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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/select.c, branch v4.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:27+00:00</published>
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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
allocation requests &lt;= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
though.

This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt; # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt; # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt; # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt; # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Raspatur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Hariprasad S &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Yishai Hadas &lt;yishaih@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
allocation requests &lt;= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
though.

This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt; # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt; # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt; # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt; # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Raspatur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Hariprasad S &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Yishai Hadas &lt;yishaih@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T23:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T23:40:27+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Millar:
 "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that
  happened this development cycle:

   1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri)

   2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they
      lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support
      (me).

   3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me)

   4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei
      Starovoitov)

   5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian
      Westphal)

   6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana)

   7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger)

   8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky)

   9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto)

  10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work
      well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any
      hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh)

  11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay
      Aleksandrov)

  12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala)

  13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
      and several others)

  14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits)
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()
  net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP
  net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP
  net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support
  net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation
  net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling
  net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling
  net: thunderx: Support for page recycling
  ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
  net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions
  qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation.
  qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing.
  stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform
  net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver
  tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp
  bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64
  bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Millar:
 "Here are some highlights from the 2065 networking commits that
  happened this development cycle:

   1) XDP support for IXGBE (John Fastabend) and thunderx (Sunil Kowuri)

   2) Add a generic XDP driver, so that anyone can test XDP even if they
      lack a networking device whose driver has explicit XDP support
      (me).

   3) Sparc64 now has an eBPF JIT too (me)

   4) Add a BPF program testing framework via BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Alexei
      Starovoitov)

   5) Make netfitler network namespace teardown less expensive (Florian
      Westphal)

   6) Add symmetric hashing support to nft_hash (Laura Garcia Liebana)

   7) Implement NAPI and GRO in netvsc driver (Stephen Hemminger)

   8) Support TC flower offload statistics in mlxsw (Arkadi Sharshevsky)

   9) Multiqueue support in stmmac driver (Joao Pinto)

  10) Remove TCP timewait recycling, it never really could possibly work
      well in the real world and timestamp randomization really zaps any
      hint of usability this feature had (Soheil Hassas Yeganeh)

  11) Support level3 vs level4 ECMP route hashing in ipv4 (Nikolay
      Aleksandrov)

  12) Add socket busy poll support to epoll (Sridhar Samudrala)

  13) Netlink extended ACK support (Johannes Berg, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
      and several others)

  14) IPSEC hw offload infrastructure (Steffen Klassert)"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2065 commits)
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recv_stream()
  tipc: refactor function tipc_sk_recvmsg()
  net: thunderx: Optimize page recycling for XDP
  net: thunderx: Support for XDP header adjustment
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_TX
  net: thunderx: Add support for XDP_DROP
  net: thunderx: Add basic XDP support
  net: thunderx: Cleanup receive buffer allocation
  net: thunderx: Optimize CQE_TX handling
  net: thunderx: Optimize RBDR descriptor handling
  net: thunderx: Support for page recycling
  ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
  net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions
  qed*: Fix issues in the ptp filter config implementation.
  qede: Fix concurrency issue in PTP Tx path processing.
  stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform
  net: hns: fix ethtool_get_strings overflow in hns driver
  tcp: fix wraparound issue in tcp_lp
  bpf, arm64: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64
  bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>move compat select-related syscalls to fs/select.c</title>
<updated>2017-04-17T16:52:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-08T20:50:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Track start of busy loop instead of when it should end</title>
<updated>2017-03-25T03:49:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-24T17:08:18+00:00</published>
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This patch flips the logic we were using to determine if the busy polling
has timed out.  The main motivation for this is that we will need to
support two different possible timeout values in the future and by
recording the start time rather than when we would want to end we can focus
on making the end_time specific to the task be it epoll or socket based
polling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch flips the logic we were using to determine if the busy polling
has timed out.  The main motivation for this is that we will need to
support two different possible timeout values in the future and by
recording the start time rather than when we would want to end we can focus
on making the end_time specific to the task be it epoll or socket based
polling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:30+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replace &lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt; with &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt; globally</title>
<updated>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</published>
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/select: add vmalloc fallback for select(2)</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T22:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:51:14+00:00</published>
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The select(2) syscall performs a kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL) where size grows
with the number of fds passed. We had a customer report page allocation
failures of order-4 for this allocation. This is a costly order, so it might
easily fail, as the VM expects such allocation to have a lower-order fallback.

Such trivial fallback is vmalloc(), as the memory doesn't have to be physically
contiguous and the allocation is temporary for the duration of the syscall
only. There were some concerns, whether this would have negative impact on the
system by exposing vmalloc() to userspace. Although an excessive use of vmalloc
can cause some system wide performance issues - TLB flushes etc. - a large
order allocation is not for free either and an excessive reclaim/compaction can
have a similar effect. Also note that the size is effectively limited by
RLIMIT_NOFILE which defaults to 1024 on the systems I checked. That means the
bitmaps will fit well within single page and thus the vmalloc() fallback could
be only excercised for processes where root allows a higher limit.

Note that the poll(2) syscall seems to use a linked list of order-0 pages, so
it doesn't need this kind of fallback.

[eric.dumazet@gmail.com: fix failure path logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use proper type for size]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927084536.5923-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&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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The select(2) syscall performs a kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL) where size grows
with the number of fds passed. We had a customer report page allocation
failures of order-4 for this allocation. This is a costly order, so it might
easily fail, as the VM expects such allocation to have a lower-order fallback.

Such trivial fallback is vmalloc(), as the memory doesn't have to be physically
contiguous and the allocation is temporary for the duration of the syscall
only. There were some concerns, whether this would have negative impact on the
system by exposing vmalloc() to userspace. Although an excessive use of vmalloc
can cause some system wide performance issues - TLB flushes etc. - a large
order allocation is not for free either and an excessive reclaim/compaction can
have a similar effect. Also note that the size is effectively limited by
RLIMIT_NOFILE which defaults to 1024 on the systems I checked. That means the
bitmaps will fit well within single page and thus the vmalloc() fallback could
be only excercised for processes where root allows a higher limit.

Note that the poll(2) syscall seems to use a linked list of order-0 pages, so
it doesn't need this kind of fallback.

[eric.dumazet@gmail.com: fix failure path logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use proper type for size]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927084536.5923-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&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>
<title>fs: poll/select/recvmmsg: use timespec64 for timeout events</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T00:09:05+00:00</published>
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe.  Even though timespec might be
sufficient to represent timeouts, use struct timespec64 here as the plan
is to get rid of all timespec reference in the kernel.

The patch transitions the common functions: poll_select_set_timeout()
and select_estimate_accuracy() to use timespec64.  And, all the syscalls
that use these functions are transitioned in the same patch.

The restart block parameters for poll uses monotonic time.  Use
timespec64 here as well to assign timeout value.  This parameter in the
restart block need not change because this only holds the monotonic
timestamp at which timeout should occur.  And, unsigned long data type
should be big enough for this timestamp.

The system call interfaces will be handled in a separate series.

Compat interfaces need not change as timespec64 is an alias to struct
timespec on a 64 bit system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461947989-21926-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&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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struct timespec is not y2038 safe.  Even though timespec might be
sufficient to represent timeouts, use struct timespec64 here as the plan
is to get rid of all timespec reference in the kernel.

The patch transitions the common functions: poll_select_set_timeout()
and select_estimate_accuracy() to use timespec64.  And, all the syscalls
that use these functions are transitioned in the same patch.

The restart block parameters for poll uses monotonic time.  Use
timespec64 here as well to assign timeout value.  This parameter in the
restart block need not change because this only holds the monotonic
timestamp at which timeout should occur.  And, unsigned long data type
should be big enough for this timestamp.

The system call interfaces will be handled in a separate series.

Compat interfaces need not change as timespec64 is an alias to struct
timespec on a 64 bit system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461947989-21926-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64</title>
<updated>2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T21:20:51+00:00</published>
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This patchset introduces a /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/timerslack_ns interface which
would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value
on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something
Android currently does via out-of-tree patches).

The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was
defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit
systems.  It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically
unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines.

The second patch introduces the /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/timerslack_ns interface
which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on
both 32bit and 64bit machines.

With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on
bash to 10 seconds:

$ time sleep 1

real    0m10.747s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.005s

The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta
arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s.  Let me
know if it makes sense to break that up more or not.

Other than that things are fairly straightforward.

This patch (of 2):

The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned
long.  This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just
over 4 seconds.  However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500
years).

This disparity could make application development a little (as well as
the default_slack) to a u64.  This means both 32bit and 64bit systems
have the same effective internal slack range.

Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify
the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on
32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned
long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is
actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long.

This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack
delta as a unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Oren Laadan &lt;orenl@cellrox.com&gt;
Cc: Ruchi Kandoi &lt;kandoiruchi@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rom Lemarchand &lt;romlem@android.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Android Kernel Team &lt;kernel-team@android.com&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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This patchset introduces a /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/timerslack_ns interface which
would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value
on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something
Android currently does via out-of-tree patches).

The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was
defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit
systems.  It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically
unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines.

The second patch introduces the /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/timerslack_ns interface
which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on
both 32bit and 64bit machines.

With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on
bash to 10 seconds:

$ time sleep 1

real    0m10.747s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.005s

The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta
arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s.  Let me
know if it makes sense to break that up more or not.

Other than that things are fairly straightforward.

This patch (of 2):

The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned
long.  This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just
over 4 seconds.  However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500
years).

This disparity could make application development a little (as well as
the default_slack) to a u64.  This means both 32bit and 64bit systems
have the same effective internal slack range.

Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify
the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on
32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned
long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is
actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long.

This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack
delta as a unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Oren Laadan &lt;orenl@cellrox.com&gt;
Cc: Ruchi Kandoi &lt;kandoiruchi@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rom Lemarchand &lt;romlem@android.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Android Kernel Team &lt;kernel-team@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll</title>
<updated>2016-01-06T13:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mguzik@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-06T05:41:53+00:00</published>
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Number of fds is already known based on passed list.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Number of fds is already known based on passed list.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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