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Matthew Wilcox
55f3f7eab7 XArray: Add xa_cmpxchg_irq and xa_cmpxchg_bh
These convenience wrappers match the other _irq and _bh wrappers we
already have.  It turns out I'd already open-coded xa_cmpxchg_irq()
in the shmem code, so convert that.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-12-06 08:26:17 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
804dfaf01b XArray: Fix Documentation
Minor fixes.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-11-05 16:38:10 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
d9c480435a XArray: Handle NULL pointers differently for allocation
For allocating XArrays, it makes sense to distinguish beteen erasing an
entry and storing NULL.  Storing NULL keeps the index allocated with a
NULL pointer associated with it while xa_erase() frees the index.  Some
existing IDR users rely on this ability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-11-05 16:38:09 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
84e5acb76d XArray: Add xa_store_bh() and xa_store_irq()
These convenience wrappers disable interrupts while taking the spinlock.
A number of drivers would otherwise have to open-code these functions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-11-05 16:38:09 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
4c0608f4a0 XArray: Regularise xa_reserve
The xa_reserve() function was a little unusual in that it attempted to
be callable for all kinds of locking scenarios.  Make it look like the
other APIs with __xa_reserve, xa_reserve_bh and xa_reserve_irq variants.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-11-05 16:38:08 -05:00
Mike Rapoport
530d4c0cfd docs/boot-time-mm: remove bootmem documentation
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-31-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
dad4f140ed Merge branch 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax
Pull XArray conversion from Matthew Wilcox:
 "The XArray provides an improved interface to the radix tree data
  structure, providing locking as part of the API, specifying GFP flags
  at allocation time, eliminating preloading, less re-walking the tree,
  more efficient iterations and not exposing RCU-protected pointers to
  its users.

  This patch set

   1. Introduces the XArray implementation

   2. Converts the pagecache to use it

   3. Converts memremap to use it

  The page cache is the most complex and important user of the radix
  tree, so converting it was most important. Converting the memremap
  code removes the only other user of the multiorder code, which allows
  us to remove the radix tree code that supported it.

  I have 40+ followup patches to convert many other users of the radix
  tree over to the XArray, but I'd like to get this part in first. The
  other conversions haven't been in linux-next and aren't suitable for
  applying yet, but you can see them in the xarray-conv branch if you're
  interested"

* 'xarray' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (90 commits)
  radix tree: Remove multiorder support
  radix tree test: Convert multiorder tests to XArray
  radix tree tests: Convert item_delete_rcu to XArray
  radix tree tests: Convert item_kill_tree to XArray
  radix tree tests: Move item_insert_order
  radix tree test suite: Remove multiorder benchmarking
  radix tree test suite: Remove __item_insert
  memremap: Convert to XArray
  xarray: Add range store functionality
  xarray: Move multiorder_check to in-kernel tests
  xarray: Move multiorder_shrink to kernel tests
  xarray: Move multiorder account test in-kernel
  radix tree test suite: Convert iteration test to XArray
  radix tree test suite: Convert tag_tagged_items to XArray
  radix tree: Remove radix_tree_clear_tags
  radix tree: Remove radix_tree_maybe_preload_order
  radix tree: Remove split/join code
  radix tree: Remove radix_tree_update_node_t
  page cache: Finish XArray conversion
  dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray
  ...
2018-10-28 11:35:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a67eefad99 Printk changes for 4.20
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Merge tag 'printk-for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Fix two more locations where printf formatting leaked pointers

 - Better log_buf_len parameter handling

 - Add prefix to messages from printk code

 - Do not miss messages on other consoles when the log is replayed on a
   new one

 - Reduce race between console registration and panic() when the log
   might get replayed on all consoles

 - Some cont buffer code clean up

 - Call console only when there is something to do (log vs cont buffer)

* tag 'printk-for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  lib/vsprintf: Hash printed address for netdev bits fallback
  lib/vsprintf: Hash legacy clock addresses
  lib/vsprintf: Prepare for more general use of ptr_to_id()
  lib/vsprintf: Make ptr argument conts in ptr_to_id()
  printk: fix integer overflow in setup_log_buf()
  printk: do not preliminary split up cont buffer
  printk: lock/unlock console only for new logbuf entries
  printk: keep kernel cont support always enabled
  printk: Give error on attempt to set log buffer length to over 2G
  printk: Add KBUILD_MODNAME and remove a redundant print prefix
  printk: Correct wrong casting
  printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line
  printk: CON_PRINTBUFFER console registration is a bit racy
  printk: Do not miss new messages when replaying the log
2018-10-25 17:11:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
01aa9d518e This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates
 including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and
 unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more
 MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and
 corrections.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...
2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
Matthew Wilcox
0e9446c35a xarray: Add range store functionality
This version of xa_store_range() really only supports load and store.
Our only user only needs basic load and store functionality, so there's
no need to do the extra work to support marking and overlapping stores
correctly yet.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-10-21 10:46:46 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox
371c752dc6 xarray: Track free entries in an XArray
Add the optional ability to track which entries in an XArray are free
and provide xa_alloc() to replace most of the functionality of the IDR.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-10-21 10:46:32 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox
9f14d4f1f1 xarray: Add xa_reserve and xa_release
This function reserves a slot in the XArray for users which need
to acquire multiple locks before storing their entry in the tree and
so cannot use a plain xa_store().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-10-21 10:46:00 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox
992a8e60e3 xarray: Add documentation
This is documentation on how to use the XArray, not details about its
internal implementation.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2018-10-21 10:45:57 -04:00
Matthew Wilcox
a309d5db58 idr: Change documentation license
This documentation was inadvertently released under the CC-BY-SA-4.0
license.  It was intended to be released under GPL-2.0 or later.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
2018-10-15 16:31:29 -04:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
94ac8f2074 doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
When converting from text to rst, the kobjects section and its sole
subsection about device tree nodes were coalesced into a single section,
yielding an inconsistent result.

Remove all references to kobjects, as
  1. Device tree object pointers are not compatible to kobject pointers
     (the former may embed the latter, though), and
  2. there are no printk formats defined for kobject types.

Update the vsprintf() source code comments to match the above.

Fixes: b3ed23213e ("doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-12 11:38:18 -06:00
David Hildenbrand
3a7452c5a7 docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
Let's document the magic a bit, especially why device_hotplug_lock is
required when adding/removing memory and how it all play together with
requests to online/offline memory from user space.

[ rppt: moved the text to Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst ]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925091457.28651-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-12 11:14:19 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
52d7e21fd5 docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
to allow additions of new documentation about memory hotplug under the same
roof.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-12 11:13:57 -06:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
ec12bc2909 lib/vsprintf: Hash legacy clock addresses
On platforms using the Common Clock Framework, "%pC" prints the clock's
name. On legacy platforms, it prints the unhashed clock's address,
potentially leaking sensitive information regarding the kernel layout in
memory.

Avoid this leak by printing the hashed address instead.  To distinguish
between clocks, a 32-bit unique identifier is as good as an actual
pointer value.

Fixes: ad67b74d24 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181011084249.4520-3-geert+renesas@glider.be
To: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2018-10-12 11:24:41 +02:00
Mike Rapoport
98cee6742c docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
The memory hotplug notifier description is about kernel internals rather
than admin/user visible API. Place it appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-07 09:16:25 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
52272c923a docs: core-api: add memory allocation guide
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-20 11:02:53 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
09700f8a50 docs: core-api/mm-api: add a lable for GFP flags section
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-20 11:02:44 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
8ff7e07288 docs: core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io: add a label for cross-referencing
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-20 11:02:32 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
ad98b60237 docs/boot-time-mm: fix kernel-doc directive for including all but DOC:
There were several rounds of the patches that enabled "functions" directive
with no parameters in kerneldoc.py to allow including all the kernel-doc
comments except the DOC: sections.

Yet, the boot-time-mm.rst sneaked in with the older version of that
directive and was not updated. Update it now.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-11 11:57:08 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
038a07a542 docs/core-api: mm-api: add section about GFP flags
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-8-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
Mike Rapoport
41f35b395c docs/core-api: split memory management API to a separate file
This is basically copy-paste of the memory management section from
kernel-api.rst with some minor adjustments:

* The "User Space Memory Access" is moved to the beginning
* The get_user_pages_fast reference is now a part of "User Space Memory
  Access"
* And, of course, headings are adjusted with section being promoted to
  chapters

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-6-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
Mike Rapoport
1595617655 docs/core-api: move *{str,mem}dup* to "String Manipulation"
The string and memory duplication routines fit better to the "String
Manipulation" section than to "The SLAB Cache".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-5-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
Mike Rapoport
7463f650be docs/core-api: kill trailing whitespace in kernel-api.rst
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e6ecec342f This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of
small fixes and updates.  We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd,
 some kernel-doc fixes, a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la
 pena, ma non fa male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early
 memory-management documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection
  of small fixes and updates.

  We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes,
  a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa
  male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management
  documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport"

* tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
  Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt
  Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h
  Remove gendered language from management style documentation
  scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes
  docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
  docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
  docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
  docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
  docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
  mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
  docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
  docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
  docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
  docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
  mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
  Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.
  doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking
  docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst
  doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
  mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t
  ...
2018-08-14 14:29:31 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
0bf1bd84f3 Merge branch 'rppt' into docs-next
This contains a set of early-boot memory-management docs from Mike
Rapoport.  It's been circulating on linux-mm for a long time; I finally
picked it up even though it changes a lot of .c files under mm/ (comments
only).
2018-08-02 12:40:57 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
ae9d884544 docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
Both bootmem and memblock are have pretty good internal documentation
coverage. With addition of some overview we get a nice description of the
early memory management.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-02 12:40:27 -06:00
Arnd Bergmann
0e3fd810c4 Documentation: document ktime_get_*() APIs
As Dave Chinner points out, we don't have a proper documentation for the
ktime_get() family of interfaces, making it rather unclear which of the
over 30 (!) interfaces one should actually use in a driver or elsewhere
in the kernel.

I wrote up an explanation from how I personally see the interfaces,
documenting what each of the functions do and hopefully making it a bit
clearer which should be used where.

This is the first time I tried writing .rst format documentation, so
in addition to any mistakes in the content, I probably also introduce
nonstandard formatting ;-)

I first tried to add an extra section to
Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt, but this is currently not included
in the generated API, and it seems useful to have the API docs as part
of what gets generated in
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/index.html#core-utilities
instead, so I started a new file there.

I also considered adding the documentation inline in the
include/linux/timekeeping.h header, but couldn't figure out how to do
that in a way that would result both in helpful inline comments as
well as readable html output, so I settled for the latter, with
a small note pointing to it from the header.

Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-23 09:16:56 -06:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
c4081a46f3 locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation
The atomic_set() and ATOMIC_INIT() operations are writes, so this
commit changes their description from "reads" to "writes".

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-8-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-17 09:30:31 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet
5f6654094f Linux 4.18-rc3
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Merge tag 'v4.18-rc3' into docs-next

-rc1 broke the docs build due to changes in the e100/e1000 drivers; -rc3
got the fixes via the networking tree.  Pull in -rc3 so that the docs tree
can actually build the docs again.
2018-07-02 11:14:50 -06:00
Mike Rapoport
5105730fbf docs/idr: use empty "functions" directive
to avoid duplication of DOC: sections in the middle of the API reference.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-30 07:52:50 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
3ed1d012ac Fix Documentation build due to rename of main.c to mtrr.c
This fixes this documentation build error that is due to a file rename:

  Error: Cannot open file ../arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c

Fixes: 0afe832e55 ("Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-18 13:41:45 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
d75ae5bdf2 Printk changes for 4.18
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Merge tag 'printk-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Help userspace log daemons to catch up with a flood of messages. They
   will get woken after each message even if the console is far behind
   and handled by another process.

 - Flush printk safe buffers safely even when panic() happens in the
   normal context.

 - Fix possible va_list reuse when race happened in printk_safe().

 - Remove %pCr printf format to prevent sleeping in the atomic context.

 - Misc vsprintf code cleanup.

* tag 'printk-for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: drop in_nmi check from printk_safe_flush_on_panic()
  lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCr
  serial: sh-sci: Stop using printk format %pCr
  thermal: bcm2835: Stop using printk format %pCr
  clk: renesas: cpg-mssr: Stop using printk format %pCr
  printk: fix possible reuse of va_list variable
  printk: wake up klogd in vprintk_emit
  vsprintf: Tweak pF/pf comment
  lib/vsprintf: Mark expected switch fall-through
  lib/vsprintf: Replace space with '_' before crng is ready
  lib/vsprintf: Deduplicate pointer_string()
  lib/vsprintf: Move pointer_string() upper
  lib/vsprintf: Make flag_spec global
  lib/vsprintf: Make strspec global
  lib/vsprintf: Make dec_spec global
  lib/test_printf: Mark big constant with UL
2018-06-06 16:04:55 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
666902e42f lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCr
"%pCr" formats the current rate of a clock, and calls clk_get_rate().
The latter obtains a mutex, hence it must not be called from atomic
context.

Remove support for this rarely-used format, as vsprintf() (and e.g.
printk()) must be callable from any context.

Any remaining out-of-tree users will start seeing the clock's name
printed instead of its rate.

Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Fixes: 900cca2944 ("lib/vsprintf: add %pC{,n,r} format specifiers for clocks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1527845302-12159-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be
To: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
To: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2018-06-05 09:43:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
92400b8c8b Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Lots of tidying up changes all across the map for Linux's formal
   memory/locking-model tooling, by Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, Andrea
   Parri, Paul E. McKenney and SeongJae Park.

   Notable changes beyond an overall update in the tooling itself is the
   tidying up of spin_is_locked() semantics, which spills over into the
   kernel proper as well.

 - qspinlock improvements: the locking algorithm now guarantees forward
   progress whereas the previous implementation in mainline could starve
   threads indefinitely in cmpxchg() loops. Also other related cleanups
   to the qspinlock code (Will Deacon)

 - misc smaller improvements, cleanups and fixes all across the locking
   subsystem

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
  locking/rwsem: Simplify the is-owner-spinnable checks
  tools/memory-model: Add reference for 'Simplifying ARM concurrency'
  tools/memory-model: Update ASPLOS information
  MAINTAINERS, tools/memory-model: Update e-mail address for Andrea Parri
  tools/memory-model: Fix coding style in 'lock.cat'
  tools/memory-model: Remove out-of-date comments and code from lock.cat
  tools/memory-model: Improve mixed-access checking in lock.cat
  tools/memory-model: Improve comments in lock.cat
  tools/memory-model: Remove duplicated code from lock.cat
  tools/memory-model: Flag "cumulativity" and "propagation" tests
  tools/memory-model: Add model support for spin_is_locked()
  tools/memory-model: Add scripts to test memory model
  tools/memory-model: Fix coding style in 'linux-kernel.def'
  tools/memory-model: Model 'smp_store_mb()'
  tools/memory-order: Update the cheat-sheet to show that smp_mb__after_atomic() orders later RMW operations
  tools/memory-order: Improve key for SELF and SV
  tools/memory-model: Fix cheat sheet typo
  tools/memory-model: Update required version of herdtools7
  tools/memory-model: Redefine rb in terms of rcu-fence
  tools/memory-model: Rename link and rcu-path to rcu-link and rb
  ...
2018-06-04 16:40:11 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
d43f2c98f6 docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
Now that we have kerneldoc comments for
memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save_restore}(), go ahead and pull them into the docs.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-29 06:45:55 -06:00
Michal Hocko
46ca359955 doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
Although the api is documented in the source code Ted has pointed out
that there is no mention in the core-api Documentation and there are
people looking there to find answers how to use a specific API.

Requested-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-29 06:45:42 -06:00
SeongJae Park
173af2613e locking/Documentation: Use warning RST directive
Use the proper RST directive, pointed out by a build warning.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526338533-6044-8-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-15 08:11:15 +02:00
SeongJae Park
fc7bdc9024 locking/Documentation: Fix incorrect example code
- Remove a stale line of code
 - Fix the condition of the READ_ONCE() example

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526338533-6044-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-15 08:11:14 +02:00
Andrea Parri
a9251553c2 Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
The LKMM project has moved to 'tools/memory-model/'.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08 14:52:39 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d8a121e3d5 docs: core-api: add circular-buffers documentation
The circular-buffers.txt is already in ReST format. So, move it to the
core-api guide, where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08 10:07:06 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
de0f51e4b1 docs: core-api: add cachetlb documentation
The cachetlb.txt is already in ReST format. So, move it to the
core-api guide, where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08 10:02:34 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
eacc670fa4 documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api chapters and sections
Rearrange some kernel-api chapters and sections to group them
together better.

- move Bit Operations from Basic C Library Functions to Basic
  Kernel Library Functions (now adjacent to Bitmap Operations since
  they are not typical C library functions)

- move Sorting from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library Functions
  since sort functions are more Basic than Math Functions

- move Text Searching from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library
  Functions (keep Sorting and Searching close to each other)

- combine CRC and Math functions together into the (newly named)
  CRC and Math Functions chapter

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27 17:15:47 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
5968a70d7a textsearch: fix kernel-doc warnings and add kernel-api section
Make lib/textsearch.c usable as kernel-doc.
Add textsearch() function family to kernel-api documentation.
Fix kernel-doc warnings in <linux/textsearch.h>:
  ../include/linux/textsearch.h:65: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
	* get_next_block - fetch next block of data
  ../include/linux/textsearch.h:82: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:
	* finish - finalize/clean a series of get_next_block() calls

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-16 18:53:13 -04:00
Joel Stanley
156383b190 Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval
When debugging recent kernels, people will see '(ptrval)' but there
isn't much information as to what that means. Briefly describe why it's
there.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-23 12:42:18 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox
ac665d9423 idr: Add documentation
Move the idr kernel-doc to its own idr.rst file and add a few
paragraphs about how to use it.  Also add some more kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
2018-02-06 16:41:29 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
ab486bc9a5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "<log
     level>[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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