kernel/drivers/char/mspec.c, branch linux-6.9.y

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17Z

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some distro packages that are rarely used in practice. None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as 'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have dropped support years ago. While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64 could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case. There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64 but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64 be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead of keeping it supported is real. So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely. This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5], which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow once the kernel support is removed. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/ [2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html [3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Acked-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls

2023-02-10T00:51:39Z

Replace direct modifications to vma->vm_flags with calls to modifier functions to be able to track flag changes and to keep vma locking correctness. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/misc/open-dice.c, per Hyeonggon Yoo] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126193752.297968-5-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arjun Roy Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Laurent Dufour Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Oskolkov Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Punit Agrawal Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Cc: Song Liu Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

char: mspec: Use kvzalloc() in mspec_mmap()

2020-08-28T10:10:04Z

Use kvzalloc() in mspec_mmap() instead of open-coding it. Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827213421.50429-1-efremov@linux.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments

2020-06-09T16:39:14Z

Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Laurent Dufour Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ying Han Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included

2020-06-09T16:39:13Z

Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2. The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once. For instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported architectures. Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils down to, e.g. static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address) { return (address >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1); } static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address) { return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address); } These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined. For architectures that really need a custom version there is always possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic. These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table accessors to the new header. This patch (of 12): The linux/mm.h header includes to allow inlining of the functions involving page table manipulations, e.g. pte_alloc() and pmd_alloc(). So, there is no point to explicitly include in the files that include . The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop: for f in $(git grep -l "include ") ; do sed -i -e '/include / d' $f done Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nick Hu Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Vincent Chen Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

char: mspec: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

2020-03-19T06:41:03Z

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200227184808.GA1925@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char/mspec: remove SGI SN2 support

2019-08-16T18:33:56Z

The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed, so drop the bits specific to it from this driver. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-10-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 206

2019-05-30T18:29:53Z

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 107 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528171438.615055994@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: mspec: change return type to vm_fault_t

2018-04-23T11:51:53Z

Use new return type vm_fault_t for the fault handler in struct vm_operations_struct. For now, this is just documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno. Once all instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type. This driver failed to handle any error returned by vm_insert_pfn. Use the new vmf_insert_pfn function to return the correct value. Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers, char: convert vma_data.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t

2017-03-23T12:57:19Z

refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free situations. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: David Windsor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman