Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Apr 2018 08:14:43 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | [GIT PULL] misc core kernel changes |
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Linus,
Please pull the latest core-core-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-core-for-linus
# HEAD: 5ad751053704df3f00d2bb2dc9345c697c212150 panic: Add closing panic marker parenthesis
Two changes:
- add membarriers to Documentation/features/ - fix a minor nit in panic printk formatting
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------> Borislav Petkov (1): panic: Add closing panic marker parenthesis
Mathieu Desnoyers (2): Documentation/features: Allow comments in arch features files Documentation/features, membarriers: Document membarrier-sync-core architecture support
Documentation/features/list-arch.sh | 2 +- .../sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/panic.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/features/list-arch.sh b/Documentation/features/list-arch.sh index c16b5b595688..1ec47c3bb5fa 100755 --- a/Documentation/features/list-arch.sh +++ b/Documentation/features/list-arch.sh @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ for F in */*/arch-support.txt; do N=$(grep -h "^# Feature name:" $F | cut -c25-) C=$(grep -h "^# Kconfig:" $F | cut -c25-) D=$(grep -h "^# description:" $F | cut -c25-) - S=$(grep -hw $ARCH $F | cut -d\| -f3) + S=$(grep -hv "^#" $F | grep -w $ARCH | cut -d\| -f3) printf "%10s/%-22s:%s| %35s # %s\n" "$SUBSYS" "$N" "$S" "$C" "$D" done diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2c815a7f1ba7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +# +# Feature name: membarrier-sync-core +# Kconfig: ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE +# description: arch supports core serializing membarrier +# +# Architecture requirements +# +# * arm64 +# +# Rely on eret context synchronization when returning from IPI handler, and +# when returning to user-space. +# +# * x86 +# +# x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. +# However, it uses both IRET and SYSEXIT to go back to user-space. The IRET +# instruction is core serializing, but not SYSEXIT. +# +# x86-64 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. +# However, it can return to user-space through either SYSRETL (compat code), +# SYSRETQ, or IRET. +# +# Given that neither SYSRET{L,Q}, nor SYSEXIT, are core serializing, we rely +# instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core serialization +# after changing the current mm, and deal with the special case of kthread -> +# uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into active_mm) by issuing a +# sync_core_before_usermode() in that specific case. +# + ----------------------- + | arch |status| + ----------------------- + | alpha: | TODO | + | arc: | TODO | + | arm: | TODO | + | arm64: | ok | + | blackfin: | TODO | + | c6x: | TODO | + | cris: | TODO | + | frv: | TODO | + | h8300: | TODO | + | hexagon: | TODO | + | ia64: | TODO | + | m32r: | TODO | + | m68k: | TODO | + | metag: | TODO | + | microblaze: | TODO | + | mips: | TODO | + | mn10300: | TODO | + | nios2: | TODO | + | openrisc: | TODO | + | parisc: | TODO | + | powerpc: | TODO | + | s390: | TODO | + | score: | TODO | + | sh: | TODO | + | sparc: | TODO | + | tile: | TODO | + | um: | TODO | + | unicore32: | TODO | + | x86: | ok | + | xtensa: | TODO | + ----------------------- diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 2cfef408fec9..9fb023d0cae1 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) disabled_wait(caller); } #endif - pr_emerg("---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: %s\n", buf); + pr_emerg("---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: %s ]---\n", buf); local_irq_enable(); for (i = 0; ; i += PANIC_TIMER_STEP) { touch_softlockup_watchdog();
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