This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-wire-up-tif_notify_signal.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f8f5fdc79f0e480230c501bc5d744bc08defec6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:32:29 -0600
Subject: x86: Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c8d5ed67936fddbe2ae845fc80397718006322d7 ]
The generic entry code has support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL already. Just
provide the TIF bit.
[ tglx: Adopted to other TIF changes in x86 ]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201026203230.386348-4-axboe@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ struct thread_info {
#define TIF_NOTSC 16 /* TSC is not accessible in userland */
#define TIF_IA32 17 /* IA32 compatibility process */
#define TIF_SLD 18 /* Restore split lock detection on context switch */
+#define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL 19 /* signal notifications exist */
#define TIF_MEMDIE 20 /* is terminating due to OOM killer */
#define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG 21 /* idle is polling for TIF_NEED_RESCHED */
#define TIF_IO_BITMAP 22 /* uses I/O bitmap */
@@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ struct thread_info {
#define _TIF_NOCPUID (1 << TIF_NOCPUID)
#define _TIF_NOTSC (1 << TIF_NOTSC)
#define _TIF_IA32 (1 << TIF_IA32)
+#define _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (1 << TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)
#define _TIF_SLD (1 << TIF_SLD)
#define _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (1 << TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG)
#define _TIF_IO_BITMAP (1 << TIF_IO_BITMAP)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axboe@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.10/x86-process-setup-io_threads-more-like-normal-user-space-threads.patch
queue-5.10/powerpc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/eventfd-provide-a-eventfd_signal_mask-helper.patch
queue-5.10/fs-provide-locked-helper-variant-of-close_fd_get_file.patch
queue-5.10/relay-fix-type-mismatch-when-allocating-memory-in-re.patch
queue-5.10/eventfd-change-int-to-__u64-in-eventfd_signal-ifndef.patch
queue-5.10/io_uring-pass-in-epoll_uring_wake-for-eventfd-signaling-and-wakeups.patch
queue-5.10/blk-mq-fix-possible-memleak-when-register-hctx-faile.patch
queue-5.10/fix-handling-of-nd-depth-on-lookup_cached-failures-in-try_to_unlazy.patch
queue-5.10/net-provide-__sys_shutdown_sock-that-takes-a-socket.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-unconditionally-run-task_work-from-get_signal.patch
queue-5.10/openrisc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/signal-add-task_sigpending-helper.patch
queue-5.10/net-remove-cmsg-restriction-from-io_uring-based-send-recvmsg-calls.patch
queue-5.10/alpha-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/nios32-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/ia64-don-t-call-handle_signal-unless-there-s-actually-a-signal-queued.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-remove-legacy-twa_signal-path.patch
queue-5.10/revert-proc-don-t-allow-async-path-resolution-of-proc-self-components.patch
queue-5.10/m68k-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/s390-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/um-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/tools-headers-uapi-sync-openat2.h-with-the-kernel-sources.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-provide-create_io_thread-helper.patch
queue-5.10/iov_iter-add-helper-to-save-iov_iter-state.patch
queue-5.10/arc-unbork-5.11-bootup-fix-snafu-in-_tif_notify_signal-handling.patch
queue-5.10/arch-ensure-parisc-powerpc-handle-pf_io_worker-in-copy_thread.patch
queue-5.10/csky-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arm-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-stop-masking-signals-in-create_io_thread.patch
queue-5.10/fs-expose-lookup_cached-through-openat2-resolve_cached.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-add-helper-for-more-targeted-task_work-canceling.patch
queue-5.10/nds32-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/signal-kill-jobctl_task_work.patch
queue-5.10/hexagon-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/sh-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/riscv-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/h8300-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/io_uring-import-5.15-stable-io_uring.patch
queue-5.10/sparc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/blktrace-fix-output-non-blktrace-event-when-blk_clas.patch
queue-5.10/eventpoll-add-epoll_uring_wake-poll-wakeup-flag.patch
queue-5.10/parisc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/entry-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/x86-wire-up-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/task_work-use-tif_notify_signal-if-available.patch
queue-5.10/drbd-fix-an-invalid-memory-access-caused-by-incorrec.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-don-t-call-do_exit-for-pf_io_worker-threads.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-allow-fork-with-tif_notify_signal-pending.patch
queue-5.10/pata_ipx4xx_cf-fix-unsigned-comparison-with-less-tha.patch
queue-5.10/mips-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/xtensa-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/c6x-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/microblaze-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/net-add-accept-helper-not-installing-fd.patch
queue-5.10/ia64-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arm64-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arc-add-support-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/revert-proc-don-t-allow-async-path-resolution-of-proc-thread-self-components.patch
queue-5.10/fs-make-do_renameat2-take-struct-filename.patch
queue-5.10/kernel-remove-checking-for-tif_notify_signal.patch
queue-5.10/arch-setup-pf_io_worker-threads-like-pf_kthread.patch
queue-5.10/nvme-pci-fix-mempool-alloc-size.patch
queue-5.10/fs-add-support-for-lookup_cached.patch
