This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: Hide finish_arch_post_lock_switch() from modules to the 4.4-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: arm-hide-finish_arch_post_lock_switch-from-modules.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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ef0491ea17f8019821c7e9c8e801184ecf17f85a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:30:13 +0200 Subject: ARM: Hide finish_arch_post_lock_switch() from modules From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit ef0491ea17f8019821c7e9c8e801184ecf17f85a upstream. The introduction of switch_mm_irqs_off() brought back an old bug regarding the use of preempt_enable_no_resched: As part of: 62b94a08da1b ("sched/preempt: Take away preempt_enable_no_resched() from modules") the definition of preempt_enable_no_resched() is only available in built-in code, not in loadable modules, so we can't generally use it from header files. However, the ARM version of finish_arch_post_lock_switch() calls preempt_enable_no_resched() and is defined as a static inline function in asm/mmu_context.h. This in turn means we cannot include asm/mmu_context.h from modules. With today's tip tree, asm/mmu_context.h gets included from linux/mmu_context.h, which is normally the exact pattern one would expect, but unfortunately, linux/mmu_context.h can be included from the vhost driver that is a loadable module, now causing this compile time error with modular configs: In file included from ../include/linux/mmu_context.h:4:0, from ../drivers/vhost/vhost.c:18: ../arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h: In function 'finish_arch_post_lock_switch': ../arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h:88:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'preempt_enable_no_resched' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] preempt_enable_no_resched(); Andy already tried to fix the bug by including linux/preempt.h from asm/mmu_context.h, but that didn't help. Arnd suggested reordering the header files, which wasn't popular, so let's use this workaround instead: The finish_arch_post_lock_switch() definition is now also hidden inside of #ifdef MODULE, so we don't see anything referencing preempt_enable_no_resched() from a header file. I've built a few hundred randconfig kernels with this, and did not see any new problems. Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463146234-161304-1-git-send-email-arnd@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static inline void check_and_switch_cont cpu_switch_mm(mm->pgd, mm); } +#ifndef MODULE #define finish_arch_post_lock_switch \ finish_arch_post_lock_switch static inline void finish_arch_post_lock_switch(void) @@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ static inline void finish_arch_post_lock preempt_enable_no_resched(); } } +#endif /* !MODULE */ #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/arm-hide-finish_arch_post_lock_switch-from-modules.patch