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<title>parisc: Fix HPMC handler by increasing size to multiple of 16 bytes</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T06:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-24T20:18:25+00:00</published>
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commit d5654e156bc4d68a87bbaa6d7e020baceddf6e68 upstream.

Make sure that the HPMC (High Priority Machine Check) handler is 16-byte
aligned and that it's length in the IVT is a multiple of 16 bytes.
Otherwise PDC may decide not to call the HPMC crash handler.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d5654e156bc4d68a87bbaa6d7e020baceddf6e68 upstream.

Make sure that the HPMC (High Priority Machine Check) handler is 16-byte
aligned and that it's length in the IVT is a multiple of 16 bytes.
Otherwise PDC may decide not to call the HPMC crash handler.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix out of array access in match_pci_device()</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T06:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-25T21:53:22+00:00</published>
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commit 615b2665fd20c327b631ff1e79426775de748094 upstream.

As found by the ubsan checker, the value of the 'index' variable can be
out of range for the bc[] array:

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c:655:21
index 6 is out of range for type 'char [6]'
Backtrace:
 [&lt;104fa850&gt;] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x68/0x80
 [&lt;1019d83c&gt;] check_parent+0xc0/0x170
 [&lt;1019d91c&gt;] descend_children+0x30/0x6c
 [&lt;1059e164&gt;] device_for_each_child+0x60/0x98
 [&lt;1019cd54&gt;] parse_tree_node+0x40/0x54
 [&lt;1019d86c&gt;] check_parent+0xf0/0x170
 [&lt;1019d91c&gt;] descend_children+0x30/0x6c
 [&lt;1059e164&gt;] device_for_each_child+0x60/0x98
 [&lt;1019d938&gt;] descend_children+0x4c/0x6c
 [&lt;1059e164&gt;] device_for_each_child+0x60/0x98
 [&lt;1019cd54&gt;] parse_tree_node+0x40/0x54
 [&lt;1019cffc&gt;] hwpath_to_device+0xa4/0xc4

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 615b2665fd20c327b631ff1e79426775de748094 upstream.

As found by the ubsan checker, the value of the 'index' variable can be
out of range for the bc[] array:

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c:655:21
index 6 is out of range for type 'char [6]'
Backtrace:
 [&lt;104fa850&gt;] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x68/0x80
 [&lt;1019d83c&gt;] check_parent+0xc0/0x170
 [&lt;1019d91c&gt;] descend_children+0x30/0x6c
 [&lt;1059e164&gt;] device_for_each_child+0x60/0x98
 [&lt;1019cd54&gt;] parse_tree_node+0x40/0x54
 [&lt;1019d86c&gt;] check_parent+0xf0/0x170
 [&lt;1019d91c&gt;] descend_children+0x30/0x6c
 [&lt;1059e164&gt;] device_for_each_child+0x60/0x98
 [&lt;1019d938&gt;] descend_children+0x4c/0x6c
 [&lt;1059e164&gt;] device_for_each_child+0x60/0x98
 [&lt;1019cd54&gt;] parse_tree_node+0x40/0x54
 [&lt;1019cffc&gt;] hwpath_to_device+0xa4/0xc4

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>parisc: Handle case where flush_cache_range is called with no context</title>
<updated>2018-03-17T10:49:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T13:18:05+00:00</published>
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Just when I had decided that flush_cache_range() was always called with
a valid context, Helge reported two cases where the
"BUG_ON(!vma-&gt;vm_mm-&gt;context);" was hit on the phantom buildd:

 kernel BUG at /mnt/sdb6/linux/linux-4.15.4/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c:587!
 CPU: 1 PID: 3254 Comm: kworker/1:2 Tainted: G D 4.15.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.15.4-1+b1
 Workqueue: events free_ioctx
  IAOQ[0]: flush_cache_range+0x164/0x168
  IAOQ[1]: flush_cache_page+0x0/0x1c8
  RP(r2): unmap_page_range+0xae8/0xb88
 Backtrace:
  [&lt;00000000404a6980&gt;] unmap_page_range+0xae8/0xb88
  [&lt;00000000404a6ae0&gt;] unmap_single_vma+0xc0/0x188
  [&lt;00000000404a6cdc&gt;] zap_page_range_single+0x134/0x1f8
  [&lt;00000000404a702c&gt;] unmap_mapping_range+0x1cc/0x208
  [&lt;0000000040461518&gt;] truncate_pagecache+0x98/0x108
  [&lt;0000000040461624&gt;] truncate_setsize+0x9c/0xb8
  [&lt;00000000405d7f30&gt;] put_aio_ring_file+0x80/0x100
  [&lt;00000000405d803c&gt;] aio_free_ring+0x8c/0x290
  [&lt;00000000405d82c0&gt;] free_ioctx+0x80/0x180
  [&lt;0000000040284e6c&gt;] process_one_work+0x21c/0x668
  [&lt;00000000402854c4&gt;] worker_thread+0x20c/0x778
  [&lt;0000000040291d44&gt;] kthread+0x2d4/0x2e0
  [&lt;0000000040204020&gt;] end_fault_vector+0x20/0xc0

This indicates that we need to handle the no context case in
flush_cache_range() as we do in flush_cache_mm().

In thinking about this, I realized that we don't need to flush the TLB
when there is no context.  So, I added context checks to the large flush
cases in flush_cache_mm() and flush_cache_range().  The large flush case
occurs frequently in flush_cache_mm() and the change should improve fork
performance.

The v2 version of this change removes the BUG_ON from flush_cache_page()
by skipping the TLB flush when there is no context.  I also added code
to flush the TLB in flush_cache_mm() and flush_cache_range() when we
have a context that's not current.  Now all three routines handle TLB
flushes in a similar manner.

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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Just when I had decided that flush_cache_range() was always called with
a valid context, Helge reported two cases where the
"BUG_ON(!vma-&gt;vm_mm-&gt;context);" was hit on the phantom buildd:

 kernel BUG at /mnt/sdb6/linux/linux-4.15.4/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c:587!
 CPU: 1 PID: 3254 Comm: kworker/1:2 Tainted: G D 4.15.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.15.4-1+b1
 Workqueue: events free_ioctx
  IAOQ[0]: flush_cache_range+0x164/0x168
  IAOQ[1]: flush_cache_page+0x0/0x1c8
  RP(r2): unmap_page_range+0xae8/0xb88
 Backtrace:
  [&lt;00000000404a6980&gt;] unmap_page_range+0xae8/0xb88
  [&lt;00000000404a6ae0&gt;] unmap_single_vma+0xc0/0x188
  [&lt;00000000404a6cdc&gt;] zap_page_range_single+0x134/0x1f8
  [&lt;00000000404a702c&gt;] unmap_mapping_range+0x1cc/0x208
  [&lt;0000000040461518&gt;] truncate_pagecache+0x98/0x108
  [&lt;0000000040461624&gt;] truncate_setsize+0x9c/0xb8
  [&lt;00000000405d7f30&gt;] put_aio_ring_file+0x80/0x100
  [&lt;00000000405d803c&gt;] aio_free_ring+0x8c/0x290
  [&lt;00000000405d82c0&gt;] free_ioctx+0x80/0x180
  [&lt;0000000040284e6c&gt;] process_one_work+0x21c/0x668
  [&lt;00000000402854c4&gt;] worker_thread+0x20c/0x778
  [&lt;0000000040291d44&gt;] kthread+0x2d4/0x2e0
  [&lt;0000000040204020&gt;] end_fault_vector+0x20/0xc0

This indicates that we need to handle the no context case in
flush_cache_range() as we do in flush_cache_mm().

In thinking about this, I realized that we don't need to flush the TLB
when there is no context.  So, I added context checks to the large flush
cases in flush_cache_mm() and flush_cache_range().  The large flush case
occurs frequently in flush_cache_mm() and the change should improve fork
performance.

The v2 version of this change removes the BUG_ON from flush_cache_page()
by skipping the TLB flush when there is no context.  I also added code
to flush the TLB in flush_cache_mm() and flush_cache_range() when we
have a context that's not current.  Now all three routines handle TLB
flushes in a similar manner.

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 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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<entry>
<title>parisc: Reduce irq overhead when run in qemu</title>
<updated>2018-03-02T09:05:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-12T20:43:55+00:00</published>
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When run under QEMU, calling mfctl(16) creates some overhead because the
qemu timer has to be scaled and moved into the register. This patch
reduces the number of calls to mfctl(16) by moving the calls out of the
loops.

Additionally, increase the minimal time interval to 8000 cycles instead
of 500 to compensate possible QEMU delays when delivering interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
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When run under QEMU, calling mfctl(16) creates some overhead because the
qemu timer has to be scaled and moved into the register. This patch
reduces the number of calls to mfctl(16) by moving the calls out of the
loops.

Additionally, increase the minimal time interval to 8000 cycles instead
of 500 to compensate possible QEMU delays when delivering interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
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<entry>
<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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<entry>
<title>parisc: Check if secondary CPUs want own PDC calls</title>
<updated>2018-03-02T09:04:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T21:51:22+00:00</published>
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The architecture specification says (for 64-bit systems): PDC is a per
processor resource, and operating system software must be prepared to
manage separate pointers to PDCE_PROC for each processor.  The address
of PDCE_PROC for the monarch processor is stored in the Page Zero
location MEM_PDC. The address of PDCE_PROC for each non-monarch
processor is passed in gr26 when PDCE_RESET invokes OS_RENDEZ.

Currently we still use one PDC for all CPUs, but in case we face a
machine which is following the specification let's warn about it.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The architecture specification says (for 64-bit systems): PDC is a per
processor resource, and operating system software must be prepared to
manage separate pointers to PDCE_PROC for each processor.  The address
of PDCE_PROC for the monarch processor is stored in the Page Zero
location MEM_PDC. The address of PDCE_PROC for each non-monarch
processor is passed in gr26 when PDCE_RESET invokes OS_RENDEZ.

Currently we still use one PDC for all CPUs, but in case we face a
machine which is following the specification let's warn about it.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<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;
</pre>
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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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<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</published>
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Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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