linux-toradex.git/include/linux/compiler.h, branch v4.8-rc1

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2016-07-29T00:38:16+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move ->module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...

pmem: kill __pmem address space

2016-07-13T02:25:38+00:00

The __pmem address space was meant to annotate codepaths that touch
persistent memory and need to coordinate a call to wmb_pmem().  Now that
wmb_pmem() is gone, there is little need to keep this annotation.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

locking/barriers: Move smp_cond_load_acquire() to asm-generic/barrier.h

2016-06-14T09:55:14+00:00

Since all asm/barrier.h should/must include asm-generic/barrier.h the
latter is a good place for generic infrastructure like this.

This also allows archs to override the new smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/barriers: Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()

2016-06-14T09:55:14+00:00

Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(), this construct is not
uncommon, but the lack of this barrier is.

Use it to better express smp_rmb() uses in WRITE_ONCE(), the IPC
semaphore code and the qspinlock code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire()

2016-06-14T09:54:27+00:00

This new form allows using hardware assisted waiting.

Some hardware (ARM64 and x86) allow monitoring an address for changes,
so by providing a pointer we can use this to replace the cpu_relax()
with hardware optimized methods in the future.

Requested-by: Will Deacon 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type

2016-06-08T12:22:47+00:00

Use the type to validate the argument @p is indeed a pointer type.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160522104827.GP3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

compiler.h: add support for malloc attribute

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

gcc as far back as at least 3.04 documents the function attribute
__malloc__.  Add a shorthand for attaching that to a function
declaration.  This was also suggested by Andi Kleen way back in 2002
[1], but didn't get applied, perhaps because gcc at that time generated
the exact same code with and without this attribute.

This attribute tells the compiler that the return value (if non-NULL)
can be assumed not to alias any other valid pointers at the time of the
call.

Please note that the documentation for a range of gcc versions (starting
from around 4.7) contained a somewhat confusing and self-contradicting
text:

  The malloc attribute is used to tell the compiler that a function may
  be treated as if any non-NULL pointer it returns cannot alias any other
  pointer valid when the function returns and *that the memory has
  undefined content*.  [...] Standard functions with this property include
  malloc and *calloc*.

(emphasis mine). The intended meaning has later been clarified [2]:

  This tells the compiler that a function is malloc-like, i.e., that the
  pointer P returned by the function cannot alias any other pointer valid
  when the function returns, and moreover no pointers to valid objects
  occur in any storage addressed by P.

What this means is that we can apply the attribute to kmalloc and
friends, and it is ok for the returned memory to have well-defined
contents (__GFP_ZERO).  But it is not ok to apply it to kmemdup(), nor
to other functions which both allocate and possibly initialize the
memory with existing pointers.  So unless someone is doing something
pretty perverted kstrdup() should also be a fine candidate.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/57172
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56955

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge commit 'fixes.2015.02.23a' into core/rcu

2016-03-15T08:01:06+00:00

 Conflicts:
	kernel/rcu/tree.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'v4.5-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixes

2016-02-29T08:55:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sparse: Add __private to privatize members of structs

2016-02-24T03:59:53+00:00

In C programming language, we don't have a easy way to privatize a
member of a structure. However in kernel, sometimes there is a need to
privatize a member in case of potential bugs or misuses.

Fortunately, the noderef attribute of sparse is a way to privatize a
member, as by defining a member as noderef, the address-of operator on
the member will produce a noderef pointer to that member, and if anyone
wants to dereference that kind of pointers to read or modify the member,
sparse will yell.

Based on this, __private modifier and related operation ACCESS_PRIVATE()
are introduced, which could help detect undesigned public uses of
private members of structs. Here is an example of sparse's output if it
detect an undersigned public use:

| kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different modifiers)
| kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25:    expected struct raw_spinlock [usertype] *lock
| kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25:    got struct raw_spinlock [noderef] *

Also, this patch improves compiler.h a little bit by adding comments for
"#else" and "#endif".

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney