kernel/include/linux/compiler.h, branch linux-4.12.y

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2017-02-28T07:09:29Z

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - a few MM remainders - misc things - autofs updates - signals - affs updates - ipc - nilfs2 - spelling.txt updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (78 commits) mm, x86: fix HIGHMEM64 && PARAVIRT build config for native_pud_clear() mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA hfs: atomically read inode size mm: clarify mm_struct.mm_{users,count} documentation mm: use mmget_not_zero() helper mm: add new mmget() helper mm: add new mmgrab() helper checkpatch: warn when formats use %Z and suggest %z lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support scripts/spelling.txt: add some typo-words scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "therfore" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "overwriten" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "overwritting" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "deintialize(d)" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "disassocation" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "omited" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "explictely" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "applys" pattern and fix typo instances scripts/spelling.txt: add "configuartion" pattern and fix typo instances ...

kprobes: move kprobe declarations to asm-generic/kprobes.h

2017-02-28T02:43:45Z

Often all is needed is these small helpers, instead of compiler.h or a full kprobes.h. This is important for asm helpers, in fact even some asm/kprobes.h make use of these helpers... instead just keep a generic asm file with helpers useful for asm code with the least amount of clutter as possible. Likewise we need now to also address what to do about this file for both when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES, and when they do not. Then for when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES but have disabled CONFIG_KPROBES. Right now most asm/kprobes.h do not have guards against CONFIG_KPROBES, this means most architecture code cannot include asm/kprobes.h safely. Correct this and add guards for architectures missing them. Additionally provide architectures that not have kprobes support with the default asm-generic solution. This lets us force asm/kprobes.h on the header include/linux/kprobes.h always, but most importantly we can now safely include just asm/kprobes.h on architecture code without bringing the full kitchen sink of header files. Two architectures already provided a guard against CONFIG_KPROBES on its kprobes.h: sh, arch. The rest of the architectures needed gaurds added. We avoid including any not-needed headers on asm/kprobes.h unless kprobes have been enabled. In a subsequent atomic change we can try now to remove compiler.h from include/linux/kprobes.h. During this sweep I've also identified a few architectures defining a common macro needed for both kprobes and ftrace, that of the definition of the breakput instruction up. Some refer to this as BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION. This must be kept outside of the #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES guard. [mcgrof@kernel.org: fix arm64 build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB=NE6X1WMByuARS4mZ1g9+W=LuVBnMDnh_5zyN0CLADaVh=Jw@mail.gmail.com [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup for kprobes declarations moving] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214165933.13ebd4f4@canb.auug.org.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203233139.32682-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2017-02-27T21:26:17Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes and small optimizations" * tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits) tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg() tracing: Use modern function declaration jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts" ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write() ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip ...

tracing: Show number of constants profiled in likely profiler

2017-01-19T13:57:14Z

Now that constants are traced, it is useful to see the number of constants that are traced in the likely/unlikely profiler in order to know if they should be ignored or not. The likely/unlikely will display a number after the "correct" number if a "constant" count exists. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

gcc-plugins: Add structleak for more stack initialization

2017-01-18T20:02:35Z

This plugin detects any structures that contain __user attributes and makes sure it is being fully initialized so that a specific class of information exposure is eliminated. (This plugin was originally designed to block the exposure of siginfo in CVE-2013-2141.) Ported from grsecurity/PaX. This version adds a verbose option to the plugin and the Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

tracing: Process constants for (un)likely() profiler

2017-01-17T20:13:05Z

When running the likely/unlikely profiler, one of the results did not look accurate. It noted that the unlikely() in link_path_walk() was 100% incorrect. When I added a trace_printk() to see what was happening there, it became 80% correct! Looking deeper into what whas happening, I found that gcc split that if statement into two paths. One where the if statement became a constant, the other path a variable. The other path had the if statement always hit (making the unlikely there, always false), but since the #define unlikely() has: #define unlikely() (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? !!(x) : __branch_check__(x, 0)) Where constants are ignored by the branch profiler, the "constant" path made by the compiler was ignored, even though it was hit 80% of the time. By just passing the constant value to the __branch_check__() function and tracing it out of line (as always correct, as likely/unlikely isn't a factor for constants), then we get back the accurate readings of branches that were optimized by gcc causing part of the execution to become constant. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15Z

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook: "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-10-14T21:26:58Z

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek: - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro. This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is working on a patch to fix this. Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely change prototypes. - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick Piggin - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan. - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me. * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits) initramfs: Escape colons in depfile ppc: there is no clear_pages to export powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search ia64: move exports to definitions sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h sparc: move exports to definitions ppc: move exports to definitions arm: move exports to definitions s390: move exports to definitions m68k: move exports to definitions alpha: move exports to actual definitions x86: move exports to actual definitions ...

latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy

2016-10-10T21:51:45Z

The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields. These specific functions have been selected because they are init functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of latent entropy. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy [kees: expanded commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination

2016-09-09T08:47:00Z

Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now. On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving, it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link. text data bss dec filename 11169741 1180744 1923176 14273661 vmlinux 10445269 1004127 1919707 13369103 vmlinux.dce ~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michal Marek