linux/kernel
Linus Torvalds a29a0a467e Merge branch 'access-creds'
The access() (and faccessat()) credentials change can cause an
unnecessary load on the RCU machinery because every access() call ends
up freeing the temporary access credential using RCU.

This isn't really noticeable on small machines, but if you have hundreds
of cores you can cause huge slowdowns due to RCU storms.

It's easy to avoid: the temporary access crededntials aren't actually
normally accessed using RCU at all, so we can avoid the whole issue by
just marking them as such.

* access-creds:
  access: avoid the RCU grace period for the temporary subjective credentials
2019-07-25 08:36:29 -07:00
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bpf Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-20 10:45:15 -07:00
cgroup
configs
debug
dma dma-mapping fixes for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-20 12:09:52 -07:00
events
gcov
irq
livepatch
locking
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acct.c acct_on(): don't mess with freeze protection 2019-04-04 21:04:13 -04:00
async.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
audit.c
audit.h
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu.c
cpu_pm.c
crash_core.c
crash_dump.c
cred.c Merge branch 'access-creds' 2019-07-25 08:36:29 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state 2019-07-22 16:02:03 +02:00
extable.c
fail_function.c
fork.c
freezer.c
futex.c
gen_kheaders.sh
groups.c
hung_task.c
iomem.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
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Kconfig.hz
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Kconfig.preempt sched/rt, Kconfig: Unbreak def/oldconfig with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y 2019-07-22 18:05:11 +02:00
kcov.c
kexec.c
kexec_core.c
kexec_file.c
kexec_internal.h
kheaders.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
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module-internal.h
module.c
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c
rseq.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
smp.c
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stackleak.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c
sysctl_binary.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c
watchdog_hld.c
workqueue.c
workqueue_internal.h