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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of x86 fixes:
- prevent the kernel from using the EFI reboot method when EFI is
disabled.
- two patches addressing clang issues"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Disable the address-of-packed-member compiler warning
x86/efi: Fix reboot_mode when EFI runtime services are disabled
x86/boot: #undef memcpy() et al in string.c
Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two patches addressing build warnings caused by inconsistent kernel
doc comments"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/wait: Clean up some documentation warnings
sched/core: Fix some documentation build warnings
The clang warning 'address-of-packed-member' is disabled for the general
kernel code, also disable it for the x86 boot code.
This suppresses a bunch of warnings like this when building with clang:
./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:535:30: warning: taking address of
packed member 'sp0' of class or structure 'x86_hw_tss' may result in an
unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
return this_cpu_read_stable(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:391:59: note: expanded from macro
'this_cpu_read_stable'
#define this_cpu_read_stable(var) percpu_stable_op("mov", var)
^~~
./arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:228:16: note: expanded from macro
'percpu_stable_op'
: "p" (&(var)));
^~~
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725215053.135586-1-mka@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A couple of fixes for performance counters and kprobes:
- a series of small patches which make the uncore performance
counters on Skylake server systems work correctly
- add a missing instruction slot release to the failure path of
kprobes"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
kprobes/x86: Release insn_slot in failure path
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix missing marker for skx_uncore_cha_extra_regs
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix SKX CHA event extra regs
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Remove invalid Skylake server CHA filter field
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix Skylake server CHA LLC_LOOKUP event umask
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix Skylake server PCU PMU event format
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix Skylake UPI PMU event masks
A couple of kerneldoc comments in <linux/wait.h> had incorrect names for
macro parameters, with this unsightly result:
./include/linux/wait.h:555: warning: No description found for parameter 'wq'
./include/linux/wait.h:555: warning: Excess function parameter 'wq_head' description in 'wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout'
./include/linux/wait.h:759: warning: No description found for parameter 'wq_head'
./include/linux/wait.h:759: warning: Excess function parameter 'wq' description in 'wait_event_killable'
Correct the comments and kill the warnings.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724135800.769c4042@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When EFI runtime services are disabled, for example by the "noefi"
kernel cmdline parameter, the reboot_type could still be set to
BOOT_EFI causing reboot to fail.
Fix this by checking if EFI runtime services are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724122248.24006-1-sassmann@kpanic.de
[ Fixed 'not disabled' double negation. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull irq fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"Fix for a regression caused by the conversion of x86 to the generic
hotplug code.
Instead of doing a plain single line revert, this adds a pile of
comments so the semantics of the force argument are clear"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq/cpuhotplug: Revert "Set force affinity flag on hotplug migration"
The following commit:
003002e04ed3 ("kprobes: Fix arch_prepare_kprobe to handle copy insn failures")
returns an error if the copying of the instruction, but does not release
the allocated insn_slot.
Clean up correctly.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 003002e04ed3 ("kprobes: Fix arch_prepare_kprobe to handle copy insn failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150064834183.6172.11694375818447664416.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The kerneldoc comments for try_to_wake_up_local() were out of date, leading
to these documentation build warnings:
./kernel/sched/core.c:2080: warning: No description found for parameter 'rf'
./kernel/sched/core.c:2080: warning: Excess function parameter 'cookie' description in 'try_to_wake_up_local'
Update the comment to reflect current reality and give us some peace and
quiet.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724135628.695cecfc@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
undef memcpy() and friends in boot/string.c so that the functions
defined here will have the correct names, otherwise we end up
up trying to redefine __builtin_memcpy() etc.
Surprisingly, GCC allows this (and, helpfully, discards the
__builtin_ prefix from the function name when compiling it),
but clang does not.
Adding these #undef's appears to preserve what I assume was
the original intent of the code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bernhard.Rosenkranzer@linaro.org
Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724235155.79255-1-mka@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull DeviceTree fixes from Rob Herring:
"Two small DT fixes:
- Fix error handling in of_irq_to_resource_table() due to
of_irq_to_resource() error return changes.
- Fix dtx_diff script due to dts include path changes"
* tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux:
of: irq: fix of_irq_to_resource() error check
scripts/dtc: dtx_diff - update include dts paths to match build
That commit was part of the changes moving x86 to the generic CPU hotplug
interrupt migration code. The force flag was required on x86 before the
hierarchical irqdomain rework, but invoking set_affinity() with force=true
stayed and had no side effects.
At some point in the past, the force flag got repurposed to support the
exynos timer interrupt affinity setting to a not yet online CPU, so the
interrupt controller callback does not verify the supplied affinity mask
against cpu_online_mask.
Setting the flag in the CPU hotplug code causes the cpu online masking to
be blocked on these irq controllers and results in potentially affining an
interrupt to the CPU which is unplugged, i.e. instead of moving it away,
it's just reassigned to it.
As the force flags is not longer needed on x86, it's safe to revert that
patch so the ARM irqchips which use the force flag work again.
Add comments to that effect, so this won't happen again.
Note: The online mask handling should be done in the generic code and the
force flag and the masking in the irq chips removed all together, but
that's not a change possible for 4.13.
Fixes: 77f85e66aa8b ("genirq/cpuhotplug: Set force affinity flag on hotplug migration")
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1707271217590.3109@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This skx_uncore_cha_extra_regs array was missing an end-marker.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499967350-10385-7-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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