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2016-10-15Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook: "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
2016-10-14Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuildLinus Torvalds1-0/+23
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek: - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro. This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is working on a patch to fix this. Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely change prototypes. - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick Piggin - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan. - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me. * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits) initramfs: Escape colons in depfile ppc: there is no clear_pages to export powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search ia64: move exports to definitions sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h sparc: move exports to definitions ppc: move exports to definitions arm: move exports to definitions s390: move exports to definitions m68k: move exports to definitions alpha: move exports to actual definitions x86: move exports to actual definitions ...
2016-10-10latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropyEmese Revfy1-0/+4
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields. These specific functions have been selected because they are init functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of latent entropy. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> [kees: expanded commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-09-09kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data eliminationNicholas Piggin1-0/+23
Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now. On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving, it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link. text data bss dec filename 11169741 1180744 1923176 14273661 vmlinux 10445269 1004127 1919707 13369103 vmlinux.dce ~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-09-05locking/barriers: Don't use sizeof(void) in lockless_dereference()Johannes Berg1-3/+4
My previous commit: 112dc0c8069e ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()") caused sparse to complain that (in radix-tree.h) we use sizeof(void) since that rcu_dereference()s a void *. Really, all we need is to have the expression *p in here somewhere to make sure p is a pointer type, and sizeof(*p) was the thing that came to my mind first to make sure that's done without really doing anything at runtime. Another thing I had considered was using typeof(*p), but obviously we can't just declare a typeof(*p) variable either, since that may end up being void. Declaring a variable as typeof(*p)* gets around that, and still checks that typeof(*p) is valid, so do that. This type construction can't be done for _________p1 because that will actually be used and causes sparse address space warnings, so keep a separate unused variable for it. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kbuild-all@01.org Fixes: 112dc0c8069e ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472192160-4049-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-08-18locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()Johannes Berg1-3/+3
After Peter's commit: 331b6d8c7afc ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type") ... we get a lot of sparse warnings (one for every rcu_dereference, and more) since the expression here is assigning to the wrong address space. Instead of validating that 'p' is a pointer this way, instead make it fail compilation when it's not by using sizeof(*(p)). This will not cause any sparse warnings (tested, likely since the address space is irrelevant for sizeof), and will fail compilation when 'p' isn't a pointer type. Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 331b6d8c7afc ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470909022-687-2-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-28Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimmLinus Torvalds1-2/+0
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing. The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is deprecated. Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm. ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers to the memory controller on a power-fail event. Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure". A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been flushed to media. - On-demand ARS (address range scrub). Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks in pmem devices. When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a re-scrub at any time. - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command format. - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges. - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem. * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits) libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register" nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison x86/insn: remove pcommit Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support" nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths libnvdimm: move ->module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region pmem: kill __pmem address space pmem: kill wmb_pmem() libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem() libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown ...
2016-07-12pmem: kill __pmem address spaceDan Williams1-2/+0
The __pmem address space was meant to annotate codepaths that touch persistent memory and need to coordinate a call to wmb_pmem(). Now that wmb_pmem() is gone, there is little need to keep this annotation. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-06-14locking/barriers: Move smp_cond_load_acquire() to asm-generic/barrier.hPeter Zijlstra1-37/+0
Since all asm/barrier.h should/must include asm-generic/barrier.h the latter is a good place for generic infrastructure like this. This also allows archs to override the new smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14locking/barriers: Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()Peter Zijlstra1-5/+12
Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(), this construct is not uncommon, but the lack of this barrier is. Use it to better express smp_rmb() uses in WRITE_ONCE(), the IPC semaphore code and the qspinlock code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14locking/barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire()Peter Zijlstra1-6/+19
This new form allows using hardware assisted waiting. Some hardware (ARM64 and x86) allow monitoring an address for changes, so by providing a pointer we can use this to replace the cpu_relax() with hardware optimized methods in the future. Requested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-08locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer typePeter Zijlstra1-0/+4
Use the type to validate the argument @p is indeed a pointer type. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160522104827.GP3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-19compiler.h: add support for malloc attributeRasmus Villemoes1-0/+4
gcc as far back as at least 3.04 documents the function attribute __malloc__. Add a shorthand for attaching that to a function declaration. This was also suggested by Andi Kleen way back in 2002 [1], but didn't get applied, perhaps because gcc at that time generated the exact same code with and without this attribute. This attribute tells the compiler that the return value (if non-NULL) can be assumed not to alias any other valid pointers at the time of the call. Please note that the documentation for a range of gcc versions (starting from around 4.7) contained a somewhat confusing and self-contradicting text: The malloc attribute is used to tell the compiler that a function may be treated as if any non-NULL pointer it returns cannot alias any other pointer valid when the function returns and *that the memory has undefined content*. [...] Standard functions with this property include malloc and *calloc*. (emphasis mine). The intended meaning has later been clarified [2]: This tells the compiler that a function is malloc-like, i.e., that the pointer P returned by the function cannot alias any other pointer valid when the function returns, and moreover no pointers to valid objects occur in any storage addressed by P. What this means is that we can apply the attribute to kmalloc and friends, and it is ok for the returned memory to have well-defined contents (__GFP_ZERO). But it is not ok to apply it to kmemdup(), nor to other functions which both allocate and possibly initialize the memory with existing pointers. So unless someone is doing something pretty perverted kstrdup() should also be a fine candidate. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/57172 [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56955 Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15Merge commit 'fixes.2015.02.23a' into core/rcuIngo Molnar1-4/+8
Conflicts: kernel/rcu/tree.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29Merge tag 'v4.5-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-23sparse: Add __private to privatize members of structsBoqun Feng1-4/+8
In C programming language, we don't have a easy way to privatize a member of a structure. However in kernel, sometimes there is a need to privatize a member in case of potential bugs or misuses. Fortunately, the noderef attribute of sparse is a way to privatize a member, as by defining a member as noderef, the address-of operator on the member will produce a noderef pointer to that member, and if anyone wants to dereference that kind of pointers to read or modify the member, sparse will yell. Based on this, __private modifier and related operation ACCESS_PRIVATE() are introduced, which could help detect undesigned public uses of private members of structs. Here is an example of sparse's output if it detect an undersigned public use: | kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different modifiers) | kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: expected struct raw_spinlock [usertype] *lock | kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: got struct raw_spinlock [noderef] *<noident> Also, this patch improves compiler.h a little bit by adding comments for "#else" and "#endif". Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-02-15tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracerArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several components: * gcc-4.9 through at least 5.3 * CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL enabling -fprofile-arcs for all files * CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES overriding every if() * The optimized implementation of do_div() that tries to replace a library call with an division by multiplication * code in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c doing u32 adc_clock = 450560; /* 45.056 MHz */ if (state->config.adc_clock) adc_clock = state->config.adc_clock; do_div(value, adc_clock); In this case, gcc fails to determine whether the divisor in do_div() is __builtin_constant_p(). In particular, it concludes that __builtin_constant_p(adc_clock) is false, while __builtin_constant_p(!!adc_clock) is true. That in turn throws off the logic in do_div() that also uses __builtin_constant_p(), and instead of picking either the constant- optimized division, and the code in ilog2() that uses __builtin_constant_p() to figure out whether it knows the answer at compile time. The result is a link error from failing to find multiple symbols that should never have been called based on the __builtin_constant_p(): dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN' dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined! This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather than checking whether it is actually a constant. I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455312410-1058841-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.30+ Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-02-09locking/atomics: Update comment about READ_ONCE() and structuresKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-2/+3
The comment is out of data. Also point out the performance drawback of the barrier();__builtin_memcpy(); barrier() followed by another copy from stack (__u) to lvalue; Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453757600-11441-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com [ Made it a bit more readable. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-12-04locking, sched: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() and use itPeter Zijlstra1-0/+17
Introduce smp_cond_acquire() which combines a control dependency and a read barrier to form acquire semantics. This primitive has two benefits: - it documents control dependencies, - its typically cheaper than using smp_load_acquire() in a loop. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-05compiler.h: add support for function attribute assume_alignedRasmus Villemoes1-0/+8
gcc 4.9 added the function attribute assume_aligned, indicating to the caller that the returned pointer may be assumed to have a certain minimal alignment. This is useful if, for example, the return value is passed to memset(). Add a shorthand macro for that. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: "There is only one new feature in this pull for the 4.4 merge window, most of it is small enhancements, cleanup and bug fixes: - Add the s390 backend for the software dirty bit tracking. This adds two new pgtable functions pte_clear_soft_dirty and pmd_clear_soft_dirty which is why there is a hit to arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h in this pull request. - A series of cleanup patches for the AP bus, this includes the removal of the support for two outdated crypto cards (PCICC and PCICA). - The irq handling / signaling on buffer full in the runtime instrumentation code is dropped. - Some micro optimizations: remove unnecessary memory barriers for a couple of functions: [smb_]rmb, [smb_]wmb, atomics, bitops, and for spin_unlock. Use the builtin bswap if available and make test_and_set_bit_lock more cache friendly. - Statistics and a tracepoint for the diagnose calls to the hypervisor. - The CPU measurement facility support to sample KVM guests is improved. - The vector instructions are now always enabled for user space processes if the hardware has the vector facility. This simplifies the FPU handling code. The fpu-internal.h header is split into fpu internals, api and types just like x86. - Cleanup and improvements for the common I/O layer. - Rework udelay to solve a problem with kprobe. udelay has busy loop semantics but still uses an idle processor state for the wait" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (66 commits) s390: remove runtime instrumentation interrupts s390/cio: de-duplicate subchannel validation s390/css: unneeded initialization in for_each_subchannel s390/Kconfig: use builtin bswap s390/dasd: fix disconnected device with valid path mask s390/dasd: fix invalid PAV assignment after suspend/resume s390/dasd: fix double free in dasd_eckd_read_conf s390/kernel: fix ptrace peek/poke for floating point registers s390/cio: move ccw_device_stlck functions s390/cio: move ccw_device_call_handler s390/topology: reduce per_cpu() invocations s390/nmi: reduce size of percpu variable s390/nmi: fix terminology s390/nmi: remove casts s390/nmi: remove pointless error strings s390: don't store registers on disabled wait anymore s390: get rid of __set_psw_mask() s390/fpu: split fpu-internal.h into fpu internals, api, and type headers s390/dasd: fix list_del corruption after lcu changes s390/spinlock: remove unneeded serializations at unlock ...
2015-11-03atomic: remove all traces of READ_ONCE_CTRL() and atomic*_read_ctrl()Linus Torvalds1-16/+0
This seems to be a mis-reading of how alpha memory ordering works, and is not backed up by the alpha architecture manual. The helper functions don't do anything special on any other architectures, and the arguments that support them being safe on other architectures also argue that they are safe on alpha. Basically, the "control dependency" is between a previous read and a subsequent write that is dependent on the value read. Even if the subsequent write is actually done speculatively, there is no way that such a speculative write could be made visible to other cpu's until it has been committed, which requires validating the speculation. Note that most weakely ordered architectures (very much including alpha) do not guarantee any ordering relationship between two loads that depend on each other on a control dependency: read A if (val == 1) read B because the conditional may be predicted, and the "read B" may be speculatively moved up to before reading the value A. So we require the user to insert a smp_rmb() between the two accesses to be correct: read A; if (A == 1) smp_rmb() read B Alpha is further special in that it can break that ordering even if the *address* of B depends on the read of A, because the cacheline that is read later may be stale unless you have a memory barrier in between the pointer read and the read of the value behind a pointer: read ptr read offset(ptr) whereas all other weakly ordered architectures guarantee that the data dependency (as opposed to just a control dependency) will order the two accesses. As a result, alpha needs a "smp_read_barrier_depends()" in between those two reads for them to be ordered. The coontrol dependency that "READ_ONCE_CTRL()" and "atomic_read_ctrl()" had was a control dependency to a subsequent *write*, however, and nobody can finalize such a subsequent write without having actually done the read. And were you to write such a value to a "stale" cacheline (the way the unordered reads came to be), that would seem to lose the write entirely. So the things that make alpha able to re-order reads even more aggressively than other weak architectures do not seem to be relevant for a subsequent write. Alpha memory ordering may be strange, but there's no real indication that it is *that* strange. Also, the alpha architecture reference manual very explicitly talks about the definition of "Dependence Constraints" in section 5.6.1.7, where a preceding read dominates a subsequent write. Such a dependence constraint admittedly does not impose a BEFORE (alpha architecture term for globally visible ordering), but it does guarantee that there can be no "causal loop". I don't see how you could avoid such a loop if another cpu could see the stored value and then impact the value of the first read. Put another way: the read and the write could not be seen as being out of order wrt other cpus. So I do not see how these "x_ctrl()" functions can currently be necessary. I may have to eat my words at some point, but in the absense of clear proof that alpha actually needs this, or indeed even an explanation of how alpha could _possibly_ need it, I do not believe these functions are called for. And if it turns out that alpha really _does_ need a barrier for this case, that barrier still should not be "smp_read_barrier_depends()". We'd have to make up some new speciality barrier just for alpha, along with the documentation for why it really is necessary. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-10-20compiler, atomics, kasan: Provide READ_ONCE_NOCHECK()Andrey Ryabinin1-13/+53
Some code may perform racy by design memory reads. This could be harmless, yet such code may produce KASAN warnings. To hide such accesses from KASAN this patch introduces READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() macro. KASAN will not check the memory accessed by READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(). The KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN) is going to ignore it as well. This patch creates __read_once_size_nocheck() a clone of __read_once_size(). The only difference between them is 'no_sanitized_address' attribute appended to '*_nocheck' function. This attribute tells the compiler that instrumentation of memory accesses should not be applied to that function. We declare it as static '__maybe_unsed' because GCC is not capable to inline such function: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67368 With KASAN=n READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() is just a clone of READ_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> Cc: kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445243838-17763-2-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-14s390/compiler.h Fix sparse vs. hotpatchChristian Borntraeger1-1/+1
sparse does not understand the s390 specific hotpatch attribute and floods the log with messages like include/uapi/linux/swab.h:92:8: error: attribute 'hotpatch': unknown attribute Let's just dont use it, if __CHECKER__ is defined. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2015-08-12locking, compiler.h: Cast away attributes in the WRITE_ONCE() magicChristian Borntraeger1-1/+6
The kernel build bot showed a new warning triggered by commit: 76695af20c01 ("locking, arch: use WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() in smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire()") because Sparse does not like WRITE_ONCE() accessing elements from the (sparse) RCU address space: fs/afs/inode.c:448:9: sparse: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) fs/afs/inode.c:448:9: expected struct afs_permits *__val fs/afs/inode.c:448:9: got void [noderef] <asn:4>*<noident> Solution is to force cast away the sparse attributes for the initializer of the union in WRITE_ONCE(). (And as this now gets too long, also split the macro into multiple lines.) Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438674948-38310-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-11Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimmLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams: "1) Fixes for a handful of smatch reports (Thanks Dan C.!) and minor bug fixes (patches 1-6) 2) Correctness fixes to the BLK-mode nvdimm driver (patches 7-10). Granted these are slightly large for a -rc update. They have been out for review in one form or another since the end of May and were deferred from the merge window while we settled on the "PMEM API" for the PMEM-mode nvdimm driver (ie memremap_pmem, memcpy_to_pmem, and wmb_pmem). Now that those apis are merged we implement them in the BLK driver to guarantee that mmio aperture moves stay ordered with respect to incoming read/write requests, and that writes are flushed through those mmio-windows and platform-buffers to be persistent on media. These pass the sub-system unit tests with the updates to tools/testing/nvdimm, and have received a successful build-report from the kbuild robot (468 configs). With acks from Rafael for the touches to drivers/acpi/" * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: nfit: add support for NVDIMM "latch" flag nfit: update block I/O path to use PMEM API tools/testing/nvdimm: add mock acpi_nfit_flush_address entries to nfit_test tools/testing/nvdimm: fix return code for unimplemented commands tools/testing/nvdimm: mock ioremap_wt pmem: add maintainer for include/linux/pmem.h nfit: fix smatch "use after null check" report nvdimm: Fix return value of nvdimm_bus_init() if class_create() fails libnvdimm: smatch cleanups in __nd_ioctl sparse: fix misplaced __pmem definition
2015-07-01Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+15
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module lock doing that too. A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were appended too" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits) modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS. rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() module: add per-module param_lock module: make perm const params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes. modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'. kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks module: Rework module_addr_{min,max} module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup() module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch() ...
2015-06-30sparse: fix misplaced __pmem definitionDan Williams1-1/+1
Move the definition of __pmem outside of CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER to fix: drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c:198:17: sparse: too many arguments for function __builtin_expect drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c:36:33: sparse: expected ; at end of declaration drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c:48:21: sparse: void declaration ...due to __pmem failing to be defined in some configurations when CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-29Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimmLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams: "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules: NFIT: Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware Interface table). After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region" devices. A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the boundaries of persistent memory media. A region may span multiple NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller. In turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block device (disk) interface to the memory. PMEM: Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core. In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media. See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem(). BLK: This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT. The primary difference of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in time. Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access different portions of the media. BLK-mode, by definition, does not support DAX. BTT: This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss). The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do not know they have a atomic sector dependency. At least today's disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly gets a CRC error on access. NVDIMMs will always tear and always silently. Until an application is audited to be robust in the presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended. Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig, Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox, Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael Wysocki, and Bob Moore" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits) arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node() libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational libnvdimm: enable iostat pmem: make_request cleanups libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory nd_btt: atomic sector updates libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices libnvdimm: write blk label set libnvdimm: write pmem label set libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation ...
2015-06-26arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updatesRoss Zwisler1-0/+2
Based on an original patch by Ross Zwisler [1]. Writes to persistent memory have the potential to be posted to cpu cache, cpu write buffers, and platform write buffers (memory controller) before being committed to persistent media. Provide apis, memcpy_to_pmem(), wmb_pmem(), and memremap_pmem(), to write data to pmem and assert that it is durable in PMEM (a persistent linear address range). A '__pmem' attribute is added so sparse can track proper usage of pointers to pmem. This continues the status quo of pmem being x86 only for 4.2, but reworks to ioremap, and wider implementation of memremap() will enable other archs in 4.3. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-May/000932.html Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> [djbw: various reworks] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-24rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()Stephen Rothwell1-1/+1
This mirrors the change introduced by 7d0ae8086b8 of same title in Linus' tree; it's not obvious as a merge resolution since we moved the function. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-06-22Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - 'qspinlock' support, enabled on x86: queued spinlocks - these are now the spinlock variant used by x86 as they outperform ticket spinlocks in every category. (Waiman Long) - 'pvqspinlock' support on x86: paravirtualized variant of queued spinlocks. (Waiman Long, Peter Zijlstra) - 'qrwlock' support, enabled on x86: queued rwlocks. Similar to queued spinlocks, they are now the variant used by x86: CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y - various lockdep fixlets - various locking primitives cleanups, further WRITE_ONCE() propagation" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) locking/lockdep: Remove hard coded array size dependency locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING lockdep: Do not break user-visible string locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb() locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb() rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context arch: Remove __ARCH_HAVE_CMPXCHG locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKS locking/pvqspinlock: Replace xchg() by the more descriptive set_mb() locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for Xen locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for KVM locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patching locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlock locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisors locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lock locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patch locking/qspinlock: Add pending bit ...
2015-05-28rcu: Move lockless_dereference() out of rcupdate.hPeter Zijlstra1-0/+15
I want to use lockless_dereference() from seqlock.h, which would mean including rcupdate.h from it, however rcupdate.h already includes seqlock.h. Avoid this by moving lockless_dereference() into compiler.h. This is somewhat tricky since it uses smp_read_barrier_depends() which isn't available there, but its a CPP macro so we can get away with it. The alternative would be moving it into asm/barrier.h, but that would be updating each arch (I can do if people feel that is more appropriate). Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-27smp: Make control dependencies work on Alpha, improve documentationPaul E. McKenney1-0/+16
The current formulation of control dependencies fails on DEC Alpha, which does not respect dependencies of any kind unless an explicit memory barrier is provided. This means that the current fomulation of control dependencies fails on Alpha. This commit therefore creates a READ_ONCE_CTRL() that has the same overhead on non-Alpha systems, but causes Alpha to produce the needed ordering. This commit also applies READ_ONCE_CTRL() to the one known use of control dependencies. Use of READ_ONCE_CTRL() also has the beneficial effect of adding a bit of self-documentation to control dependencies. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-05-19locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb()Peter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Since we assume set_mb() to result in a single store followed by a full memory barrier, employ WRITE_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08kernel: Replace reference to ASSIGN_ONCE() with WRITE_ONCE() in commentPreeti U Murthy1-1/+1
Looks like commit : 43239cbe79fc ("kernel: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)") left behind a reference to ASSIGN_ONCE(). Update this to WRITE_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150430115721.22278.94082.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-04lib: make memzero_explicit more robust against dead store eliminationDaniel Borkmann1-0/+4
In commit 0b053c951829 ("lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR"), we made memzero_explicit() more robust in case LTO would decide to inline memzero_explicit() and eventually find out it could be elimiated as dead store. While using barrier() works well for the case of gcc, recent efforts from LLVMLinux people suggest to use llvm as an alternative to gcc, and there, Stephan found in a simple stand-alone user space example that llvm could nevertheless optimize and thus elimitate the memset(). A similar issue has been observed in the referenced llvm bug report, which is regarded as not-a-bug. Based on some experiments, icc is a bit special on its own, while it doesn't seem to eliminate the memset(), it could do so with an own implementation, and then result in similar findings as with llvm. The fix in this patch now works for all three compilers (also tested with more aggressive optimization levels). Arguably, in the current kernel tree it's more of a theoretical issue, but imho, it's better to be pedantic about it. It's clearly visible with gcc/llvm though, with the below code: if we would have used barrier() only here, llvm would have omitted clearing, not so with barrier_data() variant: static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) { memset(s, 0, count); barrier_data(s); } int main(void) { char buff[20]; memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff)); return 0; } $ gcc -O2 test.c $ gdb a.out (gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x0000000000400400 <+0>: lea -0x28(%rsp),%rax 0x0000000000400405 <+5>: movq $0x0,-0x28(%rsp) 0x000000000040040e <+14>: movq $0x0,-0x20(%rsp) 0x0000000000400417 <+23>: movl $0x0,-0x18(%rsp) 0x000000000040041f <+31>: xor %eax,%eax 0x0000000000400421 <+33>: retq End of assembler dump. $ clang -O2 test.c $ gdb a.out (gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x00000000004004f0 <+0>: xorps %xmm0,%xmm0 0x00000000004004f3 <+3>: movaps %xmm0,-0x18(%rsp) 0x00000000004004f8 <+8>: movl $0x0,-0x8(%rsp) 0x0000000000400500 <+16>: lea -0x18(%rsp),%rax 0x0000000000400505 <+21>: xor %eax,%eax 0x0000000000400507 <+23>: retq End of assembler dump. As gcc, clang, but also icc defines __GNUC__, it's sufficient to define this in compiler-gcc.h only to be picked up. For a fallback or otherwise unsupported compiler, we define it as a barrier. Similarly, for ecc which does not support gcc inline asm. Reference: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15495 Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Tested-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Cc: mancha security <mancha1@zoho.com> Cc: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com> Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-03-27locking: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCEPeter Zijlstra1-16/+0
The fact that volatile allows for atomic load/stores is a special case not a requirement for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(). Their primary purpose is to force the compiler to emit load/stores _once_. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-21kernel: make READ_ONCE() valid on const argumentsLinus Torvalds1-3/+3
The use of READ_ONCE() causes lots of warnings witht he pending paravirt spinlock fixes, because those ends up having passing a member to a 'const' structure to READ_ONCE(). There should certainly be nothing wrong with using READ_ONCE() with a const source, but the helper function __read_once_size() would cause warnings because it would drop the 'const' qualifier, but also because the destination would be marked 'const' too due to the use of 'typeof'. Use a union of types in READ_ONCE() to avoid this issue. Also make sure to use parenthesis around the macro arguments to avoid possible operator precedence issues. Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-14Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linuxLinus Torvalds1-5/+16
Pull ACCESS_ONCE() rule tightening from Christian Borntraeger: "Tighten rules for ACCESS_ONCE This series tightens the rules for ACCESS_ONCE to only work on scalar types. It also contains the necessary fixups as indicated by build bots of linux-next. Now everything is in place to prevent new non-scalar users of ACCESS_ONCE and we can continue to convert code to READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/borntraeger/linux: kernel: Fix sparse warning for ACCESS_ONCE next: sh: Fix compile error kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE mm/gup: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE x86/spinlock: Leftover conversion ACCESS_ONCE->READ_ONCE x86/xen/p2m: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE ppc/hugetlbfs: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE ppc/kvm: Replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
2015-02-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: - The remaining patches for the z13 machine support: kernel build option for z13, the cache synonym avoidance, SMT support, compare-and-delay for spinloops and the CES5S crypto adapater. - The ftrace support for function tracing with the gcc hotpatch option. This touches common code Makefiles, Steven is ok with the changes. - The hypfs file system gets an extension to access diagnose 0x0c data in user space for performance analysis for Linux running under z/VM. - The iucv hvc console gets wildcard spport for the user id filtering. - The cacheinfo code is converted to use the generic infrastructure. - Cleanup and bug fixes. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits) s390/process: free vx save area when releasing tasks s390/hypfs: Eliminate hypfs interval s390/hypfs: Add diagnose 0c support s390/cacheinfo: don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context s390/zcrypt: fixed domain scanning problem (again) s390/smp: increase maximum value of NR_CPUS to 512 s390/jump label: use different nop instruction s390/jump label: add sanity checks s390/mm: correct missing space when reporting user process faults s390/dasd: cleanup profiling s390/dasd: add locking for global_profile access s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing ftrace: let notrace function attribute disable hotpatching if necessary ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options s390: reintroduce diag 44 calls for cpu_relax() s390/zcrypt: Add support for new crypto express (CEX5S) adapter. s390/zcrypt: Number of supported ap domains is not retrievable. s390/spinlock: add compare-and-delay to lock wait loops s390/tape: remove redundant if statement s390/hvc_iucv: add simple wildcard matches to the iucv allow filter ...
2015-01-29ftrace: let notrace function attribute disable hotpatching if necessaryHeiko Carstens1-0/+4
gcc supports an s390 specific function attribute called "hotpatch". It can be used to specify the number of halfwords that shall be added before and after a function and which shall be filled with nops for runtime patching. s390 will use the hotpatch attribute for function tracing, therefore make sure that the notrace function attribute either disables the mcount call or in case of hotpatch nop generation. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2015-01-21Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcuIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: - Documentation updates. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Preemptible-RCU fixes, including fixing an old bug in the interaction of RCU priority boosting and CPU hotplug. - SRCU updates. - RCU CPU stall-warning updates. - RCU torture-test updates. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-01-19kernel: Fix sparse warning for ACCESS_ONCEChristian Borntraeger1-1/+1
Commit 927609d622a3 ("kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE") results in sparse warnings like "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" - Let's add a type cast to the dummy assignment. To avoid warnings lik "sparse: warning: cast to restricted __hc32" we also use __force on that cast. Fixes: 927609d622a3 ("kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCE") Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2015-01-19kernel: tighten rules for ACCESS ONCEChristian Borntraeger1-5/+16
Now that all non-scalar users of ACCESS_ONCE have been converted to READ_ONCE or ASSIGN once, lets tighten ACCESS_ONCE to only work on scalar types. This variant was proposed by Alexei Starovoitov. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-13kernel: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)Christian Borntraeger1-6/+6
Feedback has shown that WRITE_ONCE(x, val) is easier to use than ASSIGN_ONCE(val,x). There are no in-tree users yet, so lets change it for 3.19. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06compiler: Allow 1- and 2-byte smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release()Paul E. McKenney1-1/+1
CPUs without single-byte and double-byte loads and stores place some "interesting" requirements on concurrent code. For example (adapted from Peter Hurley's test code), suppose we have the following structure: struct foo { spinlock_t lock1; spinlock_t lock2; char a; /* Protected by lock1. */ char b; /* Protected by lock2. */ }; struct foo *foop; Of course, it is common (and good) practice to place data protected by different locks in separate cache lines. However, if the locks are rarely acquired (for example, only in rare error cases), and there are a great many instances of the data structure, then memory footprint can trump false-sharing concerns, so that it can be better to place them in the same cache cache line as above. But if the CPU does not support single-byte loads and stores, a store to foop->a will do a non-atomic read-modify-write operation on foop->b, which will come as a nasty surprise to someone holding foop->lock2. So we now require CPUs to support single-byte and double-byte loads and stores. Therefore, this commit adjusts the definition of __native_word() to allow these sizes to be used by smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2014-12-18kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCEChristian Borntraeger1-0/+74
ACCESS_ONCE does not work reliably on non-scalar types. For example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag for such accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of aggregates) step https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145) Let's provide READ_ONCE/ASSIGN_ONCE that will do all accesses via scalar types as suggested by Linus Torvalds. Accesses larger than the machines word size cannot be guaranteed to be atomic. These macros will use memcpy and emit a build warning. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2014-06-12Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second round of perf updates: - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by Masami Hiramatsu. - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case fixes and robustization work. - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo et al: * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim) * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND' uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register() perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error perf record: Fix poll return value propagation perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target ...
2014-06-04compiler.h: avoid sparse errors in __compiletime_error_fallback()James Hogan1-2/+11
Usually, BUG_ON and friends aren't even evaluated in sparse, but recently compiletime_assert_atomic_type() was added, and that now results in a sparse warning every time it is used. The reason turns out to be the temporary variable, after it sparse no longer considers the value to be a constant, and results in a warning and an error. The error is the more annoying part of this as it suppresses any further warnings in the same file, hiding other problems. Unfortunately the condition cannot be simply expanded out to avoid the temporary variable since it breaks compiletime_assert on old versions of GCC such as GCC 4.2.4 which the latest metag compiler is based on. Therefore #ifndef __CHECKER__ out the __compiletime_error_fallback which uses the potentially negative size array to trigger a conditional compiler error, so that sparse doesn't see it. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com> Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>