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<title>Merge branch 'parisc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2018-03-02T21:05:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-02T21:05:20+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:

 - a patch to change the ordering of cache and TLB flushes to hopefully
   fix the random segfaults we very rarely face (by Dave Anglin).

 - a patch to hide the virtual kernel memory layout due to security
   reasons.

 - two small patches to make the kernel run more smoothly under qemu.

* 'parisc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Reduce irq overhead when run in qemu
  parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu
  parisc: Check if secondary CPUs want own PDC calls
  parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout
  parisc: Fix ordering of cache and TLB flushes
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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:

 - a patch to change the ordering of cache and TLB flushes to hopefully
   fix the random segfaults we very rarely face (by Dave Anglin).

 - a patch to hide the virtual kernel memory layout due to security
   reasons.

 - two small patches to make the kernel run more smoothly under qemu.

* 'parisc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Reduce irq overhead when run in qemu
  parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu
  parisc: Check if secondary CPUs want own PDC calls
  parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout
  parisc: Fix ordering of cache and TLB flushes
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<title>parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu</title>
<updated>2018-03-02T09:04:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T21:44:00+00:00</published>
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When running on qemu we know that the (emulated) cr16 cpu-internal
clocks are syncronized. So let's use them unconditionally on qemu.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
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When running on qemu we know that the (emulated) cr16 cpu-internal
clocks are syncronized. So let's use them unconditionally on qemu.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
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<title>parisc: Fix ordering of cache and TLB flushes</title>
<updated>2018-03-02T09:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-27T13:16:07+00:00</published>
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The change to flush_kernel_vmap_range() wasn't sufficient to avoid the
SMP stalls.  The problem is some drivers call these routines with
interrupts disabled.  Interrupts need to be enabled for flush_tlb_all()
and flush_cache_all() to work.  This version adds checks to ensure
interrupts are not disabled before calling routines that need IPI
interrupts.  When interrupts are disabled, we now drop into slower code.

The attached change fixes the ordering of cache and TLB flushes in
several cases.  When we flush the cache using the existing PTE/TLB
entries, we need to flush the TLB after doing the cache flush.  We don't
need to do this when we flush the entire instruction and data caches as
these flushes don't use the existing TLB entries.  The same is true for
tmpalias region flushes.

The flush_kernel_vmap_range() and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range()
routines have been updated.

Secondly, we added a new purge_kernel_dcache_range_asm() routine to
pacache.S and use it in invalidate_kernel_vmap_range().  Nominally,
purges are faster than flushes as the cache lines don't have to be
written back to memory.

Hopefully, this is sufficient to resolve the remaining problems due to
cache speculation.  So far, testing indicates that this is the case.  I
did work up a patch using tmpalias flushes, but there is a performance
hit because we need the physical address for each page, and we also need
to sequence access to the tmpalias flush code.  This increases the
probability of stalls.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The change to flush_kernel_vmap_range() wasn't sufficient to avoid the
SMP stalls.  The problem is some drivers call these routines with
interrupts disabled.  Interrupts need to be enabled for flush_tlb_all()
and flush_cache_all() to work.  This version adds checks to ensure
interrupts are not disabled before calling routines that need IPI
interrupts.  When interrupts are disabled, we now drop into slower code.

The attached change fixes the ordering of cache and TLB flushes in
several cases.  When we flush the cache using the existing PTE/TLB
entries, we need to flush the TLB after doing the cache flush.  We don't
need to do this when we flush the entire instruction and data caches as
these flushes don't use the existing TLB entries.  The same is true for
tmpalias region flushes.

The flush_kernel_vmap_range() and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range()
routines have been updated.

Secondly, we added a new purge_kernel_dcache_range_asm() routine to
pacache.S and use it in invalidate_kernel_vmap_range().  Nominally,
purges are faster than flushes as the cache lines don't have to be
written back to memory.

Hopefully, this is sufficient to resolve the remaining problems due to
cache speculation.  So far, testing indicates that this is the case.  I
did work up a patch using tmpalias flushes, but there is a performance
hit because we need the physical address for each page, and we also need
to sequence access to the tmpalias flush code.  This increases the
probability of stalls.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T00:56:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T00:56:07+00:00</published>
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Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
 "The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly
  due to the clk rate protection support added by Jerome Brunet.

  This feature will allow consumers to lock in a certain rate on the
  output of a clk so that things like audio playback don't hear pops
  when the clk frequency changes due to shared parent clks changing
  rates. Currently the clk API doesn't guarantee the rate of a clk stays
  at the rate you request after clk_set_rate() is called, so this new
  API will allow drivers to express that requirement.

  Beyond this, the core got some debugfs pretty printing patches and a
  couple minor non-critical fixes.

  Looking outside of the core framework diff we have some new driver
  additions and the removal of a legacy TI clk driver. Both of these hit
  high in the dirstat. Also, the removal of the asm-generic/clkdev.h
  file causes small one-liners in all the architecture Kbuild files.

  Overall, the driver diff seems to be the normal stuff that comes all
  the time to fix little problems here and there and to support new
  hardware.

  Summary:

  Core:
   - Clk rate protection
   - Symbolic clk flags in debugfs output
   - Clk registration enabled clks while doing bookkeeping updates

  New Drivers:
   - Spreadtrum SC9860
   - HiSilicon hi3660 stub
   - Qualcomm A53 PLL, SPMI clkdiv, and MSM8916 APCS
   - Amlogic Meson-AXG
   - ASPEED BMC

  Removed Drivers:
   - TI OMAP 3xxx legacy clk (non-DT) support
   - asm*/clkdev.h got removed (not really a driver)

  Updates:
   - Renesas FDP1-0 module clock on R-Car M3-W
   - Renesas LVDS module clock on R-Car V3M
   - Misc fixes to pr_err() prints
   - Qualcomm MSM8916 audio fixes
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 rounded out support for more peripherals
   - Qualcomm Alpha PLL variants
   - Divider code was using container_of() on bad pointers
   - Allwinner DE2 clks on H3
   - Amlogic minor data fixes and dropping of CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
   - Mediatek clk driver compile test support
   - AT91 PMC clk suspend/resume restoration support
   - PLL issues fixed on si5351
   - Broadcom IProc PLL calculation updates
   - DVFS support for Armada mvebu CPU clks
   - Allwinner fixed post-divider support
   - TI clkctrl fixes and support for newer SoCs"

* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (125 commits)
  clk: aspeed: Handle inverse polarity of USB port 1 clock gate
  clk: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_cc_init()
  clk: aspeed: Add reset controller
  clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks
  clk: aspeed: Add platform driver and register PLLs
  clk: aspeed: Register core clocks
  clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs
  clk: mediatek: adjust dependency of reset.c to avoid unexpectedly being built
  clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems
  clk: meson-axg: fix potential NULL dereference in axg_clkc_probe()
  clk: Simplify debugfs registration
  clk: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  clk: Show symbolic clock flags in debugfs
  clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add FDP clock
  clk: Move __clk_{get,put}() into private clk.h API
  clk: sunxi: Use CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for critical clks
  clk: Improve flags doc for of_clk_detect_critical()
  arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild
  clk: sunxi-ng: a83t: Add M divider to TCON1 clock
  clk: Prepare to remove asm-generic/clkdev.h
  ...
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Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
 "The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly
  due to the clk rate protection support added by Jerome Brunet.

  This feature will allow consumers to lock in a certain rate on the
  output of a clk so that things like audio playback don't hear pops
  when the clk frequency changes due to shared parent clks changing
  rates. Currently the clk API doesn't guarantee the rate of a clk stays
  at the rate you request after clk_set_rate() is called, so this new
  API will allow drivers to express that requirement.

  Beyond this, the core got some debugfs pretty printing patches and a
  couple minor non-critical fixes.

  Looking outside of the core framework diff we have some new driver
  additions and the removal of a legacy TI clk driver. Both of these hit
  high in the dirstat. Also, the removal of the asm-generic/clkdev.h
  file causes small one-liners in all the architecture Kbuild files.

  Overall, the driver diff seems to be the normal stuff that comes all
  the time to fix little problems here and there and to support new
  hardware.

  Summary:

  Core:
   - Clk rate protection
   - Symbolic clk flags in debugfs output
   - Clk registration enabled clks while doing bookkeeping updates

  New Drivers:
   - Spreadtrum SC9860
   - HiSilicon hi3660 stub
   - Qualcomm A53 PLL, SPMI clkdiv, and MSM8916 APCS
   - Amlogic Meson-AXG
   - ASPEED BMC

  Removed Drivers:
   - TI OMAP 3xxx legacy clk (non-DT) support
   - asm*/clkdev.h got removed (not really a driver)

  Updates:
   - Renesas FDP1-0 module clock on R-Car M3-W
   - Renesas LVDS module clock on R-Car V3M
   - Misc fixes to pr_err() prints
   - Qualcomm MSM8916 audio fixes
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 rounded out support for more peripherals
   - Qualcomm Alpha PLL variants
   - Divider code was using container_of() on bad pointers
   - Allwinner DE2 clks on H3
   - Amlogic minor data fixes and dropping of CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
   - Mediatek clk driver compile test support
   - AT91 PMC clk suspend/resume restoration support
   - PLL issues fixed on si5351
   - Broadcom IProc PLL calculation updates
   - DVFS support for Armada mvebu CPU clks
   - Allwinner fixed post-divider support
   - TI clkctrl fixes and support for newer SoCs"

* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (125 commits)
  clk: aspeed: Handle inverse polarity of USB port 1 clock gate
  clk: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_cc_init()
  clk: aspeed: Add reset controller
  clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks
  clk: aspeed: Add platform driver and register PLLs
  clk: aspeed: Register core clocks
  clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs
  clk: mediatek: adjust dependency of reset.c to avoid unexpectedly being built
  clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems
  clk: meson-axg: fix potential NULL dereference in axg_clkc_probe()
  clk: Simplify debugfs registration
  clk: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  clk: Show symbolic clock flags in debugfs
  clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add FDP clock
  clk: Move __clk_{get,put}() into private clk.h API
  clk: sunxi: Use CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for critical clks
  clk: Improve flags doc for of_clk_detect_critical()
  arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild
  clk: sunxi-ng: a83t: Add M divider to TCON1 clock
  clk: Prepare to remove asm-generic/clkdev.h
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T22:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T22:18:52+00:00</published>
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Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...
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Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T17:08:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-29T17:08:34+00:00</published>
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Pull init_task initializer cleanups from David Howells:
 "It doesn't seem useful to have the init_task in a header file rather
  than in a normal source file. We could consolidate init_task handling
  instead and expand out various macros.

  Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling:

   (1) Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds for cris, hexagon and
       openrisc.

   (2) Alter the INIT_TASK_DATA linker script macro to set
       init_thread_union and init_stack rather than defining these in C.

       Insert init_task and init_thread_into into the init_stack area in
       the linker script as appropriate to the configuration, with
       different section markers so that they end up correctly ordered.

       We can then get merge ia64's init_task.c into the main one.

       We then have a bunch of single-use INIT_*() macros that seem only
       to be macros because they used to be used per-arch. We can then
       expand these in place of the user and get rid of a few lines and
       a lot of backslashes.

   (3) Expand INIT_TASK() in place.

   (4) Expand in place various small INIT_*() macros that are defined
       conditionally. Expand them and surround them by #if[n]def/#endif
       in the .c file as it takes fewer lines.

   (5) Expand INIT_SIGNALS() and INIT_SIGHAND() in place.

   (6) Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID in place.

  These macros can then be discarded"

* tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID and remove
  Expand the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros and remove
  Expand various INIT_* macros and remove
  Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove
  Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union
  openrisc: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  hexagon: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  cris: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
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Pull init_task initializer cleanups from David Howells:
 "It doesn't seem useful to have the init_task in a header file rather
  than in a normal source file. We could consolidate init_task handling
  instead and expand out various macros.

  Here's a series of patches that consolidate init_task handling:

   (1) Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds for cris, hexagon and
       openrisc.

   (2) Alter the INIT_TASK_DATA linker script macro to set
       init_thread_union and init_stack rather than defining these in C.

       Insert init_task and init_thread_into into the init_stack area in
       the linker script as appropriate to the configuration, with
       different section markers so that they end up correctly ordered.

       We can then get merge ia64's init_task.c into the main one.

       We then have a bunch of single-use INIT_*() macros that seem only
       to be macros because they used to be used per-arch. We can then
       expand these in place of the user and get rid of a few lines and
       a lot of backslashes.

   (3) Expand INIT_TASK() in place.

   (4) Expand in place various small INIT_*() macros that are defined
       conditionally. Expand them and surround them by #if[n]def/#endif
       in the .c file as it takes fewer lines.

   (5) Expand INIT_SIGNALS() and INIT_SIGHAND() in place.

   (6) Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID in place.

  These macros can then be discarded"

* tag 'init_task-20180117' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID and remove
  Expand the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros and remove
  Expand various INIT_* macros and remove
  Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove
  Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union
  openrisc: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  hexagon: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
  cris: Make THREAD_SIZE available to vmlinux.lds
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: unify compat_siginfo_t</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T23:40:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T19:53:17+00:00</published>
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--EWB Added #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI to arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c
      Changed #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32 to #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI in
      linux/compat.h

      CONFIG_X86_X32 is set when the user requests X32 support.

      CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI is set when the user requests X32 support
      and the tool-chain has X32 allowing X32 support to be built.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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--EWB Added #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI to arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c
      Changed #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32 to #ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI in
      linux/compat.h

      CONFIG_X86_X32 is set when the user requests X32 support.

      CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI is set when the user requests X32 support
      and the tool-chain has X32 allowing X32 support to be built.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Remove _sys_private and _overrun_incr from struct compat_siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-01-12T20:34:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-20T03:18:51+00:00</published>
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We have never passed either field to or from userspace so just remove them.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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We have never passed either field to or from userspace so just remove them.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T23:21:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T15:12:01+00:00</published>
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Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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