linux.git/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c, branch v6.18.21

arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64

2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00

With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea0956fd387 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) 
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson  # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

sched/idle: Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn

2023-03-08T16:44:28+00:00

Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return.  It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf

alpha/cpu: Make sure arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return

2023-03-06T23:34:03+00:00

arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return.  Make that more explicit with a
BUG().

BUG() is preferable to unreachable() because BUG() is a more explicit
failure mode and avoids undefined behavior like falling off the edge of
the function into whatever code happens to be next.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/19ffef09a175fecb783abcd44d6bcfeade2857eb.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf

alpha/cpu: Expose arch_cpu_idle_dead()'s prototype declaration

2023-03-06T23:34:03+00:00

Include  to make sure arch_cpu_idle_dead() matches its
prototype going forward.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b0405c2ac5686303b6026e1ac27cfd769b21a7d0.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha

2023-02-25T20:49:29+00:00

Pull alpha updates from Al Viro:
 "Mostly small janitorial fixes but there's also more important ones: a
  patch to fix loading large modules from Edward Humes, and some fixes
  from Al Viro"

[ The fixes from Al mostly came in separately through Al's trees too and
  are now duplicated..   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha:
  alpha: in_irq() cleanup
  alpha: lazy FPU switching
  alpha/boot/misc: trim unused declarations
  alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header
  alpha/boot: fix the breakage from -isystem series...
  alpha: fix FEN fault handling
  alpha: Avoid comma separated statements
  alpha: fixed a typo in core_cia.c
  alpha: remove unused __SLOW_DOWN_IO and SLOW_DOWN_IO definitions
  alpha: update config files
  alpha: fix R_ALPHA_LITERAL reloc for large modules
  alpha: Add some spaces to ensure format specification
  alpha: replace NR_SYSCALLS by NR_syscalls
  alpha: Remove redundant local asm header redirections
  alpha: Implement "current_stack_pointer"
  alpha: remove redundant err variable
  alpha: osf_sys: reduce kernel log spamming on invalid osf_mount call typenr

alpha: in_irq() cleanup

2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00

Replace the obsolete and ambiguos macro in_irq() with new
macro in_hardirq().

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: lazy FPU switching

2023-02-25T04:14:22+00:00

	On each context switch we save the FPU registers on stack
of old process and restore FPU registers from the stack of new one.
That allows us to avoid doing that each time we enter/leave the
kernel mode; however, that can get suboptimal in some cases.

	For one thing, we don't need to bother saving anything
for kernel threads.  For another, if between entering and leaving
the kernel a thread gives CPU up more than once, it will do
useless work, saving the same values every time, only to discard
the saved copy as soon as it returns from switch_to().

	Alternative solution:

* move the array we save into from switch_stack to thread_info
* have a (thread-synchronous) flag set when we save them
* have another flag set when they should be restored on return to userland.
* do *NOT* save/restore them in do_switch_stack()/undo_switch_stack().
* restore on the exit to user mode if the restore flag had
been set.  Clear both flags.
* on context switch, entry to fork/clone/vfork, before entry into do_signal()
and on entry into straced syscall save the registers and set the 'saved' flag
unless it had been already set.
* on context switch set the 'restore' flag as well.
* have copy_thread() set both flags for child, so the registers would be
restored once the child returns to userland.
* use the saved data in setup_sigcontext(); have restore_sigcontext() set both flags
and copy from sigframe to save area.
* teach ptrace to look for FPU registers in thread_info instead of
switch_stack.
* teach isolated accesses to FPU registers (rdfpcr, wrfpcr, etc.)
to check the 'saved' flag (under preempt_disable()) and work with the save area
if it's been set; if 'saved' flag is found upon write access, set 'restore' flag
as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-02-20-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-02-24T01:55:40+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the
  tree.

  Most notable is a set of zlib changes from Mikhail Zaslonko which
  enhances and fixes zlib's use of S390 hardware support: 'lib/zlib: Set
  of s390 DFLTCC related patches for kernel zlib'"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-02-20-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (55 commits)
  Update CREDITS file entry for Jesper Juhl
  sparc: allow PM configs for sparc32 COMPILE_TEST
  hung_task: print message when hung_task_warnings gets down to zero.
  arch/Kconfig: fix indentation
  scripts/tags.sh: fix the Kconfig tags generation when using latest ctags
  nilfs2: prevent WARNING in nilfs_dat_commit_end()
  lib/zlib: remove redundation assignement of avail_in dfltcc_gdht()
  lib/Kconfig.debug: do not enable DEBUG_PREEMPT by default
  lib/zlib: DFLTCC always switch to software inflate for Z_PACKET_FLUSH option
  lib/zlib: DFLTCC support inflate with small window
  lib/zlib: Split deflate and inflate states for DFLTCC
  lib/zlib: DFLTCC not writing header bits when avail_out == 0
  lib/zlib: fix DFLTCC ignoring flush modes when avail_in == 0
  lib/zlib: fix DFLTCC not flushing EOBS when creating raw streams
  lib/zlib: implement switching between DFLTCC and software
  lib/zlib: adjust offset calculation for dfltcc_state
  nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs for invalid DAT metadata block requests
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "exsits" pattern and fix typo instances
  fs: gracefully handle ->get_block not mapping bh in __mpage_writepage
  cramfs: Kconfig: fix spelling & punctuation
  ...

arch/alpha/kernel/process.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

2023-02-03T06:50:00+00:00

generic_ptr is a void * type and does not require a cast.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221213073633.3586-1-zeming@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Li zeming 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch/idle: Change arch_cpu_idle() behavior: always exit with IRQs disabled

2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

Current arch_cpu_idle() is called with IRQs disabled, but will return
with IRQs enabled.

However, the very first thing the generic code does after calling
arch_cpu_idle() is raw_local_irq_disable(). This means that
architectures that can idle with IRQs disabled end up doing a
pointless 'enable-disable' dance.

Therefore, push this IRQ disabling into the idle function, meaning
that those architectures can avoid the pointless IRQ state flipping.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson 
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland  [arm64]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Guo Ren 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.618076436@infradead.org