Track the number of slowpath locking operations that are being done
without any MCS node available as well renaming lock_index[123] to make
them more descriptive.
Using these stat counters is one way to find out if a code path is
being exercised.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548798828-16156-3-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Four queue nodes per CPU are allocated to enable up to 4 nesting levels
using the per-CPU nodes. Nested NMIs are possible in some architectures.
Still it is very unlikely that we will ever hit more than 4 nested
levels with contention in the slowpath.
When that rare condition happens, however, it is likely that the system
will hang or crash shortly after that. It is not good and we need to
handle this exception case.
This is done by spinning directly on the lock using repeated trylock.
This alternative code path should only be used when there is nested
NMIs. Assuming that the locks used by those NMI handlers will not be
heavily contended, a simple TAS locking should work out.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548798828-16156-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Some users, specifically futexes and rwsems, required fixes
that allowed the callers to be safe when wakeups occur before
they are expected by wake_up_q(). Such scenarios also play
games and rely on reference counting, and until now were
pivoting on wake_q doing it. With the wake_q_add() call being
moved down, this can no longer be the case. As such we end up
with a a double task refcounting overhead; and these callers
care enough about this (being rather core-ish).
This patch introduces a wake_q_add_safe() call that serves
for callers that have already done refcounting and therefore the
task is 'safe' from wake_q point of view (int that it requires
reference throughout the entire queue/>wakeup cycle). In the one
case it has internal reference counting, in the other case it
consumes the reference counting.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@baidu.com>
Cc: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com>
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: lilin24@baidu.com
Cc: liuqi16@baidu.com
Cc: nixun@baidu.com
Cc: yuanlinsi01@baidu.com
Cc: zhangyu31@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218195352.7orq3upiwfdbrdne@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tetsuo Handa had reported he saw an incorrect "downgrading a read lock"
warning right after a previous lockdep warning. It is likely that the
previous warning turned off lock debugging causing the lockdep to have
inconsistency states leading to the lock downgrade warning.
Fix that by add a check for debug_locks at the beginning of
__lock_downgrade().
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot+53383ae265fb161ef488@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547093005-26085-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull cpu hotplug fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two fixes for the cpu hotplug machinery:
- Replace the overly clever 'SMT disabled by BIOS' detection logic as
it breaks KVM scenarios and prevents speculation control updates
when the Hyperthreads are brought online late after boot.
- Remove a redundant invocation of the speculation control update
function"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM
x86/speculation: Remove redundant arch_smt_update() invocation
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A pile of perf updates:
- Fix broken sanity check in the /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent
write handler
- Cure a perf script crash which caused by an unitinialized data
structure
- Highlight the hottest instruction in perf top and not a random one
- Cure yet another clang issue when building perf python
- Handle topology entries with no CPU correctly in the tools
- Handle perf data which contains both tracepoints and performance
counter entries correctly.
- Add a missing NULL pointer check in perf ordered_events_free()"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf script: Fix crash when processing recorded stat data
perf top: Fix wrong hottest instruction highlighted
perf tools: Handle TOPOLOGY headers with no CPU
perf python: Remove -fstack-clash-protection when building with some clang versions
perf core: Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug
perf script: Fix crash with printing mixed trace point and other events
perf ordered_events: Fix crash in ordered_events__free
psi has provisions to shut off the periodic aggregation worker when
there is a period of no task activity - and thus no data that needs
aggregating. However, while developing psi monitoring, Suren noticed
that the aggregation clock currently won't stay shut off for good.
Debugging this revealed a flaw in the idle design: an aggregation run
will see no task activity and decide to go to sleep; shortly thereafter,
the kworker thread that executed the aggregation will go idle and cause
a scheduling change, during which the psi callback will kick the
!pending worker again. This will ping-pong forever, and is equivalent
to having no shut-off logic at all (but with more code!)
Fix this by exempting aggregation workers from psi's clock waking logic
when the state change is them going to sleep. To do this, tag workers
with the last work function they executed, and if in psi we see a worker
going to sleep after aggregating psi data, we will not reschedule the
aggregation work item.
What if the worker is also executing other items before or after?
Any psi state times that were incurred by work items preceding the
aggregation work will have been collected from the per-cpu buckets
during the aggregation itself. If there are work items following the
aggregation work, the worker's last_func tag will be overwritten and the
aggregator will be kept alive to process this genuine new activity.
If the aggregation work is the last thing the worker does, and we decide
to go idle, the brief period of non-idle time incurred between the
aggregation run and the kworker's dequeue will be stranded in the
per-cpu buckets until the clock is woken by later activity. But that
should not be a problem. The buckets can hold 4s worth of time, and
future activity will wake the clock with a 2s delay, giving us 2s worth
of data we can leave behind when disabling aggregation. If it takes a
worker more than two seconds to go idle after it finishes its last work
item, we likely have bigger problems in the system, and won't notice one
sample that was averaged with a bogus per-CPU weight.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116193501.1910-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: eb414681d5 ("psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, exit_ptrace() adds all ptraced tasks in a dead list, then
zap_pid_ns_processes() waits on all tasks in a current pidns, and only
then are tasks from the dead list released.
zap_pid_ns_processes() can get stuck on waiting tasks from the dead
list. In this case, we will have one unkillable process with one or
more dead children.
Thanks to Oleg for the advice to release tasks in find_child_reaper().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110175200.12442-1-avagin@gmail.com
Fixes: 7c8bd2322c ("exit: ptrace: shift "reap dead" code from exit_ptrace() to forget_original_parent()")
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the following commit:
73d5e2b472 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
... the hotplug code attempted to detect when SMT was disabled by BIOS,
in which case it reported SMT as permanently disabled. However, that
code broke a virt hotplug scenario, where the guest is booted with only
primary CPU threads, and a sibling is brought online later.
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to reliably
distinguish between the HW "SMT disabled by BIOS" case and the virt
"sibling not yet brought online" case. So the above-mentioned commit
was a bit misguided, as it permanently disabled SMT for both cases,
preventing future virt sibling hotplugs.
Going back and reviewing the original problems which were attempted to
be solved by that commit, when SMT was disabled in BIOS:
1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control showed "on" instead of
"notsupported"; and
2) vmx_vm_init() was incorrectly showing the L1TF_MSG_SMT warning.
I'd propose that we instead consider #1 above to not actually be a
problem. Because, at least in the virt case, it's possible that SMT
wasn't disabled by BIOS and a sibling thread could be brought online
later. So it makes sense to just always default the smt control to "on"
to allow for that possibility (assuming cpuid indicates that the CPU
supports SMT).
The real problem is #2, which has a simple fix: change vmx_vm_init() to
query the actual current SMT state -- i.e., whether any siblings are
currently online -- instead of looking at the SMT "control" sysfs value.
So fix it by:
a) reverting the original "fix" and its followup fix:
73d5e2b472 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
bc2d8d262c ("cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation")
and
b) changing vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state --
instead of the sysfs control value -- to determine whether the L1TF
warning is needed. This also requires the 'sched_smt_present'
variable to exported, instead of 'cpu_smt_control'.
Fixes: 73d5e2b472 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
Reported-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e3a85d585da28cc333ecbc1e78ee9216e6da9396.1548794349.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
With commit a74cfffb03 ("x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change"),
arch_smt_update() is invoked from each individual CPU hotplug function.
Therefore the extra arch_smt_update() call in the sysfs SMT control is
redundant.
Fixes: a74cfffb03 ("x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change")
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Cc: <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2e064f2-e8ef-42ca-bf4f-76b612964752@default
When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return
value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do
something different based on this.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190122152151.16139-40-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Pull timer fix from Thomas Glexiner:
"A single regression fix to address the unintended breakage of posix
cpu timers.
This is caused by a new sanity check in the common code, which fails
for posix cpu timers under certain conditions because the posix cpu
timer code never updates the variable which is checked"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
posix-cpu-timers: Unbreak timer rearming
Pull locking fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small series of fixes which all address possible missed wakeups:
- Document and fix the wakeup ordering of wake_q
- Add the missing barrier in rcuwait_wake_up(), which was documented
in the comment but missing in the code
- Fix the possible missed wakeups in the rwsem and futex code"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/rwsem: Fix (possible) missed wakeup
futex: Fix (possible) missed wakeup
sched/wake_q: Fix wakeup ordering for wake_q
sched/wake_q: Document wake_q_add()
sched/wait: Fix rcuwait_wake_up() ordering
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for the interrupt subsystem:
- Fix a double increment in the irq descriptor allocator which
resulted in a sanity check only being done for every second
affinity mask
- Add a missing device tree translation in the stm32-exti driver.
Without that the interrupt association is completely wrong.
- Initialize the mutex in the GIC-V3 MBI driver
- Fix the alignment for aliasing devices in the GIC-V3-ITS driver so
multi MSI allocations work correctly
- Ensure that the initial affinity of a interrupt is not empty at
startup time.
- Drop bogus include in the madera irq chip driver
- Fix KernelDoc regression"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Align PCI Multi-MSI allocation on their size
genirq/irqdesc: Fix double increment in alloc_descs()
genirq: Fix the kerneldoc comment for struct irq_affinity_desc
irqchip/madera: Drop GPIO includes
irqchip/gic-v3-mbi: Fix uninitialized mbi_lock
irqchip/stm32-exti: Add domain translate function
genirq: Make sure the initial affinity is not empty
Kernel:
Stephane Eranian:
- Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug.
perf script:
Andi Kleen:
- Fix crash with printing mixed trace point and other events.
Tony Jones:
- Fix crash when processing recorded stat data.
perf top:
He Kuang:
- Fix wrong hottest instruction highlighted.
perf python:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Remove -fstack-clash-protection when building with some clang versions.
perf ordered_events:
Jiri Olsa:
- Fix out of buffers crash in ordered_events__free().
perf cpu_map:
Stephane Eranian:
- Handle TOPOLOGY headers with no CPU.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-5.0-20190121' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
Kernel:
Stephane Eranian:
- Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug.
perf script:
Andi Kleen:
- Fix crash with printing mixed trace point and other events.
Tony Jones:
- Fix crash when processing recorded stat data.
perf top:
He Kuang:
- Fix wrong hottest instruction highlighted.
perf python:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Remove -fstack-clash-protection when building with some clang versions.
perf ordered_events:
Jiri Olsa:
- Fix out of buffers crash in ordered_events__free().
perf cpu_map:
Stephane Eranian:
- Handle TOPOLOGY headers with no CPU.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It makes the code more self-explanatory and tells throughout the code
what magic number refers to:
- state (Hardirq/Softirq)
- direction (used in or enabled above state)
- read or write
We can even remove some comments that were compensating for the lack of
those constant names.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545973321-24422-3-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The enum mark_type appears a bit artificial here. We can directly pass
the base enum lock_usage_bit value to mark_held_locks(). All we need
then is to add the read index for each lock if necessary. It makes the
code clearer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545973321-24422-2-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tetsuo Handa had reported he saw an incorrect "downgrading a read lock"
warning right after a previous lockdep warning. It is likely that the
previous warning turned off lock debugging causing the lockdep to have
inconsistency states leading to the lock downgrade warning.
Fix that by add a check for debug_locks at the beginning of
__lock_downgrade().
Debugged-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot+53383ae265fb161ef488@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547093005-26085-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The cmpxchg() will fail when the task is already in the process
of waking up, and as such is an extremely rare occurrence.
Micro-optimize the call and put an unlikely() around it.
To no surprise, when using CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
under a number of workloads the incorrect rate was a mere 1-2%.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com>
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: lilin24@baidu.com
Cc: liuqi16@baidu.com
Cc: nixun@baidu.com
Cc: xieyongji@baidu.com
Cc: yuanlinsi01@baidu.com
Cc: zhangyu31@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203053130.gwkw6kg72azt2npb@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Because wake_q_add() can imply an immediate wakeup (cmpxchg failure
case), we must not rely on the wakeup being delayed. However, commit:
e38513905e ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task")
relies on exactly that behaviour in that the wakeup must not happen
until after we clear waiter->task.
[ peterz: Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: e38513905e ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543495830-2644-1-git-send-email-xieyongji@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We must not rely on wake_q_add() to delay the wakeup; in particular
commit:
1d0dcb3ad9 ("futex: Implement lockless wakeups")
moved wake_q_add() before smp_store_release(&q->lock_ptr, NULL), which
could result in futex_wait() waking before observing ->lock_ptr ==
NULL and going back to sleep again.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 1d0dcb3ad9 ("futex: Implement lockless wakeups")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Notable cmpxchg() does not provide ordering when it fails, however
wake_q_add() requires ordering in this specific case too. Without this
it would be possible for the concurrent wakeup to not observe our
prior state.
Andrea Parri provided:
C wake_up_q-wake_q_add
{
int next = 0;
int y = 0;
}
P0(int *next, int *y)
{
int r0;
/* in wake_up_q() */
WRITE_ONCE(*next, 1); /* node->next = NULL */
smp_mb(); /* implied by wake_up_process() */
r0 = READ_ONCE(*y);
}
P1(int *next, int *y)
{
int r1;
/* in wake_q_add() */
WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1); /* wake_cond = true */
smp_mb__before_atomic();
r1 = cmpxchg_relaxed(next, 1, 2);
}
exists (0:r0=0 /\ 1:r1=0)
This "exists" clause cannot be satisfied according to the LKMM:
Test wake_up_q-wake_q_add Allowed
States 3
0:r0=0; 1:r1=1;
0:r0=1; 1:r1=0;
0:r0=1; 1:r1=1;
No
Witnesses
Positive: 0 Negative: 3
Condition exists (0:r0=0 /\ 1:r1=0)
Observation wake_up_q-wake_q_add Never 0 3
Reported-by: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The only guarantee provided by wake_q_add() is that a wakeup will
happen after it, it does _NOT_ guarantee the wakeup will be delayed
until the matching wake_up_q().
If wake_q_add() fails the cmpxchg() a concurrent wakeup is pending and
that can happen at any time after the cmpxchg(). This means we should
not rely on the wakeup happening at wake_q_up(), but should be ready
for wake_q_add() to issue the wakeup.
The delay; if provided (most likely); should only result in more efficient
behaviour.
Reported-by: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
For some peculiar reason rcuwait_wake_up() has the right barrier in
the comment, but not in the code.
This mistake has been observed to cause a deadlock in the following
situation:
P1 P2
percpu_up_read() percpu_down_write()
rcu_sync_is_idle() // false
rcu_sync_enter()
...
__percpu_up_read()
[S] ,- __this_cpu_dec(*sem->read_count)
| smp_rmb();
[L] | task = rcu_dereference(w->task) // NULL
|
| [S] w->task = current
| smp_mb();
| [L] readers_active_check() // fail
`-> <store happens here>
Where the smp_rmb() (obviously) fails to constrain the store.
[ peterz: Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 8f95c90ceb ("sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543590656-7157-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix endless loop in nf_tables, from Phil Sutter.
2) Fix cross namespace ip6_gre tunnel hash list corruption, from
Olivier Matz.
3) Don't be too strict in phy_start_aneg() otherwise we might not allow
restarting auto negotiation. From Heiner Kallweit.
4) Fix various KMSAN uninitialized value cases in tipc, from Ying Xue.
5) Memory leak in act_tunnel_key, from Davide Caratti.
6) Handle chip errata of mv88e6390 PHY, from Andrew Lunn.
7) Remove linear SKB assumption in fou/fou6, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Missing udplite rehash callbacks, from Alexey Kodanev.
9) Log dirty pages properly in vhost, from Jason Wang.
10) Use consume_skb() in neigh_probe() as this is a normal free not a
drop, from Yang Wei. Likewise in macvlan_process_broadcast().
11) Missing device_del() in mdiobus_register() error paths, from Thomas
Petazzoni.
12) Fix checksum handling of short packets in mlx5, from Cong Wang.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (96 commits)
bpf: in __bpf_redirect_no_mac pull mac only if present
virtio_net: bulk free tx skbs
net: phy: phy driver features are mandatory
isdn: avm: Fix string plus integer warning from Clang
net/mlx5e: Fix cb_ident duplicate in indirect block register
net/mlx5e: Fix wrong (zero) TX drop counter indication for representor
net/mlx5e: Fix wrong error code return on FEC query failure
net/mlx5e: Force CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for short ethernet frames
tools: bpftool: Cleanup license mess
bpf: fix inner map masking to prevent oob under speculation
bpf: pull in pkt_sched.h header for tooling to fix bpftool build
selftests: forwarding: Add a test case for externally learned FDB entries
selftests: mlxsw: Test FDB offload indication
mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Do not treat static FDB entries as sticky
net: bridge: Mark FDB entries that were added by user as such
mlxsw: spectrum_fid: Update dummy FID index
mlxsw: pci: Return error on PCI reset timeout
mlxsw: pci: Increase PCI SW reset timeout
mlxsw: pci: Ring CQ's doorbell before RDQ's
MAINTAINERS: update email addresses of liquidio driver maintainers
...
The perf_proc_update_handler() handles /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
syctl variable. When the PMU IRQ handler timing monitoring is disabled, i.e,
when /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent is equal to 0 or 100,
then no modification to sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate is allowed to prevent
possible hang from wrong values.
The problem is that the test to prevent modification is made after the
sysctl variable is modified in perf_proc_update_handler().
You get an error:
$ echo 10001 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
echo: write error: invalid argument
But the value is still modified causing all sorts of inconsistencies:
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
10001
This patch fixes the problem by moving the parsing of the value after
the test.
Committer testing:
# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent
# echo 10001 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
10001
#
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547169436-6266-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The recent rework of alloc_descs() introduced a double increment of the
loop counter. As a consequence only every second affinity mask is
validated.
Remove it.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Fixes: c410abbbac ("genirq/affinity: Add is_managed to struct irq_affinity_desc")
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Cc: Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>
Cc: Dou Liyang <douliyangs@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547694009-16261-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com
Pull swiotlb fix from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"A tiny fix for v5.0-rc2:
This fixes an issue with GPU cards not working anymore with the DMA
mapping work Christopher did - as the SWIOTLB is initialized first and
then free'd (as IOMMU is available) but we forgot to clear our start
and end entries which are used and BOOM"
* 'stable/for-linus-5.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb:
swiotlb: clear io_tlb_start and io_tlb_end in swiotlb_exit
There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough
and this place in the code produced a warnings (W=1).
This commit removes the following warning:
kernel/bpf/cgroup.c:719:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Initially in commit 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format
(BTF)") the function 'btf_name_offset_valid' was introduced as static
function it was later on changed to a non-static one, and then finally
in commit 23127b33ec ("bpf: Create a new btf_name_by_offset() for
non type name use case") the function prototype was removed.
Revert back to original implementation and make the function static.
Remove warning triggered with W=1:
kernel/bpf/btf.c:470:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'btf_name_offset_valid' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
Fixes: 23127b33ec ("bpf: Create a new btf_name_by_offset() for non type name use case")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
When returning BPF_STACK_BUILD_ID_IP from stack_map_get_build_id_offset,
make sure that build_id field is empty. Since we are using percpu
free list, there is a possibility that we might reuse some previous
bpf_stack_build_id with non-zero build_id.
Fixes: 615755a77b ("bpf: extend stackmap to save binary_build_id+offset instead of address")
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Build-id length is not fixed to 20, it can be (`man ld` /--build-id):
* 128-bit (uuid)
* 160-bit (sha1)
* any length specified in ld --build-id=0xhexstring
To fix the issue of missing BPF_STACK_BUILD_ID_VALID for shorter build-ids,
assume that build-id is somewhere in the range of 1 .. 20.
Set the remaining bytes to zero.
v2:
* don't introduce new "len = min(BPF_BUILD_ID_SIZE, nhdr->n_descsz)",
we already know that nhdr->n_descsz <= BPF_BUILD_ID_SIZE if we enter
this 'if' condition
Fixes: 615755a77b ("bpf: extend stackmap to save binary_build_id+offset instead of address")
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Otherwise is_swiotlb_buffer will return false positives when
we first initialize a swiotlb buffer, but then free it because
we have an IOMMU available.
Fixes: 55897af630 ("dma-direct: merge swiotlb_dma_ops into the dma_direct code")
Reported-by: Sibren Vasse <sibren@sibrenvasse.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sibren Vasse <sibren@sibrenvasse.nl>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
On the failure path, we do an fput() of the listener fd if the filter fails
to install (e.g. because of a TSYNC race that's lost, or if the thread is
killed, etc.). fput() doesn't actually release the fd, it just ads it to a
work queue. Then the thread proceeds to free the filter, even though the
listener struct file has a reference to it.
To fix this, on the failure path let's set the private data to null, so we
know in ->release() to ignore the filter.
Reported-by: syzbot+981c26489b2d1c6316ba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 6a21cc50f0 ("seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace")
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
It is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by writing an
incorrectly formatted string to the krpobe_events file.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Andrea Righi fixed a NULL pointer dereference in trace_kprobe_create()
It is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by writing an
incorrectly formatted string to the krpobe_events file"
* tag 'trace-v5.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing/kprobes: Fix NULL pointer dereference in trace_kprobe_create()
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix regression in multi-SKB responses to RTM_GETADDR, from Arthur
Gautier.
2) Fix ipv6 frag parsing in openvswitch, from Yi-Hung Wei.
3) Unbounded recursion in ipv4 and ipv6 GUE tunnels, from Stefano
Brivio.
4) Use after free in hns driver, from Yonglong Liu.
5) icmp6_send() needs to handle the case of NULL skb, from Eric
Dumazet.
6) Missing rcu read lock in __inet6_bind() when operating on mapped
addresses, from David Ahern.
7) Memory leak in tipc-nl_compat_publ_dump(), from Gustavo A. R. Silva.
8) Fix PHY vs r8169 module loading ordering issues, from Heiner
Kallweit.
9) Fix bridge vlan memory leak, from Ido Schimmel.
10) Dev refcount leak in AF_PACKET, from Jason Gunthorpe.
11) Infoleak in ipv6_local_error(), flow label isn't completely
initialized. From Eric Dumazet.
12) Handle mv88e6390 errata, from Andrew Lunn.
13) Making vhost/vsock CID hashing consistent, from Zha Bin.
14) Fix lack of UMH cleanup when it unexpectedly exits, from Taehee Yoo.
15) Bridge forwarding must clear skb->tstamp, from Paolo Abeni.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (87 commits)
bnxt_en: Fix context memory allocation.
bnxt_en: Fix ring checking logic on 57500 chips.
mISDN: hfcsusb: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
net: clear skb->tstamp in bridge forwarding path
net: bpfilter: disallow to remove bpfilter module while being used
net: bpfilter: restart bpfilter_umh when error occurred
net: bpfilter: use cleanup callback to release umh_info
umh: add exit routine for UMH process
isdn: i4l: isdn_tty: Fix some concurrency double-free bugs
vhost/vsock: fix vhost vsock cid hashing inconsistent
net: stmmac: Prevent RX starvation in stmmac_napi_poll()
net: stmmac: Fix the logic of checking if RX Watchdog must be enabled
net: stmmac: Check if CBS is supported before configuring
net: stmmac: dwxgmac2: Only clear interrupts that are active
net: stmmac: Fix PCI module removal leak
tools/bpf: fix bpftool map dump with bitfields
tools/bpf: test btf bitfield with >=256 struct member offset
bpf: fix bpffs bitfield pretty print
net: ethernet: mediatek: fix warning in phy_start_aneg
tcp: change txhash on SYN-data timeout
...
The recent commit which prevented a division by 0 issue in the alarm timer
code broke posix CPU timers as an unwanted side effect.
The reason is that the common rearm code checks for timer->it_interval
being 0 now. What went unnoticed is that the posix cpu timer setup does not
initialize timer->it_interval as it stores the interval in CPU timer
specific storage. The reason for the separate storage is historical as the
posix CPU timers always had a 64bit nanoseconds representation internally
while timer->it_interval is type ktime_t which used to be a modified
timespec representation on 32bit machines.
Instead of reverting the offending commit and fixing the alarmtimer issue
in the alarmtimer code, store the interval in timer->it_interval at CPU
timer setup time so the common code check works. This also repairs the
existing inconistency of the posix CPU timer code which kept a single shot
timer armed despite of the interval being 0.
The separate storage can be removed in mainline, but that needs to be a
separate commit as the current one has to be backported to stable kernels.
Fixes: 0e334db6bb ("posix-timers: Fix division by zero bug")
Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111133500.840117406@linutronix.de
If all CPUs in the irq_default_affinity mask are offline when an interrupt
is initialized then irq_setup_affinity() can set an empty affinity mask for
a newly allocated interrupt.
Fix this by falling back to cpu_online_mask in case the resulting affinity
mask is zero.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana <sramana@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545312957-8504-1-git-send-email-sramana@codeaurora.org
UNAME26 is a mechanism to report Linux's version as 2.6.x, for
compatibility with old/broken software. Due to the way it is
implemented, it would have to be updated after 5.0, to keep the
resulting versions unique. Linus Torvalds argued:
"Do we actually need this?
I'd rather let it bitrot, and just let it return random versions. It
will just start again at 2.4.60, won't it?
Anybody who uses UNAME26 for a 5.x kernel might as well think it's
still 4.x. The user space is so old that it can't possibly care about
differences between 4.x and 5.x, can it?
The only thing that matters is that it shows "2.4.<largeenough>",
which it will do regardless"
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A UMH process which is created by the fork_usermode_blob() such as
bpfilter needs to release members of the umh_info when process is
terminated.
But the do_exit() does not release members of the umh_info. hence module
which uses UMH needs own code to detect whether UMH process is
terminated or not.
But this implementation needs extra code for checking the status of
UMH process. it eventually makes the code more complex.
The new PF_UMH flag is added and it is used to identify UMH processes.
The exit_umh() does not release members of the umh_info.
Hence umh_info->cleanup callback should release both members of the
umh_info and the private data.
Suggested-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 9d5f9f701b ("bpf: btf: fix struct/union/fwd types
with kind_flag") introduced kind_flag and used bitfield_size
in the btf_member to directly pretty print member values.
The commit contained a bug where the incorrect parameters could be
passed to function btf_bitfield_seq_show(). The bits_offset
parameter in the function expects a value less than 8.
Instead, the member offset in the structure is passed.
The below is btf_bitfield_seq_show() func signature:
void btf_bitfield_seq_show(void *data, u8 bits_offset,
u8 nr_bits, struct seq_file *m)
both bits_offset and nr_bits are u8 type. If the bitfield
member offset is greater than 256, incorrect value will
be printed.
This patch fixed the issue by calculating correct proper
data offset and bits_offset similar to non kind_flag case.
Fixes: 9d5f9f701b ("bpf: btf: fix struct/union/fwd types with kind_flag")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
As Naresh reported, test_stacktrace_build_id() causes panic on i386 and
arm32 systems. This is caused by page_address() returns NULL in certain
cases.
This patch fixes this error by using kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic instead
of page_address.
Fixes: 615755a77b (" bpf: extend stackmap to save binary_build_id+offset instead of address")
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"14 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held
hugetlbfs: revert "use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization"
hugetlbfs: revert "Use i_mmap_rwsem to fix page fault/truncate race"
mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP
mm/memory.c: initialise mmu_notifier_range correctly
tools/vm/page_owner: use page_owner_sort in the use example
kasan: fix krealloc handling for tag-based mode
kasan: make tag based mode work with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
kasan, arm64: use ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN instead of manual aligning
mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback
mm/usercopy.c: no check page span for stack objects
slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed
fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case
zram: idle writeback fixes and cleanup
Commit 5eed6f1dff ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on
memcg charge fail") fixes a crash caused due to failed memcg charge of
the kernel stack. However the fix misses the cached_stacks case which
this patch fixes. So, the same crash can happen if the memcg charge of
a cached stack is failed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190102180145.57406-1-shakeelb@google.com
Fixes: 5eed6f1dff ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on memcg charge fail")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This changes the fork(2) syscall to record the process start_time after
initializing the basic task structure but still before making the new
process visible to user-space.
Technically, we could record the start_time anytime during fork(2). But
this might lead to scenarios where a start_time is recorded long before
a process becomes visible to user-space. For instance, with
userfaultfd(2) and TLS, user-space can delay the execution of fork(2)
for an indefinite amount of time (and will, if this causes network
access, or similar).
By recording the start_time late, it much closer reflects the point in
time where the process becomes live and can be observed by other
processes.
Lastly, this makes it much harder for user-space to predict and control
the start_time they get assigned. Previously, user-space could fork a
process and stall it in copy_thread_tls() before its pid is allocated,
but after its start_time is recorded. This can be misused to later-on
cycle through PIDs and resume the stalled fork(2) yielding a process
that has the same pid and start_time as a process that existed before.
This can be used to circumvent security systems that identify processes
by their pid+start_time combination.
Even though user-space was always aware that start_time recording is
flaky (but several projects are known to still rely on start_time-based
identification), changing the start_time to be recorded late will help
mitigate existing attacks and make it much harder for user-space to
control the start_time a process gets assigned.
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
