poll: kill poll_does_not_wait()

It no longer has users.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Bra

poll: kill poll_does_not_wait()

It no longer has users.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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poll_wait: kill the obsolete wait_address check

This check is historical and no longer needed, wait_address is never NULL.
These days we rely on the poll_table->_qproc check. NULL if select/poll
is

poll_wait: kill the obsolete wait_address check

This check is historical and no longer needed, wait_address is never NULL.
These days we rely on the poll_table->_qproc check. NULL if select/poll
is not going to sleep, or it already has a data to report, or all waiters
have already been registered after the 1st iteration.

However, poll_table *p can be NULL, see p9_fd_poll() for example, so we
can't remove the "p != NULL" check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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poll_wait: add mb() to fix theoretical race between waitqueue_active() and .poll()

As the comment above waitqueue_active() explains, it can only be used
if both waker and waiter have mb()'s that pai

poll_wait: add mb() to fix theoretical race between waitqueue_active() and .poll()

As the comment above waitqueue_active() explains, it can only be used
if both waker and waiter have mb()'s that pair with each other. However
__pollwait() is broken in this respect.

This is not pipe-specific, but let's look at pipe_poll() for example:

poll_wait(...); // -> __pollwait() -> add_wait_queue()

LOAD(pipe->head);
LOAD(pipe->head);

In theory these LOAD()'s can leak into the critical section inside
add_wait_queue() and can happen before list_add(entry, wq_head), in this
case pipe_poll() can race with wakeup_pipe_readers/writers which do

smp_mb();
if (waitqueue_active(wq_head))
wake_up_interruptible(wq_head);

There are more __pollwait()-like functions (grep init_poll_funcptr), and
it seems that at least ep_ptable_queue_proc() has the same problem, so the
patch adds smp_mb() into poll_wait().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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fs/select: rework stack allocation hack for clang

A while ago, we changed the way that select() and poll() preallocate
a temporary buffer just under the size of the static warning limit of
1024 byte

fs/select: rework stack allocation hack for clang

A while ago, we changed the way that select() and poll() preallocate
a temporary buffer just under the size of the static warning limit of
1024 bytes, as clang was frequently going slightly above that limit.

The warnings have recently returned and I took another look. As it turns
out, clang is not actually inherently worse at reserving stack space,
it just happens to inline do_select() into core_sys_select(), while gcc
never inlines it.

Annotate do_select() to never be inlined and in turn remove the special
case for the allocation size. This should give the same behavior for
both clang and gcc all the time and once more avoids those warnings.

Fixes: ad312f95d41c ("fs/select: avoid clang stack usage warning")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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eventpoll: simplify sysctl declaration with register_sysctl()

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with

eventpoll: simplify sysctl declaration with register_sysctl()

The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.

To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
just care about the core logic.

So move the epoll_table sysctl to fs/eventpoll.c and use
register_sysctl().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Phillip Potter <[email protected]>
Cc: Qing Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: John Ogness <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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fs/select: avoid clang stack usage warning

The select() implementation is carefully tuned to put a sensible amount
of data on the stack for holding a copy of the user space fd_set, but
not too large

fs/select: avoid clang stack usage warning

The select() implementation is carefully tuned to put a sensible amount
of data on the stack for holding a copy of the user space fd_set, but
not too large to risk overflowing the kernel stack.

When building a 32-bit kernel with clang, we need a little more space
than with gcc, which often triggers a warning:

fs/select.c:619:5: error: stack frame size of 1048 bytes in function 'core_sys_select' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
int core_sys_select(int n, fd_set __user *inp, fd_set __user *outp,

I experimentally found that for 32-bit ARM, reducing the maximum stack
usage by 64 bytes keeps us reliably under the warning limit again.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL

The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"-

Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL

The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.

Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections.

But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.

[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ]

Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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fs: introduce new ->get_poll_head and ->poll_mask methods

->get_poll_head returns the waitqueue that the poll operation is going
to sleep on. Note that this means we can only use a single waitqueue

fs: introduce new ->get_poll_head and ->poll_mask methods

->get_poll_head returns the waitqueue that the poll operation is going
to sleep on. Note that this means we can only use a single waitqueue
for the poll, unlike some current drivers that use two waitqueues for
different events. But now that we have keyed wakeups and heavily use
those for poll there aren't that many good reason left to keep the
multiple waitqueues, and if there are any ->poll is still around, the
driver just won't support aio poll.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

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fs: add new vfs_poll and file_can_poll helpers

These abstract out calls to the poll method in preparation for changes
in how we poll.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg

fs: add new vfs_poll and file_can_poll helpers

These abstract out calls to the poll method in preparation for changes
in how we poll.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

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fs: unexport poll_schedule_timeout

No users outside of select.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. W

fs: unexport poll_schedule_timeout

No users outside of select.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>

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unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL...

except, again, POLLFREE and POLL_BUSY_LOOP.

With this, we finally get to the promised end result:

- POLL{IN,OUT,...} are plain integers an

unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL...

except, again, POLLFREE and POLL_BUSY_LOOP.

With this, we finally get to the promised end result:

- POLL{IN,OUT,...} are plain integers and *not* in __poll_t, so any
stray instances of ->poll() still using those will be caught by
sparse.

- eventpoll.c and select.c warning-free wrt __poll_t

- no more kernel-side definitions of POLL... - userland ones are
visible through the entire kernel (and used pretty much only for
mangle/demangle)

- same behavior as after the first series (i.e. sparc et.al. epoll(2)
working correctly).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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preparation to switching ->poll() to returning EPOLL...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

annotate poll_table_entry->key

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

annotate poll_table_struct ->_key

Only POLL... bitmaps ever end up there and their only use is checking
for POLL... bits in them.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t

Rename:

wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality

sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t

Rename:

wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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move compat select-related syscalls to fs/select.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PA

Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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fs: poll/select/recvmmsg: use timespec64 for timeout events

struct timespec is not y2038 safe. Even though timespec might be
sufficient to represent timeouts, use struct timespec64 here as the plan

fs: poll/select/recvmmsg: use timespec64 for timeout events

struct timespec is not y2038 safe. Even though timespec might be
sufficient to represent timeouts, use struct timespec64 here as the plan
is to get rid of all timespec reference in the kernel.

The patch transitions the common functions: poll_select_set_timeout()
and select_estimate_accuracy() to use timespec64. And, all the syscalls
that use these functions are transitioned in the same patch.

The restart block parameters for poll uses monotonic time. Use
timespec64 here as well to assign timeout value. This parameter in the
restart block need not change because this only holds the monotonic
timestamp at which timeout should occur. And, unsigned long data type
should be big enough for this timestamp.

The system call interfaces will be handled in a separate series.

Compat interfaces need not change as timespec64 is an alias to struct
timespec on a 64 bit system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <[email protected]>
Acked-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64

This patchset introduces a /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which
would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value

timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64

This patchset introduces a /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which
would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value
on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something
Android currently does via out-of-tree patches).

The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was
defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit
systems. It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically
unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines.

The second patch introduces the /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface
which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on
both 32bit and 64bit machines.

With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on
bash to 10 seconds:

$ time sleep 1

real 0m10.747s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.005s

The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta
arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s. Let me
know if it makes sense to break that up more or not.

Other than that things are fairly straightforward.

This patch (of 2):

The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned
long. This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just
over 4 seconds. However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500
years).

This disparity could make application development a little (as well as
the default_slack) to a u64. This means both 32bit and 64bit systems
have the same effective internal slack range.

Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify
the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on
32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned
long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is
actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long.

This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack
delta as a unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Oren Laadan <[email protected]>
Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <[email protected]>
Cc: Rom Lemarchand <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Android Kernel Team <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michae

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>

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poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions

In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll f

poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions

In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll for. An example
is when a driver needs to start a DMA engine if the caller polls for
POLLIN, but doesn't want to do that if POLLIN is not requested but instead
only POLLOUT or POLLPRI is requested. This is something that can happen
in the video4linux subsystem among others.

Unfortunately, the current epoll/poll/select implementation doesn't
provide that information reliably. The poll_table_struct does have it: it
has a key field with the event mask. But once a poll() call matches one
or more bits of that mask any following poll() calls are passed a NULL
poll_table pointer.

Also, the eventpoll implementation always left the key field at ~0 instead
of using the requested events mask.

This was changed in eventpoll.c so the key field now contains the actual
events that should be polled for as set by the caller.

The solution to the NULL poll_table pointer is to set the qproc field to
NULL in poll_table once poll() matches the events, not the poll_table
pointer itself. That way drivers can obtain the mask through a new
poll_requested_events inline.

The poll_table_struct can still be NULL since some kernel code calls it
internally (netfs_state_poll() in ./drivers/staging/pohmelfs/netfs.h). In
that case poll_requested_events() returns ~0 (i.e. all events).

Very rarely drivers might want to know whether poll_wait will actually
wait. If another earlier file descriptor in the set already matched the
events the caller wanted to wait for, then the kernel will return from the
select() call without waiting. This might be useful information in order
to avoid doing expensive work.

A new helper function poll_does_not_wait() is added that drivers can use
to detect this situation. This is now used in sock_poll_wait() in
include/net/sock.h. This was the only place in the kernel that needed
this information.

Drivers should no longer access any of the poll_table internals, but use
the poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() access functions
instead. In order to enforce that the poll_table fields are now prepended
with an underscore and a comment was added warning against using them
directly.

This required a change in unix_dgram_poll() in unix/af_unix.c which used
the key field to get the requested events. It's been replaced by a call
to poll_requested_events().

For qproc it was especially important to change its name since the
behavior of that field changes with this patch since this function pointer
can now be NULL when that wasn't possible in the past.

Any driver accessing the qproc or key fields directly will now fail to compile.

Some notes regarding the correctness of this patch: the driver's poll()
function is called with a 'struct poll_table_struct *wait' argument. This
pointer may or may not be NULL, drivers can never rely on it being one or
the other as that depends on whether or not an earlier file descriptor in
the select()'s fdset matched the requested events.

There are only three things a driver can do with the wait argument:

1) obtain the key field:

events = wait ? wait->key : ~0;

This will still work although it should be replaced with the new
poll_requested_events() function (which does exactly the same).
This will now even work better, since wait is no longer set to NULL
unnecessarily.

2) use the qproc callback. This could be deadly since qproc can now be
NULL. Renaming qproc should prevent this from happening. There are no
kernel drivers that actually access this callback directly, BTW.

3) test whether wait == NULL to determine whether poll would return without
waiting. This is no longer sufficient as the correct test is now
wait == NULL || wait->_qproc == NULL.

However, the worst that can happen here is a slight performance hit in
the case where wait != NULL and wait->_qproc == NULL. In that case the
driver will assume that poll_wait() will actually add the fd to the set
of waiting file descriptors. Of course, poll_wait() will not do that
since it tests for wait->_qproc. This will not break anything, though.

There is only one place in the whole kernel where this happens
(sock_poll_wait() in include/net/sock.h) and that code will be replaced
by a call to poll_does_not_wait() in the next patch.

Note that even if wait->_qproc != NULL drivers cannot rely on poll_wait()
actually waiting. The next file descriptor from the set might match the
event mask and thus any possible waits will never happen.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]>

poll: fix a typo in comment

Convert duplicated sys_poll to select. As Kosaki suggests, sys_poll() and
sys_select() are now hidden by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros so it would be
better to use plain selec

poll: fix a typo in comment

Convert duplicated sys_poll to select. As Kosaki suggests, sys_poll() and
sys_select() are now hidden by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros so it would be
better to use plain select/poll syscall name.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>

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epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature

This make epoll use hrtimers for the timeout value which prevents
epoll_wait() from timing out up to a millisecond early.

This mirrors the beh

epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature

This make epoll use hrtimers for the timeout value which prevents
epoll_wait() from timing out up to a millisecond early.

This mirrors the behavior of select() and poll().

Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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