lwn.git/kernel, branch docs-for-linus

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

2016-05-28T00:14:05+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "Followups to the parallel lookup work: - update docs - restore killability of the places that used to take ->i_mutex killably now that we have down_write_killable() merged - Additionally, it turns out that I missed a prerequisite for security_d_instantiate() stuff - ->getxattr() wasn't the only thing that could be called before dentry is attached to inode; with smack we needed the same treatment applied to ->setxattr() as well" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: switch ->setxattr() to passing dentry and inode separately switch xattr_handler->set() to passing dentry and inode separately restore killability of old mutex_lock_killable(&inode->i_mutex) users add down_write_killable_nested() update D/f/directory-locking

remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses

2016-05-27T22:26:11+00:00

Most users of IS_ERR_VALUE() in the kernel are wrong, as they pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long' argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an unsigned type. However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int' argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are 8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'. Andrzej Hajda has already fixed a lot of the worst abusers that were causing actual bugs, but it would be nice to prevent any users that are not passing 'unsigned long' arguments. This patch changes all users of IS_ERR_VALUE() that I could find on 32-bit ARM randconfig builds and x86 allmodconfig. For the moment, this doesn't change the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE() because there are probably still architecture specific users elsewhere. Almost all the warnings I got are for files that are better off using 'if (err)' or 'if (err < 0)'. The only legitimate user I could find that we get a warning for is the (32-bit only) freescale fman driver, so I did not remove the IS_ERR_VALUE() there but changed the type to 'unsigned long'. For 9pfs, I just worked around one user whose calling conventions are so obscure that I did not dare change the behavior. I was using this definition for testing: #define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) ((unsigned long*)NULL == (typeof (x)*)NULL && \ unlikely((unsigned long long)(x) >= (unsigned long long)(typeof(x))-MAX_ERRNO)) which ends up making all 16-bit or wider types work correctly with the most plausible interpretation of what IS_ERR_VALUE() was supposed to return according to its users, but also causes a compile-time warning for any users that do not pass an 'unsigned long' argument. I suggested this approach earlier this year, but back then we ended up deciding to just fix the users that are obviously broken. After the initial warning that caused me to get involved in the discussion (fs/gfs2/dir.c) showed up again in the mainline kernel, Linus asked me to send the whole thing again. [ Updated the 9p parts as per Al Viro - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Andrzej Hajda Cc: Andrew Morton Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/363 Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/486 Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla # For nvmem part Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-05-27T05:01:22+00:00

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek: - new option CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS which does a two-pass build and unexports symbols which are not used in the current config [Nicolas Pitre] - several kbuild rule cleanups [Masahiro Yamada] - warning option adjustments for gcov etc [Arnd Bergmann] - a few more small fixes * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (31 commits) kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order kbuild: fix adjust_autoksyms.sh for modules that need only one symbol kbuild: fix ksym_dep_filter when multiple EXPORT_SYMBOL() on the same line gcov: disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning gcov: disable tree-loop-im to reduce stack usage gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE definition kbuild: forbid kernel directory to contain spaces and colons kbuild: adjust ksym_dep_filter for some cmd_* renames kbuild: Fix dependencies for final vmlinux link kbuild: better abstract vmlinux sequential prerequisites kbuild: fix call to adjust_autoksyms.sh when output directory specified kbuild: Get rid of KBUILD_STR kbuild: rename cmd_as_s_S to cmd_cpp_s_S kbuild: rename cmd_cc_i_c to cmd_cpp_i_c kbuild: drop redundant "PHONY += FORCE" kbuild: delete unnecessary "@:" kbuild: mark help target as PHONY ...

mm: oom_reaper: remove some bloat

2016-05-26T22:35:44+00:00

mmput_async is currently used only from the oom_reaper which is defined only for CONFIG_MMU. We can save work_struct in mm_struct for !CONFIG_MMU. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Minchan] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520061658.GB19172@dhcp22.suse.cz Reported-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

add down_write_killable_nested()

2016-05-26T04:04:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2016-05-26T00:11:43+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two fixes: one for a lost wakeup, the other to fix the compiler optimizing out preempt operations on ARM64 (and possibly other non-x86 architectures)" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/core: Fix remote wakeups sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations

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

2016-05-26T00:05:40+00:00

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits) perf record: Read from backward ring buffer perf record: Rename variable to make code clear perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting perf top: Use machine->kptr_restrict_warned perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1 perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space ...

Merge tag 'pm-4.7-rc1-more' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2016-05-25T22:29:21+00:00

Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are two stable-candidate fixes (PM core, cpuidle) and a bunch of cpufreq cleanups. Specifics: - Stable-candidate cpuidle fix to make it check the right variable when deciding whether or not to enable interrupts on the local CPU so as to avoid enabling iterrupts too early in some cases if the system has both coupled and per-core idle states (Daniel Lezcano). - Stable-candidate PM core fix to make it handle failures at the "late suspend" stage of device suspend consistently for all devices regardless of whether or not async suspend/resume is enabled for them (Rafael Wysocki). - Cleanups in the cpufreq core, the schedutil governor and the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki, Pankaj Gupta, Viresh Kumar)" * tag 'pm-4.7-rc1-more' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / sleep: Handle failures in device_suspend_late() consistently cpufreq: schedutil: Improve prints messages with pr_fmt cpuidle: Fix cpuidle_state_is_coupled() argument in cpuidle_enter() cpufreq: simplified goto out in cpufreq_register_driver() cpufreq: governor: CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP never fails cpufreq: governor: CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT never fails intel_pstate: Simplify conditional in intel_pstate_set_policy()

Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq', 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-core'

2016-05-25T19:54:45+00:00

* pm-cpufreq: cpufreq: schedutil: Improve prints messages with pr_fmt cpufreq: simplified goto out in cpufreq_register_driver() cpufreq: governor: CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP never fails cpufreq: governor: CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT never fails intel_pstate: Simplify conditional in intel_pstate_set_policy() * pm-cpuidle: cpuidle: Fix cpuidle_state_is_coupled() argument in cpuidle_enter() * pm-core: PM / sleep: Handle failures in device_suspend_late() consistently

sched/core: Fix remote wakeups

2016-05-25T06:35:18+00:00

Commit: b5179ac70de8 ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration") ... introduced a bug: Mike Galbraith found that it introduced a performance regression, while Paul E. McKenney reported lost wakeups and bisected it to this commit. The reason is that I mis-read ttwu_queue() such that I assumed any wakeup that got a remote queue must have had the task migrated. Since this is not so; we need to transfer this information between queueing the wakeup and actually doing the wakeup. Use a new task_struct::sched_flag for this, we already write to sched_contributes_to_load in the wakeup path so this is a hot and modified cacheline. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney Reported-by: Mike Galbraith Tested-by: Mike Galbraith Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Hunter Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ben Segall Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Morten Rasmussen Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Pavan Kondeti Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com Fixes: b5179ac70de8 ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523091907.GD15728@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar