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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ptrace: take into account saved_sigmask in PTRACE{GET,SET}SIGMASK</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T17:01:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T03:44:13+00:00</published>
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There are a few system calls (pselect, ppoll, etc) which replace a task
sigmask while they are running in a kernel-space

When a task calls one of these syscalls, the kernel saves a current
sigmask in task-&gt;saved_sigmask and sets a syscall sigmask.

On syscall-exit-stop, ptrace traps a task before restoring the
saved_sigmask, so PTRACE_GETSIGMASK returns the syscall sigmask and
PTRACE_SETSIGMASK does nothing, because its sigmask is replaced by
saved_sigmask, when the task returns to user-space.

This patch fixes this problem.  PTRACE_GETSIGMASK returns saved_sigmask
if it's set.  PTRACE_SETSIGMASK drops the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120060616.6043-1-avagin@gmail.com
Fixes: 29000caecbe8 ("ptrace: add ability to get/set signal-blocked mask")
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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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There are a few system calls (pselect, ppoll, etc) which replace a task
sigmask while they are running in a kernel-space

When a task calls one of these syscalls, the kernel saves a current
sigmask in task-&gt;saved_sigmask and sets a syscall sigmask.

On syscall-exit-stop, ptrace traps a task before restoring the
saved_sigmask, so PTRACE_GETSIGMASK returns the syscall sigmask and
PTRACE_SETSIGMASK does nothing, because its sigmask is replaced by
saved_sigmask, when the task returns to user-space.

This patch fixes this problem.  PTRACE_GETSIGMASK returns saved_sigmask
if it's set.  PTRACE_SETSIGMASK drops the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120060616.6043-1-avagin@gmail.com
Fixes: 29000caecbe8 ("ptrace: add ability to get/set signal-blocked mask")
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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>Merge tag 'io_uring-2019-03-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2019-03-08T22:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T22:48:40+00:00</published>
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Pull io_uring IO interface from Jens Axboe:
 "Second attempt at adding the io_uring interface.

  Since the first one, we've added basic unit testing of the three
  system calls, that resides in liburing like the other unit tests that
  we have so far. It'll take a while to get full coverage of it, but
  we're working towards it. I've also added two basic test programs to
  tools/io_uring. One uses the raw interface and has support for all the
  various features that io_uring supports outside of standard IO, like
  fixed files, fixed IO buffers, and polled IO. The other uses the
  liburing API, and is a simplified version of cp(1).

  This adds support for a new IO interface, io_uring.

  io_uring allows an application to communicate with the kernel through
  two rings, the submission queue (SQ) and completion queue (CQ) ring.
  This allows for very efficient handling of IOs, see the v5 posting for
  some basic numbers:

    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190116175003.17880-1-axboe@kernel.dk/

  Outside of just efficiency, the interface is also flexible and
  extendable, and allows for future use cases like the upcoming NVMe
  key-value store API, networked IO, and so on. It also supports async
  buffered IO, something that we've always failed to support in the
  kernel.

  Outside of basic IO features, it supports async polled IO as well.
  This particular feature has already been tested at Facebook months ago
  for flash storage boxes, with 25-33% improvements. It makes polled IO
  actually useful for real world use cases, where even basic flash sees
  a nice win in terms of efficiency, latency, and performance. These
  boxes were IOPS bound before, now they are not.

  This series adds three new system calls. One for setting up an
  io_uring instance (io_uring_setup(2)), one for submitting/completing
  IO (io_uring_enter(2)), and one for aux functions like registrating
  file sets, buffers, etc (io_uring_register(2)). Through the help of
  Arnd, I've coordinated the syscall numbers so merge on that front
  should be painless.

  Jon did a writeup of the interface a while back, which (except for
  minor details that have been tweaked) is still accurate. Find that
  here:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/776703/

  Huge thanks to Al Viro for helping getting the reference cycle code
  correct, and to Jann Horn for his extensive reviews focused on both
  security and bugs in general.

  There's a userspace library that provides basic functionality for
  applications that don't need or want to care about how to fiddle with
  the rings directly. It has helpers to allow applications to easily set
  up an io_uring instance, and submit/complete IO through it without
  knowing about the intricacies of the rings. It also includes man pages
  (thanks to Jeff Moyer), and will continue to grow support helper
  functions and features as time progresses. Find it here:

    git://git.kernel.dk/liburing

  Fio has full support for the raw interface, both in the form of an IO
  engine (io_uring), but also with a small test application (t/io_uring)
  that can exercise and benchmark the interface"

* tag 'io_uring-2019-03-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  io_uring: add a few test tools
  io_uring: allow workqueue item to handle multiple buffered requests
  io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_POLL
  io_uring: add io_kiocb ref count
  io_uring: add submission polling
  io_uring: add file set registration
  net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files
  io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers
  block: implement bio helper to add iter bvec pages to bio
  io_uring: batch io_kiocb allocation
  io_uring: use fget/fput_many() for file references
  fs: add fget_many() and fput_many()
  io_uring: support for IO polling
  io_uring: add fsync support
  Add io_uring IO interface
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Pull io_uring IO interface from Jens Axboe:
 "Second attempt at adding the io_uring interface.

  Since the first one, we've added basic unit testing of the three
  system calls, that resides in liburing like the other unit tests that
  we have so far. It'll take a while to get full coverage of it, but
  we're working towards it. I've also added two basic test programs to
  tools/io_uring. One uses the raw interface and has support for all the
  various features that io_uring supports outside of standard IO, like
  fixed files, fixed IO buffers, and polled IO. The other uses the
  liburing API, and is a simplified version of cp(1).

  This adds support for a new IO interface, io_uring.

  io_uring allows an application to communicate with the kernel through
  two rings, the submission queue (SQ) and completion queue (CQ) ring.
  This allows for very efficient handling of IOs, see the v5 posting for
  some basic numbers:

    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190116175003.17880-1-axboe@kernel.dk/

  Outside of just efficiency, the interface is also flexible and
  extendable, and allows for future use cases like the upcoming NVMe
  key-value store API, networked IO, and so on. It also supports async
  buffered IO, something that we've always failed to support in the
  kernel.

  Outside of basic IO features, it supports async polled IO as well.
  This particular feature has already been tested at Facebook months ago
  for flash storage boxes, with 25-33% improvements. It makes polled IO
  actually useful for real world use cases, where even basic flash sees
  a nice win in terms of efficiency, latency, and performance. These
  boxes were IOPS bound before, now they are not.

  This series adds three new system calls. One for setting up an
  io_uring instance (io_uring_setup(2)), one for submitting/completing
  IO (io_uring_enter(2)), and one for aux functions like registrating
  file sets, buffers, etc (io_uring_register(2)). Through the help of
  Arnd, I've coordinated the syscall numbers so merge on that front
  should be painless.

  Jon did a writeup of the interface a while back, which (except for
  minor details that have been tweaked) is still accurate. Find that
  here:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/776703/

  Huge thanks to Al Viro for helping getting the reference cycle code
  correct, and to Jann Horn for his extensive reviews focused on both
  security and bugs in general.

  There's a userspace library that provides basic functionality for
  applications that don't need or want to care about how to fiddle with
  the rings directly. It has helpers to allow applications to easily set
  up an io_uring instance, and submit/complete IO through it without
  knowing about the intricacies of the rings. It also includes man pages
  (thanks to Jeff Moyer), and will continue to grow support helper
  functions and features as time progresses. Find it here:

    git://git.kernel.dk/liburing

  Fio has full support for the raw interface, both in the form of an IO
  engine (io_uring), but also with a small test application (t/io_uring)
  that can exercise and benchmark the interface"

* tag 'io_uring-2019-03-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  io_uring: add a few test tools
  io_uring: allow workqueue item to handle multiple buffered requests
  io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_POLL
  io_uring: add io_kiocb ref count
  io_uring: add submission polling
  io_uring: add file set registration
  net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files
  io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers
  block: implement bio helper to add iter bvec pages to bio
  io_uring: batch io_kiocb allocation
  io_uring: use fget/fput_many() for file references
  fs: add fget_many() and fput_many()
  io_uring: support for IO polling
  io_uring: add fsync support
  Add io_uring IO interface
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-03-06T18:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-06T18:31:36+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 updates

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (159 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include
  proc: more robust bulk read test
  proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm
  proc: use seq_puts() everywhere
  proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once
  proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup()
  fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self()
  fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()
  proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests
  mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure
  mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison
  mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
  writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment
  mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used
  mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment
  mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
  mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak
  mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone
  mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access -&gt;lru_lock directly
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 updates

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (159 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include
  proc: more robust bulk read test
  proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm
  proc: use seq_puts() everywhere
  proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once
  proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup()
  fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self()
  fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()
  proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests
  mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure
  mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison
  mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
  writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment
  mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used
  mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment
  mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
  mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak
  mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone
  mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access -&gt;lru_lock directly
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-03-06T16:14:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-06T16:14:05+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - refcount conversions

   - Solve the rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list can of worms for real.

   - improve power-aware scheduling

   - add sysctl knob for Energy Aware Scheduling

   - documentation updates

   - misc other changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE
  kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock
  sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from select_idle_smt()
  sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible
  sched/fair: Prune, fix and simplify the nohz_balancer_kick() comment block
  sched/fair: Explain LLC nohz kick condition
  sched/fair: Simplify nohz_balancer_kick()
  sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data &amp; struct s_data
  sched/fair: Simplify post_init_entity_util_avg() by calling it with a task_struct pointer argument
  sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path
  sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages()
  sched/fair: Fix insertion in rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list
  sched/fair: Add tmp_alone_branch assertion
  sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock()
  sched/debug: Initialize sd_sysctl_cpus if !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
  sched/pelt: Skip updating util_est when utilization is higher than CPU's capacity
  sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT
  sched/fair: Move the rq_of() helper function
  sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - refcount conversions

   - Solve the rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list can of worms for real.

   - improve power-aware scheduling

   - add sysctl knob for Energy Aware Scheduling

   - documentation updates

   - misc other changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE
  kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock
  sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from select_idle_smt()
  sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible
  sched/fair: Prune, fix and simplify the nohz_balancer_kick() comment block
  sched/fair: Explain LLC nohz kick condition
  sched/fair: Simplify nohz_balancer_kick()
  sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data &amp; struct s_data
  sched/fair: Simplify post_init_entity_util_avg() by calling it with a task_struct pointer argument
  sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path
  sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages()
  sched/fair: Fix insertion in rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list
  sched/fair: Add tmp_alone_branch assertion
  sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock()
  sched/debug: Initialize sd_sysctl_cpus if !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
  sched/pelt: Skip updating util_est when utilization is higher than CPU's capacity
  sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT
  sched/fair: Move the rq_of() helper function
  sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/cma: add PF flag to force non cma alloc</title>
<updated>2019-03-06T05:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-05T23:47:40+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA
region", v8.

ppc64 uses the CMA area for the allocation of guest page table (hash
page table).  We won't be able to start guest if we fail to allocate
hash page table.  We have observed hash table allocation failure because
we failed to migrate pages out of CMA region because they were pinned.
This happen when we are using VFIO.  VFIO on ppc64 pins the entire guest
RAM.  If the guest RAM pages get allocated out of CMA region, we won't
be able to migrate those pages.  The pages are also pinned for the
lifetime of the guest.

Currently we support migration of non-compound pages.  With THP and with
the addition of hugetlb migration we can end up allocating compound
pages from CMA region.  This patch series add support for migrating
compound pages.

This patch (of 4):

Add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context is
marked non-movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region.

This is useful with get_user_pages_longterm where we want to take a page
pin by migrating pages from CMA region.  Marking the section
PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA ensures that we avoid unnecessary page migration
later.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114095438.32470-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Cc: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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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Patch series "mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA
region", v8.

ppc64 uses the CMA area for the allocation of guest page table (hash
page table).  We won't be able to start guest if we fail to allocate
hash page table.  We have observed hash table allocation failure because
we failed to migrate pages out of CMA region because they were pinned.
This happen when we are using VFIO.  VFIO on ppc64 pins the entire guest
RAM.  If the guest RAM pages get allocated out of CMA region, we won't
be able to migrate those pages.  The pages are also pinned for the
lifetime of the guest.

Currently we support migration of non-compound pages.  With THP and with
the addition of hugetlb migration we can end up allocating compound
pages from CMA region.  This patch series add support for migrating
compound pages.

This patch (of 4):

Add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context is
marked non-movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region.

This is useful with get_user_pages_longterm where we want to take a page
pin by migrating pages from CMA region.  Marking the section
PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA ensures that we avoid unnecessary page migration
later.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114095438.32470-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Cc: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>
<entry>
<title>Add io_uring IO interface</title>
<updated>2019-02-28T15:24:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-07T17:46:33+00:00</published>
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The submission queue (SQ) and completion queue (CQ) rings are shared
between the application and the kernel. This eliminates the need to
copy data back and forth to submit and complete IO.

IO submissions use the io_uring_sqe data structure, and completions
are generated in the form of io_uring_cqe data structures. The SQ
ring is an index into the io_uring_sqe array, which makes it possible
to submit a batch of IOs without them being contiguous in the ring.
The CQ ring is always contiguous, as completion events are inherently
unordered, and hence any io_uring_cqe entry can point back to an
arbitrary submission.

Two new system calls are added for this:

io_uring_setup(entries, params)
	Sets up an io_uring instance for doing async IO. On success,
	returns a file descriptor that the application can mmap to
	gain access to the SQ ring, CQ ring, and io_uring_sqes.

io_uring_enter(fd, to_submit, min_complete, flags, sigset, sigsetsize)
	Initiates IO against the rings mapped to this fd, or waits for
	them to complete, or both. The behavior is controlled by the
	parameters passed in. If 'to_submit' is non-zero, then we'll
	try and submit new IO. If IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS is set, the
	kernel will wait for 'min_complete' events, if they aren't
	already available. It's valid to set IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS
	and 'min_complete' == 0 at the same time, this allows the
	kernel to return already completed events without waiting
	for them. This is useful only for polling, as for IRQ
	driven IO, the application can just check the CQ ring
	without entering the kernel.

With this setup, it's possible to do async IO with a single system
call. Future developments will enable polled IO with this interface,
and polled submission as well. The latter will enable an application
to do IO without doing ANY system calls at all.

For IRQ driven IO, an application only needs to enter the kernel for
completions if it wants to wait for them to occur.

Each io_uring is backed by a workqueue, to support buffered async IO
as well. We will only punt to an async context if the command would
need to wait for IO on the device side. Any data that can be accessed
directly in the page cache is done inline. This avoids the slowness
issue of usual threadpools, since cached data is accessed as quickly
as a sync interface.

Sample application: http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/fio/plain/t/io_uring.c

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The submission queue (SQ) and completion queue (CQ) rings are shared
between the application and the kernel. This eliminates the need to
copy data back and forth to submit and complete IO.

IO submissions use the io_uring_sqe data structure, and completions
are generated in the form of io_uring_cqe data structures. The SQ
ring is an index into the io_uring_sqe array, which makes it possible
to submit a batch of IOs without them being contiguous in the ring.
The CQ ring is always contiguous, as completion events are inherently
unordered, and hence any io_uring_cqe entry can point back to an
arbitrary submission.

Two new system calls are added for this:

io_uring_setup(entries, params)
	Sets up an io_uring instance for doing async IO. On success,
	returns a file descriptor that the application can mmap to
	gain access to the SQ ring, CQ ring, and io_uring_sqes.

io_uring_enter(fd, to_submit, min_complete, flags, sigset, sigsetsize)
	Initiates IO against the rings mapped to this fd, or waits for
	them to complete, or both. The behavior is controlled by the
	parameters passed in. If 'to_submit' is non-zero, then we'll
	try and submit new IO. If IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS is set, the
	kernel will wait for 'min_complete' events, if they aren't
	already available. It's valid to set IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS
	and 'min_complete' == 0 at the same time, this allows the
	kernel to return already completed events without waiting
	for them. This is useful only for polling, as for IRQ
	driven IO, the application can just check the CQ ring
	without entering the kernel.

With this setup, it's possible to do async IO with a single system
call. Future developments will enable polled IO with this interface,
and polled submission as well. The latter will enable an application
to do IO without doing ANY system calls at all.

For IRQ driven IO, an application only needs to enter the kernel for
completions if it wants to wait for them to occur.

Each io_uring is backed by a workqueue, to support buffered async IO
as well. We will only punt to an async context if the command would
need to wait for IO on the device side. Any data that can be accessed
directly in the page cache is done inline. This avoids the slowness
issue of usual threadpools, since cached data is accessed as quickly
as a sync interface.

Sample application: http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/fio/plain/t/io_uring.c

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data &amp; struct s_data</title>
<updated>2019-02-11T07:02:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luc Van Oostenryck</name>
<email>luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-18T14:49:36+00:00</published>
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The percpu members of struct sd_data and s_data are declared as:

	struct ... ** __percpu member;

So their type is:

	__percpu pointer to pointer to struct ...

But looking at how they're used, their type should be:

	pointer to __percpu pointer to struct ...

and they should thus be declared as:

	struct ... * __percpu *member;

So fix the placement of '__percpu' in the definition of these
structures.

This addresses a bunch of Sparse's warnings like:

	warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
	  expected void const [noderef] &lt;asn:3&gt; *__vpp_verify
	  got struct sched_domain **

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118144936.79158-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The percpu members of struct sd_data and s_data are declared as:

	struct ... ** __percpu member;

So their type is:

	__percpu pointer to pointer to struct ...

But looking at how they're used, their type should be:

	pointer to __percpu pointer to struct ...

and they should thus be declared as:

	struct ... * __percpu *member;

So fix the placement of '__percpu' in the definition of these
structures.

This addresses a bunch of Sparse's warnings like:

	warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
	  expected void const [noderef] &lt;asn:3&gt; *__vpp_verify
	  got struct sched_domain **

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118144936.79158-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v5.0-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2019-02-11T07:01:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-11T07:01:50+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/wake_q: Reduce reference counting for special users</title>
<updated>2019-02-04T08:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T19:53:52+00:00</published>
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Some users, specifically futexes and rwsems, required fixes
that allowed the callers to be safe when wakeups occur before
they are expected by wake_up_q(). Such scenarios also play
games and rely on reference counting, and until now were
pivoting on wake_q doing it. With the wake_q_add() call being
moved down, this can no longer be the case. As such we end up
with a a double task refcounting overhead; and these callers
care enough about this (being rather core-ish).

This patch introduces a wake_q_add_safe() call that serves
for callers that have already done refcounting and therefore the
task is 'safe' from wake_q point of view (int that it requires
reference throughout the entire queue/&gt;wakeup cycle). In the one
case it has internal reference counting, in the other case it
consumes the reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Xie Yongji &lt;xieyongji@baidu.com&gt;
Cc: Yongji Xie &lt;elohimes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: lilin24@baidu.com
Cc: liuqi16@baidu.com
Cc: nixun@baidu.com
Cc: yuanlinsi01@baidu.com
Cc: zhangyu31@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218195352.7orq3upiwfdbrdne@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Some users, specifically futexes and rwsems, required fixes
that allowed the callers to be safe when wakeups occur before
they are expected by wake_up_q(). Such scenarios also play
games and rely on reference counting, and until now were
pivoting on wake_q doing it. With the wake_q_add() call being
moved down, this can no longer be the case. As such we end up
with a a double task refcounting overhead; and these callers
care enough about this (being rather core-ish).

This patch introduces a wake_q_add_safe() call that serves
for callers that have already done refcounting and therefore the
task is 'safe' from wake_q point of view (int that it requires
reference throughout the entire queue/&gt;wakeup cycle). In the one
case it has internal reference counting, in the other case it
consumes the reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Xie Yongji &lt;xieyongji@baidu.com&gt;
Cc: Yongji Xie &lt;elohimes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: lilin24@baidu.com
Cc: liuqi16@baidu.com
Cc: nixun@baidu.com
Cc: yuanlinsi01@baidu.com
Cc: zhangyu31@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218195352.7orq3upiwfdbrdne@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2019-02-04T07:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elena Reshetova</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-18T12:27:30+00:00</published>
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atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference
counters with the following properties:

 - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
 - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
 - once counter reaches zero, its further
   increments aren't allowed
 - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
   (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)

Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows
and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows
can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.

The variable task_struct.stack_refcount is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.

** Important note for maintainers:

Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c
have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic
counterparts.

The full comparison can be seen in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon
in state to be merged to the documentation tree.

Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides
enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in
some rare cases it might matter.

Please double check that you don't have some undocumented
memory guarantees for this variable usage.

For the task_struct.stack_refcount it might make a difference
in following places:

 - try_get_task_stack(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only
   guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered
   atomic counterpart
 - put_task_stack(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only
   provides RELEASE ordering and control dependency on success
   vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Cc: 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: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547814450-18902-6-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference
counters with the following properties:

 - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
 - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
 - once counter reaches zero, its further
   increments aren't allowed
 - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
   (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)

Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows
and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows
can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.

The variable task_struct.stack_refcount is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.

** Important note for maintainers:

Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c
have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic
counterparts.

The full comparison can be seen in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon
in state to be merged to the documentation tree.

Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides
enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in
some rare cases it might matter.

Please double check that you don't have some undocumented
memory guarantees for this variable usage.

For the task_struct.stack_refcount it might make a difference
in following places:

 - try_get_task_stack(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only
   guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered
   atomic counterpart
 - put_task_stack(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only
   provides RELEASE ordering and control dependency on success
   vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Cc: 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: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547814450-18902-6-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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