Frederic Weisbecker [Fri, 6 Apr 2018 02:32:37 +0000 (04:32 +0200)]
nohz: Gather tick_sched booleans under a common flag field
Optimize the space and leave plenty of room for further flags.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
[ rjw: Do not use __this_cpu_read() to access tick_stopped and add
got_idle_tick to avoid overloading inidle ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 17:12:43 +0000 (19:12 +0200)]
cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states with stopped tick
If the scheduler tick has been stopped already and the governor
selects a shallow idle state, the CPU can spend a long time in that
state if the selection is based on an inaccurate prediction of idle
time. That effect turns out to be relevant, so it needs to be
mitigated.
To that end, modify the menu governor to discard the result of the
idle time prediction if the tick is stopped and the predicted idle
time is less than the tick period length, unless the tick timer is
going to expire soon.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 17:12:34 +0000 (19:12 +0200)]
cpuidle: menu: Refine idle state selection for running tick
If the tick isn't stopped, the target residency of the state selected
by the menu governor may be greater than the actual time to the next
tick and that means lost energy.
To avoid that, make tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() return the current
time to the next event (before stopping the tick) in addition to the
estimated one via an extra pointer argument and make menu_select()
use that value to refine the state selection when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 21:17:11 +0000 (23:17 +0200)]
sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick
In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped,
reorder the code in cpuidle_idle_call() so that the governor idle
state selection runs before tick_nohz_idle_go_idle() and use the
"nohz" hint returned by cpuidle_select() to decide whether or not
to stop the tick.
This isn't straightforward, because menu_select() invokes
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to get the time to the next timer
event and the number returned by the latter comes from
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(). Fortunately, however, it is possible
to compute that number without actually stopping the tick and with
the help of the existing code.
Namely, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can be made call
tick_nohz_next_event(), introduced earlier, to get the time to the
next non-highres timer event. If that happens, tick_nohz_next_event()
need not be called by __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() again.
If it turns out that the scheduler tick cannot be stopped going
forward or the next timer event is too close for the tick to be
stopped, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can simply return the time to
the next event currently programmed into the corresponding clock
event device.
In addition to knowing the return value of tick_nohz_next_event(),
however, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() needs to know the time to the
next highres timer event, but with the scheduler tick timer excluded,
which can be computed with the help of hrtimer_get_next_event().
That minimum of that number and the tick_nohz_next_event() return
value is the total time to the next timer event with the assumption
that the tick will be stopped. It can be returned to the idle
governor which can use it for predicting idle duration (under the
assumption that the tick will be stopped) and deciding whether or
not it makes sense to stop the tick before putting the CPU into the
selected idle state.
With the above, the sleep_length field in struct tick_sched is not
necessary any more, so drop it.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199227
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-by: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 21:17:00 +0000 (23:17 +0200)]
time: hrtimer: Introduce hrtimer_next_event_without()
The next set of changes will need to compute the time to the next
hrtimer event over all hrtimers except for the scheduler tick one.
To that end introduce a new helper function,
hrtimer_next_event_without(), for computing the time until the next
hrtimer event over all timers except for one and modify the underlying
code in __hrtimer_next_event_base() to prepare it for being called by
that new function.
No intentional changes in functionality.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 17:07:57 +0000 (19:07 +0200)]
time: tick-sched: Split tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped, split
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() into two separate routines, one computing
the time to the next timer event and the other simply stopping the
tick when the time to the next timer event is known.
Prepare these two routines to be called separately, as one of them
will be called by the idle governor in the cpuidle_select() code
path after subsequent changes.
Update the former callers of tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to use
the new routines, tick_nohz_next_event() and tick_nohz_stop_tick(),
instead of it and move the updates of the sleep_length field in
struct tick_sched into __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() as it doesn't
need to be updated anywhere else.
There should be no intentional visible changes in functionality
resulting from this change.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:50:49 +0000 (17:50 +0100)]
cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()
Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the ->select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.
Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
(1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
(2) the selected state is a polling one, or
(3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
range.
In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values. To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs. Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.
Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:11:28 +0000 (10:11 +0100)]
jiffies: Introduce USER_TICK_USEC and redefine TICK_USEC
Since the subsequent changes will need a TICK_USEC definition
analogous to TICK_NSEC, rename the existing TICK_USEC as
USER_TICK_USEC, update its users and redefine TICK_USEC
accordingly.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:07:41 +0000 (23:07 +0100)]
sched: idle: Do not stop the tick before cpuidle_idle_call()
Make cpuidle_idle_call() decide whether or not to stop the tick.
First, the cpuidle_enter_s2idle() path deals with the tick (and with
the entire timekeeping for that matter) by itself and it doesn't need
the tick to be stopped beforehand.
Second, to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the tick has been stopped, it will be
necessary to change the ordering of cpuidle_select() with respect
to tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(). To prepare for that, put a
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() call in the same branch in which
cpuidle_select() is called.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:05:50 +0000 (23:05 +0100)]
sched: idle: Do not stop the tick upfront in the idle loop
Push the decision whether or not to stop the tick somewhat deeper
into the idle loop.
Stopping the tick upfront leads to unpleasant outcomes in case the
idle governor doesn't agree with the nohz code on the duration of the
upcoming idle period. Specifically, if the tick has been stopped and
the idle governor predicts short idle, the situation is bad regardless
of whether or not the prediction is accurate. If it is accurate, the
tick has been stopped unnecessarily which means excessive overhead.
If it is not accurate, the CPU is likely to spend too much time in
the (shallow, because short idle has been predicted) idle state
selected by the governor [1].
As the first step towards addressing this problem, change the code
to make the tick stopping decision inside of the loop in do_idle().
In particular, do not stop the tick in the cpu_idle_poll() code path.
Also don't do that in tick_nohz_irq_exit() which doesn't really have
enough information on whether or not to stop the tick.
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=150116085925208&w=2
Link: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/projekte/haec/powernightmares.pdf
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:58:27 +0000 (18:58 +0200)]
time: tick-sched: Reorganize idle tick management code
Prepare the scheduler tick code for reworking the idle loop to
avoid stopping the tick in some cases.
The idea is to split the nohz idle entry call to decouple the idle
time stats accounting and preparatory work from the actual tick stop
code, in order to later be able to delay the tick stop once we reach
more power-knowledgeable callers.
Move away the tick_nohz_start_idle() invocation from
__tick_nohz_idle_enter(), rename the latter to
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() and define tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
as a wrapper around it for calling it from the outside.
Make tick_nohz_idle_enter() only call tick_nohz_start_idle() instead
of calling the entire __tick_nohz_idle_enter(), add another wrapper
disabling and enabling interrupts around tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
and make the current callers of tick_nohz_idle_enter() call it too
to retain their current functionality.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:45:39 +0000 (10:45 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pm-4.17-rc1' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These update the cpuidle poll state definition to reduce excessive
energy usage related to it, add new CPU ID to the RAPL power capping
driver, update the ACPI system suspend code to handle some special
cases better, extend the PM core's device links code slightly, add new
sysfs attribute for better suspend-to-idle diagnostics and easier
hibernation handling, update power management tools and clean up
cpufreq quite a bit.
Specifics:
- Modify the cpuidle poll state implementation to prevent CPUs from
staying in the loop in there for excessive times (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add Intel Cannon Lake chips support to the RAPL power capping
driver (Joe Konno).
- Add reference counting to the device links handling code in the PM
core (Lukas Wunner).
- Avoid reconfiguring GPEs on suspend-to-idle in the ACPI system
suspend code (Rafael Wysocki).
- Allow devices to be put into deeper low-power states via ACPI if
both _SxD and _SxW are missing (Daniel Drake).
- Reorganize the core ACPI suspend-to-idle wakeup code to avoid a
keyboard wakeup issue on Asus UX331UA (Chris Chiu).
- Prevent the PCMCIA library code from aborting suspend-to-idle due
to noirq suspend failures resulting from incorrect assumptions
(Rafael Wysocki).
- Add coupled cpuidle supprt to the Exynos3250 platform (Marek
Szyprowski).
- Add new sysfs file to make it easier to specify the image storage
location during hibernation (Mario Limonciello).
- Add sysfs files for collecting suspend-to-idle usage and time
statistics for CPU idle states (Rafael Wysocki).
- Update the pm-graph utilities (Todd Brandt).
- Reduce the kernel log noise related to reporting Low-power Idle
constraings by the ACPI system suspend code (Rafael Wysocki).
- Make it easier to distinguish dedicated wakeup IRQs in the
/proc/interrupts output (Tony Lindgren).
- Add the frequency table validation in cpufreq to the core and drop
it from a number of cpufreq drivers (Viresh Kumar).
- Drop "cooling-{min|max}-level" for CPU nodes from a couple of DT
bindings (Viresh Kumar).
- Clean up the CPU online error code path in the cpufreq core (Viresh
Kumar).
- Fix assorted issues in the SCPI, CPPC, mediatek and tegra186
cpufreq drivers (Arnd Bergmann, Chunyu Hu, George Cherian, Viresh
Kumar).
- Drop memory allocation error messages from a few places in cpufreq
and cpuildle drivers (Markus Elfring)"
* tag 'pm-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (56 commits)
ACPI / PM: Fix keyboard wakeup from suspend-to-idle on ASUS UX331UA
cpufreq: CPPC: Use transition_delay_us depending transition_latency
PM / hibernate: Change message when writing to /sys/power/resume
PM / hibernate: Make passing hibernate offsets more friendly
cpuidle: poll_state: Avoid invoking local_clock() too often
PM: cpuidle/suspend: Add s2idle usage and time state attributes
cpuidle: Enable coupled cpuidle support on Exynos3250 platform
cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to poll_idle()
cpufreq: tegra186: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: speedstep: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: sparc: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: sh: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: sfi: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: scpi: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: sc520: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: s3c24xx: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: qoirq: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: pxa: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Don't validate the frequency table twice
cpufreq: powernow: Don't validate the frequency table twice
...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:38:46 +0000 (10:38 -0700)]
Merge tag 'acpi-4.17-rc1' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to follow upstream revision
20180313 which includes fixes related to the so-called module-level
AML (mostly "if" type of statements outside of any methods) that
should improve the handling of systems that load alternative SSDTs
depending on the current configuration, for example, and event
handling fixes related to disabling and enabling GPEs on system
startup and on suspend/resume.
Moreover, the ACPICA license boilerplate is replaced with SPDX license
IDs which alone reduces the number of lines of ACPICA code in the
kernel quite a bit.
Also added is a new driver for the generic ACPI Time and Alarm Device
(TAD). At the moment it only handles the most basic capabilities of
the TAD, however.
In addition to that the ACPI battery driver is improved to handle
battery thresholds on ThinkPads, among other things, some bugs are
fixed, a new backlight quirk is added and some documentation is
updated.
Specifics:
- Update the in-kernel ACPICA code to upstream revision
20180313
including:
* Module-level AML code handling fixes and simplifications (Bob
Moore, Erik Schmauss).
* Fixes and cleanups related to messaging (Bob Moore).
* Events handling fixes related to disabling and enabling GPEs
(Erik Schmauss).
* Introduction of SPDX license identifiers and removal of license
boilerplate in multiple files (Erik Schmauss).
* Assorted fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Erik Schmauss, Hans de
Goede, Seunghun Han).
- Add new basic driver for the ACPI Time and Alarm Device (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Modify the ACPI battery driver to support battery thresholds on
Lenovo ThinkPads (Ognjen Galic, Colin Ian King).
- Avoid reporting battery capacity over 100 in the ACPI battery
driver in some cases (Laszlo Toth).
- Make the kernel recognize an OEM _OSI string from Dell to avoid
power management issues with NVidia GPUs in Dell platforms (Alex
Hung).
- Make the PCI IRQ management code handle missing _PRS cleanly (Alex
Hung).
- Fix uevent notifications related to device hotplut (Lee, Chun-Yi).
- Prevent the ACPI PAD driver from leaking memory (Lenny Szubowicz).
- Update the ACPI CPPC library code to include subspace IDs in the
kernel messages logged by it (George Cherian).
- Add backlight quirk for Samsung 670Z5E (Hans de Goede).
- Add the NFIT and HMAT tables to the list of ACPI tables that can be
overridden via initrd (Dan Williams).
- Fix and clean up some ACPI documentation and Kconfig help language
(Aishwarya Pant, Randy Dunlap).
- Replace license boilerplate with an SPDX license ID in the ACPI
PMIC operation region handling code (Rajmohan Mani)"
* tag 'acpi-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (39 commits)
ACPI: acpi_pad: Fix memory leak in power saving threads
ACPI / video: Add quirk to force acpi-video backlight on Samsung 670Z5E
ACPI: Add Time and Alarm Device (TAD) driver
ACPI / scan: Send change uevent with offine environmental data
ACPI / Kconfig: Update ACPI_PROCFS_POWER help text
ACPI / OSI: Add OEM _OSI strings to disable NVidia RTD3
ACPICA: Update version to
20180313
ACPICA: Cleanup/simplify module-level code support
ACPICA: Events: add a return on failure from acpi_hw_register_read
ACPICA: adding SPDX headers
ACPICA: Rename a global for clarity, no functional change
ACPICA: macros: fix ACPI_ERROR_NAMESPACE macro
ACPICA: Change a compile-time option to a runtime option
ACPICA: Remove calling of _STA from acpi_get_object_info()
ACPICA: AML Debug Object: Don't ignore output of zero-length strings
ACPICA: Fix memory leak on unusual memory leak
ACPICA: Events: Dispatch GPEs after enabling for the first time
ACPICA: Events: Add parallel GPE handling support to fix potential redundant _Exx evaluations
ACPICA: Events: Stop unconditionally clearing ACPI IRQs during suspend/resume
ACPICA: acpi: acpica: fix acpi operand cache leak in nseval.c
...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 04:22:12 +0000 (21:22 -0700)]
Merge branch 'syscalls-next' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux
Pull removal of in-kernel calls to syscalls from Dominik Brodowski:
"System calls are interaction points between userspace and the kernel.
Therefore, system call functions such as sys_xyzzy() or
compat_sys_xyzzy() should only be called from userspace via the
syscall table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel.
At least on 64-bit x86, it will likely be a hard requirement from
v4.17 onwards to not call system call functions in the kernel: It is
better to use use a different calling convention for system calls
there, where struct pt_regs is decoded on-the-fly in a syscall wrapper
which then hands processing over to the actual syscall function. This
means that only those parameters which are actually needed for a
specific syscall are passed on during syscall entry, instead of
filling in six CPU registers with random user space content all the
time (which may cause serious trouble down the call chain). Those
x86-specific patches will be pushed through the x86 tree in the near
future.
Moreover, rules on how data may be accessed may differ between kernel
data and user data. This is another reason why calling sys_xyzzy() is
generally a bad idea, and -- at most -- acceptable in arch-specific
code.
This patchset removes all in-kernel calls to syscall functions in the
kernel with the exception of arch/. On top of this, it cleans up the
three places where many syscalls are referenced or prototyped, namely
kernel/sys_ni.c, include/linux/syscalls.h and include/linux/compat.h"
* 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux: (109 commits)
bpf: whitelist all syscalls for error injection
kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions
kernel/sys_ni: sort cond_syscall() entries
syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes
syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h
net: remove compat_sys_*() prototypes from net/compat.h
syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h
kexec: move sys_kexec_load() prototype to syscalls.h
x86/sigreturn: use SYSCALL_DEFINE0
x86: fix sys_sigreturn() return type to be long, not unsigned long
x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()
mm: add ksys_readahead() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_readahead()
mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()
mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64()
fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate()
fs: add ksys_p{read,write}64() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate()
fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall
kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid()
kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare()
...
Omar Sandoval [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:58:31 +0000 (15:58 -0700)]
bitmap: fix memset optimization on big-endian systems
Commit
2a98dc028f91 ("include/linux/bitmap.h: turn bitmap_set and
bitmap_clear into memset when possible") introduced an optimization to
bitmap_{set,clear}() which uses memset() when the start and length are
constants aligned to a byte.
This is wrong on big-endian systems; our bitmaps are arrays of unsigned
long, so bit n is not at byte n / 8 in memory. This was caught by the
Btrfs selftests, but the bitmap selftests also fail when run on a
big-endian machine.
We can still use memset if the start and length are aligned to an
unsigned long, so do that on big-endian. The same problem applies to
the memcmp in bitmap_equal(), so fix it there, too.
Fixes:
2a98dc028f91 ("include/linux/bitmap.h: turn bitmap_set and bitmap_clear into memset when possible")
Fixes:
2c6deb01525a ("bitmap: use memcmp optimisation in more situations")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: "Erhard F." <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 03:20:12 +0000 (20:20 -0700)]
Merge tag 'arch-removal' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann:
"This removes the entire architecture code for blackfin, cris, frv,
m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile, including the associated device
drivers.
I have been working with the (former) maintainers for each one to
ensure that my interpretation was right and the code is definitely
unused in mainline kernels. Many had fond memories of working on the
respective ports to start with and getting them included in upstream,
but also saw no point in keeping the port alive without any users.
In the end, it seems that while the eight architectures are extremely
different, they all suffered the same fate: There was one company in
charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software
ecosystem, which was more costly than licensing newer off-the-shelf
CPU cores from a third party (typically ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V). It
seems that all the SoC product lines are still around, but have not
used the custom CPU architectures for several years at this point. In
contrast, CPU instruction sets that remain popular and have actively
maintained kernel ports tend to all be used across multiple licensees.
[ See the new nds32 port merged in the previous commit for the next
generation of "one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU
microarchitecture and a software ecosystem" - Linus ]
The removal came out of a discussion that is now documented at
https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/. Unlike the original plans, I'm not
marking any ports as deprecated but remove them all at once after I
made sure that they are all unused. Some architectures (notably tile,
mn10300, and blackfin) are still being shipped in products with old
kernels, but those products will never be updated to newer kernel
releases.
After this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline
gcc support:
- unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the
maintainers promised to work on providing something newer. At least
in case of hexagon, this will only be llvm, not gcc.
- openrisc, risc-v and nds32 are still in the process of finishing
their support or getting it added to mainline gcc in the first
place. They all have patched gcc-7.3 ports that work to some
degree, but complete upstream support won't happen before gcc-8.1.
Csky posted their first kernel patch set last week, their situation
will be similar
[ Palmer Dabbelt points out that RISC-V support is in mainline gcc
since gcc-7, although gcc-7.3.0 is the recommended minimum - Linus ]"
This really says it all:
2498 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 467668 deletions(-)
* tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (74 commits)
MAINTAINERS: UNICORE32: Change email account
staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver
tty: hvc: remove tile driver
tty: remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers
serial: remove tile uart driver
serial: remove m32r_sio driver
serial: remove blackfin drivers
serial: remove cris/etrax uart drivers
usb: Remove Blackfin references in USB support
usb: isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue
usb: musb: remove blackfin port
usb: host: remove tilegx platform glue
pwm: remove pwm-bfin driver
i2c: remove bfin-twi driver
spi: remove blackfin related host drivers
watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver
can: remove bfin_can driver
mmc: remove bfin_sdh driver
input: misc: remove blackfin rotary driver
input: keyboard: remove bf54x driver
...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 02:41:08 +0000 (19:41 -0700)]
Merge tag 'nds32-for-linus-4.17' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/greentime/linux
Pull nds32 architecture support from Greentime Hu:
"This contains the core nds32 Linux port (including interrupt
controller driver and timer driver), which has been through seven
rounds of review on mailing list.
It is able to boot to shell and passes most LTP-2017 testsuites in
nds32 AE3XX platform:
Total Tests: 1901
Total Skipped Tests: 618
Total Failures: 78"
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* tag 'nds32-for-linus-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/greentime/linux: (44 commits)
nds32: To use the generic dump_stack()
nds32: fix building failed if using elf toolchain.
nios2: add ioremap_nocache declaration before include asm-generic/io.h.
nds32: fix building failed if using older version gcc.
dt-bindings: timer: Add andestech atcpit100 timer binding doc
clocksource/drivers/atcpit100: VDSO support
clocksource/drivers/atcpit100: Add andestech atcpit100 timer
net: faraday add nds32 support.
irqchip: Andestech Internal Vector Interrupt Controller driver
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Andestech Internal Vector Interrupt Controller
dt-bindings: nds32 SoC Bindings
dt-bindings: nds32 L2 cache controller Bindings
dt-bindings: nds32 CPU Bindings
MAINTAINERS: Add nds32
nds32: Build infrastructure
nds32: defconfig
nds32: Miscellaneous header files
nds32: Device tree support
nds32: Generic timers support
nds32: Loadable modules
...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 02:23:05 +0000 (19:23 -0700)]
Merge tag 'm68k-for-v4.17-tag1' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k
Pull m68k updates from Geert Uytterhoeven:
- Macintosh enhancements and fixes
- Remove useless memory layout printing using hashed pointers
- Add missing Amiga Zorro bus DMA mask
- Small fixes and cleanups
- Defconfig updates
* tag 'm68k-for-v4.17-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k:
m68k/mac: Remove bogus "FIXME" comment
m68k/mac: Enable RTC for 100-series PowerBooks
m68k/mac: Clean up whitespace and remove redundant parentheses
m68k/defconfig: Update defconfigs for v4.16-rc5
zorro: Set up z->dev.dma_mask for the DMA API
m68k/time: Stop validating rtc_time in .read_time
m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout
macintosh/via-pmu68k: Initialize PMU driver with setup_arch and arch_initcall
m68k/mac: Fix apparent race condition in Baboon interrupt dispatch
m68k/mac: Enable PDMA support for PowerBook 190
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 00:46:37 +0000 (17:46 -0700)]
Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main EFI changes in this cycle were:
- Fix the apple-properties code (Andy Shevchenko)
- Add WARN() on arm64 if UEFI Runtime Services corrupt the reserved
x18 register (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Use efi_switch_mm() on x86 instead of manipulating %cr3 directly
(Sai Praneeth)
- Fix early memremap leak in ESRT code (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Switch to L"xxx" notation for wide string literals (Ard Biesheuvel)
- ... plus misc other cleanups and bugfixes"
* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/efi: Use efi_switch_mm() rather than manually twiddling with %cr3
x86/efi: Replace efi_pgd with efi_mm.pgd
efi: Use string literals for efi_char16_t variable initializers
efi/esrt: Fix handling of early ESRT table mapping
efi: Use efi_mm in x86 as well as ARM
efi: Make const array 'apple' static
efi/apple-properties: Use memremap() instead of ioremap()
efi: Reorder pr_notice() with add_device_randomness() call
x86/efi: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in efi_query_variable_store()
efi/arm64: Check whether x18 is preserved by runtime services calls
efi/arm*: Stop printing addresses of virtual mappings
efi/apple-properties: Remove redundant attribute initialization from unmarshal_key_value_pairs()
efi/arm*: Only register page tables when they exist
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 3 Apr 2018 00:18:45 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-dma-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 dma mapping updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree, by Christoph Hellwig, switches over the x86 architecture to
the generic dma-direct and swiotlb code, and also unifies more of the
dma-direct code between architectures. The now unused x86-only
primitives are removed"
* 'x86-dma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
dma-mapping: Don't clear GFP_ZERO in dma_alloc_attrs
swiotlb: Make swiotlb_{alloc,free}_buffer depend on CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_OPS
dma/swiotlb: Remove swiotlb_{alloc,free}_coherent()
dma/direct: Handle force decryption for DMA coherent buffers in common code
dma/direct: Handle the memory encryption bit in common code
dma/swiotlb: Remove swiotlb_set_mem_attributes()
set_memory.h: Provide set_memory_{en,de}crypted() stubs
x86/dma: Remove dma_alloc_coherent_gfp_flags()
iommu/intel-iommu: Enable CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_OPS=y and clean up intel_{alloc,free}_coherent()
iommu/amd_iommu: Use CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_OPS=y and dma_direct_{alloc,free}()
x86/dma/amd_gart: Use dma_direct_{alloc,free}()
x86/dma/amd_gart: Look at dev->coherent_dma_mask instead of GFP_DMA
x86/dma: Use generic swiotlb_ops
x86/dma: Use DMA-direct (CONFIG_DMA_DIRECT_OPS=y)
x86/dma: Remove dma_alloc_coherent_mask()
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 23:50:39 +0000 (16:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sched-wait-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull wait_var_event updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This introduces the new wait_var_event() API, which is a more flexible
waiting primitive than wait_on_atomic_t().
All wait_on_atomic_t() users are migrated over to the new API and
wait_on_atomic_t() is removed. The migration fixes one bug and should
result in no functional changes for the other usecases"
* 'sched-wait-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/wait: Improve __var_waitqueue() code generation
sched/wait: Remove the wait_on_atomic_t() API
sched/wait, arch/mips: Fix and convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, fs/ocfs2: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, fs/nfs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, fs/fscache: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, fs/btrfs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, fs/afs: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, drivers/media: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait, drivers/drm: Convert wait_on_atomic_t() usage to the new wait_var_event() API
sched/wait: Introduce wait_var_event()
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 23:18:31 +0000 (16:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Two changes: add the new convert_art_ns_to_tsc() API for upcoming
Intel Goldmont+ drivers, and remove the obsolete rdtscll() API"
* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/tsc: Get rid of rdtscll()
x86/tsc: Convert ART in nanoseconds to TSC
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 23:15:32 +0000 (16:15 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Add "Jailhouse" hypervisor support (Jan Kiszka)
- Update DeviceTree support (Ivan Gorinov)
- Improve DMI date handling (Andy Shevchenko)"
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/PCI: Fix a potential regression when using dmi_get_bios_year()
firmware/dmi_scan: Uninline dmi_get_bios_year() helper
x86/devicetree: Use CPU description from Device Tree
of/Documentation: Specify local APIC ID in "reg"
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Jailhouse
x86/jailhouse: Allow to use PCI_MMCONFIG without ACPI
x86: Consolidate PCI_MMCONFIG configs
x86: Align x86_64 PCI_MMCONFIG with 32-bit variant
x86/jailhouse: Enable PCI mmconfig access in inmates
PCI: Scan all functions when running over Jailhouse
jailhouse: Provide detection for non-x86 systems
x86/devicetree: Fix device IRQ settings in DT
x86/devicetree: Initialize device tree before using it
pci: Simplify code by using the new dmi_get_bios_year() helper
ACPI/sleep: Simplify code by using the new dmi_get_bios_year() helper
x86/pci: Simplify code by using the new dmi_get_bios_year() helper
dmi: Introduce the dmi_get_bios_year() helper function
x86/platform/quark: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro
x86/platform/atom: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:45:30 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Extend the memmap= boot parameter syntax to allow the redeclaration
and dropping of existing ranges, and to support all e820 range types
(Jan H. Schönherr)
- Improve the W+X boot time security checks to remove false positive
warnings on Xen (Jan Beulich)
- Support booting as Xen PVH guest (Juergen Gross)
- Improved 5-level paging (LA57) support, in particular it's possible
now to have a single kernel image for both 4-level and 5-level
hardware (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- AMD hardware RAM encryption support (SME/SEV) fixes (Tom Lendacky)
- Preparatory commits for hardware-encrypted RAM support on Intel CPUs.
(Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Improved Intel-MID support (Andy Shevchenko)
- Show EFI page tables in page_tables debug files (Andy Lutomirski)
- ... plus misc fixes and smaller cleanups
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
x86/cpu/tme: Fix spelling: "configuation" -> "configuration"
x86/boot: Fix SEV boot failure from change to __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT
x86/mm: Update comment in detect_tme() regarding x86_phys_bits
x86/mm/32: Remove unused node_memmap_size_bytes() & CONFIG_NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE logic
x86/mm: Remove pointless checks in vmalloc_fault
x86/platform/intel-mid: Add special handling for ACPI HW reduced platforms
ACPI, x86/boot: Introduce the ->reduced_hw_early_init() ACPI callback
ACPI, x86/boot: Split out acpi_generic_reduce_hw_init() and export
x86/pconfig: Provide defines and helper to run MKTME_KEY_PROG leaf
x86/pconfig: Detect PCONFIG targets
x86/tme: Detect if TME and MKTME is activated by BIOS
x86/boot/compressed/64: Handle 5-level paging boot if kernel is above 4G
x86/boot/compressed/64: Use page table in trampoline memory
x86/boot/compressed/64: Use stack from trampoline memory
x86/boot/compressed/64: Make sure we have a 32-bit code segment
x86/mm: Do not use paravirtualized calls in native_set_p4d()
kdump, vmcoreinfo: Export pgtable_l5_enabled value
x86/boot/compressed/64: Prepare new top-level page table for trampoline
x86/boot/compressed/64: Set up trampoline memory
x86/boot/compressed/64: Save and restore trampoline memory
...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:16:43 +0000 (15:16 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups and msr updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main change is a performance/latency improvement to /dev/msr
access. The rest are misc cleanups"
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/msr: Make rdmsrl_safe_on_cpu() scheduling safe as well
x86/cpuid: Allow cpuid_read() to schedule
x86/msr: Allow rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() to schedule
x86/rtc: Stop using deprecated functions
x86/dumpstack: Unify show_regs()
x86/fault: Do not print IP in show_fault_oops()
x86/MSR: Move native_* variants to msr.h
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 21:37:03 +0000 (14:37 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the forcing of asm-goto support on x86, which
effectively increases the GCC minimum supported version to gcc-4.5 (on
x86)"
* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/build: Don't pass in -D__KERNEL__ multiple times
x86: Remove FAST_FEATURE_TESTS
x86: Force asm-goto
x86/build: Drop superfluous ALIGN from the linker script
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 21:06:47 +0000 (14:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm fixlets from Ingo Molnar:
"A clobber list fix and cleanups"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asm: Trim clear_page.S includes
x86/asm: Clobber flags in clear_page()
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 20:38:43 +0000 (13:38 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 apic updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main x86 APIC/IOAPIC changes in this cycle were:
- Robustify kexec support to more carefully restore IRQ hardware
state before calling into kexec/kdump kernels. (Baoquan He)
- Clean up the local APIC code a bit (Dou Liyang)
- Remove unused callbacks (David Rientjes)"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic: Finish removing unused callbacks
x86/apic: Drop logical_smp_processor_id() inline
x86/apic: Modernize the pending interrupt code
x86/apic: Move pending interrupt check code into it's own function
x86/apic: Set up through-local-APIC mode on the boot CPU if 'noapic' specified
x86/apic: Rename variables and functions related to x86_io_apic_ops
x86/apic: Remove the (now) unused disable_IO_APIC() function
x86/apic: Fix restoring boot IRQ mode in reboot and kexec/kdump
x86/apic: Split disable_IO_APIC() into two functions to fix CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
x86/apic: Split out restore_boot_irq_mode() from disable_IO_APIC()
x86/apic: Make setup_local_APIC() static
x86/apic: Simplify init_bsp_APIC() usage
x86/x2apic: Mark set_x2apic_phys_mode() as __init
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 20:37:05 +0000 (13:37 -0700)]
Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull SMP hotplug updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Simplify the CPU hot-plug state machine"
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu/hotplug: Fix unused function warning
cpu/hotplug: Merge cpuhp_bp_states and cpuhp_ap_states
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 18:49:41 +0000 (11:49 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main scheduler changes in this cycle were:
- NUMA balancing improvements (Mel Gorman)
- Further load tracking improvements (Patrick Bellasi)
- Various NOHZ balancing cleanups and optimizations (Peter Zijlstra)
- Improve blocked load handling, in particular we can now reduce and
eventually stop periodic load updates on 'very idle' CPUs. (Vincent
Guittot)
- On isolated CPUs offload the final 1Hz scheduler tick as well, plus
related cleanups and reorganization. (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Core scheduler code cleanups (Ingo Molnar)"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
sched/core: Update preempt_notifier_key to modern API
sched/cpufreq: Rate limits for SCHED_DEADLINE
sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates
sched/cpufreq/schedutil: Use util_est for OPP selection
sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths
sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT
sched/core: Remove TASK_ALL
sched/completions: Use bool in try_wait_for_completion()
sched/fair: Update blocked load when newly idle
sched/fair: Move idle_balance()
sched/nohz: Merge CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON blocks
sched/fair: Move rebalance_domains()
sched/nohz: Optimize nohz_idle_balance()
sched/fair: Reduce the periodic update duration
sched/nohz: Stop NOHZ stats when decayed
sched/cpufreq: Provide migration hint
sched/nohz: Clean up nohz enter/exit
sched/fair: Update blocked load from NEWIDLE
sched/fair: Add NOHZ stats balancing
sched/fair: Restructure nohz_balance_kick()
...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 2 Apr 2018 18:47:07 +0000 (11:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- AMD MCE support/decoding improvements (Yazen Ghannam)
- general MCE header cleanups and reorganization (Borislav Petkov)"
* 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "x86/mce/AMD: Collect error info even if valid bits are not set"
x86/MCE: Cleanup and complete struct mce fields definitions
x86/mce/AMD: Carve out SMCA get_block_address() code
x86/mce/AMD: Get address from already initialized block
x86/mce/AMD, EDAC/mce_amd: Enumerate Reserved SMCA bank type
x86/mce/AMD: Pass the bank number to smca_get_bank_type()
x86/mce/AMD: Collect error info even if valid bits are not set
x86/mce: Issue the 'mcelog --ascii' message only on !AMD
x86/mce: Convert 'struct mca_config' bools to a bitfield
x86/mce: Put private structures and definitions into the internal header
Howard McLauchlan [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:59:08 +0000 (18:59 -0700)]
bpf: whitelist all syscalls for error injection
Error injection is a useful mechanism to fail arbitrary kernel
functions. However, it is often hard to guarantee an error propagates
appropriately to user space programs. By injecting into syscalls, we can
return arbitrary values to user space directly; this increases
flexibility and robustness in testing, allowing us to test user space
error paths effectively.
The following script, for example, fails calls to sys_open() from a
given pid:
from bcc import BPF
from sys import argv
pid = argv[1]
prog = r"""
int kprobe__SyS_open(struct pt_regs *ctx, const char *pathname, int flags)
{
u32 pid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
if (pid == %s)
bpf_override_return(ctx, -ENOMEM);
return 0;
}
""" % pid
b = BPF(text=prog)
while 1:
b.perf_buffer_poll()
This patch whitelists all syscalls defined with SYSCALL_DEFINE and
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE for error injection. These changes are not
intended to be considered stable, and would normally be configured off.
Signed-off-by: Howard McLauchlan <hmclauchlan@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:06:35 +0000 (19:06 +0100)]
kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions
This keeps it in line with the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() / COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
calling convention.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 6 Mar 2018 18:53:01 +0000 (19:53 +0100)]
kernel/sys_ni: sort cond_syscall() entries
Shuffle the cond_syscall() entries in kernel/sys_ni.c around so that they
are kept in the same order as in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h. For
better structuring, add the same comments as in that file, but keep a few
additional comments and extend the commentary where it seems useful.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:09:17 +0000 (14:09 +0100)]
syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes
compat_sys_*() functions are no longer called from within the kernel on
x86 except from the system call table. Linking the system call does not
require compat_sys_*() function prototypes at least on x86. Therefore,
generate compat_sys_*() prototypes on-the-fly within the
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro, and remove x86-specific prototypes from
various header files.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:04:48 +0000 (23:04 +0200)]
syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h
Shuffle the syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h around so
that they are kept in the same order as in
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h. The individual entries are kept
the same, and neither modified to bring them in line with kernel coding
style nor wrapped in proper ifdefs -- as an exception to this, add the
prefix "asmlinkage" where it was missing.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:18:18 +0000 (20:18 +0200)]
net: remove compat_sys_*() prototypes from net/compat.h
As the syscall functions should only be called from the system call table
but not from elsewhere in the kernel, it is sufficient that they are
defined in linux/compat.h.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 19:50:11 +0000 (21:50 +0200)]
syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h
Shuffle the syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h around so
that they are kept in the same order as in
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h. The individual entries are kept
the same, and neither modified to bring them in line with kernel coding
style nor wrapped in proper ifdefs.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:46:57 +0000 (17:46 +0100)]
kexec: move sys_kexec_load() prototype to syscalls.h
As the syscall function should only be called from the system call table
but not from elsewhere in the kernel, move the prototype for
sys_kexec_load() to include/syscall.h.
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Tautschnig, Michael [Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:41:42 +0000 (09:41 +0000)]
x86/sigreturn: use SYSCALL_DEFINE0
All definitions of syscalls in x86 except for those patched here have
already been using the appropriate SYSCALL_DEFINE*.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tautschnig <tautschn@amazon.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:29:36 +0000 (08:29 +0100)]
x86: fix sys_sigreturn() return type to be long, not unsigned long
Same as with other system calls, sys_sigreturn() should return a value
of type long, not unsigned long. This also matches the behaviour for
IA32_EMULATION, see sys32_sigreturn() in arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c .
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Michael Tautschnig <tautschn@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:38 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_ioperm() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same
calling convention as sys_ioperm().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:51:36 +0000 (17:51 +0100)]
mm: add ksys_readahead() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_readahead()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_readahead() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_readahead().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:46 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_mmap_pgoff() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_mmap_pgoff().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:45 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64()
Using the ksys_fadvise64_64() helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel
calls to the sys_fadvise64_64() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that
this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In
particular, it uses the same calling convention as ksys_fadvise64_64().
Some compat stubs called sys_fadvise64(), which then just passed through
the arguments to sys_fadvise64_64(). Get rid of this indirection, and call
ksys_fadvise64_64() directly.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:46:32 +0000 (17:46 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate()
Using the ksys_fallocate() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel
calls to the sys_fallocate() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this
function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In
particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_fallocate().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:38:31 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_p{read,write}64() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
Using the ksys_p{read,write}64() wrappers allows us to get rid of
in-kernel calls to the sys_pread64() and sys_pwrite64() syscalls.
The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling
convention as sys_p{read,write}64().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:32:11 +0000 (17:32 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate()
Using the ksys_truncate() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel
calls to the sys_truncate() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this
function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In
particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_truncate().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:47 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_sync_file_range() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses
the same calling convention as sys_sync_file_range().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:36:06 +0000 (12:36 +0100)]
kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the
sys_setsid() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_setsid().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:42 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_unshare() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same
calling convention as sys_unshare().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:35:11 +0000 (22:35 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_sync() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_sync()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_sync() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_sync().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:56:26 +0000 (21:56 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_read() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_read()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_read() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_read().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:51:17 +0000 (21:51 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_lseek() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_lseek()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_lseek() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_lseek().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:43:59 +0000 (21:43 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_ioctl() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioctl()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_ioctl() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_ioctl().
After careful review, at least some of these calls could be converted
to do_vfs_ioctl() in future.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:34:04 +0000 (21:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_getdents64() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_getdents64()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_getdents64() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_getdents64().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:56 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_open() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_open()
Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_open() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_open().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:55 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_close() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_close()
Using the ksys_close() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel calls
to the sys_close() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_close(), with one subtle
difference:
The few places which checked the return value did not care about the return
value re-writing in sys_close(), so simply use a wrapper around
__close_fd().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:54 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_ftruncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ftruncate()
Using the ksys_ftruncate() wrapper allows us to get rid of in-kernel
calls to the sys_ftruncate() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this
function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In
particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_ftruncate().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:55 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_fchownat(), ksys_fchown() helpers and ksys_{,l}chown() wrappers
Using the fs-interal do_fchownat() wrapper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_fchownat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_fchown() helper and the ksys_{,}chown() wrappers
allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_{,l,f}chown() syscalls.
The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same calling
convention as sys_{,l,f}chown().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:54 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_faccessat() helper and ksys_access() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_faccessat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_faccessat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_access() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel
calls to the sys_access() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this
function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In
particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_access().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:53 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_fchmod() and do_fchmodat() helpers and ksys_chmod() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_fchmodat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_fchmodat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_fchmod() helper and the ksys_chmod() wrapper allows
us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_fchmod() and sys_chmod()
syscalls. The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a
drop-in replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same
calling convention as sys_fchmod() and sys_chmod().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:53 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_linkat() helper and ksys_link() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_linkat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_linkat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_link() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel
calls to sys_link() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses
the same calling convention as sys_link().
In the near future, the only fs-external user of ksys_link() should be
converted to use vfs_link() instead.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:50 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_mknodat() helper and ksys_mknod() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_mknodat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_mknodat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_mknod() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel
calls to sys_mknod() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses
the same calling convention as sys_mknod().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:49 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_symlinkat() helper and ksys_symlink() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_symlinkat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_symlinkat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_symlink() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel
calls to the sys_symlink() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this
function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular,
it uses the same calling convention as sys_symlink().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:49 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_mkdirat() helper and ksys_mkdir() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_mkdirat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_mkdirat() syscall.
Introducing the ksys_mkdir() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls
to the sys_mkdir() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_mkdir().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:48 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_rmdir() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_rmdir()
Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_rmdir() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same
calling convention as sys_rmdir().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:48 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
hostfs: rename do_rmdir() to hostfs_do_rmdir()
do_rmdir() is used in the VFS layer at fs/namei.c, so use a different
name in hostfs.
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:47 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_unlink() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unlink()
Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_unlink() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
s a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same
calling convention as sys_unlink().
In the near future, all callers of ksys_unlink() should be converted to
call do_unlinkat() directly or, at least, to operate on regular kernel
pointers.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:46 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_chdir() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_chdir()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_chdir()
syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling
convention as sys_chdir().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:41 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_write() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_write()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_write()
syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling
convention as sys_write().
In the near future, the do_mounts / initramfs callers of ksys_write()
should be converted to use filp_open() and vfs_write() instead.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:41 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_chroot() helper; remove-in kernel calls to sys_chroot()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_chroot() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_chroot().
In the near future, the fs-external callers of ksys_chroot() should be
converted to use kern_path()/set_fs_root() directly. Then ksys_chroot()
can be moved within sys_chroot() again.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:40 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_dup{,3}() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_dup{,3}()
Using ksys_dup() and ksys_dup3() as helper functions allows us to
avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_dup() and sys_dup3() syscalls.
The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same
calling convention as sys_dup{,3}().
In the near future, the fs-external callers of ksys_dup{,3}() should be
converted to call do_dup2() directly. Then, ksys_dup{,3}() can be moved
within sys_dup{,3}() again.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:40 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_umount() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_umount()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the sys_umount()
syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling
convention as ksys_umount().
In the near future, the only fs-external caller of ksys_umount() should be
converted to call do_umount() directly. Then, ksys_umount() can be moved
within sys_umount() again.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:39 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add ksys_mount() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mount()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_mount()
syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling
convention as sys_mount().
In the near future, all callers of ksys_mount() should be converted to call
do_mount() directly.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 4 Mar 2018 20:54:05 +0000 (21:54 +0100)]
fs/quota: use COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE for sys32_quotactl()
While sys32_quotactl() is only needed on x86, it can use the recommended
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() machinery for its setup.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:26:56 +0000 (16:26 +0100)]
fs/quota: add kernel_quotactl() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscall
Using the fs-internal kernel_quotactl() helper allows us to get rid of
the fs-internal call to the sys_quotactl() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:06:11 +0000 (15:06 +0100)]
fanotify: add do_fanotify_mark() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_fanotify_mark() helper allows us to get rid of
the fs-internal call to the sys_fanotify_mark() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:27:21 +0000 (21:27 +0100)]
inotify: add do_inotify_init() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscall
Using the inotify-internal do_inotify_init() helper allows us to get rid
of the in-kernel call to sys_inotify_init1() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:39:44 +0000 (19:39 +0100)]
fs: add do_compat_futimesat() helper; remove in-kernel call to compat syscall
Using the fs-internal do_compat_futimesat() helper allows us to get rid of
the fs-internal call to the compat_sys_futimesat() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:36:46 +0000 (19:36 +0100)]
fs: add do_compat_signalfd4() helper; remove in-kernel call to compat syscall
Using the fs-internal do_compat_signalfd4() helper allows us to get rid of
the fs-internal call to the compat_sys_signalfd4() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:33:48 +0000 (19:33 +0100)]
fs: add do_compat_select() helper; remove in-kernel call to compat syscall
Using the fs-internal do_compat_select() helper allows us to get rid of
the fs-internal call to the compat_sys_select() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:29:53 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
fs: add do_compat_fcntl64() helper; remove in-kernel call to compat syscall
Using the fs-internal do_compat_fcntl64() helper allows us to get rid of
the fs-internal call to the compat_sys_fcntl64() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 18 Mar 2018 06:53:04 +0000 (07:53 +0100)]
fs: add kern_select() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_select()
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the sys_umount()
syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:00:24 +0000 (15:00 +0100)]
fs: add do_vmsplice() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_vmsplice() helper allows us to get rid of the
fs-internal call to the sys_vmsplice() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:53:38 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
fs: add do_lookup_dcookie() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscall
Using the fs-internal do_lookup_dcookie() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:37 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_eventfd() helper; remove internal call to sys_eventfd()
Using this helper removes an in-kernel call to the sys_eventfd() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:36 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_signalfd4() helper; remove internal calls to sys_signalfd4()
Using this helper removes in-kernel calls to the sys_signalfd4() syscall
function.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:30 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_epoll_*() helpers; remove internal calls to sys_epoll_*()
Using the helper functions do_epoll_create() and do_epoll_wait() allows us
to remove in-kernel calls to the related syscall functions.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:29 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_futimesat() helper; remove internal call to sys_futimesat()
Using this helper removes the in-kernel call to the sys_futimesat()
syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:28 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_renameat2() helper; remove internal call to sys_renameat2()
Using this helper removes in-kernel calls to the sys_renameat2() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:28 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_pipe2() helper; remove internal call to sys_pipe2()
Using this helper removes an in-kernel call to the sys_pipe2() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:34:27 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
fs: add do_readlinkat() helper; remove internal call to sys_readlinkat()
Using the do_readlinkat() helper removes an in-kernel call to the
sys_readlinkat() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:20:01 +0000 (16:20 +0100)]
mm: add kernel_[sg]et_mempolicy() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
Using the mm-internal kernel_[sg]et_mempolicy() helper allows us to get
rid of the mm-internal calls to the sys_[sg]et_mempolicy() syscalls.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:12:22 +0000 (16:12 +0100)]
mm: add kernel_mbind() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscall
Using the mm-internal kernel_mbind() helper allows us to get rid of the
mm-internal call to the sys_mbind() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:08:03 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
mm: add kernel_move_pages() helper, move compat syscall to mm/migrate.c
Move compat_sys_move_pages() to mm/migrate.c and make it call a newly
introduced helper -- kernel_move_pages() -- instead of the syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:00:25 +0000 (16:00 +0100)]
mm: add kernel_migrate_pages() helper, move compat syscall to mm/mempolicy.c
Move compat_sys_migrate_pages() to mm/mempolicy.c and make it call a newly
introduced helper -- kernel_migrate_pages() -- instead of the syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:40:35 +0000 (22:40 +0100)]
sched: add do_sched_yield() helper; remove in-kernel call to sched_yield()
Using the sched-internal do_sched_yield() helper allows us to get rid of
the sched-internal call to the sys_sched_yield() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:09:27 +0000 (18:09 +0100)]
kernel: provide ksys_*() wrappers for syscalls called by kernel/uid16.c
Using these helpers allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to these
syscalls: sys_setregid(), sys_setgid(), sys_setreuid(), sys_setuid(),
sys_setresuid(), sys_setresgid(), sys_setfsuid(), and sys_setfsgid().
The ksys_ prefix denotes that these function are meant as a drop-in
replacement for the syscall. In particular, they use the same calling
convention.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Dominik Brodowski [Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:11:51 +0000 (17:11 +0100)]
kernel: add do_compat_sigaltstack() helper; remove in-kernel call to compat syscall
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the
compat_sys_sigaltstack() syscall.
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>