Both IPX and TR have not been supported for a while now.
Remove them from the /proc/sys/net documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The "pci=resource_alignment" parameter is described as requiring an order
(not a size) and the code in pci_specified_resource_alignment() expects an
order.
But the example wrongly shows a size. Convert the example to an order.
Fixes: 8b078c6032 ("PCI: Update "pci=resource_alignment" documentation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190606032557.107542-1-aik@ozlabs.ru
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Add documentation to the Spectre document about the new swapgs variant of
Spectre v1.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This commit adds a rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump kernel boot parameter, that,
when set, causes the trace buffer to be dumped after an RCU CPU stall
warning is printed. This kernel boot parameter is disabled by default,
maintaining compatibility with previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The filenames for cifs documentation is not using the same
convention as almost all Kernel documents is using. So,
rename them to a more appropriate name. Then, manually convert
the documentation files for CIFS to ReST.
By doing a manual conversion, we can preserve the original
author's style, while making it to look more like the other
Kernel documents.
Most of the conversion here is trivial. The most complex one was
the README file (which was renamed to usage.rst).
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Manually convert wimax documentation to ReST and add theit
to the Kernel doc body, inside the admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Those two files describe userspace-faced information. While part of
it might fit on uAPI, it sounds to me that the admin guide is the
best place for them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation of ufs.txt to
reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process
and verified with make htmldocs
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation of jfs.txt to reStructuredText
format. Added to documentation build process and verified with
make htmldocs
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
changeset fb5772cbfe ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ")
removed cgroup references to CFQ, but it kept one left. Get rid of
it.
Fixes: fb5772cbfe ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
the "Removed Sysctls" section is a table - bring it alive with ReST.
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
from the massive RST conversion; a few other small fixes as well.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"This is mostly a set of follow-on fixes from Mauro fixing various
fallout from the massive RST conversion; a few other small fixes as
well"
* tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (21 commits)
docs: phy: Drop duplicate 'be made'
doc:it_IT: translations in process/
docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise reference
doc:it_IT: rephrase statement
doc:it_IT: align translation to mainline
docs: load_config.py: ensure subdirs end with "/"
docs: virtual: add it to the documentation body
docs: remove extra conf.py files
docs: load_config.py: avoid needing a conf.py just due to LaTeX docs
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: seek for Noto CJK fonts for pdf output
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: cleanup Gentoo checks
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix latexmk dependencies
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: don't use LaTeX with CentOS 7
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix script for RHEL/CentOS
docs: conf.py: only use CJK if the font is available
docs: conf.py: add CJK package needed by translations
docs: pdf: add all Documentation/*/index.rst to PDF output
docs: fix broken doc references due to renames
docs: power: add it to to the main documentation index
docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"Bugfixes, a pvspinlock optimization, and documentation moving"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption
Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt
KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free
KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu
KVM: X86: Fix fpu state crash in kvm guest
Revert "kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user"
KVM: nVMX: Clear pending KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES when leaving nested
Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the
grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as
a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt,
as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation
to match that.
Fixes: ed16648eb5 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fix an off-by-one typo in the transparent huge pages admin
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
"Fixes and features:
- A series to introduce a common command line parameter for disabling
paravirtual extensions when running as a guest in virtualized
environment
- A fix for int3 handling in Xen pv guests
- Removal of the Xen-specific tmem driver as support of tmem in Xen
has been dropped (and it was experimental only)
- A security fix for running as Xen dom0 (XSA-300)
- A fix for IRQ handling when offlining cpus in Xen guests
- Some small cleanups"
* tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free
xen/pv: Fix a boot up hang revealed by int3 self test
x86/xen: Add "nopv" support for HVM guest
x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable
xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsolete
x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions
x86/xen: Mark xen_hvm_need_lapic() and xen_x2apic_para_available() as __init
xen: remove tmem driver
Revert "x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized"
xen/events: fix binding user event channels to cpus
- Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes
- Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot
The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The main changes in this release include:
- Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes
- Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot
The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global
tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING
tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update()
ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing
ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel
tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions
tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command
tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command
kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall
tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one
tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline
tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests
...
- Bring fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c in sync with userspace libxfs.
- Convert the xfs administrator guide to rst and move it into the
official admin guide under Documentation
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Merge tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux
Pull xfs cleanups from Darrick Wong:
"We had a few more lateish cleanup patches come in for 5.3 -- a couple
of syncups with the userspace libxfs code and a conversion of the XFS
administrator's guide to ReST format.
Summary:
- Bring fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c in sync with userspace
libxfs.
- Convert the xfs administrator guide to rst and move it into the
official admin guide under Documentation"
* tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
Documentation: filesystem: Convert xfs.txt to ReST
xfs: sync up xfs_trans_inode with userspace
xfs: move xfs_trans_inode.c to libxfs/
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"VM:
- z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool
- more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao
- fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
Christoph Hellwig
- !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig
- new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
Kairui Song
- new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
initialization, by Alexander Potapenko
- ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual
- generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual
- device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin
- enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V
- add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy
- unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan
- several misc fixes
core/lib:
- new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan
- make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada
- changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan
- rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse
- convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes
get_maintainer.pl:
- add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches
misc:
- ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface
- coda updates
- gdb scripts, various"
[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (100 commits)
fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
...
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can
remove those extra conf.py files.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts,
timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the
best option.
However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose
but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command
line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a
better choice.
There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions,
like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to
struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call
the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true.
Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the
related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental"
state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13).
The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Since commit 2724273e8f ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in
second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to
vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential
issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data
and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel
which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it
will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues.
So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable
device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is
using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular
vmcore without device dump data is still available.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
conflicts with other trees"
* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
docs: block: fix pdf output
docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
docs: don't use nested tables
docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
docs: locking: add it to the main index
docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
...
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
"A later pull request with some followup items. I had some vacation
coming up to the merge window, so certain things items were delayed a
bit. This pull request also contains fixes that came in within the
last few days of the merge window, which I didn't want to push right
before sending you a pull request.
This contains:
- NVMe pull request, mostly fixes, but also a few minor items on the
feature side that were timing constrained (Christoph et al)
- Report zones fixes (Damien)
- Removal of dead code (Damien)
- Turn on cgroup psi memstall (Josef)
- block cgroup MAINTAINERS entry (Konstantin)
- Flush init fix (Josef)
- blk-throttle low iops timing fix (Konstantin)
- nbd resize fixes (Mike)
- nbd 0 blocksize crash fix (Xiubo)
- block integrity error leak fix (Wenwen)
- blk-cgroup writeback and priority inheritance fixes (Tejun)"
* tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (42 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add entry for block io cgroup
null_blk: fixup ->report_zones() for !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
block: Limit zone array allocation size
sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation
block: Kill gfp_t argument of blkdev_report_zones()
block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers
block/bio-integrity: fix a memory leak bug
nvme: fix NULL deref for fabrics options
nbd: add netlink reconfigure resize support
nbd: fix crash when the blksize is zero
block: Disable write plugging for zoned block devices
block: Fix elevator name declaration
block: Remove unused definitions
nvme: fix regression upon hot device removal and insertion
blk-throttle: fix zero wait time for iops throttled group
block: Fix potential overflow in blk_report_zones()
blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT
blkcg, writeback: Implement wbc_blkcg_css()
blkcg, writeback: Add wbc->no_cgroup_owner
blkcg, writeback: Rename wbc_account_io() to wbc_account_cgroup_owner()
...
Move xfs.txt to admin-guide, convert xfs.txt to ReST and broken references
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Nested tables aren't supported for pdf output on Sphinx 1.7.9:
admin-guide/laptops/sonypi:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
admin-guide/laptops/toshiba_haps:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
driver-api/nvdimm/btt:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
s390/debugging390:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> # laptops
While this is stated as obsoleted, the sysfs interface described
there is still valid, and belongs to the admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
All those new files I added are under GPL v2.0 license.
Add the corresponding SPDX headers to them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other
orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book.
Move them to their right place.
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts
Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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>
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Justin Sanders <justin@coraid.com>
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The docs under Documentation/laptops contain users specific
information.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped
disk partitions from the userspace PoV.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
As stated at the documentation, this is meant to be for
users to better understand namespaces.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The perf infrastructure is used for userspace to track issues.
At least a good part of what's described here is related to
it.
So, add it to the admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
This is actually a subsystem description, with contains both
kAPI and uAPI.
While it should ideally be slplit, let's place it at driver-api,
as most things are related to kAPI and driver-specific info.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the
README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other
files there via TOC markup.
Despite being written on different times with different
styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar
look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both
raw text file and as via the html output produced by the
Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Rename the blockdev documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
The drbd sub-directory contains some graphs and data flows.
Add those too to the documentation.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Rename the laptops documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Rename the accounting documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Convert the m68k kernel-options.txt file to ReST.
The conversion is trivial, as the document is already on a format
close enough to ReST. Just some small adjustments were needed in
order to make it both good for being parsed while keeping it on
a good txt shape.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Notable changes:
- Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver, as well
as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't (yet?) made it
upstream.
- A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf record -e
mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and kernel crashes.
- Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for vmalloc
when using the Radix MMU.
- A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to use gas
macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.
And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
Thanks to:
Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater,
Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig,
Daniel Axtens, Denis Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R.
Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg
Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao,
Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi Bangoria,
Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher Boessenkool, Shaokun
Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung
Bauermann, YueHaibing.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
(yet?) made it upstream.
- A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
kernel crashes.
- Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.
- A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.
And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
...
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
"Am experimenting with splitting MM up into identifiable subsystems
perhaps with a view to gitifying it in complex ways. Also with more
verbose "incoming" emails.
Most of MM is here and a few other trees.
Subsystems affected by this patch series:
- hotfixes
- iommu
- scripts
- arch/sh
- ocfs2
- mm:slab-generic
- mm:slub
- mm:kmemleak
- mm:kasan
- mm:cleanups
- mm:debug
- mm:pagecache
- mm:swap
- mm:memcg
- mm:gup
- mm:pagemap
- mm:infrastructure
- mm:vmalloc
- mm:initialization
- mm:pagealloc
- mm:vmscan
- mm:tools
- mm:proc
- mm:ras
- mm:oom-kill
hotfixes:
mm: vmscan: scan anonymous pages on file refaults
mm/nvdimm: add is_ioremap_addr and use that to check ioremap address
mm/memcontrol: fix wrong statistics in memory.stat
mm/z3fold.c: lock z3fold page before __SetPageMovable()
nilfs2: do not use unexported cpu_to_le32()/le32_to_cpu() in uapi header
MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: update email address
iommu:
include/linux/dmar.h: replace single-char identifiers in macros
scripts:
scripts/decode_stacktrace: match basepath using shell prefix operator, not regex
scripts/decode_stacktrace: look for modules with .ko.debug extension
scripts/spelling.txt: drop "sepc" from the misspelling list
scripts/spelling.txt: add spelling fix for prohibited
scripts/decode_stacktrace: Accept dash/underscore in modules
scripts/spelling.txt: add more spellings to spelling.txt
arch/sh:
arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig: remove CONFIG_LOGFS
sh: config: remove left-over BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT
sh: prevent warnings when using iounmap
ocfs2:
fs: ocfs: fix spelling mistake "hearbeating" -> "heartbeat"
ocfs2/dlm: use struct_size() helper
ocfs2: add last unlock times in locking_state
ocfs2: add locking filter debugfs file
ocfs2: add first lock wait time in locking_state
ocfs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c: unneeded variable: "status"
ocfs2: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
mm:slab-generic:
Patch series "mm/slab: Improved sanity checking":
mm/slab: validate cache membership under freelist hardening
mm/slab: sanity-check page type when looking up cache
lkdtm/heap: add tests for freelist hardening
mm:slub:
mm/slub.c: avoid double string traverse in kmem_cache_flags()
slub: don't panic for memcg kmem cache creation failure
mm:kmemleak:
mm/kmemleak.c: fix check for softirq context
mm/kmemleak.c: change error at _write when kmemleak is disabled
docs: kmemleak: add more documentation details
mm:kasan:
mm/kasan: print frame description for stack bugs
Patch series "Bitops instrumentation for KASAN", v5:
lib/test_kasan: add bitops tests
x86: use static_cpu_has in uaccess region to avoid instrumentation
asm-generic, x86: add bitops instrumentation for KASAN
Patch series "mm/kasan: Add object validation in ksize()", v3:
mm/kasan: introduce __kasan_check_{read,write}
mm/kasan: change kasan_check_{read,write} to return boolean
lib/test_kasan: Add test for double-kzfree detection
mm/slab: refactor common ksize KASAN logic into slab_common.c
mm/kasan: add object validation in ksize()
mm:cleanups:
include/linux/pfn_t.h: remove pfn_t_to_virt()
Patch series "remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL where it has no effect":
arm: remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
s390: remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
sparc: remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
mm/gup.c: make follow_page_mask() static
mm/memory.c: trivial clean up in insert_page()
mm: make !CONFIG_HUGE_PAGE wrappers into static inlines
include/linux/mm_types.h: ifdef struct vm_area_struct::swap_readahead_info
mm: remove the account_page_dirtied export
mm/page_isolation.c: change the prototype of undo_isolate_page_range()
include/linux/vmpressure.h: use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock
mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages
include/linux/pagemap.h: document trylock_page() return value
mm:debug:
mm/failslab.c: by default, do not fail allocations with direct reclaim only
Patch series "debug_pagealloc improvements":
mm, debug_pagelloc: use static keys to enable debugging
mm, page_alloc: more extensive free page checking with debug_pagealloc
mm, debug_pagealloc: use a page type instead of page_ext flag
mm:pagecache:
Patch series "fix filler_t callback type mismatches", v2:
mm/filemap.c: fix an overly long line in read_cache_page
mm/filemap: don't cast ->readpage to filler_t for do_read_cache_page
jffs2: pass the correct prototype to read_cache_page
9p: pass the correct prototype to read_cache_page
mm/filemap.c: correct the comment about VM_FAULT_RETRY
mm:swap:
mm, swap: fix race between swapoff and some swap operations
mm/swap_state.c: simplify total_swapcache_pages() with get_swap_device()
mm, swap: use rbtree for swap_extent
mm/mincore.c: fix race between swapoff and mincore
mm:memcg:
memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
memcg, fsnotify: no oom-kill for remote memcg charging
mm, memcg: introduce memory.events.local
mm: memcontrol: dump memory.stat during cgroup OOM
Patch series "mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal", v7:
mm: memcg/slab: postpone kmem_cache memcg pointer initialization to memcg_link_cache()
mm: memcg/slab: rename slab delayed deactivation functions and fields
mm: memcg/slab: generalize postponed non-root kmem_cache deactivation
mm: memcg/slab: introduce __memcg_kmem_uncharge_memcg()
mm: memcg/slab: unify SLAB and SLUB page accounting
mm: memcg/slab: don't check the dying flag on kmem_cache creation
mm: memcg/slab: synchronize access to kmem_cache dying flag using a spinlock
mm: memcg/slab: rework non-root kmem_cache lifecycle management
mm: memcg/slab: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages
mm: memcg/slab: reparent memcg kmem_caches on cgroup removal
mm, memcg: add a memcg_slabinfo debugfs file
mm:gup:
Patch series "switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP", v4:
mm: use untagged_addr() for get_user_pages_fast addresses
mm: simplify gup_fast_permitted
mm: lift the x86_32 PAE version of gup_get_pte to common code
MIPS: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
sh: add the missing pud_page definition
sh: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
sparc64: add the missing pgd_page definition
sparc64: define untagged_addr()
sparc64: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
mm: rename CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP
mm: reorder code blocks in gup.c
mm: consolidate the get_user_pages* implementations
mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags
mm: move the powerpc hugepd code to mm/gup.c
mm: switch gup_hugepte to use try_get_compound_head
mm: mark the page referenced in gup_hugepte
mm/gup: speed up check_and_migrate_cma_pages() on huge page
mm/gup.c: remove some BUG_ONs from get_gate_page()
mm/gup.c: mark undo_dev_pagemap as __maybe_unused
mm:pagemap:
asm-generic, x86: introduce generic pte_{alloc,free}_one[_kernel]
alpha: switch to generic version of pte allocation
arm: switch to generic version of pte allocation
arm64: switch to generic version of pte allocation
csky: switch to generic version of pte allocation
m68k: sun3: switch to generic version of pte allocation
mips: switch to generic version of pte allocation
nds32: switch to generic version of pte allocation
nios2: switch to generic version of pte allocation
parisc: switch to generic version of pte allocation
riscv: switch to generic version of pte allocation
um: switch to generic version of pte allocation
unicore32: switch to generic version of pte allocation
mm/pgtable: drop pgtable_t variable from pte_fn_t functions
mm/memory.c: fail when offset == num in first check of __vm_map_pages()
mm:infrastructure:
mm/mmu_notifier: use hlist_add_head_rcu()
mm:vmalloc:
Patch series "Some cleanups for the KVA/vmalloc", v5:
mm/vmalloc.c: remove "node" argument
mm/vmalloc.c: preload a CPU with one object for split purpose
mm/vmalloc.c: get rid of one single unlink_va() when merge
mm/vmalloc.c: switch to WARN_ON() and move it under unlink_va()
mm/vmalloc.c: spelling> s/informaion/information/
mm:initialization:
mm/large system hash: use vmalloc for size > MAX_ORDER when !hashdist
mm/large system hash: clear hashdist when only one node with memory is booted
mm:pagealloc:
arm64: move jump_label_init() before parse_early_param()
Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10:
mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options
mm: init: report memory auto-initialization features at boot time
mm:vmscan:
mm: vmscan: remove double slab pressure by inc'ing sc->nr_scanned
mm: vmscan: correct some vmscan counters for THP swapout
mm:tools:
tools/vm/slabinfo: order command line options
tools/vm/slabinfo: add partial slab listing to -X
tools/vm/slabinfo: add option to sort by partial slabs
tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu
mm:proc:
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/maps
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/pagemap
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/clear_refs
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/map_files
mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm
mm: smaps: split PSS into components
mm: vmalloc: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo
mm:ras:
mm/memory-failure.c: clarify error message
mm:oom-kill:
mm: memcontrol: use CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS at mem_cgroup_scan_tasks()
mm, oom: refactor dump_tasks for memcg OOMs
mm, oom: remove redundant task_in_mem_cgroup() check
oom: decouple mems_allowed from oom_unkillable_task
mm/oom_kill.c: remove redundant OOM score normalization in select_bad_process()"
* akpm: (147 commits)
mm/oom_kill.c: remove redundant OOM score normalization in select_bad_process()
oom: decouple mems_allowed from oom_unkillable_task
mm, oom: remove redundant task_in_mem_cgroup() check
mm, oom: refactor dump_tasks for memcg OOMs
mm: memcontrol: use CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS at mem_cgroup_scan_tasks()
mm/memory-failure.c: clarify error message
mm: vmalloc: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo
mm: smaps: split PSS into components
mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/map_files
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/clear_refs
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/pagemap
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/maps
tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu
tools/vm/slabinfo: add option to sort by partial slabs
tools/vm/slabinfo: add partial slab listing to -X
tools/vm/slabinfo: order command line options
mm: vmscan: correct some vmscan counters for THP swapout
mm: vmscan: remove double slab pressure by inc'ing sc->nr_scanned
...
Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10.
Provide init_on_alloc and init_on_free boot options.
These are aimed at preventing possible information leaks and making the
control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.
Enabling either of the options guarantees that the memory returned by the
page allocator and SL[AU]B is initialized with zeroes. SLOB allocator
isn't supported at the moment, as its emulation of kmem caches complicates
handling of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches correctly.
Enabling init_on_free also guarantees that pages and heap objects are
initialized right after they're freed, so it won't be possible to access
stale data by using a dangling pointer.
As suggested by Michal Hocko, right now we don't let the heap users to
disable initialization for certain allocations. There's not enough
evidence that doing so can speed up real-life cases, and introducing ways
to opt-out may result in things going out of control.
This patch (of 2):
The new options are needed to prevent possible information leaks and make
control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.
This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome OS. And it
gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros too via the
boot args. (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested by folks
where memory forensics is included in their threat models.)
init_on_alloc=1 makes the kernel initialize newly allocated pages and heap
objects with zeroes. Initialization is done at allocation time at the
places where checks for __GFP_ZERO are performed.
init_on_free=1 makes the kernel initialize freed pages and heap objects
with zeroes upon their deletion. This helps to ensure sensitive data
doesn't leak via use-after-free accesses.
Both init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 guarantee that the allocator
returns zeroed memory. The two exceptions are slab caches with
constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag. Those are never
zero-initialized to preserve their semantics.
Both init_on_alloc and init_on_free default to zero, but those defaults
can be overridden with CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON and
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
If either SLUB poisoning or page poisoning is enabled, those options take
precedence over init_on_alloc and init_on_free: initialization is only
applied to unpoisoned allocations.
Slowdown for the new features compared to init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0:
hackbench, init_on_free=1: +7.62% sys time (st.err 0.74%)
hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.75% sys time (st.err 2.14%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +8.38% wall time (st.err 0.39%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +24.42% sys time (st.err 0.52%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.13% wall time (st.err 0.42%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +0.57% sys time (st.err 0.40%)
The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the baseline
is within the standard error.
The new features are also going to pave the way for hardware memory
tagging (e.g. arm64's MTE), which will require both on_alloc and on_free
hooks to set the tags for heap objects. With MTE, tagging will have the
same cost as memory initialization.
Although init_on_free is rather costly, there are paranoid use-cases where
in-memory data lifetime is desired to be minimized. There are various
arguments for/against the realism of the associated threat models, but
given that we'll need the infrastructure for MTE anyway, and there are
people who want wipe-on-free behavior no matter what the performance cost,
it seems reasonable to include it in this series.
[glider@google.com: v8]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626121943.131390-2-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: v9]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627130316.254309-2-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: v10]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628093131.199499-2-glider@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617151050.92663-2-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [page and dmapool parts
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The memory controller in cgroup v2 exposes memory.events file for each
memcg which shows the number of times events like low, high, max, oom
and oom_kill have happened for the whole tree rooted at that memcg.
Users can also poll or register notification to monitor the changes in
that file. Any event at any level of the tree rooted at memcg will
notify all the listeners along the path till root_mem_cgroup. There are
existing users which depend on this behavior.
However there are users which are only interested in the events
happening at a specific level of the memcg tree and not in the events in
the underlying tree rooted at that memcg. One such use-case is a
centralized resource monitor which can dynamically adjust the limits of
the jobs running on a system. The jobs can create their sub-hierarchy
for their own sub-tasks. The centralized monitor is only interested in
the events at the top level memcgs of the jobs as it can then act and
adjust the limits of the jobs. Using the current memory.events for such
centralized monitor is very inconvenient. The monitor will keep
receiving events which it is not interested and to find if the received
event is interesting, it has to read memory.event files of the next
level and compare it with the top level one. So, let's introduce
memory.events.local to the memcg which shows and notify for the events
at the memcg level.
Now, does memory.stat and memory.pressure need their local versions. IMHO
no due to the no internal process contraint of the cgroup v2. The
memory.stat file of the top level memcg of a job shows the stats and
vmevents of the whole tree. The local stats or vmevents of the top level
memcg will only change if there is a process running in that memcg but v2
does not allow that. Similarly for memory.pressure there will not be any
process in the internal nodes and thus no chance of local pressure.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527174643.209172-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext
array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that
we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as
guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces
memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other
features requiring the page_ext array.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here is the "large" TTY and Serial driver update for 5.3-rc1.
It's in the negative number of lines overall as we removed an obsolete
serial driver that was causing problems for some people who were trying
to clean up some apis (the mpsc.c driver, which only worked for some
pre-production hardware that no one has anymore.)
Other than that, lots of tiny changes, cleaning up small things along
with some platform-specific serial driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "large" TTY and Serial driver update for 5.3-rc1.
It's in the negative number of lines overall as we removed an obsolete
serial driver that was causing problems for some people who were
trying to clean up some apis (the mpsc.c driver, which only worked for
some pre-production hardware that no one has anymore.)
Other than that, lots of tiny changes, cleaning up small things along
with some platform-specific serial driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (68 commits)
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: add imx8qxp support
serial: imx: set_termios(): preserve RTS state
serial: imx: set_termios(): clarify RTS/CTS bits calculation
serial: imx: set_termios(): factor-out 'ucr2' initial value
serial: sh-sci: Terminate TX DMA during buffer flushing
serial: sh-sci: Fix TX DMA buffer flushing and workqueue races
serial: mpsc: Remove obsolete MPSC driver
serial: 8250: 8250_core: Fix missing unlock on error in serial8250_register_8250_port()
serial: stm32: add RX and TX FIFO flush
serial: stm32: add support of RX FIFO threshold
serial: stm32: add support of TX FIFO threshold
serial: stm32: update PIO transmission
serial: stm32: add support of timeout interrupt for RX
Revert "serial: 8250: Don't service RX FIFO if interrupts are disabled"
tty/serial/8250: use mctrl_gpio helpers
serial: mctrl_gpio: Check if GPIO property exisits before requesting it
serial: 8250: pericom_do_set_divisor can be static
tty: serial_core: Set port active bit in uart_port_activate
serial: 8250: Add MSR/MCR TIOCM conversion wrapper functions
serial: 8250: factor out serial8250_{set,clear}_THRI() helpers
...
wbc_account_io() does a very specific job - try to see which cgroup is
actually dirtying an inode and transfer its ownership to the majority
dirtier if needed. The name is too generic and confusing. Let's
rename it to something more specific.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
- 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
...
The previous commit added macro calls in the entry code which mitigate the
Spectre v1 swapgs issue if the X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_* features are
enabled. Enable those features where applicable.
The mitigations may be disabled with "nospectre_v1" or "mitigations=off".
There are different features which can affect the risk of attack:
- When FSGSBASE is enabled, unprivileged users are able to place any
value in GS, using the wrgsbase instruction. This means they can
write a GS value which points to any value in kernel space, which can
be useful with the following gadget in an interrupt/exception/NMI
handler:
if (coming from user space)
swapgs
mov %gs:<percpu_offset>, %reg1
// dependent load or store based on the value of %reg
// for example: mov %(reg1), %reg2
If an interrupt is coming from user space, and the entry code
speculatively skips the swapgs (due to user branch mistraining), it
may speculatively execute the GS-based load and a subsequent dependent
load or store, exposing the kernel data to an L1 side channel leak.
Note that, on Intel, a similar attack exists in the above gadget when
coming from kernel space, if the swapgs gets speculatively executed to
switch back to the user GS. On AMD, this variant isn't possible
because swapgs is serializing with respect to future GS-based
accesses.
NOTE: The FSGSBASE patch set hasn't been merged yet, so the above case
doesn't exist quite yet.
- When FSGSBASE is disabled, the issue is mitigated somewhat because
unprivileged users must use prctl(ARCH_SET_GS) to set GS, which
restricts GS values to user space addresses only. That means the
gadget would need an additional step, since the target kernel address
needs to be read from user space first. Something like:
if (coming from user space)
swapgs
mov %gs:<percpu_offset>, %reg1
mov (%reg1), %reg2
// dependent load or store based on the value of %reg2
// for example: mov %(reg2), %reg3
It's difficult to audit for this gadget in all the handlers, so while
there are no known instances of it, it's entirely possible that it
exists somewhere (or could be introduced in the future). Without
tooling to analyze all such code paths, consider it vulnerable.
Effects of SMAP on the !FSGSBASE case:
- If SMAP is enabled, and the CPU reports RDCL_NO (i.e., not
susceptible to Meltdown), the kernel is prevented from speculatively
reading user space memory, even L1 cached values. This effectively
disables the !FSGSBASE attack vector.
- If SMAP is enabled, but the CPU *is* susceptible to Meltdown, SMAP
still prevents the kernel from speculatively reading user space
memory. But it does *not* prevent the kernel from reading the
user value from L1, if it has already been cached. This is probably
only a small hurdle for an attacker to overcome.
Thanks to Dave Hansen for contributing the speculative_smap() function.
Thanks to Andrew Cooper for providing the inside scoop on whether swapgs
is serializing on AMD.
[ tglx: Fixed the USER fence decision and polished the comment as suggested
by Dave Hansen ]
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which
will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost"
* 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS
cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The changes in this cycle are:
- RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
- SRCU updates
- RCU-sync flavor consolidation
- Torture-test updates
- Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the
addition of plain C-language accesses"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection
tools/memory-model: Change definition of rcu-fence
tools/memory-model: Expand definition of barrier
tools/memory-model: Do not use "herd" to refer to "herd7"
tools/memory-model: Fix comment in MP+poonceonces.litmus
Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()
rcu: Force inlining of rcu_read_lock()
rcu: Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer()
rcu: Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb()
rcutorture: Upper case solves the case of the vanishing NULL pointer
torture: Suppress propagating trace_printk() warning
rcutorture: Dump trace buffer for callback pipe drain failures
torture: Add --trust-make to suppress "make clean"
torture: Make --cpus override idleness calculations
torture: Run kernel build in source directory
torture: Add function graph-tracing cheat sheet
torture: Capture qemu output
rcutorture: Tweak kvm options
rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation
...
The documentation is more appropriate for the administrator than for
the internal kernel API section it is currently in.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull x86 vsyscall updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Further hardening of the legacy vsyscall by providing support for
execute only mode and switching the default to it.
This prevents a certain class of attacks which rely on the vsyscall
page being accessible at a fixed address in the canonical kernel
address space"
* 'x86-entry-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftests/x86: Add a test for process_vm_readv() on the vsyscall page
x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables
x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly
selftests/x86/vsyscall: Verify that vsyscall=none blocks execution
x86/vsyscall: Document odd SIGSEGV error code for vsyscalls
x86/vsyscall: Show something useful on a read fault
x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly mode
Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation
Support for the Marvell MV64x60 line of bridge chips that contained
MPSC controllers has been removed and there are no other components
that have that controller so remove its driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190626160553.28518-1-mgreer@animalcreek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 243e25112d ("powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE
interrupt controller") added an option to turn off Linux native XIVE
usage via the xive=off kernel command line option.
This documents this option.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to
indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as
an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code,
"``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
With vsyscall emulation on, a readable vsyscall page is still exposed that
contains syscall instructions that validly implement the vsyscalls.
This is required because certain dynamic binary instrumentation tools
attempt to read the call targets of call instructions in the instrumented
code. If the instrumented code uses vsyscalls, then the vsyscall page needs
to contain readable code.
Unfortunately, leaving readable memory at a deterministic address can be
used to help various ASLR bypasses, so some hardening value can be gained
by disallowing vsyscall reads.
Given how rarely the vsyscall page needs to be readable, add a mechanism to
make the vsyscall page be execute only.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d17655777c21bc09a7af1bbcf74e6f2b69a51152.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:
- Explain the problem and risks
- Document the mitigation mechanisms
- Document the command line controls
- Document the sysfs files
Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This sets the HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP option, and defines the required
page table functions.
This enables huge (2MB and 1GB) ioremap mappings. I don't have a
benchmark for this change, but huge vmap will be used by a later core
kernel change to enable huge vmalloc memory mappings. This improves
cached `git diff` performance by about 5% on a 2-node POWER9 with 32MB
size dentry cache hash.
Profiling git diff dTLB misses with a vanilla kernel:
81.75% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __d_lookup_rcu
7.21% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] strncpy_from_user
1.77% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] find_get_entry
1.59% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] kmem_cache_free
40,168 dTLB-miss
0.100342754 seconds time elapsed
With powerpc huge vmalloc:
2,987 dTLB-miss
0.095933138 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to
build with Sphinx.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Sphinx need to know when a paragraph ends. So, do some adjustments
at the file for it to be properly parsed.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
that's said, I believe that this file should be moved to the
GPU/DRM documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert those documents and prepare them to be part of the kernel
API book, as most of the stuff there are related to the
Kernel interfaces.
Still, in the future, it would make sense to split the docs,
as some of the stuff is clearly focused on sysadmin tasks.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to
allow a later addition to the admin-guide.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.
Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:
PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)
I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents
there are written at different times: some use markdown,
some use their own peculiar logic to split sections.
Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much
the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge tag 'v5.2-rc4' into mauro
We need to pick up post-rc1 changes to various document files so they don't
get lost in Mauro's massive RST conversion push.
Convert all text files with s390 documentation to ReST format.
Tried to preserve as much as possible the original document
format. Still, some of the files required some work in order
for it to be visible on both plain text and after converted
to html.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
The hisax driver got removed on 85993b8c97 ("isdn: remove hisax driver"),
but a left-over was kept at kernel-parameters.txt.
Fixes: 85993b8c97 ("isdn: remove hisax driver")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When building it, it gets this warning:
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst:168: WARNING: Footnote [1] is not referenced.
The problem is that this is not really a reference, as it is not
mentioned within the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
memory.stat and other files already consider subtrees in their output, and
we should too in order to not present an inconsistent interface.
The current situation is fairly confusing, because people interacting with
cgroups expect hierarchical behaviour in the vein of memory.stat,
cgroup.events, and other files. For example, this causes confusion when
debugging reclaim events under low, as currently these always read "0" at
non-leaf memcg nodes, which frequently causes people to misdiagnose breach
behaviour. The same confusion applies to other counters in this file when
debugging issues.
Aggregation is done at write time instead of at read-time since these
counters aren't hot (unlike memory.stat which is per-page, so it does it
at read time), and it makes sense to bundle this with the file
notifications.
After this patch, events are propagated up the hierarchy:
[root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
low 0
high 0
max 0
oom 0
oom_kill 0
[root@ktst ~]# systemd-run -p MemoryMax=1 true
Running as unit: run-r251162a189fb4562b9dabfdc9b0422f5.service
[root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
low 0
high 0
max 7
oom 1
oom_kill 1
As this is a change in behaviour, this can be reverted to the old
behaviour by mounting with the `memory_localevents' flag set. However, we
use the new behaviour by default as there's a lack of evidence that there
are any current users of memory.events that would find this change
undesirable.
akpm: this is a behaviour change, so Cc:stable. THis is so that
forthcoming distros which use cgroup v2 are more likely to pick up the
revised behaviour.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190208224419.GA24772@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel already provide MODULE_SIG and KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG to
make sure loaded kernel module and kernel image are trusted. This
patch adds a kernel command line option "loadpin.exclude" which
allows to exclude specific file types from LoadPin. This is useful
when people want to use different mechanisms to verify module and
kernel image while still use LoadPin to protect the integrity of
other files kernel loads.
Signed-off-by: Ke Wu <mikewu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
[kees: fix array size issue reported by Coverity via Colin Ian King]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
cgroup already uses floating point for percent[ile] numbers and there
are several controllers which want to take them as input. Add a
generic parse helper to handle inputs.
Update the interface convention documentation about the use of
percentage numbers. While at it, also clarify the default time unit.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The default behavior of hardlockup depends on the config of
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC.
Fix the description of nmi_watchdog to make it clear.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add kprobe_event= boot parameter to define kprobe events
at boot time.
The definition syntax is similar to tracefs/kprobe_events
interface, but use ',' and ';' instead of ' ' and '\n'
respectively. e.g.
kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
This puts a probe on vfs_read with argument1 and 2, and
enable the new event.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155851395498.15728.830529496248543583.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing
without affecting other softirq work. This commit therefore introduces
the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core
work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc. Use of
SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
to kthreads. That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.
Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core
processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked
from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition
in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock()
while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent
bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Commit 13bac55ef7 ("doc/mm: New documentation for memory performance")
added numaperf.rst, but did not add it to the TOC tree. There was also an
incorrectly marked literal block leading to this warning sequence:
numaperf.rst:24: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
numaperf.rst:24: WARNING: Inline substitution_reference start-string without end-string.
numaperf.rst:25: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Fix the block and add the file to the document tree.
Fixes: 13bac55ef7 ("doc/mm: New documentation for memory performance")
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently on panic, kernel will lower the loglevel and print out pending
printk msg only with console_flush_on_panic().
Add an option for users to configure the "panic_print" to replay all
dmesg in buffer, some of which they may have never seen due to the
loglevel setting, which will help panic debugging .
[feng.tang@intel.com: keep the original console_flush_on_panic() inside panic()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556199137-14163-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[feng.tang@intel.com: use logbuf lock to protect the console log index]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556269868-22654-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556095872-36838-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.2b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- some minor cleanups
- two small corrections for Xen on ARM
- two fixes for Xen PVH guest support
- a patch for a new command line option to tune virtual timer handling
* tag 'for-linus-5.2b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/arm: Use p2m entry with lock protection
xen/arm: Free p2m entry if fail to add it to RB tree
xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0
xen/pvh: set xen_domain_type to HVM in xen_pvh_init
xenbus: drop useless LIST_HEAD in xenbus_write_watch() and xenbus_file_write()
xen-netfront: mark expected switch fall-through
xen: xen-pciback: fix warning Using plain integer as NULL pointer
x86/xen: Add "xen_timer_slop" command line option
The maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers was limited to
32k. That limit should be big enough for most use cases.
However, there are some users out there requesting for more, especially
those that are migrating from Solaris which uses 24 bits for unique
identifiers. To satisfy the need of those users, a new boot time kernel
option "ipcmni_extend" is added to extend the IPCMNI value to 16M. This
is a 512X increase which should be big enough for users out there that
need a large number of unique IPC identifier.
The use of this new option will change the pattern of the IPC
identifiers returned by functions like shmget(2). An application that
depends on such pattern may not work properly. So it should only be
used if the users really need more than 32k of unique IPC numbers.
This new option does have the side effect of reducing the maximum number
of unique sequence numbers from 64k down to 128. So it is a trade-off.
The computation of a new IPC id is not done in the performance critical
path. So a little bit of additional overhead shouldn't have any real
performance impact.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329204930.21620-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow specifying reboot_mode for panic only. This is needed on systems
where ramoops is used to store panic logs, and user wants to use warm
reset to preserve those, while still having cold reset on normal
reboots.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190322004735.27702-1-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10.
This patch (of 3):
Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of
a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform
capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC
(high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In
that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to
higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going
to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in
front of higher latency persistent memory [1].
Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux
interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here:
It's been a problem in the HPC space:
http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/
A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software
and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com
Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but
also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance
more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible
to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing
users to deploy remedies like:
"To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream
measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job;
nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth
falls below 300 GB/s."
A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e5
("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this
numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized
("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and
disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance.
However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts
are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate
time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server
platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case.
The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a
workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance
degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to
excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the
valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance.
Here are some performance impact details of the patches:
1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a
3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts.
The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an
instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized
numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they
would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes
without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted
unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node.
2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap
size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8%
for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With
randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%.
3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in
cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with
randomization in one case.
4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization
enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some
improvements and some losses [3].
While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that
depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance
may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the
shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped
memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0
parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems.
Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially
security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and
return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the
location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially
early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for
physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first
onlined.
Quoting Kees:
"While we already have a base-address randomization
(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and
memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of
allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't
important: only the relative positions between allocated memory).
This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain
control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc.
I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar
to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator."
While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab
caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated.
However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to
quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization.
Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform
a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they
are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do
this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line
parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a
follow-on patch).
The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free
pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10,
4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling.
MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator
while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the
expectation that the security implications of finer granularity
randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The
performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to
other memory initialization work.
This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is
introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to
ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to
the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process
putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together,
page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As
more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high
page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant
impact to the cache conflict rate.
[1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/
[2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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
...
Highlights:
- Support for Kernel Userspace Access/Execution Prevention (like
SMAP/SMEP/PAN/PXN) on some 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. This prevents the kernel
from accidentally accessing userspace outside copy_to/from_user(), or
ever executing userspace.
- KASAN support on 32-bit.
- Rework of where we map the kernel, vmalloc, etc. on 64-bit hash to use the
same address ranges we use with the Radix MMU.
- A rewrite into C of large parts of our idle handling code for 64-bit Book3S
(ie. power8 & power9).
- A fast path entry for syscalls on 32-bit CPUs, for a 12-17% speedup in the
null_syscall benchmark.
- On 64-bit bare metal we have support for recovering from errors with the time
base (our clocksource), however if that fails currently we hang in __delay()
and never crash. We now have support for detecting that case and short
circuiting __delay() so we at least panic() and reboot.
- Add support for optionally enabling the DAWR on Power9, which had to be
disabled by default due to a hardware erratum. This has the effect of
enabling hardware breakpoints for GDB, the downside is a badly behaved
program could crash the machine by pointing the DAWR at cache inhibited
memory. This is opt-in obviously.
- xmon, our crash handler, gets support for a read only mode where operations
that could change memory or otherwise disturb the system are disabled.
Plus many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc.
Thanks to:
Christophe Leroy, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew
Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Ben Hutchings,
Bo YU, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph
Hellwig, Colin Ian King, David Gibson, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy,
George Spelvin, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Horia Geantă, Jagadeesh
Pagadala, Joel Stanley, Joe Perches, Julia Lawall, Laurentiu Tudor, Laurent
Vivier, Lukas Bulwahn, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu
Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Mukesh Ojha, Nathan Fontenot, Nathan Lynch,
Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Peng Hao, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Rick Lindsley, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Stewart Smith, Sukadev
Bhattiprolu, Thomas Huth, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Valentin
Schneider, Wei Yongjun, Wen Yang, YueHaibing.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.2-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Slightly delayed due to the issue with printk() calling
probe_kernel_read() interacting with our new user access prevention
stuff, but all fixed now.
The only out-of-area changes are the addition of a cpuhp_state, small
additions to Documentation and MAINTAINERS updates.
Highlights:
- Support for Kernel Userspace Access/Execution Prevention (like
SMAP/SMEP/PAN/PXN) on some 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. This prevents
the kernel from accidentally accessing userspace outside
copy_to/from_user(), or ever executing userspace.
- KASAN support on 32-bit.
- Rework of where we map the kernel, vmalloc, etc. on 64-bit hash to
use the same address ranges we use with the Radix MMU.
- A rewrite into C of large parts of our idle handling code for
64-bit Book3S (ie. power8 & power9).
- A fast path entry for syscalls on 32-bit CPUs, for a 12-17% speedup
in the null_syscall benchmark.
- On 64-bit bare metal we have support for recovering from errors
with the time base (our clocksource), however if that fails
currently we hang in __delay() and never crash. We now have support
for detecting that case and short circuiting __delay() so we at
least panic() and reboot.
- Add support for optionally enabling the DAWR on Power9, which had
to be disabled by default due to a hardware erratum. This has the
effect of enabling hardware breakpoints for GDB, the downside is a
badly behaved program could crash the machine by pointing the DAWR
at cache inhibited memory. This is opt-in obviously.
- xmon, our crash handler, gets support for a read only mode where
operations that could change memory or otherwise disturb the system
are disabled.
Plus many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc.
Thanks to: Christophe Leroy, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar,
Anton Blanchard, Ben Hutchings, Bo YU, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater,
Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, David Gibson,
Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, George Spelvin, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
Greg Kurz, Horia Geantă, Jagadeesh Pagadala, Joel Stanley, Joe
Perches, Julia Lawall, Laurentiu Tudor, Laurent Vivier, Lukas Bulwahn,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
Neuling, Mukesh Ojha, Nathan Fontenot, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Peng Hao, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Rick Lindsley, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Stewart Smith,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thomas Huth, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler,
Valentin Schneider, Wei Yongjun, Wen Yang, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.2-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (205 commits)
powerpc/64s: Use early_mmu_has_feature() in set_kuap()
powerpc/book3s/64: check for NULL pointer in pgd_alloc()
powerpc/mm: Fix hugetlb page initialization
ocxl: Fix return value check in afu_ioctl()
powerpc/mm: fix section mismatch for setup_kup()
powerpc/mm: fix redundant inclusion of pgtable-frag.o in Makefile
powerpc/mm: Fix makefile for KASAN
powerpc/kasan: add missing/lost Makefile
selftests/powerpc: Add a signal fuzzer selftest
powerpc/booke64: set RI in default MSR
ocxl: Provide global MMIO accessors for external drivers
ocxl: move event_fd handling to frontend
ocxl: afu_irq only deals with IRQ IDs, not offsets
ocxl: Allow external drivers to use OpenCAPI contexts
ocxl: Create a clear delineation between ocxl backend & frontend
ocxl: Don't pass pci_dev around
ocxl: Split pci.c
ocxl: Remove some unused exported symbols
ocxl: Remove superfluous 'extern' from headers
ocxl: read_pasid never returns an error, so make it void
...
Stephen Hemminger