Alpha provides a custom implementation of dec_and_lock(). The functions
is split into two parts:
- atomic_add_unless() + return 0 (fast path in assembly)
- remaining part including locking (slow path in C)
Comparing the result of the alpha implementation with the generic
implementation compiled by gcc it looks like the fast path is optimized
by avoiding a stack frame (and reloading the GP), register store and all
this. This is only done in the slowpath.
After marking the slowpath (atomic_dec_and_lock_1()) as "noinline" and
doing the slowpath in C (the atomic_add_unless(atomic, -1, 1) part) I
noticed differences in the resulting assembly:
- the GP is still reloaded
- atomic_add_unless() adds more memory barriers compared to the custom
assembly
- the custom assembly here does "load, sub, beq" while
atomic_add_unless() does "load, cmpeq, add, bne". This is okay because
it compares against zero after subtraction while the generic code
compares against 1 before.
I'm not sure if avoiding the stack frame (and GP reloading) brings a lot
in terms of performance. Regarding the different barriers, Peter
Zijlstra says:
|refcount decrement needs to be a RELEASE operation, such that all the
|load/stores to the object happen before we decrement the refcount.
|
|Otherwise things like:
|
| obj->foo = 5;
| refcnt_dec(&obj->ref);
|
|can be re-ordered, which then allows fun scenarios like:
|
| CPU0 CPU1
|
| refcnt_dec(&obj->ref);
| if (dec_and_test(&obj->ref))
| free(obj);
| obj->foo = 5; // oops UaF
|
|
|This means (for alpha) that there should be a memory barrier _before_
|the decrement, however the dec_and_lock asm thing only has one _after_,
|which, per the above, is too late.
|
|The generic version using add_unless will result in memory barrier
|before and after (because that is the rule for atomic ops with a return
|value) which is strictly too many barriers for the refcount story, but
|who knows what other ordering requirements code has.
Remove the custom alpha implementation of dec_and_lock() and if it is an
issue (performance wise) then the fast path could still be inlined.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180606115918.GG12198@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r20180612161621.22645-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files
- fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script
- remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up
several tools and linker scripts
- clean-up modpost
- allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT
mode
- improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance
- pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture
- misc fixes
* tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS
kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS
kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice
scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch
scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation
coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance
coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance
powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected
kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled
kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build
kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible
modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test
modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely
modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo()
checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check
vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()
kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore
depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support
...
Pull timers and timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Core infrastucture work for Y2038 to address the COMPAT interfaces:
+ Add a new Y2038 safe __kernel_timespec and use it in the core
code
+ Introduce config switches which allow to control the various
compat mechanisms
+ Use the new config switch in the posix timer code to control the
32bit compat syscall implementation.
- Prevent bogus selection of CPU local clocksources which causes an
endless reselection loop
- Remove the extra kthread in the clocksource code which has no value
and just adds another level of indirection
- The usual bunch of trivial updates, cleanups and fixlets all over the
place
- More SPDX conversions
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Switch to SPDX identifier
clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-tpm: Switch to SPDX identifier
clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier
clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Remove outdated file path
clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Add comments about locking while read GFRC
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages
clocksource/drivers/sprd: Fix Kconfig dependency
clocksource: Move inline keyword to the beginning of function declarations
timer_list: Remove unused function pointer typedef
timers: Adjust a kernel-doc comment
tick: Prefer a lower rating device only if it's CPU local device
clocksource: Remove kthread
time: Change nanosleep to safe __kernel_* types
time: Change types to new y2038 safe __kernel_* types
time: Fix get_timespec64() for y2038 safe compat interfaces
time: Add new y2038 safe __kernel_timespec
posix-timers: Make compat syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
time: Introduce CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
time: Introduce CONFIG_64BIT_TIME in architectures
compat: Enable compat_get/put_timespec64 always
...
Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
"This set of changes close the known issues with setting si_code to an
invalid value, and with not fully initializing struct siginfo. There
remains work to do on nds32, arc, unicore32, powerpc, arm, arm64, ia64
and x86 to get the code that generates siginfo into a simpler and more
maintainable state. Most of that work involves refactoring the signal
handling code and thus careful code review.
Also not included is the work to shrink the in kernel version of
struct siginfo. That depends on getting the number of places that
directly manipulate struct siginfo under control, as it requires the
introduction of struct kernel_siginfo for the in kernel things.
Overall this set of changes looks like it is making good progress, and
with a little luck I will be wrapping up the siginfo work next
development cycle"
* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits)
signal/sh: Stop gcc warning about an impossible case in do_divide_error
signal/mips: Report FPE_FLTUNK for undiagnosed floating point exceptions
signal/um: More carefully relay signals in relay_signal.
signal: Extend siginfo_layout with SIL_FAULT_{MCEERR|BNDERR|PKUERR}
signal: Remove unncessary #ifdef SEGV_PKUERR in 32bit compat code
signal/signalfd: Add support for SIGSYS
signal/signalfd: Remove __put_user from signalfd_copyinfo
signal/xtensa: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/xtensa: Consistenly use SIGBUS in do_unaligned_user
signal/um: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/sparc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/sparc: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/sh: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/s390: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/riscv: Replace do_trap_siginfo with force_sig_fault
signal/riscv: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/parisc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/parisc: Use force_sig_mceerr where appropriate
signal/openrisc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
signal/nios2: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
including:
- Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
- An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
to keep it updated.
- Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
SPDX tags.
- Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
Documentation/
... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
...
Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
- replace the force_dma flag with a dma_configure bus method. (Nipun
Gupta, although one patch is Ñ–ncorrectly attributed to me due to a
git rebase bug)
- use GFP_DMA32 more agressively in dma-direct. (Takashi Iwai)
- remove PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS and rely on the dma-mapping API to do the
right thing for bounce buffering.
- move dma-debug initialization to common code, and apply a few
cleanups to the dma-debug code.
- cleanup the Kconfig mess around swiotlb selection
- swiotlb comment fixup (Yisheng Xie)
- a trivial swiotlb fix. (Dan Carpenter)
- support swiotlb on RISC-V. (based on a patch from Palmer Dabbelt)
- add a new generic dma-noncoherent dma_map_ops implementation and use
it for arc, c6x and nds32.
- improve scatterlist validity checking in dma-debug. (Robin Murphy)
- add a struct device quirk to limit the dma-mask to 32-bit due to
bridge/system issues, and switch x86 to use it instead of a local
hack for VIA bridges.
- handle devices without a dma_mask more gracefully in the dma-direct
code.
* tag 'dma-mapping-4.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (48 commits)
dma-direct: don't crash on device without dma_mask
nds32: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
nds32: implement the unmap_sg DMA operation
nds32: consolidate DMA cache maintainance routines
x86/pci-dma: switch the VIA 32-bit DMA quirk to use the struct device flag
x86/pci-dma: remove the explicit nodac and allowdac option
x86/pci-dma: remove the experimental forcesac boot option
Documentation/x86: remove a stray reference to pci-nommu.c
core, dma-direct: add a flag 32-bit dma limits
dma-mapping: remove unused gfp_t parameter to arch_dma_alloc_attrs
dma-debug: check scatterlist segments
c6x: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
arc: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops
arc: fix arc_dma_{map,unmap}_page
arc: fix arc_dma_sync_sg_for_{cpu,device}
arc: simplify arc_dma_sync_single_for_{cpu,device}
dma-mapping: provide a generic dma-noncoherent implementation
dma-mapping: simplify Kconfig dependencies
riscv: add swiotlb support
riscv: only enable ZONE_DMA32 for 64-bit
...
By default, sparse assumes a 64bit machine when compiled on x86-64
and 32bit when compiled on anything else.
This can of course create all sort of problems for the other archs, like
issuing false warnings ('shift too big (32) for type unsigned long'), or
worse, failing to emit legitimate warnings.
Fix this by adding the -m32/-m64 flag, depending on CONFIG_64BIT,
to CHECKFLAGS in the main Makefile (and so for all archs).
Also, remove the now unneeded -m32/-m64 in arch specific Makefiles.
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement.
"When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the
cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO
region."
Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not
satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write.
Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW
observes memory changes before performing register operations.
Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
The generic dma_direct implementation does the same thing as the alpha
pci-noop implementation, just with more bells and whistles. And unlike
the current code it at least has a theoretical chance to actually compile.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Define this symbol if the architecture either uses 64-bit pointers or the
PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is set. This covers 95% of the old arch magic. We only
need an additional select for Xen on ARM (why anyway?), and we now always
set ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT on mips boards with 64-bit physical addressing
instead of only doing it when highmem is set.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
This way we have one central definition of it, and user can select it as
needed. Note that we now also always select it when CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG
is select, which fixes some incorrect checks in a few network drivers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This way we have one central definition of it, and user can select it as
needed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This avoids selecting IOMMU_HELPER just for this function. And we only
use it once or twice in normal builds so this often even is a size
reduction.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This was used by the ide, scsi and networking code in the past to
determine if they should bounce payloads. Now that the dma mapping
always have to support dma to all physical memory (thanks to swiotlb
for non-iommu systems) there is no need to this crude hack any more.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> (for riscv)
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Filling in struct siginfo before calling force_sig_info a tedious and
error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields
are filled out, and siginfo has been inconsistently cleared.
Simplify this process by using the helper force_sig_fault. Which
takes as a parameters all of the information it needs, ensures
all of the fiddly bits of filling in struct siginfo are done properly
and then calls force_sig_info.
In short about a 5 line reduction in code for every time force_sig_info
is called, which makes the calling function clearer.
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Filling in struct siginfo before calling send_sig_info a tedious and
error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields
are filled out, and siginfo has been inconsistently cleared.
Simplify this process by using the helper send_sig_fault. Which
takes as a parameters all of the information it needs, ensures
all of the fiddly bits of filling in struct siginfo are done properly
and then calls send_sig_info.
In short about a 5 line reduction in code for every time send_sig_info
is called, which makes the calling function clearer.
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Using an si_code of 0 that aliases with SI_USER is clearly the wrong
thing to do, and causes problems in interesting ways.
For it really is not clear to me if using TRAP_UNK bugcheck or
the default case of gentrap is really the best way to handle
things. There is certainly enough information that that a more
specific si_code could potentially be used. That said TRAP_UNK
is definitely an improvement over 0 as it removes the ambiguiuty
of what si_code of 0 with SIGTRAP means on alpha.
Recent history suggests no actually cares about crazy corner cases of
the kernel behavior like this so I don't expect any regressions from
changing this. However if something does happen this change is easy
to revert.
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0a635c7a84cf ("Fill in siginfo_t.")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.
Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
initializing a structure.
The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
variable siginfo gets fully initialized.
In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
in which it is declared.
Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
The alpha ipcbuf/msgbuf/sembuf/shmbuf header files are all identical
to the version from asm-generic.
This patch removes the files and replaces them with 'generic-y'
statements as part of the y2038 series. Since there is no 32-bit
syscall support for alpha, we don't need the other changes, but
it's good to have clean this up anyway.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
We have a couple of files that try to include asm/compat.h on
architectures where this is available. Those should generally use the
higher-level linux/compat.h file, but that in turn fails to include
asm/compat.h when CONFIG_COMPAT is disabled, unless we can provide
that header on all architectures.
This adds the asm/compat.h for all remaining architectures to
simplify the dependencies.
Architectures that are getting removed in linux-4.17 are not changed
here, to avoid needless conflicts with the removal patches. Those
architectures are broken by this patch, but we have already shown
that they have no users.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mike Rapoport says:
These patches convert files in Documentation/vm to ReST format, add an
initial index and link it to the top level documentation.
There are no contents changes in the documentation, except few spelling
fixes. The relatively large diffstat stems from the indentation and
paragraph wrapping changes.
I've tried to keep the formatting as consistent as possible, but I could
miss some places that needed markup and add some markup where it was not
necessary.
[jc: significant conflicts in vm/hmm.rst]
