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<title>linux.git/arch/sh/include/asm, branch v4.14.232</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Fix 'acccess_ok()' on alpha and SH</title>
<updated>2020-06-20T08:24:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-06T19:15:04+00:00</published>
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commit 94bd8a05cd4de344a9a57e52ef7d99550251984f upstream.

Commit 594cc251fdd0 ("make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'")
broke both alpha and SH booting in qemu, as noticed by Guenter Roeck.

It turns out that the bug wasn't actually in that commit itself (which
would have been surprising: it was mostly a no-op), but in how the
addition of access_ok() to the strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()
functions now triggered the case where those functions would test the
access of the very last byte of the user address space.

The string functions actually did that user range test before too, but
they did it manually by just comparing against user_addr_max().  But
with user_access_begin() doing the check (using "access_ok()"), it now
exposed problems in the architecture implementations of that function.

For example, on alpha, the access_ok() helper macro looked like this:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size) \
        ((get_fs().seg &amp; (addr | size | (addr+size))) == 0)

and what it basically tests is of any of the high bits get set (the
USER_DS masking value is 0xfffffc0000000000).

And that's completely wrong for the "addr+size" check.  Because it's
off-by-one for the case where we check to the very end of the user
address space, which is exactly what the strn*_user() functions do.

Why? Because "addr+size" will be exactly the size of the address space,
so trying to access the last byte of the user address space will fail
the __access_ok() check, even though it shouldn't.  As a result, the
user string accessor functions failed consistently - because they
literally don't know how long the string is going to be, and the max
access is going to be that last byte of the user address space.

Side note: that alpha macro is buggy for another reason too - it re-uses
the arguments twice.

And SH has another version of almost the exact same bug:

  #define __addr_ok(addr) \
        ((unsigned long __force)(addr) &lt; current_thread_info()-&gt;addr_limit.seg)

so far so good: yes, a user address must be below the limit.  But then:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size)         \
        (__addr_ok((addr) + (size)))

is wrong with the exact same off-by-one case: the case when "addr+size"
is exactly _equal_ to the limit is actually perfectly fine (think "one
byte access at the last address of the user address space")

The SH version is actually seriously buggy in another way: it doesn't
actually check for overflow, even though it did copy the _comment_ that
talks about overflow.

So it turns out that both SH and alpha actually have completely buggy
implementations of access_ok(), but they happened to work in practice
(although the SH overflow one is a serious serious security bug, not
that anybody likely cares about SH security).

This fixes the problems by using a similar macro on both alpha and SH.
It isn't trying to be clever, the end address is based on this logic:

        unsigned long __ao_end = __ao_a + __ao_b - !!__ao_b;

which basically says "add start and length, and then subtract one unless
the length was zero".  We can't subtract one for a zero length, or we'd
just hit an underflow instead.

For a lot of access_ok() users the length is a constant, so this isn't
actually as expensive as it initially looks.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen &lt;miles.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 94bd8a05cd4de344a9a57e52ef7d99550251984f upstream.

Commit 594cc251fdd0 ("make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'")
broke both alpha and SH booting in qemu, as noticed by Guenter Roeck.

It turns out that the bug wasn't actually in that commit itself (which
would have been surprising: it was mostly a no-op), but in how the
addition of access_ok() to the strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()
functions now triggered the case where those functions would test the
access of the very last byte of the user address space.

The string functions actually did that user range test before too, but
they did it manually by just comparing against user_addr_max().  But
with user_access_begin() doing the check (using "access_ok()"), it now
exposed problems in the architecture implementations of that function.

For example, on alpha, the access_ok() helper macro looked like this:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size) \
        ((get_fs().seg &amp; (addr | size | (addr+size))) == 0)

and what it basically tests is of any of the high bits get set (the
USER_DS masking value is 0xfffffc0000000000).

And that's completely wrong for the "addr+size" check.  Because it's
off-by-one for the case where we check to the very end of the user
address space, which is exactly what the strn*_user() functions do.

Why? Because "addr+size" will be exactly the size of the address space,
so trying to access the last byte of the user address space will fail
the __access_ok() check, even though it shouldn't.  As a result, the
user string accessor functions failed consistently - because they
literally don't know how long the string is going to be, and the max
access is going to be that last byte of the user address space.

Side note: that alpha macro is buggy for another reason too - it re-uses
the arguments twice.

And SH has another version of almost the exact same bug:

  #define __addr_ok(addr) \
        ((unsigned long __force)(addr) &lt; current_thread_info()-&gt;addr_limit.seg)

so far so good: yes, a user address must be below the limit.  But then:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size)         \
        (__addr_ok((addr) + (size)))

is wrong with the exact same off-by-one case: the case when "addr+size"
is exactly _equal_ to the limit is actually perfectly fine (think "one
byte access at the last address of the user address space")

The SH version is actually seriously buggy in another way: it doesn't
actually check for overflow, even though it did copy the _comment_ that
talks about overflow.

So it turns out that both SH and alpha actually have completely buggy
implementations of access_ok(), but they happened to work in practice
(although the SH overflow one is a serious serious security bug, not
that anybody likely cares about SH security).

This fixes the problems by using a similar macro on both alpha and SH.
It isn't trying to be clever, the end address is based on this logic:

        unsigned long __ao_end = __ao_a + __ao_b - !!__ao_b;

which basically says "add start and length, and then subtract one unless
the length was zero".  We can't subtract one for a zero length, or we'd
just hit an underflow instead.

For a lot of access_ok() users the length is a constant, so this isn't
actually as expensive as it initially looks.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen &lt;miles.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sh: prevent warnings when using iounmap</title>
<updated>2019-07-31T05:28:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T03:52:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 733f0025f0fb43e382b84db0930ae502099b7e62 ]

When building drm/exynos for sh, as part of an allmodconfig build, the
following warning triggered:

  exynos7_drm_decon.c: In function `decon_remove':
  exynos7_drm_decon.c:769:24: warning: unused variable `ctx'
    struct decon_context *ctx = dev_get_drvdata(&amp;pdev-&gt;dev);

The ctx variable is only used as argument to iounmap().

In sh - allmodconfig CONFIG_MMU is not defined
so it ended up in:

\#define __iounmap(addr)	do { } while (0)
\#define iounmap		__iounmap

Fix the warning by introducing a static inline function for iounmap.

This is similar to several other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190622114208.24427-1-sam@ravnborg.org
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Inki Dae &lt;inki.dae@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 733f0025f0fb43e382b84db0930ae502099b7e62 ]

When building drm/exynos for sh, as part of an allmodconfig build, the
following warning triggered:

  exynos7_drm_decon.c: In function `decon_remove':
  exynos7_drm_decon.c:769:24: warning: unused variable `ctx'
    struct decon_context *ctx = dev_get_drvdata(&amp;pdev-&gt;dev);

The ctx variable is only used as argument to iounmap().

In sh - allmodconfig CONFIG_MMU is not defined
so it ended up in:

\#define __iounmap(addr)	do { } while (0)
\#define iounmap		__iounmap

Fix the warning by introducing a static inline function for iounmap.

This is similar to several other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190622114208.24427-1-sam@ravnborg.org
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Inki Dae &lt;inki.dae@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions</title>
<updated>2017-09-22T22:59:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-22T07:42:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=c17c02040bf0d186cebd3e66ff349f955575bf38'/>
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<content type='text'>
Some architectures define the no-op macros/functions copy_segments,
release_segments and forget_segments. These are used nowhere in the
tree, so removed them.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;   [for arch/arc]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Some architectures define the no-op macros/functions copy_segments,
release_segments and forget_segments. These are used nowhere in the
tree, so removed them.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;   [for arch/arc]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T18:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T18:52:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5f82e71a001d14824a7728ad9e49f6aea420f161'/>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add 'cross-release' support to lockdep, which allows APIs like
   completions, where it's not the 'owner' who releases the lock, to be
   tracked. It's all activated automatically under
   CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

 - Clean up (restructure) the x86 atomics op implementation to be more
   readable, in preparation of KASAN annotations. (Dmitry Vyukov)

 - Fix static keys (Paolo Bonzini)

 - Add killable versions of down_read() et al (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Rework and fix jump_label locking (Marc Zyngier, Paolo Bonzini)

 - Rework (and fix) tlb_flush_pending() barriers (Peter Zijlstra)

 - Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() and convert its usages, introduce
   smp_mb__after_spinlock() (Peter Zijlstra)

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests
  sched/completion: Avoid unnecessary stack allocation for COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK()
  acpi/nfit: Fix COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() abuse
  locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
  smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data
  locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Disable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT for the time being
  futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour
  Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document...
  locking/lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
  workqueue/lockdep: 'Fix' flush_work() annotation
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests
  mm, locking/barriers: Clarify tlb_flush_pending() barriers
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS truly non-interactive
  locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map
  locking/lockdep: Rename CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETE to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
  locking/lockdep: Reword title of LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE config
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
  locking/lockdep: Fix the rollback and overwrite detection logic in crossrelease
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add 'cross-release' support to lockdep, which allows APIs like
   completions, where it's not the 'owner' who releases the lock, to be
   tracked. It's all activated automatically under
   CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

 - Clean up (restructure) the x86 atomics op implementation to be more
   readable, in preparation of KASAN annotations. (Dmitry Vyukov)

 - Fix static keys (Paolo Bonzini)

 - Add killable versions of down_read() et al (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Rework and fix jump_label locking (Marc Zyngier, Paolo Bonzini)

 - Rework (and fix) tlb_flush_pending() barriers (Peter Zijlstra)

 - Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() and convert its usages, introduce
   smp_mb__after_spinlock() (Peter Zijlstra)

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests
  sched/completion: Avoid unnecessary stack allocation for COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK()
  acpi/nfit: Fix COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() abuse
  locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
  smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data
  locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Disable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT for the time being
  futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour
  Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document...
  locking/lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
  workqueue/lockdep: 'Fix' flush_work() annotation
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests
  mm, locking/barriers: Clarify tlb_flush_pending() barriers
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS truly non-interactive
  locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map
  locking/lockdep: Rename CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETE to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
  locking/lockdep: Reword title of LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE config
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
  locking/lockdep: Fix the rollback and overwrite detection logic in crossrelease
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour</title>
<updated>2017-08-25T20:49:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-24T07:31:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3'/>
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There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

This effectively distributes the Will Deacon's arm64 fix for undefined
behaviour reported by UBSAN to all architectures. The fix was done in
commit 5f16a046f8e1 (arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage). Look there for an example dump.

And as suggested by Thomas, check for negative oparg too, because it was
also reported to cause undefined behaviour report.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; [core/arm64]
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824073105.3901-1-jslaby@suse.cz

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There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

This effectively distributes the Will Deacon's arm64 fix for undefined
behaviour reported by UBSAN to all architectures. The fix was done in
commit 5f16a046f8e1 (arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage). Look there for an example dump.

And as suggested by Thomas, check for negative oparg too, because it was
also reported to cause undefined behaviour report.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; [core/arm64]
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824073105.3901-1-jslaby@suse.cz

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu</title>
<updated>2017-08-21T07:45:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-21T07:45:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=94edf6f3c20c9c8ee301bde04150a91bab4bf32c'/>
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Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

 - Removal of spin_unlock_wait()
 - SRCU updates
 - Torture-test updates
 - Documentation updates
 - Miscellaneous fixes
 - CPU-hotplug fixes
 - Miscellaneous non-RCU fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

 - Removal of spin_unlock_wait()
 - SRCU updates
 - Torture-test updates
 - Documentation updates
 - Miscellaneous fixes
 - CPU-hotplug fixes
 - Miscellaneous non-RCU fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions</title>
<updated>2017-08-17T15:08:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-29T22:53:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=952111d7db02573e7165e338de8d4871fa447b21'/>
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There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
pair.  This commit therefore removes the underlying arch-specific
arch_spin_unlock_wait() for all architectures providing them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Andrea Parri &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
pair.  This commit therefore removes the underlying arch-specific
arch_spin_unlock_wait() for all architectures providing them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Andrea Parri &lt;parri.andrea@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix MADV_[FREE|DONTNEED] TLB flush miss problem</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-10T22:24:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=99baac21e4585f4258f919502c6e23f1e5edc98c'/>
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Nadav reported parallel MADV_DONTNEED on same range has a stale TLB
problem and Mel fixed it[1] and found same problem on MADV_FREE[2].

Quote from Mel Gorman:
 "The race in question is CPU 0 running madv_free and updating some PTEs
  while CPU 1 is also running madv_free and looking at the same PTEs.
  CPU 1 may have writable TLB entries for a page but fail the pte_dirty
  check (because CPU 0 has updated it already) and potentially fail to
  flush.

  Hence, when madv_free on CPU 1 returns, there are still potentially
  writable TLB entries and the underlying PTE is still present so that a
  subsequent write does not necessarily propagate the dirty bit to the
  underlying PTE any more. Reclaim at some unknown time at the future
  may then see that the PTE is still clean and discard the page even
  though a write has happened in the meantime. I think this is possible
  but I could have missed some protection in madv_free that prevents it
  happening."

This patch aims for solving both problems all at once and is ready for
other problem with KSM, MADV_FREE and soft-dirty story[3].

TLB batch API(tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu] uses [inc|dec]_tlb_flush_pending
and mmu_tlb_flush_pending so that when tlb_finish_mmu is called, we can
catch there are parallel threads going on.  In that case, forcefully,
flush TLB to prevent for user to access memory via stale TLB entry
although it fail to gather page table entry.

I confirmed this patch works with [4] test program Nadav gave so this
patch supersedes "mm: Always flush VMA ranges affected by zap_page_range
v2" in current mmotm.

NOTE:

This patch modifies arch-specific TLB gathering interface(x86, ia64,
s390, sh, um).  It seems most of architecture are straightforward but
s390 need to be careful because tlb_flush_mmu works only if
mm-&gt;context.flush_mm is set to non-zero which happens only a pte entry
really is cleared by ptep_get_and_clear and friends.  However, this
problem never changes the pte entries but need to flush to prevent
memory access from stale tlb.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725101230.5v7gvnjmcnkzzql3@techsingularity.net
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725100722.2dxnmgypmwnrfawp@suse.de
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BD3A0EBE-ECF4-41D4-87FA-C755EA9AB6BD@gmail.com
[4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9861621/

[minchan@kernel.org: decrease tlb flush pending count in tlb_finish_mmu]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170808080821.GA31730@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-7-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.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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Nadav reported parallel MADV_DONTNEED on same range has a stale TLB
problem and Mel fixed it[1] and found same problem on MADV_FREE[2].

Quote from Mel Gorman:
 "The race in question is CPU 0 running madv_free and updating some PTEs
  while CPU 1 is also running madv_free and looking at the same PTEs.
  CPU 1 may have writable TLB entries for a page but fail the pte_dirty
  check (because CPU 0 has updated it already) and potentially fail to
  flush.

  Hence, when madv_free on CPU 1 returns, there are still potentially
  writable TLB entries and the underlying PTE is still present so that a
  subsequent write does not necessarily propagate the dirty bit to the
  underlying PTE any more. Reclaim at some unknown time at the future
  may then see that the PTE is still clean and discard the page even
  though a write has happened in the meantime. I think this is possible
  but I could have missed some protection in madv_free that prevents it
  happening."

This patch aims for solving both problems all at once and is ready for
other problem with KSM, MADV_FREE and soft-dirty story[3].

TLB batch API(tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu] uses [inc|dec]_tlb_flush_pending
and mmu_tlb_flush_pending so that when tlb_finish_mmu is called, we can
catch there are parallel threads going on.  In that case, forcefully,
flush TLB to prevent for user to access memory via stale TLB entry
although it fail to gather page table entry.

I confirmed this patch works with [4] test program Nadav gave so this
patch supersedes "mm: Always flush VMA ranges affected by zap_page_range
v2" in current mmotm.

NOTE:

This patch modifies arch-specific TLB gathering interface(x86, ia64,
s390, sh, um).  It seems most of architecture are straightforward but
s390 need to be careful because tlb_flush_mmu works only if
mm-&gt;context.flush_mm is set to non-zero which happens only a pte entry
really is cleared by ptep_get_and_clear and friends.  However, this
problem never changes the pte entries but need to flush to prevent
memory access from stale tlb.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725101230.5v7gvnjmcnkzzql3@techsingularity.net
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725100722.2dxnmgypmwnrfawp@suse.de
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BD3A0EBE-ECF4-41D4-87FA-C755EA9AB6BD@gmail.com
[4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9861621/

[minchan@kernel.org: decrease tlb flush pending count in tlb_finish_mmu]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170808080821.GA31730@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-7-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>mm: refactor TLB gathering API</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-10T22:24:05+00:00</published>
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This patch is a preparatory patch for solving race problems caused by
TLB batch.  For that, we will increase/decrease TLB flush pending count
of mm_struct whenever tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu is called.

Before making it simple, this patch separates architecture specific part
and rename it to arch_tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu and generic part just
calls it.

It shouldn't change any behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-5-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.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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<pre>
This patch is a preparatory patch for solving race problems caused by
TLB batch.  For that, we will increase/decrease TLB flush pending count
of mm_struct whenever tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu is called.

Before making it simple, this patch separates architecture specific part
and rename it to arch_tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu and generic part just
calls it.

It shouldn't change any behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-5-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.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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