided"

* tag 'core-mm-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  ARM: highmem: Fix cache_is_vivt() reference
  x86/crashdump/32: Simplify copy_oldmem_page()
  io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant
  mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*
  sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct
  x86: Support kmap_local() forced debugging
  mm/highmem: Provide CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP
  mm/highmem: Provide and use CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL
  microblaze/mm/highmem: Add dropped #ifdef back
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Make generic kmap_atomic() work correctly
  mm/highmem: Take kmap_high_get() properly into account
  highmem: High implementation details and document API
  Documentation/io-mapping: Remove outdated blurb
  io-mapping: Cleanup atomic iomap
  mm/highmem: Remove the old kmap_atomic cruft
  highmem: Get rid of kmap_types.h
  xtensa/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  sparc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  powerpc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  nds32/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL</title>
<updated>2020-12-12T16:16:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-08T15:11:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5a9a8897c253a075805401d38d987ec1ac1824b6'/>
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<content type='text'>
Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling for alpha.

Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling for alpha.

Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Add SO_BUSY_POLL_BUDGET socket option</title>
<updated>2020-11-30T23:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Björn Töpel</name>
<email>bjorn.topel@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-30T18:51:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7c951cafc0cb2e575f1d58677b95ac387ac0a5bd'/>
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This option lets a user set a per socket NAPI budget for
busy-polling. If the options is not set, it will use the default of 8.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-3-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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This option lets a user set a per socket NAPI budget for
busy-polling. If the options is not set, it will use the default of 8.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-3-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Introduce preferred busy-polling</title>
<updated>2020-11-30T23:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Björn Töpel</name>
<email>bjorn.topel@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-30T18:51:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7fd3253a7de6a317a0683f83739479fb880bffc8'/>
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The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
an opportunistic. That means that if the NAPI context is not
scheduled, it will poll it. If, after busy-polling, the budget is
exceeded the busy-polling logic will schedule the NAPI onto the
regular softirq handling.

One implication of the behavior above is that a busy/heavy loaded NAPI
context will never enter/allow for busy-polling. Some applications
prefer that most NAPI processing would be done by busy-polling.

This series adds a new socket option, SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, that works
in concert with the napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout
knobs. The napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout knobs were
introduced in commit 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral
feature"), and allows for a user to defer interrupts to be enabled and
instead schedule the NAPI context from a watchdog timer. When a user
enables the SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, again with the other knobs enabled,
and the NAPI context is being processed by a softirq, the softirq NAPI
processing will exit early to allow the busy-polling to be performed.

If the application stops performing busy-polling via a system call,
the watchdog timer defined by gro_flush_timeout will timeout, and
regular softirq handling will resume.

In summary; Heavy traffic applications that prefer busy-polling over
softirq processing should use this option.

Example usage:

  $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
  $ echo 200000 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/gro_flush_timeout

Note that the timeout should be larger than the userspace processing
window, otherwise the watchdog will timeout and fall back to regular
softirq processing.

Enable the SO_BUSY_POLL/SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL options on your socket.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
an opportunistic. That means that if the NAPI context is not
scheduled, it will poll it. If, after busy-polling, the budget is
exceeded the busy-polling logic will schedule the NAPI onto the
regular softirq handling.

One implication of the behavior above is that a busy/heavy loaded NAPI
context will never enter/allow for busy-polling. Some applications
prefer that most NAPI processing would be done by busy-polling.

This series adds a new socket option, SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, that works
in concert with the napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout
knobs. The napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout knobs were
introduced in commit 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral
feature"), and allows for a user to defer interrupts to be enabled and
instead schedule the NAPI context from a watchdog timer. When a user
enables the SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, again with the other knobs enabled,
and the NAPI context is being processed by a softirq, the softirq NAPI
processing will exit early to allow the busy-polling to be performed.

If the application stops performing busy-polling via a system call,
the watchdog timer defined by gro_flush_timeout will timeout, and
regular softirq handling will resume.

In summary; Heavy traffic applications that prefer busy-polling over
softirq processing should use this option.

Example usage:

  $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
  $ echo 200000 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/gro_flush_timeout

Note that the timeout should be larger than the userspace processing
window, otherwise the watchdog will timeout and fall back to regular
softirq processing.

Enable the SO_BUSY_POLL/SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL options on your socket.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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