kernel.git/arch/sparc/mm, branch linux-4.7.y

tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I

2016-06-25T00:23:52Z

This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1]. I have basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree. I am sending it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced considerably when we want to target rc2. I plan to send the next step and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window hopefully. Motivation: While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of __GFP_REPEAT in the tree. It seems that a majority of the usage is and always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small orders very often. It seems that a big pile of them is just a copy&paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another. I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just making the semantic more unclear. Please note that GFP_REPEAT is documented as * __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt * _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation. while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic. So one could reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop for ever. This is not implemented right now though. I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic for it. $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l 111 $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l 36 So we are down to the third after this patch series. The remaining places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation requests. This still needs some double checking which I will do later after all the simple ones are sorted out. I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I do not have cross compiler for them. Patches should be quite trivial to review for stupid compile mistakes though. The tricky parts are usually hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from arch maintainers. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org This patch (of 19): __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. Yet we have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0 allocations. This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail). Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places. This would allow to identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Chris Metcalf [for tile] Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Kara Cc: John Crispin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparc64: Take ctx_alloc_lock properly in hugetlb_setup().

2016-05-25T19:51:32Z

On cheetahplus chips we take the ctx_alloc_lock in order to modify the TLB lookup parameters for the indexed TLBs, which are stored in the context register. This is called with interrupts disabled, however ctx_alloc_lock is an IRQ safe lock, therefore we must take acquire/release it properly with spin_{lock,unlock}_irq(). Reported-by: Meelis Roos Tested-by: Meelis Roos Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes

2016-05-21T01:44:27Z

During hugepage map/unmap, TSB and TLB flushes are currently issued at every PAGE_SIZE'd boundary which is unnecessary. We now issue the flush at REAL_HPAGE_SIZE boundaries only. Without this patch workloads which unmap a large hugepage backed VMA region get CPU lockups due to excessive TLB flush calls. Orabug: 22365539, 22643230, 22995196 Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc32: drop superfluous cast in calls to __nocache_pa()

2016-05-21T00:55:42Z

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc32: fix build with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS

2016-05-21T00:55:42Z

Based on recent thread on linux-arch (some weeks ago) I decided to check how much work was required to build sparc32 with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS enabled. The resulting binary (checked srmmu.o) was to my suprise smaller with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS defined, than without. As I have no working gear to test sparc32 bits at for the moment, I did not enable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS - but was tempeted to do so. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc64: recognize and support Sonoma CPU type

2016-04-21T20:43:47Z

Add code to recognize SPARC-Sonoma cpu correctly and update cpu hardware caps and cpu distribution map. SPARC-Sonoma is based upon SPARC-M7 core along with additional PCI functions added on and is reported by firmware as "SPARC-SN". Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz Acked-by: Allen Pais Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc

2016-03-28T20:14:11Z

Pull sparc fixes from David Miller: "Minor typing cleanup from Joe Perches, and some comment typo fixes from Adam Buchbinder" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: sparc: Convert naked unsigned uses to unsigned int sparc: Fix misspellings in comments.

sparc: Convert naked unsigned uses to unsigned int

2016-03-21T04:28:58Z

Use the more normal kernel definition/declaration style. Done via: $ git ls-files arch/sparc | \ xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix-inplace --types=unspecified_int Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-03-21T02:08:56Z

Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys). There's a background article at LWN.net: https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/ The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of user-controllable permission masks in the pte. So instead of having a fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of) protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected virtual memory range. This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions. It also allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that below). This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys - if a user-space application calls: mmap(..., PROT_EXEC); or mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC); (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice this special case, and will set a special protection key on this memory range. It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable and unwritable. So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true' PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies PROT_READ as well. Unreadable executable mappings have security advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either. We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion. There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this pull request. Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment. If there's any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or flip the default" * 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits) x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey() mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits() x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error() mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling ...

mm: cleanup pte_alloc interfaces

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

There are few things about *pte_alloc*() helpers worth cleaning up: - 'vma' argument is unused, let's drop it; - most __pte_alloc() callers do speculative check for pmd_none(), before taking ptl: let's introduce pte_alloc() macro which does the check. The only direct user of __pte_alloc left is userfaultfd, which has different expectation about atomicity wrt pmd. - pte_alloc_map() and pte_alloc_map_lock() are redefined using pte_alloc(). [sudeep.holla@arm.com: fix build for arm64 hugetlbpage] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix arch/arm/mm/mmu.c some more] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds