# git rev-parse -q --verify 574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e^{commit} 574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e already have revision, skipping fetch # git checkout -q -f -B kisskb 574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e # git clean -qxdf # < git log -1 # commit 574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e # Author: Linus Torvalds # Date: Sat Jan 5 17:50:59 2019 -0800 # # Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages # # The semantics of what "in core" means for the mincore() system call are # somewhat unclear, but Linux has always (since 2.3.52, which is when # mincore() was initially done) treated it as "page is available in page # cache" rather than "page is mapped in the mapping". # # The problem with that traditional semantic is that it exposes a lot of # system cache state that it really probably shouldn't, and that users # shouldn't really even care about. # # So let's try to avoid that information leak by simply changing the # semantics to be that mincore() counts actual mapped pages, not pages # that might be cheaply mapped if they were faulted (note the "might be" # part of the old semantics: being in the cache doesn't actually guarantee # that you can access them without IO anyway, since things like network # filesystems may have to revalidate the cache before use). # # In many ways the old semantics were somewhat insane even aside from the # information leak issue. From the very beginning (and that beginning is # a long time ago: 2.3.52 was released in March 2000, I think), the code # had a comment saying # # Later we can get more picky about what "in core" means precisely. # # and this is that "later". Admittedly it is much later than is really # comfortable. # # NOTE! This is a real semantic change, and it is for example known to # change the output of "fincore", since that program literally does a # mmmap without populating it, and then doing "mincore()" on that mapping # that doesn't actually have any pages in it. # # I'm hoping that nobody actually has any workflow that cares, and the # info leak is real. # # We may have to do something different if it turns out that people have # valid reasons to want the old semantics, and if we can limit the # information leak sanely. # # Cc: Kevin Easton # Cc: Jiri Kosina # Cc: Masatake YAMATO # Cc: Andrew Morton # Cc: Greg KH # Cc: Peter Zijlstra # Cc: Michal Hocko # Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds # < /opt/cross/kisskb/br-sparc64-full-2016.08-613-ge98b4dd/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc --version # < /opt/cross/kisskb/br-sparc64-full-2016.08-613-ge98b4dd/bin/sparc64-linux-ld --version # < git log --format=%s --max-count=1 574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e # < make -s -j 10 ARCH=sparc64 O=/kisskb/build/linus_sparc64-allmodconfig_sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/br-sparc64-full-2016.08-613-ge98b4dd/bin/sparc64-linux- allmodconfig # Added to kconfig CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=n # Added to kconfig CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=n # Added to kconfig CONFIG_SAMPLES=n # Added to kconfig CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=n # yes \n | make -s -j 10 ARCH=sparc64 O=/kisskb/build/linus_sparc64-allmodconfig_sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/br-sparc64-full-2016.08-613-ge98b4dd/bin/sparc64-linux- oldconfig yes: standard output: Broken pipe # make -s -j 10 ARCH=sparc64 O=/kisskb/build/linus_sparc64-allmodconfig_sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/cross/kisskb/br-sparc64-full-2016.08-613-ge98b4dd/bin/sparc64-linux- :1336:2: warning: #warning syscall rseq not implemented [-Wcpp] /kisskb/src/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c:172:2: warning: #warning Precise timer not defined for this architecture. [-Wcpp] #warning Precise timer not defined for this architecture. ^ In file included from /kisskb/src/include/linux/rwsem.h:16:0, from /kisskb/src/include/linux/notifier.h:15, from /kisskb/src/include/linux/clk.h:17, from /kisskb/src/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c:24: /kisskb/src/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c: In function 'sci_submit_rx': /kisskb/src/include/linux/spinlock.h:279:3: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); \ ^ /kisskb/src/drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c:1338:16: note: 'flags' was declared here unsigned long flags; ^ /kisskb/src/drivers/scsi/myrs.c: In function 'myrs_log_event': /kisskb/src/drivers/scsi/myrs.c:821:24: warning: 'sshdr.sense_key' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] struct scsi_sense_hdr sshdr; ^ kernel: arch/sparc/boot/image is ready kernel: arch/sparc/boot/zImage is ready Completed OK # rm -rf /kisskb/build/linus_sparc64-allmodconfig_sparc64 # Build took: 0:24:06.145376