lwn.git/init, branch doc/4.9

init/Kconfig: add clarification for out-of-tree modules

2016-08-02T23:35:43+00:00

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 Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/Kconfig: ban CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO with allmodconfig

2016-08-02T23:35:41+00:00

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 Cc: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: allow blacklisting of module_init functions

2016-08-02T23:35:40+00:00

sprint_symbol_no_offset() returns the string "function_name [module_name]" where [module_name] is not printed for built in kernel functions. This means that the blacklisting code will fail when comparing module function names with the extended string. This patch adds the functionality to block a module's module_init() function by finding the space in the string and truncating the comparison to that length. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466124387-20446-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Yaowei Bai Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref

2016-08-02T21:31:41+00:00

There was only one use of __initdata_refok and __exit_refok __init_refok was used 46 times against 82 for __ref. Those definitions are obsolete since commit 312b1485fb50 ("Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst") This patch removes the following compatibility definitions and replaces them treewide. /* compatibility defines */ #define __init_refok __ref #define __initdata_refok __refdata #define __exit_refok __ref I can also provide separate patches if necessary. (One patch per tree and check in 1 month or 2 to remove old definitions) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466796271-3043-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/Kconfig: make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML

2016-08-02T21:31:41+00:00

UML is a bit special since it does not have iomem nor dma. That means a lot of drivers will not build if they miss a dependency on HAS_IOMEM. s390 used to have the same issues but since it gained PCI support UML is the only stranger. We are tired of patching dozens of new drivers after every merge window just to un-break allmod/yesconfig UML builds. One could argue that a decent driver has to know on what it depends and therefore a missing HAS_IOMEM dependency is a clear driver bug. But the dependency not obvious and not everyone does UML builds with COMPILE_TEST enabled when developing a device driver. A possible solution to make these builds succeed on UML would be providing stub functions for ioremap() and friends which fail upon runtime. Another one is simply disabling COMPILE_TEST for UML. Since it is the least hassle and does not force use to fake iomem support let's do the latter. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466152995-28367-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroup: update cgroup's document path

2016-08-02T21:31:41+00:00

cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470148443-6509-1-git-send-email-iamyooon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2016-07-28T21:22:25+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: fat: fix error message for bogus number of directory entries fat: fix typo s/supeblock/superblock/ ASoC: max9877: Remove unused function declaration dw2102: don't output spurious blank lines to the kernel log init: fix Kconfig text ARM: io: fix comment grammar ocfs: fix ocfs2_xattr_user_get() argument name scsi/qla2xxx: Remove erroneous unused macro qla82xx_get_temp_val1()

mm: SLUB freelist randomization

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

Implements freelist randomization for the SLUB allocator. It was previous implemented for the SLAB allocator. Both use the same configuration option (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM). The list is randomized during initialization of a new set of pages. The order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed at boot for performance. Each kmem_cache has its own randomized freelist. This security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel SLUB allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks much less stable. For example these attacks exploit the predictability of the heap: - Linux Kernel CAN SLUB overflow (https://goo.gl/oMNWkU) - Exploiting Linux Kernel Heap corruptions (http://goo.gl/EXLn95) Performance results: slab_test impact is between 3% to 4% on average for 100000 attempts without smp. It is a very focused testing, kernbench show the overall impact on the system is way lower. Before: Single thread testing ===================== 1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test 100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 49 cycles kfree -> 77 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 51 cycles kfree -> 79 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 53 cycles kfree -> 83 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 62 cycles kfree -> 90 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 81 cycles kfree -> 97 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 98 cycles kfree -> 121 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 95 cycles kfree -> 122 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 96 cycles kfree -> 126 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 149 cycles kfree -> 171 cycles 2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test 100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 70 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 70 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 70 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 70 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 70 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 69 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 70 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 73 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 72 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 71 cycles After: Single thread testing ===================== 1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test 100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 57 cycles kfree -> 78 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 61 cycles kfree -> 81 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 93 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 83 cycles kfree -> 94 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 106 cycles kfree -> 107 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 117 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 114 cycles kfree -> 116 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 118 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 147 cycles kfree -> 131 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 214 cycles kfree -> 161 cycles 2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test 100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 66 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 66 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 66 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 66 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 65 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 67 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 67 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 64 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 67 cycles 100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 67 cycles Kernbench, before: Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 101.873 (1.16069) User Time 1045.22 (1.60447) System Time 88.969 (0.559195) Percent CPU 1112.9 (13.8279) Context Switches 189140 (2282.15) Sleeps 99008.6 (768.091) After: Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.47 (0.562732) User Time 1045.3 (1.34263) System Time 88.311 (0.342554) Percent CPU 1105.8 (6.49444) Context Switches 189081 (2355.78) Sleeps 99231.5 (800.358) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464295031-26375-3-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-07-25T21:43:00+00:00

Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar: - fix system/idle cputime leaked on cputime accounting (all nohz configs) (Rik van Riel) - remove the messy, ad-hoc irqtime account on nohz-full and make it compatible with CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y instead (Rik van Riel) - cleanups (Frederic Weisbecker) - remove unecessary irq disablement in the irqtime code (Rik van Riel) * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/cputime: Drop local_irq_save/restore from irqtime_account_irq() sched/cputime: Reorganize vtime native irqtime accounting headers sched/cputime: Clean up the old vtime gen irqtime accounting completely sched/cputime: Replace VTIME_GEN irq time code with IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq & softirq time

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-07-25T19:04:11+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - documentation updates - miscellaneous fixes - minor reorganization of code - torture-test updates" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits) rcu: Correctly handle sparse possible cpus rcu: sysctl: Panic on RCU Stall rcu: Fix a typo in a comment rcu: Make call_rcu_tasks() tolerate first call with irqs disabled rcu: Disable TASKS_RCU for usermode Linux rcu: No ordering for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf_init() torture: Inflict default jitter rcuperf: Don't treat gp_exp mis-setting as a WARN rcutorture: Drop "-soundhw pcspkr" from x86 boot arguments rcutorture: Don't specify the cpu type of QEMU on PPC rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option rcutorture: Use vmlinux as the fallback kernel image rcutorture/doc: Create initrd using dracut torture: Stop onoff task if there is only one cpu torture: Add starvation events to error summary torture: Break online and offline functions out of torture_onoff() torture: Forgive lengthy trace dumps and preemption torture: Remove CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE, simplify code torture: Simplify code, eliminate RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE ...