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Linus Torvalds 3cf3fabccb Locking changes in this cycle are:
- Futex improvements:
 
     - Add the 'futex2' syscall ABI, which is an attempt to get away from the
       multiplex syscall and adds a little room for extentions, while lifting
       some limitations.
 
     - Fix futex PI recursive rt_mutex waiter state bug
 
     - Fix inter-process shared futexes on no-MMU systems
 
     - Use folios instead of pages
 
  - Micro-optimizations of locking primitives:
 
     - Improve arch_spin_value_unlocked() on asm-generic ticket spinlock
       architectures, to improve lockref code generation.
 
     - Improve the x86-32 lockref_get_not_zero() main loop by adding
       build-time CMPXCHG8B support detection for the relevant lockref code,
       and by better interfacing the CMPXCHG8B assembly code with the compiler.
 
     - Introduce arch_sync_try_cmpxchg() on x86 to improve sync_try_cmpxchg()
       code generation. Convert some sync_cmpxchg() users to sync_try_cmpxchg().
 
     - Micro-optimize rcuref_put_slowpath()
 
  - Locking debuggability improvements:
 
     - Improve CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y to have a fast-path as well
 
     - Enforce atomicity of sched_submit_work(), which is de-facto atomic but
       was un-enforced previously.
 
     - Extend <linux/cleanup.h>'s no_free_ptr() with __must_check semantics
 
     - Fix ww_mutex self-tests
 
     - Clean up const-propagation in <linux/seqlock.h> and simplify
       the API-instantiation macros a bit.
 
  - RT locking improvements:
 
     - Provide the rt_mutex_*_schedule() primitives/helpers and use them
       in the rtmutex code to avoid recursion vs. rtlock on the PI state.
 
     - Add nested blocking lockdep asserts to rt_mutex_lock(), rtlock_lock()
       and rwbase_read_lock().
 
  - Plus misc fixes & cleanups
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull locking updates from Info Molnar:
 "Futex improvements:

   - Add the 'futex2' syscall ABI, which is an attempt to get away from
     the multiplex syscall and adds a little room for extentions, while
     lifting some limitations.

   - Fix futex PI recursive rt_mutex waiter state bug

   - Fix inter-process shared futexes on no-MMU systems

   - Use folios instead of pages

  Micro-optimizations of locking primitives:

   - Improve arch_spin_value_unlocked() on asm-generic ticket spinlock
     architectures, to improve lockref code generation

   - Improve the x86-32 lockref_get_not_zero() main loop by adding
     build-time CMPXCHG8B support detection for the relevant lockref
     code, and by better interfacing the CMPXCHG8B assembly code with
     the compiler

   - Introduce arch_sync_try_cmpxchg() on x86 to improve
     sync_try_cmpxchg() code generation. Convert some sync_cmpxchg()
     users to sync_try_cmpxchg().

   - Micro-optimize rcuref_put_slowpath()

  Locking debuggability improvements:

   - Improve CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y to have a fast-path as well

   - Enforce atomicity of sched_submit_work(), which is de-facto atomic
     but was un-enforced previously.

   - Extend <linux/cleanup.h>'s no_free_ptr() with __must_check
     semantics

   - Fix ww_mutex self-tests

   - Clean up const-propagation in <linux/seqlock.h> and simplify the
     API-instantiation macros a bit

  RT locking improvements:

   - Provide the rt_mutex_*_schedule() primitives/helpers and use them
     in the rtmutex code to avoid recursion vs. rtlock on the PI state.

   - Add nested blocking lockdep asserts to rt_mutex_lock(),
     rtlock_lock() and rwbase_read_lock()

  .. plus misc fixes & cleanups"

* tag 'locking-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  futex: Don't include process MM in futex key on no-MMU
  locking/seqlock: Fix grammar in comment
  alpha: Fix up new futex syscall numbers
  locking/seqlock: Propagate 'const' pointers within read-only methods, remove forced type casts
  locking/lockdep: Fix string sizing bug that triggers a format-truncation compiler-warning
  locking/seqlock: Change __seqprop() to return the function pointer
  locking/seqlock: Simplify SEQCOUNT_LOCKNAME()
  locking/atomics: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_release() to micro-optimize rcuref_put_slowpath()
  locking/atomic, xen: Use sync_try_cmpxchg() instead of sync_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_sync_try_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic: Add generic support for sync_try_cmpxchg() and its fallback
  locking/seqlock: Fix typo in comment
  futex/requeue: Remove unnecessary ‘NULL’ initialization from futex_proxy_trylock_atomic()
  locking/local, arch: Rewrite local_add_unless() as a static inline function
  locking/debug: Fix debugfs API return value checks to use IS_ERR()
  locking/ww_mutex/test: Make sure we bail out instead of livelock
  locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption
  locking/ww_mutex/test: Use prng instead of rng to avoid hangs at bootup
  futex: Add sys_futex_requeue()
  futex: Add flags2 argument to futex_requeue()
  ...
2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
arch Locking changes in this cycle are: 2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
block vfs-6.7.super 2023-10-30 08:59:05 -10:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Fix sign/verify on pkcs1pad without a hash 2023-10-18 12:27:10 +08:00
Documentation - Add support for non-contiguous capacity bitmasks being added to 2023-10-30 12:07:29 -10:00
drivers Locking changes in this cycle are: 2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
fs Initial bcachefs pull request for 6.7-rc1 2023-10-30 11:09:38 -10:00
include Locking changes in this cycle are: 2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
init - A bunch of improvements, cleanups and fixlets to the SRSO mitigation 2023-10-30 11:48:49 -10:00
io_uring vfs-6.7.misc 2023-10-30 09:14:19 -10:00
ipc ipc: convert to new timestamp accessors 2023-10-18 14:08:30 +02:00
kernel Locking changes in this cycle are: 2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
lib Locking changes in this cycle are: 2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vfs-6.7.ctime 2023-10-30 09:47:13 -10:00
net NFSD 6.7 Release Notes 2023-10-30 10:12:29 -10:00
rust rust: docs: fix logo replacement 2023-10-19 16:40:00 +02:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-30 20:36:01 -07:00
scripts Locking changes in this cycle are: 2023-10-30 12:38:48 -10:00
security vfs-6.7.ctime 2023-10-30 09:47:13 -10:00
sound vfs-6.7.iov_iter 2023-10-30 09:24:21 -10:00
tools - A bunch of improvements, cleanups and fixlets to the SRSO mitigation 2023-10-30 11:48:49 -10:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - A new EDAC driver for Xilinx's Versal integrated memory controller 2023-10-30 11:45:36 -10:00
Makefile Linux 6.6 2023-10-29 16:31:08 -10:00
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