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<subtitle>WireGuard for the Linux kernel</subtitle>
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<updated>2020-03-21T15:03:53Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Rename ___preempt_schedule</title>
<updated>2020-03-21T15:03:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-20T11:56:39Z</published>
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Because moar '_' isn't always moar readable.

git grep -l "___preempt_schedule\(_notrace\)*" | while read file;
do
	sed -ie 's/___preempt_schedule\(_notrace\)*/preempt_schedule\1_thunk/g' $file;
done

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320115858.995685950@infradead.org

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION</title>
<updated>2019-07-31T17:03:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-26T21:19:42Z</published>
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CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same
functionality which today depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Switch the entry code, preempt and kprobes conditionals over to
CONFIG_PREEMPTION.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726212124.608488448@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>preempt: Move PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED definition into arch code</title>
<updated>2018-12-07T12:35:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-19T12:39:26Z</published>
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PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED is never used directly, so move it into the arch
code where it can potentially be implemented using either a different
bit in the preempt count or as an entirely separate entity.

Cc: Robert Love &lt;rml@tech9.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm: 'Simplify' GEN_*_RMWcc() macros</title>
<updated>2018-10-16T15:33:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-03T10:34:10Z</published>
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Currently the GEN_*_RMWcc() macros include a return statement, which
pretty much mandates we directly wrap them in a (inline) function.

Macros with return statements are tricky and, as per the above, limit
use, so remove the return statement and make them
statement-expressions. This allows them to be used more widely.

Also, shuffle the arguments a bit. Place the @cc argument as 3rd, this
makes it consistent between UNARY and BINARY, but more importantly, it
makes the @arg0 argument last.

Since the @arg0 argument is now last, we can do CPP trickery and make
it an optional argument, simplifying the users; 17 out of 18
occurences do not need this argument.

Finally, change to asm symbolic names, instead of the numeric ordering
of operands, which allows us to get rid of __BINARY_RMWcc_ARG and get
cleaner code overall.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: JBeulich@suse.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003130957.108960094@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

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

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

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

How this work was done:

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

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

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

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

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

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

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

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

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

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

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

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

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

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

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

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

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang</title>
<updated>2017-09-23T13:06:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-20T21:24:33Z</published>
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For inline asm statements which have a CALL instruction, we list the
stack pointer as a constraint to convince GCC to ensure the frame
pointer is set up first:

  static inline void foo()
  {
	register void *__sp asm(_ASM_SP);
	asm("call bar" : "+r" (__sp))
  }

Unfortunately, that pattern causes Clang to corrupt the stack pointer.

The fix is easy: convert the stack pointer register variable to a global
variable.

It should be noted that the end result is different based on the GCC
version.  With GCC 6.4, this patch has exactly the same result as
before:

	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
 before	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940
 after	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940

With GCC 7.2, however, GCC's behavior has changed.  It now changes its
behavior based on the conversion of the register variable to a global.
That somehow convinces it to *always* set up the frame pointer before
inserting *any* inline asm.  (Therefore, listing the variable as an
output constraint is a no-op and is no longer necessary.)  It's a bit
overkill, but the performance impact should be negligible.  And in fact,
there's a nice improvement with frame pointers disabled:

	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
 before	9796316		9468236		9076191		8790305
 after	9796957		9464267		9076381		8785949

So in summary, while listing the stack pointer as an output constraint
is no longer necessary for newer versions of GCC, it's still needed for
older versions.

Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin &lt;miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3db862e970c432ae823cf515c52b54fec8270e0e.1505942196.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/x86: Do not clear PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED on preempt count reset</title>
<updated>2016-11-16T09:29:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-07T13:01:00Z</published>
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The per-cpu preempt count of x86 contains two values, the actual preempt
count and the inverted PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit. If a corrupted preempt
count is detected the preempt_count_set() function is used to reset the
preempt count.

In case the inverted PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit is zero at the time of the
reset, the preemption indication is lost. Use raw_cpu_cmpxchg_4() to reset
only the count part and leave the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED bit as it is.

This improves the kernel's behavior when it runs into preempt count leaks
and tries to fix them up.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478523660-733-1-git-send-email-schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, asm: change the GEN_*_RMWcc() macros to not quote the condition</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T19:41:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-08T19:38:39Z</published>
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Change the lexical defintion of the GEN_*_RMWcc() macros to not take
the condition code as a quoted string.  This will help support
changing them to use the new __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__ feature in a
subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465414726-197858-4-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/x86: Add stack frame dependency to __preempt_schedule[_notrace]()</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T07:35:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-18T17:41:58Z</published>
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If __preempt_schedule() or __preempt_schedule_notrace() is referenced at
the beginning of a function, gcc can insert the asm inline "call
___preempt_schedule[_notrace]" instruction before setting up a stack
frame, which breaks frame pointer convention if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is
enabled and can result in bad stack traces.

Force a stack frame to be created if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled by
listing the stack pointer as an output operand for the inline asm
statements.

Specifically this fixes the following stacktool warnings:

  stacktool: drivers/scsi/hpsa.o: hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd.constprop.106()+0x79: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: fs/mbcache.o: mb_cache_entry_find_first()+0x70: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: fs/mbcache.o: mb_cache_entry_find_first()+0x92: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: fs/mbcache.o: mb_cache_entry_free()+0xff: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: fs/mbcache.o: mb_cache_entry_free()+0xf5: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: fs/mbcache.o: mb_cache_entry_free()+0x11a: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: fs/mbcache.o: mb_cache_entry_get()+0x225: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: kernel/locking/percpu-rwsem.o: percpu_up_read()+0x27: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: kernel/profile.o: do_profile_hits.isra.5()+0x139: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: lib/nmi_backtrace.o: nmi_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()+0x2b6: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: net/rds/ib_cm.o: rds_ib_cq_comp_handler_recv()+0x58: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: net/rds/ib_cm.o: rds_ib_cq_comp_handler_send()+0x58: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: net/rds/ib_recv.o: rds_ib_attempt_ack()+0xc1: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: net/rds/iw_recv.o: rds_iw_attempt_ack()+0xc1: call without frame pointer save/setup
  stacktool: net/rds/iw_recv.o: rds_iw_recv_cq_comp_handler()+0x55: call without frame pointer save/setup

So it only adds a stack frame to 15 call sites out of ~5000 calls to
___preempt_schedule[_notrace]().  All the others already had stack frames.

Oddly, this change actually seems to make things faster in a lot of
cases.  For many smaller functions it causes the stack frame creation to
get moved out of the common path and into the unlikely path.

For example, here's the original cyc2ns_read_end():

  ffffffff8101f8c0 &lt;cyc2ns_read_end&gt;:
  ffffffff8101f8c0:	55                   	push   %rbp
  ffffffff8101f8c1:	48 89 e5             	mov    %rsp,%rbp
  ffffffff8101f8c4:	83 6f 10 01          	subl   $0x1,0x10(%rdi)
  ffffffff8101f8c8:	75 08                	jne    ffffffff8101f8d2 &lt;cyc2ns_read_end+0x12&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8ca:	65 48 89 3d e6 5a ff 	mov    %rdi,%gs:0x7eff5ae6(%rip)        # 153b8 &lt;cyc2ns+0x38&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8d1:	7e
  ffffffff8101f8d2:	65 ff 0d 77 c4 fe 7e 	decl   %gs:0x7efec477(%rip)        # bd50 &lt;__preempt_count&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8d9:	74 02                	je     ffffffff8101f8dd &lt;cyc2ns_read_end+0x1d&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8db:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  ffffffff8101f8dc:	c3                   	retq
  ffffffff8101f8dd:	e8 1e 37 fe ff       	callq  ffffffff81003000 &lt;___preempt_schedule&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8e2:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  ffffffff8101f8e3:	c3                   	retq
  ffffffff8101f8e4:	66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 	data16 data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  ffffffff8101f8eb:	00 00 00 00 00

And here's the same function with the patch:

  ffffffff8101f8c0 &lt;cyc2ns_read_end&gt;:
  ffffffff8101f8c0:	83 6f 10 01          	subl   $0x1,0x10(%rdi)
  ffffffff8101f8c4:	75 08                	jne    ffffffff8101f8ce &lt;cyc2ns_read_end+0xe&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8c6:	65 48 89 3d ea 5a ff 	mov    %rdi,%gs:0x7eff5aea(%rip)        # 153b8 &lt;cyc2ns+0x38&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8cd:	7e
  ffffffff8101f8ce:	65 ff 0d 7b c4 fe 7e 	decl   %gs:0x7efec47b(%rip)        # bd50 &lt;__preempt_count&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8d5:	74 01                	je     ffffffff8101f8d8 &lt;cyc2ns_read_end+0x18&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8d7:	c3                   	retq
  ffffffff8101f8d8:	55                   	push   %rbp
  ffffffff8101f8d9:	48 89 e5             	mov    %rsp,%rbp
  ffffffff8101f8dc:	e8 1f 37 fe ff       	callq  ffffffff81003000 &lt;___preempt_schedule&gt;
  ffffffff8101f8e1:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  ffffffff8101f8e2:	c3                   	retq
  ffffffff8101f8e3:	66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 	data16 data16 data16 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  ffffffff8101f8ea:	84 00 00 00 00 00

Notice that it moved the frame pointer setup code to the unlikely
___preempt_schedule() call path.  Going through a sampling of the
differences in the asm, that's the most common change I see.

Otherwise it has no real effect on callers which already have stack
frames (though it does result in the reordering of some 'mov's).

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160218174158.GA28230@treble.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T15:08:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-28T16:11:18Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux/commit/?id=d87b7a33794f52226131f93cbc9db03274d9fecf'/>
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<content type='text'>
With the introduction of the context switch preempt_count invariant,
and the demise of PREEMPT_ACTIVE, its pointless to save/restore the
per-cpu preemption count, it must always be 2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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