This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 18:58:12 CET 2018

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:11:43 -0700 Subject: kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link

From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com

While trying to get our gold link to work, four cleanups: matched the gdt_page declaration to its definition; in fiddling unsuccessfully with PERCPU_INPUT(), lined up backslashes; lined up the backslashes according to convention in percpu-defs.h; deleted the unused irq_stack_pointer addition to irq_stack_union.

Sad to report that aligning backslashes does not appear to help gold align to 8192: but while these did not help, they are worth keeping.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Acked-by: Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 5 ----- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 18 ++++++++---------- include/linux/percpu-defs.h | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct gdt_page { struct desc_struct gdt[GDT_ENTRIES]; } __attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE)));

-DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(struct gdt_page, gdt_page); +DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(struct gdt_page, gdt_page);

static inline struct desc_struct *get_cpu_gdt_table(unsigned int cpu) { --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -332,11 +332,6 @@ union irq_stack_union { char gs_base[40]; unsigned long stack_canary; }; - - struct { - char irq_stack_pointer[64]; - char unused[IRQ_STACK_SIZE - 64]; - }; };

DECLARE_PER_CPU_FIRST(union irq_stack_union, irq_stack_union) __visible; --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -725,16 +725,14 @@ */ #define PERCPU_INPUT(cacheline) \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_start) = .; \ - \ - VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_user_mapped_start) = .; \ - *(.data..percpu..first) \ - . = ALIGN(cacheline); \ - *(.data..percpu..user_mapped) \ - *(.data..percpu..user_mapped..shared_aligned) \ - . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ - *(.data..percpu..user_mapped..page_aligned) \ - VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_user_mapped_end) = .; \ - \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_user_mapped_start) = .; \ + *(.data..percpu..first) \ + . = ALIGN(cacheline); \ + *(.data..percpu..user_mapped) \ + *(.data..percpu..user_mapped..shared_aligned) \ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ + *(.data..percpu..user_mapped..page_aligned) \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_user_mapped_end) = .; \ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ *(.data..percpu..page_aligned) \ . = ALIGN(cacheline); \ --- a/include/linux/percpu-defs.h +++ b/include/linux/percpu-defs.h @@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ #define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name) \ DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "")

-#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ +#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION)

-#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ +#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION)

/* @@ -156,11 +156,11 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \ ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp

-#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ +#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \ ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp

-#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ +#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \ ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp

@@ -185,18 +185,18 @@ /* * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be page aligned and need to be mapped in user mode. */ -#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ - DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION"..page_aligned") \ - __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) - -#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ - DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION"..page_aligned") \ - __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) +#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ + DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION"..page_aligned") \ + __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) + +#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(type, name) \ + DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, USER_MAPPED_SECTION"..page_aligned") \ + __aligned(PAGE_SIZE)

/* * Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be read mostly. */ -#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name) \ +#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name) \ DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..read_mostly")

#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(type, name) \

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com are

queue-4.4/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-_pgd_alloc-without-__gfp_repeat-to-avoid-stalls.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-merged-update.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch