linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/asm-generic, branch v4.6-rc6

generic syscalls: wire up preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls

2016-04-23T20:38:08+00:00

These new syscalls are implemented as generic code, so enable them for
architectures like arm64 which use the generic syscall table.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

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

2016-03-21T02:08:56+00:00

Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
  that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).

  There's a background article at LWN.net:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

  The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
  user-controllable permission masks in the pte.  So instead of having a
  fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
  and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
  protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
  cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
  virtual memory range.

  This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
  amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions.  It also
  allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
  executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
  below).

  This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
  that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
  if a user-space application calls:

        mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);

  or

        mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

  (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
  this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
  memory range.  It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
  Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
  and unwritable.

  So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
  PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
  PROT_READ as well.  Unreadable executable mappings have security
  advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
  ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
  cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.

  We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
  mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
  feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.

  There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
  call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
  pull request.

  Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
  (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
  (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
  overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment.  If there's
  any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
  flip the default"

* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
  mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
  x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
  x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
  x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
  x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
  mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
  x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
  x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
  x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
  mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
  um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
  mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
  x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
  ...

mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field

2016-03-05T14:00:06+00:00

Stephen Rothwell reported this linux-next build failure:

	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226164406.065a1ffc@canb.auug.org.au

... caused by the Memory Protection Keys patches from the tip tree triggering
a newly introduced build-time sanity check on an ARM build, because they changed
the ABI of siginfo in an unexpected way.

If u64 has a natural alignment of 8 bytes (which is the case on most mainstream
platforms, with the notable exception of x86-32), then the leadup to the
_sifields union matters:

typedef struct siginfo {
        int si_signo;
        int si_errno;
        int si_code;

        union {
	...
        } _sifields;
} __ARCH_SI_ATTRIBUTES siginfo_t;

Note how the first 3 fields give us 12 bytes, so _sifields is not 8
naturally bytes aligned.

Before the _pkey field addition the largest element of _sifields (on
32-bit platforms) was 32 bits. With the u64 added, the minimum alignment
requirement increased to 8 bytes on those (rare) 32-bit platforms. Thus
GCC padded the space after si_code with 4 extra bytes, and shifted all
_sifields offsets by 4 bytes - breaking the ABI of all of those
remaining fields.

On 64-bit platforms this problem was hidden due to _sifields already
having numerous fields with natural 8 bytes alignment (pointers).

To fix this, we replace the u64 with an '__u32'.  The __u32 does not
increase the minimum alignment requirement of the union, and it is
also large enough to store the 16-bit pkey we have today on x86.

Reported-by: Stehen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Stehen Rothwell 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cd0ea35ff551 ("signals, pkeys: Notify userspace about protection key faults")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301125451.02C7426D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

net: Facility to report route quality of connected sockets

2016-02-26T03:01:22+00:00

This patch add the SO_CNX_ADVICE socket option (setsockopt only). The
purpose is to allow an application to give feedback to the kernel about
the quality of the network path for a connected socket. The value
argument indicates the type of quality report. For this initial patch
the only supported advice is a value of 1 which indicates "bad path,
please reroute"-- the action taken by the kernel is to call
dst_negative_advice which will attempt to choose a different ECMP route,
reset the TX hash for flow label and UDP source port in encapsulation,
etc.

This facility should be useful for connected UDP sockets where only the
application can provide any feedback about path quality. It could also
be useful for TCP applications that have additional knowledge about the
path outside of the normal TCP control loop.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

signals, pkeys: Notify userspace about protection key faults

2016-02-18T08:32:42+00:00

A protection key fault is very similar to any other access error.
There must be a VMA, etc...  We even want to take the same action
(SIGSEGV) that we do with a normal access fault.

However, we do need to let userspace know that something is
different.  We do this the same way what we did with SEGV_BNDERR
with Memory Protection eXtensions (MPX): define a new SEGV code:
SEGV_PKUERR.

We add a siginfo field: si_pkey that reveals to userspace which
protection key was set on the PTE that we faulted on.  There is
no other easy way for userspace to figure this out.  They could
parse smaps but that would be a bit cruel.

We share space with in siginfo with _addr_bnd.  #BR faults from
MPX are completely separate from page faults (#PF) that trigger
from protection key violations, so we never need both at the same
time.

Note that _pkey is a 64-bit value.  The current hardware only
supports 4-bit protection keys.  We do this because there is
_plenty_ of space in _sigfault and it is possible that future
processors would support more than 4 bits of protection keys.

The x86 code to actually fill in the siginfo is in the next
patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Amanieu d'Antras 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210212.3A9B83AC@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

For uapi, need try to let all macros have same value, and MADV_FREE is
added into main branch recently, so need redefine MADV_FREE for it.

At present, '8' can be shared with all architectures, so redefine it to
'8'.

[sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com: correct uniform value of MADV_FREE]
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang 
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Roland Dreier 
Cc: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Daniel Micay 
Cc: Jason Evans 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mika Penttil 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

Linux doesn't have an ability to free pages lazy while other OS already
have been supported that named by madvise(MADV_FREE).

The gain is clear that kernel can discard freed pages rather than
swapping out or OOM if memory pressure happens.

Without memory pressure, freed pages would be reused by userspace
without another additional overhead(ex, page fault + allocation +
zeroing).

Jason Evans said:

: Facebook has been using MAP_UNINITIALIZED
: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/308) in some of its applications for
: several years, but there are operational costs to maintaining this
: out-of-tree in our kernel and in jemalloc, and we are anxious to retire it
: in favor of MADV_FREE.  When we first enabled MAP_UNINITIALIZED it
: increased throughput for much of our workload by ~5%, and although the
: benefit has decreased using newer hardware and kernels, there is still
: enough benefit that we cannot reasonably retire it without a replacement.
:
: Aside from Facebook operations, there are numerous broadly used
: applications that would benefit from MADV_FREE.  The ones that immediately
: come to mind are redis, varnish, and MariaDB.  I don't have much insight
: into Android internals and development process, but I would hope to see
: MADV_FREE support eventually end up there as well to benefit applications
: linked with the integrated jemalloc.
:
: jemalloc will use MADV_FREE once it becomes available in the Linux kernel.
: In fact, jemalloc already uses MADV_FREE or equivalent everywhere it's
: available: *BSD, OS X, Windows, and Solaris -- every platform except Linux
: (and AIX, but I'm not sure it even compiles on AIX).  The lack of
: MADV_FREE on Linux forced me down a long series of increasingly
: sophisticated heuristics for madvise() volume reduction, and even so this
: remains a common performance issue for people using jemalloc on Linux.
: Please integrate MADV_FREE; many people will benefit substantially.

How it works:

When madvise syscall is called, VM clears dirty bit of ptes of the
range.  If memory pressure happens, VM checks dirty bit of page table
and if it found still "clean", it means it's a "lazyfree pages" so VM
could discard the page instead of swapping out.  Once there was store
operation for the page before VM peek a page to reclaim, dirty bit is
set so VM can swap out the page instead of discarding.

One thing we should notice is that basically, MADV_FREE relies on dirty
bit in page table entry to decide whether VM allows to discard the page
or not.  IOW, if page table entry includes marked dirty bit, VM
shouldn't discard the page.

However, as a example, if swap-in by read fault happens, page table
entry doesn't have dirty bit so MADV_FREE could discard the page
wrongly.

For avoiding the problem, MADV_FREE did more checks with PageDirty and
PageSwapCache.  It worked out because swapped-in page lives on swap
cache and since it is evicted from the swap cache, the page has PG_dirty
flag.  So both page flags check effectively prevent wrong discarding by
MADV_FREE.

However, a problem in above logic is that swapped-in page has PG_dirty
still after they are removed from swap cache so VM cannot consider the
page as freeable any more even if madvise_free is called in future.

Look at below example for detail.

    ptr = malloc();
    memset(ptr);
    ..
    ..
    .. heavy memory pressure so all of pages are swapped out
    ..
    ..
    var = *ptr; -> a page swapped-in and could be removed from
                   swapcache. Then, page table doesn't mark
                   dirty bit and page descriptor includes PG_dirty
    ..
    ..
    madvise_free(ptr); -> It doesn't clear PG_dirty of the page.
    ..
    ..
    ..
    .. heavy memory pressure again.
    .. In this time, VM cannot discard the page because the page
    .. has *PG_dirty*

To solve the problem, this patch clears PG_dirty if only the page is
owned exclusively by current process when madvise is called because
PG_dirty represents ptes's dirtiness in several processes so we could
clear it only if we own it exclusively.

Firstly, heavy users would be general allocators(ex, jemalloc, tcmalloc
and hope glibc supports it) and jemalloc/tcmalloc already have supported
the feature for other OS(ex, FreeBSD)

  barrios@blaptop:~/benchmark/ebizzy$ lscpu
  Architecture:          x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
  CPU(s):                12
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-11
  Thread(s) per core:    1
  Core(s) per socket:    1
  Socket(s):             12
  NUMA node(s):          1
  Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
  CPU family:            6
  Model:                 2
  Stepping:              3
  CPU MHz:               3200.185
  BogoMIPS:              6400.53
  Virtualization:        VT-x
  Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
  Virtualization type:   full
  L1d cache:             32K
  L1i cache:             32K
  L2 cache:              4096K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-11
  ebizzy benchmark(./ebizzy -S 10 -n 512)

  Higher avg is better.

   vanilla-jemalloc             MADV_free-jemalloc

  1 thread
  records: 10                   records: 10
  avg:   2961.90                avg:  12069.70
  std:     71.96(2.43%)         std:    186.68(1.55%)
  max:   3070.00                max:  12385.00
  min:   2796.00                min:  11746.00

  2 thread
  records: 10                   records: 10
  avg:   5020.00                avg:  17827.00
  std:    264.87(5.28%)         std:    358.52(2.01%)
  max:   5244.00                max:  18760.00
  min:   4251.00                min:  17382.00

  4 thread
  records: 10                   records: 10
  avg:   8988.80                avg:  27930.80
  std:   1175.33(13.08%)        std:   3317.33(11.88%)
  max:   9508.00                max:  30879.00
  min:   5477.00                min:  21024.00

  8 thread
  records: 10                   records: 10
  avg:  13036.50                avg:  33739.40
  std:    170.67(1.31%)         std:   5146.22(15.25%)
  max:  13371.00                max:  40572.00
  min:  12785.00                min:  24088.00

  16 thread
  records: 10                   records: 10
  avg:  11092.40                avg:  31424.20
  std:    710.60(6.41%)         std:   3763.89(11.98%)
  max:  12446.00                max:  36635.00
  min:   9949.00                min:  25669.00

  32 thread
  records: 10                   records: 10
  avg:  11067.00                avg:  34495.80
  std:    971.06(8.77%)         std:   2721.36(7.89%)
  max:  12010.00                max:  38598.00
  min:   9002.00                min:  30636.00

In summary, MADV_FREE is about much faster than MADV_DONTNEED.

This patch (of 12):

Add core MADV_FREE implementation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mika Penttil 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Jason Evans 
Cc: Daniel Micay 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: "Shaohua Li" 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen Gang 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Roland Dreier 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2016-01-13T02:57:02+00:00

Pull networking updates from Davic Miller:

 1) Support busy polling generically, for all NAPI drivers.  From Eric
    Dumazet.

 2) Add byte/packet counter support to nft_ct, from Floriani Westphal.

 3) Add RSS/XPS support to mvneta driver, from Gregory Clement.

 4) Implement IPV6_HDRINCL socket option for raw sockets, from Hannes
    Frederic Sowa.

 5) Add support for T6 adapter to cxgb4 driver, from Hariprasad Shenai.

 6) Add support for VLAN device bridging to mlxsw switch driver, from
    Ido Schimmel.

 7) Add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000, from Jakub Kicinski.

 8) Provide hwmon interface to mlxsw switch driver, from Jiri Pirko.

 9) Reorganize wireless drivers into per-vendor directories just like we
    do for ethernet drivers.  From Kalle Valo.

10) Provide a way for administrators "destroy" connected sockets via the
    SOCK_DESTROY socket netlink diag operation.  From Lorenzo Colitti.

11) Add support to add/remove multicast routes via netlink, from Nikolay
    Aleksandrov.

12) Make TCP keepalive settings per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

13) Add forwarding and packet duplication facilities to nf_tables, from
    Pablo Neira Ayuso.

14) Dead route support in MPLS, from Roopa Prabhu.

15) TSO support for thunderx chips, from Sunil Goutham.

16) Add driver for IBM's System i/p VNIC protocol, from Thomas Falcon.

17) Rationalize, consolidate, and more completely document the checksum
    offloading facilities in the networking stack.  From Tom Herbert.

18) Support aborting an ongoing scan in mac80211/cfg80211, from
    Vidyullatha Kanchanapally.

19) Use per-bucket spinlock for bpf hash facility, from Tom Leiming.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1375 commits)
  net: bnxt: always return values from _bnxt_get_max_rings
  net: bpf: reject invalid shifts
  phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()
  dwc_eth_qos: Fix dma address for multi-fragment skbs
  phy: remove an unneeded condition
  mdio: remove an unneed condition
  mdio_bus: NULL dereference on allocation error
  net: Fix typo in netdev_intersect_features
  net: freescale: mac-fec: Fix build error from phy_device API change
  net: freescale: ucc_geth: Fix build error from phy_device API change
  bonding: Prevent IPv6 link local address on enslaved devices
  IB/mlx5: Add flow steering support
  net/mlx5_core: Export flow steering API
  net/mlx5_core: Make ipv4/ipv6 location more clear
  net/mlx5_core: Enable flow steering support for the IB driver
  net/mlx5_core: Initialize namespaces only when supported by device
  net/mlx5_core: Set priority attributes
  net/mlx5_core: Connect flow tables
  net/mlx5_core: Introduce modify flow table command
  net/mlx5_core: Managing root flow table
  ...

soreuseport: setsockopt SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF

2016-01-05T03:49:59+00:00

Expose socket options for setting a classic or extended BPF program
for use when selecting sockets in an SO_REUSEPORT group.  These options
can be used on the first socket to belong to a group before bind or
on any socket in the group after bind.

This change includes refactoring of the existing sk_filter code to
allow reuse of the existing BPF filter validation checks.

Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper

2015-12-01T19:00:53+00:00

Add a copy_file_range() system call for offloading copies between
regular files.

This gives an interface to underlying layers of the storage stack which
can copy without reading and writing all the data.  There are a few
candidates that should support copy offloading in the nearer term:

- btrfs shares extent references with its clone ioctl
- NFS has patches to add a COPY command which copies on the server
- SCSI has a family of XCOPY commands which copy in the device

This system call avoids the complexity of also accelerating the creation
of the destination file by operating on an existing destination file
descriptor, not a path.

Currently the high level vfs entry point limits copy offloading to files
on the same mount and super (and not in the same file).  This can be
relaxed if we get implementations which can copy between file systems
safely.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown 
[Anna Schumaker: Change -EINVAL to -EBADF during file verification,
                 Change flags parameter from int to unsigned int,
                 Add function to include/linux/syscalls.h,
                 Check copy len after file open mode,
                 Don't forbid ranges inside the same file,
                 Use rw_verify_area() to veriy ranges,
                 Use file_out rather than file_in,
                 Add COPY_FR_REFLINK flag]
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro