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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/um/os-Linux, branch v4.4.85</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>uml: flush stdout before forking</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2015-12-18T20:28:53+00:00</published>
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commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream.

I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:

  $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
  Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE

This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.

A simple workaround is to flush before forking.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream.

I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:

  $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
  Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE

This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.

A simple workaround is to flush before forking.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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;
[rw: massaged commit message]
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 waitpid() usage in helper code</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T20:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-09T19:49:07+00:00</published>
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If UML is executing a helper program it is using
waitpid() with the __WCLONE flag to wait for the program
as the helper is executed from a clone()'ed thread.
While using __WCLONE is perfectly fine for clone()'ed
childs it won't detect terminated childs if the helper
has issued an execve().

We have to use __WALL to wait for both clone()'ed and
regular childs to detect the termination before and
after an execve().

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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If UML is executing a helper program it is using
waitpid() with the __WCLONE flag to wait for the program
as the helper is executed from a clone()'ed thread.
While using __WCLONE is perfectly fine for clone()'ed
childs it won't detect terminated childs if the helper
has issued an execve().

We have to use __WALL to wait for both clone()'ed and
regular childs to detect the termination before and
after an execve().

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml</title>
<updated>2015-06-28T20:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-28T20:55:08+00:00</published>
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - remove hppfs ("HonePot ProcFS")

 - initial support for musl libc

 - uaccess cleanup

 - random cleanups and bug fixes all over the place

* 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (21 commits)
  um: Don't pollute kernel namespace with uapi
  um: Include sys/types.h for makedev(), major(), minor()
  um: Do not use stdin and stdout identifiers for struct members
  um: Do not use __ptr_t type for stack_t's .ss pointer
  um: Fix mconsole dependency
  um: Handle tracehook_report_syscall_entry() result
  um: Remove copy&amp;paste code from init.h
  um: Stop abusing __KERNEL__
  um: Catch unprotected user memory access
  um: Fix warning in setup_signal_stack_si()
  um: Rework uaccess code
  um: Add uaccess.h to ldt.c
  um: Add uaccess.h to syscalls_64.c
  um: Add asm/elf.h to vma.c
  um: Cleanup mem_32/64.c headers
  um: Remove hppfs
  um: Move syscall() declaration into os.h
  um: kernel: ksyms: Export symbol syscall() for fixing modpost issue
  um/os-Linux: Use char[] for syscall_stub declarations
  um: Use char[] for linker script address declarations
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - remove hppfs ("HonePot ProcFS")

 - initial support for musl libc

 - uaccess cleanup

 - random cleanups and bug fixes all over the place

* 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (21 commits)
  um: Don't pollute kernel namespace with uapi
  um: Include sys/types.h for makedev(), major(), minor()
  um: Do not use stdin and stdout identifiers for struct members
  um: Do not use __ptr_t type for stack_t's .ss pointer
  um: Fix mconsole dependency
  um: Handle tracehook_report_syscall_entry() result
  um: Remove copy&amp;paste code from init.h
  um: Stop abusing __KERNEL__
  um: Catch unprotected user memory access
  um: Fix warning in setup_signal_stack_si()
  um: Rework uaccess code
  um: Add uaccess.h to ldt.c
  um: Add uaccess.h to syscalls_64.c
  um: Add asm/elf.h to vma.c
  um: Cleanup mem_32/64.c headers
  um: Remove hppfs
  um: Move syscall() declaration into os.h
  um: kernel: ksyms: Export symbol syscall() for fixing modpost issue
  um/os-Linux: Use char[] for syscall_stub declarations
  um: Use char[] for linker script address declarations
  ...
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<entry>
<title>um: Include sys/types.h for makedev(), major(), minor()</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T20:42:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans-Werner Hilse</name>
<email>hwhilse@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-11T09:29:20+00:00</published>
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The functions in question are not part of the POSIX standard,
documentation however hints that the corresponding header shall
be sys/types.h. C libraries other than glibc, namely musl, did
not include that header via other ways and complained.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The functions in question are not part of the POSIX standard,
documentation however hints that the corresponding header shall
be sys/types.h. C libraries other than glibc, namely musl, did
not include that header via other ways and complained.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Do not use stdin and stdout identifiers for struct members</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T20:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans-Werner Hilse</name>
<email>hwhilse@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-11T09:29:19+00:00</published>
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stdin, stdout and stderr are macros according to C89/C99.
Thus do not use them as struct member identifiers to avoid
bad results from macro expansion.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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stdin, stdout and stderr are macros according to C89/C99.
Thus do not use them as struct member identifiers to avoid
bad results from macro expansion.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Do not use __ptr_t type for stack_t's .ss pointer</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T20:42:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans-Werner Hilse</name>
<email>hwhilse@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-11T09:29:18+00:00</published>
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__ptr_t type is a glibc-specific type, while the generally
documented type is a void*. That's what other C libraries use,
too.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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__ptr_t type is a glibc-specific type, while the generally
documented type is a void*. That's what other C libraries use,
too.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Werner Hilse &lt;hwhilse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um/os-Linux: Use char[] for syscall_stub declarations</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T11:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Iooss</name>
<email>nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-12T11:02:13+00:00</published>
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When declaring __syscall_stub_start, use the same type in UML userspace
code as in arch/um/include/asm/sections.h.

While at it, also declare batch_syscall_stub as char[].

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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When declaring __syscall_stub_start, use the same type in UML userspace
code as in arch/um/include/asm/sections.h.

While at it, also declare batch_syscall_stub as char[].

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um,ethertap: use strncpy</title>
<updated>2015-05-24T19:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan</name>
<email>gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-08T12:59:21+00:00</published>
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[um maintainers appear to be vanished]

I can't prove the case pointed out in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82341
is correct so let us play safe.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[um maintainers appear to be vanished]

I can't prove the case pointed out in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82341
is correct so let us play safe.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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