litmus-rt-ext-res.git/init/Kconfig, branch EXT-RES LITMUS^RT with extended reservations for Forbidden Zones paper @ RTAS'20 Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in a slightly weaker form 2016-11-30T00:01:30+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2016-11-29T23:20:14+00:00 faaae2a581435f32781a105dda3501df388fddcb This enables CONFIG_MODVERSIONS again, but allows for missing symbol CRC information in order to work around the issue that newer binutils versions seem to occasionally drop the CRC on the floor. binutils 2.26 seems to work fine, while binutils 2.27 seems to break MODVERSIONS of symbols that have been defined in assembler files. [ We've had random missing CRC's before - it may be an old problem that just is now reliably triggered with the weak asm symbols and a new version of binutils ] Some day I really do want to remove MODVERSIONS entirely. Sadly, today does not appear to be that day: Debian people apparently do want the option to enable MODVERSIONS to make it easier to have external modules across kernel versions, and this seems to be a fairly minimal fix for the annoying problem. Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
This enables CONFIG_MODVERSIONS again, but allows for missing symbol CRC
information in order to work around the issue that newer binutils
versions seem to occasionally drop the CRC on the floor.  binutils 2.26
seems to work fine, while binutils 2.27 seems to break MODVERSIONS of
symbols that have been defined in assembler files.

[ We've had random missing CRC's before - it may be an old problem that
  just is now reliably triggered with the weak asm symbols and a new
  version of binutils ]

Some day I really do want to remove MODVERSIONS entirely.  Sadly, today
does not appear to be that day: Debian people apparently do want the
option to enable MODVERSIONS to make it easier to have external modules
across kernel versions, and this seems to be a fairly minimal fix for
the annoying problem.

Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix subtle CONFIG_MODVERSIONS problems 2016-11-25T23:44:47+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2016-11-25T23:44:47+00:00 cd3caefb4663e3811d37cc2afad3cce642d60061 CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has been broken for pretty much the whole 4.9 series, and quite frankly, nobody has cared very deeply. We absolutely know how to fix it, and it's not _complicated_, but it's not exactly pretty either. This oneliner fixes it without the ugliness, and allows for further future cleanups. "We've secretly replaced their regular MODVERSIONS with nothing at all, let's see if they notice" Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has been broken for pretty much the whole 4.9 series,
and quite frankly, nobody has cared very deeply.  We absolutely know how
to fix it, and it's not _complicated_, but it's not exactly pretty
either.

This oneliner fixes it without the ugliness, and allows for further
future cleanups.

  "We've secretly replaced their regular MODVERSIONS with nothing at
   all, let's see if they notice"

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup 2016-10-11T22:06:32+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2016-10-11T20:54:33+00:00 26b5679e437ef4f83db66437981c7c0d569973b1 Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock. The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for delegating the wakeup to another context. commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7 Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net> Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700 relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers when a simple timer will do. Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub buffers to store the new data. By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use irq_work for deferred wake up of readers. [arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of
readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the
context of a process which produced the data.  This is apparently done to
prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is
generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock.

The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for
delegating the wakeup to another context.
	commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7
	Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
	Date:   Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700

	relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work

	relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers
	when a simple timer will do.

Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup
causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes
relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the
data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting
filled within a milli second.  Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every
newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub
buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap
between filling of 2 sub buffers).  As a result relay runs out of sub
buffers to store the new data.

By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked
in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer
tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time.  Also this makes
relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use
irq_work for deferred wake up of readers.

[arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2016-10-08T03:50:37+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2016-10-08T03:50:37+00:00 997b611baf7591ea5119539ee821a3e2f4fcf24e Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "Changes include: - Fix boot of 32bit SMP kernel (initial kernel mapping was too small) - Added hardened usercopy checks - Drop bootmem and switch to memblock and NO_BOOTMEM implementation - Drop the BROKEN_RODATA config option (and thus remove the relevant code from the generic headers and files because parisc was the last architecture which used this config option) - Improve segfault reporting by printing human readable error strings - Various smaller changes, e.g. dwarf debug support for assembly code, update comments regarding copy_user_page_asm, switch to kmalloc_array()" * 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock parisc: Add hardened usercopy feature parisc: Add cfi_startproc and cfi_endproc to assembly code parisc: Move hpmc stack into page aligned bss section parisc: Fix self-detected CPU stall warnings on Mako machines parisc: Report trap type as human readable string parisc: Update comment regarding implementation of copy_user_page_asm parisc: Use kmalloc_array() in add_system_map_addresses() parisc: Check return value of smp_boot_one_cpu() parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option 
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "Changes include:

   - Fix boot of 32bit SMP kernel (initial kernel mapping was too small)

   - Added hardened usercopy checks

   - Drop bootmem and switch to memblock and NO_BOOTMEM implementation

   - Drop the BROKEN_RODATA config option (and thus remove the relevant
     code from the generic headers and files because parisc was the last
     architecture which used this config option)

   - Improve segfault reporting by printing human readable error strings

   - Various smaller changes, e.g. dwarf debug support for assembly
     code, update comments regarding copy_user_page_asm, switch to
     kmalloc_array()"

* 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels
  parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock
  parisc: Add hardened usercopy feature
  parisc: Add cfi_startproc and cfi_endproc to assembly code
  parisc: Move hpmc stack into page aligned bss section
  parisc: Fix self-detected CPU stall warnings on Mako machines
  parisc: Report trap type as human readable string
  parisc: Update comment regarding implementation of copy_user_page_asm
  parisc: Use kmalloc_array() in add_system_map_addresses()
  parisc: Check return value of smp_boot_one_cpu()
  parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option
parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option 2016-09-20T16:02:35+00:00 Helge Deller deller@gmx.de 2016-09-20T15:20:10+00:00 b5d5cf2b8a68618a8ec646cab5746e2f539dc244 PARISC was the only architecture which selected the BROKEN_RODATA config option. Drop it and remove the special handling from init.h as well. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> 
PARISC was the only architecture which selected the BROKEN_RODATA config
option. Drop it and remove the special handling from init.h as well.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack() 2016-09-16T07:18:53+00:00 Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org 2016-09-16T05:45:43+00:00 c6c314a613cd7d03fb97713e0d642b493de42e69 There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code paths to pin the stack. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory
belonging to a different task.  Before we can start freeing task
stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code
paths to pin the stack.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct 2016-09-15T06:25:13+00:00 Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org 2016-09-13T21:29:24+00:00 c65eacbe290b8141554c71b2c94489e73ade8c8d If an arch opts in by setting CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT, then thread_info is defined as a single 'u32 flags' and is the first entry of task_struct. thread_info::task is removed (it serves no purpose if thread_info is embedded in task_struct), and thread_info::cpu gets its own slot in task_struct. This is heavily based on a patch written by Linus. Originally-from: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0898196f0476195ca02713691a5037a14f2aac5.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
If an arch opts in by setting CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT,
then thread_info is defined as a single 'u32 flags' and is the first
entry of task_struct.  thread_info::task is removed (it serves no
purpose if thread_info is embedded in task_struct), and
thread_info::cpu gets its own slot in task_struct.

This is heavily based on a patch written by Linus.

Originally-from: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0898196f0476195ca02713691a5037a14f2aac5.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux 2016-08-08T21:48:14+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2016-08-08T21:48:14+00:00 1eccfa090eaea22558570054bbdc147817e1df5e Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook: "Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and SLUB" * tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy mm: Hardened usercopy mm: Implement stack frame object validation mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page 
Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook:
 "Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and
  copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and
  SLUB"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support
  mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support
  s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
  mm: Hardened usercopy
  mm: Implement stack frame object validation
  mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page
init/Kconfig: add clarification for out-of-tree modules 2016-08-02T23:35:43+00:00 Valdis Kletnieks Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2016-08-02T21:07:27+00:00 f1cb637e75b59a07450cf81ad68b04f3f46b03d7 It doesn't trim just symbols that are totally unused in-tree - it trims the symbols unused by any in-tree modules actually built. If you've done a 'make localmodconfig' and only build a hundred or so modules, it's pretty likely that your out-of-tree module will come up lacking something... Hopefully this will save the next guy from a Homer Simpson "D'oh!" moment. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10177.1469787292@turing-police.cc.vt.edu Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
It doesn't trim just symbols that are totally unused in-tree - it trims
the symbols unused by any in-tree modules actually built.  If you've
done a 'make localmodconfig' and only build a hundred or so modules,
it's pretty likely that your out-of-tree module will come up lacking
something...

Hopefully this will save the next guy from a Homer Simpson "D'oh!"
moment.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10177.1469787292@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init/Kconfig: ban CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO with allmodconfig 2016-08-02T23:35:41+00:00 Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com 2016-08-02T21:07:21+00:00 ac3339baffd724edfb188ef57d1345d9649ba9af Doing patches with allmodconfig kernel compiled and committing stuff into local tree have unfortunate consequence: kernel version changes (as it should) leading to recompiling and relinking of several files even if they weren't touched (or interesting at all). This and "git-whatever" figuring out current version slow down compilation for no good reason. But lets face it, "allmodconfig" kernels don't care about kernel version, they are simply compile check guinea pigs. Make LOCALVERSION_AUTO depend on !COMPILE_TEST, so it doesn't sneak into allmodconfig .config. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707214954.GC31678@p183.telecom.by Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Doing patches with allmodconfig kernel compiled and committing stuff
into local tree have unfortunate consequence: kernel version changes (as
it should) leading to recompiling and relinking of several files even if
they weren't touched (or interesting at all).  This and "git-whatever"
figuring out current version slow down compilation for no good reason.

But lets face it, "allmodconfig" kernels don't care about kernel
version, they are simply compile check guinea pigs.

Make LOCALVERSION_AUTO depend on !COMPILE_TEST, so it doesn't sneak into
allmodconfig .config.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707214954.GC31678@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>