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Pull x86 Kconfig fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three patchlets to correct HIGHMEM64G and CMPXCHG64 dependencies in
Kconfig when CPU selections are explicitely set to M586 or M686"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/Kconfig: Explicitly enumerate i686-class CPUs in Kconfig
x86/Kconfig: Exclude i586-class CPUs lacking PAE support from the HIGHMEM64G Kconfig group
x86/Kconfig: Add missing i586-class CPUs to the X86_CMPXCHG64 Kconfig group
Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Perf tool updates and kprobe fixes:
- perf_mmap overwrite mode fixes/overhaul, prep work to get 'perf
top' using it, making it bearable to use it in large core count
systems such as Knights Landing/Mill Intel systems (Kan Liang)
- s/390 now uses syscall.tbl, just like x86-64 to generate the
syscall table id -> string tables used by 'perf trace' (Hendrik
Brueckner)
- Use strtoull() instead of home grown function (Andy Shevchenko)
- Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.16-rc1 (Ingo Molnar)
- Document missing 'perf data --force' option (Sangwon Hong)
- Add perf vendor JSON metrics for ARM Cortex-A53 Processor (William
Cohen)
- Improve error handling and error propagation of ftrace based
kprobes so failures when installing kprobes are not silently
ignored and create disfunctional tracepoints"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
kprobes: Propagate error from disarm_kprobe_ftrace()
kprobes: Propagate error from arm_kprobe_ftrace()
Revert "tools include s390: Grab a copy of arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h"
perf s390: Rework system call table creation by using syscall.tbl
perf s390: Grab a copy of arch/s390/kernel/syscall/syscall.tbl
tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.16-rc1
perf test: Fix test trace+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh for s390x
perf data: Document missing --force option
perf tools: Substitute yet another strtoull()
perf top: Check the latency of perf_top__mmap_read()
perf top: Switch default mode to overwrite mode
perf top: Remove lost events checking
perf hists browser: Add parameter to disable lost event warning
perf top: Add overwrite fall back
perf evsel: Expose the perf_missing_features struct
perf top: Check per-event overwrite term
perf mmap: Discard legacy interface for mmap read
perf test: Update mmap read functions for backward-ring-buffer test
perf mmap: Introduce perf_mmap__read_event()
perf mmap: Introduce perf_mmap__read_done()
...
The X86_P6_NOP config class leaves out many i686-class CPUs. Instead,
explicitly enumerate all these CPUs.
Using a configuration with M686 currently sets X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY=5
instead of the correct value of 6.
Booting on an i586 it will fail to generate the "This kernel
requires an i686 CPU, but only detected an i586 CPU" message and
intentional halt as expected. It will instead just silently hang
when it hits i686-specific instructions.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518713696-11360-3-git-send-email-tedheadster@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of updates mostly for irq chip drivers:
- MIPS GIC fix for spurious, masked interrupts
- fix for a subtle IPI bug in GICv3
- do not probe GICv3 ITSs that are marked as disabled
- multi-MSI support for GICv2m
- various small cleanups"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqdomain: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro
irqchip/bcm: Remove hashed address printing
irqchip/gic-v2m: Add PCI Multi-MSI support
irqchip/gic-v3: Ignore disabled ITS nodes
irqchip/gic-v3: Use wmb() instead of smb_wmb() in gic_raise_softirq()
irqchip/gic-v3: Change pr_debug message to pr_devel
irqchip/mips-gic: Avoid spuriously handling masked interrupts
Improve error handling when disarming ftrace-based kprobes. Like with
arm_kprobe_ftrace(), propagate any errors from disarm_kprobe_ftrace() so
that we do not disable/unregister kprobes that are still armed. In other
words, unregister_kprobe() and disable_kprobe() should not report success
if the kprobe could not be disarmed.
disarm_all_kprobes() keeps its current behavior and attempts to
disarm all kprobes. It returns the last encountered error and gives a
warning if not all probes could be disarmed.
This patch is based on Petr Mladek's original patchset (patches 2 and 3)
back in 2015, which improved kprobes error handling, found here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/26/452
However, further work on this had been paused since then and the patches
were not upstreamed.
Based-on-patches-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180109235124.30886-3-jeyu@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
i586-class machines also lack support for Physical Address Extension (PAE),
so add them to the exclusion list.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518713696-11360-2-git-send-email-tedheadster@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull core fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small fix which adds the missing for_each_cpu_wrap() stub for the UP
case to avoid build failures"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpumask: Make for_each_cpu_wrap() available on UP as well
Pull irqchip updates for 4.16-rc2 from Marc Zyngier
- A MIPS GIC fix for spurious, masked interrupts
- A fix for a subtle IPI bug in GICv3
- Do not probe GICv3 ITSs that are marked as disabled
- Multi-MSI support for GICv2m
- Various cleanups
Improve error handling when arming ftrace-based kprobes. Specifically, if
we fail to arm a ftrace-based kprobe, register_kprobe()/enable_kprobe()
should report an error instead of success. Previously, this has lead to
confusing situations where register_kprobe() would return 0 indicating
success, but the kprobe would not be functional if ftrace registration
during the kprobe arming process had failed. We should therefore take any
errors returned by ftrace into account and propagate this error so that we
do not register/enable kprobes that cannot be armed. This can happen if,
for example, register_ftrace_function() finds an IPMODIFY conflict (since
kprobe_ftrace_ops has this flag set) and returns an error. Such a conflict
is possible since livepatches also set the IPMODIFY flag for their ftrace_ops.
arm_all_kprobes() keeps its current behavior and attempts to arm all
kprobes. It returns the last encountered error and gives a warning if
not all probes could be armed.
This patch is based on Petr Mladek's original patchset (patches 2 and 3)
back in 2015, which improved kprobes error handling, found here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/26/452
However, further work on this had been paused since then and the patches
were not upstreamed.
Based-on-patches-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180109235124.30886-2-jeyu@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Several i586-class CPUs supporting this instruction are missing from
the X86_CMPXCHG64 config group.
Using a configuration with either M586TSC or M586MMX currently sets
X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY=4 instead of the correct value of 5.
Booting on an i486 it will fail to generate the "This kernel
requires an i586 CPU, but only detected an i486 CPU" message and
intentional halt as expected. It will instead just silently hang
when it hits i586-specific instructions.
The M586 CPU is not in this list because at least the Cyrix 5x86
lacks this instruction, and perhaps others.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518713696-11360-1-git-send-email-tedheadster@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
- NVMe pull request from Keith, with fixes all over the map for nvme.
From various folks.
- Classic polling fix, that avoids a latency issue where we still end
up waiting for an interrupt in some cases. From Nitesh Shetty.
- Comment typo fix from Minwoo Im.
* tag 'for-linus-20180217' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: fix a typo in comment of BLK_MQ_POLL_STATS_BKTS
nvme-rdma: fix sysfs invoked reset_ctrl error flow
nvmet: Change return code of discard command if not supported
nvme-pci: Fix timeouts in connecting state
nvme-pci: Remap CMB SQ entries on every controller reset
nvme: fix the deadlock in nvme_update_formats
blk: optimization for classic polling
nvme: Don't use a stack buffer for keep-alive command
nvme_fc: cleanup io completion
nvme_fc: correct abort race condition on resets
nvme: Fix discard buffer overrun
nvme: delete NVME_CTRL_LIVE --> NVME_CTRL_CONNECTING transition
nvme-rdma: use NVME_CTRL_CONNECTING state to mark init process
nvme: rename NVME_CTRL_RECONNECTING state to NVME_CTRL_CONNECTING
for_each_cpu_wrap() was originally added in the #else half of a
large "#if NR_CPUS == 1" statement, but was omitted in the #if
half. This patch adds the missing #if half to prevent compile
errors when NR_CPUS is 1.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhkelley@outlook.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com
Cc: mikelley@microsoft.com
Fixes: c743f0a5c50f ("sched/fair, cpumask: Export for_each_cpu_wrap()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/SN6PR1901MB2045F087F59450507D4FCC17CBF50@SN6PR1901MB2045.namprd19.prod.outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Meelis reported the following warning on a quad P3 HP NetServer museum piece:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 258 at kernel/irq/chip.c:244 __irq_startup+0x80/0x100
EIP: __irq_startup+0x80/0x100
irq_startup+0x7e/0x170
probe_irq_on+0x128/0x2b0
parport_irq_probe.constprop.18+0x8d/0x1af [parport_pc]
parport_pc_probe_port+0xf11/0x1260 [parport_pc]
parport_pc_init+0x78a/0xf10 [parport_pc]
parport_parse_param.constprop.16+0xf0/0xf0 [parport_pc]
do_one_initcall+0x45/0x1e0
This is caused by the rewrite of the irq activation/startup sequence which
missed to convert a callsite in the irq legacy auto probing code.
To fix this irq_activate_and_startup() needs to gain a return value so the
pending logic can work proper.
Fixes: c942cee46bba ("genirq: Separate activation and startup")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801301935410.1797@nanos
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