- Valentin Schneider makes crash-kexec work properly when invoked from
an NMI-time panic.
- ntfs bugfixes from Hawkins Jiawei
- Jiebin Sun improves IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with
percpu counters.
- nilfs2 cleanups from Minghao Chi
- lots of other single patches all over the tree!
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)
- make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
(Valentin Schneider)
- ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)
- improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
counters (Jiebin Sun)
- nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)
- lots of other single patches all over the tree!
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
ia64: update config files
nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
fork: remove duplicate included header files
init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
proc: mark more files as permanent
nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
...
Print the machine hardware name (UTS_MACHINE) in /proc/sys/kernel/arch.
This helps people who debug kernel with initramfs with minimal environment
(i.e. without coreutils or even busybox) or allow to open sysfs file
instead of run 'uname -m' in high level languages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901194403.3819-1-pvorel@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In NUMA balancing memory tiering mode, if there are hot pages in slow
memory node and cold pages in fast memory node, we need to promote/demote
hot/cold pages between the fast and cold memory nodes.
A choice is to promote/demote as fast as possible. But the CPU cycles and
memory bandwidth consumed by the high promoting/demoting throughput will
hurt the latency of some workload because of accessing inflating and slow
memory bandwidth contention.
A way to resolve this issue is to restrict the max promoting/demoting
throughput. It will take longer to finish the promoting/demoting. But
the workload latency will be better. This is implemented in this patch as
the page promotion rate limit mechanism.
The number of the candidate pages to be promoted to the fast memory node
via NUMA balancing is counted, if the count exceeds the limit specified by
the users, the NUMA balancing promotion will be stopped until the next
second.
A new sysctl knob kernel.numa_balancing_promote_rate_limit_MBps is added
for the users to specify the limit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713083954.34196-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: osalvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhong Jiang <zhongjiang-ali@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
- Add support for syscall stack randomization.
- Add support for atomic operations to the 32 & 64-bit BPF JIT.
- Full support for KASAN on 64-bit Book3E.
- Add a watchdog driver for the new PowerVM hypervisor watchdog.
- Add a number of new selftests for the Power10 PMU support.
- Add a driver for the PowerVM Platform KeyStore.
- Increase the NMI watchdog timeout during live partition migration, to avoid timeouts
due to increased memory access latency.
- Add support for using the 'linux,pci-domain' device tree property for PCI domain
assignment.
- Many other small features and fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andy Shevchenko, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Bagas
Sanjaya, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Fabiano Rosas, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
Haowen Bai, Hari Bathini, Jason A. Donenfeld, Jason Wang, Jiang Jian, Joel Stanley, Juerg
Haefliger, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada,
Maxime Bizon, Miaoqian Lin, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna
Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Ning Qiang, Pali Rohár, Petr Mladek, Rashmica Gupta, Sachin Sant,
Scott Cheloha, Segher Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Uwe Kleine-König, Wolfram Sang, Xiu
Jianfeng, Zhouyi Zhou.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-6.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for syscall stack randomization
- Add support for atomic operations to the 32 & 64-bit BPF JIT
- Full support for KASAN on 64-bit Book3E
- Add a watchdog driver for the new PowerVM hypervisor watchdog
- Add a number of new selftests for the Power10 PMU support
- Add a driver for the PowerVM Platform KeyStore
- Increase the NMI watchdog timeout during live partition migration, to
avoid timeouts due to increased memory access latency
- Add support for using the 'linux,pci-domain' device tree property for
PCI domain assignment
- Many other small features and fixes
Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andy Shevchenko, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Bagas Sanjaya, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Fabiano Rosas,
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Haowen Bai, Hari Bathini, Jason A.
Donenfeld, Jason Wang, Jiang Jian, Joel Stanley, Juerg Haefliger, Kajol
Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada,
Maxime Bizon, Miaoqian Lin, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo, Nathan Lynch,
Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Ning Qiang, Pali Rohár,
Petr Mladek, Rashmica Gupta, Sachin Sant, Scott Cheloha, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Uwe Kleine-König, Wolfram Sang, Xiu
Jianfeng, and Zhouyi Zhou.
* tag 'powerpc-6.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (191 commits)
powerpc/64e: Fix kexec build error
EDAC/ppc_4xx: Include required of_irq header directly
powerpc/pci: Fix PHB numbering when using opal-phbid
powerpc/64: Init jump labels before parse_early_param()
selftests/powerpc: Avoid GCC 12 uninitialised variable warning
powerpc/cell/axon_msi: Fix refcount leak in setup_msi_msg_address
powerpc/xive: Fix refcount leak in xive_get_max_prio
powerpc/spufs: Fix refcount leak in spufs_init_isolated_loader
powerpc/perf: Include caps feature for power10 DD1 version
powerpc: add support for syscall stack randomization
powerpc: Move system_call_exception() to syscall.c
powerpc/powernv: rename remaining rng powernv_ functions to pnv_
powerpc/powernv/kvm: Use darn for H_RANDOM on Power9
powerpc/powernv: Avoid crashing if rng is NULL
selftests/powerpc: Fix matrix multiply assist test
powerpc/signal: Update comment for clarity
powerpc: make facility_unavailable_exception 64s
powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Remove write-only global variable
powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Prevent unloading the driver
powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Reorder to get rid of a forward declaration
...
During an LPM, while the memory transfer is in progress on the arrival
side, some latencies are generated when accessing not yet transferred
pages on the arrival side. Thus, the NMI watchdog may be triggered too
frequently, which increases the risk to hit an NMI interrupt in a bad
place in the kernel, leading to a kernel panic.
Disabling the Hard Lockup Watchdog until the memory transfer could be a
too strong work around, some users would want this timeout to be
eventually triggered if the system is hanging even during an LPM.
Introduce a new sysctl variable nmi_watchdog_factor. It allows to apply
a factor to the NMI watchdog timeout during an LPM. Just before the CPUs
are stopped for the switchover sequence, the NMI watchdog timer is set
to watchdog_thresh + factor%
A value of 0 has no effect. The default value is 200, meaning that the
NMI watchdog is set to 30s during LPM (based on a 10s watchdog_thresh
value). Once the memory transfer is achieved, the factor is reset to 0.
Setting this value to a high number is like disabling the NMI watchdog
during an LPM.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713154729.80789-5-ldufour@linux.ibm.com
Text in ``literal`` markup must be separated by word separators, so text
like ``lowwater``% renders incorrectly. Add the suggested "\ " after two
problematic occurrences.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624110230.595740-1-steve@sk2.org
[jc: tweaked to use "\ "]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are seeing
some much-needed maintenance and updating.
- Reworked IOMMU documentation
- Some new documentation for static-analysis tools
- A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation. This
is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage developers to
fill in the many gaps. Optimism is eternal...but hopefully it will
work.
- More Chinese translations.
Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It was a moderately busy cycle for documentation; highlights include:
- After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are
seeing some much-needed maintenance and updating.
- Reworked IOMMU documentation
- Some new documentation for static-analysis tools
- A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation.
This is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage
developers to fill in the many gaps. Optimism is eternal...but
hopefully it will work.
- More Chinese translations.
Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (70 commits)
docs: pdfdocs: Add space for chapter counts >= 100 in TOC
docs/zh_CN: Add dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst Chinese translation
input: Docs: correct ntrig.rst typo
input: Docs: correct atarikbd.rst typos
MAINTAINERS: Become the docs/zh_CN maintainer
docs/zh_CN: fix devicetree usage-model translation
mm,doc: Add new documentation structure
Documentation: drop more IDE boot options and ide-cd.rst
Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for DOCUMENTATION/JAPANESE
docs/trans/ja_JP/howto: Don't mention specific kernel versions
docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references
docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Add Suggested-by as a standard signature
docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Randy has moved
docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Suggest the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Update GregKH links
Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
Documentation: add missing angle bracket in cgroup-v2 doc
Documentation: dev-tools: use literal block instead of code-block
docs/zh_CN: add vm numa translation
...
A semicolon was missing, and the almost-alphabetical-but-not ordering
was confusing, so regroup these by category instead.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
commit dfe564045c ("rcu: Panic after fixed number of stalls")
introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.
Add a simple entry to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Various misc subsystems, before getting into the post-linux-next
material.
41 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: procfs, misc, core-kernel,
lib, checkpatch, init, pipe, minix, fat, cgroups, kexec, kdump,
taskstats, panic, kcov, resource, and ubsan"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (41 commits)
Revert "ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang"
kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again
kcov: properly handle subsequent mmap calls
kcov: split ioctl handling into locked and unlocked parts
panic: move panic_print before kmsg dumpers
panic: add option to dump all CPUs backtraces in panic_print
docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print
taskstats: remove unneeded dead assignment
kasan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in end_report()
ubsan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in ubsan_epilogue()
panic: unset panic_on_warn inside panic()
docs: kdump: add scp example to write out the dump file
docs: kdump: update description about sysfs file system support
arm64: mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef
x86/setup: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef
riscv: mm: init: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef
kexec: make crashk_res, crashk_low_res and crash_notes symbols always visible
cgroup: use irqsave in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked().
fat: use pointer to simple type in put_user()
minix: fix bug when opening a file with O_DIRECT
...
Currently the "panic_print" parameter/sysctl allows some interesting debug
information to be printed during a panic event. This is useful for
example in cases the user cannot kdump due to resource limits, or if the
user collects panic logs in a serial output (or pstore) and prefers a fast
reboot instead of a kdump.
Happens that currently there's no way to see all CPUs backtraces in a
panic using "panic_print" on architectures that support that. We do have
"oops_all_cpu_backtrace" sysctl, but although partially overlapping in the
functionality, they are orthogonal in nature: "panic_print" is a panic
tuning (and we have panics without oopses, like direct calls to panic() or
maybe other paths that don't go through oops_enter() function), and the
original purpose of "oops_all_cpu_backtrace" is to provide more
information on oopses for cases in which the users desire to continue
running the kernel even after an oops, i.e., used in non-panic scenarios.
So, we hereby introduce an additional bit for "panic_print" to allow
dumping the CPUs backtraces during a panic event.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-3-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Some improvements on panic_print".
This is a mix of a documentation fix with some additions to the
"panic_print" syscall / parameter. The goal here is being able to collect
all CPUs backtraces during a panic event and also to enable "panic_print"
in a kdump event - details of the reasoning and design choices in the
patches.
This patch (of 3):
Commit de6da1e8bc ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk
message in buffer") added a new bit to the sysctl/kernel parameter
"panic_print", but the documentation was added only in
kernel-parameters.txt, not in the sysctl guide.
Fix it here by adding bit 5 to sysctl admin-guide documentation.
[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix table format warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220109055635.6999-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Fixes: de6da1e8bc ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk message in buffer")
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the advent of various new memory types, some machines will have
multiple types of memory, e.g. DRAM and PMEM (persistent memory). The
memory subsystem of these machines can be called memory tiering system,
because the performance of the different types of memory are usually
different.
In such system, because of the memory accessing pattern changing etc,
some pages in the slow memory may become hot globally. So in this
patch, the NUMA balancing mechanism is enhanced to optimize the page
placement among the different memory types according to hot/cold
dynamically.
In a typical memory tiering system, there are CPUs, fast memory and slow
memory in each physical NUMA node. The CPUs and the fast memory will be
put in one logical node (called fast memory node), while the slow memory
will be put in another (faked) logical node (called slow memory node).
That is, the fast memory is regarded as local while the slow memory is
regarded as remote. So it's possible for the recently accessed pages in
the slow memory node to be promoted to the fast memory node via the
existing NUMA balancing mechanism.
The original NUMA balancing mechanism will stop to migrate pages if the
free memory of the target node becomes below the high watermark. This
is a reasonable policy if there's only one memory type. But this makes
the original NUMA balancing mechanism almost do not work to optimize
page placement among different memory types. Details are as follows.
It's the common cases that the working-set size of the workload is
larger than the size of the fast memory nodes. Otherwise, it's
unnecessary to use the slow memory at all. So, there are almost always
no enough free pages in the fast memory nodes, so that the globally hot
pages in the slow memory node cannot be promoted to the fast memory
node. To solve the issue, we have 2 choices as follows,
a. Ignore the free pages watermark checking when promoting hot pages
from the slow memory node to the fast memory node. This will
create some memory pressure in the fast memory node, thus trigger
the memory reclaiming. So that, the cold pages in the fast memory
node will be demoted to the slow memory node.
b. Define a new watermark called wmark_promo which is higher than
wmark_high, and have kswapd reclaiming pages until free pages reach
such watermark. The scenario is as follows: when we want to promote
hot-pages from a slow memory to a fast memory, but fast memory's free
pages would go lower than high watermark with such promotion, we wake
up kswapd with wmark_promo watermark in order to demote cold pages and
free us up some space. So, next time we want to promote hot-pages we
might have a chance of doing so.
The choice "a" may create high memory pressure in the fast memory node.
If the memory pressure of the workload is high, the memory pressure
may become so high that the memory allocation latency of the workload
is influenced, e.g. the direct reclaiming may be triggered.
The choice "b" works much better at this aspect. If the memory
pressure of the workload is high, the hot pages promotion will stop
earlier because its allocation watermark is higher than that of the
normal memory allocation. So in this patch, choice "b" is implemented.
A new zone watermark (WMARK_PROMO) is added. Which is larger than the
high watermark and can be controlled via watermark_scale_factor.
In addition to the original page placement optimization among sockets,
the NUMA balancing mechanism is extended to be used to optimize page
placement according to hot/cold among different memory types. So the
sysctl user space interface (numa_balancing) is extended in a backward
compatible way as follow, so that the users can enable/disable these
functionality individually.
The sysctl is converted from a Boolean value to a bits field. The
definition of the flags is,
- 0: NUMA_BALANCING_DISABLED
- 1: NUMA_BALANCING_NORMAL
- 2: NUMA_BALANCING_MEMORY_TIERING
We have tested the patch with the pmbench memory accessing benchmark
with the 80:20 read/write ratio and the Gauss access address
distribution on a 2 socket Intel server with Optane DC Persistent
Memory Model. The test results shows that the pmbench score can
improve up to 95.9%.
Thanks Andrew Morton to help fix the document format error.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-3-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: zhongjiang-ali <zhongjiang-ali@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Cleanups for SCHED_DEADLINE
- Tracing updates/fixes
- CPU Accounting fixes
- First wave of changes to optimize the overhead of the scheduler build,
from the fast-headers tree - including placeholder *_api.h headers for
later header split-ups.
- Preempt-dynamic using static_branch() for ARM64
- Isolation housekeeping mask rework; preperatory for further changes
- NUMA-balancing: deal with CPU-less nodes
- NUMA-balancing: tune systems that have multiple LLC cache domains per node (eg. AMD)
- Updates to RSEQ UAPI in preparation for glibc usage
- Lots of RSEQ/selftests, for same
- Add Suren as PSI co-maintainer
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Cleanups for SCHED_DEADLINE
- Tracing updates/fixes
- CPU Accounting fixes
- First wave of changes to optimize the overhead of the scheduler
build, from the fast-headers tree - including placeholder *_api.h
headers for later header split-ups.
- Preempt-dynamic using static_branch() for ARM64
- Isolation housekeeping mask rework; preperatory for further changes
- NUMA-balancing: deal with CPU-less nodes
- NUMA-balancing: tune systems that have multiple LLC cache domains per
node (eg. AMD)
- Updates to RSEQ UAPI in preparation for glibc usage
- Lots of RSEQ/selftests, for same
- Add Suren as PSI co-maintainer
* tag 'sched-core-2022-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
sched/headers: ARM needs asm/paravirt_api_clock.h too
sched/numa: Fix boot crash on arm64 systems
headers/prep: Fix header to build standalone: <linux/psi.h>
sched/headers: Only include <linux/entry-common.h> when CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY=y
cgroup: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage warning
sched/preempt: Tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on kernel headers
sched/topology: Remove redundant variable and fix incorrect type in build_sched_domains
sched/deadline,rt: Remove unused parameter from pick_next_[rt|dl]_entity()
sched/deadline,rt: Remove unused functions for !CONFIG_SMP
sched/deadline: Use __node_2_[pdl|dle]() and rb_first_cached() consistently
sched/deadline: Merge dl_task_can_attach() and dl_cpu_busy()
sched/deadline: Move bandwidth mgmt and reclaim functions into sched class source file
sched/deadline: Remove unused def_dl_bandwidth
sched/tracing: Report TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT tasks as TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting sched_switch event
sched/rt: Plug rt_mutex_setprio() vs push_rt_task() race
sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant RCU read lock
sched/cpuacct: Optimize away RCU read lock
sched/cpuacct: Fix charge percpu cpuusage
sched/headers: Reorganize, clean up and optimize kernel/sched/sched.h dependencies
...
With tools like kbench9000 giving more finegrained responses, and this
basically never having been used ever since it was initially added,
let's just get rid of this. There *is* still work to be done on the
interrupt handler, but this really isn't the way it's being developed.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Now that POOL_BITS == POOL_MIN_BITS, we must unconditionally wake up
entropy writers after every extraction. Therefore there's no point of
write_wakeup_threshold, so we can move it to the dustbin of unused
compatibility sysctls. While we're at it, we can fix a small comparison
where we were waking up after <= min rather than < min.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
After commit 8a99b6833c ("sched: Move SCHED_DEBUG sysctl to
debugfs"), some NUMA balancing sysctls enclosed with SCHED_DEBUG has
been moved to debugfs. This patch move the document for these
sysctls from
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
to
Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst
to make the document consistent with the code.
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220210052514.3038279-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Like x86, some users may want to disable userspace PMU counter
altogether. Add a sysctl 'perf_user_access' file to control userspace
counter access. The default is '0' which is disabled. Writing '1'
enables access.
Note that x86 supports globally enabling user access by writing '2' to
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc. As there's not existing
userspace support to worry about, this shouldn't be necessary for Arm.
It could be added later if the need arises.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-4-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The file name: accounting/delay-accounting.rst
should be, instead: Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst.
Also, there's no need to use doc:`foo`, as automarkup.py will
automatically handle plain text mentions to Documentation/
files.
So, update its cross-reference accordingly.
Fixes: fcb5017045 ("delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl")
Fixes: c3123552aa ("docs: accounting: convert to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"191 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
pagealloc, and memory-failure)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (191 commits)
mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
...
- Some kernel-doc cleanups. That script is still regex onslaught from
hell, but it has gotten a little better.
- Improvements to the checkpatch docs, which are also used by the tool
itself.
- A major update to the pathname lookup documentation.
- Elimination of :doc: markup, since our automarkup magic can create
references from filenames without all the extra noise.
- The flurry of Chinese translation activity continues.
Plus, of course, the usual collection of updates, typo fixes, and warning
fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This was a reasonably active cycle for documentation; this includes:
- Some kernel-doc cleanups. That script is still regex onslaught from
hell, but it has gotten a little better.
- Improvements to the checkpatch docs, which are also used by the
tool itself.
- A major update to the pathname lookup documentation.
- Elimination of :doc: markup, since our automarkup magic can create
references from filenames without all the extra noise.
- The flurry of Chinese translation activity continues.
Plus, of course, the usual collection of updates, typo fixes, and
warning fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (115 commits)
docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals
docs: path-lookup: update symlink description
docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description
docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description
docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint
docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part
docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part
docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part
docs: Makefile: Use CONFIG_SHELL not SHELL
docs: Take a little noise out of the build process
docs: x86: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
docs: virt: kvm: s390-pv-boot.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
docs: userspace-api: landlock.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
docs: trace: ftrace.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
docs: trace: coresight: coresight.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
...
can and wireless trees. Notably including fixes for the recently
announced "FragAttacks" WiFi vulnerabilities. Rather large batch,
touching some core parts of the stack, too, but nothing hair-raising.
Current release - regressions:
- tipc: make node link identity publish thread safe
- dsa: felix: re-enable TAS guard band mode
- stmmac: correct clocks enabled in stmmac_vlan_rx_kill_vid()
- stmmac: fix system hang if change mac address after interface ifdown
Current release - new code bugs:
- mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()
- bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers
- ethtool: stats: fix a copy-paste error - init correct array size
Previous releases - regressions:
- sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc
- net: really orphan skbs tied to closing sk
- mlx4: fix EEPROM dump support
- bpf: fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations
- bpf: fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change
- bpf, offload: reorder offload callback 'prepare' in verifier
- stmmac: Fix MAC WoL not working if PHY does not support WoL
- packetmmap: fix only tx timestamp on request
- tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs
Previous releases - always broken:
- mac80211: address recent "FragAttacks" vulnerabilities
- mac80211: do not accept/forward invalid EAPOL frames
- mptcp: avoid potential error message floods
- bpf, ringbuf: deny reserve of buffers larger than ringbuf to prevent
out of buffer writes
- bpf: forbid trampoline attach for functions with variable arguments
- bpf: add deny list of functions to prevent inf recursion of tracing
programs
- tls splice: check SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK instead of MSG_DONTWAIT
- can: isotp: prevent race between isotp_bind() and isotp_setsockopt()
- netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: Add irq_fpu_usable() check,
fallback to non-AVX2 version
Misc:
- bpf: add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default
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Merge tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter,
can and wireless trees. Notably including fixes for the recently
announced "FragAttacks" WiFi vulnerabilities. Rather large batch,
touching some core parts of the stack, too, but nothing hair-raising.
Current release - regressions:
- tipc: make node link identity publish thread safe
- dsa: felix: re-enable TAS guard band mode
- stmmac: correct clocks enabled in stmmac_vlan_rx_kill_vid()
- stmmac: fix system hang if change mac address after interface
ifdown
Current release - new code bugs:
- mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()
- bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers
- ethtool: stats: fix a copy-paste error - init correct array size
Previous releases - regressions:
- sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc
- net: really orphan skbs tied to closing sk
- mlx4: fix EEPROM dump support
- bpf: fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations
- bpf: fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change
- bpf, offload: reorder offload callback 'prepare' in verifier
- stmmac: Fix MAC WoL not working if PHY does not support WoL
- packetmmap: fix only tx timestamp on request
- tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs
Previous releases - always broken:
- mac80211: address recent "FragAttacks" vulnerabilities
- mac80211: do not accept/forward invalid EAPOL frames
- mptcp: avoid potential error message floods
- bpf, ringbuf: deny reserve of buffers larger than ringbuf to
prevent out of buffer writes
- bpf: forbid trampoline attach for functions with variable arguments
- bpf: add deny list of functions to prevent inf recursion of tracing
programs
- tls splice: check SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK instead of MSG_DONTWAIT
- can: isotp: prevent race between isotp_bind() and
isotp_setsockopt()
- netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: Add irq_fpu_usable() check,
fallback to non-AVX2 version
Misc:
- bpf: add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default"
* tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (172 commits)
net: phy: Document phydev::dev_flags bits allocation
mptcp: validate 'id' when stopping the ADD_ADDR retransmit timer
mptcp: avoid error message on infinite mapping
mptcp: drop unconditional pr_warn on bad opt
mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()
nfp: update maintainer and mailing list addresses
net: mvpp2: add buffer header handling in RX
bnx2x: Fix missing error code in bnx2x_iov_init_one()
net: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation
net: hns: Fix kernel-doc
sctp: fix the proc_handler for sysctl encap_port
sctp: add the missing setting for asoc encap_port
bpf, selftests: Adjust few selftest result_unpriv outcomes
bpf: No need to simulate speculative domain for immediates
bpf: Fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change
bpf: Wrap aux data inside bpf_sanitize_info container
bpf: Fix BPF_LSM kconfig symbol dependency
selftests/bpf: Add test for l3 use of bpf_redirect_peer
bpftool: Add sock_release help info for cgroup attach/prog load command
net: dsa: microchip: enable phy errata workaround on 9567
...
When I added CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH, I neglected to update Documentation/.
It's still true that this defaults to /sbin/modprobe, but now via a level
of indirection. So document that the kernel might have been built with
something other than /sbin/modprobe as the initial value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210420125324.1246826-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Fixes: 17652f4240 ("modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's been a few releases since this defaulted to /sbin/hotplug. Update
the text, and include pointers to the two CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER{,_PATH}
config knobs whose help text could provide more info, but also hint
that the user probably doesn't need to care at all.
Fixes: 7934779a69 ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210420120638.1104016-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a kconfig knob which allows for unprivileged bpf to be disabled by default.
If set, the knob sets /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to value of 2.
This still allows a transition of 2 -> {0,1} through an admin. Similarly,
this also still keeps 1 -> {1} behavior intact, so that once set to permanently
disabled, it cannot be undone aside from a reboot.
We've also added extra2 with max of 2 for the procfs handler, so that an admin
still has a chance to toggle between 0 <-> 2.
Either way, as an additional alternative, applications can make use of CAP_BPF
that we added a while ago.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Here's a patch updating the meaning of TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC after
Borislav introduced changes in a7e1f67ed2 and upcoming patches in tip.
TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC now means a bit more what it implies as the
flag isn't set just because of a CPU misconfiguration or mismatch.
Historically it was for SMP kernel oops on an officially SMP incapable
processor but now it also covers CPUs whose MSRs have been incorrectly
poked at from userspace, drivers being used on non supported
architectures, broken firmware, mismatched CPUs, ...
Update documentation and script to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <me@mathieu.digital>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202153244.709752-1-me@mathieu.digital
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This cleans up a few titles with extra colons, and removes the
reference to kernel 2.2. The docs don't yet cover *all* of 5.10 or
5.11, but I think they're close enough. Most entries are documented,
and have been checked against current kernels.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201208074922.30359-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The document reads "%e" should be "executable filename" while actually it
could be changed by things like pr_ctl PR_SET_NAME. People who uses "%e"
in core_pattern get surprised when they find out they get thread name
instead of executable filename.
This is either a bug of document or a bug of code. Since the behavior of
"%e" is there for long time, it could bring another surprise for users if
we "fix" the code.
So we just "fix" the document. And more, for users who really need the
"executable filename" in core_pattern, we introduce a new "%f" for the
real executable filename. We already have "%E" for executable path in
kernel, so just reuse most of its code for the new added "%f" format.
Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200701031432.2978761-1-ytht.net@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
...
This documents the random directory, based on the behaviour seen in
drivers/char/random.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200623112514.10650-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix heading format warnings in admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:339: WARNING: Title underline too short.
hung_task_all_cpu_backtrace:
================
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:650: WARNING: Title underline too short.
oops_all_cpu_backtrace:
================
Fixes: 0ec9dc9bcb ("kernel/hung_task.c: introduce sysctl to print all traces when a hung task is detected")
Fixes: 60c958d8df ("panic: add sysctl to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops event")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8af1cb77-4b5a-64b9-da5d-f6a95e537f99@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Usually when the kernel reaches an oops condition, it's a point of no
return; in case not enough debug information is available in the kernel
splat, one of the last resorts would be to collect a kernel crash dump
and analyze it. The problem with this approach is that in order to
collect the dump, a panic is required (to kexec-load the crash kernel).
When in an environment of multiple virtual machines, users may prefer to
try living with the oops, at least until being able to properly shutdown
their VMs / finish their important tasks.
This patch implements a way to collect a bit more debug details when an
oops event is reached, by printing all the CPUs backtraces through the
usage of NMIs (on architectures that support that). The sysctl added
(and documented) here was called "oops_all_cpu_backtrace", and when set
will (as the name suggests) dump all CPUs backtraces.
Far from ideal, this may be the last option though for users that for
some reason cannot panic on oops. Most of times oopses are clear enough
to indicate the kernel portion that must be investigated, but in virtual
environments it's possible to observe hypervisor/KVM issues that could
lead to oopses shown in other guests CPUs (like virtual APIC crashes).
This patch hence aims to help debug such complex issues without
resorting to kdump.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327224116.21030-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 401c636a0e ("kernel/hung_task.c: show all hung tasks before
panic") introduced a change in that we started to show all CPUs
backtraces when a hung task is detected _and_ the sysctl/kernel
parameter "hung_task_panic" is set. The idea is good, because usually
when observing deadlocks (that may lead to hung tasks), the culprit is
another task holding a lock and not necessarily the task detected as
hung.
The problem with this approach is that dumping backtraces is a slightly
expensive task, specially printing that on console (and specially in
many CPU machines, as servers commonly found nowadays). So, users that
plan to collect a kdump to investigate the hung tasks and narrow down
the deadlock definitely don't need the CPUs backtrace on dmesg/console,
which will delay the panic and pollute the log (crash tool would easily
grab all CPUs traces with 'bt -a' command).
Also, there's the reciprocal scenario: some users may be interested in
seeing the CPUs backtraces but not have the system panic when a hung
task is detected. The current approach hence is almost as embedding a
policy in the kernel, by forcing the CPUs backtraces' dump (only) on
hung_task_panic.
This patch decouples the panic event on hung task from the CPUs
backtraces dump, by creating (and documenting) a new sysctl called
"hung_task_all_cpu_backtrace", analog to the approach taken on soft/hard
lockups, that have both a panic and an "all_cpu_backtrace" sysctl to
allow individual control. The new mechanism for dumping the CPUs
backtraces on hung task detection respects "hung_task_warnings" by not
dumping the traces in case there's no warnings left.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327223646.20779-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch introduces
a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to provide a simple and
generic way to stop execution and catch a coredump when the kernel gets
tainted by any given flag.
This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids having to rebuild the
kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() into the code sites that
introduce the taint flags of interest.
For instance, if one is interested in proceeding with a post-mortem
analysis at the point a given code path is hitting a bad page (i.e.
unaccount_page_cache_page(), or slab_bug()), a coredump can be collected
by rebooting the kernel with 'panic_on_taint=0x20' amended to the
command line.
Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be as a means
for assuring a security policy case where only a subset of taints, or no
single taint (in paranoid mode), is allowed for the running system. The
optional switch 'nousertaint' is handy in this particular scenario, as
it will avoid userspace induced crashes by writes to sysctl interface
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted causing false positive hits for such policies.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt wording]
Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515175502.146720-1-aquini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I *really*
hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile, those patches
reach pretty far afield to update document references around the tree;
there should be no actual code changes there. There will be, alas, more of
the usual trivial merge conflicts.
Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots of
fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
*really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.
Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
of fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
docs: move digsig docs to the security book
docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
...
This documents ignore-unaligned-usertrap, unaligned-dump-stack, and
unaligned-trap, based on arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c,
arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c, and arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c.
While we're at it, integrate unaligned-memory-access.txt into the docs
tree.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515212443.5012-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This reverts commit 2f4c33063a.
The changes here were fine, but there's a non-documentation change to
sysctl.c that makes messes elsewhere; those changes should have been done
independently.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is a read-only export of NGROUPS_MAX, so this patch also changes
the declarations in kernel/sysctl.c to const.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515160222.7994-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Based on the firmware fallback mechanisms documentation and the
implementation in drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429205757.8677-2-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Based on the ftrace documentation, the tp_printk boot parameter
documentation, and the implementation in kernel/trace/trace.c.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429205757.8677-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Linus Torvalds