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<title>arm64: dts: rpi3, rpi4: Add BH1745 device tree node</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T21:35:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Shyti</name>
<email>andi.shyti@studenti.polito.it</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-22T23:29:19+00:00</published>
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This way the bh1745.ko driver will be loaded.

Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti &lt;andi.shyti@studenti.polito.it&gt;
Co-developed-by: Corentin Teissier &lt;corentinteiss@yahoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corentin Teissier &lt;corentinteiss@yahoo.fr&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/resctl: fix scheduler confusion with 'current'</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T19:48:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T21:06:29+00:00</published>
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The implementation of 'current' on x86 is very intentionally special: it
is a very common thing to look up, and it uses 'this_cpu_read_stable()'
to get the current thread pointer efficiently from per-cpu storage.

And the keyword in there is 'stable': the current thread pointer never
changes as far as a single thread is concerned.  Even if when a thread
is preempted, or moved to another CPU, or even across an explicit call
'schedule()' that thread will still have the same value for 'current'.

It is, after all, the kernel base pointer to thread-local storage.
That's why it's stable to begin with, but it's also why it's important
enough that we have that special 'this_cpu_read_stable()' access for it.

So this is all done very intentionally to allow the compiler to treat
'current' as a value that never visibly changes, so that the compiler
can do CSE and combine multiple different 'current' accesses into one.

However, there is obviously one very special situation when the
currently running thread does actually change: inside the scheduler
itself.

So the scheduler code paths are special, and do not have a 'current'
thread at all.  Instead there are _two_ threads: the previous and the
next thread - typically called 'prev' and 'next' (or prev_p/next_p)
internally.

So this is all actually quite straightforward and simple, and not all
that complicated.

Except for when you then have special code that is run in scheduler
context, that code then has to be aware that 'current' isn't really a
valid thing.  Did you mean 'prev'? Did you mean 'next'?

In fact, even if then look at the code, and you use 'current' after the
new value has been assigned to the percpu variable, we have explicitly
told the compiler that 'current' is magical and always stable.  So the
compiler is quite free to use an older (or newer) value of 'current',
and the actual assignment to the percpu storage is not relevant even if
it might look that way.

Which is exactly what happened in the resctl code, that blithely used
'current' in '__resctrl_sched_in()' when it really wanted the new
process state (as implied by the name: we're scheduling 'into' that new
resctl state).  And clang would end up just using the old thread pointer
value at least in some configurations.

This could have happened with gcc too, and purely depends on random
compiler details.  Clang just seems to have been more aggressive about
moving the read of the per-cpu current_task pointer around.

The fix is trivial: just make the resctl code adhere to the scheduler
rules of using the prev/next thread pointer explicitly, instead of using
'current' in a situation where it just wasn't valid.

That same code is then also used outside of the scheduler context (when
a thread resctl state is explicitly changed), and then we will just pass
in 'current' as that pointer, of course.  There is no ambiguity in that
case.

The fix may be trivial, but noticing and figuring out what went wrong
was not.  The credit for that goes to Stephane Eranian.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230303231133.1486085-1-eranian@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LFD.2.01.0908011214330.3304@localhost.localdomain/
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpumask: fix incorrect cpumask scanning result checks</title>
<updated>2023-03-06T20:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-06T20:15:13+00:00</published>
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It turns out that commit 596ff4a09b89 ("cpumask: re-introduce
constant-sized cpumask optimizations") exposed a number of cases of
drivers not checking the result of "cpumask_next()" and friends
correctly.

The documented correct check for "no more cpus in the cpumask" is to
check for the result being equal or larger than the number of possible
CPU ids, exactly _because_ we've always done those constant-sized
cpumask scans using a widened type before.  So the return value of a
cpumask scan should be checked with

	if (cpu &gt;= nr_cpu_ids)
		...

because the cpumask scan did not necessarily stop exactly *at* that
maximum CPU id.

But a few cases ended up instead using checks like

	if (cpu == nr_cpumask_bits)
		...

which used that internal "widened" number of bits.  And that used to
work pretty much by accident (ok, in this case "by accident" is simply
because it matched the historical internal implementation of the cpumask
scanning, so it was more of a "intentionally using implementation
details rather than an accident").

But the extended constant-sized optimizations then did that internal
implementation differently, and now that code that did things wrong but
matched the old implementation no longer worked at all.

Which then causes subsequent odd problems due to using what ends up
being an invalid CPU ID.

Most of these cases require either unusual hardware or special uses to
hit, but the random.c one triggers quite easily.

All you really need is to have a sufficiently small CONFIG_NR_CPUS value
for the bit scanning optimization to be triggered, but not enough CPUs
to then actually fill that widened cpumask.  At that point, the cpumask
scanning will return the NR_CPUS constant, which is _not_ the same as
nr_cpumask_bits.

This just does the mindless fix with

   sed -i 's/== nr_cpumask_bits/&gt;= nr_cpu_ids/'

to fix the incorrect uses.

The ones in the SCSI lpfc driver in particular could probably be fixed
more cleanly by just removing that repeated pattern entirely, but I am
not emptionally invested enough in that driver to care.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/481b19b5-83a0-4793-b4fd-194ad7b978c3@roeck-us.net/
Reported-and-tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdUKo_Sf7TjKzcNDa8Ve+6QrK+P8nSQrSQ=6LTRmcBKNww@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Vernon Yang &lt;vernon2gm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230306160651.2016767-1-vernon2gm@gmail.com/
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T22:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-04T21:35:43+00:00</published>
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Commit aa47a7c215e7 ("lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits") resulted
in the cpumask operations potentially becoming hugely less efficient,
because suddenly the cpumask was always considered to be variable-sized.

The optimization was then later added back in a limited form by commit
6f9c07be9d02 ("lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option"), but that
FORCE_NR_CPUS option is not useful in a generic kernel and more of a
special case for embedded situations with fixed hardware.

Instead, just re-introduce the optimization, with some changes.

Instead of depending on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK being false, and then always
using the full constant cpumask width, this introduces three different
cpumask "sizes":

 - the exact size (nr_cpumask_bits) remains identical to nr_cpu_ids.

   This is used for situations where we should use the exact size.

 - the "small" size (small_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   fits in a single word and the bitmap operations thus end up able
   to trigger the "small_const_nbits()" optimizations.

   This is used for the operations that have optimized single-word
   cases that get inlined, notably the bit find and scanning functions.

 - the "large" size (large_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   is an sufficiently small constant that makes simple "copy" and
   "clear" operations more efficient.

   This is arbitrarily set at four words or less.

As a an example of this situation, without this fixed size optimization,
cpumask_clear() will generate code like

        movl    nr_cpu_ids(%rip), %edx
        addq    $63, %rdx
        shrq    $3, %rdx
        andl    $-8, %edx
        callq   memset@PLT

on x86-64, because it would calculate the "exact" number of longwords
that need to be cleared.

In contrast, with this patch, using a MAX_CPU of 64 (which is quite a
reasonable value to use), the above becomes a single

	movq $0,cpumask

instruction instead, because instead of caring to figure out exactly how
many CPU's the system has, it just knows that the cpumask will be a
single word and can just clear it all.

Note that this does end up tightening the rules a bit from the original
version in another way: operations that set bits in the cpumask are now
limited to the actual nr_cpu_ids limit, whereas we used to do the
nr_cpumask_bits thing almost everywhere in the cpumask code.

But if you just clear bits, or scan for bits, we can use the simpler
compile-time constants.

In the process, remove 'cpumask_complement()' and 'for_each_cpu_not()'
which were not useful, and which fundamentally have to be limited to
'nr_cpu_ids'.  Better remove them now than have somebody introduce use
of them later.

Of course, on x86-64 with MAXSMP there is no sane small compile-time
constant for the cpumask sizes, and we end up using the actual CPU bits,
and will generate the above kind of horrors regardless.  Please don't
use MAXSMP unless you really expect to have machines with thousands of
cores.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2023-03-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T19:27:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-05T19:27:48+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of updates for x86:

   - Return -EIO instead of success when the certificate buffer for SEV
     guests is not large enough

   - Allow STIPB to be enabled with legacy IBSR. Legacy IBRS is cleared
     on return to userspace for performance reasons, but the leaves user
     space vulnerable to cross-thread attacks which STIBP prevents.
     Update the documentation accordingly"

* tag 'x86-urgent-2023-03-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  virt/sev-guest: Return -EIO if certificate buffer is not large enough
  Documentation/hw-vuln: Document the interaction between IBRS and STIBP
  x86/speculation: Allow enabling STIBP with legacy IBRS
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T19:07:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-05T19:07:58+00:00</published>
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Pull VM_FAULT_RETRY fixes from Al Viro:
 "Some of the page fault handlers do not deal with the following case
  correctly:

   - handle_mm_fault() has returned VM_FAULT_RETRY

   - there is a pending fatal signal

   - fault had happened in kernel mode

  Correct action in such case is not "return unconditionally" - fatal
  signals are handled only upon return to userland and something like
  copy_to_user() would end up retrying the faulting instruction and
  triggering the same fault again and again.

  What we need to do in such case is to make the caller to treat that as
  failed uaccess attempt - handle exception if there is an exception
  handler for faulting instruction or oops if there isn't one.

  Over the years some architectures had been fixed and now are handling
  that case properly; some still do not. This series should fix the
  remaining ones.

  Status:

   - m68k, riscv, hexagon, parisc: tested/acked by maintainers.

   - alpha, sparc32, sparc64: tested locally - bug has been reproduced
     on the unpatched kernel and verified to be fixed by this series.

   - ia64, microblaze, nios2, openrisc: build, but otherwise completely
     untested"

* tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  openrisc: fix livelock in uaccess
  nios2: fix livelock in uaccess
  microblaze: fix livelock in uaccess
  ia64: fix livelock in uaccess
  sparc: fix livelock in uaccess
  alpha: fix livelock in uaccess
  parisc: fix livelock in uaccess
  hexagon: fix livelock in uaccess
  riscv: fix livelock in uaccess
  m68k: fix livelock in uaccess
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<entry>
<title>Remove Intel compiler support</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T18:49:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-16T18:23:49+00:00</published>
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include/linux/compiler-intel.h had no update in the past 3 years.

We often forget about the third C compiler to build the kernel.

For example, commit a0a12c3ed057 ("asm goto: eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO")
only mentioned GCC and Clang.

init/Kconfig defines CC_IS_GCC and CC_IS_CLANG but not CC_IS_ICC,
and nobody has reported any issue.

I guess the Intel Compiler support is broken, and nobody is caring
about it.

Harald Arnesen pointed out ICC (classic Intel C/C++ compiler) is
deprecated:

    $ icc -v
    icc: remark #10441: The Intel(R) C++ Compiler Classic (ICC) is
    deprecated and will be removed from product release in the second half
    of 2023. The Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler (ICX) is the recommended
    compiler moving forward. Please transition to use this compiler. Use
    '-diag-disable=10441' to disable this message.
    icc version 2021.7.0 (gcc version 12.1.0 compatibility)

Arnd Bergmann provided a link to the article, "Intel C/C++ compilers
complete adoption of LLVM".

lib/zstd/common/compiler.h and lib/zstd/compress/zstd_fast.c were kept
untouched for better sync with https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/adoption-of-llvm-complete-icx.html
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-03-04-13-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-03-04T21:32:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-04T21:32:50+00:00</published>
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Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "17 hotfixes.

  Eight are for MM and seven are for other parts of the kernel. Seven
  are cc:stable and eight address post-6.3 issues or were judged
  unsuitable for -stable backporting"

* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-03-04-13-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mailmap: map Dikshita Agarwal's old address to his current one
  mailmap: map Vikash Garodia's old address to his current one
  fs/cramfs/inode.c: initialize file_ra_state
  fs: hfsplus: fix UAF issue in hfsplus_put_super
  panic: fix the panic_print NMI backtrace setting
  lib: parser: update documentation for match_NUMBER functions
  kasan, x86: don't rename memintrinsics in uninstrumented files
  kasan: test: fix test for new meminstrinsic instrumentation
  kasan: treat meminstrinsic as builtins in uninstrumented files
  kasan: emit different calls for instrumentable memintrinsics
  ocfs2: fix non-auto defrag path not working issue
  ocfs2: fix defrag path triggering jbd2 ASSERT
  mailmap: map Georgi Djakov's old Linaro address to his current one
  mm/hwpoison: convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON to TTU_HWPOISON
  lib/zlib: DFLTCC deflate does not write all available bits for Z_NO_FLUSH
  mm/damon/paddr: fix missing folio_put()
  mm/mremap: fix dup_anon_vma() in vma_merge() case 4
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2023-03-04T19:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-04T19:20:42+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - Drop orphaned VAS MAINTAINERS entry

 - Fix build errors with clang and KCSAN

 - Avoid build errors seen with LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION together
   with recordmcount

Thanks to Nathan Chancellor.

* tag 'powerpc-6.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc: Avoid dead code/data elimination when using recordmcount
  powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Add .text.asan/tsan sections
  powerpc: Drop orphaned VAS MAINTAINERS entry
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-6.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2023-03-03T17:38:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-03T17:38:01+00:00</published>
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Pull more s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:

 - Add empty command line parameter handling stubs to kernel for all
   command line parameters which are handled in the decompressor. This
   avoids invalid "Unknown kernel command line parameters" messages from
   the kernel, and also avoids that these will be incorrectly passed to
   user space. This caused already confusion, therefore add the empty
   stubs

 - Add missing phys_to_virt() handling to machine check handler

 - Introduce and use a union to be used for zcrypt inline assemblies.
   This makes sure that only a register wide member of the union is
   passed as input and output parameter to inline assemblies, while
   usual C code uses other members of the union to access bit fields of
   it

 - Add and use a READ_ONCE_ALIGNED_128() macro, which can be used to
   atomically read a 128-bit value from memory. This replaces the
   (mis-)use of the 128-bit cmpxchg operation to do the same in cpum_sf
   code. Currently gcc does not generate the used lpq instruction if
   __READ_ONCE() is used for aligned 128-bit accesses, therefore use
   this s390 specific helper

 - Simplify machine check handler code if a task needs to be killed
   because of e.g. register corruption due to a machine malfunction

 - Perform CPU reset to clear pending interrupts and TLB entries on an
   already stopped target CPU before delegating work to it

 - Generate arch/s390/boot/vmlinux.map link map for the decompressor,
   when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP is enabled for debugging purposes

 - Fix segment type handling for dcssblk devices. It incorrectly always
   returned type "READ/WRITE" even for read-only segements, which can
   result in a kernel panic if somebody tries to write to a read-only
   device

 - Sort config S390 select list again

 - Fix two kprobe reenter bugs revealed by a recently added kprobe kunit
   test

* tag 's390-6.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/kprobes: fix current_kprobe never cleared after kprobes reenter
  s390/kprobes: fix irq mask clobbering on kprobe reenter from post_handler
  s390/Kconfig: sort config S390 select list again
  s390/extmem: return correct segment type in __segment_load()
  s390/decompressor: add link map saving
  s390/smp: perform cpu reset before delegating work to target cpu
  s390/mcck: cleanup user process termination path
  s390/cpum_sf: use READ_ONCE_ALIGNED_128() instead of 128-bit cmpxchg
  s390/rwonce: add READ_ONCE_ALIGNED_128() macro
  s390/ap,zcrypt,vfio: introduce and use ap_queue_status_reg union
  s390/nmi: fix virtual-physical address confusion
  s390/setup: do not complain about parameters handled in decompressor
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