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Will Deacon 0f4ef8fb1d locking/futex: Allow low-level atomic operations to return -EAGAIN
commit 6b4f4bc9cb upstream.

Some futex() operations, including FUTEX_WAKE_OP, require the kernel to
perform an atomic read-modify-write of the futex word via the userspace
mapping. These operations are implemented by each architecture in
arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(), which
are called in atomic context with the relevant hash bucket locks held.

Although these routines may return -EFAULT in response to a page fault
generated when accessing userspace, they are expected to succeed (i.e.
return 0) in all other cases. This poses a problem for architectures
that do not provide bounded forward progress guarantees or fairness of
contended atomic operations and can lead to starvation in some cases.

In these problematic scenarios, we must return back to the core futex
code so that we can drop the hash bucket locks and reschedule if
necessary, much like we do in the case of a page fault.

Allow architectures to return -EAGAIN from their implementations of
arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(), which
will cause the core futex code to reschedule if necessary and return
back to the architecture code later on.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-10 17:54:11 +02:00
arch perf/x86/intel: Initialize TFA MSR 2019-05-10 17:54:08 +02:00
block block: pass no-op callback to INIT_WORK(). 2019-05-08 07:21:51 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: x86/poly1305 - fix overflow during partial reduction 2019-04-27 09:36:37 +02:00
Documentation USB: core: Fix bug caused by duplicate interface PM usage counter 2019-05-08 07:21:44 +02:00
drivers UAS: fix alignment of scatter/gather segments 2019-05-10 17:54:11 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock 2019-05-08 07:21:51 +02:00
include Bluetooth: Align minimum encryption key size for LE and BR/EDR connections 2019-05-10 17:54:11 +02:00
init Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init" 2019-03-23 20:09:46 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel locking/futex: Allow low-level atomic operations to return -EAGAIN 2019-05-10 17:54:11 +02:00
lib ubsan: Fix nasty -Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch GCC-9 warnings 2019-05-10 17:54:04 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm slab: fix a crash by reading /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-10 17:54:08 +02:00
net Bluetooth: Align minimum encryption key size for LE and BR/EDR connections 2019-05-10 17:54:11 +02:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-02-15 08:10:11 +01:00
scripts fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock 2019-05-08 07:21:51 +02:00
security selinux: never allow relabeling on context mounts 2019-05-08 07:21:54 +02:00
sound ASoC: Intel: avoid Oops if DMA setup fails 2019-05-10 17:54:11 +02:00
tools objtool: Add rewind_stack_do_exit() to the noreturn list 2019-05-10 17:54:08 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Take the srcu lock when parsing the memslots 2019-05-04 09:20:14 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add Intel AtomISP2 dummy / power-management driver 2019-04-20 09:16:02 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.41 2019-05-08 07:21:55 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.