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<title>ia64:unwind: fix double free for mod-&gt;arch.init_unw_table</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T10:27:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>chenzefeng</name>
<email>chenzefeng2@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-06T07:46:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c5e5c48c16422521d363c33cfb0dcf58f88c119b ]

The function free_module in file kernel/module.c as follow:

void free_module(struct module *mod) {
	......
	module_arch_cleanup(mod);
	......
	module_arch_freeing_init(mod);
	......
}

Both module_arch_cleanup and module_arch_freeing_init function
would free the mod-&gt;arch.init_unw_table, which cause double free.

Here, set mod-&gt;arch.init_unw_table = NULL after remove the unwind
table to avoid double free.

Signed-off-by: chenzefeng &lt;chenzefeng2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c5e5c48c16422521d363c33cfb0dcf58f88c119b ]

The function free_module in file kernel/module.c as follow:

void free_module(struct module *mod) {
	......
	module_arch_cleanup(mod);
	......
	module_arch_freeing_init(mod);
	......
}

Both module_arch_cleanup and module_arch_freeing_init function
would free the mod-&gt;arch.init_unw_table, which cause double free.

Here, set mod-&gt;arch.init_unw_table = NULL after remove the unwind
table to avoid double free.

Signed-off-by: chenzefeng &lt;chenzefeng2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags</title>
<updated>2018-12-17T20:55:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-13T00:20:16+00:00</published>
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commit 768ae309a96103ed02eb1e111e838c87854d8b51 upstream.

This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages() and replaces
them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers
as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs)
within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Drop changes in rapidio, vchiq, goldfish
 - Keep the "write" variable in amdgpu_ttm_tt_pin_userptr() as it's still
   needed
 - Also update calls from various other places that now use
   get_user_pages_remote() upstream, which were updated there by commit
   9beae1ea8930 "mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force ..."
 - Also update calls from hfi1 and ipath
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 768ae309a96103ed02eb1e111e838c87854d8b51 upstream.

This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages() and replaces
them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers
as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs)
within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Drop changes in rapidio, vchiq, goldfish
 - Keep the "write" variable in amdgpu_ttm_tt_pin_userptr() as it's still
   needed
 - Also update calls from various other places that now use
   get_user_pages_remote() upstream, which were updated there by commit
   9beae1ea8930 "mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force ..."
 - Also update calls from hfi1 and ipath
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information</title>
<updated>2018-11-27T15:07:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Kaehlcke</name>
<email>mka@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T19:43:52+00:00</published>
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commit ebf003f0cfb3705e60d40dedc3ec949176c741af upstream.

Largely redundant code is used in different places to generate C headers
from offset information extracted from assembly language output.
Consolidate the code in Makefile.lib and use this instead.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ebf003f0cfb3705e60d40dedc3ec949176c741af upstream.

Largely redundant code is used in different places to generate C headers
from offset information extracted from assembly language output.
Consolidate the code in Makefile.lib and use this instead.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: fix module loading for gcc-5.4</title>
<updated>2018-03-24T09:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergei Trofimovich</name>
<email>slyfox@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T18:51:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a25fb8508c1b80dce742dbeaa4d75a1e9f2c5617 ]

Starting from gcc-5.4+ gcc generates MLX instructions in more cases to
refer local symbols:

    https://gcc.gnu.org/PR60465

That caused ia64 module loader to choke on such instructions:

    fuse: invalid slot number 1 for IMM64

The Linux kernel used to handle only case where relocation pointed to
slot=2 instruction in the bundle.  That limitation was fixed in linux by
commit 9c184a073bfd ("[IA64] Fix 2.6 kernel for the new ia64 assembler")
See

    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1433

This change lifts the slot=2 restriction from the kernel module loader.

Tested on 'fuse' and 'btrfs' kernel modules.

Cc: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: H J Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/601014
Tested-by: Émeric MASCHINO &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a25fb8508c1b80dce742dbeaa4d75a1e9f2c5617 ]

Starting from gcc-5.4+ gcc generates MLX instructions in more cases to
refer local symbols:

    https://gcc.gnu.org/PR60465

That caused ia64 module loader to choke on such instructions:

    fuse: invalid slot number 1 for IMM64

The Linux kernel used to handle only case where relocation pointed to
slot=2 instruction in the bundle.  That limitation was fixed in linux by
commit 9c184a073bfd ("[IA64] Fix 2.6 kernel for the new ia64 assembler")
See

    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1433

This change lifts the slot=2 restriction from the kernel module loader.

Tested on 'fuse' and 'btrfs' kernel modules.

Cc: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: H J Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/601014
Tested-by: Émeric MASCHINO &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[IA64] Enable mlock2 syscall for ia64</title>
<updated>2015-12-14T18:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-14T18:30:02+00:00</published>
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New system call added in
  commit a8ca5d0ecbdde5cc3d7accacbd69968b0c98764e
  mm: mlock: add new mlock system call

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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New system call added in
  commit a8ca5d0ecbdde5cc3d7accacbd69968b0c98764e
  mm: mlock: add new mlock system call

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[IA64] Wire up kcmp syscall</title>
<updated>2015-10-28T21:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Émeric MASCHINO</name>
<email>emeric.maschino@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-22T21:58:48+00:00</published>
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systemd &gt; 218 fails to compile on ia64 with:

     error: ‘__NR_kcmp’ undeclared [1].

I've been told that this is because the kcmp syscall hasn't been wired up
for the ia64 arch [2].

The proposed patch thus wire up the kcmp syscall for the ia64 arch.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492#c17

Signed-off-by: Émeric MASCHINO &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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systemd &gt; 218 fails to compile on ia64 with:

     error: ‘__NR_kcmp’ undeclared [1].

I've been told that this is because the kcmp syscall hasn't been wired up
for the ia64 arch [2].

The proposed patch thus wire up the kcmp syscall for the ia64 arch.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492#c17

Signed-off-by: Émeric MASCHINO &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: Enable userfaultfd and membarrier system calls</title>
<updated>2015-09-15T23:22:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luck, Tony</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-15T20:50:18+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-09-09T00:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T00:52:23+00:00</published>
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of the rest of MM.  There was an unusually large amount of
  MM material this time"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (141 commits)
  zpool: remove no-op module init/exit
  mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops
  mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops
  mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload &amp; refactoring
  zram: unify error reporting
  zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache()
  zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count()
  zsmalloc: use class-&gt;pages_per_zspage
  zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source
  zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list
  zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction
  zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
  zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api
  zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments
  zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function
  zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats
  zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate'
  mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range()
  mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node
  memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
  ...
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of the rest of MM.  There was an unusually large amount of
  MM material this time"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (141 commits)
  zpool: remove no-op module init/exit
  mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops
  mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops
  mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload &amp; refactoring
  zram: unify error reporting
  zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache()
  zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count()
  zsmalloc: use class-&gt;pages_per_zspage
  zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source
  zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list
  zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction
  zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
  zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api
  zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments
  zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function
  zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats
  zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate'
  mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range()
  mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node
  memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node()</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T22:03:50+00:00</published>
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alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a81 ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE.  Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise.  In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.

The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac301 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f8e ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").

Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.

To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage.  Both functions get described in comments.

It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly.  The number of users would be small
anyway.

Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead.  This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid &lt; 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.

Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.

To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers.  Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Holt &lt;robinmholt@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Cliff Whickman &lt;cpw@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a81 ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE.  Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise.  In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.

The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac301 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f8e ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").

Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.

To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage.  Both functions get described in comments.

It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly.  The number of users would be small
anyway.

Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead.  This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid &lt; 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.

Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.

To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers.  Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Holt &lt;robinmholt@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Cliff Whickman &lt;cpw@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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