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Rafael J. Wysocki 75a8026741 cpuidle: Allow idle states to be disabled by default
In certain situations it may be useful to prevent some idle states
from being used by default while allowing user space to enable them
later on.

For this purpose, introduce a new state flag, CPUIDLE_FLAG_OFF, to
mark idle states that should be disabled by default, make the core
set CPUIDLE_STATE_DISABLED_BY_USER for those states at the
initialization time and add a new state attribute in sysfs,
"default_status", to inform user space of the initial status of
the given idle state ("disabled" if CPUIDLE_FLAG_OFF is set for it,
"enabled" otherwise).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-12-27 11:02:08 +01:00
Vineela Tummalapalli db4d30fbb7 x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure
Some processors may incur a machine check error possibly resulting in an
unrecoverable CPU lockup when an instruction fetch encounters a TLB
multi-hit in the instruction TLB. This can occur when the page size is
changed along with either the physical address or cache type. The relevant
erratum can be found here:

   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205195

There are other processors affected for which the erratum does not fully
disclose the impact.

This issue affects both bare-metal x86 page tables and EPT.

It can be mitigated by either eliminating the use of large pages or by
using careful TLB invalidations when changing the page size in the page
tables.

Just like Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF and MDS, a new bit has been allocated in
MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (PSCHANGE_MC_NO) and will be set on CPUs which
are mitigated against this issue.

Signed-off-by: Vineela Tummalapalli <vineela.tummalapalli@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-11-04 12:22:01 +01:00
Pawan Gupta a7a248c593 x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of
the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation,
guidance for system administrators.

 [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ]

Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2019-10-28 08:37:00 +01:00
Ryan Grimm 734560ac39 powerpc/pseries/svm: Export guest SVM status to user space via sysfs
User space might want to know it's running in a secure VM.  It can't do
a mfmsr because mfmsr is a privileged instruction.

The solution here is to create a cpu attribute:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/svm

which will read 0 or 1 based on the S bit of the current CPU.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Grimm <grimm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820021326.6884-12-bauerman@linux.ibm.com
2019-08-30 09:55:41 +10:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4f4cfa6c56 docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).

Move them to the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Linus Torvalds e9a83bd232 It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro.  These create more
    than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other
    trees, unfortunately.  He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings
    that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
 
  - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one
    on Spectre vulnerabilities.
 
  - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of
    function() references because some people, for reasons I will never
    understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is
    unattractive and not fun to type.
 
  - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
 
  - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...
2019-07-09 12:34:26 -07:00
Fenghua Yu 203dffacf5 Documentation/ABI: Document umwait control sysfs interfaces
Since two new sysfs interface files are created for umwait control, add
an ABI document entry for the files:

   /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control/enable_c02
   /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control/max_time

[ tglx: Made the write value instructions readable ]

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560994438-235698-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
2019-06-24 01:44:35 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 671c30957e ABI: sysfs-devices-system-cpu: point to the right docs
The cpuidle doc was split on two, one at the admin guide
and another one at the driver API guide. Instead of pointing
to a non-existent file, point to both (admin guide being
the first one).

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-08 13:42:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds fa4bff1650 Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
  which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
  available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
  has the following CVEs assigned:

     CVE-2018-12126  MSBDS  Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12130  MFBDS  Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12127  MLPDS  Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
     CVE-2019-11091  MDSUM  Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory

  MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
  forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
  this data via cache side channels.

  Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
  vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
  address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
  as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
  successfully.

  The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
  user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
  instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
  exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
  requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
  default to avoid breaking unattended updates.

  The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
  deeper technical view"

* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
  Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
  x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
  x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
  x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
  x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
  Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
  Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
  x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
  x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
  x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
  x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
  x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
  ...
2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8f5e823f91 Power management updates for 5.2-rc1
- Fix the handling of Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB) on
    Intel processors and expose it to user space via sysfs to avoid
    having to access it through the generic MSR I/F (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Improve the handling of global turbo changes made by the platform
    firmware in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Convert some slow-path static_cpu_has() callers to boot_cpu_has()
    in cpufreq (Borislav Petkov).
 
  - Fix the frequency calculation loop in the armada-37xx cpufreq
    driver (Gregory CLEMENT).
 
  - Fix possible object reference leaks in multuple cpufreq drivers
    (Wen Yang).
 
  - Fix kerneldoc comment in the centrino cpufreq driver (dongjian).
 
  - Clean up the ACPI and maple cpufreq drivers (Viresh Kumar, Mohan
    Kumar).
 
  - Add support for lx2160a and ls1028a to the qoriq cpufreq driver
    (Vabhav Sharma, Yuantian Tang).
 
  - Fix kobject memory leak in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar).
 
  - Simplify the IOwait boosting in the schedutil cpufreq governor
    and rework the TSC cpufreq notifier on x86 (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Clean up the cpufreq core and statistics code (Yue Hu, Kyle Lin).
 
  - Improve the cpufreq documentation, add SPDX license tags to
    some PM documentation files and unify copyright notices in
    them (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power domains (genpd)
    framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support for that
    feature (Ulf Hansson).
 
  - Rearrange the PSCI firmware support code and add support for
    SYSTEM_RESET2 to it (Ulf Hansson, Sudeep Holla).
 
  - Improve genpd support for devices in multiple power domains (Ulf
    Hansson).
 
  - Unify target residency for the AFTR and coupled AFTR states in the
    exynos cpuidle driver (Marek Szyprowski).
 
  - Introduce new helper routine in the operating performance points
    (OPP) framework (Andrew-sh.Cheng).
 
  - Add support for passing on-die termination (ODT) and auto power
    down parameters from the kernel to Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) to
    the rk3399_dmc devfreq driver (Enric Balletbo i Serra).
 
  - Add tracing to devfreq (Lukasz Luba).
 
  - Make the exynos-bus devfreq driver suspend all devices on system
    shutdown (Marek Szyprowski).
 
  - Fix a few minor issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up
    somewhat (Enric Balletbo i Serra, MyungJoo Ham, Rob Herring,
    Saravana Kannan, Yangtao Li).
 
  - Improve system wakeup diagnostics (Stephen Boyd).
 
  - Rework filesystem sync messages emitted during system suspend and
    hibernation (Harry Pan).
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Merge tag 'pm-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These fix the (Intel-specific) Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB)
  handling and expose it to user space via sysfs, fix and clean up
  several cpufreq drivers, add support for two new chips to the qoriq
  cpufreq driver, fix, simplify and clean up the cpufreq core and the
  schedutil governor, add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power
  domains (genpd) framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support
  for that feature, fix the exynos cpuidle driver and fix a couple of
  issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up.

  Specifics:

   - Fix the handling of Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB) on Intel
     processors and expose it to user space via sysfs to avoid having to
     access it through the generic MSR I/F (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Improve the handling of global turbo changes made by the platform
     firmware in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Convert some slow-path static_cpu_has() callers to boot_cpu_has()
     in cpufreq (Borislav Petkov).

   - Fix the frequency calculation loop in the armada-37xx cpufreq
     driver (Gregory CLEMENT).

   - Fix possible object reference leaks in multuple cpufreq drivers
     (Wen Yang).

   - Fix kerneldoc comment in the centrino cpufreq driver (dongjian).

   - Clean up the ACPI and maple cpufreq drivers (Viresh Kumar, Mohan
     Kumar).

   - Add support for lx2160a and ls1028a to the qoriq cpufreq driver
     (Vabhav Sharma, Yuantian Tang).

   - Fix kobject memory leak in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar).

   - Simplify the IOwait boosting in the schedutil cpufreq governor and
     rework the TSC cpufreq notifier on x86 (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Clean up the cpufreq core and statistics code (Yue Hu, Kyle Lin).

   - Improve the cpufreq documentation, add SPDX license tags to some PM
     documentation files and unify copyright notices in them (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power domains (genpd)
     framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support for that
     feature (Ulf Hansson).

   - Rearrange the PSCI firmware support code and add support for
     SYSTEM_RESET2 to it (Ulf Hansson, Sudeep Holla).

   - Improve genpd support for devices in multiple power domains (Ulf
     Hansson).

   - Unify target residency for the AFTR and coupled AFTR states in the
     exynos cpuidle driver (Marek Szyprowski).

   - Introduce new helper routine in the operating performance points
     (OPP) framework (Andrew-sh.Cheng).

   - Add support for passing on-die termination (ODT) and auto power
     down parameters from the kernel to Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) to the
     rk3399_dmc devfreq driver (Enric Balletbo i Serra).

   - Add tracing to devfreq (Lukasz Luba).

   - Make the exynos-bus devfreq driver suspend all devices on system
     shutdown (Marek Szyprowski).

   - Fix a few minor issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up
     somewhat (Enric Balletbo i Serra, MyungJoo Ham, Rob Herring,
     Saravana Kannan, Yangtao Li).

   - Improve system wakeup diagnostics (Stephen Boyd).

   - Rework filesystem sync messages emitted during system suspend and
     hibernation (Harry Pan)"

* tag 'pm-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (72 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak
  cpufreq: armada-37xx: fix frequency calculation for opp
  cpufreq: centrino: Fix centrino_setpolicy() kerneldoc comment
  cpufreq: qoriq: add support for lx2160a
  x86: tsc: Rework time_cpufreq_notifier()
  PM / Domains: Allow to attach a CPU via genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name()
  PM / Domains: Search for the CPU device outside the genpd lock
  PM / Domains: Drop unused in-parameter to some genpd functions
  PM / Domains: Use the base device for driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
  cpufreq: qoriq: Add ls1028a chip support
  PM / Domains: Enable genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name() for single PM domain
  PM / Domains: Allow OF lookup for multi PM domain case from ->attach_dev()
  PM / Domains: Don't kfree() the virtual device in the error path
  cpufreq: Move ->get callback check outside of __cpufreq_get()
  PM / Domains: remove unnecessary unlikely()
  cpufreq: Remove needless bios_limit check in show_bios_limit()
  drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: This fixes the following checkpatch warning
  firmware/psci: add support for SYSTEM_RESET2
  PM / devfreq: add tracing for scheduling work
  trace: events: add devfreq trace event file
  ...
2019-05-06 19:40:31 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki b9c273babc PM / arch: x86: MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS sysfs interface
The Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB) is expected to be set by
user space through the generic MSR interface, but that interface is
not particularly nice and there are security concerns regarding it,
so it is not always available.

For this reason, add a sysfs interface for reading and updating the
EPB, in the form of a new attribute, energy_perf_bias, located
under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/power/ for online CPUs that
support the EPB feature.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2019-04-07 22:33:42 +02:00
Josh Poimboeuf de7b77e5bb cpu/hotplug: Create SMT sysfs interface for all arches
Make the /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/* files available on all arches, so
user space has a consistent way to detect whether SMT is enabled.

The 'control' file now shows 'notimplemented' for architectures which
don't yet have CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT.

[ tglx: Make notimplemented a real state ]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/469c2b98055f2c41e75748e06447d592a64080c9.1553635520.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-04-02 12:36:56 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 5999bbe7a6 Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
Add the initial MDS vulnerability documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:16 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 65fd4cb65b Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
Move L!TF to a separate directory so the MDS stuff can be added at the
side. Otherwise the all hardware vulnerabilites have their own top level
entry. Should have done that right away.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 8a4b06d391 x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
Add the sysfs reporting file for MDS. It exposes the vulnerability and
mitigation state similar to the existing files for the other speculative
hardware vulnerabilities.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:14 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 04dab58a39 cpuidle: Add 'above' and 'below' idle state metrics
Add two new metrics for CPU idle states, "above" and "below", to count
the number of times the given state had been asked for (or entered
from the kernel's perspective), but the observed idle duration turned
out to be too short or too long for it (respectively).

These metrics help to estimate the quality of the CPU idle governor
in use.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-12-12 23:22:18 +01:00
Jiri Kosina d90a7a0ec8 x86/bugs, kvm: Introduce boot-time control of L1TF mitigations
Introduce the 'l1tf=' kernel command line option to allow for boot-time
switching of mitigation that is used on processors affected by L1TF.

The possible values are:

  full
	Provides all available mitigations for the L1TF vulnerability. Disables
	SMT and enables all mitigations in the hypervisors. SMT control via
	/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot.
	Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in
	a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush
	disabled.

  full,force
	Same as 'full', but disables SMT control. Implies the 'nosmt=force'
	command line option. sysfs control of SMT and the hypervisor flush
	control is disabled.

  flush
	Leaves SMT enabled and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation.
	Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a
	potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush
	disabled.

  flush,nosmt
	Disables SMT and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. SMT
	control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible
	after boot. If SMT is reenabled or flushing disabled at runtime
	hypervisors will issue a warning.

  flush,nowarn
	Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not warn when
	a VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration.

  off
	Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any warnings.

Default is 'flush'.

Let KVM adhere to these semantics, which means:

  - 'lt1f=full,force'	: Performe L1D flushes. No runtime control
    			  possible.

  - 'l1tf=full'
  - 'l1tf-flush'
  - 'l1tf=flush,nosmt'	: Perform L1D flushes and warn on VM start if
			  SMT has been runtime enabled or L1D flushing
			  has been run-time enabled
			  
  - 'l1tf=flush,nowarn'	: Perform L1D flushes and no warnings are emitted.
  
  - 'l1tf=off'		: L1D flushes are not performed and no warnings
			  are emitted.

KVM can always override the L1D flushing behavior using its 'vmentry_l1d_flush'
module parameter except when lt1f=full,force is set.

This makes KVM's private 'nosmt' option redundant, and as it is a bit
non-systematic anyway (this is something to control globally, not on
hypervisor level), remove that option.

Add the missing Documentation entry for the l1tf vulnerability sysfs file
while at it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.202758176@linutronix.de
2018-07-13 16:29:56 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 05736e4ac1 cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT
Provide a command line and a sysfs knob to control SMT.

The command line options are:

 'nosmt':	Enumerate secondary threads, but do not online them
 		
 'nosmt=force': Ignore secondary threads completely during enumeration
 		via MP table and ACPI/MADT.

The sysfs control file has the following states (read/write):

 'on':		 SMT is enabled. Secondary threads can be freely onlined
 'off':		 SMT is disabled. Secondary threads, even if enumerated
 		 cannot be onlined
 'forceoff':	 SMT is permanentely disabled. Writes to the control
 		 file are rejected.
 'notsupported': SMT is not supported by the CPU

The command line option 'nosmt' sets the sysfs control to 'off'. This
can be changed to 'on' to reenable SMT during runtime.

The command line option 'nosmt=force' sets the sysfs control to
'forceoff'. This cannot be changed during runtime.

When SMT is 'on' and the control file is changed to 'off' then all online
secondary threads are offlined and attempts to online a secondary thread
later on are rejected.

When SMT is 'off' and the control file is changed to 'on' then secondary
threads can be onlined again. The 'off' -> 'on' transition does not
automatically online the secondary threads.

When the control file is set to 'forceoff', the behaviour is the same as
setting it to 'off', but the operation is irreversible and later writes to
the control file are rejected.

When the control status is 'notsupported' then writes to the control file
are rejected.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-21 14:20:58 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6ec71b205d ABI: sysfs-devices-system-cpu: remove a broken reference
This file doesn't exist anymore:
	Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt

As the ABI already points to Documentation/cpu-freq, just
remove the broken link and the associated text.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk c456442cd3 x86/bugs: Expose /sys/../spec_store_bypass
Add the sysfs file for the new vulerability. It does not do much except
show the words 'Vulnerable' for recent x86 cores.

Intel cores prior to family 6 are known not to be vulnerable, and so are
some Atoms and some Xeon Phi.

It assumes that older Cyrix, Centaur, etc. cores are immune.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-03 13:55:47 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 64bdff6980 PM: cpuidle/suspend: Add s2idle usage and time state attributes
Add a new attribute group called "s2idle" under the sysfs directory
of each cpuidle state that supports the ->enter_s2idle callback
and put two new attributes, "usage" and "time", into that group to
represent the number of times the given state was requested for
suspend-to-idle and the total time spent in suspend-to-idle after
requesting that state, respectively.

That will allow diagnostic information related to suspend-to-idle
to be collected without enabling advanced debug features and
analyzing dmesg output.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-03-29 13:06:08 +02:00
Aishwarya Pant b6d8ef86cb Documentation/ABI: update cpuidle sysfs documentation
Update cpuidle documentation using git logs and existing documentation
in Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt. This might be useful for scripting
and tracking changes in the ABI.

Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-02-12 11:03:21 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 40548c6b6c Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
2018-01-14 09:51:25 -08:00
David Woodhouse 9ecccfaa7c sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
Fixes: 87590ce6e ("sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder")
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-01-09 16:17:50 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 87590ce6e3 sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder
As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de
2018-01-08 11:10:33 +01:00
Tom Saeger 3ba9b1b814 Documentation: fix admin-guide doc refs
Make admin-guide document refs valid.

Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-12 11:13:28 -06:00
Juri Lelli a2b60670ac Documentation/ABI: add information about cpu_capacity
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/cpu_capacity describe information about
CPUs heterogeneity (ref. to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/
cpu-capacity.txt).

Add such description.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-04-08 18:26:14 +02:00
Tony Luck 1d78dc59f5 Documentation, ABI: Document the new sysfs files for cpu cache ids
Add an ABI document entry for /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/id.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: "Sai Prakhya" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: "Shaohua Li" <shli@fb.com>
Cc: "Nilay Vaish" <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vikas Shivappa" <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477142405-32078-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-10-26 23:12:37 +02:00
Steve Capper f8d9f92452 arm64: cpuinfo: Expose MIDR_EL1 and REVIDR_EL1 to sysfs
It can be useful for JIT software to be aware of MIDR_EL1 and
REVIDR_EL1 to ascertain the presence of any core errata that could
affect code generation.

This patch exposes these registers through sysfs:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/regs/identification/midr_el1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$ID/regs/identification/revidr_el1

where $ID is the cpu number. For big.LITTLE systems, one can have a
mixture of cores (e.g. Cortex A53 and Cortex A57), thus all CPUs need
to be enumerated.

If the kernel does not have valid information to populate these entries
with, an empty string is returned to userspace.

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
[suzuki.poulose@arm.com: ABI documentation updates, hotplug notifiers, kobject changes]
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2016-07-12 16:09:37 +01:00
Shilpasri G Bhat 1b0289848d cpufreq: powernv: Add sysfs attributes to show throttle stats
Create sysfs attributes to export throttle information in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats directory. The
newly added sysfs files are as follows:

 1)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/turbo_stat
 2)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/sub-turbo_stat
 3)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/unthrottle
 4)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/powercap
 5)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/overtemp
 6)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/supply_fault
 7)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/overcurrent
 8)/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/occ_reset

Detailed explanation of each attribute is added to
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu

Signed-off-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-03-22 23:11:18 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 987aec39a7 Merge 4.1-rc7 into driver-core-next
We want the fixes in this branch as well for testing and merge
resolution.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-06-08 10:19:40 -07:00
Will Deacon 2539b258ec drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
s/hierarcy/hierarchy/

Maybe the typo will annoy people enough so that they add the missing
nodes to their device-tree files, but I still think this is better off
fixed.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24 12:31:33 -07:00
Aravind Gopalakrishnan ea8e080b60 x86/Documentation: Update the contact email for L3 cache index disable functionality
The mailing list discuss@x86-64.org is now defunct.
Use the lkml in its place.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: sudeep.holla@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431125098-9470-1-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431936437-25286-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
[ Changed the contact email to lkml. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-18 10:34:24 +02:00
Sudeep Holla 246246cbde drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
This patch adds initial support for providing processor cache information
to userspace through sysfs interface. This is based on already existing
implementations(x86, ia64, s390 and powerpc) and hence the interface is
intended to be fully compatible.

The main purpose of this generic support is to avoid further code
duplication to support new architectures and also to unify all the existing
different implementations.

This implementation maintains the hierarchy of cache objects which reflects
the system's cache topology. Cache devices are instantiated as needed as
CPUs come online. The cache information is replicated per-cpu even if they are
shared. A per-cpu array of cache information maintained is used mainly for
sysfs-related book keeping.

It also implements the shared_cpu_map attribute, which is essential for
enabling both kernel and user-space to discover the system's overall cache
topology.

This patch also add the missing ABI documentation for the cacheinfo sysfs
interface already, which is well defined and widely used.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07 11:45:00 -08:00
Viresh Kumar dec102aa9a cpufreq: Make linux-pm@vger.kernel.org official mailing list
There has been confusion all the time about which mailing list to follow
for cpufreq activities, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org or cpufreq@vger.kernel.org.

Since patches sent to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org don't go to Patchwork
which is a maintenance workflow problem, make linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
the official mailing list for cpufreq stuff and remove all references
of cpufreq@vger.kernel.org from kernel source.

Later, we can request that the list be dropped entirely.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-05-01 01:15:32 +02:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra fbe299e0c8 Documentation: add ABI entry for intel_pstate
Add a Documentation/ABI entry for
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct,
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct, and
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo.

Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-01-06 14:35:16 +01:00
Lan Tianyu f4fd379784 acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
Commits fcf8058 (cpufreq: Simplify cpufreq_add_dev()) and aa77a52
(cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Don't set policy->related_cpus from .init())
changed the contents of the "related_cpus" sysfs attribute on systems
where acpi-cpufreq is used and user space can't get the list of CPUs
which are in the same hardware coordination CPU domain (provided by
the ACPI AML method _PSD) via "related_cpus" any more.

To make up for that loss add a new sysfs attribute "freqdomian_cpus"
for the acpi-cpufreq driver which exposes the list of CPUs in the
same domain regardless of whether it is coordinated by hardware or
software.

[rjw: Changelog, documentation]
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58761
Reported-by: Jean-Philippe Halimi <jean-philippe.halimi@exascale-computing.eu>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-06-27 21:51:09 +02:00
Zhang Yanfei c4fd675f58 Documentation: Add ABI entry for crash_notes and crash_notes_size
Add an Documentation/ABI entry for /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/crash_notes
and /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/crash_notes_size.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-29 09:17:22 -07:00
Kusanagi Kouichi 145bfa9d16 Revert "Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node"
This reverts commit cba5dd7fa5.

Commit cba5dd7fa5 duplicates
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node entry.
Commit 657348a056 has already added it.

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-01-03 10:53:40 +01:00
Andre Przywara 615b730071 acpi-cpufreq: Add support for disabling dynamic overclocking
One feature present in powernow-k8 that isn't present in acpi-cpufreq
is support for enabling or disabling AMD's core performance boost
technology. This patch adds support to acpi-cpufreq, but also
includes support for Intel's dynamic acceleration.

The original boost disabling sysfs file was per CPU, but acted
globally. Also the naming (cpb) was at least not intuitive.
So lets introduce a single file simply called "boost", which sits
once in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq.
This should be the only way of using this feature, so add
documentation about the rationale and the usage.

A following patch will re-introduce the cpb knob for compatibility
reasons on AMD CPUs.

Per-CPU boost switching is possible, but not trivial and is thus
postponed to a later patch series.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-09-09 22:05:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8e7fbcbc22 sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs
It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power
aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending
patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ...
so remove it to make space free for something better.

There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first
and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology
levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a
state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to
master and almost nobody does.

Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it
means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either
under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if
there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of
it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads.

So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea
even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs
on every node of the topology.

There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single
3 state knob:

 sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto }

where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things
like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw
exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no
progress on it in the past many months.

Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs
is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at
fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable
state.

Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring
people who care to come forward once again and work on a
coherent replacement.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-17 13:48:56 +02:00
Borislav Petkov eecaaba5b2 Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
Change contact person to AMD kernel mailing list, update text and
external references, drop "Users:" tag.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-16 11:24:30 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock 0ea6e61122 Documentation: update broken web addresses.
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
Alex Chiang cba5dd7fa5 Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 09cea96caa Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (151 commits)
  powerpc: Fix usage of 64-bit instruction in 32-bit altivec code
  MAINTAINERS: Add PowerPC patterns
  powerpc/pseries: Track previous CPPR values to correctly EOI interrupts
  powerpc/pseries: Correct pseries/dlpar.c build break without CONFIG_SMP
  powerpc: Make "intspec" pointers in irq_host->xlate() const
  powerpc/8xx: DTLB Miss cleanup
  powerpc/8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error.
  powerpc/8xx: Start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines
  powerpc/8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU
  powerpc/8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error.
  powerpc/8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions.
  powerpc/8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions.
  powerpc/8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects.
  powerpc/8xx: Invalidate non present TLBs
  powerpc/pseries: Serialize cpu hotplug operations during deactivate Vs deallocate
  pseries/pseries: Add code to online/offline CPUs of a DLPAR node
  powerpc: stop_this_cpu: remove the cpu from the online map.
  powerpc/pseries: Add kernel based CPU DLPAR handling
  sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files
  powerpc/pseries: Kernel DLPAR Infrastructure
  ...
2009-12-12 14:27:24 -08:00
Nathan Fontenot 12633e803a sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files
Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to
Documentation/ABI.  There are no changes to any of the C code from v2
of the patch.

In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
and removing cpus to/from the system.

This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts
from writes to the sysfs files.

The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
capability will have the files created.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-12-09 17:09:33 +11:00
Alex Chiang 0cda8b91f2 [CPUFREQ] Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/cpufreq/
This is a complex interface and is already described in
Documentation/cpu-freq/, especially in the user-guide.txt file.

No need to copy/paste all that information. Let's just alert the reader
to the presence of the user-guide.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-11-24 13:33:33 -05:00
Alex Chiang 657348a056 Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node
Describe NUMA node symlink created for CPUs when CONFIG_NUMA is set.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30 14:59:53 -07:00
Alex Chiang c1fb5c4751 Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/
Document cpuidle sysfs attributes by reading code, Documentation/cpuidle/,
and git logs.

Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30 14:59:52 -07:00
Alex Chiang e6dcfa7c61 Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_[mc|smt]_power_savings
Document sched_[mc|smt]_power_savings by reading existing code and
git logs.

Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30 14:59:52 -07:00