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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/kernel, branch v5.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>s390: uv: Fix sysfs max number of VCPUs reporting</title>
<updated>2021-01-27T12:00:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Janosch Frank</name>
<email>frankja@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-13T16:56:26+00:00</published>
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The number reported by the query is N-1 and I think people reading the
sysfs file would expect N instead. For users creating VMs there's no
actual difference because KVM's limit is currently below the UV's
limit.

Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: a0f60f8431999 ("s390/protvirt: Add sysfs firmware interface for Ultravisor information")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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The number reported by the query is N-1 and I think people reading the
sysfs file would expect N instead. For users creating VMs there's no
actual difference because KVM's limit is currently below the UV's
limit.

Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: a0f60f8431999 ("s390/protvirt: Add sysfs firmware interface for Ultravisor information")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'irq-core-2020-12-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-24T21:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-24T21:50:23+00:00</published>
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the second attempt after the first one failed miserably and
  got zapped to unblock the rest of the interrupt related patches.

  A treewide cleanup of interrupt descriptor (ab)use with all sorts of
  racy accesses, inefficient and disfunctional code. The goal is to
  remove the export of irq_to_desc() to prevent these things from
  creeping up again"

* tag 'irq-core-2020-12-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  genirq: Restrict export of irq_to_desc()
  xen/events: Implement irq distribution
  xen/events: Reduce irq_info:: Spurious_cnt storage size
  xen/events: Only force affinity mask for percpu interrupts
  xen/events: Use immediate affinity setting
  xen/events: Remove disfunct affinity spreading
  xen/events: Remove unused bind_evtchn_to_irq_lateeoi()
  net/mlx5: Use effective interrupt affinity
  net/mlx5: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse
  net/mlx4: Use effective interrupt affinity
  net/mlx4: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse
  PCI: mobiveil: Use irq_data_get_irq_chip_data()
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Use irq_data_get_irq_chip_data()
  NTB/msi: Use irq_has_action()
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Remove the racy fiddling with irq_desc
  pinctrl: nomadik: Use irq_has_action()
  drm/i915/pmu: Replace open coded kstat_irqs() copy
  drm/i915/lpe_audio: Remove pointless irq_to_desc() usage
  s390/irq: Use irq_desc_kstat_cpu() in show_msi_interrupt()
  parisc/irq: Use irq_desc_kstat_cpu() in show_interrupts()
  ...
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the second attempt after the first one failed miserably and
  got zapped to unblock the rest of the interrupt related patches.

  A treewide cleanup of interrupt descriptor (ab)use with all sorts of
  racy accesses, inefficient and disfunctional code. The goal is to
  remove the export of irq_to_desc() to prevent these things from
  creeping up again"

* tag 'irq-core-2020-12-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  genirq: Restrict export of irq_to_desc()
  xen/events: Implement irq distribution
  xen/events: Reduce irq_info:: Spurious_cnt storage size
  xen/events: Only force affinity mask for percpu interrupts
  xen/events: Use immediate affinity setting
  xen/events: Remove disfunct affinity spreading
  xen/events: Remove unused bind_evtchn_to_irq_lateeoi()
  net/mlx5: Use effective interrupt affinity
  net/mlx5: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse
  net/mlx4: Use effective interrupt affinity
  net/mlx4: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse
  PCI: mobiveil: Use irq_data_get_irq_chip_data()
  PCI: xilinx-nwl: Use irq_data_get_irq_chip_data()
  NTB/msi: Use irq_has_action()
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Remove the racy fiddling with irq_desc
  pinctrl: nomadik: Use irq_has_action()
  drm/i915/pmu: Replace open coded kstat_irqs() copy
  drm/i915/lpe_audio: Remove pointless irq_to_desc() usage
  s390/irq: Use irq_desc_kstat_cpu() in show_msi_interrupt()
  parisc/irq: Use irq_desc_kstat_cpu() in show_interrupts()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>epoll: fix compat syscall wire up of epoll_pwait2</title>
<updated>2020-12-20T18:01:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-20T09:58:30+00:00</published>
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Commit b0a0c2615f6f ("epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2") wired up
the 64 bit syscall instead of the compat variant in a couple of places.

Fixes: b0a0c2615f6f ("epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2")
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Commit b0a0c2615f6f ("epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2") wired up
the 64 bit syscall instead of the compat variant in a couple of places.

Fixes: b0a0c2615f6f ("epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2")
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-12-19T19:39:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-19T19:39:50+00:00</published>
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Merge still more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "18 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memcg and cleanups) and
  epoll"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  mm/Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "whats" -&gt; "what's"
  selftests/filesystems: expand epoll with epoll_pwait2
  epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2
  epoll: add syscall epoll_pwait2
  epoll: convert internal api to timespec64
  epoll: eliminate unnecessary lock for zero timeout
  epoll: replace gotos with a proper loop
  epoll: pull all code between fetch_events and send_event into the loop
  epoll: simplify and optimize busy loop logic
  epoll: move eavail next to the list_empty_careful check
  epoll: pull fatal signal checks into ep_send_events()
  epoll: simplify signal handling
  epoll: check for events when removing a timed out thread from the wait queue
  mm/memcontrol:rewrite mem_cgroup_page_lruvec()
  mm, kvm: account kvm_vcpu_mmap to kmemcg
  mm/memcg: remove unused definitions
  mm/memcg: warning on !memcg after readahead page charged
  mm/memcg: bail early from swap accounting if memcg disabled
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Merge still more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "18 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memcg and cleanups) and
  epoll"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  mm/Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "whats" -&gt; "what's"
  selftests/filesystems: expand epoll with epoll_pwait2
  epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2
  epoll: add syscall epoll_pwait2
  epoll: convert internal api to timespec64
  epoll: eliminate unnecessary lock for zero timeout
  epoll: replace gotos with a proper loop
  epoll: pull all code between fetch_events and send_event into the loop
  epoll: simplify and optimize busy loop logic
  epoll: move eavail next to the list_empty_careful check
  epoll: pull fatal signal checks into ep_send_events()
  epoll: simplify signal handling
  epoll: check for events when removing a timed out thread from the wait queue
  mm/memcontrol:rewrite mem_cgroup_page_lruvec()
  mm, kvm: account kvm_vcpu_mmap to kmemcg
  mm/memcg: remove unused definitions
  mm/memcg: warning on !memcg after readahead page charged
  mm/memcg: bail early from swap accounting if memcg disabled
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>epoll: wire up syscall epoll_pwait2</title>
<updated>2020-12-19T19:18:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-18T22:05:41+00:00</published>
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Split off from prev patch in the series that implements the syscall.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201121144401.3727659-4-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.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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Split off from prev patch in the series that implements the syscall.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201121144401.3727659-4-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.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 's390-5.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2020-12-18T19:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-18T19:08:06+00:00</published>
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Pull more s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
 "This is mainly to decouple udelay() and arch_cpu_idle() and simplify
  both of them.

  Summary:

   - Always initialize kernel stack backchain when entering the kernel,
     so that unwinding works properly.

   - Fix stack unwinder test case to avoid rare interrupt stack
     corruption.

   - Simplify udelay() and just let it busy loop instead of implementing
     a complex logic.

   - arch_cpu_idle() cleanup.

   - Some other minor improvements"

* tag 's390-5.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/zcrypt: convert comma to semicolon
  s390/idle: allow arch_cpu_idle() to be kprobed
  s390/idle: remove raw_local_irq_save()/restore() from arch_cpu_idle()
  s390/idle: merge enabled_wait() and arch_cpu_idle()
  s390/delay: remove udelay_simple()
  s390/irq: select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
  s390/delay: simplify udelay
  s390/test_unwind: use timer instead of udelay
  s390/test_unwind: fix CALL_ON_STACK tests
  s390: make calls to TRACE_IRQS_OFF/TRACE_IRQS_ON balanced
  s390: always clear kernel stack backchain before calling functions
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Pull more s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
 "This is mainly to decouple udelay() and arch_cpu_idle() and simplify
  both of them.

  Summary:

   - Always initialize kernel stack backchain when entering the kernel,
     so that unwinding works properly.

   - Fix stack unwinder test case to avoid rare interrupt stack
     corruption.

   - Simplify udelay() and just let it busy loop instead of implementing
     a complex logic.

   - arch_cpu_idle() cleanup.

   - Some other minor improvements"

* tag 's390-5.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/zcrypt: convert comma to semicolon
  s390/idle: allow arch_cpu_idle() to be kprobed
  s390/idle: remove raw_local_irq_save()/restore() from arch_cpu_idle()
  s390/idle: merge enabled_wait() and arch_cpu_idle()
  s390/delay: remove udelay_simple()
  s390/irq: select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
  s390/delay: simplify udelay
  s390/test_unwind: use timer instead of udelay
  s390/test_unwind: fix CALL_ON_STACK tests
  s390: make calls to TRACE_IRQS_OFF/TRACE_IRQS_ON balanced
  s390: always clear kernel stack backchain before calling functions
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2020-12-17T21:22:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-17T21:22:17+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config
  option called CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.

  Currently, only x86_64 enables it. All the ftrace callbacks now take a
  struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct pt_regs. If the architecture
  has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then the ftrace_regs will
  have enough information to read the arguments of the function being
  traced, as well as access to the stack pointer.

  This way, if a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the
  arguments, then it can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback,
  that puts in enough information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate
  a breakpoint exception (needed for kprobes).

  A new config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring
  buffer at most every event recorded.

  Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection
  to the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
  callbacks).

  Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace
  to do it for it (saving on that extra function call).

  New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that
  lists all the places that triggered the recursion protection of the
  function tracer. This will show where things need to be fixed as
  recursion slows down the function tracer.

  The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a
  work queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.

  Various clean ups and last minute fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  tracing: Offload eval map updates to a work queue
  Revert: "ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"
  ring-buffer: Add rb_check_bpage in __rb_allocate_pages
  ring-buffer: Fix two typos in comments
  tracing: Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize()
  tracing: Disable ftrace selftests when any tracer is running
  seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init
  ring-buffer: Fix a typo in function description
  ring-buffer: Remove obsolete rb_event_is_commit()
  ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
  ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks
  tracing: Clean up after filter logic rewriting
  tracing: Remove the useless value assignment in test_create_synth_event()
  livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available
  ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
  ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
  MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING
  tracing: Fix some typos in comments
  ftrace: Remove unused varible 'ret'
  ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config
  option called CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.

  Currently, only x86_64 enables it. All the ftrace callbacks now take a
  struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct pt_regs. If the architecture
  has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then the ftrace_regs will
  have enough information to read the arguments of the function being
  traced, as well as access to the stack pointer.

  This way, if a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the
  arguments, then it can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback,
  that puts in enough information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate
  a breakpoint exception (needed for kprobes).

  A new config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring
  buffer at most every event recorded.

  Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection
  to the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
  callbacks).

  Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace
  to do it for it (saving on that extra function call).

  New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that
  lists all the places that triggered the recursion protection of the
  function tracer. This will show where things need to be fixed as
  recursion slows down the function tracer.

  The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a
  work queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.

  Various clean ups and last minute fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  tracing: Offload eval map updates to a work queue
  Revert: "ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"
  ring-buffer: Add rb_check_bpage in __rb_allocate_pages
  ring-buffer: Fix two typos in comments
  tracing: Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize()
  tracing: Disable ftrace selftests when any tracer is running
  seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init
  ring-buffer: Fix a typo in function description
  ring-buffer: Remove obsolete rb_event_is_commit()
  ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
  ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks
  tracing: Clean up after filter logic rewriting
  tracing: Remove the useless value assignment in test_create_synth_event()
  livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available
  ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
  ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
  MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING
  tracing: Fix some typos in comments
  ftrace: Remove unused varible 'ret'
  ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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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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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<title>s390/idle: allow arch_cpu_idle() to be kprobed</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T13:55:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-14T21:39:01+00:00</published>
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Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for arch_cpu_idle(). This might have made
sense when enabled_wait() (aka arch_cpu_idle()) was called from
udelay.
But now there shouldn't be a reason why s390 should be the only
architecture which doesn't allow arch_cpu_idle() to be probed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for arch_cpu_idle(). This might have made
sense when enabled_wait() (aka arch_cpu_idle()) was called from
udelay.
But now there shouldn't be a reason why s390 should be the only
architecture which doesn't allow arch_cpu_idle() to be probed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/idle: remove raw_local_irq_save()/restore() from arch_cpu_idle()</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T13:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-14T21:36:03+00:00</published>
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arch_cpu_idle() gets called with interrupts disabled,
and psw_idle() returns with interrupts disabled.
No reason to use raw_local_irq_save() / restore().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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arch_cpu_idle() gets called with interrupts disabled,
and psw_idle() returns with interrupts disabled.
No reason to use raw_local_irq_save() / restore().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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