Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - almost all of the rest of -mm

 - various other subsystems

Subsystems affected by this patch series:
  memcg, misc, core-kernel, lib, checkpatch, reiserfs, fat, fork,
  cpumask, kexec, uaccess, kconfig, kgdb, bug, ipc, lzo, kasan, madvise,
  cleanups, pagemap

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (77 commits)
  arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h: fix build
  mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming
  ntfs: remove (un)?likely() from IS_ERR() conditions
  IB/hfi1: remove unlikely() from IS_ERR*() condition
  xfs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() condition
  wimax/i2400m: remove unlikely() from WARN*() condition
  fs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() condition
  xen/events: remove unlikely() from WARN() condition
  checkpatch: check for nested (un)?likely() calls
  hexagon: drop empty and unused free_initrd_mem
  mm: factor out common parts between MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT
  mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT
  mm: change PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN with PAGE_REFRECLAIM
  mm: introduce MADV_COLD
  mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk
  vfio/type1: untag user pointers in vaddr_get_pfn
  tee/shm: untag user pointers in tee_shm_register
  media/v4l2-core: untag user pointers in videobuf_dma_contig_user_get
  drm/radeon: untag user pointers in radeon_gem_userptr_ioctl
  drm/amdgpu: untag user pointers
  ...
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Linus Torvalds
2019-09-26 10:29:42 -07:00
114 changed files with 1006 additions and 565 deletions

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@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ String Manipulation
.. kernel-doc:: lib/string.c
:export:
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/string.h
:internal:
.. kernel-doc:: mm/util.c
:functions: kstrdup kstrdup_const kstrndup kmemdup kmemdup_nul memdup_user
vmemdup_user strndup_user memdup_user_nul

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@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ Hugetlb-specific helpers:
Support of split page table lock by an architecture
===================================================
There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock:
everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_page_dtor(),
which must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock: everything
required is done by pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pte_page_dtor(), which
must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
Make sure the architecture doesn't use slab allocator for page table
allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ paths: i.e X86_PAE preallocate few PMDs on pgd_alloc().
With everything in place you can set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK.
NOTE: pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must
NOTE: pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must
be handled properly.
page->ptl
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ trick:
split lock with enabled DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, but costs
one more cache line for indirect access;
The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_page_ctor() for PTE table and in
The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_pte_page_ctor() for PTE table and in
pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() for PMD table.
Please, never access page->ptl directly -- use appropriate helper.