linux-toradex.git/arch/nios2, branch v6.7

vgacon, arch/*: remove unused screen_info definitions

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

A number of architectures either kept the screen_info definition for
historical purposes as it used to be required by the generic VT code, or
they copied it from another architecture in order to build the VGA console
driver in an allmodconfig build. The mips definition is used by some
platforms, but the initialization on jazz is not needed.

Now that vgacon no longer builds on these architectures, remove the
stale definitions and initializations.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen 
Acked-by: Max Filippov 
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt 
Acked-by: Guo Ren 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-5-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00

Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...

nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context

2023-08-24T23:20:31+00:00

Since at least kernel 6.1, flush_dcache_page() is called with IRQs
disabled, e.g.  from aio_complete().

But the current implementation for flush_dcache_page() on NIOS2
unintentionally re-enables IRQs, which may lead to deadlocks.

Fix it by using xa_lock_irqsave() and xa_unlock_irqrestore() for the
flush_dcache_mmap_*lock() macros instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZOTF5WWURQNH9+iw@p100
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: rationalise flush_icache_pages() and flush_icache_page()

2023-08-24T23:20:25+00:00

Move the default (no-op) implementation of flush_icache_pages() to
 from .  Remove the
flush_icache_page() wrapper from each architecture into
.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-32-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nios2: implement the new page table range API

2023-08-24T23:20:22+00:00

Add set_ptes(), update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_icache_pages() and
flush_dcache_folio().  Change the PG_arch_1 (aka PG_dcache_dirty) flag
from being per-page to per-folio.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-19-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED

2023-08-21T20:46:25+00:00

There is only one Kconfig user of CONFIG_EMBEDDED and it can be switched
to EXPERT or "if !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM" (suggested by Arnd).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816055010.31534-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt 	[RISC-V]
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer 
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 	[powerpc]
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Brian Cain 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nios2: convert __pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs

2023-08-21T20:37:57+00:00

Part of the conversions to replace pgtable constructor/destructors with
ptdesc equivalents.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-25-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) 
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Rename arch pte_mkwrite()'s to pte_mkwrite_novma()

2023-07-11T21:10:56+00:00

The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow
stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires
some core mm changes to function properly.

One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable,
but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE
bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code
will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that
call pte_mkwrite(). The goal is to make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so
that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular
writable or shadow stack mappings.

But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of
each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some
are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some
pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA.

So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be
renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite()
added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can
be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers
can be changed to take/pass a VMA.

Start the process by renaming pte_mkwrite() to pte_mkwrite_novma() and
adding the pte_mkwrite() wrapper in linux/pgtable.h. Apply the same
pattern for pmd_mkwrite(). Since not all archs have a pmd_mkwrite_novma(),
create a new arch config HAS_HUGE_PAGE that can be used to tell if
pmd_mkwrite() should be defined. Otherwise in the !HAS_HUGE_PAGE cases the
compiler would not be able to find pmd_mkwrite_novma().

No functional change.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe 
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZjSu7c9sFYZb3q04108stgHff2wfbokGCCgW7riz+8Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-2-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com

Merge tag 'slab-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

2023-06-29T23:34:12+00:00

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - SLAB deprecation:

   Following the discussion at LSF/MM 2023 [1] and no objections, the
   SLAB allocator is deprecated by renaming the config option (to make
   its users notice) to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED with updated help text.
   SLUB should be used instead. Existing defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB are
   also updated.

 - SLAB_NO_MERGE kmem_cache flag (Jesper Dangaard Brouer):

   There are (very limited) cases where kmem_cache merging is
   undesirable, and existing ways to prevent it are hacky. Introduce a
   new flag to do that cleanly and convert the existing hacky users.
   Btrfs plans to use this for debug kernel builds (that use case is
   always fine), networking for performance reasons (that should be very
   rare).

 - Replace the usage of weak PRNGs (David Keisar Schmidt):

   In addition to using stronger RNGs for the security related features,
   the code is a bit cleaner.

 - Misc code cleanups (SeongJae Parki, Xiongwei Song, Zhen Lei, and
   zhaoxinchao)

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/ [1]

* tag 'slab-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  mm/slab_common: use SLAB_NO_MERGE instead of negative refcount
  mm/slab: break up RCU readers on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code
  mm/slab: add a missing semicolon on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code
  mm/slab_common: reduce an if statement in create_cache()
  mm/slab: introduce kmem_cache flag SLAB_NO_MERGE
  mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED
  mm/slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
  mm/slab_common: Replace invocation of weak PRNG
  mm/slab: Replace invocation of weak PRNG
  slub: Don't read nr_slabs and total_objects directly
  slub: Remove slabs_node() function
  slub: Remove CONFIG_SMP defined check
  slub: Put objects_show() into CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG enabled block
  slub: Correct the error code when slab_kset is NULL
  mm/slab: correct return values in comment for _kmem_cache_create()