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  1. Mar 30, 2017
    • Josh Poimboeuf's avatar
      x86/build: Mostly disable '-maccumulate-outgoing-args' · 3f135e57
      Josh Poimboeuf authored
      
      
      The GCC '-maccumulate-outgoing-args' flag is enabled for most configs,
      mostly because of issues which are no longer relevant.  For most
      configs, and with most recent versions of GCC, it's no longer needed.
      
      Clarify which cases need it, and only enable it for those cases.  Also
      produce a compile-time error for the ftrace graph + mcount + '-Os' case,
      which will otherwise cause runtime failures.
      
      The main benefit of '-maccumulate-outgoing-args' is that it prevents an
      ugly prologue for functions which have aligned stacks.  But removing the
      option also has some benefits: more readable argument saves, smaller
      text size, and (presumably) slightly improved performance.
      
      Here are the object size savings for 32-bit and 64-bit defconfig
      kernels:
      
            text	   data	    bss	     dec	    hex	filename
        10006710	3543328	1773568	15323606	 e9d1d6	vmlinux.x86-32.before
         9706358	3547424	1773568	15027350	 e54c96	vmlinux.x86-32.after
      
            text	   data	    bss	     dec	    hex	filename
        10652105	4537576	 843776	16033457	 f4a6b1	vmlinux.x86-64.before
        10639629	4537576	 843776	16020981	 f475f5	vmlinux.x86-64.after
      
      That comes out to a 3% text size improvement on x86-32 and a 0.1% text
      size improvement on x86-64.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316193133.zrj6gug53766m6nn@treble
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      3f135e57
  2. Mar 24, 2017
    • Baoquan He's avatar
      x86/mm/KASLR: Exclude EFI region from KASLR VA space randomization · a46f60d7
      Baoquan He authored
      
      
      Currently KASLR is enabled on three regions: the direct mapping of physical
      memory, vamlloc and vmemmap. However the EFI region is also mistakenly
      included for VA space randomization because of misusing EFI_VA_START macro
      and assuming EFI_VA_START < EFI_VA_END.
      
      (This breaks kexec and possibly other things that rely on stable addresses.)
      
      The EFI region is reserved for EFI runtime services virtual mapping which
      should not be included in KASLR ranges. In Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt,
      we can see:
      
        ffffffef00000000 - fffffffeffffffff (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space
      
      EFI uses the space from -4G to -64G thus EFI_VA_START > EFI_VA_END,
      Here EFI_VA_START = -4G, and EFI_VA_END = -64G.
      
      Changing EFI_VA_START to EFI_VA_END in mm/kaslr.c fixes this problem.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarBhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarThomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.8+
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490331592-31860-1-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      a46f60d7
  3. Mar 22, 2017
  4. Mar 20, 2017
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.11-rc3 · 97da3854
      Linus Torvalds authored
      97da3854
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cache · 452b94b8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      This BUG_ON() triggered for me once at shutdown, and I don't see a
      reason for the check.  The code correctly checks whether the swap slot
      cache is usable or not, so an uninitialized swap slot cache is not
      actually problematic afaik.
      
      I've temporarily just switched the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON_ONCE(), since
      I'm not sure why that seemingly pointless check was there.  I suspect
      the real fix is to just remove it entirely, but for now we'll warn about
      it but not bring the machine down.
      
      Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      452b94b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · a07a6e41
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull more powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
       "A couple of minor powerpc fixes for 4.11:
      
         - wire up statx() syscall
      
         - don't print a warning on memory hotplug when HPT resizing isn't
           available
      
        Thanks to: David Gibson, Chandan Rajendra"
      
      * tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
        powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available
        powerpc: Wire up statx() syscall
      a07a6e41
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 4571bc5a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
      
       - Mikulas Patocka added support for R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocations in
         modules with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
      
       - Dave Anglin optimized the cache flushing for vmap ranges.
      
       - Arvind Yadav provided a fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference
         in the parisc perf code (and some code cleanups).
      
       - I wired up the new statx system call, fixed some compiler warnings
         with the access_ok() macro and fixed shutdown code to really halt a
         system at shutdown instead of crashing & rebooting.
      
      * 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        parisc: Fix system shutdown halt
        parisc: perf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
        parisc: Avoid compiler warnings with access_ok()
        parisc: Wire up statx system call
        parisc: Optimize flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
        parisc: support R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocation in modules
      4571bc5a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending · 8aa34172
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull SCSI target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger:
       "The bulk of the changes are in qla2xxx target driver code to address
        various issues found during Cavium/QLogic's internal testing (stable
        CC's included), along with a few other stability and smaller
        miscellaneous improvements.
      
        There are also a couple of different patch sets from Mike Christie,
        which have been a result of his work to use target-core ALUA logic
        together with tcm-user backend driver.
      
        Finally, a patch to address some long standing issues with
        pass-through SCSI export of TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIUM_CHANGER devices,
        which will make folks using physical (or virtual) magnetic tape happy"
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (28 commits)
        qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00-k
        qla2xxx: Fix delayed response to command for loop mode/direct connect.
        qla2xxx: Change scsi host lookup method.
        qla2xxx: Add DebugFS node to display Port Database
        qla2xxx: Use IOCB interface to submit non-critical MBX.
        qla2xxx: Add async new target notification
        qla2xxx: Export DIF stats via debugfs
        qla2xxx: Improve T10-DIF/PI handling in driver.
        qla2xxx: Allow relogin to proceed if remote login did not finish
        qla2xxx: Fix sess_lock & hardware_lock lock order problem.
        qla2xxx: Fix inadequate lock protection for ABTS.
        qla2xxx: Fix request queue corruption.
        qla2xxx: Fix memory leak for abts processing
        qla2xxx: Allow vref count to timeout on vport delete.
        tcmu: Convert cmd_time_out into backend device attribute
        tcmu: make cmd timeout configurable
        tcmu: add helper to check if dev was configured
        target: fix race during implicit transition work flushes
        target: allow userspace to set state to transitioning
        target: fix ALUA transition timeout handling
        ...
      8aa34172
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm · 1b8df619
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull device-dax fixes from Dan Williams:
       "The device-dax driver was not being careful to handle falling back to
        smaller fault-granularity sizes.
      
        The driver already fails fault attempts that are smaller than the
        device's alignment, but it also needs to handle the cases where a
        larger page mapping could be established. For simplicity of the
        immediate fix the implementation just signals VM_FAULT_FALLBACK until
        fault-size == device-alignment.
      
        One fix is for -stable to address pmd-to-pte fallback from the
        original implementation, another fix is for the new (introduced in
        4.11-rc1) pud-to-pmd regression, and a typo fix comes along for the
        ride.
      
        These have received a build success notification from the kbuild
        robot"
      
      * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
        device-dax: fix debug output typo
        device-dax: fix pud fault fallback handling
        device-dax: fix pmd/pte fault fallback handling
      1b8df619
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