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<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-01-31T23:38:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-01-31T23:38:27+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is much bigger than typical fixes, but Peter found a category of
  races that spurred more fixes and more debugging enhancements.  Work
  started before the merge window, but got finished only now.

  Aside of that this contains the usual small fixes to perf and tools.
  Nothing particular exciting"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  perf: Remove/simplify lockdep annotation
  perf: Synchronously clean up child events
  perf: Untangle 'owner' confusion
  perf: Add flags argument to perf_remove_from_context()
  perf: Clean up sync_child_event()
  perf: Robustify event-&gt;owner usage and SMP ordering
  perf: Fix STATE_EXIT usage
  perf: Update locking order
  perf: Remove __free_event()
  perf/bpf: Convert perf_event_array to use struct file
  perf: Fix NULL deref
  perf/x86: De-obfuscate code
  perf/x86: Fix uninitialized value usage
  perf: Fix race in perf_event_exit_task_context()
  perf: Fix orphan hole
  perf stat: Do not clean event's private stats
  perf hists: Fix HISTC_MEM_DCACHELINE width setting
  perf annotate browser: Fix behaviour of Shift-Tab with nothing focussed
  perf tests: Remove wrong semicolon in while loop in CQM test
  perf: Synchronously free aux pages in case of allocation failure
  ...
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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is much bigger than typical fixes, but Peter found a category of
  races that spurred more fixes and more debugging enhancements.  Work
  started before the merge window, but got finished only now.

  Aside of that this contains the usual small fixes to perf and tools.
  Nothing particular exciting"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  perf: Remove/simplify lockdep annotation
  perf: Synchronously clean up child events
  perf: Untangle 'owner' confusion
  perf: Add flags argument to perf_remove_from_context()
  perf: Clean up sync_child_event()
  perf: Robustify event-&gt;owner usage and SMP ordering
  perf: Fix STATE_EXIT usage
  perf: Update locking order
  perf: Remove __free_event()
  perf/bpf: Convert perf_event_array to use struct file
  perf: Fix NULL deref
  perf/x86: De-obfuscate code
  perf/x86: Fix uninitialized value usage
  perf: Fix race in perf_event_exit_task_context()
  perf: Fix orphan hole
  perf stat: Do not clean event's private stats
  perf hists: Fix HISTC_MEM_DCACHELINE width setting
  perf annotate browser: Fix behaviour of Shift-Tab with nothing focussed
  perf tests: Remove wrong semicolon in while loop in CQM test
  perf: Synchronously free aux pages in case of allocation failure
  ...
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<title>perf/bpf: Convert perf_event_array to use struct file</title>
<updated>2016-01-29T07:35:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-26T04:59:49+00:00</published>
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Robustify refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160126045947.GA40151@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Robustify refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160126045947.GA40151@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2016-01-29T01:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-29T01:00:50+00:00</published>
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Pull minor tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This includes three minor fixes, mostly due to cut-and-paste issues.

  The first is a cut and paste issue that changed the amount of stack to
  skip when tracing a stack dump from 0 to 6, which basically made the
  stack disappear for small stack traces.

  The second fix is just removing an unused field in a struct that is no
  longer used, and currently just wastes space.

  The third is another cut-and-paste fix that had a tracepoint recording
  the wrong field (it was recording the previous field a second time)"

* tag 'trace-v4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing/dma-buf/fence: Fix timeline str value on fence_annotate_wait_on
  ftrace: Remove unused nr_trampolines var
  tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()
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Pull minor tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This includes three minor fixes, mostly due to cut-and-paste issues.

  The first is a cut and paste issue that changed the amount of stack to
  skip when tracing a stack dump from 0 to 6, which basically made the
  stack disappear for small stack traces.

  The second fix is just removing an unused field in a struct that is no
  longer used, and currently just wastes space.

  The third is another cut-and-paste fix that had a tracepoint recording
  the wrong field (it was recording the previous field a second time)"

* tag 'trace-v4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing/dma-buf/fence: Fix timeline str value on fence_annotate_wait_on
  ftrace: Remove unused nr_trampolines var
  tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()</title>
<updated>2016-01-14T14:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T20:48:54+00:00</published>
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While cleaning the stacktrace code I unintentially changed the skip depth of
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs() from 0 to 6. kprobes uses this function,
and with skipping 6 call backs, it can easily produce no stack.

Here's how I tested it:

 # echo 'p:ext4_sync_fs ext4_sync_fs ' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/trace
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457060: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457063: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457086: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457087: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457091: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)

After putting back the skip stack to zero, we have:

            sync-2270  [000]   748.052693: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.052695: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
 =&gt; iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 =&gt; sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 =&gt; entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053017: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053019: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
 =&gt; iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 =&gt; sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 =&gt; entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053381: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053383: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
 =&gt; iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 =&gt; sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 =&gt; entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Fixes: 73dddbb57bb0 "tracing: Only create stacktrace option when STACKTRACE is configured"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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While cleaning the stacktrace code I unintentially changed the skip depth of
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs() from 0 to 6. kprobes uses this function,
and with skipping 6 call backs, it can easily produce no stack.

Here's how I tested it:

 # echo 'p:ext4_sync_fs ext4_sync_fs ' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/trace
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457060: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457063: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457086: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457087: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457091: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)

After putting back the skip stack to zero, we have:

            sync-2270  [000]   748.052693: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.052695: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
 =&gt; iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 =&gt; sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 =&gt; entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053017: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053019: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
 =&gt; iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 =&gt; sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 =&gt; entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053381: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053383: kernel_stack:         &lt;stack trace&gt;
 =&gt; iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 =&gt; sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 =&gt; entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Fixes: 73dddbb57bb0 "tracing: Only create stacktrace option when STACKTRACE is configured"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2016-01-13T04:04:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T04:04:15+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Not much new with tracing for this release.  Mostly just clean ups and
  minor fixes.

  Here's what else is new:

   - A new TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro, combining both _FN and _COND for
     those that want both.

   - New selftest to test the instance create and delete

   - Better debug output when ftrace fails"

* tag 'trace-v4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  ftrace: Fix the race between ftrace and insmod
  ftrace: Add infrastructure for delayed enabling of module functions
  x86: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code_direct()
  tracing: Fix comment to use tracing_on over tracing_enable
  metag: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  sh: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
  ia64: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
  ftrace: Clean up ftrace_module_init() code
  ftrace: Join functions ftrace_module_init() and ftrace_init_module()
  tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro
  tracing: Use seq_buf_used() in seq_buf_to_user() instead of len
  bpf: Constify bpf_verifier_ops structure
  ftrace: Have ftrace_ops_get_func() handle RCU and PER_CPU flags too
  ftrace: Remove use of control list and ops
  ftrace: Fix output of enabled_functions for showing tramp
  ftrace: Fix a typo in comment
  ftrace: Show all tramps registered to a record on ftrace_bug()
  ftrace: Add variable ftrace_expected for archs to show expected code
  ftrace: Add new type to distinguish what kind of ftrace_bug()
  tracing: Update cond flag when enabling or disabling a trigger
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Not much new with tracing for this release.  Mostly just clean ups and
  minor fixes.

  Here's what else is new:

   - A new TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro, combining both _FN and _COND for
     those that want both.

   - New selftest to test the instance create and delete

   - Better debug output when ftrace fails"

* tag 'trace-v4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  ftrace: Fix the race between ftrace and insmod
  ftrace: Add infrastructure for delayed enabling of module functions
  x86: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code_direct()
  tracing: Fix comment to use tracing_on over tracing_enable
  metag: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
  sh: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
  ia64: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
  ftrace: Clean up ftrace_module_init() code
  ftrace: Join functions ftrace_module_init() and ftrace_init_module()
  tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro
  tracing: Use seq_buf_used() in seq_buf_to_user() instead of len
  bpf: Constify bpf_verifier_ops structure
  ftrace: Have ftrace_ops_get_func() handle RCU and PER_CPU flags too
  ftrace: Remove use of control list and ops
  ftrace: Fix output of enabled_functions for showing tramp
  ftrace: Fix a typo in comment
  ftrace: Show all tramps registered to a record on ftrace_bug()
  ftrace: Add variable ftrace_expected for archs to show expected code
  ftrace: Add new type to distinguish what kind of ftrace_bug()
  tracing: Update cond flag when enabling or disabling a trigger
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-01-13T01:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T01:11:47+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for -&gt;llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without -&gt;i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with -&gt;lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  -&gt;i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the -&gt;i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use -&gt;compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk-&gt;disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for -&gt;llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without -&gt;i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with -&gt;lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  -&gt;i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the -&gt;i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use -&gt;compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk-&gt;disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix the race between ftrace and insmod</title>
<updated>2016-01-07T20:56:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiu Peiyang</name>
<email>peiyangx.qiu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-25T06:46:00+00:00</published>
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We hit ftrace_bug report when booting Android on a 64bit ATOM SOC chip.
Basically, there is a race between insmod and ftrace_run_update_code.

After load_module=&gt;ftrace_module_init, another thread jumps in to call
ftrace_run_update_code=&gt;ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare
                        =&gt;set_all_modules_text_rw, to change all modules
as RW. Since the new module is at MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, the text attribute
is not changed. Then, the 2nd thread goes ahead to change codes.
However, load_module continues to call complete_formation=&gt;set_section_ro_nx,
then 2nd thread would fail when probing the module's TEXT.

The patch fixes it by using notifier to delay the enabling of ftrace
records to the time when module is at state MODULE_STATE_COMING.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/567CE628.3000609@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Qiu Peiyang &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin &lt;yanmin.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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We hit ftrace_bug report when booting Android on a 64bit ATOM SOC chip.
Basically, there is a race between insmod and ftrace_run_update_code.

After load_module=&gt;ftrace_module_init, another thread jumps in to call
ftrace_run_update_code=&gt;ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare
                        =&gt;set_all_modules_text_rw, to change all modules
as RW. Since the new module is at MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, the text attribute
is not changed. Then, the 2nd thread goes ahead to change codes.
However, load_module continues to call complete_formation=&gt;set_section_ro_nx,
then 2nd thread would fail when probing the module's TEXT.

The patch fixes it by using notifier to delay the enabling of ftrace
records to the time when module is at state MODULE_STATE_COMING.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/567CE628.3000609@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Qiu Peiyang &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin &lt;yanmin.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add infrastructure for delayed enabling of module functions</title>
<updated>2016-01-07T20:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-07T20:40:01+00:00</published>
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Qiu Peiyang pointed out that there's a race when enabling function tracing
and loading a module. In order to make the modifications of converting nops
in the prologue of functions into callbacks, the text needs to be converted
from read-only to read-write. When enabling function tracing, the text
permission is updated, the functions are modified, and then they are put
back.

When loading a module, the updates to convert function calls to mcount is
done before the module text is set to read-only. But after it is done, the
module text is visible by the function tracer. Thus we have the following
race:

	CPU 0			CPU 1
	-----			-----
   start function tracing
   set text to read-write
			     load_module
			     add functions to ftrace
			     set module text read-only

   update all functions to callbacks
   modify module functions too
   &lt; Can't it's read-only &gt;

When this happens, ftrace detects the issue and disables itself till the
next reboot.

To fix this, a new DISABLED flag is added for ftrace records, which all
module functions get when they are added. Then later, after the module code
is all set, the records will have the DISABLED flag cleared, and they will
be enabled if any callback wants all functions to be traced.

Note, this doesn't add the delay to later. It simply changes the
ftrace_module_init() to do both the setting of DISABLED records, and then
immediately calls the enable code. This helps with testing this new code as
it has the same behavior as previously. Another change will come after this
to have the ftrace_module_enable() called after the text is set to
read-only.

Cc: Qiu Peiyang &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Qiu Peiyang pointed out that there's a race when enabling function tracing
and loading a module. In order to make the modifications of converting nops
in the prologue of functions into callbacks, the text needs to be converted
from read-only to read-write. When enabling function tracing, the text
permission is updated, the functions are modified, and then they are put
back.

When loading a module, the updates to convert function calls to mcount is
done before the module text is set to read-only. But after it is done, the
module text is visible by the function tracer. Thus we have the following
race:

	CPU 0			CPU 1
	-----			-----
   start function tracing
   set text to read-write
			     load_module
			     add functions to ftrace
			     set module text read-only

   update all functions to callbacks
   modify module functions too
   &lt; Can't it's read-only &gt;

When this happens, ftrace detects the issue and disables itself till the
next reboot.

To fix this, a new DISABLED flag is added for ftrace records, which all
module functions get when they are added. Then later, after the module code
is all set, the records will have the DISABLED flag cleared, and they will
be enabled if any callback wants all functions to be traced.

Note, this doesn't add the delay to later. It simply changes the
ftrace_module_init() to do both the setting of DISABLED records, and then
immediately calls the enable code. This helps with testing this new code as
it has the same behavior as previously. Another change will come after this
to have the ftrace_module_enable() called after the text is set to
read-only.

Cc: Qiu Peiyang &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix setting of start_index in find_next()</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T20:22:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiu Peiyang</name>
<email>peiyangx.qiu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-31T05:11:28+00:00</published>
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When we do cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/printk_formats, we hit kernel
panic at t_show.

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 2957 Comm: sh Tainted: G W  O 3.14.55-x86_64-01062-gd4acdc7 #2
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff811375b2&gt;]
 [&lt;ffffffff811375b2&gt;] t_show+0x22/0xe0
RSP: 0000:ffff88002b4ebe80  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff81fd26a6 RDI: ffff880032f9f7b1
RBP: ffff88002b4ebe98 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 000000000000ffec
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff880004d9b6c0
R13: 7365725f6d706400 R14: ffff880004d9b6c0 R15: ffffffff82020570
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003aa00000(0063) knlGS:00000000f776bc40
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000f6c02ff0 CR3: 000000002c2b3000 CR4: 00000000001007f0
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff811dc076&gt;] seq_read+0x2f6/0x3e0
 [&lt;ffffffff811b749b&gt;] vfs_read+0x9b/0x160
 [&lt;ffffffff811b7f69&gt;] SyS_read+0x49/0xb0
 [&lt;ffffffff81a3a4b9&gt;] ia32_do_call+0x13/0x13
 ---[ end trace 5bd9eb630614861e ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

When the first time find_next calls find_next_mod_format, it should
iterate the trace_bprintk_fmt_list to find the first print format of
the module. However in current code, start_index is smaller than *pos
at first, and code will not iterate the list. Latter container_of will
get the wrong address with former v, which will cause mod_fmt be a
meaningless object and so is the returned mod_fmt-&gt;fmt.

This patch will fix it by correcting the start_index. After fixed,
when the first time calls find_next_mod_format, start_index will be
equal to *pos, and code will iterate the trace_bprintk_fmt_list to
get the right module printk format, so is the returned mod_fmt-&gt;fmt.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5684B900.9000309@intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Fixes: 102c9323c35a8 "tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers"
Signed-off-by: Qiu Peiyang &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When we do cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/printk_formats, we hit kernel
panic at t_show.

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 2957 Comm: sh Tainted: G W  O 3.14.55-x86_64-01062-gd4acdc7 #2
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff811375b2&gt;]
 [&lt;ffffffff811375b2&gt;] t_show+0x22/0xe0
RSP: 0000:ffff88002b4ebe80  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff81fd26a6 RDI: ffff880032f9f7b1
RBP: ffff88002b4ebe98 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 000000000000ffec
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff880004d9b6c0
R13: 7365725f6d706400 R14: ffff880004d9b6c0 R15: ffffffff82020570
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003aa00000(0063) knlGS:00000000f776bc40
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000f6c02ff0 CR3: 000000002c2b3000 CR4: 00000000001007f0
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff811dc076&gt;] seq_read+0x2f6/0x3e0
 [&lt;ffffffff811b749b&gt;] vfs_read+0x9b/0x160
 [&lt;ffffffff811b7f69&gt;] SyS_read+0x49/0xb0
 [&lt;ffffffff81a3a4b9&gt;] ia32_do_call+0x13/0x13
 ---[ end trace 5bd9eb630614861e ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

When the first time find_next calls find_next_mod_format, it should
iterate the trace_bprintk_fmt_list to find the first print format of
the module. However in current code, start_index is smaller than *pos
at first, and code will not iterate the list. Latter container_of will
get the wrong address with former v, which will cause mod_fmt be a
meaningless object and so is the returned mod_fmt-&gt;fmt.

This patch will fix it by correcting the start_index. After fixed,
when the first time calls find_next_mod_format, start_index will be
equal to *pos, and code will iterate the trace_bprintk_fmt_list to
get the right module printk format, so is the returned mod_fmt-&gt;fmt.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5684B900.9000309@intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Fixes: 102c9323c35a8 "tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers"
Signed-off-by: Qiu Peiyang &lt;peiyangx.qiu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/*: switch to memdup_user_nul()</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T15:27:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-24T05:13:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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