Remove unused functions and parameters from ACPI IORT code.
(Zenghui Yu via Lorenzo Pieralisi)
* for-next/acpi:
ACPI/IORT: Remove the unused inline functions
ACPI/IORT: Drop the unused @ops of iort_add_device_replay()
Remove redundant code and fix documentation of caching behaviour for the
HVC_SOFT_RESTART hypercall.
(Pingfan Liu)
* for-next/boot:
Documentation/kvm/arm: improve description of HVC_SOFT_RESTART
arm64/relocate_kernel: remove redundant code
Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT failure.
(Will Deacon)
* for-next/bpf:
arm64: Improve diagnostics when trapping BRK with FAULT_BRK_IMM
Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their corresponding
numerical constants.
(Anshuman Khandual)
* for-next/cpuinfo:
arm64/cpuinfo: Define HWCAP name arrays per their actual bit definitions
Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in preparation
for potential future optimisation of handling across syscalls.
(Julien Grall)
* for-next/fpsimd:
arm64/sve: Implement a helper to load SVE registers from FPSIMD state
arm64/sve: Implement a helper to flush SVE registers
arm64/fpsimdmacros: Allow the macro "for" to be used in more cases
arm64/fpsimdmacros: Introduce a macro to update ZCR_EL1.LEN
arm64/signal: Update the comment in preserve_sve_context
arm64/fpsimd: Update documentation of do_sve_acc
Miscellaneous changes.
(Tian Tao and others)
* for-next/misc:
arm64/mm: return cpu_all_mask when node is NUMA_NO_NODE
arm64: mm: Fix missing-prototypes in pageattr.c
arm64/fpsimd: Fix missing-prototypes in fpsimd.c
arm64: hibernate: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
arm64/mm: Refactor {pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_ERROR()
arm64: Remove the unused include statements
arm64: get rid of TEXT_OFFSET
arm64: traps: Add str of description to panic() in die()
Memory management updates and cleanups.
(Anshuman Khandual and others)
* for-next/mm:
arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD
arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op
arm64/mm: Unify CONT_PMD_SHIFT
arm64/mm: Unify CONT_PTE_SHIFT
arm64/mm: Remove CONT_RANGE_OFFSET
arm64/mm: Enable THP migration
arm64/mm: Change THP helpers to comply with generic MM semantics
arm64/mm/ptdump: Add address markers for BPF regions
Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal
non-cacheable mappings.
(Clint Sbisa)
* for-next/pci:
arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs
Perf/PMU driver updates.
(Julien Thierry and others)
* for-next/perf:
perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type
perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero
arm_pmu: arm64: Use NMIs for PMU
arm_pmu: Introduce pmu_irq_ops
KVM: arm64: pmu: Make overflow handler NMI safe
arm64: perf: Defer irq_work to IPI_IRQ_WORK
arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking
arm64: perf: Avoid PMXEV* indirection
arm64: perf: Add missing ISB in armv8pmu_enable_counter()
perf: Add Arm CMN-600 PMU driver
perf: Add Arm CMN-600 DT binding
arm64: perf: Add support caps under sysfs
drivers/perf: thunderx2_pmu: Fix memory resource error handling
drivers/perf: xgene_pmu: Fix uninitialized resource struct
perf: arm_dsu: Support DSU ACPI devices
arm64: perf: Remove unnecessary event_idx check
drivers/perf: hisi: Add missing include of linux/module.h
arm64: perf: Add general hardware LLC events for PMUv3
Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements.
(By Amit Daniel Kachhap)
* for-next/ptrauth:
arm64: kprobe: clarify the comment of steppable hint instructions
arm64: kprobe: disable probe of fault prone ptrauth instruction
arm64: cpufeature: Modify address authentication cpufeature to exact
arm64: ptrauth: Introduce Armv8.3 pointer authentication enhancements
arm64: traps: Allow force_signal_inject to pass esr error code
arm64: kprobe: add checks for ARMv8.3-PAuth combined instructions
Tonnes of cleanup to the SDEI driver.
(Gavin Shan)
* for-next/sdei:
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove _sdei_event_unregister()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove _sdei_event_register()
firmware: arm_sdei: Introduce sdei_do_local_call()
firmware: arm_sdei: Cleanup on cross call function
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove while loop in sdei_event_unregister()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove while loop in sdei_event_register()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove redundant error message in sdei_probe()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove duplicate check in sdei_get_conduit()
firmware: arm_sdei: Unregister driver on error in sdei_init()
firmware: arm_sdei: Avoid nested statements in sdei_init()
firmware: arm_sdei: Retrieve event number from event instance
firmware: arm_sdei: Common block for failing path in sdei_event_create()
firmware: arm_sdei: Remove sdei_is_err()
Selftests for Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context-switching.
(Mark Brown and Boyan Karatotev)
* for-next/selftests:
selftests: arm64: Add build and documentation for FP tests
selftests: arm64: Add wrapper scripts for stress tests
selftests: arm64: Add utility to set SVE vector lengths
selftests: arm64: Add stress tests for FPSMID and SVE context switching
selftests: arm64: Add test for the SVE ptrace interface
selftests: arm64: Test case for enumeration of SVE vector lengths
kselftests/arm64: add PAuth tests for single threaded consistency and differently initialized keys
kselftests/arm64: add PAuth test for whether exec() changes keys
kselftests/arm64: add nop checks for PAuth tests
kselftests/arm64: add a basic Pointer Authentication test
Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding.
(Mark Brown)
* for-next/stacktrace:
arm64: Move console stack display code to stacktrace.c
arm64: stacktrace: Convert to ARCH_STACKWALK
arm64: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
stacktrace: Remove reliable argument from arch_stack_walk() callback
Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing page-tables with
the SMMU.
(Jean-Philippe Brucker)
* for-next/svm:
arm64: cpufeature: Export symbol read_sanitised_ftr_reg()
arm64: mm: Pin down ASIDs for sharing mm with devices
Rely on firmware tables for establishing CPU topology.
(Valentin Schneider)
* for-next/topology:
arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information
Spelling fixes.
(Xiaoming Ni and Yanfei Xu)
* for-next/tpyos:
arm64/numa: Fix a typo in comment of arm64_numa_init
arm64: fix some spelling mistakes in the comments by codespell
vDSO cleanups.
(Will Deacon)
* for-next/vdso:
arm64: vdso: Fix unusual formatting in *setup_additional_pages()
arm64: vdso32: Remove a bunch of #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO guards
Our use of broadcast TLB maintenance means that spurious page-faults
that have been handled already by another CPU do not require additional
TLB maintenance.
Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op and rely on the existing TLB
invalidation instead. Add an explicit flush_tlb_page() when making a page
dirty, as the TLB is permitted to cache the old read-only entry.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200728092220.GA21800@willie-the-truck
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To enable address space sharing with the IOMMU, introduce
arm64_mm_context_get() and arm64_mm_context_put(), that pin down a
context and ensure that it will keep its ASID after a rollover. Export
the symbols to let the modular SMMUv3 driver use them.
Pinning is necessary because a device constantly needs a valid ASID,
unlike tasks that only require one when running. Without pinning, we would
need to notify the IOMMU when we're about to use a new ASID for a task,
and it would get complicated when a new task is assigned a shared ASID.
Consider the following scenario with no ASID pinned:
1. Task t1 is running on CPUx with shared ASID (gen=1, asid=1)
2. Task t2 is scheduled on CPUx, gets ASID (1, 2)
3. Task tn is scheduled on CPUy, a rollover occurs, tn gets ASID (2, 1)
We would now have to immediately generate a new ASID for t1, notify
the IOMMU, and finally enable task tn. We are holding the lock during
all that time, since we can't afford having another CPU trigger a
rollover. The IOMMU issues invalidation commands that can take tens of
milliseconds.
It gets needlessly complicated. All we wanted to do was schedule task tn,
that has no business with the IOMMU. By letting the IOMMU pin tasks when
needed, we avoid stalling the slow path, and let the pinning fail when
we're out of shareable ASIDs.
After a rollover, the allocator expects at least one ASID to be available
in addition to the reserved ones (one per CPU). So (NR_ASIDS - NR_CPUS -
1) is the maximum number of ASIDs that can be shared with the IOMMU.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918101852.582559-5-jean-philippe@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
ARMv8.4-PMU introduces the PMMIR_EL1 registers and some new PMU events,
like STALL_SLOT etc, are related to it. Let's add a caps directory to
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/armv8_pmuv3_0/ and support slots from
PMMIR_EL1 registers in this entry. The user programs can get the slots
from sysfs directly.
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/armv8_pmuv3_0/caps/slots is exposed
under sysfs. Both ARMv8.4-PMU and STALL_SLOT event are implemented,
it returns the slots from PMMIR_EL1, otherwise it will return 0.
Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1600754025-53535-1-git-send-email-zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The @node passed to cpumask_of_node() can be NUMA_NO_NODE, in that
case it will trigger the following WARN_ON(node >= nr_node_ids) due to
mismatched data types of @node and @nr_node_ids. Actually we should
return cpu_all_mask just like most other architectures do if passed
NUMA_NO_NODE.
Also add a similar check to the inline cpumask_of_node() in numa.h.
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@tj.kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200921023936.21846-1-liuzhengyuan@tj.kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The current version of the macro "for" is not able to work when the
counter is used to generate registers using mnemonics. This is because
gas is not able to evaluate the expression generated if used in
register's name (i.e x\n).
Gas offers a way to evaluate macro arguments by using % in front of
them under the alternate macro mode.
The implementation of "for" is updated to use the alternate macro mode
and %, so we can use the macro in more cases. As the alternate macro
mode may have side-effects, this is disabled when expanding the body.
While it is enough to prefix the argument of the macro "__for_body"
with %, the arguments of "__for" are also prefixed to get a more
bearable value in case of compilation error.
Suggested-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200828181155.17745-4-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
When generating instructions at runtime, for example due to kernel text
patching or the BPF JIT, we can emit a trapping BRK instruction if we
are asked to encode an invalid instruction such as an out-of-range]
branch. This is indicative of a bug in the caller, and will result in a
crash on executing the generated code. Unfortunately, the message from
the crash is really unhelpful, and mumbles something about ptrace:
| Unexpected kernel BRK exception at EL1
| Internal error: ptrace BRK handler: f2000100 [#1] SMP
We can do better than this. Install a break handler for FAULT_BRK_IMM,
which is the immediate used to encode the "I've been asked to generate
an invalid instruction" error, and triage the faulting PC to determine
whether or not the failure occurred in the BPF JIT.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200915141707.GB26439@willie-the-truck
Reported-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
As with the generic arch_stack_walk() code the arm64 stack walk code takes
a callback that is called per stack frame. Currently the arm64 code always
passes a struct stackframe to the callback and the generic code just passes
the pc, however none of the users ever reference anything in the struct
other than the pc value. The arm64 code also uses a return type of int
while the generic code uses a return type of bool though in both cases the
return value is a boolean value and the sense is inverted between the two.
In order to reduce code duplication when arm64 is converted to use
arch_stack_walk() change the signature and return sense of the arm64
specific callback to match that of the generic code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914153409.25097-3-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
This change exposes write-combine mappings under sysfs for
prefetchable PCI resources on arm64.
Originally, the usage of "write combine" here was driven by the x86
definition of write combine. This definition is specific to x86 and
does not generalize to other architectures. However, the usage of WC
has mutated to "write combine" semantics, which is implemented
differently on each arch.
Generally, prefetchable BARs are accepted to allow speculative
accesses, write combining, and re-ordering-- from the PCI perspective,
this means there are no read side effects. (This contradicts the PCI
spec which allows prefetchable BARs to have read side effects, but
this definition is ill-advised as it is impossible to meet.) On x86,
prefetchable BARs are mapped as WC as originally defined (with some
conditionals on arch features). On arm64, WC is taken to mean normal
non-cacheable memory.
In practice, write combine semantics are used to minimize write
operations. A common usage of this is minimizing PCI TLPs which can
significantly improve performance with PCI devices. In order to
provide the same benefits to userspace, we need to allow userspace to
map prefetchable BARs with write combine semantics. The resourceX_wc
mapping is used today by userspace programs and libraries.
While this model is flawed as "write combine" is very ill-defined, it
is already used by multiple non-x86 archs to expose write combine
semantics to user space. We enable this on arm64 to give userspace on
arm64 an equivalent mechanism for utilizing write combining with PCI
devices.
Signed-off-by: Clint Sbisa <csbisa@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918033312.ddfpibgfylfjpex2@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The function __{pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_error() are introduced so that
they can be called by {pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_ERROR(). However, some
of the functions could never be called when the corresponding page
table level isn't enabled. For example, __{pud, pmd}_error() are
unused when PUD and PMD are folded to PGD.
This removes __{pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_error() and call pr_err() from
{pgd, pud, pmd, pte}_ERROR() directly, similar to what x86/powerpc
are doing. With this, the code looks a bit simplified either.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200913234730.23145-1-gshan@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Some Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements have been introduced
which are mandatory for Armv8.6 and optional for Armv8.3. These features
are,
* ARMv8.3-PAuth2 - An enhanced PAC generation logic is added which hardens
finding the correct PAC value of the authenticated pointer.
* ARMv8.3-FPAC - Fault is generated now when the ptrauth authentication
instruction fails in authenticating the PAC present in the address.
This is different from earlier case when such failures just adds an
error code in the top byte and waits for subsequent load/store to abort.
The ptrauth instructions which may cause this fault are autiasp, retaa
etc.
The above features are now represented by additional configurations
for the Address Authentication cpufeature and a new ESR exception class.
The userspace fault received in the kernel due to ARMv8.3-FPAC is treated
as Illegal instruction and hence signal SIGILL is injected with ILL_ILLOPN
as the signal code. Note that this is different from earlier ARMv8.3
ptrauth where signal SIGSEGV is issued due to Pointer authentication
failures. The in-kernel PAC fault causes kernel to crash.
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914083656.21428-4-amit.kachhap@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Currently the ARMv8.3-PAuth combined branch instructions (braa, retaa
etc.) are not simulated for out-of-line execution with a handler. Hence the
uprobe of such instructions leads to kernel warnings in a loop as they are
not explicitly checked and fall into INSN_GOOD categories. Other combined
instructions like LDRAA and LDRBB can be probed.
The issue of the combined branch instructions is fixed by adding
group definitions of all such instructions and rejecting their probes.
The instruction groups added are br_auth(braa, brab, braaz and brabz),
blr_auth(blraa, blrab, blraaz and blrabz), ret_auth(retaa and retab) and
eret_auth(eretaa and eretab).
Warning log:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 156 at arch/arm64/kernel/probes/uprobes.c:182 uprobe_single_step_handler+0x34/0x50
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 156 Comm: func Not tainted 5.9.0-rc3 #188
Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
pstate: 804003c9 (Nzcv DAIF +PAN -UAO BTYPE=--)
pc : uprobe_single_step_handler+0x34/0x50
lr : single_step_handler+0x70/0xf8
sp : ffff800012af3e30
x29: ffff800012af3e30 x28: ffff000878723b00
x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: 0000000060001000 x22: 00000000cb000022
x21: ffff800012065ce8 x20: ffff800012af3ec0
x19: ffff800012068d50 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
x9 : ffff800010085c90 x8 : 0000000000000000
x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff80001205a9c8
x5 : ffff80001205a000 x4 : ffff80001233db80
x3 : ffff8000100a7a60 x2 : 0020000000000003
x1 : 0000fffffffff008 x0 : ffff800012af3ec0
Call trace:
uprobe_single_step_handler+0x34/0x50
single_step_handler+0x70/0xf8
do_debug_exception+0xb8/0x130
el0_sync_handler+0x138/0x1b8
el0_sync+0x158/0x180
Fixes: 74afda4016 ("arm64: compile the kernel with ptrauth return address signing")
Fixes: 04ca3204fa ("arm64: enable pointer authentication")
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914083656.21428-2-amit.kachhap@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
CONT_PTE_SHIFT actually depends on CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_SHIFT. It's
reasonable to reflect the dependency:
* This renames CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_SHIFT to CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PTE_SHIFT,
so that we can introduce CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PMD_SHIFT later.
* CONT_{SHIFT, SIZE, MASK}, defined in page-def.h are removed as they
are not used by anyone.
* CONT_PTE_SHIFT is determined by CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PTE_SHIFT.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200910095936.20307-2-gshan@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The macro was introduced by commit <ecf35a237a85> ("arm64: PTE/PMD
contiguous bit definition") at the beginning. It's only used by
commit <348a65cdcbbf> ("arm64: Mark kernel page ranges contiguous"),
which was reverted later by commit <667c27597ca8>. This makes the
macro unused.
This removes the unused macro (CONT_RANGE_OFFSET).
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200910095936.20307-1-gshan@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
pmd_present() and pmd_trans_huge() are expected to behave in the following
manner during various phases of a given PMD. It is derived from a previous
detailed discussion on this topic [1] and present THP documentation [2].
pmd_present(pmd):
- Returns true if pmd refers to system RAM with a valid pmd_page(pmd)
- Returns false if pmd refers to a migration or swap entry
pmd_trans_huge(pmd):
- Returns true if pmd refers to system RAM and is a trans huge mapping
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
| PMD states | pmd_present | pmd_trans_huge |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Mapped | Yes | Yes |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Splitting | Yes | Yes |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Migration/Swap | No | No |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
The problem:
PMD is first invalidated with pmdp_invalidate() before it's splitting. This
invalidation clears PMD_SECT_VALID as below.
PMD Split -> pmdp_invalidate() -> pmd_mkinvalid -> Clears PMD_SECT_VALID
Once PMD_SECT_VALID gets cleared, it results in pmd_present() return false
on the PMD entry. It will need another bit apart from PMD_SECT_VALID to re-
affirm pmd_present() as true during the THP split process. To comply with
above mentioned semantics, pmd_trans_huge() should also check pmd_present()
first before testing presence of an actual transparent huge mapping.
The solution:
Ideally PMD_TYPE_SECT should have been used here instead. But it shares the
bit position with PMD_SECT_VALID which is used for THP invalidation. Hence
it will not be there for pmd_present() check after pmdp_invalidate().
A new software defined PMD_PRESENT_INVALID (bit 59) can be set on the PMD
entry during invalidation which can help pmd_present() return true and in
recognizing the fact that it still points to memory.
This bit is transient. During the split process it will be overridden by a
page table page representing normal pages in place of erstwhile huge page.
Other pmdp_invalidate() callers always write a fresh PMD value on the entry
overriding this transient PMD_PRESENT_INVALID bit, which makes it safe.
[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/17/231
[2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1599627183-14453-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
TEXT_OFFSET serves no purpose, and for this reason, it was redefined
as 0x0 in the v5.8 timeframe. Since this does not appear to have caused
any issues that require us to revisit that decision, let's get rid of the
macro entirely, along with any references to it.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200825135440.11288-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Pull locking fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes for lockdep, tracing and RCU:
- Prevent recursion by using raw_cpu_* operations
- Fixup the interrupt state in the cpu idle code to be consistent
- Push rcu_idle_enter/exit() invocations deeper into the idle path so
that the lock operations are inside the RCU watching sections
- Move trace_cpu_idle() into generic code so it's called before RCU
goes idle.
- Handle raw_local_irq* vs. local_irq* operations correctly
- Move the tracepoints out from under the lockdep recursion handling
which turned out to be fragile and inconsistent"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
lockdep,trace: Expose tracepoints
lockdep: Only trace IRQ edges
mips: Implement arch_irqs_disabled()
arm64: Implement arch_irqs_disabled()
nds32: Implement arch_irqs_disabled()
locking/lockdep: Cleanup
x86/entry: Remove unused THUNKs
cpuidle: Move trace_cpu_idle() into generic code
cpuidle: Make CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED generic
sched,idle,rcu: Push rcu_idle deeper into the idle path
cpuidle: Fixup IRQ state
lockdep: Use raw_cpu_*() for per-cpu variables
AT instructions do a translation table walk and return the result, or
the fault in PAR_EL1. KVM uses these to find the IPA when the value is
not provided by the CPU in HPFAR_EL1.
If a translation table walk causes an external abort it is taken as an
exception, even if it was due to an AT instruction. (DDI0487F.a's D5.2.11
"Synchronous faults generated by address translation instructions")
While we previously made KVM resilient to exceptions taken due to AT
instructions, the device access causes mismatched attributes, and may
occur speculatively. Prevent this, by forbidding a walk through memory
described as device at stage2. Now such AT instructions will report a
stage2 fault.
Such a fault will cause KVM to restart the guest. If the AT instructions
always walk the page tables, but guest execution uses the translation cached
in the TLB, the guest can't make forward progress until the TLB entry is
evicted. This isn't a problem, as since commit 5dcd0fdbb4 ("KVM: arm64:
Defer guest entry when an asynchronous exception is pending"), KVM will
return to the host to process IRQs allowing the rest of the system to keep
running.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # <v5.3: 5dcd0fdbb4 ("KVM: arm64: Defer guest entry when an asynchronous exception is pending")
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
KVM doesn't expect any synchronous exceptions when executing, any such
exception leads to a panic(). AT instructions access the guest page
tables, and can cause a synchronous external abort to be taken.
The arm-arm is unclear on what should happen if the guest has configured
the hardware update of the access-flag, and a memory type in TCR_EL1 that
does not support atomic operations. B2.2.6 "Possible implementation
restrictions on using atomic instructions" from DDI0487F.a lists
synchronous external abort as a possible behaviour of atomic instructions
that target memory that isn't writeback cacheable, but the page table
walker may behave differently.
Make KVM robust to synchronous exceptions caused by AT instructions.
Add a get_user() style helper for AT instructions that returns -EFAULT
if an exception was generated.
While KVM's version of the exception table mixes synchronous and
asynchronous exceptions, only one of these can occur at each location.
Re-enter the guest when the AT instructions take an exception on the
assumption the guest will take the same exception. This isn't guaranteed
to make forward progress, as the AT instructions may always walk the page
tables, but guest execution may use the translation cached in the TLB.
This isn't a problem, as since commit 5dcd0fdbb4 ("KVM: arm64: Defer guest
entry when an asynchronous exception is pending"), KVM will return to the
host to process IRQs allowing the rest of the system to keep running.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # <v5.3: 5dcd0fdbb4 ("KVM: arm64: Defer guest entry when an asynchronous exception is pending")
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
KVM has a one instruction window where it will allow an SError exception
to be consumed by the hypervisor without treating it as a hypervisor bug.
This is used to consume asynchronous external abort that were caused by
the guest.
As we are about to add another location that survives unexpected exceptions,
generalise this code to make it behave like the host's extable.
KVM's version has to be mapped to EL2 to be accessible on nVHE systems.
The SError vaxorcism code is a one instruction window, so has two entries
in the extable. Because the KVM code is copied for VHE and nVHE, we end up
with four entries, half of which correspond with code that isn't mapped.
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
- PAE and PKU bugfixes for x86
- selftests fix for new binutils
- MMU notifier fix for arm64
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: arm64: Only reschedule if MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE is not set
KVM: Pass MMU notifier range flags to kvm_unmap_hva_range()
kvm: x86: Toggling CR4.PKE does not load PDPTEs in PAE mode
kvm: x86: Toggling CR4.SMAP does not load PDPTEs in PAE mode
KVM: x86: fix access code passed to gva_to_gpa
selftests: kvm: Use a shorter encoding to clear RAX
The 'flags' field of 'struct mmu_notifier_range' is used to indicate
whether invalidate_range_{start,end}() are permitted to block. In the
case of kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(), this field is not
forwarded on to the architecture-specific implementation of
kvm_unmap_hva_range() and therefore the backend cannot sensibly decide
whether or not to block.
Add an extra 'flags' parameter to kvm_unmap_hva_range() so that
architectures are aware as to whether or not they are permitted to block.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20200811102725.7121-2-will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of timekeeping/VDSO updates:
- Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
implementation.
S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the
counter read function when time namespace support is enabled.
Adding the pointer is a NOOP for all other architectures because
the compiler is supposed to optimize that out when it is unused in
the architecture specific inline. The change also solved a similar
problem for MIPS which fortunately has time namespaces not yet
enabled.
S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another
sequence counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is
to utilize the already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The
core code now exposes helper functions which allow to serialize
against the timekeeper code and against concurrent readers.
S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It
now has an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which
defaults to an empty struct.
Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support
to work from a common upstream base.
- A trivial comment fix"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Delete repeated words in comments
lib/vdso: Allow to add architecture-specific vdso data
timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()
vdso/treewide: Add vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter()
Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"PPC:
- Improvements and bugfixes for secure VM support, giving reduced
startup time and memory hotplug support.
- Locking fixes in nested KVM code
- Increase number of guests supported by HV KVM to 4094
- Preliminary POWER10 support
ARM:
- Split the VHE and nVHE hypervisor code bases, build the EL2 code
separately, allowing for the VHE code to now be built with
instrumentation
- Level-based TLB invalidation support
- Restructure of the vcpu register storage to accomodate the NV code
- Pointer Authentication available for guests on nVHE hosts
- Simplification of the system register table parsing
- MMU cleanups and fixes
- A number of post-32bit cleanups and other fixes
MIPS:
- compilation fixes
x86:
- bugfixes
- support for the SERIALIZE instruction"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (70 commits)
KVM: MIPS/VZ: Fix build error caused by 'kvm_run' cleanup
x86/kvm/hyper-v: Synic default SCONTROL MSR needs to be enabled
MIPS: KVM: Convert a fallthrough comment to fallthrough
MIPS: VZ: Only include loongson_regs.h for CPU_LOONGSON64
x86: Expose SERIALIZE for supported cpuid
KVM: x86: Don't attempt to load PDPTRs when 64-bit mode is enabled
KVM: arm64: Move S1PTW S2 fault logic out of io_mem_abort()
KVM: arm64: Don't skip cache maintenance for read-only memslots
KVM: arm64: Handle data and instruction external aborts the same way
KVM: arm64: Rename kvm_vcpu_dabt_isextabt()
KVM: arm: Add trace name for ARM_NISV
KVM: arm64: Ensure that all nVHE hyp code is in .hyp.text
KVM: arm64: Substitute RANDOMIZE_BASE for HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS
KVM: arm64: Make nVHE ASLR conditional on RANDOMIZE_BASE
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Rework secure mem slot dropping
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move kvmppc_svm_page_out up
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate hot plugged memory
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: In H_SVM_INIT_DONE, migrate remaining normal-GFNs to secure-GFNs
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Track the state GFNs associated with secure VMs
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable page merging in H_SVM_INIT_START
...
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM (memcg, hugetlb, vmscan, proc, compaction,
mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, cma, util,
memory-hotplug, cleanups, uaccess, migration, gup, pagemap),
- various other subsystems (alpha, misc, sparse, bitmap, lib, bitops,
checkpatch, autofs, minix, nilfs, ufs, fat, signals, kmod, coredump,
exec, kdump, rapidio, panic, kcov, kgdb, ipc).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (164 commits)
mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code
mm: clean up the last pieces of page fault accountings
mm/xtensa: use general page fault accounting
mm/x86: use general page fault accounting
mm/sparc64: use general page fault accounting
mm/sparc32: use general page fault accounting
mm/sh: use general page fault accounting
mm/s390: use general page fault accounting
mm/riscv: use general page fault accounting
mm/powerpc: use general page fault accounting
mm/parisc: use general page fault accounting
mm/openrisc: use general page fault accounting
mm/nios2: use general page fault accounting
mm/nds32: use general page fault accounting
mm/mips: use general page fault accounting
mm/microblaze: use general page fault accounting
mm/m68k: use general page fault accounting
mm/ia64: use general page fault accounting
mm/hexagon: use general page fault accounting
mm/csky: use general page fault accounting
...
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
- Remove of the dev->archdata.iommu (or similar) pointers from most
architectures. Only Sparc is left, but this is private to Sparc as
their drivers don't use the IOMMU-API.
- ARM-SMMU updates from Will Deacon:
- Support for SMMU-500 implementation in Marvell Armada-AP806 SoC
- Support for SMMU-500 implementation in NVIDIA Tegra194 SoC
- DT compatible string updates
- Remove unused IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY flag
- Move ARM-SMMU drivers into their own subdirectory
- Intel VT-d updates from Lu Baolu:
- Misc tweaks and fixes for vSVA
- Report/response page request events
- Cleanups
- Move the Kconfig and Makefile bits for the AMD and Intel drivers into
their respective subdirectory.
- MT6779 IOMMU Support
- Support for new chipsets in the Renesas IOMMU driver
- Other misc cleanups and fixes (e.g. to improve compile test coverage)
* tag 'iommu-updates-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (77 commits)
iommu/amd: Move Kconfig and Makefile bits down into amd directory
iommu/vt-d: Move Kconfig and Makefile bits down into intel directory
iommu/arm-smmu: Move Arm SMMU drivers into their own subdirectory
iommu/vt-d: Skip TE disabling on quirky gfx dedicated iommu
iommu: Add gfp parameter to io_pgtable_ops->map()
iommu: Mark __iommu_map_sg() as static
iommu/vt-d: Rename intel-pasid.h to pasid.h
iommu/vt-d: Add page response ops support
iommu/vt-d: Report page request faults for guest SVA
iommu/vt-d: Add a helper to get svm and sdev for pasid
iommu/vt-d: Refactor device_to_iommu() helper
iommu/vt-d: Disable multiple GPASID-dev bind
iommu/vt-d: Warn on out-of-range invalidation address
iommu/vt-d: Fix devTLB flush for vSVA
iommu/vt-d: Handle non-page aligned address
iommu/vt-d: Fix PASID devTLB invalidation
iommu/vt-d: Remove global page support in devTLB flush
iommu/vt-d: Enforce PASID devTLB field mask
iommu: Make some functions static
iommu/amd: Remove double zero check
...
KVM/arm64 updates for Linux 5.9:
- Split the VHE and nVHE hypervisor code bases, build the EL2 code
separately, allowing for the VHE code to now be built with instrumentation
- Level-based TLB invalidation support
- Restructure of the vcpu register storage to accomodate the NV code
- Pointer Authentication available for guests on nVHE hosts
- Simplification of the system register table parsing
- MMU cleanups and fixes
- A number of post-32bit cleanups and other fixes
Pull arm64 fixes from Catalin Marinas:
- Fix tegra194-cpufreq module build failure caused by __cpu_logical_map
not being exported.
- Improve fixed_addresses comment regarding the fixmap buffer sizes.
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
arm64: Fix __cpu_logical_map undefined issue
arm64/fixmap: make notes of fixed_addresses more precisely
The __cpu_logical_map undefined issue occued when the new
tegra194-cpufreq drvier building as a module.
ERROR: modpost: "__cpu_logical_map" [drivers/cpufreq/tegra194-cpufreq.ko] undefined!
The driver using cpu_logical_map() macro which will expand to
__cpu_logical_map, we can't access it in a drvier. Let's turn
cpu_logical_map() into a C wrapper and export it to fix the
build issue.
Also create a function set_cpu_logical_map(cpu, hwid) when assign
a value to cpu_logical_map(cpu).
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"s390:
- implement diag318
x86:
- Report last CPU for debugging
- Emulate smaller MAXPHYADDR in the guest than in the host
- .noinstr and tracing fixes from Thomas
- nested SVM page table switching optimization and fixes
Generic:
- Unify shadow MMU cache data structures across architectures"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
KVM: SVM: Fix sev_pin_memory() error handling
KVM: LAPIC: Set the TDCR settable bits
KVM: x86: Specify max TDP level via kvm_configure_mmu()
KVM: x86/mmu: Rename max_page_level to max_huge_page_level
KVM: x86: Dynamically calculate TDP level from max level and MAXPHYADDR
KVM: VXM: Remove temporary WARN on expected vs. actual EPTP level mismatch
KVM: x86: Pull the PGD's level from the MMU instead of recalculating it
KVM: VMX: Make vmx_load_mmu_pgd() static
KVM: x86/mmu: Add separate helper for shadow NPT root page role calc
KVM: VMX: Drop a duplicate declaration of construct_eptp()
KVM: nSVM: Correctly set the shadow NPT root level in its MMU role
KVM: Using macros instead of magic values
MIPS: KVM: Fix build error caused by 'kvm_run' cleanup
KVM: nSVM: remove nonsensical EXITINFO1 adjustment on nested NPF
KVM: x86: Add a capability for GUEST_MAXPHYADDR < HOST_MAXPHYADDR support
KVM: VMX: optimize #PF injection when MAXPHYADDR does not match
KVM: VMX: Add guest physical address check in EPT violation and misconfig
KVM: VMX: introduce vmx_need_pf_intercept
KVM: x86: update exception bitmap on CPUID changes
KVM: x86: rename update_bp_intercept to update_exception_bitmap
...
MIPS already uses and S390 will need the vdso data pointer in
__arch_get_hw_counter().
This works nicely as long as the architecture does not support time
namespaces in the VDSO. With time namespaces enabled the regular
accessor to the vdso data pointer __arch_get_vdso_data() will return the
namespace specific VDSO data page for tasks which are part of a
non-root time namespace. This would cause the architectures which need
the vdso data pointer in __arch_get_hw_counter() to access the wrong
vdso data page.
Add a vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter() and hand it in
from the call sites in the core code. For architectures which do not need
the data pointer in their counter accessor function the compiler will just
optimize it out.
Fix up all existing architecture implementations and make MIPS utilize the
pointer instead of invoking the accessor function.
No functional change and no change in the resulting object code (except
MIPS).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/draft-87wo2ekuzn.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.
2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.
3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
Kulkarni.
4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
from Po Liu.
5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.
6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
Vazquez.
7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
Yonghong Song.
8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.
9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.
10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.
11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.
12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
Gupta.
13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
Yakunin.
14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.
15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
Tenart.
16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.
17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.
18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.
19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.
20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.
21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.
22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.
23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.
24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.
25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.
26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.
27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.
28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.
29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.
30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.
31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.
33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.
34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.
35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
Brivio.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address
ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
...
This is hopefully the final piece of the crazy puzzle with random.h
dependencies.
And by "hopefully" I obviously mean "Linus is a hopeless optimist".
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull close_range() implementation from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a
range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling
task.
This is coordinated with the FreeBSD folks which have copied our
version of this syscall and in the meantime have already merged it in
April 2019:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836
The syscall originally came up in a discussion around the new mount
API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During
this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall.
First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task.
This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim):
/* that exec is sensitive */
unshare(CLONE_FILES);
/* we don't want anything past stderr here */
close_range(3, ~0U);
execve(....);
The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that
file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the
fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing
userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of
closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service
managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers
etc.).
Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file
descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on
each file descriptor and other hacks. From looking at various
large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very
common in service managers, container runtimes, and programming
language runtimes/standard libraries such as Python or Rust.
In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have
procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled
in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file
descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up
to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery.
Based on Linus' suggestion close_range() also comes with a new flag
CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE to more elegantly handle file descriptor dropping
right before exec. This would usually be expressed in the sequence:
unshare(CLONE_FILES);
close_range(3, ~0U);
as pointed out by Linus it might be desirable to have this be a part
of close_range() itself under a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE which
gets especially handy when we're closing all file descriptors above a
certain threshold.
Test-suite as always included"
* tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
tests: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE tests
close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE
tests: add close_range() tests
arch: wire-up close_range()
open: add close_range()
