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Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Rename the staging files to give them some meaning. Just
stage1,stag2,etc, does not show what they are for
- Check for NULL from allocation in bootconfig
- Hold event mutex for dyn_event call in user events
- Mark user events to broken (to work on the API)
- Remove eBPF updates from user events
- Remove user events from uapi header to keep it from being installed.
- Move ftrace_graph_is_dead() into inline as it is called from hot
paths and also convert it into a static branch.
* tag 'trace-v5.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Move user_events.h temporarily out of include/uapi
ftrace: Make ftrace_graph_is_dead() a static branch
tracing: Set user_events to BROKEN
tracing/user_events: Remove eBPF interfaces
tracing/user_events: Hold event_mutex during dyn_event_add
proc: bootconfig: Add null pointer check
tracing: Rename the staging files for trace_events
Pull clk fix from Stephen Boyd:
"A single revert to fix a boot regression seen when clk_put() started
dropping rate range requests. It's best to keep various systems
booting so we'll kick this out and try again next time"
* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux:
Revert "clk: Drop the rate range on clk_put()"
While user_events API is under development and has been marked for broken
to not let the API become fixed, move the header file out of the uapi
directory. This is to prevent it from being installed, then later changed,
and then have an old distro user space update with a new kernel, where
applications see the user_events being available, but the old header is in
place, and then they get compiled incorrectly.
Also, surround the include with CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST to the current
location, but when the BROKEN tag is taken off, it will use the uapi
directory, and fail to compile. This is a good way to remind us to move
the header back.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220330155835.5e1f6669@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220330201755.29319-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401143903.188384f3@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of x86 fixes and updates:
- Make the prctl() for enabling dynamic XSTATE components correct so
it adds the newly requested feature to the permission bitmap
instead of overwriting it. Add a selftest which validates that.
- Unroll string MMIO for encrypted SEV guests as the hypervisor
cannot emulate it.
- Handle supervisor states correctly in the FPU/XSTATE code so it
takes the feature set of the fpstate buffer into account. The
feature sets can differ between host and guest buffers. Guest
buffers do not contain supervisor states. So far this was not an
issue, but with enabling PASID it needs to be handled in the buffer
offset calculation and in the permission bitmaps.
- Avoid a gazillion of repeated CPUID invocations in by caching the
values early in the FPU/XSTATE code.
- Enable CONFIG_WERROR in x86 defconfig.
- Make the X86 defconfigs more useful by adapting them to Y2022
reality"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2022-04-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu/xstate: Consolidate size calculations
x86/fpu/xstate: Handle supervisor states in XSTATE permissions
x86/fpu/xsave: Handle compacted offsets correctly with supervisor states
x86/fpu: Cache xfeature flags from CPUID
x86/fpu/xsave: Initialize offset/size cache early
x86/fpu: Remove unused supervisor only offsets
x86/fpu: Remove redundant XCOMP_BV initialization
x86/sev: Unroll string mmio with CC_ATTR_GUEST_UNROLL_STRING_IO
x86/config: Make the x86 defconfigs a bit more usable
x86/defconfig: Enable WERROR
selftests/x86/amx: Update the ARCH_REQ_XCOMP_PERM test
x86/fpu/xstate: Fix the ARCH_REQ_XCOMP_PERM implementation
This reverts commit 7dabfa2bc4803eed83d6f22bd6f045495f40636b. There are
multiple reports that this breaks boot on various systems. The common
theme is that orphan clks are having rates set on them when that isn't
expected. Let's revert it out for now so that -rc1 boots.
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/366a0232-bb4a-c357-6aa8-636e398e05eb@samsung.com
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220403022818.39572-1-sboyd@kernel.org
ftrace_graph_is_dead() is used on hot paths, it just reads a variable
in memory and is not worth suffering function call constraints.
For instance, at entry of prepare_ftrace_return(), inlining it avoids
saving prepare_ftrace_return() parameters to stack and restoring them
after calling ftrace_graph_is_dead().
While at it using a static branch is even more performant and is
rather well adapted considering that the returned value will almost
never change.
Inline ftrace_graph_is_dead() and replace 'kill_ftrace_graph' bool
by a static branch.
The performance improvement is noticeable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e0411a6a0ed3eafff0ad2bc9cd4b0e202b4617df.1648623570.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull RT signal fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"Revert the RT related signal changes. They need to be reworked and
generalized"
* tag 'core-urgent-2022-04-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "signal, x86: Delay calling signals in atomic on RT enabled kernels"
Use the offset calculation to do the size calculation which avoids yet
another series of CPUID instructions for each invocation.
[ Fix the FP/SSE only case which missed to take the xstate
header into account, as
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87o81pgbp2.ffs@tglx
* clk-sifive:
clk: sifive: Move all stuff into SoCs header files from C files
clk: sifive: Add SoCs prefix in each SoCs-dependent data
riscv: dts: Change the macro name of prci in each device node
dt-bindings: change the macro name of prci in header files and example
clk: sifive: duplicate the macro definitions for the time being
* clk-visconti:
clk: visconti: prevent array overflow in visconti_clk_register_gates()
After being merged, user_events become more visible to a wider audience
that have concerns with the current API. It is too late to fix this for
this release, but instead of a full revert, just mark it as BROKEN (which
prevents it from being selected in make config). Then we can work finding
a better API. If that fails, then it will need to be completely reverted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2059213643.196683.1648499088753.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220330155835.5e1f6669@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull more dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
- fix a regression in dma remap handling vs AMD memory encryption (me)
- finally kill off the legacy PCI DMA API (Christophe JAILLET)
* tag 'dma-mapping-5.18-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
dma-mapping: move pgprot_decrypted out of dma_pgprot
PCI/doc: cleanup references to the legacy PCI DMA API
PCI: Remove the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
Revert commit bf9ad37dc8a. It needs to be better encapsulated and
generalized.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
The size calculation in __xstate_request_perm() fails to take supervisor
states into account because the permission bitmap is only relevant for user
states.
Up to 5.17 this does not matter because there are no supervisor states
supported, but the (re-)enabling of ENQCMD makes them available.
Fixes: 7c1ef59145f1 ("x86/cpufeatures: Re-enable ENQCMD")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220324134623.681768598@linutronix.de
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