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2015-12-17Use the new batched user accesses in generic user string handlingLinus Torvalds1-4/+14
This converts the generic user string functions to use the batched user access functions. It makes a big difference on Skylake, which is the first x86 microarchitecture to implement SMAP. The STAC/CLAC instructions are not very fast, and doing them for each access inside the loop that copies strings from user space (which is what the pathname handling does for every pathname the kernel uses, for example) is very inefficient. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-22Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-2/+4
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - lockless wakeup support for futexes and IPC message queues (Davidlohr Bueso, Peter Zijlstra) - Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to improve scalability (Jason Low) - NUMA balancing improvements (Rik van Riel) - SCHED_DEADLINE improvements (Wanpeng Li) - clean up and reorganize preemption helpers (Frederic Weisbecker) - decouple page fault disabling machinery from the preemption counter, to improve debuggability and robustness (David Hildenbrand) - SCHED_DEADLINE documentation updates (Luca Abeni) - topology CPU masks cleanups (Bartosz Golaszewski) - /proc/sched_debug improvements (Srikar Dronamraju)" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits) sched/deadline: Remove needless parameter in dl_runtime_exceeded() sched: Remove superfluous resetting of the p->dl_throttled flag sched/deadline: Drop duplicate init_sched_dl_class() declaration sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target sched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task() sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus() sched/debug: Add sum_sleep_runtime to /proc/<pid>/sched sched/debug: Replace vruntime with wait_sum in /proc/sched_debug sched/debug: Properly format runnable tasks in /proc/sched_debug sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations Revert 095bebf61a46 ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced") sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair() preempt: Reorganize the notrace definitions a bit preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe x86: Remove cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask() x86: Replace cpu_**_mask() with topology_**_cpumask() ...
2015-06-03lib: Clarify the return value of strnlen_user()Jan Kara1-1/+8
strnlen_user() can return a number in a range 0 to count + sizeof(unsigned long) - 1. Clarify the comment at the top of the function so that users don't think the function returns at most count+1. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> [ Also added commentary about preferably not using this function ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-02lib: Fix strnlen_user() to not touch memory after specified maximumJan Kara1-1/+2
If the specified maximum length of the string is a multiple of unsigned long, we would load one long behind the specified maximum. If that happens to be in a next page, we can hit a page fault although we were not expected to. Fix the off-by-one bug in the test whether we are at the end of the specified range. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-19mm/uaccess, mm/fault: Clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabledDavid Hildenbrand1-2/+4
In general, non-atomic variants of user access functions must not sleep if pagefaults are disabled. Let's update all relevant comments in uaccess code. This also reflects the might_sleep() checks in might_fault(). Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: airlied@linux.ie Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: hocko@suse.cz Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: mst@redhat.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-4-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-27lib: Fix generic strnlen_user for 32-bit big-endian machinesPaul Mackerras1-1/+1
The aligned_byte_mask() definition is wrong for 32-bit big-endian machines: the "7-(n)" part of the definition assumes a long is 8 bytes. This fixes it by using BITS_PER_LONG - 8 instead of 8*7. Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-26lib: add generic strnlen_user() functionLinus Torvalds1-0/+138
This adds a new generic optimized strnlen_user() function that uses the <asm/word-at-a-time.h> infrastructure to portably do efficient string handling. In many ways, strnlen is much simpler than strncpy, and in particular we can always pre-align the words we load from memory. That means that all the worries about alignment etc are a non-issue, so this one can easily be used on any architecture. You obviously do have to do the appropriate word-at-a-time.h macros. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>