linux-toradex.git/arch/alpha/lib, branch v5.3-rc8

Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function

2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00

Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: Remove custom dec_and_lock() implementation

2018-06-12T21:33:24+00:00

Alpha provides a custom implementation of dec_and_lock(). The functions
is split into two parts:
- atomic_add_unless() + return 0 (fast path in assembly)
- remaining part including locking (slow path in C)

Comparing the result of the alpha implementation with the generic
implementation compiled by gcc it looks like the fast path is optimized
by avoiding a stack frame (and reloading the GP), register store and all
this. This is only done in the slowpath.
After marking the slowpath (atomic_dec_and_lock_1()) as "noinline" and
doing the slowpath in C (the atomic_add_unless(atomic, -1, 1) part) I
noticed differences in the resulting assembly:
- the GP is still reloaded
- atomic_add_unless() adds more memory barriers compared to the custom
  assembly
- the custom assembly here does "load, sub, beq" while
  atomic_add_unless() does "load, cmpeq, add, bne". This is okay because
  it compares against zero after subtraction while the generic code
  compares against 1 before.

I'm not sure if avoiding the stack frame (and GP reloading) brings a lot
in terms of performance. Regarding the different barriers, Peter
Zijlstra says:

|refcount decrement needs to be a RELEASE operation, such that all the
|load/stores to the object happen before we decrement the refcount.
|
|Otherwise things like:
|
|        obj->foo = 5;
|        refcnt_dec(&obj->ref);
|
|can be re-ordered, which then allows fun scenarios like:
|
|        CPU0                            CPU1
|
|        refcnt_dec(&obj->ref);
|                                        if (dec_and_test(&obj->ref))
|                                                free(obj);
|        obj->foo = 5; // oops UaF
|
|
|This means (for alpha) that there should be a memory barrier _before_
|the decrement, however the dec_and_lock asm thing only has one _after_,
|which, per the above, is too late.
|
|The generic version using add_unless will result in memory barrier
|before and after (because that is the rule for atomic ops with a return
|value) which is strictly too many barriers for the refcount story, but
|who knows what other ordering requirements code has.

Remove the custom alpha implementation of dec_and_lock() and if it is an
issue (performance wise) then the fast path could still be inlined.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180606115918.GG12198@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r20180612161621.22645-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de

alpha: extend memset16 to EV6 optimised routines

2018-01-17T03:34:46+00:00

Commit 92ce4c3ea7c4, "alpha: add support for memset16", renamed
the function memsetw() to be memset16() but neglected to do this for
the EV6 optimised version, thus when building a kernel optimised
for EV6 (or later) link errors result.  This extends the memset16
support to EV6.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: add support for memset16

2017-09-09T01:26:48+00:00

Alpha already had an optimised fill-memory-with-16-bit-quantity
assembler routine called memsetw().  It has a slightly different calling
convention from memset16() in that it takes a byte count, not a count of
words.  That's the same convention used by ARM's __memset routines, so
rename Alpha's routine to match and add a memset16() wrapper around it.
Then convert Alpha's scr_memsetw() to call memset16() instead of
memsetw().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: Fix typo in ev6-copy_user.S

2017-08-29T19:01:49+00:00

Patch 8525023121de4848b5f0a7d867ffeadbc477774d introduced a typo.

That said, the identity AND insns added by that patch are more
clearly written as MOV.  At the same time, re-schedule the ev6
version so that the first dispatch can execute in parallel.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: Package string routines together

2017-08-29T19:01:46+00:00

There are direct branches between {str*cpy,str*cat} and stx*cpy.
Ensure the branches are within range by merging these objects.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2017-05-11T03:11:05+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - improve Clang support

 - clean up various Makefiles

 - improve build log visibility (objtool, alpha, ia64)

 - improve compiler flag evaluation for better build performance

 - fix GCC version-dependent warning

 - fix genksyms

* tag 'kbuild-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (23 commits)
  kbuild: dtbinst: remove unnecessary __dtbs_install_prep target
  ia64: beatify build log for gate.so and gate-syms.o
  alpha: make short build log available for division routines
  alpha: merge build rules of division routines
  alpha: add $(src)/ rather than $(obj)/ to make source file path
  Makefile: evaluate LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID only once
  objtool: make it visible in make V=1 output
  kbuild: clang: add -no-integrated-as to KBUILD_[AC]FLAGS
  kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files
  kbuild: Add better clang cross build support
  kbuild: drop -Wno-unknown-warning-option from clang options
  kbuild: fix asm-offset generation to work with clang
  kbuild: consolidate redundant sed script ASM offset generation
  frv: Use OFFSET macro in DEF_*REG()
  kbuild: avoid conflict between -ffunction-sections and -pg on gcc-4.7
  kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information
  kbuild: use -Oz instead of -Os when using clang
  kbuild, LLVMLinux: Add -Werror to cc-option to support clang
  Kbuild: make designated_init attribute fatal
  kbuild: drop unneeded patterns '.*.orig' and '.*.rej' from distclean
  ...

alpha: make short build log available for division routines

2017-05-03T05:00:55+00:00

This enables the Kbuild standard log style as follows:

  AS      arch/alpha/lib/__divlu.o
  AS      arch/alpha/lib/__divqu.o
  AS      arch/alpha/lib/__remlu.o
  AS      arch/alpha/lib/__remqu.o

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

alpha: merge build rules of division routines

2017-05-03T05:00:55+00:00

These four objects are generated by the same build rule, with
different compile options.  The build rules can be merged.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada