<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/syscalls.h, branch v4.19-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T23:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T23:39:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=1202f4fdbcb6deeffd3eb39c94b8dc0cc8202b16'/>
<id>1202f4fdbcb6deeffd3eb39c94b8dc0cc8202b16</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "A bunch of good stuff in here. Worth noting is that we've pulled in
  the x86/mm branch from -tip so that we can make use of the core
  ioremap changes which allow us to put down huge mappings in the
  vmalloc area without screwing up the TLB. Much of the positive
  diffstat is because of the rseq selftest for arm64.

  Summary:

   - Wire up support for qspinlock, replacing our trusty ticket lock
     code

   - Add an IPI to flush_icache_range() to ensure that stale
     instructions fetched into the pipeline are discarded along with the
     I-cache lines

   - Support for the GCC "stackleak" plugin

   - Support for restartable sequences, plus an arm64 port for the
     selftest

   - Kexec/kdump support on systems booting with ACPI

   - Rewrite of our syscall entry code in C, which allows us to zero the
     GPRs on entry from userspace

   - Support for chained PMU counters, allowing 64-bit event counters to
     be constructed on current CPUs

   - Ensure scheduler topology information is kept up-to-date with CPU
     hotplug events

   - Re-enable support for huge vmalloc/IO mappings now that the core
     code has the correct hooks to use break-before-make sequences

   - Miscellaneous, non-critical fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (90 commits)
  arm64: alternative: Use true and false for boolean values
  arm64: kexec: Add comment to explain use of __flush_icache_range()
  arm64: sdei: Mark sdei stack helper functions as static
  arm64, kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes
  arm64: perf: Add cap_user_time aarch64
  efi/libstub: Only disable stackleak plugin for arm64
  arm64: drop unused kernel_neon_begin_partial() macro
  arm64: kexec: machine_kexec should call __flush_icache_range
  arm64: svc: Ensure hardirq tracing is updated before return
  arm64: mm: Export __sync_icache_dcache() for xen-privcmd
  drivers/perf: arm-ccn: Use devm_ioremap_resource() to map memory
  arm64: Add support for STACKLEAK gcc plugin
  arm64: Add stack information to on_accessible_stack
  drivers/perf: hisi: update the sccl_id/ccl_id when MT is supported
  arm64: fix ACPI dependencies
  rseq/selftests: Add support for arm64
  arm64: acpi: fix alignment fault in accessing ACPI
  efi/arm: map UEFI memory map even w/o runtime services enabled
  efi/arm: preserve early mapping of UEFI memory map longer for BGRT
  drivers: acpi: add dependency of EFI for arm64
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "A bunch of good stuff in here. Worth noting is that we've pulled in
  the x86/mm branch from -tip so that we can make use of the core
  ioremap changes which allow us to put down huge mappings in the
  vmalloc area without screwing up the TLB. Much of the positive
  diffstat is because of the rseq selftest for arm64.

  Summary:

   - Wire up support for qspinlock, replacing our trusty ticket lock
     code

   - Add an IPI to flush_icache_range() to ensure that stale
     instructions fetched into the pipeline are discarded along with the
     I-cache lines

   - Support for the GCC "stackleak" plugin

   - Support for restartable sequences, plus an arm64 port for the
     selftest

   - Kexec/kdump support on systems booting with ACPI

   - Rewrite of our syscall entry code in C, which allows us to zero the
     GPRs on entry from userspace

   - Support for chained PMU counters, allowing 64-bit event counters to
     be constructed on current CPUs

   - Ensure scheduler topology information is kept up-to-date with CPU
     hotplug events

   - Re-enable support for huge vmalloc/IO mappings now that the core
     code has the correct hooks to use break-before-make sequences

   - Miscellaneous, non-critical fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (90 commits)
  arm64: alternative: Use true and false for boolean values
  arm64: kexec: Add comment to explain use of __flush_icache_range()
  arm64: sdei: Mark sdei stack helper functions as static
  arm64, kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes
  arm64: perf: Add cap_user_time aarch64
  efi/libstub: Only disable stackleak plugin for arm64
  arm64: drop unused kernel_neon_begin_partial() macro
  arm64: kexec: machine_kexec should call __flush_icache_range
  arm64: svc: Ensure hardirq tracing is updated before return
  arm64: mm: Export __sync_icache_dcache() for xen-privcmd
  drivers/perf: arm-ccn: Use devm_ioremap_resource() to map memory
  arm64: Add support for STACKLEAK gcc plugin
  arm64: Add stack information to on_accessible_stack
  drivers/perf: hisi: update the sccl_id/ccl_id when MT is supported
  arm64: fix ACPI dependencies
  rseq/selftests: Add support for arm64
  arm64: acpi: fix alignment fault in accessing ACPI
  efi/arm: map UEFI memory map even w/o runtime services enabled
  efi/arm: preserve early mapping of UEFI memory map longer for BGRT
  drivers: acpi: add dependency of EFI for arm64
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-08-13T20:02:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-13T20:02:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=1e45e9a95ec277272f73439629b6e3fe1f047e92'/>
<id>1e45e9a95ec277272f73439629b6e3fe1f047e92</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timers departement more or less proudly presents:

   - More Y2038 timekeeping work mostly in the core code. The work is
     slowly, but steadily targeting the actuall syscalls.

   - Enhanced timekeeping suspend/resume support by utilizing
     clocksources which do not stop during suspend, but are otherwise
     not the main timekeeping clocksources.

   - Make NTP adjustmets more accurate and immediate when the frequency
     is set directly and not incrementally.

   - Sanitize the overrung handing of posix timers

   - A new timer driver for Mediatek SoCs

   - The usual pile of fixes and updates all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  clockevents: Warn if cpu_all_mask is used as cpumask
  tick/broadcast-hrtimer: Use cpu_possible_mask for ce_broadcast_hrtimer
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix bogus cpu_all_mask usage
  clocksource: ti-32k: Remove CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag
  timers: Clear timer_base::must_forward_clk with timer_base::lock held
  clocksource/drivers/sprd: Register one always-on timer to compensate suspend time
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Add support for system timer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Convert the driver to timer-of
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Use specific prefix for GPT
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Rename mtk_timer to timer-mediatek
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Add system timer bindings
  clocksource/drivers: Set clockevent device cpumask to cpu_possible_mask
  time: Introduce one suspend clocksource to compensate the suspend time
  time: Fix extra sleeptime injection when suspend fails
  timekeeping/ntp: Constify some function arguments
  ntp: Use kstrtos64 for s64 variable
  ntp: Remove redundant arguments
  timer: Fix coding style
  ktime: Provide typesafe ktime_to_ns()
  hrtimer: Improve kernel message printing
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timers departement more or less proudly presents:

   - More Y2038 timekeeping work mostly in the core code. The work is
     slowly, but steadily targeting the actuall syscalls.

   - Enhanced timekeeping suspend/resume support by utilizing
     clocksources which do not stop during suspend, but are otherwise
     not the main timekeeping clocksources.

   - Make NTP adjustmets more accurate and immediate when the frequency
     is set directly and not incrementally.

   - Sanitize the overrung handing of posix timers

   - A new timer driver for Mediatek SoCs

   - The usual pile of fixes and updates all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  clockevents: Warn if cpu_all_mask is used as cpumask
  tick/broadcast-hrtimer: Use cpu_possible_mask for ce_broadcast_hrtimer
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix bogus cpu_all_mask usage
  clocksource: ti-32k: Remove CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag
  timers: Clear timer_base::must_forward_clk with timer_base::lock held
  clocksource/drivers/sprd: Register one always-on timer to compensate suspend time
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Add support for system timer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Convert the driver to timer-of
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Use specific prefix for GPT
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Rename mtk_timer to timer-mediatek
  clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Add system timer bindings
  clocksource/drivers: Set clockevent device cpumask to cpu_possible_mask
  time: Introduce one suspend clocksource to compensate the suspend time
  time: Fix extra sleeptime injection when suspend fails
  timekeeping/ntp: Constify some function arguments
  ntp: Use kstrtos64 for s64 variable
  ntp: Remove redundant arguments
  timer: Fix coding style
  ktime: Provide typesafe ktime_to_ns()
  hrtimer: Improve kernel message printing
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-07-22T19:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-22T19:04:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=165ea0d1c2286f550efbf14dc3528267af088f08'/>
<id>165ea0d1c2286f550efbf14dc3528267af088f08</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fix several places that screw up cleanups after failures halfway
  through opening a file (one open-coding filp_clone_open() and getting
  it wrong, two misusing alloc_file()). That part is -stable fodder from
  the 'work.open' branch.

  And Christoph's regression fix for uapi breakage in aio series;
  include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h shouldn't be pulling in the kernel
  definition of sigset_t, the reason for doing so in the first place had
  been bogus - there's no need to expose struct __aio_sigset in
  aio_abi.h at all"

* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  aio: don't expose __aio_sigset in uapi
  ocxlflash_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures
  cxl_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures
  drm_mode_create_lease_ioctl(): fix open-coded filp_clone_open()
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fix several places that screw up cleanups after failures halfway
  through opening a file (one open-coding filp_clone_open() and getting
  it wrong, two misusing alloc_file()). That part is -stable fodder from
  the 'work.open' branch.

  And Christoph's regression fix for uapi breakage in aio series;
  include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h shouldn't be pulling in the kernel
  definition of sigset_t, the reason for doing so in the first place had
  been bogus - there's no need to expose struct __aio_sigset in
  aio_abi.h at all"

* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  aio: don't expose __aio_sigset in uapi
  ocxlflash_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures
  cxl_getfile(): fix double-iput() on alloc_file() failures
  drm_mode_create_lease_ioctl(): fix open-coded filp_clone_open()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>aio: don't expose __aio_sigset in uapi</title>
<updated>2018-07-18T03:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-11T13:48:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9ba546c01976a426292af99e682a557075d6c010'/>
<id>9ba546c01976a426292af99e682a557075d6c010</id>
<content type='text'>
glibc uses a different defintion of sigset_t than the kernel does,
and the current version would pull in both.  To fix this just do not
expose the type at all - this somewhat mirrors pselect() where we
do not even have a type for the magic sigmask argument, but just
use pointer arithmetics.

Fixes: 7a074e96 ("aio: implement io_pgetevents")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reported-by: Adrian Reber &lt;adrian@lisas.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
glibc uses a different defintion of sigset_t than the kernel does,
and the current version would pull in both.  To fix this just do not
expose the type at all - this somewhat mirrors pselect() where we
do not even have a type for the magic sigmask argument, but just
use pointer arithmetics.

Fixes: 7a074e96 ("aio: implement io_pgetevents")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reported-by: Adrian Reber &lt;adrian@lisas.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fortglx/4.19/time' of https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux into timers/core</title>
<updated>2018-07-12T20:19:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-12T20:19:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=c6bb11147eb09bd39f316c6062455b88c905ab6e'/>
<id>c6bb11147eb09bd39f316c6062455b88c905ab6e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull timekeeping updates from John Stultz:

  - Make the timekeeping update more precise when NTP frequency is set
    directly by updating the multiplier.

  - Adjust selftests
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull timekeeping updates from John Stultz:

  - Make the timekeeping update more precise when NTP frequency is set
    directly by updating the multiplier.

  - Adjust selftests
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: add ksys_personality()</title>
<updated>2018-07-12T13:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-11T13:56:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=bf1c77b4644f46d2986b7ca5e43e012f0fc8984b'/>
<id>bf1c77b4644f46d2986b7ca5e43e012f0fc8984b</id>
<content type='text'>
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the
sys_personality() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_personality().

Since ksys_personality is trivial, it is implemented directly in
&lt;linux/syscalls.h&gt;, as we do for ksys_close() and friends.

This helper is necessary to enable conversion of arm64's syscall
handling to use pt_regs wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the
sys_personality() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_personality().

Since ksys_personality is trivial, it is implemented directly in
&lt;linux/syscalls.h&gt;, as we do for ksys_close() and friends.

This helper is necessary to enable conversion of arm64's syscall
handling to use pt_regs wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()</title>
<updated>2018-06-25T14:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-19T20:14:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=bee20031772af3debe8cbaa234528f24c7892e8f'/>
<id>bee20031772af3debe8cbaa234528f24c7892e8f</id>
<content type='text'>
gcc-8 warns for every single definition of a system call entry
point, e.g.:

include/linux/compat.h:56:18: error: 'compat_sys_rt_sigprocmask' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(int,  compat_sigset_t *, compat_sigset_t *, compat_size_t)' {aka 'long int(int,  struct &lt;anonymous&gt; *, struct &lt;anonymous&gt; *, unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int,  long int,  long int,  long int)' [-Werror=attribute-alias]
  asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\
                  ^~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compat.h:45:2: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(4, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/signal.c:2601:1: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4'
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_sigprocmask, int, how, compat_sigset_t __user *, nset,
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compat.h:60:18: note: aliased declaration here
  asmlinkage long compat_SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))\
                  ^~~~~~~~~~

The new warning seems reasonable in principle, but it doesn't
help us here, since we rely on the type mismatch to sanitize the
system call arguments. After I reported this as GCC PR82435, a new
-Wno-attribute-alias option was added that could be used to turn the
warning off globally on the command line, but I'd prefer to do it a
little more fine-grained.

Interestingly, turning a warning off and on again inside of
a single macro doesn't always work, in this case I had to add
an extra statement inbetween and decided to copy the __SC_TEST
one from the native syscall to the compat syscall macro.  See
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83256 for more details
about this.

[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Rebase atop current master.
  - Split GCC &amp; version arguments to __diag_ignore() in order to match
    changes to the preceding patch.
  - Add the comment argument to match the preceding patch.]

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Tested-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
gcc-8 warns for every single definition of a system call entry
point, e.g.:

include/linux/compat.h:56:18: error: 'compat_sys_rt_sigprocmask' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(int,  compat_sigset_t *, compat_sigset_t *, compat_size_t)' {aka 'long int(int,  struct &lt;anonymous&gt; *, struct &lt;anonymous&gt; *, unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int,  long int,  long int,  long int)' [-Werror=attribute-alias]
  asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\
                  ^~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compat.h:45:2: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(4, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/signal.c:2601:1: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4'
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_sigprocmask, int, how, compat_sigset_t __user *, nset,
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compat.h:60:18: note: aliased declaration here
  asmlinkage long compat_SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))\
                  ^~~~~~~~~~

The new warning seems reasonable in principle, but it doesn't
help us here, since we rely on the type mismatch to sanitize the
system call arguments. After I reported this as GCC PR82435, a new
-Wno-attribute-alias option was added that could be used to turn the
warning off globally on the command line, but I'd prefer to do it a
little more fine-grained.

Interestingly, turning a warning off and on again inside of
a single macro doesn't always work, in this case I had to add
an extra statement inbetween and decided to copy the __SC_TEST
one from the native syscall to the compat syscall macro.  See
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83256 for more details
about this.

[paul.burton@mips.com:
  - Rebase atop current master.
  - Split GCC &amp; version arguments to __diag_ignore() in order to match
    changes to the preceding patch.
  - Add the comment argument to match the preceding patch.]

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Tested-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_itimerspec</title>
<updated>2018-06-24T12:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-17T05:11:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6ff84735070276d72af716e21c3214ee20d60e70'/>
<id>6ff84735070276d72af716e21c3214ee20d60e70</id>
<content type='text'>
timer_set/gettime and timerfd_set/get apis use struct itimerspec at the
user interface layer.  struct itimerspec is not y2038-safe.  Change these
interfaces to use y2038-safe struct __kernel_itimerspec instead.  This will
help define new syscalls when 32bit architectures select CONFIG_64BIT_TIME.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617051144.29756-4-deepa.kernel@gmail.com

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
timer_set/gettime and timerfd_set/get apis use struct itimerspec at the
user interface layer.  struct itimerspec is not y2038-safe.  Change these
interfaces to use y2038-safe struct __kernel_itimerspec instead.  This will
help define new syscalls when 32bit architectures select CONFIG_64BIT_TIME.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617051144.29756-4-deepa.kernel@gmail.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T09:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-02T12:43:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=d7822b1e24f2df5df98c76f0e94a5416349ff759'/>
<id>d7822b1e24f2df5df98c76f0e94a5416349ff759</id>
<content type='text'>
Expose a new system call allowing each thread to register one userspace
memory area to be used as an ABI between kernel and user-space for two
purposes: user-space restartable sequences and quick access to read the
current CPU number value from user-space.

* Restartable sequences (per-cpu atomics)

Restartables sequences allow user-space to perform update operations on
per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.

The restartable critical sections (percpu atomics) work has been started
by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter. It lets the kernel handle restart of
critical sections. [1] [2] The re-implementation proposed here brings a
few simplifications to the ABI which facilitates porting to other
architectures and speeds up the user-space fast path.

Here are benchmarks of various rseq use-cases.

Test hardware:

arm32: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) "Cubietruck", 2-core
x86-64: Intel E5-2630 v3@2.40GHz, 16-core, hyperthreading

The following benchmarks were all performed on a single thread.

* Per-CPU statistic counter increment

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                344.0                 31.4          11.0
x86-64:                15.3                  2.0           7.7

* LTTng-UST: write event 32-bit header, 32-bit payload into tracer
             per-cpu buffer

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:               2502.0                 2250.0         1.1
x86-64:               117.4                   98.0         1.2

* liburcu percpu: lock-unlock pair, dereference, read/compare word

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                751.0                 128.5          5.8
x86-64:                53.4                  28.6          1.9

* jemalloc memory allocator adapted to use rseq

Using rseq with per-cpu memory pools in jemalloc at Facebook (based on
rseq 2016 implementation):

The production workload response-time has 1-2% gain avg. latency, and
the P99 overall latency drops by 2-3%.

* Reading the current CPU number

Speeding up reading the current CPU number on which the caller thread is
running is done by keeping the current CPU number up do date within the
cpu_id field of the memory area registered by the thread. This is done
by making scheduler preemption set the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag on the
current thread. Upon return to user-space, a notify-resume handler
updates the current CPU value within the registered user-space memory
area. User-space can then read the current CPU number directly from
memory.

Keeping the current cpu id in a memory area shared between kernel and
user-space is an improvement over current mechanisms available to read
the current CPU number, which has the following benefits over
alternative approaches:

- 35x speedup on ARM vs system call through glibc
- 20x speedup on x86 compared to calling glibc, which calls vdso
  executing a "lsl" instruction,
- 14x speedup on x86 compared to inlined "lsl" instruction,
- Unlike vdso approaches, this cpu_id value can be read from an inline
  assembly, which makes it a useful building block for restartable
  sequences.
- The approach of reading the cpu id through memory mapping shared
  between kernel and user-space is portable (e.g. ARM), which is not the
  case for the lsl-based x86 vdso.

On x86, yet another possible approach would be to use the gs segment
selector to point to user-space per-cpu data. This approach performs
similarly to the cpu id cache, but it has two disadvantages: it is
not portable, and it is incompatible with existing applications already
using the gs segment selector for other purposes.

Benchmarking various approaches for reading the current CPU number:

ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
Machine model: Cubietruck
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    8.4 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                               16.7 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):               19.8 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 getcpu:                           301.8 ns
- getcpu system call:                                     234.9 ns

x86-64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz:
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                                0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):                0.8 ns
- Read using gs segment selector:                           0.8 ns
- "lsl" inline assembly:                                   13.0 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6 getcpu:                              16.6 ns
- getcpu system call:                                      53.9 ns

- Speed (benchmark taken on v8 of patchset)

Running 10 runs of hackbench -l 100000 seems to indicate, contrary to
expectations, that enabling CONFIG_RSEQ slightly accelerates the
scheduler:

Configuration: 2 sockets * 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @
2.40GHz (directly on hardware, hyperthreading disabled in BIOS, energy
saving disabled in BIOS, turboboost disabled in BIOS, cpuidle.off=1
kernel parameter), with a Linux v4.6 defconfig+localyesconfig,
restartable sequences series applied.

* CONFIG_RSEQ=n

avg.:      41.37 s
std.dev.:   0.36 s

* CONFIG_RSEQ=y

avg.:      40.46 s
std.dev.:   0.33 s

- Size

On x86-64, between CONFIG_RSEQ=n/y, the text size increase of vmlinux is
567 bytes, and the data size increase of vmlinux is 5696 bytes.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650333/
[2] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1695/original/LPC%20-%20PerCpu%20Atomics.pdf

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Watson &lt;davejwatson@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Hunter &lt;ahh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Maurer &lt;bmaurer@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151027235635.16059.11630.stgit@pjt-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624222609.6116.86035.stgit@kitami.mtv.corp.google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Expose a new system call allowing each thread to register one userspace
memory area to be used as an ABI between kernel and user-space for two
purposes: user-space restartable sequences and quick access to read the
current CPU number value from user-space.

* Restartable sequences (per-cpu atomics)

Restartables sequences allow user-space to perform update operations on
per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.

The restartable critical sections (percpu atomics) work has been started
by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter. It lets the kernel handle restart of
critical sections. [1] [2] The re-implementation proposed here brings a
few simplifications to the ABI which facilitates porting to other
architectures and speeds up the user-space fast path.

Here are benchmarks of various rseq use-cases.

Test hardware:

arm32: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) "Cubietruck", 2-core
x86-64: Intel E5-2630 v3@2.40GHz, 16-core, hyperthreading

The following benchmarks were all performed on a single thread.

* Per-CPU statistic counter increment

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                344.0                 31.4          11.0
x86-64:                15.3                  2.0           7.7

* LTTng-UST: write event 32-bit header, 32-bit payload into tracer
             per-cpu buffer

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:               2502.0                 2250.0         1.1
x86-64:               117.4                   98.0         1.2

* liburcu percpu: lock-unlock pair, dereference, read/compare word

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                751.0                 128.5          5.8
x86-64:                53.4                  28.6          1.9

* jemalloc memory allocator adapted to use rseq

Using rseq with per-cpu memory pools in jemalloc at Facebook (based on
rseq 2016 implementation):

The production workload response-time has 1-2% gain avg. latency, and
the P99 overall latency drops by 2-3%.

* Reading the current CPU number

Speeding up reading the current CPU number on which the caller thread is
running is done by keeping the current CPU number up do date within the
cpu_id field of the memory area registered by the thread. This is done
by making scheduler preemption set the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag on the
current thread. Upon return to user-space, a notify-resume handler
updates the current CPU value within the registered user-space memory
area. User-space can then read the current CPU number directly from
memory.

Keeping the current cpu id in a memory area shared between kernel and
user-space is an improvement over current mechanisms available to read
the current CPU number, which has the following benefits over
alternative approaches:

- 35x speedup on ARM vs system call through glibc
- 20x speedup on x86 compared to calling glibc, which calls vdso
  executing a "lsl" instruction,
- 14x speedup on x86 compared to inlined "lsl" instruction,
- Unlike vdso approaches, this cpu_id value can be read from an inline
  assembly, which makes it a useful building block for restartable
  sequences.
- The approach of reading the cpu id through memory mapping shared
  between kernel and user-space is portable (e.g. ARM), which is not the
  case for the lsl-based x86 vdso.

On x86, yet another possible approach would be to use the gs segment
selector to point to user-space per-cpu data. This approach performs
similarly to the cpu id cache, but it has two disadvantages: it is
not portable, and it is incompatible with existing applications already
using the gs segment selector for other purposes.

Benchmarking various approaches for reading the current CPU number:

ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
Machine model: Cubietruck
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    8.4 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                               16.7 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):               19.8 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 getcpu:                           301.8 ns
- getcpu system call:                                     234.9 ns

x86-64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz:
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                                0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):                0.8 ns
- Read using gs segment selector:                           0.8 ns
- "lsl" inline assembly:                                   13.0 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6 getcpu:                              16.6 ns
- getcpu system call:                                      53.9 ns

- Speed (benchmark taken on v8 of patchset)

Running 10 runs of hackbench -l 100000 seems to indicate, contrary to
expectations, that enabling CONFIG_RSEQ slightly accelerates the
scheduler:

Configuration: 2 sockets * 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @
2.40GHz (directly on hardware, hyperthreading disabled in BIOS, energy
saving disabled in BIOS, turboboost disabled in BIOS, cpuidle.off=1
kernel parameter), with a Linux v4.6 defconfig+localyesconfig,
restartable sequences series applied.

* CONFIG_RSEQ=n

avg.:      41.37 s
std.dev.:   0.36 s

* CONFIG_RSEQ=y

avg.:      40.46 s
std.dev.:   0.33 s

- Size

On x86-64, between CONFIG_RSEQ=n/y, the text size increase of vmlinux is
567 bytes, and the data size increase of vmlinux is 5696 bytes.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650333/
[2] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1695/original/LPC%20-%20PerCpu%20Atomics.pdf

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Watson &lt;davejwatson@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Hunter &lt;ahh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Maurer &lt;bmaurer@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151027235635.16059.11630.stgit@pjt-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624222609.6116.86035.stgit@kitami.mtv.corp.google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T04:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T04:02:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ba252f16e4433e7599fec986e77722e6d0eed186'/>
<id>ba252f16e4433e7599fec986e77722e6d0eed186</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull time/Y2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate SySV IPC UAPI headers

 - Convert SySV IPC to the new COMPAT_32BIT_TIME mechanism

 - Cleanup the core interfaces and standardize on the ktime_get_* naming
   convention.

 - Convert the X86 platform ops to timespec64

 - Remove the ugly temporary timespec64 hack

* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64
  timekeeping: Add more coarse clocktai/boottime interfaces
  timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset
  timekeeping: Standardize on ktime_get_*() naming
  timekeeping: Clean up ktime_get_real_ts64
  timekeeping: Remove timespec64 hack
  y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop
  y2038: ipc: Enable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec
  y2038: ipc: Report long times to user space
  y2038: ipc: Use ktime_get_real_seconds consistently
  y2038: xtensa: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: powerpc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: sparc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: parisc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: arm64: Extend sysvipc compat data structures
  y2038: s390: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: alpha: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull time/Y2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate SySV IPC UAPI headers

 - Convert SySV IPC to the new COMPAT_32BIT_TIME mechanism

 - Cleanup the core interfaces and standardize on the ktime_get_* naming
   convention.

 - Convert the X86 platform ops to timespec64

 - Remove the ugly temporary timespec64 hack

* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64
  timekeeping: Add more coarse clocktai/boottime interfaces
  timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset
  timekeeping: Standardize on ktime_get_*() naming
  timekeeping: Clean up ktime_get_real_ts64
  timekeeping: Remove timespec64 hack
  y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop
  y2038: ipc: Enable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec
  y2038: ipc: Report long times to user space
  y2038: ipc: Use ktime_get_real_seconds consistently
  y2038: xtensa: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: powerpc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: sparc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: parisc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: arm64: Extend sysvipc compat data structures
  y2038: s390: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: alpha: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
