linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/entry, branch v4.10

x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks

2017-01-12T08:28:29+00:00

When unwinding a task, the end of the stack is always at the same offset
right below the saved pt_regs, regardless of which syscall was used to
enter the kernel.  That convention allows the unwinder to verify that a
stack is sane.

However, newly forked tasks don't always follow that convention, as
reported by the following unwinder warning seen by Dave Jones:

  WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at ffffc90001443f30 in kworker/u8:8:30468 has bad value           (null)

The warning was due to the following call chain:

  (ftrace handler)
  call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x5/0x140
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

The problem is that ret_from_fork() doesn't create a stack frame before
calling other functions.  Fix that by carefully using the frame pointer
macros.

In addition to conforming to the end of stack convention, this also
makes related stack traces more sensible by making it clear to the user
that ret_from_fork() was involved.

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Miroslav Benes 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8854cdaab980e9700a81e9ebf0d4238e4bbb68ef.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2016-12-25T22:30:04+00:00

Pull timer type cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series does a tree wide cleanup of types related to
  timers/timekeeping.

   - Get rid of cycles_t and use a plain u64. The type is not really
     helpful and caused more confusion than clarity

   - Get rid of the ktime union. The union has become useless as we use
     the scalar nanoseconds storage unconditionally now. The 32bit
     timespec alike storage got removed due to the Y2038 limitations
     some time ago.

     That leaves the odd union access around for no reason. Clean it up.

  Both changes have been done with coccinelle and a small amount of
  manual mopping up"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal()
  ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage
  ktime: Get rid of the union
  clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t

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

2016-12-25T22:05:56+00:00

Pull SMP hotplug notifier removal from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the final cleanup of the hotplug notifier infrastructure. The
  series has been reintgrated in the last two days because there came a
  new driver using the old infrastructure via the SCSI tree.

  Summary:

   - convert the last leftover drivers utilizing notifiers

   - fixup for a completely broken hotplug user

   - prevent setup of already used states

   - removal of the notifiers

   - treewide cleanup of hotplug state names

   - consolidation of state space

  There is a sphinx based documentation pending, but that needs review
  from the documentation folks"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip/armada-xp: Consolidate hotplug state space
  irqchip/gic: Consolidate hotplug state space
  coresight/etm3/4x: Consolidate hotplug state space
  cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names
  cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug register/unregister functions
  staging/lustre/libcfs: Convert to hotplug state machine
  scsi/bnx2i: Convert to hotplug state machine
  scsi/bnx2fc: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Prevent overwriting of callbacks
  x86/msr: Remove bogus cleanup from the error path
  bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Prevent hotplug callback leak
  ARM/imx/mmcd: Fix broken cpu hotplug handling
  scsi: qedi: Convert to hotplug state machine

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

cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names

2016-12-25T09:47:44+00:00

When the state names got added a script was used to add the extra argument
to the calls. The script basically converted the state constant to a
string, but the cleanup to convert these strings into meaningful ones did
not happen.

Replace all the useless strings with 'subsys/xxx/yyy:state' strings which
are used in all the other places already.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Sebastian Siewior 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.085444152@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

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 tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-12-15T21:49:34+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has a few updates:

   - STM can hook into the function tracer
   - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching
   - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests
   - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs
   - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time
   - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input
   - Optimizations to the ring buffer
   - Removal of kmap in trace_marker
   - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file
   - Other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc
  tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits
  tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation
  tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
  tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
  fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace
  tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing
  ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall()
  tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
  tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up
  tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail
  ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline
  ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined
  ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions
  tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline
  tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
  ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()
  ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined
  ...

mm: use vmf->address instead of of vmf->virtual_address

2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00

Every single user of vmf->virtual_address typed that entry to unsigned
long before doing anything with it so the type of virtual_address does
not really provide us any additional safety.  Just use masked
vmf->address which already has the appropriate type.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it

2016-12-09T14:17:10+00:00

With new binutils, gcc may get smart with its optimization and change a jmp
from a 5 byte jump to a 2 byte one even though it was jumping to a global
function. But that global function existed within a 2 byte radius, and gcc
was able to optimize it. Unfortunately, that jump was also being modified
when function graph tracing begins. Since ftrace expected that jump to be 5
bytes, but it was only two, it overwrote code after the jump, causing a
crash.

This was fixed for x86_64 with commit 8329e818f149, with the same subject as
this commit, but nothing was done for x86_32.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d61f82d06672 ("ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls")
Reported-by: Colin Ian King 
Tested-by: Colin Ian King 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes

2016-11-01T06:41:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar