lwn.git/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h, branch docs-6.8-2

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00

Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned, now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be maintained as an LTS kernel. - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall. * tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie() Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64 lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures

2023-10-06T20:26:51+00:00

commit c35559f94ebc ("x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall") recently added support for map_shadow_stack() but it is limited to x86 only for now. There is a possibility that other architectures (namely, arm64 and RISC-V), that are implementing equivalent support for shadow stacks, might need to add support for it. Independent of that, reserving arch-specific syscall numbers in the syscall tables of all architectures is good practice and would help avoid future conflicts. map_shadow_stack() is marked as a conditional syscall in sys_ni.c. Adding it to the syscall tables of other architectures is harmless and would return ENOSYS when exercised. Note, map_shadow_stack() was assigned #453 during the merge process since #452 was taken by fchmodat2(). For Powerpc, map it to sys_ni_syscall() as is the norm for Powerpc syscall tables. For Alpha, map_shadow_stack() takes up #563 as Alpha still diverges from the common syscall numbering system in the other architectures. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230515212255.GA562920@debug.ba.rivosinc.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b402b80b-a7c6-4ef0-b977-c0f5f582b78a@sirena.org.uk/ Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()

2023-10-03T17:51:37+00:00

commit 'be65de6b03aa ("fs: Remove dcookies support")' removed the syscall definition for lookup_dcookie. However, syscall tables still point to the old sys_lookup_dcookie() definition. Update syscall tables of all architectures to directly point to sys_ni_syscall() instead. Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Namhyung Kim # for perf Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

futex: Add sys_futex_requeue()

2023-09-21T17:22:10+00:00

Finish off the 'simple' futex2 syscall group by adding sys_futex_requeue(). Unlike sys_futex_{wait,wake}() its arguments are too numerous to fit into a regular syscall. As such, use struct futex_waitv to pass the 'source' and 'destination' futexes to the syscall. This syscall implements what was previously known as FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE and uses {val, uaddr, flags} for source and {uaddr, flags} for destination. This design explicitly allows requeueing between different types of futex by having a different flags word per uaddr. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230921105248.511860556@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

futex: Add sys_futex_wait()

2023-09-21T17:22:08+00:00

To complement sys_futex_waitv()/wake(), add sys_futex_wait(). This syscall implements what was previously known as FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET except it uses 'unsigned long' for the value and bitmask arguments, takes timespec and clockid_t arguments for the absolute timeout and uses FUTEX2 flags. The 'unsigned long' allows FUTEX2_SIZE_U64 on 64bit platforms. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230921105248.164324363@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

futex: Add sys_futex_wake()

2023-09-21T17:22:07+00:00

To complement sys_futex_waitv() add sys_futex_wake(). This syscall implements what was previously known as FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET except it uses 'unsigned long' for the bitmask and takes FUTEX2 flags. The 'unsigned long' allows FUTEX2_SIZE_U64 on 64bit platforms. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230921105247.936205525@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

arch: Register fchmodat2, usually as syscall 452

2023-07-27T10:25:35+00:00

This registers the new fchmodat2 syscall in most places as nuber 452, with alpha being the exception where it's 562. I found all these sites by grepping for fspick, which I assume has found me everything. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Message-Id: Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2023-07-06T17:06:04+00:00

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "These are cleanups for architecture specific header files: - the comments in include/linux/syscalls.h have gone out of sync and are really pointless, so these get removed - The asm/bitsperlong.h header no longer needs to be architecture specific on modern compilers, so use a generic version for newer architectures that use new enough userspace compilers - A cleanup for virt_to_pfn/virt_to_bus to have proper type checking, forcing the use of pointers" * tag 'asm-generic-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: syscalls: Remove file path comments from headers tools arch: Remove uapi bitsperlong.h of hexagon and microblaze asm-generic: Unify uapi bitsperlong.h for arm64, riscv and loongarch m68k/mm: Make pfn accessors static inlines arm64: memory: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline ARM: mm: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline asm-generic/page.h: Make pfn accessors static inlines xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page() netfs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() in cifsglob cifs: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() riscv: mm: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_page() ARC: init: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() in init m68k: Pass a pointer to virt_to_pfn() virt_to_page() fs/proc/kcore.c: Pass a pointer to virt_addr_valid()

syscalls: Remove file path comments from headers

2023-06-22T15:10:09+00:00

Source file locations for syscall definitions can change over a period of time. File paths in comments get stale and are hard to maintain long term. Also, their usefulness is questionable since it would be easier to locate a syscall definition using the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro. Remove all source file path comments from the syscall headers. Also, equalize the uneven line spacing (some of which is introduced due to the deletions). Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

cachestat: implement cachestat syscall

2023-06-09T23:25:16+00:00

There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large file sets and directory trees. There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate, when the user really doesn not care about per-page information in that case. The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along, which can be quite slow as well. Some use cases where this information could come in handy: * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the index. * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues diagnostic. * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and batching when there is not. * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to the du tool for disk usage. More information about these use cases could be found in the following thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/ This patch implements a new syscall that queries cache state of a file and summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc. in a given range. Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86 architecture. NAME cachestat - query the page cache statistics of a file. SYNOPSIS #include struct cachestat_range { __u64 off; __u64 len; }; struct cachestat { __u64 nr_cache; __u64 nr_dirty; __u64 nr_writeback; __u64 nr_evicted; __u64 nr_recently_evicted; }; int cachestat(unsigned int fd, struct cachestat_range *cstat_range, struct cachestat *cstat, unsigned int flags); DESCRIPTION cachestat() queries the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of evicted pages, number of recently evicted pages, in the bytes range given by `off` and `len`. An evicted page is a page that is previously in the page cache but has been evicted since. A page is recently evicted if its last eviction was recent enough that its reentry to the cache would indicate that it is actively being used by the system, and that there is memory pressure on the system. These values are returned in a cachestat struct, whose address is given by the `cstat` argument. The `off` and `len` arguments must be non-negative integers. If `len` > 0, the queried range is [`off`, `off` + `len`]. If `len` == 0, we will query in the range from `off` to the end of the file. The `flags` argument is unused for now, but is included for future extensibility. User should pass 0 (i.e no flag specified). Currently, hugetlbfs is not supported. Because the status of a page can change after cachestat() checks it but before it returns to the application, the returned values may contain stale information. RETURN VALUE On success, cachestat returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS EFAULT cstat or cstat_args points to an invalid address. EINVAL invalid flags. EBADF invalid file descriptor. EOPNOTSUPP file descriptor is of a hugetlbfs file [nphamcs@gmail.com: replace rounddown logic with the existing helper] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504022044.3675469-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-3-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Brian Foster Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton