kernel/ksysfs.c: simplify bin_attribute definition

The notes attribute can be implemented in terms of BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE().
This saves memory at runtime and is a preparation for the constification
of s

kernel/ksysfs.c: simplify bin_attribute definition

The notes attribute can be implemented in terms of BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE().
This saves memory at runtime and is a preparation for the constification
of struct bin_attribute.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241121-sysfs-const-bin_attr-ksysfs-v1-1-972faced149d@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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profiling: remove prof_cpu_mask

syzbot is reporting uninit-value at profile_hits(), for there is a race
window between

if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
cp

profiling: remove prof_cpu_mask

syzbot is reporting uninit-value at profile_hits(), for there is a race
window between

if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
cpumask_copy(prof_cpu_mask, cpu_possible_mask);

in profile_init() and

cpumask_available(prof_cpu_mask) &&
cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask))

in profile_tick(); prof_cpu_mask remains uninitialzed until cpumask_copy()
completes while cpumask_available(prof_cpu_mask) returns true as soon as
alloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask) completes.

We could replace alloc_cpumask_var() with zalloc_cpumask_var() and
call cpumask_copy() from create_proc_profile() on only UP kernels, for
profile_online_cpu() calls cpumask_set_cpu() as needed via
cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN) on SMP kernels. But this patch
removes prof_cpu_mask because it seems unnecessary.

The cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask) test
in profile_tick() is likely always true due to

a CPU cannot call profile_tick() if that CPU is offline

and

cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, prof_cpu_mask) is called when that CPU becomes
online and cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, prof_cpu_mask) is called when that
CPU becomes offline

. This test could be false during transition between online and offline.

But according to include/linux/cpuhotplug.h , CPUHP_PROFILE_PREPARE
belongs to PREPARE section, which means that the CPU subjected to
profile_dead_cpu() cannot be inside profile_tick() (i.e. no risk of
use-after-free bug) because interrupt for that CPU is disabled during
PREPARE section. Therefore, this test is guaranteed to be true, and
can be removed. (Since profile_hits() checks prof_buffer != NULL, we
don't need to check prof_buffer != NULL here unless get_irq_regs() or
user_mode() is such slow that we want to avoid when prof_buffer == NULL).

do_profile_hits() is called from profile_tick() from timer interrupt
only if cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask) is true and
prof_buffer is not NULL. But syzbot is also reporting that sometimes
do_profile_hits() is called while current thread is still doing vzalloc(),
where prof_buffer must be NULL at this moment. This indicates that multiple
threads concurrently tried to write to /sys/kernel/profiling interface,
which caused that somebody else try to re-allocate prof_buffer despite
somebody has already allocated prof_buffer. Fix this by using
serialization.

Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: syzbot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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vmlinux: Avoid weak reference to notes section

Weak references are references that are permitted to remain unsatisfied
in the final link. This means they cannot be implemented using place
relative r

vmlinux: Avoid weak reference to notes section

Weak references are references that are permitted to remain unsatisfied
in the final link. This means they cannot be implemented using place
relative relocations, resulting in GOT entries when using position
independent code generation.

The notes section should always exist, so the weak annotations can be
omitted.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>

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crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c

Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes
need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code eve

crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c

Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes
need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code even
though the crash dumping functionality is not enabled. E.g
--------------------
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
---------------------

After splitting out crashkernel reservation code and vmcoreinfo exporting
code, there's only crash related code left in kernel/crash_core.c. Now
move crash related codes from kexec_core.c to crash_core.c and only build it
in when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y.

And also wrap up crash codes inside CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdeffery scope,
or replace inappropriate CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE ifdef with CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
ifdef in generic kernel files.

With these changes, crash_core codes are abstracted from kexec codes and
can be disabled at all if only kexec reboot feature is wanted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Klara Modin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c

Now move the relevant codes into separate files:
kernel/crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h.

And add config item CRASH_RESERV

crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c

Now move the relevant codes into separate files:
kernel/crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h.

And add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling.

And also update the old ifdeffery of CONFIG_CRASH_CORE, including of
<linux/crash_core.h> and config item dependency on CRASH_CORE
accordingly.

And also do renaming as follows:
- arch/xxx/kernel/{crash_core.c => vmcore_info.c}
because they are only related to vmcoreinfo exporting on x86, arm64,
riscv.

And also Remove config item CRASH_CORE, and rely on CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE to
decide if build in crash_core.c.

[[email protected]: remove duplicated include in vmcore_info.c]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Klara Modin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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kobject: make uevent_seqnum atomic

We will soon no longer acquire uevent_sock_mutex
for most kobject_uevent_net_broadcast() calls,
and also while calling uevent_net_broadcast().

Make uevent_seqnum

kobject: make uevent_seqnum atomic

We will soon no longer acquire uevent_sock_mutex
for most kobject_uevent_net_broadcast() calls,
and also while calling uevent_net_broadcast().

Make uevent_seqnum an atomic64_t to get its own protection.

This fixes a race while reading /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()

The hotplug support for kexec_load() requires changes to the userspace
kexec-tools and a little extra help from the kernel.

Given a kdump capture kernel load

crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()

The hotplug support for kexec_load() requires changes to the userspace
kexec-tools and a little extra help from the kernel.

Given a kdump capture kernel loaded via kexec_load(), and a subsequent
hotplug event, the crash hotplug handler finds the elfcorehdr and rewrites
it to reflect the hotplug change. That is the desired outcome, however,
at kernel panic time, the purgatory integrity check fails (because the
elfcorehdr changed), and the capture kernel does not boot and no vmcore is
generated.

Therefore, the userspace kexec-tools/kexec must indicate to the kernel
that the elfcorehdr can be modified (because the kexec excluded the
elfcorehdr from the digest, and sized the elfcorehdr memory buffer
appropriately).

To facilitate hotplug support with kexec_load():
- a new kexec flag KEXEC_UPATE_ELFCOREHDR indicates that it is
safe for the kernel to modify the kexec_load()'d elfcorehdr
- the /sys/kernel/crash_elfcorehdr_size node communicates the
preferred size of the elfcorehdr memory buffer
- The sysfs crash_hotplug nodes (ie.
/sys/devices/system/[cpu|memory]/crash_hotplug) dynamically
take into account kexec_file_load() vs kexec_load() and
KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR.
This is critical so that the udev rule processing of crash_hotplug
is all that is needed to determine if the userspace unload-then-load
of the kdump image is to be skipped, or not. The proposed udev
rule change looks like:
# The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes
SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"

The table below indicates the behavior of kexec_load()'d kdump image
updates (with the new udev crash_hotplug rule in place):

Kernel |Kexec
-------+-----+----
Old |Old |New
| a | a
-------+-----+----
New | a | b
-------+-----+----

where kexec 'old' and 'new' delineate kexec-tools has the needed
modifications for the crash hotplug feature, and kernel 'old' and 'new'
delineate the kernel supports this crash hotplug feature.

Behavior 'a' indicates the unload-then-reload of the entire kdump image.
For the kexec 'old' column, the unload-then-reload occurs due to the
missing flag KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR. An 'old' kernel (with 'new' kexec)
does not present the crash_hotplug sysfs node, which leads to the
unload-then-reload of the kdump image.

Behavior 'b' indicates the desired optimized behavior of the kernel
directly modifying the elfcorehdr and avoiding the unload-then-reload of
the kdump image.

If the udev rule is not updated with crash_hotplug node check, then no
matter any combination of kernel or kexec is new or old, the kdump image
continues to be unload-then-reload on hotplug changes.

To fully support crash hotplug feature, there needs to be a rollout of
kernel, kexec-tools and udev rule changes. However, the order of the
rollout of these pieces does not matter; kexec_load()'d kdump images still
function for hotplug as-is.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Akhil Raj <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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kernel/ksysfs.c: use sysfs_emit for sysfs show handlers

sysfs_emit() is the recommended way to format strings for sysfs as per
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <

kernel/ksysfs.c: use sysfs_emit for sysfs show handlers

sysfs_emit() is the recommended way to format strings for sysfs as per
Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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kernels/ksysfs.c: export kernel address bits

This can be used by userspace to determine the address size of the
running kernel.
It frees userspace from having to interpret this information from the

kernels/ksysfs.c: export kernel address bits

This can be used by userspace to determine the address size of the
running kernel.
It frees userspace from having to interpret this information from the
UTS machine field.

Userspace implementation:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/1966

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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kernel/ksysfs.c: export kernel cpu byteorder

Certain files in procfs are formatted in byteorder-dependent formats.
For example the IP addresses in /proc/net/udp.

When using emulation like qemu-user

kernel/ksysfs.c: export kernel cpu byteorder

Certain files in procfs are formatted in byteorder-dependent formats.
For example the IP addresses in /proc/net/udp.

When using emulation like qemu-user, applications are not guaranteed to
be using the same byteorder as the kernel.
Therefore the kernel needs to provide a way for applications to discover
the byteorder used in API-filesystems.
Using systemcalls is not enough because these are intercepted and
translated by the emulation.

Also this makes it easier for non-compiled applications like
shellscripts to discover the byteorder.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocks

Patch series "kexec, panic: Making crash_kexec() NMI safe", v4.


This patch (of 2):

Most acquistions of kexec_mutex are done via mutex_tryloc

kexec: turn all kexec_mutex acquisitions into trylocks

Patch series "kexec, panic: Making crash_kexec() NMI safe", v4.


This patch (of 2):

Most acquistions of kexec_mutex are done via mutex_trylock() - those were
a direct "translation" from:

8c5a1cf0ad3a ("kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()")

there have however been two additions since then that use mutex_lock():
crash_get_memory_size() and crash_shrink_memory().

A later commit will replace said mutex with an atomic variable, and
locking operations will become atomic_cmpxchg(). Rather than having those
mutex_lock() become while (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock, 0, 1)), turn them into
trylocks that can return -EBUSY on acquisition failure.

This does halve the printable size of the crash kernel, but that's still
neighbouring 2G for 32bit kernels which should be ample enough.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <[email protected]>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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kernel/ksysfs.c: use helper macro __ATTR_RW

Use helper macro __ATTR_RW to define kobj_attribute to make code more
clear. Minor readability improvement.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202202221120

kernel/ksysfs.c: use helper macro __ATTR_RW

Use helper macro __ATTR_RW to define kobj_attribute to make code more
clear. Minor readability improvement.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <[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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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 170

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this file is release under the gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX licen

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 170

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this file is release under the gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss section

As Eric said,
"what we need to do is move the variable vmcoreinfo_note out of the
kernel's .bss section. And modify the code to regenerate

kexec: move vmcoreinfo out of the kernel's .bss section

As Eric said,
"what we need to do is move the variable vmcoreinfo_note out of the
kernel's .bss section. And modify the code to regenerate and keep this
information in something like the control page.

Definitely something like this needs a page all to itself, and ideally
far away from any other kernel data structures. I clearly was not
watching closely the data someone decided to keep this silly thing in
the kernel's .bss section."

This patch allocates extra pages for these vmcoreinfo_XXX variables, one
advantage is that it enhances some safety of vmcoreinfo, because
vmcoreinfo now is kept far away from other kernel data structures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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kernel/ksysfs.c: constify attribute_group structures.

attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with
const

kernel/ksysfs.c: constify attribute_group structures.

attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with
const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.

File size before:
text data bss dec hex filename
1120 544 16 1680 690 kernel/ksysfs.o

File size After adding 'const':
text data bss dec hex filename
1160 480 16 1656 678 kernel/ksysfs.o

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aa224b3cc923fdbb3edd0c41b2c639c85408c9e8.1498737347.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

Patch series "kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and
reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump", v4.

Trad

crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE

Patch series "kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and
reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump", v4.

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

This patchset removes dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC for crashkernel
parameter and vmcoreinfo related code as it can be reused without kexec
support. Also, crashkernel parameter is reused instead of
fadump_reserve_mem to reserve memory for fadump.

The first patch moves crashkernel parameter parsing and vmcoreinfo
related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE instead of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. The
second patch reuses the definitions of append_elf_note() & final_note()
functions under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE in IA64 arch code. The third patch
removes dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC for firmware-assisted dump (fadump)
in powerpc. The next patch reuses crashkernel parameter for reserving
memory for fadump, instead of the fadump_reserve_mem parameter. This
has the advantage of using all syntaxes crashkernel parameter supports,
for fadump as well. The last patch updates fadump kernel documentation
about use of crashkernel parameter.

This patch (of 5):

Traditionally, kdump is used to save vmcore in case of a crash. Some
architectures like powerpc can save vmcore using architecture specific
support instead of kexec/kdump mechanism. Such architecture specific
support also needs to reserve memory, to be used by dump capture kernel.
crashkernel parameter can be a reused, for memory reservation, by such
architecture specific infrastructure.

But currently, code related to vmcoreinfo and parsing of crashkernel
parameter is built under CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. This patch introduces
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE and moves the above mentioned code under this config,
allowing code reuse without dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC. There is no
functional change with this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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kernel/ksysfs.c: add __ro_after_init to bin_attribute structure

The object notes_attr of type bin_attribute is not modified after
getting initailized by ksysfs_init. Apart from initialization in
ks

kernel/ksysfs.c: add __ro_after_init to bin_attribute structure

The object notes_attr of type bin_attribute is not modified after
getting initailized by ksysfs_init. Apart from initialization in
ksysfs_init it is also passed as an argument to the function
sysfs_create_bin_file but this argument is of type const. Therefore,
add __ro_after_init to its declaration.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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kexec: add a kexec_crash_loaded() function

Provide a wrapper function to be used by kernel code to check whether a
crash kernel is loaded. It returns the same value that can be seen in
/sys/kernel/

kexec: add a kexec_crash_loaded() function

Provide a wrapper function to be used by kernel code to check whether a
crash kernel is loaded. It returns the same value that can be seen in
/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded by userspace programs.

I'm exporting the function, because it will be used by Xen, and it is
possible to compile Xen modules separately to enable the use of PV
drivers with unmodified bare-metal kernels.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: David Vrabel <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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kdump: arrange for paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() to return phys_addr_t

On PAE systems (eg, ARM LPAE) the vmcore note may be located above 4GB
physical on 32-bit architectures, so we need a wider type than

kdump: arrange for paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() to return phys_addr_t

On PAE systems (eg, ARM LPAE) the vmcore note may be located above 4GB
physical on 32-bit architectures, so we need a wider type than "unsigned
long" here. Arrange for paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() to return a
phys_addr_t, thereby allowing it to be located above 4GB.

This makes no difference for kexec-tools, as they already assume a
64-bit type when reading from this file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Keerthy <[email protected]>
Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters

The rcu_expedited, rcu_normal, and rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot
parameters are pointless in the case of TINY_RCU because in that case
s

rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters

The rcu_expedited, rcu_normal, and rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot
parameters are pointless in the case of TINY_RCU because in that case
synchronous grace periods, both expedited and normal, are no-ops.
However, these three symbols contribute several hundred bytes of bloat.
This commit therefore uses CPP directives to avoid compiling this code
in TINY_RCU kernels.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>

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rcu: Add rcu_normal kernel parameter to suppress expediting

Although expedited grace periods can be quite useful, and although their
OS jitter has been greatly reduced, they can still pose problems

rcu: Add rcu_normal kernel parameter to suppress expediting

Although expedited grace periods can be quite useful, and although their
OS jitter has been greatly reduced, they can still pose problems for
extreme real-time workloads. This commit therefore adds a rcu_normal
kernel boot parameter (which can also be manipulated via sysfs)
to suppress expedited grace periods, that is, to treat requests for
expedited grace periods as if they were requests for normal grace periods.
If both rcu_expedited and rcu_normal are specified, rcu_normal wins.
This means that if you are relying on expedited grace periods to speed up
boot, you will want to specify rcu_expedited on the kernel command line,
and then specify rcu_normal via sysfs once boot completes.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>

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kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code

There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this pat

kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code

There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.

And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.

The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.

Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.

Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.

[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.

Reported-by: Da

kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.

Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))

To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __w

kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))

To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __weak for
__attribute__((weak)). I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes
with the right macro in the kernel subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c

This commit fixes the follwoing warning:

kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?

rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c

This commit fixes the follwoing warning:

kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
[ paulmck: Moved the declaration to include/linux/rcupdate.h to avoid
including the RCU-internal rcu.h file outside of RCU. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>

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