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  1. 12 Jan, 2019 4 commits
  3. 09 Jan, 2019 32 commits
  5. 07 Jan, 2019 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 5.0-rc1 · bfeffd15
      Linus Torvalds authored
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild · 85e1ffbd
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - improve boolinit.cocci and use_after_iter.cocci semantic patches

 - fix alignment for kallsyms

 - move 'asm goto' compiler test to Kconfig and clean up jump_label
   CONFIG option

 - generate asm-generic wrappers automatically if arch does not
   implement mandatory UAPI headers

 - remove redundant generic-y defines

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: rename generated .*conf-cfg to *conf-cfg
  kbuild: remove unnecessary stubs for archheader and archscripts
  kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules
  arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines
  kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing
  arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list"
  riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
  kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { }
  kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure
  kbuild: clean up rule_dtc_dt_yaml
  kbuild: remove UIMAGE_IN and UIMAGE_OUT
  jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig
  kallsyms: lower alignment on ARM
  scripts: coccinelle: boolinit: drop warnings on named constants
  scripts: coccinelle: check for redeclaration
  kconfig: remove unused "file" field of yylval union
  nds32: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
  nios2: remove unneeded HAS_DMA define
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · ac5eed2b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull perf tooling updates form Ingo Molnar:
 "A final batch of perf tooling changes: mostly fixes and small
  improvements"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
  perf session: Add comment for perf_session__register_idle_thread()
  perf thread-stack: Fix thread stack processing for the idle task
  perf thread-stack: Allocate an array of thread stacks
  perf thread-stack: Factor out thread_stack__init()
  perf thread-stack: Allow for a thread stack array
  perf thread-stack: Avoid direct reference to the thread's stack
  perf thread-stack: Tidy thread_stack__bottom() usage
  perf thread-stack: Simplify some code in thread_stack__process()
  tools gpio: Allow overriding CFLAGS
  tools power turbostat: Override CFLAGS assignments and add LDFLAGS to build command
  tools thermal tmon: Allow overriding CFLAGS assignments
  tools power x86_energy_perf_policy: Override CFLAGS assignments and add LDFLAGS to build command
  perf c2c: Increase the HITM ratio limit for displayed cachelines
  perf c2c: Change the default coalesce setup
  perf trace beauty ioctl: Beautify USBDEVFS_ commands
  perf trace beauty: Export function to get the files for a thread
  perf trace: Wire up ioctl's USBDEBFS_ cmd table generator
  perf beauty ioctl: Add generator for USBDEVFS_ ioctl commands
  tools headers uapi: Grab a copy of usbdevice_fs.h
  perf trace: Store the major number for a file when storing its pathname
  ...
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  7. 06 Jan, 2019 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages · 574823bf
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      The semantics of what "in core" means for the mincore() system call are
somewhat unclear, but Linux has always (since 2.3.52, which is when
mincore() was initially done) treated it as "page is available in page
cache" rather than "page is mapped in the mapping".

The problem with that traditional semantic is that it exposes a lot of
system cache state that it really probably shouldn't, and that users
shouldn't really even care about.

So let's try to avoid that information leak by simply changing the
semantics to be that mincore() counts actual mapped pages, not pages
that might be cheaply mapped if they were faulted (note the "might be"
part of the old semantics: being in the cache doesn't actually guarantee
that you can access them without IO anyway, since things like network
filesystems may have to revalidate the cache before use).

In many ways the old semantics were somewhat insane even aside from the
information leak issue.  From the very beginning (and that beginning is
a long time ago: 2.3.52 was released in March 2000, I think), the code
had a comment saying

  Later we can get more picky about what "in core" means precisely.

and this is that "later".  Admittedly it is much later than is really
comfortable.

NOTE! This is a real semantic change, and it is for example known to
change the output of "fincore", since that program literally does a
mmmap without populating it, and then doing "mincore()" on that mapping
that doesn't actually have any pages in it.

I'm hoping that nobody actually has any workflow that cares, and the
info leak is real.

We may have to do something different if it turns out that people have
valid reasons to want the old semantics, and if we can limit the
information leak sanely.

Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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