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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/um/include/shared, branch v4.4.106</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>um: Switch clocksource to hrtimers</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T21:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>aivanov@brocade.com</email>
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<published>2015-11-02T16:16:37+00:00</published>
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UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
load.

This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
correctly to the UML userspace.

Fixes:
 - crashes when hosts suspends/resumes
 - broken userspace timers - effecive ~40Hz instead
   of what they should be. Note - this modifies skas behavior
   by no longer setting an itimer per clone(). Timer events
   are relayed instead.
 - kernel network packet scheduling disciplines
 - tcp behaviour especially under load
 - various timer related corner cases

Finally, overall responsiveness of userspace is better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
load.

This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
correctly to the UML userspace.

Fixes:
 - crashes when hosts suspends/resumes
 - broken userspace timers - effecive ~40Hz instead
   of what they should be. Note - this modifies skas behavior
   by no longer setting an itimer per clone(). Timer events
   are relayed instead.
 - kernel network packet scheduling disciplines
 - tcp behaviour especially under load
 - various timer related corner cases

Finally, overall responsiveness of userspace is better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
[rw: massaged commit message]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Store syscall number after syscall_trace_enter()</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T21:49:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-25T18:54:33+00:00</published>
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To support changing syscall numbers we have to store
it after syscall_trace_enter().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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To support changing syscall numbers we have to store
it after syscall_trace_enter().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Fix do_signal() prototype</title>
<updated>2015-07-07T08:58:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2015-07-03T19:44:20+00:00</published>
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Once x86 exports its do_signal(), the prototypes will clash.

Fix the clash and also improve the code a bit: remove the
unnecessary kern_do_signal() indirection. This allows
interrupt_end() to share the 'regs' parameter calculation.

Also remove the unused return code to match x86.

Minimally build and boot tested.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;vda.linux@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/67c57eac09a589bac3c6c5ff22f9623ec55a184a.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Once x86 exports its do_signal(), the prototypes will clash.

Fix the clash and also improve the code a bit: remove the
unnecessary kern_do_signal() indirection. This allows
interrupt_end() to share the 'regs' parameter calculation.

Also remove the unused return code to match x86.

Minimally build and boot tested.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;vda.linux@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/67c57eac09a589bac3c6c5ff22f9623ec55a184a.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Remove copy&amp;paste code from init.h</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T20:17:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-31T20:15:58+00:00</published>
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As we got rid of the __KERNEL__ abuse, we can directly
include linux/compiler.h now.
This also allows gcc 5 to build UML.

Reported-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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As we got rid of the __KERNEL__ abuse, we can directly
include linux/compiler.h now.
This also allows gcc 5 to build UML.

Reported-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Stop abusing __KERNEL__</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T20:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-31T17:50:57+00:00</published>
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Currently UML is abusing __KERNEL__ to distinguish between
kernel and host code (os-Linux). It is better to use a custom
define such that existing users of __KERNEL__ don't get confused.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Currently UML is abusing __KERNEL__ to distinguish between
kernel and host code (os-Linux). It is better to use a custom
define such that existing users of __KERNEL__ don't get confused.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Move syscall() declaration into os.h</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T11:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-31T11:11:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Move uml_postsetup in the init_thread stack</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T19:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Meyer</name>
<email>thomas@m3y3r.de</email>
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<published>2015-03-28T08:59:46+00:00</published>
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atomic_notifier_chain_register() and uml_postsetup() do call kernel code
that rely on the "current" kernel macro and a valid task_struct resp.
thread_info struct. Give those functions a valid stack by moving
uml_postsetup() in the init_thread stack. This moves enables a panic()
call in this early code to generate a valid stacktrace, instead of
crashing.
E.g. when an UML kernel is started with an initrd but too few physical
memory the panic() call get's actually processed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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atomic_notifier_chain_register() and uml_postsetup() do call kernel code
that rely on the "current" kernel macro and a valid task_struct resp.
thread_info struct. Give those functions a valid stack by moving
uml_postsetup() in the init_thread stack. This moves enables a panic()
call in this early code to generate a valid stacktrace, instead of
crashing.
E.g. when an UML kernel is started with an initrd but too few physical
memory the panic() call get's actually processed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Remove SKAS3/4 support</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T19:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T20:31:27+00:00</published>
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Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.

With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.

With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: delete unnecessary bootmem struct page array</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T15:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Honggang Li</name>
<email>enjoymindful@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T05:30:45+00:00</published>
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1) uml kernel bootmem managed through bootmem_data-&gt;node_bootmem_map,
not the struct page array, so the array is unnecessary.

2) the bootmem struct page array has been pointed by a *local* pointer,
struct page *map, in init_maps function. The array can be accessed only
in init_maps's scope. As a result, uml kernel wastes about 1% of total
memory.

Signed-off-by: Honggang Li &lt;enjoymindful@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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1) uml kernel bootmem managed through bootmem_data-&gt;node_bootmem_map,
not the struct page array, so the array is unnecessary.

2) the bootmem struct page array has been pointed by a *local* pointer,
struct page *map, in init_maps function. The array can be accessed only
in init_maps's scope. As a result, uml kernel wastes about 1% of total
memory.

Signed-off-by: Honggang Li &lt;enjoymindful@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T11:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-06T19:57:10+00:00</published>
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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