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Linus Torvalds 3fe2f7446f Changes in this cycle were:
- 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
  ...
2022-03-22 14:39:12 -07:00
Jason A. Donenfeld 95e6060c20 random: remove ifdef'd out interrupt bench
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>
2022-02-21 21:14:00 +01:00
Jason A. Donenfeld 489c7fc44b random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction
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>
2022-02-21 16:48:06 +01:00
Huang Ying 3624ba7b5e sched/numa-balancing: Move some document to make it consistent with the code
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
2022-02-11 23:30:08 +01:00
Akhmat Karakotov 2127324a7d txhash: Add txrehash sysctl description
Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst with txrehash usage
description.

Signed-off-by: Akhmat Karakotov <hmukos@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-01-31 15:05:25 +00:00
Linus Torvalds f56caedaf9 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...
2022-01-15 20:37:06 +02:00
Suren Baghdasaryan 39c65a94cd mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%
For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started.  This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15 16:30:29 +02:00
Rob Herring e201260081 arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch
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>
2021-12-14 11:30:54 +00:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0f60a29c52 docs: accounting: update delay-accounting.rst reference
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>
2021-11-17 06:12:14 -07:00
Charan Teja Reddy 65d759c8f9 mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user
The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run
compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages
based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness.  Triggering the
compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is
not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system
usecases which may have few MB's of RAM.  Enabling the proactive
compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such
systems.

Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting
a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by
using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness).  So, on systems where enabling
the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the
same from user space on write to its sysctl interface.  As an example, say
app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be
launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare
the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from
userspace.

This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to
sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user.

[1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak vm.rst, per Mike]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds df668a5fe4 for-5.14/block-2021-06-29
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Merge tag 'for-5.14/block-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - disk events cleanup (Christoph)

 - gendisk and request queue allocation simplifications (Christoph)

 - bdev_disk_changed cleanups (Christoph)

 - IO priority improvements (Bart)

 - Chained bio completion trace fix (Edward)

 - blk-wbt fixes (Jan)

 - blk-wbt enable/disable fix (Zhang)

 - Scheduler dispatch improvements (Jan, Ming)

 - Shared tagset scheduler improvements (John)

 - BFQ updates (Paolo, Luca, Pietro)

 - BFQ lock inversion fix (Jan)

 - Documentation improvements (Kir)

 - CLONE_IO block cgroup fix (Tejun)

 - Remove of ancient and deprecated block dump feature (zhangyi)

 - Discard merge fix (Ming)

 - Misc fixes or followup fixes (Colin, Damien, Dan, Long, Max, Thomas,
   Yang)

* tag 'for-5.14/block-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (129 commits)
  block: fix discard request merge
  block/mq-deadline: Remove a WARN_ON_ONCE() call
  blk-mq: update hctx->dispatch_busy in case of real scheduler
  blk: Fix lock inversion between ioc lock and bfqd lock
  bfq: Remove merged request already in bfq_requests_merged()
  block: pass a gendisk to bdev_disk_changed
  block: move bdev_disk_changed
  block: add the events* attributes to disk_attrs
  block: move the disk events code to a separate file
  block: fix trace completion for chained bio
  block/partitions/msdos: Fix typo inidicator -> indicator
  block, bfq: reset waker pointer with shared queues
  block, bfq: check waker only for queues with no in-flight I/O
  block, bfq: avoid delayed merge of async queues
  block, bfq: boost throughput by extending queue-merging times
  block, bfq: consider also creation time in delayed stable merge
  block, bfq: fix delayed stable merge check
  block, bfq: let also stably merged queues enjoy weight raising
  blk-wbt: make sure throttle is enabled properly
  blk-wbt: introduce a new disable state to prevent false positive by rwb_enabled()
  ...
2021-06-30 12:12:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 65090f30ab Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
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
  ...
2021-06-29 17:29:11 -07:00
Mike Rapoport 48d9f3355a docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
Remove description of DISCONTIGMEM from the "Memory Models" document and
update VM sysctl description so that it won't mention DISCONIGMEM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-8-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:55 -07:00
Mel Gorman 74f4482209 mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
This introduces a new sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction.  It is
similar to the old vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction.  The old sysctl increased
both pcp->batch and pcp->high with the higher pcp->high potentially
reducing zone->lock contention.  However, the higher pcp->batch value also
potentially increased allocation latency while the PCP was refilled.  This
sysctl only adjusts pcp->high so that zone->lock contention is potentially
reduced but allocation latency during a PCP refill remains the same.

  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  649
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=8
  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  35071
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=64
              high:  4383
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=0
              high:  649
              batch: 63

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210528151010.GQ30378@techsingularity.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:55 -07:00
Mel Gorman bbbecb35a4 mm/page_alloc: delete vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction
Patch series "Calculate pcp->high based on zone sizes and active CPUs", v2.

The per-cpu page allocator (PCP) is meant to reduce contention on the zone
lock but the sizing of batch and high is archaic and neither takes the
zone size into account or the number of CPUs local to a zone.  With larger
zones and more CPUs per node, the contention is getting worse.
Furthermore, the fact that vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction adjusts both batch
and high values means that the sysctl can reduce zone lock contention but
also increase allocation latencies.

This series disassociates pcp->high from pcp->batch and then scales
pcp->high based on the size of the local zone with limited impact to
reclaim and accounting for active CPUs but leaves pcp->batch static.  It
also adapts the number of pages that can be on the pcp list based on
recent freeing patterns.

The motivation is partially to adjust to larger memory sizes but is also
driven by the fact that large batches of page freeing via release_pages()
often shows zone contention as a major part of the problem.  Another is a
bug report based on an older kernel where a multi-terabyte process can
takes several minutes to exit.  A workaround was to use
vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction to increase the pcp->high value but testing
indicated that a production workload could not use the same values because
of an increase in allocation latencies.  Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce
this test case myself as the multi-terabyte machines are in active use but
it should alleviate the problem.

The series aims to address both and partially acts as a pre-requisite.
pcp only works with order-0 which is useless for SLUB (when using high
orders) and THP (unconditionally).  To store high-order pages on PCP, the
pcp->high values need to be increased first.

This patch (of 6):

The vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction is used to increase the batch and high
limits for the per-cpu page allocator (PCP).  The intent behind the sysctl
is to reduce zone lock acquisition when allocating/freeing pages but it
has a problem.  While it can decrease contention, it can also increase
latency on the allocation side due to unreasonably large batch sizes.
This leads to games where an administrator adjusts
percpu_pagelist_fraction on the fly to work around contention and
allocation latency problems.

This series aims to alleviate the problems with zone lock contention while
avoiding the allocation-side latency problems.  For the purposes of
review, it's easier to remove this sysctl now and reintroduce a similar
sysctl later in the series that deals only with pcp->high.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:54 -07:00
Wang Qing 256f7a6791 doc: watchdog: modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u"
"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work.  The current
description is extremely misleading.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-5-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 233a806b00 This was a reasonably active cycle for documentation; this pull 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.
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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
  ...
2021-06-28 16:53:05 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2793e19d63 docs: admin-guide: sysctl: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/12abd2290c7ebc05c89178d2556bea740bd70fac.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-17 13:24:36 -06:00
Ingo Molnar a9e906b71f Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2021-06-03 19:00:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds d7c5303fbc 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
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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
  ...
2021-05-26 17:44:49 -10:00
zhangyi (F) 51fd43e280 block_dump: remove comments in docs
Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs.

Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-4-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-05-24 06:47:21 -06:00
Mel Gorman fcb5017045 delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl
Update sysctl/kernel.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512114035.GH3672@suse.de
2021-05-18 12:53:53 +02:00
Rasmus Villemoes f4d3f25ace docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.modprobe sysctl
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>
2021-05-14 19:41:32 -07:00
Rasmus Villemoes 1e886090ce docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.hotplug sysctl
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>
2021-05-13 10:14:17 -06:00
David S. Miller df6f823703 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf
Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf 2021-05-11

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree.

We've added 13 non-merge commits during the last 8 day(s) which contain
a total of 21 files changed, 817 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Fix multiple ringbuf bugs in particular to prevent writable mmap of
   read-only pages, from Andrii Nakryiko & Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo.

2) Fix verifier alu32 known-const subregister bound tracking for bitwise
   operations and/or/xor, from Daniel Borkmann.

3) Reject trampoline attachment for functions with variable arguments,
   and also add a deny list of other forbidden functions, from Jiri Olsa.

4) Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare() calls used by various helpers by
   switching to per-CPU buffers, from Florent Revest.

5) Fix kernel compilation with BTF debug info on ppc64 due to pahole
   missing TCP-CC functions like cubictcp_init, from Martin KaFai Lau.

6) Add a kconfig entry to provide an option to disallow unprivileged
   BPF by default, from Daniel Borkmann.

7) Fix libbpf compilation for older libelf when GELF_ST_VISIBILITY()
   macro is not available, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

8) Migrate test_tc_redirect to test_progs framework as prep work
   for upcoming skb_change_head() fix & selftest, from Jussi Maki.

9) Fix a libbpf segfault in add_dummy_ksym_var() if BTF is not
   present, from Ian Rogers.

10) Fix tx_only micro-benchmark in xdpsock BPF sample with proper frame
    size, from Magnus Karlsson.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-05-11 16:05:56 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann 08389d8882 bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default
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
2021-05-11 13:56:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c70a4be130 powerpc updates for 5.13
- Enable KFENCE for 32-bit.
 
  - Implement EBPF for 32-bit.
 
  - Convert 32-bit to do interrupt entry/exit in C.
 
  - Convert 64-bit BookE to do interrupt entry/exit in C.
 
  - Changes to our signal handling code to use user_access_begin/end() more extensively.
 
  - Add support for time namespaces (CONFIG_TIME_NS)
 
  - A series of fixes that allow us to reenable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX.
 
  - Other smaller features, fixes & cleanups.
 
 Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
   Athira Rajeev, Bhaskar Chowdhury, Bixuan Cui, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Huang, Chris
   Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Daniel
   Axtens, Daniel Henrique Barboza, David Gibson, Davidlohr Bueso, Denis Efremov,
   dingsenjie, Dmitry Safonov, Dominic DeMarco, Fabiano Rosas, Ganesh Goudar, Geert
   Uytterhoeven, Geetika Moolchandani, Greg Kurz, Guenter Roeck, Haren Myneni, He Ying,
   Jiapeng Chong, Jordan Niethe, Laurent Dufour, Lee Jones, Leonardo Bras, Li Huafei,
   Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masahiro Yamada, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
   Lynch, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Menzel, Pu Lehui, Randy Dunlap, Ravi
   Bangoria, Rosen Penev, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,
   Segher Boessenkool, Shivaprasad G Bhat, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima
   de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Gleixner, Tony Ambardar, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
   Vincenzo Frascino, Xiongwei Song, Yang Li, Yu Kuai, Zhang Yunkai.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Enable KFENCE for 32-bit.

 - Implement EBPF for 32-bit.

 - Convert 32-bit to do interrupt entry/exit in C.

 - Convert 64-bit BookE to do interrupt entry/exit in C.

 - Changes to our signal handling code to use user_access_begin/end()
   more extensively.

 - Add support for time namespaces (CONFIG_TIME_NS)

 - A series of fixes that allow us to reenable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX.

 - Other smaller features, fixes & cleanups.

Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh
Kumar K.V, Athira Rajeev, Bhaskar Chowdhury, Bixuan Cui, Cédric Le
Goater, Chen Huang, Chris Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M.
Riedl, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Daniel Henrique
Barboza, David Gibson, Davidlohr Bueso, Denis Efremov, dingsenjie,
Dmitry Safonov, Dominic DeMarco, Fabiano Rosas, Ganesh Goudar, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Geetika Moolchandani, Greg Kurz, Guenter Roeck, Haren
Myneni, He Ying, Jiapeng Chong, Jordan Niethe, Laurent Dufour, Lee
Jones, Leonardo Bras, Li Huafei, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
Masahiro Yamada, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Menzel, Pu Lehui, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria,
Rosen Penev, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,
Segher Boessenkool, Shivaprasad G Bhat, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen
Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thomas Gleixner, Tony Ambardar,
Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vincenzo Frascino, Xiongwei Song, Yang Li,
Yu Kuai, and Zhang Yunkai.

* tag 'powerpc-5.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (302 commits)
  powerpc/signal32: Fix erroneous SIGSEGV on RT signal return
  powerpc: Avoid clang uninitialized warning in __get_user_size_allowed
  powerpc/papr_scm: Mark nvdimm as unarmed if needed during probe
  powerpc/kvm: Fix build error when PPC_MEM_KEYS/PPC_PSERIES=n
  powerpc/kasan: Fix shadow start address with modules
  powerpc/kernel/iommu: Use largepool as a last resort when !largealloc
  powerpc/kernel/iommu: Align size for IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE() to save TCEs
  powerpc/44x: fix spelling mistake in Kconfig "varients" -> "variants"
  powerpc/iommu: Annotate nested lock for lockdep
  powerpc/iommu: Do not immediately panic when failed IOMMU table allocation
  powerpc/iommu: Allocate it_map by vmalloc
  selftests/powerpc: remove unneeded semicolon
  powerpc/64s: remove unneeded semicolon
  powerpc/eeh: remove unneeded semicolon
  powerpc/selftests: Add selftest to test concurrent perf/ptrace events
  powerpc/selftests/perf-hwbreak: Add testcases for 2nd DAWR
  powerpc/selftests/perf-hwbreak: Coalesce event creation code
  powerpc/selftests/ptrace-hwbreak: Add testcases for 2nd DAWR
  powerpc/configs: Add IBMVNIC to some 64-bit configs
  selftests/powerpc: Add uaccess flush test
  ...
2021-04-30 12:22:28 -07:00
Christophe Leroy 51c66ad849 powerpc/bpf: Implement extended BPF on PPC32
Implement Extended Berkeley Packet Filter on Powerpc 32

Test result with test_bpf module:

	test_bpf: Summary: 378 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [354/366 JIT'ed]

Registers mapping:

	[BPF_REG_0] = r11-r12
	/* function arguments */
	[BPF_REG_1] = r3-r4
	[BPF_REG_2] = r5-r6
	[BPF_REG_3] = r7-r8
	[BPF_REG_4] = r9-r10
	[BPF_REG_5] = r21-r22 (Args 9 and 10 come in via the stack)
	/* non volatile registers */
	[BPF_REG_6] = r23-r24
	[BPF_REG_7] = r25-r26
	[BPF_REG_8] = r27-r28
	[BPF_REG_9] = r29-r30
	/* frame pointer aka BPF_REG_10 */
	[BPF_REG_FP] = r17-r18
	/* eBPF jit internal registers */
	[BPF_REG_AX] = r19-r20
	[TMP_REG] = r31

As PPC32 doesn't have a redzone in the stack, a stack frame must always
be set in order to host at least the tail count counter.

The stack frame remains for tail calls, it is set by the first callee
and freed by the last callee.

r0 is used as temporary register as much as possible. It is referenced
directly in the code in order to avoid misusing it, because some
instructions interpret it as value 0 instead of register r0
(ex: addi, addis, stw, lwz, ...)

The following operations are not implemented:

		case BPF_ALU64 | BPF_DIV | BPF_X: /* dst /= src */
		case BPF_ALU64 | BPF_MOD | BPF_X: /* dst %= src */
		case BPF_STX | BPF_XADD | BPF_DW: /* *(u64 *)(dst + off) += src */

The following operations are only implemented for power of two constants:

		case BPF_ALU64 | BPF_MOD | BPF_K: /* dst %= imm */
		case BPF_ALU64 | BPF_DIV | BPF_K: /* dst /= imm */

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/61d8b149176ddf99e7d5cef0b6dc1598583ca202.1616430991.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-04-03 21:22:21 +11:00
Dmitry Vyukov 6c996e1994 net: change netdev_unregister_timeout_secs min value to 1
netdev_unregister_timeout_secs=0 can lead to printing the
"waiting for dev to become free" message every jiffy.
This is too frequent and unnecessary.
Set the min value to 1 second.

Also fix the merge issue introduced by
"net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable":
it changed "refcnt != 1" to "refcnt".

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: 5aa3afe107 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-25 17:24:06 -07:00
Dmitry Vyukov 5aa3afe107 net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable
netdev_wait_allrefs() issues a warning if refcount does not drop to 0
after 10 seconds. While 10 second wait generally should not happen
under normal workload in normal environment, it seems to fire falsely
very often during fuzzing and/or in qemu emulation (~10x slower).
At least it's not possible to understand if it's really a false
positive or not. Automated testing generally bumps all timeouts
to very high values to avoid flake failures.
Add net.core.netdev_unregister_timeout_secs sysctl to make
the timeout configurable for automated testing systems.
Lowering the timeout may also be useful for e.g. manual bisection.
The default value matches the current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211877
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-23 17:22:50 -07:00
Dave Hansen 519983645a mm/vmscan: restore zone_reclaim_mode ABI
I went to go add a new RECLAIM_* mode for the zone_reclaim_mode sysctl.
Like a good kernel developer, I also went to go update the
documentation.  I noticed that the bits in the documentation didn't
match the bits in the #defines.

The VM never explicitly checks the RECLAIM_ZONE bit.  The bit is,
however implicitly checked when checking 'node_reclaim_mode==0'.  The
RECLAIM_ZONE #define was removed in a cleanup.  That, by itself is fine.

But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also got
changed.  That's not OK because the bit values are documented to mean
one specific thing.  Users surely do not expect the meaning to change
from kernel to kernel.

The end result is that if someone had a script that did:

	sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1

it would have gone from enabling node reclaim for clean unmapped pages
to writing out pages during node reclaim after the commit in question.
That's not great.

Put the bits back the way they were and add a comment so something like
this is a bit harder to do again.  Update the documentation to make it
clear that the first bit is ignored.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219172555.FF0CDF23@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 648b5cf368 ("mm/vmscan: remove unused RECLAIM_OFF/RECLAIM_ZONE")
Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-02-24 13:38:34 -08:00
Eric Curtin c66cb171bc Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
max_user_watches for epoll should say 1/25, rather than 1/32

Signed-off-by: Eric Curtin <ericcurtin17@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210120132648.19046-1-ericcurtin17@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-28 15:45:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 71c5f03154 A small set of late-arriving, small documentation fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.11-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A small set of late-arriving, small documentation fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.11-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: admin-guide: Fix default value of max_map_count in sysctl/vm.rst
  Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB chain
  Documentation: process: Correct numbering
  docs: submitting-patches: Trivial - fix grammatical error
2020-12-24 14:20:33 -08:00
Fengfei Xi c635b0cea6 docs: admin-guide: Fix default value of max_map_count in sysctl/vm.rst
Since the default value of sysctl_max_map_count is defined as
DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT from mm/util.c

    int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;

DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT is defined as 65530 (65535-5) in include/linux/mm.h

    #define MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN        (5)
    #define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT   (USHRT_MAX - MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN)

Signed-off-by: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201210082134.36957-1-xi.fengfei@h3c.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-21 09:59:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ac73e3dc8a Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
Lokesh Gidra d0d4730ac2 userfaultfd: add user-mode only option to unprivileged_userfaultfd sysctl knob
With this change, when the knob is set to 0, it allows unprivileged users
to call userfaultfd, like when it is set to 1, but with the restriction
that page faults from only user-mode can be handled.  In this mode, an
unprivileged user (without SYS_CAP_PTRACE capability) must pass
UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY to userfaultd or the API will fail with EPERM.

This enables administrators to reduce the likelihood that an attacker with
access to userfaultfd can delay faulting kernel code to widen timing
windows for other exploits.

The default value of this knob is changed to 0.  This is required for
correct functioning of pipe mutex.  However, this will fail postcopy live
migration, which will be unnoticeable to the VM guests.  To avoid this,
set 'vm.userfault = 1' in /sys/sysctl.conf.

The main reason this change is desirable as in the short term is that the
Android userland will behave as with the sysctl set to zero.  So without
this commit, any Linux binary using userfaultfd to manage its memory would
behave differently if run within the Android userland.  For more details,
refer to Andrea's reply [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200904033438.GI9411@redhat.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120030411.2690816-3-lokeshgidra@google.com
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: <calin@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer 547f574fd9 docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means
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>
2020-12-08 10:53:58 -07:00
Andrew Klychkov 751d5b2741 Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst,
verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst,
dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst,
remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst,
module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst,
intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-08 10:27:56 -07:00
Stephen Kitt d151a23d7b docs: clean up sysctl/kernel: titles, version
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>
2020-12-08 10:22:21 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2644ccef6f docs: admin-guide: net.rst: add a missing blank line
There's a missing blank line after a literal block, which
causes this warning:

	Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst:303: WARNING: Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b2545be4a4c71269d10278b5990c3e06c4b65f84.1603791716.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-10-28 11:26:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds c80e42a496 A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
  docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes
  docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags
  Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst
  Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst.
  docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry
  docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details
  docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes
  docs/cpu-load: format the example code.
2020-10-23 17:13:53 -07:00
Fam Zheng 62af696471 docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
Both seem overlooked while adding the section in the main content.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famzheng@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201022065403.3936070-1-fam@euphon.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-10-22 16:11:46 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 9ff9b0d392 networking changes for the 5.10 merge window
Add redirect_neigh() BPF packet redirect helper, allowing to limit stack
 traversal in common container configs and improving TCP back-pressure.
 Daniel reports ~10Gbps => ~15Gbps single stream TCP performance gain.
 
 Expand netlink policy support and improve policy export to user space.
 (Ge)netlink core performs request validation according to declared
 policies. Expand the expressiveness of those policies (min/max length
 and bitmasks). Allow dumping policies for particular commands.
 This is used for feature discovery by user space (instead of kernel
 version parsing or trial and error).
 
 Support IGMPv3/MLDv2 multicast listener discovery protocols in bridge.
 
 Allow more than 255 IPv4 multicast interfaces.
 
 Add support for Type of Service (ToS) reflection in SYN/SYN-ACK
 packets of TCPv6.
 
 In Multi-patch TCP (MPTCP) support concurrent transmission of data
 on multiple subflows in a load balancing scenario. Enhance advertising
 addresses via the RM_ADDR/ADD_ADDR options.
 
 Support SMC-Dv2 version of SMC, which enables multi-subnet deployments.
 
 Allow more calls to same peer in RxRPC.
 
 Support two new Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols -
 CAN-FD and ISO 15765-2:2016.
 
 Add xfrm/IPsec compat layer, solving the 32bit user space on 64bit
 kernel problem.
 
 Add TC actions for implementing MPLS L2 VPNs.
 
 Improve nexthop code - e.g. handle various corner cases when nexthop
 objects are removed from groups better, skip unnecessary notifications
 and make it easier to offload nexthops into HW by converting
 to a blocking notifier.
 
 Support adding and consuming TCP header options by BPF programs,
 opening the doors for easy experimental and deployment-specific
 TCP option use.
 
 Reorganize TCP congestion control (CC) initialization to simplify life
 of TCP CC implemented in BPF.
 
 Add support for shipping BPF programs with the kernel and loading them
 early on boot via the User Mode Driver mechanism, hence reusing all the
 user space infra we have.
 
 Support sleepable BPF programs, initially targeting LSM and tracing.
 
 Add bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct path'.
 
 Make bpf_tail_call compatible with bpf-to-bpf calls.
 
 Allow BPF programs to call map_update_elem on sockmaps.
 
 Add BPF Type Format (BTF) support for type and enum discovery, as
 well as support for using BTF within the kernel itself (current use
 is for pretty printing structures).
 
 Support listing and getting information about bpf_links via the bpf
 syscall.
 
 Enhance kernel interfaces around NIC firmware update. Allow specifying
 overwrite mask to control if settings etc. are reset during update;
 report expected max time operation may take to users; support firmware
 activation without machine reboot incl. limits of how much impact
 reset may have (e.g. dropping link or not).
 
 Extend ethtool configuration interface to report IEEE-standard
 counters, to limit the need for per-vendor logic in user space.
 
 Adopt or extend devlink use for debug, monitoring, fw update
 in many drivers (dsa loop, ice, ionic, sja1105, qed, mlxsw,
 mv88e6xxx, dpaa2-eth).
 
 In mlxsw expose critical and emergency SFP module temperature alarms.
 Refactor port buffer handling to make the defaults more suitable and
 support setting these values explicitly via the DCBNL interface.
 
 Add XDP support for Intel's igb driver.
 
 Support offloading TC flower classification and filtering rules to
 mscc_ocelot switches.
 
 Add PTP support for Marvell Octeontx2 and PP2.2 hardware, as well as
 fixed interval period pulse generator and one-step timestamping in
 dpaa-eth.
 
 Add support for various auth offloads in WiFi APs, e.g. SAE (WPA3)
 offload.
 
 Add Lynx PHY/PCS MDIO module, and convert various drivers which have
 this HW to use it. Convert mvpp2 to split PCS.
 
 Support Marvell Prestera 98DX3255 24-port switch ASICs, as well as
 7-port Mediatek MT7531 IP.
 
 Add initial support for QCA6390 and IPQ6018 in ath11k WiFi driver,
 and wcn3680 support in wcn36xx.
 
 Improve performance for packets which don't require much offloads
 on recent Mellanox NICs by 20% by making multiple packets share
 a descriptor entry.
 
 Move chelsio inline crypto drivers (for TLS and IPsec) from the crypto
 subtree to drivers/net. Move MDIO drivers out of the phy directory.
 
 Clean up a lot of W=1 warnings, reportedly the actively developed
 subsections of networking drivers should now build W=1 warning free.
 
 Make sure drivers don't use in_interrupt() to dynamically adapt their
 code. Convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup API (sadly this
 conversion is not yet complete).
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:

 - Add redirect_neigh() BPF packet redirect helper, allowing to limit
   stack traversal in common container configs and improving TCP
   back-pressure.

   Daniel reports ~10Gbps => ~15Gbps single stream TCP performance gain.

 - Expand netlink policy support and improve policy export to user
   space. (Ge)netlink core performs request validation according to
   declared policies. Expand the expressiveness of those policies
   (min/max length and bitmasks). Allow dumping policies for particular
   commands. This is used for feature discovery by user space (instead
   of kernel version parsing or trial and error).

 - Support IGMPv3/MLDv2 multicast listener discovery protocols in
   bridge.

 - Allow more than 255 IPv4 multicast interfaces.

 - Add support for Type of Service (ToS) reflection in SYN/SYN-ACK
   packets of TCPv6.

 - In Multi-patch TCP (MPTCP) support concurrent transmission of data on
   multiple subflows in a load balancing scenario. Enhance advertising
   addresses via the RM_ADDR/ADD_ADDR options.

 - Support SMC-Dv2 version of SMC, which enables multi-subnet
   deployments.

 - Allow more calls to same peer in RxRPC.

 - Support two new Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols - CAN-FD and
   ISO 15765-2:2016.

 - Add xfrm/IPsec compat layer, solving the 32bit user space on 64bit
   kernel problem.

 - Add TC actions for implementing MPLS L2 VPNs.

 - Improve nexthop code - e.g. handle various corner cases when nexthop
   objects are removed from groups better, skip unnecessary
   notifications and make it easier to offload nexthops into HW by
   converting to a blocking notifier.

 - Support adding and consuming TCP header options by BPF programs,
   opening the doors for easy experimental and deployment-specific TCP
   option use.

 - Reorganize TCP congestion control (CC) initialization to simplify
   life of TCP CC implemented in BPF.

 - Add support for shipping BPF programs with the kernel and loading
   them early on boot via the User Mode Driver mechanism, hence reusing
   all the user space infra we have.

 - Support sleepable BPF programs, initially targeting LSM and tracing.

 - Add bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct
   path'.

 - Make bpf_tail_call compatible with bpf-to-bpf calls.

 - Allow BPF programs to call map_update_elem on sockmaps.

 - Add BPF Type Format (BTF) support for type and enum discovery, as
   well as support for using BTF within the kernel itself (current use
   is for pretty printing structures).

 - Support listing and getting information about bpf_links via the bpf
   syscall.

 - Enhance kernel interfaces around NIC firmware update. Allow
   specifying overwrite mask to control if settings etc. are reset
   during update; report expected max time operation may take to users;
   support firmware activation without machine reboot incl. limits of
   how much impact reset may have (e.g. dropping link or not).

 - Extend ethtool configuration interface to report IEEE-standard
   counters, to limit the need for per-vendor logic in user space.

 - Adopt or extend devlink use for debug, monitoring, fw update in many
   drivers (dsa loop, ice, ionic, sja1105, qed, mlxsw, mv88e6xxx,
   dpaa2-eth).

 - In mlxsw expose critical and emergency SFP module temperature alarms.
   Refactor port buffer handling to make the defaults more suitable and
   support setting these values explicitly via the DCBNL interface.

 - Add XDP support for Intel's igb driver.

 - Support offloading TC flower classification and filtering rules to
   mscc_ocelot switches.

 - Add PTP support for Marvell Octeontx2 and PP2.2 hardware, as well as
   fixed interval period pulse generator and one-step timestamping in
   dpaa-eth.

 - Add support for various auth offloads in WiFi APs, e.g. SAE (WPA3)
   offload.

 - Add Lynx PHY/PCS MDIO module, and convert various drivers which have
   this HW to use it. Convert mvpp2 to split PCS.

 - Support Marvell Prestera 98DX3255 24-port switch ASICs, as well as
   7-port Mediatek MT7531 IP.

 - Add initial support for QCA6390 and IPQ6018 in ath11k WiFi driver,
   and wcn3680 support in wcn36xx.

 - Improve performance for packets which don't require much offloads on
   recent Mellanox NICs by 20% by making multiple packets share a
   descriptor entry.

 - Move chelsio inline crypto drivers (for TLS and IPsec) from the
   crypto subtree to drivers/net. Move MDIO drivers out of the phy
   directory.

 - Clean up a lot of W=1 warnings, reportedly the actively developed
   subsections of networking drivers should now build W=1 warning free.

 - Make sure drivers don't use in_interrupt() to dynamically adapt their
   code. Convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup API (sadly this
   conversion is not yet complete).

* tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2583 commits)
  Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH"
  net, sockmap: Don't call bpf_prog_put() on NULL pointer
  bpf, selftest: Fix flaky tcp_hdr_options test when adding addr to lo
  bpf, sockmap: Add locking annotations to iterator
  netfilter: nftables: allow re-computing sctp CRC-32C in 'payload' statements
  net: fix pos incrementment in ipv6_route_seq_next
  net/smc: fix invalid return code in smcd_new_buf_create()
  net/smc: fix valid DMBE buffer sizes
  net/smc: fix use-after-free of delayed events
  bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH
  cxgb4/ch_ipsec: Replace the module name to ch_ipsec from chcr
  net: sched: Fix suspicious RCU usage while accessing tcf_tunnel_info
  bpf: Fix register equivalence tracking.
  rxrpc: Fix loss of final ack on shutdown
  rxrpc: Fix bundle counting for exclusive connections
  netfilter: restore NF_INET_NUMHOOKS
  ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
  ibmveth: Switch order of ibmveth_helper calls.
  cxgb4: handle 4-tuple PEDIT to NAT mode translation
  selftests: Add VRF route leaking tests
  ...
2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 1013d4d910 docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:

  * the list of files is now the table of contents;
  * links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
  * all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
    them;
  * document vsyscall32.

Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917072123.8847-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 11:01:44 -06:00
Stephen Kitt 9f35cf8bd7 docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:

  * the list of files is now the table of contents;
  * links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
  * all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
    them;
  * document vsyscall32.

Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911190152.29730-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-16 12:38:31 -06:00
Mahesh Bandewar 316cdaa115 net: add option to not create fall-back tunnels in root-ns as well
The sysctl that was added  earlier by commit 79134e6ce2 ("net: do
not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces") to create
fall-back only in root-ns. This patch enhances that behavior to provide
option not to create fallback tunnels in root-ns as well. Since modules
that create fallback tunnels could be built-in and setting the sysctl
value after booting is pointless, so added a kernel cmdline options to
change this default. The default setting is preseved for backward
compatibility. The kernel command line option of fb_tunnels=initns will
set the sysctl value to 1 and will create fallback tunnels only in initns
while kernel cmdline fb_tunnels=none will set the sysctl value to 2 and
fallback tunnels are skipped in every netns.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Jian Yang <jianyang@google.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-08-28 06:52:44 -07:00
Lepton Wu f38c85f1ba coredump: add %f for executable filename
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>
2020-08-12 10:58:01 -07:00
Nitin Gupta facdaa917c mm: proactive compaction
For some applications, we need to allocate almost all memory as hugepages.
However, on a running system, higher-order allocations can fail if the
memory is fragmented.  Linux kernel currently does on-demand compaction as
we request more hugepages, but this style of compaction incurs very high
latency.  Experiments with one-time full memory compaction (followed by
hugepage allocations) show that kernel is able to restore a highly
fragmented memory state to a fairly compacted memory state within <1 sec
for a 32G system.  Such data suggests that a more proactive compaction can
help us allocate a large fraction of memory as hugepages keeping
allocation latencies low.

For a more proactive compaction, the approach taken here is to define a
new sysctl called 'vm.compaction_proactiveness' which dictates bounds for
external fragmentation which kcompactd tries to maintain.

The tunable takes a value in range [0, 100], with a default of 20.

Note that a previous version of this patch [1] was found to introduce too
many tunables (per-order extfrag{low, high}), but this one reduces them to
just one sysctl.  Also, the new tunable is an opaque value instead of
asking for specific bounds of "external fragmentation", which would have
been difficult to estimate.  The internal interpretation of this opaque
value allows for future fine-tuning.

Currently, we use a simple translation from this tunable to [low, high]
"fragmentation score" thresholds (low=100-proactiveness, high=low+10%).
The score for a node is defined as weighted mean of per-zone external
fragmentation.  A zone's present_pages determines its weight.

To periodically check per-node score, we reuse per-node kcompactd threads,
which are woken up every 500 milliseconds to check the same.  If a node's
score exceeds its high threshold (as derived from user-provided
proactiveness value), proactive compaction is started until its score
reaches its low threshold value.  By default, proactiveness is set to 20,
which implies threshold values of low=80 and high=90.

This patch is largely based on ideas from Michal Hocko [2].  See also the
LWN article [3].

Performance data
================

System: x64_64, 1T RAM, 80 CPU threads.
Kernel: 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch

echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag

Before starting the driver, the system was fragmented from a userspace
program that allocates all memory and then for each 2M aligned section,
frees 3/4 of base pages using munmap.  The workload is mainly anonymous
userspace pages, which are easy to move around.  I intentionally avoided
unmovable pages in this test to see how much latency we incur when
hugepage allocations hit direct compaction.

1. Kernel hugepage allocation latencies

With the system in such a fragmented state, a kernel driver then allocates
as many hugepages as possible and measures allocation latency:

(all latency values are in microseconds)

- With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3

  percentile latency
  –––––––––– –––––––
	   5    7894
	  10    9496
	  25   12561
	  30   15295
	  40   18244
	  50   21229
	  60   27556
	  75   30147
	  80   31047
	  90   32859
	  95   33799

Total 2M hugepages allocated = 383859 (749G worth of hugepages out of 762G
total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages)

- With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20

sysctl -w vm.compaction_proactiveness=20

  percentile latency
  –––––––––– –––––––
	   5       2
	  10       2
	  25       3
	  30       3
	  40       3
	  50       4
	  60       4
	  75       4
	  80       4
	  90       5
	  95     429

Total 2M hugepages allocated = 384105 (750G worth of hugepages out of 762G
total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages)

2. JAVA heap allocation

In this test, we first fragment memory using the same method as for (1).

Then, we start a Java process with a heap size set to 700G and request the
heap to be allocated with THP hugepages.  We also set THP to madvise to
allow hugepage backing of this heap.

/usr/bin/time
 java -Xms700G -Xmx700G -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch

The above command allocates 700G of Java heap using hugepages.

- With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3

17.39user 1666.48system 27:37.89elapsed

- With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20

8.35user 194.58system 3:19.62elapsed

Elapsed time remains around 3:15, as proactiveness is further increased.

Note that proactive compaction happens throughout the runtime of these
workloads.  The situation of one-time compaction, sufficient to supply
hugepages for following allocation stream, can probably happen for more
extreme proactiveness values, like 80 or 90.

In the above Java workload, proactiveness is set to 20.  The test starts
with a node's score of 80 or higher, depending on the delay between the
fragmentation step and starting the benchmark, which gives more-or-less
time for the initial round of compaction.  As t he benchmark consumes
hugepages, node's score quickly rises above the high threshold (90) and
proactive compaction starts again, which brings down the score to the low
threshold level (80).  Repeat.

bpftrace also confirms proactive compaction running 20+ times during the
runtime of this Java benchmark.  kcompactd threads consume 100% of one of
the CPUs while it tries to bring a node's score within thresholds.

Backoff behavior
================

Above workloads produce a memory state which is easy to compact.  However,
if memory is filled with unmovable pages, proactive compaction should
essentially back off.  To test this aspect:

- Created a kernel driver that allocates almost all memory as hugepages
  followed by freeing first 3/4 of each hugepage.
- Set proactiveness=40
- Note that proactive_compact_node() is deferred maximum number of times
  with HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC of wait between each check
  (=> ~30 seconds between retries).

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11098289/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20161230131412.GI13301@dhcp22.suse.cz/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/817905/

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@nitingupta.dev>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616204527.19185-1-nigupta@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-12 10:57:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2324d50d05 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.
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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
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Qais Yousef 1f73d1abe5 Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
Uclamp exposes 3 sysctl knobs:

	* sched_util_clamp_min
	* sched_util_clamp_max
	* sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default

Document them in sysctl/kernel.rst.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-3-qais.yousef@arm.com
2020-07-29 13:51:48 +02:00
Alexander A. Klimov 6b2484e13a Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/admin-guide
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
          If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
          return 200 OK and serve the same content:
            Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627072935.62652-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:13:00 -06:00
Randy Dunlap ee74db082a Documentation/admin-guide: sysctl/kernel: drop doubled word
Drop the doubled word "set".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200704032020.21923-12-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:01:49 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 435a774346 Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-next
A big set of fixes and RST conversions from Mauro.  He swears that this is
the last RST conversion set, which is certainly cause for celebration.
2020-06-26 11:35:10 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 800c02f5d0 docs: move nommu-mmap.txt to admin-guide and rename to ReST
The nommu-mmap.txt file provides description of user visible
behaviuour. So, move it to the admin-guide.

As it is already at the ReST, also rename it.

Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3a63d1833b513700755c85bf3bda0a6c4ab56986.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-26 11:33:35 -06:00
Stephen Kitt 0b227076d5 docs: sysctl/kernel: document random
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>
2020-06-26 11:25:14 -06:00
Randy Dunlap e996919b72 Documentation: fix sysctl/kernel.rst heading format warnings
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>
2020-06-19 13:24:57 -06:00
Guilherme G. Piccoli 60c958d8df panic: add sysctl to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops event
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>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
Guilherme G. Piccoli 0ec9dc9bcb kernel/hung_task.c: introduce sysctl to print all traces when a hung task is detected
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>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
Rafael Aquini db38d5c106 kernel: add panic_on_taint
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>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ee01c4d72a Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "More mm/ work, plenty more to come

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: slub, memcg, gup, kasan,
  pagealloc, hugetlb, vmscan, tools, mempolicy, memblock, hugetlbfs,
  thp, mmap, kconfig"

* akpm: (131 commits)
  arm64: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  x86: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  riscv: support DEBUG_WX
  mm: add DEBUG_WX support
  drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate lookup
  mm/thp: rename pmd_mknotpresent() as pmd_mkinvalid()
  powerpc/mm: drop platform defined pmd_mknotpresent()
  mm: thp: don't need to drain lru cache when splitting and mlocking THP
  hugetlbfs: get unmapped area below TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE for hugetlbfs
  sparc32: register memory occupied by kernel as memblock.memory
  include/linux/memblock.h: fix minor typo and unclear comment
  mm, mempolicy: fix up gup usage in lookup_node
  tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
  mm: swap: memcg: fix memcg stats for huge pages
  mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge pages
  mm: vmscan: limit the range of LRU type balancing
  mm: vmscan: reclaim writepage is IO cost
  mm: vmscan: determine anon/file pressure balance at the reclaim root
  mm: balance LRU lists based on relative thrashing
  mm: only count actual rotations as LRU reclaim cost
  ...
2020-06-03 20:24:15 -07:00
Johannes Weiner c843966c55 mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset
With the advent of fast random IO devices (SSDs, PMEM) and in-memory swap
devices such as zswap, it's possible for swap to be much faster than
filesystems, and for swapping to be preferable over thrashing filesystem
caches.

Allow setting swappiness - which defines the rough relative IO cost of
cache misses between page cache and swap-backed pages - to reflect such
situations by making the swap-preferred range configurable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cb8e59cc87 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
    Augusto von Dentz.

 2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.

 3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.

 4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
    device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.

 5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
    defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.

 6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.

 7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.

 9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
    Horatiu Vultur.

10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.

12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
    Carvalho Chehab.

13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
    from Doug Berger.

14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
    Dmitry Yakunin.

15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
    userspace, from Johannes Berg.

16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
    a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.

19) Correct the return type of the ->ndo_start_xmit() method in several
    drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
    'int'. From Yunjian Wang.

20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
    Rempel.

21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.

22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
    Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
    facility.

23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.

24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
    Dangaard Brouer.

25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.

27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.

29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.

30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
    eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
  selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
  net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
  vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
  hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
  selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
  tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
  bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
  s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
  s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
  selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
  selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
  bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
  bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
  bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
  sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
  crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
  ...
2020-06-03 16:27:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b23c4771ff 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.
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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
  ...
2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 997c798e14 docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
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>
2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Stephen Kitt 17444d9b0b docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
This is a read-only export of NGROUPS_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200518145836.15816-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-25 18:59:58 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet fdb1b5e089 Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
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>
2020-05-18 06:19:25 -06:00
Nicolas Dichtel 9efd6a3cec netns: enable to inherit devconf from current netns
The goal is to be able to inherit the initial devconf parameters from the
current netns, ie the netns where this new netns has been created.

This is useful in a containers environment where /proc/sys is read only.
For example, if a pod is created with specifics devconf parameters and has
the capability to create netns, the user expects to get the same parameters
than his 'init_net', which is not the real init_net in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-05-16 13:46:37 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 2f4c33063a docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
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>
2020-05-15 11:24:25 -06:00
Stephen Kitt d75829c182 docs: sysctl/kernel: document firmware_config
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>
2020-05-05 09:53:45 -06:00
Stephen Kitt 50cdae76b8 docs: sysctl/kernel: document ftrace entries
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>
2020-05-05 09:53:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 01478b8331 docs: filesystems: convert devpts.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ac8f3a7edd4d817acf0d173ead7ef74fe010c6c.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-05 09:22:21 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 82a07bf33d docs: networking: convert ipvs-sysctl.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- mark lists as such;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-28 14:40:18 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 1cec2cacaa docs: networking: convert ip-sysctl.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark lists as such;
- mark tables as such;
- use footnote markup;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-28 14:40:18 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 6bc47621cb docs: sysctl/kernel: document cad_pid
Based on the implementation in kernel/sysctl.c (the proc_do_cad_pid()
function), kernel/reboot.c, and include/linux/sched/signal.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200423183651.15365-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-28 12:39:33 -06:00
Ingo Molnar 87cfeb1920 perf/core fixes and improvements:
kernel + tools/perf:
 
   Alexey Budankov:
 
   - Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space.
 
 callchains:
 
   Adrian Hunter:
 
   - Allow using Intel PT to synthesize callchains for regular events.
 
   Kan Liang:
 
   - Stitch LBR records from multiple samples to get deeper backtraces,
     there are caveats, see the csets for details.
 
 perf script:
 
   Andreas Gerstmayr:
 
   - Add flamegraph.py script
 
 BPF:
 
   Jiri Olsa:
 
   - Synthesize bpf_trampoline/dispatcher ksymbol events.
 
 perf stat:
 
   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
 
   - Honour --timeout for forked workloads.
 
   Stephane Eranian:
 
   - Force error in fallback on :k events, to avoid counting nothing when
     the user asks for kernel events but is not allowed to.
 
 perf bench:
 
   Ian Rogers:
 
   - Add event synthesis benchmark.
 
 tools api fs:
 
   Stephane Eranian:
 
  - Make xxx__mountpoint() more scalable
 
 libtraceevent:
 
   He Zhe:
 
   - Handle return value of asprintf.
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.8-20200420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core fixes and improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

kernel + tools/perf:

  Alexey Budankov:

  - Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space.

callchains:

  Adrian Hunter:

  - Allow using Intel PT to synthesize callchains for regular events.

  Kan Liang:

  - Stitch LBR records from multiple samples to get deeper backtraces,
    there are caveats, see the csets for details.

perf script:

  Andreas Gerstmayr:

  - Add flamegraph.py script

BPF:

  Jiri Olsa:

  - Synthesize bpf_trampoline/dispatcher ksymbol events.

perf stat:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  - Honour --timeout for forked workloads.

  Stephane Eranian:

  - Force error in fallback on :k events, to avoid counting nothing when
    the user asks for kernel events but is not allowed to.

perf bench:

  Ian Rogers:

  - Add event synthesis benchmark.

tools api fs:

  Stephane Eranian:

 - Make xxx__mountpoint() more scalable

libtraceevent:

  He Zhe:

  - Handle return value of asprintf.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 14:08:28 +02:00
Stephen Kitt 5d8e5aee0e docs: sysctl/kernel: document BPF entries
Based on the implementation in kernel/bpf/syscall.c,
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c, include/linux/filter.h, and the documentation
in bpftool-prog.rst.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200315122648.20558-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-20 16:59:23 -06:00
Alexey Budankov 025b16f81d doc/admin-guide: update kernel.rst with CAP_PERFMON information
Update the kernel.rst documentation file with the information related to
usage of CAP_PERFMON capability to secure performance monitoring and
observability operations in system.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/84c32383-14a2-fa35-16b6-f9e59bd37240@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-04-16 12:19:12 -03:00
Eric Biggers 52338dfb3c docs: admin-guide: merge sections for the kernel.modprobe sysctl
Documentation for the kernel.modprobe sysctl was added both by
commit 0317c5371e ("docs: merge debugging-modules.txt into
sysctl/kernel.rst") and by commit 6e71582506 ("docs: admin-guide:
document the kernel.modprobe sysctl"), resulting in the same sysctl
being documented in two places.  Merge these into one place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414172430.230293-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-15 14:50:09 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 0785249f8b Time(keeping) updates:
- Fix the time_for_children symlink in /proc/$PID/ so it properly reflects
    that it part of the 'time' namespace
 
  - Add the missing userns limit for the allowed number of time namespaces,
    which was half defined but the actual array member was not added.  This
    went unnoticed as the array has an exessive empty member at the end but
    introduced a user visible regression as the output was corrupted.
 
  - Prevent further silent ucount corruption by adding a BUILD_BUG_ON() to
    catch half updated data.
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Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull time(keeping) updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Fix the time_for_children symlink in /proc/$PID/ so it properly
   reflects that it part of the 'time' namespace

 - Add the missing userns limit for the allowed number of time
   namespaces, which was half defined but the actual array member was
   not added. This went unnoticed as the array has an exessive empty
   member at the end but introduced a user visible regression as the
   output was corrupted.

 - Prevent further silent ucount corruption by adding a BUILD_BUG_ON()
   to catch half updated data.

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ucount: Make sure ucounts in /proc/sys/user don't regress again
  time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount
  time/namespace: Fix time_for_children symlink
2020-04-12 10:13:14 -07:00
Eric Biggers 6e71582506 docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl
Document the kernel.modprobe sysctl in the same place that all the other
kernel.* sysctls are documented.  Make sure to mention how to use this
sysctl to completely disable module autoloading, and how this sysctl
relates to CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER.

[ebiggers@google.com: v5]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318230515.171692-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312202552.241885-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
Dmitry Safonov eeec26d5da time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount
Michael noticed that userns limit for number of time namespaces is missing.

Furthermore, time namespace introduced UCOUNT_TIME_NAMESPACES, but didn't
introduce an array member in user_table[]. It would make array's
initialisation OOB write, but by luck the user_table array has an excessive
empty member (all accesses to the array are limited with UCOUNT_COUNTS - so
it silently reuses the last free member.

Fixes user-visible regression: max_inotify_instances by reason of the
missing UCOUNT_ENTRY() has limited max number of namespaces instead of the
number of inotify instances.

Fixes: 769071ac9f ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace")
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200406171342.128733-1-dima@arista.com
2020-04-07 12:37:21 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 6923aa0d8c mm/compaction: Disable compact_unevictable_allowed on RT
Since commit 5bbe3547aa ("mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages")
it is allowed to examine mlocked pages and compact them by default.  On
-RT even minor pagefaults are problematic because it may take a few 100us
to resolve them and until then the task is blocked.

Make compact_unevictable_allowed = 0 default and issue a warning on RT if
it is changed.

[bigeasy@linutronix.de: v5]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200319165536.ovi75tsr2seared4@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303202225.nhqc3v5gwlb7x6et@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-02 09:35:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 29d9f30d4c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Fix the iwlwifi regression, from Johannes Berg.

   2) Support BSS coloring and 802.11 encapsulation offloading in
      hardware, from John Crispin.

   3) Fix some potential Spectre issues in qtnfmac, from Sergey
      Matyukevich.

   4) Add TTL decrement action to openvswitch, from Matteo Croce.

   5) Allow paralleization through flow_action setup by not taking the
      RTNL mutex, from Vlad Buslov.

   6) A lot of zero-length array to flexible-array conversions, from
      Gustavo A. R. Silva.

   7) Align XDP statistics names across several drivers for consistency,
      from Lorenzo Bianconi.

   8) Add various pieces of infrastructure for offloading conntrack, and
      make use of it in mlx5 driver, from Paul Blakey.

   9) Allow using listening sockets in BPF sockmap, from Jakub Sitnicki.

  10) Lots of parallelization improvements during configuration changes
      in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel.

  11) Add support to devlink for generic packet traps, which report
      packets dropped during ACL processing. And use them in mlxsw
      driver. From Jiri Pirko.

  12) Support bcmgenet on ACPI, from Jeremy Linton.

  13) Make BPF compatible with RT, from Thomas Gleixnet, Alexei
      Starovoitov, and your's truly.

  14) Support XDP meta-data in virtio_net, from Yuya Kusakabe.

  15) Fix sysfs permissions when network devices change namespaces, from
      Christian Brauner.

  16) Add a flags element to ethtool_ops so that drivers can more simply
      indicate which coalescing parameters they actually support, and
      therefore the generic layer can validate the user's ethtool
      request. Use this in all drivers, from Jakub Kicinski.

  17) Offload FIFO qdisc in mlxsw, from Petr Machata.

  18) Support UDP sockets in sockmap, from Lorenz Bauer.

  19) Fix stretch ACK bugs in several TCP congestion control modules,
      from Pengcheng Yang.

  20) Support virtual functiosn in octeontx2 driver, from Tomasz
      Duszynski.

  21) Add region operations for devlink and use it in ice driver to dump
      NVM contents, from Jacob Keller.

  22) Add support for hw offload of MACSEC, from Antoine Tenart.

  23) Add support for BPF programs that can be attached to LSM hooks,
      from KP Singh.

  24) Support for multiple paths, path managers, and counters in MPTCP.
      From Peter Krystad, Paolo Abeni, Florian Westphal, Davide Caratti,
      and others.

  25) More progress on adding the netlink interface to ethtool, from
      Michal Kubecek"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2121 commits)
  net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: Fix potential memory leak in rpl_do_srh_inline
  cxgb4/chcr: nic-tls stats in ethtool
  net: dsa: fix oops while probing Marvell DSA switches
  net/bpfilter: remove superfluous testing message
  net: macb: Fix handling of fixed-link node
  net: dsa: ksz: Select KSZ protocol tag
  netdevsim: dev: Fix memory leak in nsim_dev_take_snapshot_write
  net: stmmac: add EHL 2.5Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
  net: stmmac: add EHL PSE0 & PSE1 1Gbps PCI info and PCI ID
  net: stmmac: create dwmac-intel.c to contain all Intel platform
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Support specifying VLAN tag egress rule
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Add support for matching VLAN TCI
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Move writing of CFP_DATA(5) into slicing functions
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Check earlier for FLOW_EXT and FLOW_MAC_EXT
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Disable learning for ASP port
  net: dsa: b53: Deny enslaving port 7 for 7278 into a bridge
  net: dsa: b53: Prevent tagged VLAN on port 7 for 7278
  net: dsa: b53: Restore VLAN entries upon (re)configuration
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix overflow checks
  hv_netvsc: Remove unnecessary round_up for recv_completion_cnt
  ...
2020-03-31 17:29:33 -07:00
Guilherme G. Piccoli 0a07bef6e5 Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl
Commit 9c44bc03ff ("softlockup: allow panic on lockup") added the
softlockup_panic sysctl, but didn't add information about it to the file
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst (which in that time certainly
wasn't rst and had other name!).

This patch just adds the respective documentation and references it from
the corresponding entry in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

This patch was strongly based on Scott Wood's commit d22881dc13
("Documentation: Better document the hardlockup_panic sysctl").

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200310183649.23163-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-10 13:55:55 -06:00
Luke Nelson 06b7415216 bpf, doc: Add BPF JIT for RV32G to BPF documentation
Update filter.txt and admin-guide to mention the BPF JIT for RV32G.

Co-developed-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Nelson <luke.r.nels@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200305050207.4159-4-luke.r.nels@gmail.com
2020-03-05 16:13:47 +01:00
Stephen Kitt 021622df55 docs: add a script to check sysctl docs
This script allows sysctl documentation to be checked against the
kernel source code, to identify missing or obsolete entries. Running
it against 5.5 shows for example that sysctl/kernel.rst has two
obsolete entries and is missing 52 entries.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-25 03:35:16 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 2bd49cb581 docs: sysctl/kernel: document acpi_video_flags
Based on the implementation in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c, in
particular the acpi_sleep_setup() function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-25 03:27:23 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 8f21f54b8a docs: sysctl/kernel: remove rtsig entries
These have no corresponding code in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:34:42 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 404347e68a docs: document panic fully in sysctl/kernel.rst
The description of panic doesn’t cover all the supported scenarios;
this patch fixes that, describing the three possibilities (no reboot,
immediate reboot, reboot after a delay).

Based on the implementation in kernel/panic.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:34:37 -07:00
Stephen Kitt a1ad4f1505 docs: document stop-a in sysctl/kernel.rst
This describes the SPARC-specific stop-a sysctl entry, which was
previously listed in kernel.rst but not documented.

Base on the implementation in arch/sparc/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c and
kernel/panic.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:34:32 -07:00
Stephen Kitt fa5b526411 docs: add missing IPC documentation in sysctl/kernel.rst
This adds short descriptions of msgmax, msgmnb, msgmni, and shmmni,
which were previously listed in kernel.rst but not described.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:34:25 -07:00
Stephen Kitt a474105bb6 docs: drop l2cr from sysctl/kernel.rst
The l2cr sysctl entry was removed in commit c2f3dabefa ("sysctl:
kill binary sysctl KERN_PPC_L2CR"), this removes the corresponding
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:34:20 -07:00
Stephen Kitt 0317c5371e docs: merge debugging-modules.txt into sysctl/kernel.rst
This fits nicely in sysctl/kernel.rst, merge it (and rephrase it)
instead of linking to it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:34:13 -07:00
Stephen Kitt a3cb66a508 docs: pretty up sysctl/kernel.rst
This updates sysctl/kernel.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully:
* the list of files is now the table of contents (old entries with no
  corresponding sections are added as empty sections for now);
* code references and commands are formatted as code, except for
  function names which end up linked to the appropriate documentation;
* links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
* tables are used to make lists of values more readable (as already
  done for some sections);
* in heavily-reworked paragraphs, sentences are wrapped individually,
  to make future diffs easier to read.

The first mention of the kernel version is dropped. The second
mention, saying that the document is accurate for 2.2, is preserved
for now; I will update that once the document really is accurate for a
current kernel release.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-19 03:33:59 -07:00
d.hatayama@fujitsu.com 895f2c20a8 docs: admin-guide: Add description of %c corename format
There is somehow no description of %c corename format specifier for
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern. The %c corename format specifier is
used by user-space application such as systemd-coredump, so it should
be documented.

To find where %c is handled in the kernel source code, look at
function format_corename() in fs/coredump.c.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@fujitsu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/TYAPR01MB4014714BB2ACE425BB6EC6B7951A0@TYAPR01MB4014.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-13 11:37:00 -07:00
Masanari Iida e80d89380c docs: admin-guide: Remove threads-max auto-tuning
Since following path was merged in 5.4-rc3,
auto-tuning feature in threads-max does not exist any more.
Fix the admin-guide document as is.

kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace
b0f53dbc4b

Fixes: b0f53dbc4b ("kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-11-07 13:17:25 -07:00
Masanari Iida 73eb802ad9 docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst
Since following patch was merged 5.4-rc3, minimum value for
threads-max changed to 1.

kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace
b0f53dbc4b

Fixes: b0f53dbc4b ("kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-11-07 13:17:24 -07:00
Oleksandr Natalenko ca30ad857d docs: admin-guide: fix printk_ratelimit explanation
The printk_ratelimit value accepts seconds, not jiffies (though it is
converted into jiffies internally). Update documentation to reflect
this.

Also, remove the statement about allowing 1 message in 5 seconds since
bursts up to 10 messages are allowed by default.

Finally, while we are here, mention default value for
printk_ratelimit_burst too.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-10 11:34:47 -06:00
Stephen Hemminger 7e7c076e12 docs: admin-guide: remove references to IPX and token-ring
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>
2019-08-08 18:06:53 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4f4cfa6c56 docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).

Move them to the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00