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<title>linux.git/arch/parisc/kernel, branch v3.15.3</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<title>parisc: 'renameat2()' doesn't need (or have) a separate compat system call</title>
<updated>2014-05-23T16:23:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-23T16:23:51+00:00</published>
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The 'renameat2()' system call was incorrectly added as a ENTRY_COMP() in
the parisc system call table by commit 18e480aa07f78 ("parisc: add
renameat2 syscall").  That causes a link-time error due to there not
being any compat version of that system call:

  arch/parisc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
  (.rodata+0xad0): undefined reference to `compat_sys_renameat2'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Easily fixed by marking the system call as being the same for compat as
for native by using ENTRY_SAME() instead of ENTRY_COMP().

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The 'renameat2()' system call was incorrectly added as a ENTRY_COMP() in
the parisc system call table by commit 18e480aa07f78 ("parisc: add
renameat2 syscall").  That causes a link-time error due to there not
being any compat version of that system call:

  arch/parisc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
  (.rodata+0xad0): undefined reference to `compat_sys_renameat2'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Easily fixed by marking the system call as being the same for compat as
for native by using ENTRY_SAME() instead of ENTRY_COMP().

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: add renameat2 syscall</title>
<updated>2014-05-20T08:59:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-20T08:59:37+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-3.15-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2014-05-20T05:35:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-20T05:35:28+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
 "There are two patches in here:

  The first patch greatly improves latency and corrects the memory
  ordering in our light-weight atomic locking syscall.

  The second patch ratelimits printing of userspace segfaults in the
  same way as it's done on other platforms.  This fixes a possible DOS
  on parisc since it prevents the syslog to grow too fast.  For example,
  when the debian acl2 package was built on our debian buildd servers,
  this package produced lots of gigabytes in syslog in very short time
  and thus filled our harddisks, which then turned the server nearly
  completely unaccessible and unresponsive"

* 'parisc-3.15-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Improve LWS-CAS performance
  parisc: ratelimit userspace segfault printing
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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
 "There are two patches in here:

  The first patch greatly improves latency and corrects the memory
  ordering in our light-weight atomic locking syscall.

  The second patch ratelimits printing of userspace segfaults in the
  same way as it's done on other platforms.  This fixes a possible DOS
  on parisc since it prevents the syslog to grow too fast.  For example,
  when the debian acl2 package was built on our debian buildd servers,
  this package produced lots of gigabytes in syslog in very short time
  and thus filled our harddisks, which then turned the server nearly
  completely unaccessible and unresponsive"

* 'parisc-3.15-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Improve LWS-CAS performance
  parisc: ratelimit userspace segfault printing
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Improve LWS-CAS performance</title>
<updated>2014-05-15T19:12:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-11T22:40:50+00:00</published>
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The attached change significantly improves the performance of the LWS-CAS code
in syscall.S.
This allows a number of packages to build (e.g., zeromq3, gtest and libxs)
that previously failed because slow LWS-CAS performance under contention. In
particular, interrupts taken while the lock was taken degraded performance
significantly.

The change does the following:

1) Disables interrupts around the CAS operation, and
2) Changes the loads and stores to use the ordered completer, "o", on
PA 2.0. "o" and "ma" with a zero offset are equivalent. The latter is
accepted on both PA 1.X and 2.0.

The use of ordered loads and stores probably makes no difference on all
existing hardware, but it seemed pedantically correct. In particular, the CAS
operation must complete before LDCW lock is released. As written before, a
processor could reorder the operations.

I don't believe the period interrupts are disabled is long enough to
significantly increase interrupt latency. For example, the TLB insert code is
longer. Worst case is a memory fault in the CAS operation.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The attached change significantly improves the performance of the LWS-CAS code
in syscall.S.
This allows a number of packages to build (e.g., zeromq3, gtest and libxs)
that previously failed because slow LWS-CAS performance under contention. In
particular, interrupts taken while the lock was taken degraded performance
significantly.

The change does the following:

1) Disables interrupts around the CAS operation, and
2) Changes the loads and stores to use the ordered completer, "o", on
PA 2.0. "o" and "ma" with a zero offset are equivalent. The latter is
accepted on both PA 1.X and 2.0.

The use of ordered loads and stores probably makes no difference on all
existing hardware, but it seemed pedantically correct. In particular, the CAS
operation must complete before LDCW lock is released. As written before, a
processor could reorder the operations.

I don't believe the period interrupts are disabled is long enough to
significantly increase interrupt latency. For example, the TLB insert code is
longer. Worst case is a memory fault in the CAS operation.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: ratelimit userspace segfault printing</title>
<updated>2014-05-15T19:12:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-05T16:07:12+00:00</published>
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Ratelimit printing of userspace segfaults and make it runtime
configurable via the /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace variable. This
should resolve syslog from growing way too fast and thus prevents
possible system service attacks.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
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Ratelimit printing of userspace segfaults and make it runtime
configurable via the /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace variable. This
should resolve syslog from growing way too fast and thus prevents
possible system service attacks.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc,metag: Do not hardcode maximum userspace stack size</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T21:26:02+00:00</published>
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This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards
(currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum
initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable
via a config option.

The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two
memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the
memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense
to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used
as heap then.

This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and
uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few
years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards
(currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum
initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable
via a config option.

The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two
memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the
memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense
to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used
as heap then.

This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and
uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few
years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2014-04-17T20:21:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-17T20:21:35+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "There are two major changes in this patchset:

  The major fix is that the epoll_pwait() syscall for 32bit userspace
  was not using the compat wrapper on a 64bit kernel.

  Secondly we changed the value of SHMLBA from 4MB to PAGE_SIZE to
  reflect that we can actually mmap to any multiple of PAGE_SIZE.  The
  only thing which needs care is that shared mmaps need to be mapped at
  the same offset inside the 4MB cache window"

* 'parisc-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: fix epoll_pwait syscall on compat kernel
  parisc: change value of SHMLBA from 0x00400000 to PAGE_SIZE
  parisc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses for address calculation
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "There are two major changes in this patchset:

  The major fix is that the epoll_pwait() syscall for 32bit userspace
  was not using the compat wrapper on a 64bit kernel.

  Secondly we changed the value of SHMLBA from 4MB to PAGE_SIZE to
  reflect that we can actually mmap to any multiple of PAGE_SIZE.  The
  only thing which needs care is that shared mmaps need to be mapped at
  the same offset inside the 4MB cache window"

* 'parisc-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: fix epoll_pwait syscall on compat kernel
  parisc: change value of SHMLBA from 0x00400000 to PAGE_SIZE
  parisc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses for address calculation
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix epoll_pwait syscall on compat kernel</title>
<updated>2014-04-13T13:07:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-12T22:03:55+00:00</published>
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This bug was detected with the libio-epoll-perl debian package where the
test case IO-Ppoll-compat.t failed.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
CC: stable@kernel.org   # 3.0+
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This bug was detected with the libio-epoll-perl debian package where the
test case IO-Ppoll-compat.t failed.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
CC: stable@kernel.org   # 3.0+
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: change value of SHMLBA from 0x00400000 to PAGE_SIZE</title>
<updated>2014-04-13T13:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-09T17:49:28+00:00</published>
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On parisc, SHMLBA was defined to 0x00400000 (4MB) to reflect that we need to
take care of our caches for shared mappings. But actually, we can map a file at
any multiple address of PAGE_SIZE, so let us correct that now with a value of
PAGE_SIZE for SHMLBA.  Instead we now take care of this cache colouring via the
constant SHM_COLOUR while we map shared pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
CC: Jeroen Roovers &lt;jer@gentoo.org&gt;
CC: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
CC: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@systemhalted.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.13+]
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On parisc, SHMLBA was defined to 0x00400000 (4MB) to reflect that we need to
take care of our caches for shared mappings. But actually, we can map a file at
any multiple address of PAGE_SIZE, so let us correct that now with a value of
PAGE_SIZE for SHMLBA.  Instead we now take care of this cache colouring via the
constant SHM_COLOUR while we map shared pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
CC: Jeroen Roovers &lt;jer@gentoo.org&gt;
CC: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
CC: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@systemhalted.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.13+]
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-04-01T18:22:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-01T18:22:57+00:00</published>
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Pull irq code updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq department proudly presents:

   - Another tree wide sweep of irq infrastructure abuse.  Clear winner
     of the trainwreck engineering contest was:
         #include "../../../kernel/irq/settings.h"

   - Tree wide update of irq_set_affinity() callbacks which miss a cpu
     online check when picking a single cpu out of the affinity mask.

   - Tree wide consolidation of interrupt statistics.

   - Updates to the threaded interrupt infrastructure to allow explicit
     wakeup of the interrupt thread and a variant of synchronize_irq()
     which synchronizes only the hard interrupt handler.  Both are
     needed to replace the homebrewn thread handling in the mmc/sdhci
     code.

   - New irq chip callbacks to allow proper support for GPIO based irqs.
     The GPIO based interrupts need to request/release GPIO resources
     from request/free_irq.

   - A few new ARM interrupt chips.  No revolutionary new hardware, just
     differently wreckaged variations of the scheme.

   - Small improvments, cleanups and updates all over the place"

I was hoping that that trainwreck engineering contest was a April Fools'
joke.  But no.

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits)
  irqchip: sun7i/sun6i: Disable NMI before registering the handler
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: dts: Fix IRQ number for sun6i NMI controller
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: irqchip: Update the documentation
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: dts: Add NMI irqchip support
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: irqchip: Add irqchip driver for NMI controller
  genirq: Export symbol no_action()
  arm: omap: Fix typo in ams-delta-fiq.c
  m68k: atari: Fix the last kernel_stat.h fallout
  irqchip: sun4i: Simplify sun4i_irq_ack
  irqchip: sun4i: Use handle_fasteoi_irq for all interrupts
  genirq: procfs: Make smp_affinity values go+r
  softirq: Add linux/irq.h to make it compile again
  m68k: amiga: Add linux/irq.h to make it compile again
  irqchip: sun4i: Don't ack IRQs &gt; 0, fix acking of IRQ 0
  irqchip: sun4i: Fix a comment about mask register initialization
  irqchip: sun4i: Fix irq 0 not working
  genirq: Add a new IRQCHIP_EOI_THREADED flag
  genirq: Document IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE flag
  ARM: sunxi: dt: Convert to the new irq controller compatibles
  irqchip: sunxi: Change compatibles
  ...
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Pull irq code updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq department proudly presents:

   - Another tree wide sweep of irq infrastructure abuse.  Clear winner
     of the trainwreck engineering contest was:
         #include "../../../kernel/irq/settings.h"

   - Tree wide update of irq_set_affinity() callbacks which miss a cpu
     online check when picking a single cpu out of the affinity mask.

   - Tree wide consolidation of interrupt statistics.

   - Updates to the threaded interrupt infrastructure to allow explicit
     wakeup of the interrupt thread and a variant of synchronize_irq()
     which synchronizes only the hard interrupt handler.  Both are
     needed to replace the homebrewn thread handling in the mmc/sdhci
     code.

   - New irq chip callbacks to allow proper support for GPIO based irqs.
     The GPIO based interrupts need to request/release GPIO resources
     from request/free_irq.

   - A few new ARM interrupt chips.  No revolutionary new hardware, just
     differently wreckaged variations of the scheme.

   - Small improvments, cleanups and updates all over the place"

I was hoping that that trainwreck engineering contest was a April Fools'
joke.  But no.

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits)
  irqchip: sun7i/sun6i: Disable NMI before registering the handler
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: dts: Fix IRQ number for sun6i NMI controller
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: irqchip: Update the documentation
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: dts: Add NMI irqchip support
  ARM: sun7i/sun6i: irqchip: Add irqchip driver for NMI controller
  genirq: Export symbol no_action()
  arm: omap: Fix typo in ams-delta-fiq.c
  m68k: atari: Fix the last kernel_stat.h fallout
  irqchip: sun4i: Simplify sun4i_irq_ack
  irqchip: sun4i: Use handle_fasteoi_irq for all interrupts
  genirq: procfs: Make smp_affinity values go+r
  softirq: Add linux/irq.h to make it compile again
  m68k: amiga: Add linux/irq.h to make it compile again
  irqchip: sun4i: Don't ack IRQs &gt; 0, fix acking of IRQ 0
  irqchip: sun4i: Fix a comment about mask register initialization
  irqchip: sun4i: Fix irq 0 not working
  genirq: Add a new IRQCHIP_EOI_THREADED flag
  genirq: Document IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE flag
  ARM: sunxi: dt: Convert to the new irq controller compatibles
  irqchip: sunxi: Change compatibles
  ...
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