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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · df5f0f0a
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull x86 RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - more AMD northbridge support work, mostly in preparation for Fam17h
     CPUs (Yazen Ghannam, Borislav Petkov)

   - cleanups/refactorings and fixes (Borislav Petkov, Tony Luck,
     Yinghai Lu)"

* 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Include the PPIN in MCE records when available
  x86/mce/AMD: Add system physical address translation for AMD Fam17h
  x86/amd_nb: Add SMN and Indirect Data Fabric access for AMD Fam17h
  x86/amd_nb: Add Fam17h Data Fabric as "Northbridge"
  x86/amd_nb: Make all exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
  x86/amd_nb: Make amd_northbridges internal to amd_nb.c
  x86/mce/AMD: Reset Threshold Limit after logging error
  x86/mce/AMD: Fix HWID_MCATYPE calculation by grouping arguments
  x86/MCE: Correct TSC timestamping of error records
  x86/RAS: Hide SMCA bank names
  x86/RAS: Rename smca_bank_names to smca_names
  x86/RAS: Simplify SMCA HWID descriptor struct
  x86/RAS: Simplify SMCA bank descriptor struct
  x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers
  x86/RAS: Add TSC timestamp to the injected MCE
  x86/MCE: Do not look at panic_on_oops in the severity grading
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · cbaa1576
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull hotplug API fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Late breaking fix from the v4.9 cycle: fix a hotplug register/
  unregister notifier API asymmetry bug that can cause kernel warnings
  (and worse) with certain Kconfig combinations"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 92c020d0
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main scheduler changes in this cycle were:

   - support Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (TBM3) by introducig a
     notion of 'better cores', which the scheduler will prefer to
     schedule single threaded workloads on. (Tim Chen, Srinivas
     Pandruvada)

   - enhance the handling of asymmetric capacity CPUs further (Morten
     Rasmussen)

   - improve/fix load handling when moving tasks between task groups
     (Vincent Guittot)

   - simplify and clean up the cputime code (Stanislaw Gruszka)

   - improve mass fork()ed task spread a.k.a. hackbench speedup (Vincent
     Guittot)

   - make struct kthread kmalloc()ed and related fixes (Oleg Nesterov)

   - add uaccess atomicity debugging (when using access_ok() in the
     wrong context), under CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y (Peter Zijlstra)

   - implement various fixes, cleanups and other enhancements (Daniel
     Bristot de Oliveira, Martin Schwidefsky, Rafael J. Wysocki)"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  sched/core: Use load_avg for selecting idlest group
  sched/core: Fix find_idlest_group() for fork
  kthread: Don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker()
  kthread: Don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_[un]park()
  kthread: Don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_stop()
  Revert "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function"
  kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed
  x86/uaccess, sched/preempt: Verify access_ok() context
  sched/x86: Make CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO=y easier to enable
  sched/x86: Change CONFIG_SCHED_ITMT to CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO
  x86/sched: Use #include <linux/mutex.h> instead of #include <asm/mutex.h>
  cpufreq/intel_pstate: Use CPPC to get max performance
  acpi/bus: Set _OSC for diverse core support
  acpi/bus: Enable HWP CPPC objects
  x86/sched: Add SD_ASYM_PACKING flags to x86 ITMT CPU
  x86/sysctl: Add sysctl for ITMT scheduling feature
  x86: Enable Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0
  x86/topology: Define x86's arch_update_cpu_topology
  sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing
  sched/fair: Clean up the tunable parameter definitions
  ...
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · bca13ce4
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This update is pretty big and almost exclusively includes tooling
  changes, because v4.9's LTS status forced to completion most of the
  pending kernel side hardware enablement work and because we tried to
  freeze core perf work a bit to give a time window for the fuzzing
  efforts.

  The diff is large mostly due to the JSON hardware event tables added
  for Intel and Power8 CPUs. This was a popular feature request from
  people working close to hardware and from the HPC community.

  Tree size is big because this added the CPU event tables for over a
  decade of Intel CPUs. Future changes for a CPU vendor alrady support
  should be much smaller, as events for new models are added. The new
  events are listed in 'perf list', for the CPU model the tool is
  running on. If you find an interesting event it can be used as-is:

      $ perf stat -a -e l2_lines_out.pf_clean sleep 1

      Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

            7,860,403      l2_lines_out.pf_clean

           1.000624918 seconds time elapsed

  The event lists can be searched the usual 'perf list' fashion for
  (case insensitive) substrings as well:

      $ perf list l2_lines_out

      List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):

      cache:
        l2_lines_out.demand_clean
             [Clean L2 cache lines evicted by demand]
        l2_lines_out.demand_dirty
             [Dirty L2 cache lines evicted by demand]
        l2_lines_out.dirty_all
             [Dirty L2 cache lines filling the L2]
        l2_lines_out.pf_clean
             [Clean L2 cache lines evicted by L2 prefetch]
        l2_lines_out.pf_dirty
             [Dirty L2 cache lines evicted by L2 prefetch]

  etc.

  There's a few high level categories as well that can be listed:
  'cache', 'floating point', 'frontend', 'memory', 'pipeline', 'virtual
  memory'.

  Existing generic events and workflows should work as-is.

  The only kernel side change is a late breaking fix for an older
  regression, related to Intel BTS, LBR and PT feature interaction.

  On the tooling side there are three new tools / major features:

   - The new 'perf c2c' tool provides means for Shared Data C2C/HITM
     analysis.

     This allows you to track down cacheline contention. The tool is
     based on x86's load latency and precise store facility events
     provided by Intel CPUs.

     It was tested by Joe Mario and has proven to be useful, finding
     some cacheline contentions. Joe also wrote a blog about c2c tool
     with examples:

        https://joemario.github.io/blog/2016/09/01/c2c-blog/

     excerpt of the content on this site:

         At a high level, “perf c2c” will show you:

          * The cachelines where false sharing was detected.
          * The readers and writers to those cachelines, and the offsets where those accesses occurred.
          * The pid, tid, instruction addr, function name, binary object name for those readers and writers.
          * The source file and line number for each reader and writer.
          * The average load latency for the loads to those cachelines.
          * Which numa nodes the samples a cacheline came from and which CPUs were involved.

         Using perf c2c is similar to using the Linux perf tool today.
         First collect data with “perf c2c record”, then generate a
         report output with “perf c2c report”

     There one finds extensive details on using the tool, with tips on
     reducing the volume of samples while still capturing enough to do
     its job. (Dick Fowles, Joe Mario, Don Zickus, Jiri Olsa)

   - The new 'perf sched timehist' tool provides tailored analysis of
     scheduling events.

     Example usage:

          perf sched record -- sleep 1
          perf sched timehist

     By default it shows the individual schedule events, including the
     wait time (time between sched-out and next sched-in events for the
     task), the task scheduling delay (time between wakeup and actually
     running) and run time for the task:

            time    cpu  task name         wait time  sch delay  run time
                         [tid/pid]            (msec)     (msec)    (msec)
        -------- ------  ----------------  ---------  ---------  --------
        1.874569 [0011]  gcc[31949]            0.014      0.000     1.148
        1.874591 [0010]  gcc[31951]            0.000      0.000     0.024
        1.874603 [0010]  migration/10[59]      3.350      0.004     0.011
        1.874604 [0011]  <idle>                1.148      0.000     0.035
        1.874723 [0005]  <idle>                0.016      0.000     1.383
        1.874746 [0005]  gcc[31949]            0.153      0.078     0.022
      ...

     Times are in msec.usec. (David Ahern, Namhyung Kim)

   - Add CPU vendor hardware event tables:

     Add JSON files with vendor event naming for Intel and Power8
     processors, allowing users of tools like oprofile to keep using the
     event names they are used to, as well as people reading vendor
     documentation, where such naming is used. (Andi Kleen, Sukadev
     Bhattiprolu)

     You should see all the new events with 'perf list' and you should
     be able to search them, for example 'perf list miss' will list all
     the myriads of miss events.

  Other tooling features added were:

   - Cross-arch annotation support:

     o Improve ARM support in the annotation code, affecting 'perf
       annotate', 'perf report' and live annotation in 'perf top' (Kim
       Phillips)

     o Initial support for PowerPC in the annotation code (Ravi
       Bangoria)

     o Support AArch64 in the 'annotate' code, native/local and
       cross-arch/remote (Kim Phillips)

   - Allow considering just events in a given time interval, via the
     '--time start.s.ms,end.s.ms' command line, added to 'perf kmem',
     'perf report', 'perf sched timehist' and 'perf script' (David
     Ahern)

   - Add option to stop printing a callchain at one of a given group of
     symbol names (David Ahern)

   - Track memory freed in 'perf kmem stat' (David Ahern)

   - Allow querying and setting .perfconfig variables (Taeung Song)

   - Show branch information in callchains (predicted, TSX aborts, loop
     iteractions, etc) (Jin Yao)

   - Dynamicly change verbosity level by pressing 'V' in the 'perf
     top/report' hists TUI browser (Alexis Berlemont)

   - Implement 'perf trace --delay' in the same fashion as in 'perf
     record --delay', to skip sampling workload initialization events
     (Alexis Berlemont)

   - Make vendor named events case insensitive in 'perf list', i.e.
     'perf list LONGEST_LAT' works just the same as 'perf list
     longest_lat' (Andi Kleen)

   - Add unwinding support for jitdump (Stefano Sanfilippo)

  Tooling infrastructure changes:

   - Support linking perf with clang and LLVM libraries, initially
     statically, but this limitation will be lifted and shared
     libraries, when available, will be preferred to the static build,
     that should, as with other features, be enabled explicitly (Wang
     Nan)

   - Add initial support (and perf test entry) for tooling hooks,
     starting with 'record_start' and 'record_end', that will have as
     its initial user the eBPF infrastructure, where perf_ prefixed
     functions will be JITed and run when such hooks are called (Wang
     Nan)

   - Implement assorted libbpf improvements (Wang Nan)"

  ... and lots of other changes, features, cleanups and refactorings I
  did not list, see the shortlog and the git log for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (220 commits)
  perf/x86: Fix exclusion of BTS and LBR for Goldmont
  perf tools: Explicitly document that --children is enabled by default
  perf sched timehist: Cleanup idle_max_cpu handling
  perf sched timehist: Handle zero sample->tid properly
  perf callchain: Introduce callchain_cursor__copy()
  perf sched: Cleanup option processing
  perf sched timehist: Improve error message when analyzing wrong file
  perf tools: Move perf build related variables under non fixdep leg
  perf tools: Force fixdep compilation at the start of the build
  perf tools: Move PERF-VERSION-FILE target into rules area
  perf build: Check LLVM version in feature check
  perf annotate: Show raw form for jump instruction with indirect target
  perf tools: Add non config targets
  perf tools: Cleanup build directory before each test
  perf tools: Move python/perf.so target into rules area
  perf tools: Move install-gtk target into rules area
  tools build: Move tabs to spaces where suitable
  tools build: Make the .cmd file more readable
  perf clang: Compile BPF script using builtin clang support
  perf clang: Support compile IR to BPF object and add testcase
  ...
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'mm-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 0719dbf5
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull mm/PAT cleanup from Ingo Molnar:
 "A single cleanup for a generic interface that was originally
  introduced for PAT"

* 'mm-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/pat, mm: Make track_pfn_insert() return void
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 6cdf89b1
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The tree got pretty big in this development cycle, but the net effect
  is pretty good:

    115 files changed, 673 insertions(+), 1522 deletions(-)

  The main changes were:

   - Rework and generalize the mutex code to remove per arch mutex
     primitives. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add vCPU preemption support: add an interface to query the
     preemption status of vCPUs and use it in locking primitives - this
     optimizes paravirt performance. (Pan Xinhui, Juergen Gross,
     Christian Borntraeger)

   - Introduce cpu_relax_yield() and remov cpu_relax_lowlatency() to
     clean up and improve the s390 lock yielding machinery and its core
     kernel impact. (Christian Borntraeger)

   - Micro-optimize mutexes some more. (Waiman Long)

   - Reluctantly add the to-be-deprecated mutex_trylock_recursive()
     interface on a temporary basis, to give the DRM code more time to
     get rid of its locking hacks. Any other users will be NAK-ed on
     sight. (We turned off the deprecation warning for the time being to
     not pollute the build log.) (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve the rtmutex code a bit, in light of recent long lived
     bugs/races. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - Misc fixes, cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Fix bool return type for PVOP_CALL()
  x86/paravirt: Fix native_patch()
  locking/ww_mutex: Use relaxed atomics
  locking/rtmutex: Explain locking rules for rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()/init_proxy_locked()
  locking/rtmutex: Get rid of RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL
  x86/paravirt: Optimize native pv_lock_ops.vcpu_is_preempted()
  locking/mutex: Break out of expensive busy-loop on {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner() when owner vCPU is preempted
  locking/osq: Break out of spin-wait busy waiting loop for a preempted vCPU in osq_lock()
  Documentation/virtual/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/xen: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  x86/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check
  kvm: Introduce kvm_write_guest_offset_cached()
  locking/core, x86/paravirt: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) for KVM and Xen guests
  locking/spinlocks, s390: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  locking/core, powerpc: Implement vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
  sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface
  sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q
  locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition
  locking/mutex: Don't mark mutex_trylock_recursive() as deprecated, temporarily
  ...
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 3940cf0b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - Implement EFI dev path parser and other changes to fully support
     thunderbolt devices on Apple Macbooks (Lukas Wunner)

   - Add RNG seeding via the EFI stub, on ARM/arm64 (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Expose EFI framebuffer configuration to user-space, to improve
     tooling (Peter Jones)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Ivan Hu, Wei Yongjun, Yisheng Xie, Dan
     Carpenter, Roy Franz)"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  efi/libstub: Make efi_random_alloc() allocate below 4 GB on 32-bit
  thunderbolt: Compile on x86 only
  thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies harder
  thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies
  thunderbolt: Use Device ROM retrieved from EFI
  x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties
  efi: Allow bitness-agnostic protocol calls
  efi: Add device path parser
  efi/arm*/libstub: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table
  efi/libstub: Add random.c to ARM build
  efi: Add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table
  MAINTAINERS: Add ARM and arm64 EFI specific files to EFI subsystem
  efi/libstub: Fix allocation size calculations
  efi/efivar_ssdt_load: Don't return success on allocation failure
  efifb: Show framebuffer layout as device attributes
  efi/efi_test: Use memdup_user() as a cleanup
  efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'rv'
  efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'datasize'
  efi/arm*: Fix efi_init() error handling
  efi: Remove unused include of <linux/version.h>
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'core-smp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 9ad1aeec
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull SMP bootup updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three changes to unify/standardize some of the bootup message printing
  in kernel/smp.c between architectures"

* 'core-smp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kernel/smp: Tell the user we're bringing up secondary CPUs
  kernel/smp: Make the SMP boot message common on all arches
  kernel/smp: Define pr_fmt() for smp.c
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      Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 718c0ddd
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main RCU changes in this development cycle were:

   - Miscellaneous fixes, including a change to call_rcu()'s rcu_head
     alignment check.

   - Security-motivated list consistency checks, which are disabled by
     default behind DEBUG_LIST.

   - Torture-test updates.

   - Documentation updates, yet again just simple changes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  torture: Prevent jitter from delaying build-only runs
  torture: Remove obsolete files from rcutorture .gitignore
  rcu: Don't kick unless grace period or request
  rcu: Make expedited grace periods recheck dyntick idle state
  torture: Trace long read-side delays
  rcu: RCU_TRACE enables event tracing as well as debugfs
  rcu: Remove obsolete comment from __call_rcu()
  rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_check_callbacks() header comment
  rcu: Tighten up __call_rcu() rcu_head alignment check
  Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo
  documentation: Present updated RCU guarantee
  bug: Avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Fix typo in select statement
  lkdtm: Add tests for struct list corruption
  bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data corruption
  list: Split list_del() debug checking into separate function
  rculist: Consolidate DEBUG_LIST for list_add_rcu()
  list: Split list_add() debug checking into separate function
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'cris-for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesper/cris · 8fa3b6f9
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull CRIS updates from Jesper Nilsson:
 "Three patches for minor issues"

* tag 'cris-for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesper/cris:
  cris: No need to append -O2 and $(LINUXINCLUDE)
  tty: serial: make crisv10 explicitly non-modular
  cris: Only build flash rescue image if CONFIG_ETRAX_AXISFLASHMAP is selected
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'openrisc-for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux · 56e9461a
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull Openrisc updates from Stafford Horne:

 - changes to MAINTAINER for openrisc

 - probably biggest actual change is the move to memblock from bootmem

 - ... plus several bug and build fixes

* tag 'openrisc-for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux:
  openrisc: prevent VGA console, fix builds
  openrisc: include l.swa in check for write data pagefault
  openrisc: Updates after openrisc.net has been lost
  openrisc: Consolidate setup to use memblock instead of bootmem
  openrisc: remove the redundant of_platform_populate
  openrisc: add NR_CPUS Kconfig default value
  openrisc: Support both old (or32) and new (or1k) toolchain
  openrisc: Add thread-local storage (TLS) support
  openrisc: restore all regs on rt_sigreturn
  openrisc: fix PTRS_PER_PGD define
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'm68k-for-v4.10-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k · 709c12e3
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull m68k updates from Geert Uytterhoeven:
 "Use seq_puts() for fixed strings"

* tag 'm68k-for-v4.10-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k:
  m68k/atari: Use seq_puts() in atari_get_hardware_list()
  m68k/amiga: Use seq_puts() in amiga_get_hardware_list()
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