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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-16 11:31:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-16 11:31:55 -0700
commitc4cf498dc0241fa2d758dba177634268446afb06 (patch)
tree77e86dd4f211c6681ff9fbab481295732dc23422 /Documentation
parent9ff9b0d392ea08090cd1780fb196f36dbb586529 (diff)
parent4d0e9df5e43dba52d38b251e3b909df8fa1110be (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "155 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (dax, debug, thp, readahead, page-poison, util, memory-hotplug, zram, cleanups), misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, MAINTAINERS, lib, bitops, checkpatch, binfmt, ramfs, autofs, nilfs, rapidio, panic, relay, kgdb, ubsan, romfs, and fault-injection" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (155 commits) lib, uaccess: add failure injection to usercopy functions lib, include/linux: add usercopy failure capability ROMFS: support inode blocks calculation ubsan: introduce CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS for Clang sched.h: drop in_ubsan field when UBSAN is in trap mode scripts/gdb/tasks: add headers and improve spacing format scripts/gdb/proc: add struct mount & struct super_block addr in lx-mounts command kernel/relay.c: drop unneeded initialization panic: dump registers on panic_on_warn rapidio: fix the missed put_device() for rio_mport_add_riodev rapidio: fix error handling path nilfs2: fix some kernel-doc warnings for nilfs2 autofs: harden ioctl table ramfs: fix nommu mmap with gaps in the page cache mm: remove the now-unnecessary mmget_still_valid() hack mm/gup: take mmap_lock in get_dump_page() binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot coredump: rework elf/elf_fdpic vma_dump_size() into common helper coredump: refactor page range dumping into common helper coredump: let dump_emit() bail out on short writes ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst7
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 0f1fb7e86237..d246ad46d845 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1343,6 +1343,7 @@
current integrity status.
failslab=
+ fail_usercopy=
fail_page_alloc=
fail_make_request=[KNL]
General fault injection mechanism.
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
index 640934b6f7b4..a137a0e6d068 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst
@@ -475,13 +475,15 @@ or iterations will move the index to the first index in the range.
Each entry will only be returned once, no matter how many indices it
occupies.
-Using xas_next() or xas_prev() with a multi-index xa_state
-is not supported. Using either of these functions on a multi-index entry
-will reveal sibling entries; these should be skipped over by the caller.
-
-Storing ``NULL`` into any index of a multi-index entry will set the entry
-at every index to ``NULL`` and dissolve the tie. Splitting a multi-index
-entry into entries occupying smaller ranges is not yet supported.
+Using xas_next() or xas_prev() with a multi-index xa_state is not
+supported. Using either of these functions on a multi-index entry will
+reveal sibling entries; these should be skipped over by the caller.
+
+Storing ``NULL`` into any index of a multi-index entry will set the
+entry at every index to ``NULL`` and dissolve the tie. A multi-index
+entry can be split into entries occupying smaller ranges by calling
+xas_split_alloc() without the xa_lock held, followed by taking the lock
+and calling xas_split().
Functions and structures
========================
diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
index f850ad018b70..31ecfe44e5b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Available fault injection capabilities
injects page allocation failures. (alloc_pages(), get_free_pages(), ...)
+- fail_usercopy
+
+ injects failures in user memory access functions. (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...)
+
- fail_futex
injects futex deadlock and uaddr fault errors.
@@ -177,6 +181,7 @@ use the boot option::
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
+ fail_usercopy=
fail_make_request=
fail_futex=
mmc_core.fail_request=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
@@ -222,7 +227,7 @@ How to add new fault injection capability
- debugfs entries
- failslab, fail_page_alloc, and fail_make_request use this way.
+ failslab, fail_page_alloc, fail_usercopy, and fail_make_request use this way.
Helper functions:
fault_create_debugfs_attr(name, parent, attr);