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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-13 12:38:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-13 12:38:26 -0800
commit8e9a2dba8686187d8c8179e5b86640e653963889 (patch)
treea4ba543649219cbb28d91aab65b785d763f5d069 /Documentation
parent6098850e7e6978f95a958f79a645a653228d0002 (diff)
parent450cbdd0125cfa5d7bbf9e2a6b6961cc48d29730 (diff)
Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - Another attempt at enabling cross-release lockdep dependency tracking (automatically part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y), this time with better performance and fewer false positives. (Byungchul Park) - Introduce lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() and convert open-coded equivalents to lockdep variants. (Frederic Weisbecker) - Add down_read_killable() and use it in the VFS's iterate_dir() method. (Kirill Tkhai) - Convert remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(). Most of the conversion was Coccinelle driven. (Mark Rutland, Paul E. McKenney) - Get rid of lockless_dereference(), by strengthening Alpha atomics, strengthening READ_ONCE() with smp_read_barrier_depends() and thus being able to convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE(). (Will Deacon) - Various micro-optimizations: - better PV qspinlocks (Waiman Long), - better x86 barriers (Michael S. Tsirkin) - better x86 refcounts (Kees Cook) - ... plus other fixes and enhancements. (Borislav Petkov, Juergen Gross, Miguel Bernal Marin)" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits) locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE rcu: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled netpoll: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled timers/posix-cpu-timers: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled sched/clock, sched/cputime: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled irq_work: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled irq/timings: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled perf/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled x86: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled timers/hrtimer: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled timers/nohz: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled workqueue: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled locking/lockdep: Add IRQs disabled/enabled assertion APIs: lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks locking/rwlocks: Fix comments x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for wait_for_completion() workqueue: Remove now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-barriers.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt12
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4af4dd46cbd9..116e798b61e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -709,6 +709,9 @@
It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
or memory reserved is below 4G.
+ crossrelease_fullstack
+ [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
+
cryptomgr.notests
[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md
index 1b39e084a2b2..1933ef734e63 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.md
@@ -826,9 +826,9 @@ If the filesystem may need to revalidate dcache entries, then
*is* passed the dentry but does not have access to the `inode` or the
`seq` number from the `nameidata`, so it needs to be extra careful
when accessing fields in the dentry. This "extra care" typically
-involves using `ACCESS_ONCE()` or the newer [`READ_ONCE()`] to access
-fields, and verifying the result is not NULL before using it. This
-pattern can be see in `nfs_lookup_revalidate()`.
+involves using [`READ_ONCE()`] to access fields, and verifying the
+result is not NULL before using it. This pattern can be seen in
+`nfs_lookup_revalidate()`.
A pair of patterns
------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 519940ec767f..479ecec80593 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1880,18 +1880,6 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
See Documentation/atomic_{t,bitops}.txt for more information.
- (*) lockless_dereference();
-
- This can be thought of as a pointer-fetch wrapper around the
- smp_read_barrier_depends() data-dependency barrier.
-
- This is also similar to rcu_dereference(), but in cases where
- object lifetime is handled by some mechanism other than RCU, for
- example, when the objects removed only when the system goes down.
- In addition, lockless_dereference() is used in some data structures
- that can be used both with and without RCU.
-
-
(*) dma_wmb();
(*) dma_rmb();
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt
index a7a813258013..ec3b46e27b7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/translations/ko_KR/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1858,18 +1858,6 @@ Mandatory 배리어들은 SMP 시스템에서도 UP 시스템에서도 SMP 효
참고하세요.
- (*) lockless_dereference();
-
- 이 함수는 smp_read_barrier_depends() 데이터 의존성 배리어를 사용하는
- 포인터 읽어오기 래퍼(wrapper) 함수로 생각될 수 있습니다.
-
- 객체의 라이프타임이 RCU 외의 메커니즘으로 관리된다는 점을 제외하면
- rcu_dereference() 와도 유사한데, 예를 들면 객체가 시스템이 꺼질 때에만
- 제거되는 경우 등입니다. 또한, lockless_dereference() 은 RCU 와 함께
- 사용될수도, RCU 없이 사용될 수도 있는 일부 데이터 구조에 사용되고
- 있습니다.
-
-
(*) dma_wmb();
(*) dma_rmb();