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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T20:29:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-07T20:29:39+00:00</published>
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Pull fdpick coredump update from Al Viro:
 "Switches fdpic coredumps away from original aout dumping primitives to
  the same kind of regset use as regular elf coredumps do"

* 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  [elf-fdpic] switch coredump to regsets
  [elf-fdpic] use elf_dump_thread_status() for the dumper thread as well
  [elf-fdpic] move allocation of elf_thread_status into elf_dump_thread_status()
  [elf-fdpic] coredump: don't bother with cyclic list for per-thread objects
  kill elf_fpxregs_t
  take fdpic-related parts of elf_prstatus out
  unexport linux/elfcore.h
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Pull fdpick coredump update from Al Viro:
 "Switches fdpic coredumps away from original aout dumping primitives to
  the same kind of regset use as regular elf coredumps do"

* 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  [elf-fdpic] switch coredump to regsets
  [elf-fdpic] use elf_dump_thread_status() for the dumper thread as well
  [elf-fdpic] move allocation of elf_thread_status into elf_dump_thread_status()
  [elf-fdpic] coredump: don't bother with cyclic list for per-thread objects
  kill elf_fpxregs_t
  take fdpic-related parts of elf_prstatus out
  unexport linux/elfcore.h
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<entry>
<title>usr: Add support for zstd compressed initramfs</title>
<updated>2020-07-31T09:49:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Terrell</name>
<email>terrelln@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-30T19:08:37+00:00</published>
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- Add support for a zstd compressed initramfs.

- Add compression for compressing built-in initramfs with zstd.

I have tested this patch by boot testing with buildroot and QEMU.
Specifically, I booted the kernel with both a zstd and gzip compressed
initramfs, both built into the kernel and separate. I ensured that the
correct compression algorithm was used. I tested on arm, aarch64, i386,
and x86_64.

This patch has been tested in production on aarch64 and x86_64 devices.

Additionally, I have performance measurements from internal use in
production. On an aarch64 device we saw 19 second boot time improvement
from switching from lzma to zstd (27 seconds to 8 seconds). On an x86_64
device we saw a 9 second boot time reduction from switching from xz to
zstd.

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell &lt;terrelln@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-5-nickrterrell@gmail.com
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- Add support for a zstd compressed initramfs.

- Add compression for compressing built-in initramfs with zstd.

I have tested this patch by boot testing with buildroot and QEMU.
Specifically, I booted the kernel with both a zstd and gzip compressed
initramfs, both built into the kernel and separate. I ensured that the
correct compression algorithm was used. I tested on arm, aarch64, i386,
and x86_64.

This patch has been tested in production on aarch64 and x86_64 devices.

Additionally, I have performance measurements from internal use in
production. On an aarch64 device we saw 19 second boot time improvement
from switching from lzma to zstd (27 seconds to 8 seconds). On an x86_64
device we saw a 9 second boot time reduction from switching from xz to
zstd.

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell &lt;terrelln@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-5-nickrterrell@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>unexport linux/elfcore.h</title>
<updated>2020-07-27T18:29:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-11T15:11:32+00:00</published>
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It's unusable from userland - it uses elf_gregset_t, which is not
provided by exported headers.  glibc has it in sys/procfs.h, but
the same file defines struct elf_prstatus, so linux/elfcore.h can't
be included once sys/procfs.h has been pulled.  Same goes for uclibc
and dietlibc simply doesn't have elf_gregset_t defined anywhere.

IOW, no userland source is including that thing.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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It's unusable from userland - it uses elf_gregset_t, which is not
provided by exported headers.  glibc has it in sys/procfs.h, but
the same file defines struct elf_prstatus, so linux/elfcore.h can't
be included once sys/procfs.h has been pulled.  Same goes for uclibc
and dietlibc simply doesn't have elf_gregset_t defined anywhere.

IOW, no userland source is including that thing.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel</title>
<updated>2020-05-17T09:52:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-29T03:45:13+00:00</published>
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bpfilter_umh is built for the default machine bit of the compiler,
which may not match to the bit size of the kernel.

This happens in the scenario below:

You can use biarch GCC that defaults to 64-bit for building the 32-bit
kernel. In this case, Kbuild passes -m32 to teach the compiler to
produce 32-bit kernel space objects. However, it is missing when
building bpfilter_umh. It is built as a 64-bit ELF, and then embedded
into the 32-bit kernel.

The 32-bit kernel and 64-bit umh is a bad combination.

In theory, we can have 32-bit umh running on 64-bit kernel, but we do
not have a good reason to support such a usecase.

The best is to match the bit size between them.

Pass -m32 or -m64 to the umh build command if it is found in
$(KBUILD_CFLAGS). Evaluate CC_CAN_LINK against the kernel bit-size.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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bpfilter_umh is built for the default machine bit of the compiler,
which may not match to the bit size of the kernel.

This happens in the scenario below:

You can use biarch GCC that defaults to 64-bit for building the 32-bit
kernel. In this case, Kbuild passes -m32 to teach the compiler to
produce 32-bit kernel space objects. However, it is missing when
building bpfilter_umh. It is built as a 64-bit ELF, and then embedded
into the 32-bit kernel.

The 32-bit kernel and 64-bit umh is a bad combination.

In theory, we can have 32-bit umh running on 64-bit kernel, but we do
not have a good reason to support such a usecase.

The best is to match the bit size between them.

Pass -m32 or -m64 to the umh build command if it is found in
$(KBUILD_CFLAGS). Evaluate CC_CAN_LINK against the kernel bit-size.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: use -MMD instead of -MD to exclude system headers from dependency</title>
<updated>2020-05-12T04:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-23T14:23:53+00:00</published>
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This omits system headers from the generated header dependency.

System headers are not updated unless you upgrade the compiler. Nor do
they contain CONFIG options, so fixdep does not need to parse them.

Having said that, the effect of this optimization will be quite small
because the kernel code generally does not include system headers
except &lt;stdarg.h&gt;. Host programs include a lot of system headers,
but there are not so many in the kernel tree.

At first, keeping system headers in .*.cmd files might be useful to
detect the compiler update, but there is no guarantee that &lt;stdarg.h&gt;
is included from every file. So, I implemented a more reliable way in
the previous commit.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This omits system headers from the generated header dependency.

System headers are not updated unless you upgrade the compiler. Nor do
they contain CONFIG options, so fixdep does not need to parse them.

Having said that, the effect of this optimization will be quite small
because the kernel code generally does not include system headers
except &lt;stdarg.h&gt;. Host programs include a lot of system headers,
but there are not so many in the kernel tree.

At first, keeping system headers in .*.cmd files might be useful to
detect the compiler update, but there is no guarantee that &lt;stdarg.h&gt;
is included from every file. So, I implemented a more reliable way in
the previous commit.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection</title>
<updated>2020-04-11T03:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-08T18:29:19+00:00</published>
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The keyword here is 'twice' to explain the trick.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The keyword here is 'twice' to explain the trick.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T10:50:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T13:35:59+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>initramfs: restore default compression behavior</title>
<updated>2020-03-17T00:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-16T11:25:19+00:00</published>
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Even though INITRAMFS_SOURCE kconfig option isn't set in most of
defconfigs it is used (set) extensively by various build systems.
Commit f26661e12765 ("initramfs: make initramfs compression choice
non-optional") has changed default compression mode. Previously we
compress initramfs using available compression algorithm. Now
we don't use any compression at all by default.
It significantly increases the image size in case of build system
chooses embedded initramfs. Initially I faced with this issue while
using buildroot.

As of today it's not possible to set preferred compression mode
in target defconfig as this option depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE
being set. Modification of all build systems either doesn't look
like good option.

Let's instead rewrite initramfs compression mode choices list
the way that "INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE" will be the last option
in the list. In that case it will be chosen only if all other
options (which implements any compression) are not available.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Even though INITRAMFS_SOURCE kconfig option isn't set in most of
defconfigs it is used (set) extensively by various build systems.
Commit f26661e12765 ("initramfs: make initramfs compression choice
non-optional") has changed default compression mode. Previously we
compress initramfs using available compression algorithm. Now
we don't use any compression at all by default.
It significantly increases the image size in case of build system
chooses embedded initramfs. Initially I faced with this issue while
using buildroot.

As of today it's not possible to set preferred compression mode
in target defconfig as this option depends on INITRAMFS_SOURCE
being set. Modification of all build systems either doesn't look
like good option.

Let's instead rewrite initramfs compression mode choices list
the way that "INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE" will be the last option
in the list. In that case it will be chosen only if all other
options (which implements any compression) are not available.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2020-02-10T00:05:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-10T00:05:50+00:00</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - fix randconfig to generate a sane .config

 - rename hostprogs-y / always to hostprogs / always-y, which are more
   natual syntax.

 - optimize scripts/kallsyms

 - fix yes2modconfig and mod2yesconfig

 - make multiple directory targets ('make foo/ bar/') work

* tag 'kbuild-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: make multiple directory targets work
  kconfig: Invalidate all symbols after changing to y or m.
  kallsyms: fix type of kallsyms_token_table[]
  scripts/kallsyms: change table to store (strcut sym_entry *)
  scripts/kallsyms: rename local variables in read_symbol()
  kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y
  kbuild: fix the document to use extra-y for vmlinux.lds
  kconfig: fix broken dependency in randconfig-generated .config
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - fix randconfig to generate a sane .config

 - rename hostprogs-y / always to hostprogs / always-y, which are more
   natual syntax.

 - optimize scripts/kallsyms

 - fix yes2modconfig and mod2yesconfig

 - make multiple directory targets ('make foo/ bar/') work

* tag 'kbuild-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: make multiple directory targets work
  kconfig: Invalidate all symbols after changing to y or m.
  kallsyms: fix type of kallsyms_token_table[]
  scripts/kallsyms: change table to store (strcut sym_entry *)
  scripts/kallsyms: rename local variables in read_symbol()
  kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y
  kbuild: fix the document to use extra-y for vmlinux.lds
  kconfig: fix broken dependency in randconfig-generated .config
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<entry>
<title>initramfs: do not show compression mode choice if INITRAMFS_SOURCE is empty</title>
<updated>2020-02-03T17:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-03T16:47:08+00:00</published>
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Since commit ddd09bcc899f ("initramfs: make compression options not
depend on INITRAMFS_SOURCE"), Kconfig asks the compression mode for
the built-in initramfs regardless of INITRAMFS_SOURCE.

It is technically simpler, but pointless from a UI perspective,
Linus says [1].

When INITRAMFS_SOURCE is empty, usr/Makefile creates a tiny default
cpio, which is so small that nobody cares about the compression.

This commit hides the Kconfig choice in that case. The default cpio
is embedded without compression, which was the original behavior.

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/1/160

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since commit ddd09bcc899f ("initramfs: make compression options not
depend on INITRAMFS_SOURCE"), Kconfig asks the compression mode for
the built-in initramfs regardless of INITRAMFS_SOURCE.

It is technically simpler, but pointless from a UI perspective,
Linus says [1].

When INITRAMFS_SOURCE is empty, usr/Makefile creates a tiny default
cpio, which is so small that nobody cares about the compression.

This commit hides the Kconfig choice in that case. The default cpio
is embedded without compression, which was the original behavior.

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/1/160

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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