Pull devicetree changes from Grant Likely:
"Updates to devicetree core code. This branch contains the following
notable changes:
- add reserved memory binding
- make struct device_node a kobject and remove legacy
/proc/device-tree
- ePAPR conformance fixes
- update in-kernel DTC copy to version v1.4.0
- preparatory changes for dynamic device tree overlays
- minor bug fixes and documentation changes
The most significant change in this branch is the conversion of struct
device_node to be a kobject that is exposed via sysfs and removal of
the old /proc/device-tree code. This simplifies the device tree
handling code and tightens up the lifecycle on device tree nodes.
[updated: added fix for dangling select PROC_DEVICETREE]"
* tag 'dt-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux: (29 commits)
dt: Remove dangling "select PROC_DEVICETREE"
of: Add support for ePAPR "stdout-path" property
of: device_node kobject lifecycle fixes
of: only scan for reserved mem when fdt present
powerpc: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
arm64: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
of: add missing major vendors
of: add vendor prefix for SMSC
of: remove /proc/device-tree
of/selftest: Add self tests for manipulation of properties
of: Make device nodes kobjects so they show up in sysfs
arm: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
drivers: of: add support for custom reserved memory drivers
drivers: of: add initialization code for dynamic reserved memory
drivers: of: add initialization code for static reserved memory
of: document bindings for reserved-memory nodes
Revert "of: fix of_update_property()"
kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target
ARM: mvebu: Allows to get the SoC ID even without PCI enabled
of: Allows to use the PCI translator without the PCI core
...
Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main purpose is to fix a full dynticks bug related to
virtualization, where steal time accounting appears to be zero in
/proc/stat even after a few seconds of competing guests running busy
loops in a same host CPU. It's not a regression though as it was
there since the beginning.
The other commits are preparatory work to fix the bug and various
cleanups"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
arch: Remove stub cputime.h headers
sched: Remove needless round trip nsecs <-> tick conversion of steal time
cputime: Fix jiffies based cputime assumption on steal accounting
cputime: Bring cputime -> nsecs conversion
cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion
cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast
Pull ARM64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
- KGDB support for arm64
- PCI I/O space extended to 16M (in preparation of PCIe support
patches)
- Dropping ZONE_DMA32 in favour of ZONE_DMA (we only need one for the
time being), together with swiotlb late initialisation to correctly
setup the bounce buffer
- DMA API cache maintenance support (not all ARMv8 platforms have
hardware cache coherency)
- Crypto extensions advertising via ELF_HWCAP2 for compat user space
- Perf support for dwarf unwinding in compat mode
- asm/tlb.h converted to the generic mmu_gather code
- asm-generic rwsem implementation
- Code clean-up
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (42 commits)
arm64: Remove pgprot_dmacoherent()
arm64: Support DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE
arm64: Implement custom mmap functions for dma mapping
arm64: Fix __range_ok macro
arm64: Fix duplicated Kconfig entries
arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents
arm64: rwsem: use asm-generic rwsem implementation
asm-generic: rwsem: de-PPCify rwsem.h
arm64: enable generic CPU feature modalias matching for this architecture
arm64: smp: make local symbol static
arm64: debug: make local symbols static
ARM64: perf: support dwarf unwinding in compat mode
ARM64: perf: add support for frame pointer unwinding in compat mode
ARM64: perf: add support for perf registers API
arm64: Add boot time configuration of Intermediate Physical Address size
arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes
arm64: Make DMA coherent and strongly ordered mappings not executable
arm64: barriers: add dmb barrier
arm64: topology: Implement basic CPU topology support
arm64: advertise ARMv8 extensions to 32-bit compat ELF binaries
...
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"There are two memory management related changes, the CMMA support for
KVM to avoid swap-in of freed pages and the split page table lock for
the PMD level. These two come with common code changes in mm/.
A fix for the long standing theoretical TLB flush problem, this one
comes with a common code change in kernel/sched/.
Another set of changes is Heikos uaccess work, included is the initial
set of patches with more to come.
And fixes and cleanups as usual"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (36 commits)
s390/con3270: optionally disable auto update
s390/mm: remove unecessary parameter from pgste_ipte_notify
s390/mm: remove unnecessary parameter from gmap_do_ipte_notify
s390/mm: fixing comment so that parameter name match
s390/smp: limit number of cpus in possible cpu mask
hypfs: Add clarification for "weight_min" attribute
s390: update defconfigs
s390/ptrace: add support for PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK
s390/perf: make print_debug_cf() static
s390/topology: Remove call to update_cpu_masks()
s390/compat: remove compat exec domain
s390: select CONFIG_TTY for use of tty in unconditional keyboard driver
s390/appldata_os: fix cpu array size calculation
s390/checksum: remove memset() within csum_partial_copy_from_user()
s390/uaccess: remove copy_from_user_real()
s390/sclp_early: Return correct HSA block count also for zero
s390: add some drivers/subsystems to the MAINTAINERS file
s390: improve debug feature usage
s390/airq: add support for irq ranges
s390/mm: enable split page table lock for PMD level
...
Pull hweight type fix from Ingo Molnar:
"This lone commit makes sure that __const_hweight8() is unsigned, which
addresses a build warning if code is built with -Wsign-compare.
I hope the type cast in this cleanup is fine - another option would be
to eliminate the double unary negation and use a construct with more
obvious integer type characteristics, along the lines of:
((w) & (1ULL << 1) ? 1U : 0U)
or so"
* 'core-types-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
bitops: Fix signedness of compile-time hweight implementations
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the MCS spinlock generalization changes from Tim
Chen, Peter Zijlstra, Jason Low et al. There's also lockdep
fixes/enhancements from Oleg Nesterov, in particular a false negative
fix related to lockdep_set_novalidate_class() usage"
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
locking/mutex: Fix debug checks
locking/mutexes: Add extra reschedule point
locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning
locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock
locking/mutexes: Modify the way optimistic spinners are queued
locking/mutexes: Return false if task need_resched() in mutex_can_spin_on_owner()
locking: Move mcs_spinlock.h into kernel/locking/
m68k: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test
futex: Allow architectures to skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test
Revert "sched/wait: Suppress Sparse 'variable shadowing' warning"
lockdep: Change lockdep_set_novalidate_class() to use _and_name
lockdep: Change mark_held_locks() to check hlock->check instead of lockdep_no_validate
lockdep: Don't create the wrong dependency on hlock->check == 0
lockdep: Make held_lock->check and "int check" argument bool
locking/mcs: Allow architecture specific asm files to be used for contended case
locking/mcs: Order the header files in Kbuild of each architecture in alphabetical order
sched/wait: Suppress Sparse 'variable shadowing' warning
hung_task/Documentation: Fix hung_task_warnings description
locking/mcs: Allow architectures to hook in to contended paths
locking/mcs: Micro-optimize the MCS code, add extra comments
...
asm-generic/rwsem.h used to live under arch/powerpc. During its
liberation to common code, a few references to its former home where
preserved, in particular the definition of RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK is
predicated on CONFIG_PPC64.
This patch updates the ifdefs and comments to architecturally neutral
versions.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Even though nsec based cputime_t maps to u64, nsecs_to_cputime() must
return a cputime_t value. We want to enforce this kind of cast in order
to track down buggy manipulations of cputime_t such as direct access
of its values under wrong assumptions on its backend type (nsecs,
jiffies, etc...) by core code.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Add support for custom reserved memory drivers. Call their init() function
for each reserved region and prepare for using operations provided by them
with by the reserved_mem->ops array.
Based on previous code provided by Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
In a virtualized environment and given an appropriate interface the guest
can mark pages as unused while they are free (for the s390 implementation
see git commit 45e576b1c3 "guest page hinting light"). For the host
the unused state is a property of the pte.
This patch adds the primitive 'pte_unused' and code to the host swap out
handler so that pages marked as unused by all mappers are not swapped out
but discarded instead, thus saving one IO for swap out and potentially
another one for swap in.
[ Martin Schwidefsky: patch reordering and simplification ]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Weitz <konstantin.weitz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Archs like ppc64 doesn't do tlb flush in set_pte/pmd functions when using
a hash table MMU for various reasons (the flush is handled as part of
the PTE modification when necessary).
ppc64 thus doesn't implement flush_tlb_range for hash based MMUs.
Additionally ppc64 require the tlb flushing to be batched within ptl locks.
The reason to do that is to ensure that the hash page table is in sync with
linux page table.
We track the hpte index in linux pte and if we clear them without flushing
hash and drop the ptl lock, we can have another cpu update the pte and can
end up with duplicate entry in the hash table, which is fatal.
We also want to keep set_pte_at simpler by not requiring them to do hash
flush for performance reason. We do that by assuming that set_pte_at() is
never *ever* called on a PTE that is already valid.
This was the case until the NUMA code went in which broke that assumption.
Fix that by introducing a new pair of helpers to set _PAGE_NUMA in a
way similar to ptep/pmdp_set_wrprotect(), with a generic implementation
using set_pte_at() and a powerpc specific one using the appropriate
mechanism needed to keep the hash table in sync.
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Enabling '-Wsign-compare' compiler warnings on code that includes
include/linux/bitops.h can generate the following warning:
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:10:0,
from <random filename>:48:
include/linux/bitops.h: In function 'hweight_long':
include/linux/bitops.h:77:26: error: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression [-Werror=sign-compare]
(converted to an error with -Werror)
This is due to the use of the logical negation operator '!' in the
__const_hweight8 macro in include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h.
The use of that operator here results in a signed value.
Fix by explicitly casting the __const_hweight8 macro expansion to
'unsigned int'. While here, clean up several checkpatch.pl warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pwalmsley@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1312180459580.30198@tamien
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull powerpc mremap fix from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"This is the patch that I had sent after -rc8 and which we decided to
wait before merging. It's based on a different tree than my -next
branch (it needs some pre-reqs that were in -rc4 or so while my -next
is based on -rc1) so I left it as a separate branch for your to pull.
It's identical to the request I did 2 or 3 weeks back.
This fixes crashes in mremap with THP on powerpc.
The fix however requires a small change in the generic code. It moves
a condition into a helper we can override from the arch which is
harmless, but it *also* slightly changes the order of the set_pmd and
the withdraw & deposit, which should be fine according to Kirill (who
wrote that code) but I agree -rc8 is a bit late...
It was acked by Kirill and Andrew told me to just merge it via powerpc"
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc/thp: Fix crash on mremap
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) BPF debugger and asm tool by Daniel Borkmann.
2) Speed up create/bind in AF_PACKET, also from Daniel Borkmann.
3) Correct reciprocal_divide and update users, from Hannes Frederic
Sowa and Daniel Borkmann.
4) Currently we only have a "set" operation for the hw timestamp socket
ioctl, add a "get" operation to match. From Ben Hutchings.
5) Add better trace events for debugging driver datapath problems, also
from Ben Hutchings.
6) Implement auto corking in TCP, from Eric Dumazet. Basically, if we
have a small send and a previous packet is already in the qdisc or
device queue, defer until TX completion or we get more data.
7) Allow userspace to manage ipv6 temporary addresses, from Jiri Pirko.
8) Add a qdisc bypass option for AF_PACKET sockets, from Daniel
Borkmann.
9) Share IP header compression code between Bluetooth and IEEE802154
layers, from Jukka Rissanen.
10) Fix ipv6 router reachability probing, from Jiri Benc.
11) Allow packets to be captured on macvtap devices, from Vlad Yasevich.
12) Support tunneling in GRO layer, from Jerry Chu.
13) Allow bonding to be configured fully using netlink, from Scott
Feldman.
14) Allow AF_PACKET users to obtain the VLAN TPID, just like they can
already get the TCI. From Atzm Watanabe.
15) New "Heavy Hitter" qdisc, from Terry Lam.
16) Significantly improve the IPSEC support in pktgen, from Fan Du.
17) Allow ipv4 tunnels to cache routes, just like sockets. From Tom
Herbert.
18) Add Proportional Integral Enhanced packet scheduler, from Vijay
Subramanian.
19) Allow openvswitch to mmap'd netlink, from Thomas Graf.
20) Key TCP metrics blobs also by source address, not just destination
address. From Christoph Paasch.
21) Support 10G in generic phylib. From Andy Fleming.
22) Try to short-circuit GRO flow compares using device provided RX
hash, if provided. From Tom Herbert.
The wireless and netfilter folks have been busy little bees too.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2064 commits)
net/cxgb4: Fix referencing freed adapter
ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up
fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
rtnetlink: remove IFLA_BOND_SLAVE definition
rtnetlink: remove check for fill_slave_info in rtnl_have_link_slave_info
qlcnic: update version to 5.3.55
qlcnic: Enhance logic to calculate msix vectors.
qlcnic: Refactor interrupt coalescing code for all adapters.
qlcnic: Update poll controller code path
qlcnic: Interrupt code cleanup
qlcnic: Enhance Tx timeout debugging.
qlcnic: Use bool for rx_mac_learn.
bonding: fix u64 division
rtnetlink: add missing IFLA_BOND_AD_INFO_UNSPEC
sfc: Use the correct maximum TX DMA ring size for SFC9100
Add Shradha Shah as the sfc driver maintainer.
net/vxlan: Share RX skb de-marking and checksum checks with ovs
tulip: cleanup by using ARRAY_SIZE()
ip_tunnel: clear IPCB in ip_tunnel_xmit() in case dst_link_failure() is called
net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery
...
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- the rest of MM
- add generic fixmap.h, use it
- backlight updates
- dynamic_debug updates
- printk() updates
- checkpatch updates
- binfmt_elf
- ramfs
- init/
- autofs4
- drivers/rtc
- nilfs
- hfsplus
- Documentation/
- coredump
- procfs
- fork
- exec
- kexec
- kdump
- partitions
- rapidio
- rbtree
- userns
- memstick
- w1
- decompressors
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
...
Pull audit update from Eric Paris:
"Again we stayed pretty well contained inside the audit system.
Venturing out was fixing a couple of function prototypes which were
inconsistent (didn't hurt anything, but we used the same value as an
int, uint, u32, and I think even a long in a couple of places).
We also made a couple of minor changes to when a couple of LSMs called
the audit system. We hoped to add aarch64 audit support this go
round, but it wasn't ready.
I'm disappearing on vacation on Thursday. I should have internet
access, but it'll be spotty. If anything goes wrong please be sure to
cc rgb@redhat.com. He'll make fixing things his top priority"
* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (50 commits)
audit: whitespace fix in kernel-parameters.txt
audit: fix location of __net_initdata for audit_net_ops
audit: remove pr_info for every network namespace
audit: Modify a set of system calls in audit class definitions
audit: Convert int limit uses to u32
audit: Use more current logging style
audit: Use hex_byte_pack_upper
audit: correct a type mismatch in audit_syscall_exit()
audit: reorder AUDIT_TTY_SET arguments
audit: rework AUDIT_TTY_SET to only grab spin_lock once
audit: remove needless switch in AUDIT_SET
audit: use define's for audit version
audit: documentation of audit= kernel parameter
audit: wait_for_auditd rework for readability
audit: update MAINTAINERS
audit: log task info on feature change
audit: fix incorrect set of audit_sock
audit: print error message when fail to create audit socket
audit: fix dangling keywords in audit_log_set_loginuid() output
audit: log on errors from filter user rules
...
Now all 64-bit architectures have been converted to int-ll64.h, we can
remove int-l64.h in kernelspace.
For backwards compatibility, alpha, ia64, mips64, and powerpc64 still
use int-l64.h in userspace.
This is the (reworked for UAPI) non-documentation part of more than two
year old "asm/types.h: All architectures use int-ll64.h in kernelspace"
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/13/104)
Since <asm/types.h> (from include/uapi/asm-generic/types.h) is used for
both kernel and user space, include/asm-generic/int-ll64.h cannot just
become include/asm-generic/types.h, as Arnd suggested.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
neighbour.h: fix comment
sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
thermal: rcar: comment spelling
treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
arm: fix comment header and macro name
asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
mtd: onenand: fix comment header
doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
treewide: Fix typos in printk
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
...
Each asm-generic/audit_xx.h defines a set of system calls for respective
audit permission class (read, write, change attribute or exec).
This patch changes two entries:
1) fchown in audit_change_attr.h
Make fchown included by its own because in asm-generic/unistd.h, for example,
fchown always exists while chown is optional. This change is necessary at
least for arm64.
2) truncate64 in audit_write.h
Add missing truncate64/ftruncate64 as well as truncate/ftruncate
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch fix the below crash
NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440
LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
...
Call Trace:
[c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable)
[437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
[437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58
On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and
store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from
pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit
the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset
from new pmd.
We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so
that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that
pgtable can be located at the offset.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
A number of situations currently require the heavyweight smp_mb(),
even though there is no need to order prior stores against later
loads. Many architectures have much cheaper ways to handle these
situations, but the Linux kernel currently has no portable way
to make use of them.
This commit therefore supplies smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() to remedy this situation. The new
smp_load_acquire() primitive orders the specified load against
any subsequent reads or writes, while the new smp_store_release()
primitive orders the specifed store against any prior reads or
writes. These primitives allow array-based circular FIFOs to be
implemented without an smp_mb(), and also allow a theoretical
hole in rcu_assign_pointer() to be closed at no additional
expense on most architectures.
In addition, the RCU experience transitioning from explicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() and smp_wmb() to rcu_dereference()
and rcu_assign_pointer(), respectively resulted in substantial
improvements in readability. It therefore seems likely that
replacing other explicit barriers with smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() will provide similar benefits. It appears
that roughly half of the explicit barriers in core kernel code
might be so replaced.
[Changelog by PaulMck]
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.908486364@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
