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2019-08-19security: Add a static lockdown policy LSMMatthew Garrett
While existing LSMs can be extended to handle lockdown policy, distributions generally want to be able to apply a straightforward static policy. This patch adds a simple LSM that can be configured to reject either integrity or all lockdown queries, and can be configured at runtime (through securityfs), boot time (via a kernel parameter) or build time (via a kconfig option). Based on initial code by David Howells. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2019-08-19x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16hTom Lendacky
There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues to function properly. RDRAND support is indicated by CPUID Fn00000001_ECX[30]. This bit can be reset by clearing MSR C001_1004[62]. Any software that checks for RDRAND support using CPUID, including the kernel, will believe that RDRAND is not supported. Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family 15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family 15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the system will not be placed in suspend, the "rdrand=force" kernel parameter can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit. Additionally, update the suspend and resume path to save and restore the MSR C001_1004 value to ensure that the RDRAND CPUID setting remains in place after resuming from suspend. Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> Cc: "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7543af91666f491547bd86cebb1e17c66824ab9f.1566229943.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
2019-08-16ia64: remove the zx1 swiotlb machvecChristoph Hellwig
The aim of this machvec is to support devices with < 32-bit dma masks. But given that ia64 only has a ZONE_DMA32 and not a ZONE_DMA that isn't supported by swiotlb either. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-21-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2019-08-13rcu/nocb: Rename rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel boot parameterPaul E. McKenney
This commit changes the name of the rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel boot parameter to rcu_nocb_gp_stride in order to account for the new distinction between callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-08-08PCI: Correct pci=resource_alignment parameter exampleAlexey Kardashevskiy
The "pci=resource_alignment" parameter is described as requiring an order (not a size) and the code in pci_specified_resource_alignment() expects an order. But the example wrongly shows a size. Convert the example to an order. Fixes: 8b078c603249 ("PCI: Update "pci=resource_alignment" documentation") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190606032557.107542-1-aik@ozlabs.ru Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2019-08-01rcu: Add kernel parameter to dump trace after RCU CPU stall warningPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds a rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump kernel boot parameter, that, when set, causes the trace buffer to be dumped after an RCU CPU stall warning is printed. This kernel boot parameter is disabled by default, maintaining compatibility with previous behavior. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-07-28Merge branch master from ↵Thomas Gleixner
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Pick up the spectre documentation so the Grand Schemozzle can be added.
2019-07-24Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "Bugfixes, a pvspinlock optimization, and documentation moving" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu KVM: X86: Fix fpu state crash in kvm guest Revert "kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user" KVM: nVMX: Clear pending KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES when leaving nested
2019-07-24Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virtChristoph Hellwig
Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt, as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation to match that. Fixes: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-07-19Merge tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross: "Fixes and features: - A series to introduce a common command line parameter for disabling paravirtual extensions when running as a guest in virtualized environment - A fix for int3 handling in Xen pv guests - Removal of the Xen-specific tmem driver as support of tmem in Xen has been dropped (and it was experimental only) - A security fix for running as Xen dom0 (XSA-300) - A fix for IRQ handling when offlining cpus in Xen guests - Some small cleanups" * tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free xen/pv: Fix a boot up hang revealed by int3 self test x86/xen: Add "nopv" support for HVM guest x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsolete x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions x86/xen: Mark xen_hvm_need_lapic() and xen_x2apic_para_available() as __init xen: remove tmem driver Revert "x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized" xen/events: fix binding user event channels to cpus
2019-07-18Merge tag 'trace-v5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "The main changes in this release include: - Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes - Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes" * tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits) tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update() ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc() ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests ...
2019-07-17Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "VM: - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by Christoph Hellwig - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by Kairui Song - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc initialization, by Alexander Potapenko - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan - several misc fixes core/lib: - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes get_maintainer.pl: - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches misc: - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface - coda updates - gdb scripts, various" [ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ] * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (100 commits) fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc() mm: add account_locked_vm utility function arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining() select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR ...
2019-07-17xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsoleteZhenzhong Duan
Clean up unnecessory code after that operation. Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2019-07-17x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensionsZhenzhong Duan
In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the best option. However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking) we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a better choice. There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions, like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true. Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2019-07-17xen: remove tmem driverJuergen Gross
The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental" state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13). The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2019-07-16vmcore: add a kernel parameter novmcoreddKairui Song
Since commit 2724273e8fd0 ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues. So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular vmcore without device dump data is still available. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-16Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid conflicts with other trees" * tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits) docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues docs: block: fix pdf output docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output docs: don't use nested tables docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide docs: locking: add it to the main index docs: add some directories to the main documentation index docs: add SPDX tags to new index files docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api docs: serial: move it to the driver-api docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book ...
2019-07-15Merge tag 'pci-v5.3-changes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas: "Enumeration changes: - Evaluate PCI Boot Configuration _DSM to learn if firmware wants us to preserve its resource assignments (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - Simplify resource distribution (Nicholas Johnson) - Decode 32 GT/s link speed (Gustavo Pimentel) Virtualization: - Fix incorrect caching of VF config space size (Alex Williamson) - Fix VF driver probing sysfs knobs (Alex Williamson) Peer-to-peer DMA: - Fix dma_virt_ops check (Logan Gunthorpe) Altera host bridge driver: - Allow building as module (Ley Foon Tan) Armada 8K host bridge driver: - add PHYs support (Miquel Raynal) DesignWare host bridge driver: - Export APIs to support removable loadable module (Vidya Sagar) - Enable Relaxed Ordering erratum workaround only on Tegra20 & Tegra30 (Vidya Sagar) Hyper-V host bridge driver: - Fix use-after-free in eject (Dexuan Cui) Mobiveil host bridge driver: - Clean up and fix many issues, including non-identify mapped windows, 64-bit windows, multi-MSI, class code, INTx clearing (Hou Zhiqiang) Qualcomm host bridge driver: - Use clk bulk API for 2.4.0 controllers (Bjorn Andersson) - Add QCS404 support (Bjorn Andersson) - Assert PERST for at least 100ms (Niklas Cassel) R-Car host bridge driver: - Add r8a774a1 DT support (Biju Das) Tegra host bridge driver: - Add support for Gen2, opportunistic UpdateFC and ACK (PCIe protocol details) AER, GPIO-based PERST# (Manikanta Maddireddy) - Fix many issues, including power-on failure cases, interrupt masking in suspend, UPHY settings, AFI dynamic clock gating, pending DLL transactions (Manikanta Maddireddy) Xilinx host bridge driver: - Fix NWL Multi-MSI programming (Bharat Kumar Gogada) Endpoint support: - Fix 64bit BAR support (Alan Mikhak) - Fix pcitest build issues (Alan Mikhak, Andy Shevchenko) Bug fixes: - Fix NVIDIA GPU multi-function power dependencies (Abhishek Sahu) - Fix NVIDIA GPU HDA enablement issue (Lukas Wunner) - Ignore lockdep for sysfs "remove" (Marek Vasut) Misc: - Convert docs to reST (Changbin Du, Mauro Carvalho Chehab)" * tag 'pci-v5.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (107 commits) PCI: Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers tools: PCI: Fix installation when `make tools/pci_install` PCI: dwc: pci-dra7xx: Fix compilation when !CONFIG_GPIOLIB PCI: Fix typos and whitespace errors PCI: mobiveil: Fix INTx interrupt clearing in mobiveil_pcie_isr() PCI: mobiveil: Fix infinite-loop in the INTx handling function PCI: mobiveil: Move PCIe PIO enablement out of inbound window routine PCI: mobiveil: Add upper 32-bit PCI base address setup in inbound window PCI: mobiveil: Add upper 32-bit CPU base address setup in outbound window PCI: mobiveil: Mask out hardcoded bits in inbound/outbound windows setup PCI: mobiveil: Clear the control fields before updating it PCI: mobiveil: Add configured inbound windows counter PCI: mobiveil: Fix the valid check for inbound and outbound windows PCI: mobiveil: Clean-up program_{ib/ob}_windows() PCI: mobiveil: Remove an unnecessary return value check PCI: mobiveil: Fix error return values PCI: mobiveil: Refactor the MEM/IO outbound window initialization PCI: mobiveil: Make some register updates more readable PCI: mobiveil: Reformat the code for readability dt-bindings: PCI: mobiveil: Change gpio_slave and apb_csr to optional ...
2019-07-15docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book. Move them to their right place. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
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>
2019-07-15docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide bookMauro Carvalho Chehab
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: blockdev: add it to the admin-guideMauro Carvalho Chehab
The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: admin-guide: add kdump documentation into itMauro Carvalho Chehab
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use in order to solve issues on their systems. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: admin-guide: add laptops documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab
The docs under Documentation/laptops contain users specific information. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
2019-07-15docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to itMauro Carvalho Chehab
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the :orphan: from its index file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: block: convert to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: sysctl: convert to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other files there via TOC markup. Despite being written on different times with different styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both raw text file and as via the html output produced by the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: blockdev: convert to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Rename the blockdev documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. The drbd sub-directory contains some graphs and data flows. Add those too to the documentation. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: laptops: convert to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Rename the laptops documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
2019-07-13Merge tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Notable changes: - Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver, as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't (yet?) made it upstream. - A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and kernel crashes. - Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for vmalloc when using the Radix MMU. - A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros. And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing" * tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits) powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state. powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1 powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore() powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names. powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names. powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM. powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming. powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params. powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name. powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays ...
2019-07-12mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot optionsAlexander Potapenko
Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10. Provide init_on_alloc and init_on_free boot options. These are aimed at preventing possible information leaks and making the control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic. Enabling either of the options guarantees that the memory returned by the page allocator and SL[AU]B is initialized with zeroes. SLOB allocator isn't supported at the moment, as its emulation of kmem caches complicates handling of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches correctly. Enabling init_on_free also guarantees that pages and heap objects are initialized right after they're freed, so it won't be possible to access stale data by using a dangling pointer. As suggested by Michal Hocko, right now we don't let the heap users to disable initialization for certain allocations. There's not enough evidence that doing so can speed up real-life cases, and introducing ways to opt-out may result in things going out of control. This patch (of 2): The new options are needed to prevent possible information leaks and make control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic. This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome OS. And it gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros too via the boot args. (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested by folks where memory forensics is included in their threat models.) init_on_alloc=1 makes the kernel initialize newly allocated pages and heap objects with zeroes. Initialization is done at allocation time at the places where checks for __GFP_ZERO are performed. init_on_free=1 makes the kernel initialize freed pages and heap objects with zeroes upon their deletion. This helps to ensure sensitive data doesn't leak via use-after-free accesses. Both init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 guarantee that the allocator returns zeroed memory. The two exceptions are slab caches with constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag. Those are never zero-initialized to preserve their semantics. Both init_on_alloc and init_on_free default to zero, but those defaults can be overridden with CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON and CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. If either SLUB poisoning or page poisoning is enabled, those options take precedence over init_on_alloc and init_on_free: initialization is only applied to unpoisoned allocations. Slowdown for the new features compared to init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0: hackbench, init_on_free=1: +7.62% sys time (st.err 0.74%) hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.75% sys time (st.err 2.14%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +8.38% wall time (st.err 0.39%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +24.42% sys time (st.err 0.52%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.13% wall time (st.err 0.42%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +0.57% sys time (st.err 0.40%) The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the baseline is within the standard error. The new features are also going to pave the way for hardware memory tagging (e.g. arm64's MTE), which will require both on_alloc and on_free hooks to set the tags for heap objects. With MTE, tagging will have the same cost as memory initialization. Although init_on_free is rather costly, there are paranoid use-cases where in-memory data lifetime is desired to be minimized. There are various arguments for/against the realism of the associated threat models, but given that we'll need the infrastructure for MTE anyway, and there are people who want wipe-on-free behavior no matter what the performance cost, it seems reasonable to include it in this series. [glider@google.com: v8] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626121943.131390-2-glider@google.com [glider@google.com: v9] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627130316.254309-2-glider@google.com [glider@google.com: v10] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628093131.199499-2-glider@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617151050.92663-2-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [page and dmapool parts Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>] Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-12mm, debug_pagealloc: use a page type instead of page_ext flagVlastimil Babka
When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other features requiring the page_ext array. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-09Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...
2019-07-09x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigationsJosh Poimboeuf
The previous commit added macro calls in the entry code which mitigate the Spectre v1 swapgs issue if the X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_* features are enabled. Enable those features where applicable. The mitigations may be disabled with "nospectre_v1" or "mitigations=off". There are different features which can affect the risk of attack: - When FSGSBASE is enabled, unprivileged users are able to place any value in GS, using the wrgsbase instruction. This means they can write a GS value which points to any value in kernel space, which can be useful with the following gadget in an interrupt/exception/NMI handler: if (coming from user space) swapgs mov %gs:<percpu_offset>, %reg1 // dependent load or store based on the value of %reg // for example: mov %(reg1), %reg2 If an interrupt is coming from user space, and the entry code speculatively skips the swapgs (due to user branch mistraining), it may speculatively execute the GS-based load and a subsequent dependent load or store, exposing the kernel data to an L1 side channel leak. Note that, on Intel, a similar attack exists in the above gadget when coming from kernel space, if the swapgs gets speculatively executed to switch back to the user GS. On AMD, this variant isn't possible because swapgs is serializing with respect to future GS-based accesses. NOTE: The FSGSBASE patch set hasn't been merged yet, so the above case doesn't exist quite yet. - When FSGSBASE is disabled, the issue is mitigated somewhat because unprivileged users must use prctl(ARCH_SET_GS) to set GS, which restricts GS values to user space addresses only. That means the gadget would need an additional step, since the target kernel address needs to be read from user space first. Something like: if (coming from user space) swapgs mov %gs:<percpu_offset>, %reg1 mov (%reg1), %reg2 // dependent load or store based on the value of %reg2 // for example: mov %(reg2), %reg3 It's difficult to audit for this gadget in all the handlers, so while there are no known instances of it, it's entirely possible that it exists somewhere (or could be introduced in the future). Without tooling to analyze all such code paths, consider it vulnerable. Effects of SMAP on the !FSGSBASE case: - If SMAP is enabled, and the CPU reports RDCL_NO (i.e., not susceptible to Meltdown), the kernel is prevented from speculatively reading user space memory, even L1 cached values. This effectively disables the !FSGSBASE attack vector. - If SMAP is enabled, but the CPU *is* susceptible to Meltdown, SMAP still prevents the kernel from speculatively reading user space memory. But it does *not* prevent the kernel from reading the user value from L1, if it has already been cached. This is probably only a small hurdle for an attacker to overcome. Thanks to Dave Hansen for contributing the speculative_smap() function. Thanks to Andrew Cooper for providing the inside scoop on whether swapgs is serializing on AMD. [ tglx: Fixed the USER fence decision and polished the comment as suggested by Dave Hansen ] Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
2019-07-08Merge branch 'for-5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost" * 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
2019-07-08Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The changes in this cycle are: - RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - SRCU updates - RCU-sync flavor consolidation - Torture-test updates - Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the addition of plain C-language accesses" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits) tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection tools/memory-model: Change definition of rcu-fence tools/memory-model: Expand definition of barrier tools/memory-model: Do not use "herd" to refer to "herd7" tools/memory-model: Fix comment in MP+poonceonces.litmus Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer() rcu: Force inlining of rcu_read_lock() rcu: Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer() rcu: Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb() rcutorture: Upper case solves the case of the vanishing NULL pointer torture: Suppress propagating trace_printk() warning rcutorture: Dump trace buffer for callback pipe drain failures torture: Add --trust-make to suppress "make clean" torture: Make --cpus override idleness calculations torture: Run kernel build in source directory torture: Add function graph-tracing cheat sheet torture: Capture qemu output rcutorture: Tweak kvm options rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation ...
2019-07-08Merge branch 'x86-entry-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 vsyscall updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Further hardening of the legacy vsyscall by providing support for execute only mode and switching the default to it. This prevents a certain class of attacks which rely on the vsyscall page being accessible at a fixed address in the canonical kernel address space" * 'x86-entry-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: selftests/x86: Add a test for process_vm_readv() on the vsyscall page x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly selftests/x86/vsyscall: Verify that vsyscall=none blocks execution x86/vsyscall: Document odd SIGSEGV error code for vsyscalls x86/vsyscall: Show something useful on a read fault x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly mode Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation
2019-07-01powerpc: Document xive=off optionMichael Neuling
commit 243e25112d06 ("powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller") added an option to turn off Linux native XIVE usage via the xive=off kernel command line option. This documents this option. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-06-28x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly modeAndy Lutomirski
With vsyscall emulation on, a readable vsyscall page is still exposed that contains syscall instructions that validly implement the vsyscalls. This is required because certain dynamic binary instrumentation tools attempt to read the call targets of call instructions in the instrumented code. If the instrumented code uses vsyscalls, then the vsyscall page needs to contain readable code. Unfortunately, leaving readable memory at a deterministic address can be used to help various ASLR bypasses, so some hardening value can be gained by disallowing vsyscall reads. Given how rarely the vsyscall page needs to be readable, add a mechanism to make the vsyscall page be execute only. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d17655777c21bc09a7af1bbcf74e6f2b69a51152.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
2019-06-28Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentationAndy Lutomirski
The vsyscall=native feature is gone -- remove the docs. Fixes: 076ca272a14c ("x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls") Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d77c7105eb4c57c1a95a95b6a5b8ba194a18e764.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
2019-06-19powerpc/64s/radix: Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAPNicholas Piggin
This sets the HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP option, and defines the required page table functions. This enables huge (2MB and 1GB) ioremap mappings. I don't have a benchmark for this change, but huge vmap will be used by a later core kernel change to enable huge vmalloc memory mappings. This improves cached `git diff` performance by about 5% on a 2-node POWER9 with 32MB size dentry cache hash. Profiling git diff dTLB misses with a vanilla kernel: 81.75% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __d_lookup_rcu 7.21% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] strncpy_from_user 1.77% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] find_get_entry 1.59% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] kmem_cache_free 40,168 dTLB-miss 0.100342754 seconds time elapsed With powerpc huge vmalloc: 2,987 dTLB-miss 0.095933138 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2019-06-14docs: power: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to build with Sphinx. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
2019-06-14docs: EDID/HOWTO.txt: convert it and rename to howto.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Sphinx need to know when a paragraph ends. So, do some adjustments at the file for it to be properly parsed. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. that's said, I believe that this file should be moved to the GPU/DRM documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: watchdog: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert those documents and prepare them to be part of the kernel API book, as most of the stuff there are related to the Kernel interfaces. Still, in the future, it would make sense to split the docs, as some of the stuff is clearly focused on sysadmin tasks. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to allow a later addition to the admin-guide. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-06-14docs: kdump: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on sysadmins that would be enabling kdump. Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its sub-sections: PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline) I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content, in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: ide: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-14docs: fb: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-11docs: s390: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert all text files with s390 documentation to ReST format. Tried to preserve as much as possible the original document format. Still, some of the files required some work in order for it to be visible on both plain text and after converted to html. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2019-06-08docs: isdn: remove hisax references from kernel-parameters.txtMauro Carvalho Chehab
The hisax driver got removed on 85993b8c9786 ("isdn: remove hisax driver"), but a left-over was kept at kernel-parameters.txt. Fixes: 85993b8c9786 ("isdn: remove hisax driver") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>