linux-toradex.git/arch/alpha, branch v4.10-rc5

clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t

2016-12-25T10:04:12+00:00

There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: John Stultz

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2016-12-14T22:09:48+00:00

Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "After a lot of discussion and work we have finally reachanged a basic
  understanding of what is necessary to make unprivileged mounts safe in
  the presence of EVM and IMA xattrs which the last commit in this
  series reflects. While technically it is a revert the comments it adds
  are important for people not getting confused in the future. Clearing
  up that confusion allows us to seriously work on unprivileged mounts
  of fuse in the next development cycle.

  The rest of the fixes in this set are in the intersection of user
  namespaces, ptrace, and exec. I started with the first fix which
  started a feedback cycle of finding additional issues during review
  and fixing them. Culiminating in a fix for a bug that has been present
  since at least Linux v1.0.

  Potentially these fixes were candidates for being merged during the rc
  cycle, and are certainly backport candidates but enough little things
  turned up during review and testing that I decided they should be
  handled as part of the normal development process just to be certain
  there were not any great surprises when it came time to backport some
  of these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Revert "evm: Translate user/group ids relative to s_user_ns when computing HMAC"
  exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files
  ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm
  ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP
  mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks

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

2016-12-13T03:56:15+00:00

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The time/timekeeping/timer folks deliver with this update:

   - Fix a reintroduced signed/unsigned issue and cleanup the whole
     signed/unsigned mess in the timekeeping core so this wont happen
     accidentaly again.

   - Add a new trace clock based on boot time

   - Prevent injection of random sleep times when PM tracing abuses the
     RTC for storage

   - Make posix timers configurable for real tiny systems

   - Add tracepoints for the alarm timer subsystem so timer based
     suspend wakeups can be instrumented

   - The usual pile of fixes and updates to core and drivers"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  timekeeping: Use mul_u64_u32_shr() instead of open coding it
  timekeeping: Get rid of pointless typecasts
  timekeeping: Make the conversion call chain consistently unsigned
  timekeeping_Force_unsigned_clocksource_to_nanoseconds_conversion
  alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers
  trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
  trace: Add an option for boot clock as trace clock
  timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock
  timekeeping/clocksource_cyc2ns: Document intended range limitation
  timekeeping: Ignore the bogus sleep time if pm_trace is enabled
  selftests/timers: Fix spelling mistake "Asyncrhonous" -> "Asynchronous"
  clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Map frame with of_io_request_and_map()
  arm64: dts: rockchip: Arch counter doesn't tick in system suspend
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Don't assume clock runs in suspend
  posix-timers: Make them configurable
  posix_cpu_timers: Move the add_device_randomness() call to a proper place
  timer: Move sys_alarm from timer.c to itimer.c
  ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional
  Kconfig: Regenerate *.c_shipped files after previous changes
  ...

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

2016-12-12T18:48:02+00:00

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The tree got pretty big in this development cycle, but the net effect
  is pretty good:

    115 files changed, 673 insertions(+), 1522 deletions(-)

  The main changes were:

   - Rework and generalize the mutex code to remove per arch mutex
     primitives. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add vCPU preemption support: add an interface to query the
     preemption status of vCPUs and use it in locking primitives - this
     optimizes paravirt performance. (Pan Xinhui, Juergen Gross,
     Christian Borntraeger)

   - Introduce cpu_relax_yield() and remov cpu_relax_lowlatency() to
     clean up and improve the s390 lock yielding machinery and its core
     kernel impact. (Christian Borntraeger)

   - Micro-optimize mutexes some more. (Waiman Long)

   - Reluctantly add the to-be-deprecated mutex_trylock_recursive()
     interface on a temporary basis, to give the DRM code more time to
     get rid of its locking hacks. Any other users will be NAK-ed on
     sight. (We turned off the deprecation warning for the time being to
     not pollute the build log.) (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve the rtmutex code a bit, in light of recent long lived
     bugs/races. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - Misc fixes, cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Fix bool return type for PVOP_CALL()
  x86/paravirt: Fix native_patch()
  locking/ww_mutex: Use relaxed atomics
  locking/rtmutex: Explain locking rules for rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()/init_proxy_locked()
  locking/rtmutex: Get rid of RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL
  x86/paravirt: Optimize native pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted()
  locking/mutex: Break out of expensive busy-loop on {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner() when owner vCPU is preempted
  locking/osq: Break out of spin-wait busy waiting loop for a preempted vCPU in osq_lock()
  Documentation/virtual/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/xen: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()
  locking/core, x86/paravirt: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) for KVM and Xen guests
  locking/spinlocks, s390: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  locking/core, powerpc: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface
  sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q
  locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition
  locking/mutex: Don't mark mutex_trylock_recursive() as deprecated, temporarily
  ...

tcp: SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS option for SO_TIMESTAMPING

2016-11-30T15:04:25+00:00

This patch exports the sender chronograph stats via the socket
SO_TIMESTAMPING channel. Currently we can instrument how long a
particular application unit of data was queued in TCP by tracking
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SCHED. Having
these sender chronograph stats exported simultaneously along with
these timestamps allow further breaking down the various sender
limitation.  For example, a video server can tell if a particular
chunk of video on a connection takes a long time to deliver because
TCP was experiencing small receive window. It is not possible to
tell before this patch without packet traces.

To prepare these stats, the user needs to set
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY flags
while requesting other SOF_TIMESTAMPING TX timestamps. When the
timestamps are available in the error queue, the stats are returned
in a separate control message of type SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS,
in a list of TLVs (struct nlattr) of types: TCP_NLA_BUSY_TIME,
TCP_NLA_RWND_LIMITED, TCP_NLA_SNDBUF_LIMITED. Unit is microsecond.

Signed-off-by: Francis Yan 
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm

2016-11-22T18:57:38+00:00

It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
read the file.  This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace
is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only
executables.

As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm
spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the
target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or
the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing
began to read the target processes mm.

In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by
ptrace_access_vm.  There remain several ptrace sites that still use
access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables
instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks.  As such it
does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls.

This bug has always existed in Linux.

Fixes: v1.0
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition

2016-11-17T07:17:36+00:00

No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/core, arch: Remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()

2016-11-16T09:15:11+00:00

As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-6-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield()

2016-11-16T09:15:09+00:00

For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar