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'kfree_rcu.2020.06.29a', 'rcu-tasks.2020.06.29a', 'scale.2020.06.29a', 'srcu.2020.06.29a' and 'torture.2020.06.29a' into HEAD
doc.2020.06.29a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2020.06.29a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2020.06.29a: kfree_rcu() updates.
rcu-tasks.2020.06.29a: RCU Tasks updates.
scale.2020.06.29a: Read-side scalability tests.
srcu.2020.06.29a: SRCU updates.
torture.2020.06.29a: Torture-test updates.
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If there is a large number of torture tests running concurrently,
all of which are dumping large ftrace buffers at shutdown time, the
resulting dumping can take a very long time, particularly on systems
with rotating-rust storage. This commit therefore adds a default-off
torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown module parameter that enables
shutdown-time ftrace-buffer dumping.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Several variants of Linux-kernel RCU interact with task-exit processing,
including preemptible RCU, Tasks RCU, and Tasks Trace RCU. This commit
therefore adds testing of this interaction to rcutorture by adding
rcutorture.read_exit_burst and rcutorture.read_exit_delay kernel-boot
parameters. These kernel parameters control the frequency and spacing
of special read-then-exit kthreads that are spawned.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Dan Carpenter's static checker. ]
[ paulmck: Reduce latency to avoid false-positive shutdown hangs. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This commit further avoids conflation of refperf with the kernel's perf
feature by renaming kernel/rcu/refperf.c to kernel/rcu/refscale.c,
and also by similarly renaming the functions and variables inside
this file. This has the side effect of changing the names of the
kernel boot parameters, so kernel-parameters.txt and ver_functions.sh
are also updated.
The rcutorture --torture type remains refperf, and this will be
addressed in a separate commit.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This commit adds documentation for the rcuperf module parameters.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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In order to reduce the dynamic need for pages in kfree_rcu(),
pre-allocate a configurable number of pages per CPU and link
them in a list. When kfree_rcu() reclaims objects, the object's
container page is cached into a list instead of being released
to the low-level page allocator.
Such an approach provides O(1) access to free pages while also
reducing the number of requests to the page allocator. It also
makes the kfree_rcu() code to have free pages available during
a low memory condition.
A read-only sysfs parameter (rcu_min_cached_objs) reflects the
minimum number of allowed cached pages per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Document the efi=novamap kernel command line parameter.
Put the efi parameters into alphabetic order.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200616104012.4780-1-xypron.glpk@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Now that FSGSBASE is fully supported, remove unsafe_fsgsbase, enable
FSGSBASE by default, and add nofsgsbase to disable it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-17-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528201402.1708239-13-sashal@kernel.org
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This is temporary. It will allow the next few patches to be tested
incrementally.
Setting unsafe_fsgsbase is a root hole. Don't do it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-4-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528201402.1708239-3-sashal@kernel.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 srbds fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"The 9th episode of the dime novel "The performance killer" with the
subtitle "Slow Randomizing Boosts Denial of Service".
SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from
the random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New
microcode serializes the processor access during the execution of
RDRAND and RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten
before it is released for reuse. This is equivalent to a full bus
lock, which means that many threads running the RNG instructions in
parallel have the same effect as the same amount of threads issuing a
locked instruction targeting an address which requires locking of two
cachelines at once.
The mitigation support comes with the usual pile of unpleasant
ingredients:
- command line options
- sysfs file
- microcode checks
- a list of vulnerable CPUs identified by model and stepping this
time which requires stepping match support for the cpu match logic.
- the inevitable slowdown of affected CPUs"
* branch 'x86/srbds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list
x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation
x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation
x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:
- Add support for multi-function devices in pci code.
- Enable PF-VF linking for architectures using the pdev->no_vf_scan
flag (currently just s390).
- Add reipl from NVMe support.
- Get rid of critical section cleanup in entry.S.
- Refactor PNSO CHSC (perform network subchannel operation) in cio and
qeth.
- QDIO interrupts and error handling fixes and improvements, more
refactoring changes.
- Align ioremap() with generic code.
- Accept requests without the prefetch bit set in vfio-ccw.
- Enable path handling via two new regions in vfio-ccw.
- Other small fixes and improvements all over the code.
* tag 's390-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (52 commits)
vfio-ccw: make vfio_ccw_regops variables declarations static
vfio-ccw: Add trace for CRW event
vfio-ccw: Wire up the CRW irq and CRW region
vfio-ccw: Introduce a new CRW region
vfio-ccw: Refactor IRQ handlers
vfio-ccw: Introduce a new schib region
vfio-ccw: Refactor the unregister of the async regions
vfio-ccw: Register a chp_event callback for vfio-ccw
vfio-ccw: Introduce new helper functions to free/destroy regions
vfio-ccw: document possible errors
vfio-ccw: Enable transparent CCW IPL from DASD
s390/pci: Log new handle in clp_disable_fh()
s390/cio, s390/qeth: cleanup PNSO CHSC
s390/qdio: remove q->first_to_kick
s390/qdio: fix up qdio_start_irq() kerneldoc
s390: remove critical section cleanup from entry.S
s390: add machine check SIGP
s390/pci: ioremap() align with generic code
s390/ap: introduce new ap function ap_get_qdev()
Documentation/s390: Update / remove developerWorks web links
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After a recent change introduced by Vlastimil's series [0], kernel is
able now to handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line; also, the
series introduced a simple infrastructure to convert legacy boot
parameters (that duplicate sysctls) into sysctl aliases.
This patch converts the watchdog parameters softlockup_panic and
{hard,soft}lockup_all_cpu_backtrace to use the new alias infrastructure.
It fixes the documentation too, since the alias only accepts values 0 or
1, not the full range of integers.
We also took the opportunity here to improve the documentation of the
previously converted hung_task_panic (see the patch series [0]) and put
the alias table in alphabetical order.
[0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507214624.21911-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We can now handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line and have
infrastructure to convert legacy command line options that duplicate
sysctl to become a sysctl alias.
This patch converts the hung_task_panic parameter. Note that the sysctl
handler is more strict and allows only 0 and 1, while the legacy
parameter allowed any non-zero value. But there is little reason anyone
would not be using 1.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line", v3.
This series adds support for something that seems like many people
always wanted but nobody added it yet, so here's the ability to set
sysctl parameters via kernel command line options in the form of
sysctl.vm.something=1
The important part is Patch 1. The second, not so important part is an
attempt to clean up legacy one-off parameters that do the same thing as
a sysctl. I don't want to remove them completely for compatibility
reasons, but with generic sysctl support the idea is to remove the
one-off param handlers and treat the parameters as aliases for the
sysctl variants.
I have identified several parameters that mention sysctl counterparts in
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt but there might be more.
The conversion also has varying level of success:
- numa_zonelist_order is converted in Patch 2 together with adding the
necessary infrastructure. It's easy as it doesn't really do anything
but warn on deprecated value these days.
- hung_task_panic is converted in Patch 3, but there's a downside that
now it only accepts 0 and 1, while previously it was any integer
value
- nmi_watchdog maps to two sysctls nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic,
so there's no straighforward conversion possible
- traceoff_on_warning is a flag without value and it would be required
to handle that somehow in the conversion infractructure, which seems
pointless for a single flag
This patch (of 5):
A recently proposed patch to add vm_swappiness command line parameter in
addition to existing sysctl [1] made me wonder why we don't have a
general support for passing sysctl parameters via command line.
Googling found only somebody else wondering the same [2], but I haven't
found any prior discussion with reasons why not to do this.
Settings the vm_swappiness issue aside (the underlying issue might be
solved in a different way), quick search of kernel-parameters.txt shows
there are already some that exist as both sysctl and kernel parameter -
hung_task_panic, nmi_watchdog, numa_zonelist_order, traceoff_on_warning.
A general mechanism would remove the need to add more of those one-offs
and might be handy in situations where configuration by e.g.
/etc/sysctl.d/ is impractical.
Hence, this patch adds a new parse_args() pass that looks for parameters
prefixed by 'sysctl.' and tries to interpret them as writes to the
corresponding sys/ files using an temporary in-kernel procfs mount.
This mechanism was suggested by Eric W. Biederman [3], as it handles
all dynamically registered sysctl tables, even though we don't handle
modular sysctls. Errors due to e.g. invalid parameter name or value
are reported in the kernel log.
The processing is hooked right before the init process is loaded, as
some handlers might be more complicated than simple setters and might
need some subsystems to be initialized. At the moment the init process
can be started and eventually execute a process writing to /proc/sys/
then it should be also fine to do that from the kernel.
Sysctls registered later on module load time are not set by this
mechanism - it's expected that in such scenarios, setting sysctl values
from userspace is practical enough.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/BL0PR02MB560167492CA4094C91589930E9FC0@BL0PR02MB5601.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/
[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/558802/how-to-set-sysctl-using-kernel-command-line-parameter
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87bloj2skm.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org/
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
accelerator on Power9.
- Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
relying on an IPI for serialisation.
- A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling
more robust.
- Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
on Power10.
- Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).
- Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
driver.
- Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.
- Initial support for booting on Power10.
- Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.
* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Media documentation is now split into admin-guide, driver-api and
userspace-api books (a longstanding request from Jon);
- The media Kconfig was reorganized, in order to make easier to select
drivers and their dependencies;
- The testing drivers now has a separate directory;
- added a new driver for Rockchip Video Decoder IP;
- The atomisp staging driver was resurrected. It is meant to work with
4 generations of cameras on Atom-based laptops, tablets and cell
phones. So, it seems worth investing time to cleanup this driver and
making it in good shape.
- Added some V4L2 core ancillary routines to help with h264 codecs;
- Added an ov2740 image sensor driver;
- The si2157 gained support for Analog TV, which, in turn, added
support for some cx231xx and cx23885 boards to also support analog
standards;
- Added some V4L2 controls (V4L2_CID_CAMERA_ORIENTATION and
V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION) to help identifying where the camera
is located at the device;
- VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT was extended to support MC-centric devices;
- Lots of drivers improvements and cleanups.
* tag 'media/v5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (503 commits)
media: Documentation: media: Refer to mbus format documentation from CSI-2 docs
media: s5k5baf: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
media: i2c: imx219: Drop <linux/clk-provider.h> and <linux/clkdev.h>
media: i2c: Add ov2740 image sensor driver
media: ov8856: Implement sensor module revision identification
media: ov8856: Add devicetree support
media: dt-bindings: ov8856: Document YAML bindings
media: dvb-usb: Add Cinergy S2 PCIe Dual Port support
media: dvbdev: Fix tuner->demod media controller link
media: dt-bindings: phy: phy-rockchip-dphy-rx0: move rockchip dphy rx0 bindings out of staging
media: staging: dt-bindings: phy-rockchip-dphy-rx0: remove non-used reg property
media: atomisp: unify the version for isp2401 a0 and b0 versions
media: atomisp: update TODO with the current data
media: atomisp: adjust some code at sh_css that could be broken
media: atomisp: don't produce errs for ignored IRQs
media: atomisp: print IRQ when debugging
media: atomisp: isp_mmu: don't use kmem_cache
media: atomisp: add a notice about possible leak resources
media: atomisp: disable the dynamic and reserved pools
media: atomisp: turn on camera before setting it
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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
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With all hugetlb page processing done in a single file clean up code.
- Make code match desired semantics
- Update documentation with semantics
- Make all warnings and errors messages start with 'HugeTLB:'.
- Consistently name command line parsing routines.
- Warn if !hugepages_supported() and command line parameters have
been specified.
- Add comments to code
- Describe some of the subtle interactions
- Describe semantics of command line arguments
This patch also fixes issues with implicitly setting the number of
gigantic huge pages to preallocate. Previously on X86 command line,
hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G
would result in zero 1G pages being preallocated and,
# grep HugePages_Total /proc/meminfo
HugePages_Total: 0
# sysctl -a | grep nr_hugepages
vm.nr_hugepages = 2
vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy = 2
# cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
2
After this patch 2 gigantic pages will be preallocated and all the proc,
sysfs, sysctl and meminfo files will accurately reflect this.
To address the issue with gigantic pages, a small change in behavior was
made to command line processing. Previously the command line,
hugepages=128 default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256
would result in the allocation of 256 2M huge pages. The value 128 would
be ignored without any warning. After this patch, 128 2M pages will be
allocated and a warning message will be displayed indicating the value of
256 is ignored. This change in behavior is required because allocation of
implicitly specified gigantic pages must be done when the
default_hugepagesz= is encountered for gigantic pages. Previously the
code waited until later in the boot process (hugetlb_init), to allocate
pages of default size. However the bootmem allocator required for
gigantic allocations is not available at this time.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Longpeng <longpeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200417185049.275845-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux
Pull kgdb updates from Daniel Thompson:
"By far the biggest change in this cycle are the changes that allow
much earlier debug of systems that are hooked up via UART by taking
advantage of the earlycon framework to implement the kgdb I/O hooks
before handing over to the regular polling I/O drivers once they are
available. When discussing Doug's work we also found and fixed an
broken raw_smp_processor_id() sequence in in_dbg_master().
Also included are a collection of much smaller fixes and tweaks: a
couple of tweaks to ged rid of doc gen or coccicheck warnings, future
proof some internal calculations that made implicit power-of-2
assumptions and eliminate some rather weird handling of magic
environment variables in kdb"
* tag 'kgdb-5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kdb: Remove the misfeature 'KDBFLAGS'
kdb: Cleanup math with KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT
serial: amba-pl011: Support kgdboc_earlycon
serial: 8250_early: Support kgdboc_earlycon
serial: qcom_geni_serial: Support kgdboc_earlycon
serial: kgdboc: Allow earlycon initialization to be deferred
Documentation: kgdboc: Document new kgdboc_earlycon parameter
kgdb: Don't call the deinit under spinlock
kgdboc: Disable all the early code when kgdboc is a module
kgdboc: Add kgdboc_earlycon to support early kgdb using boot consoles
kgdboc: Remove useless #ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE in kgdboc
kgdb: Prevent infinite recursive entries to the debugger
kgdb: Delay "kgdbwait" to dbg_late_init() by default
kgdboc: Use a platform device to handle tty drivers showing up late
Revert "kgdboc: disable the console lock when in kgdb"
kgdb: Disable WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED for all kgdb
kgdb: Return true in kgdb_nmi_poll_knock()
kgdb: Drop malformed kernel doc comment
kgdb: Fix spurious true from in_dbg_master()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"X86 timer specific updates:
- Add TPAUSE based delay which allows the CPU to enter an optimized
power state while waiting for the delay to pass. The delay is based
on TSC cycles.
- Add tsc_early_khz command line parameter to workaround the problem
that overclocked CPUs can report the wrong frequency via CPUID.16h
which causes the refined calibration to fail because the delta to
the initial frequency value is too big. With the parameter users
can provide an halfways accurate initial value"
* tag 'x86-timers-2020-06-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/tsc: Add tsc_early_khz command line parameter
x86/delay: Introduce TPAUSE delay
x86/delay: Refactor delay_mwaitx() for TPAUSE support
x86/delay: Preparatory code cleanup
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The recent patch ("kgdboc: Add kgdboc_earlycon to support early kgdb
using boot consoles") adds a new kernel command line parameter.
Document it.
Note that the patch adding the feature does some comparing/contrasting
of "kgdboc_earlycon" vs. the existing "ekgdboc". See that patch for
more details, but briefly "ekgdboc" can be used _instead_ of "kgdboc"
and just makes "kgdboc" do its normal initialization early (only works
if your tty driver is already ready). The new "kgdboc_earlycon" works
in combination with "kgdboc" and is backed by boot consoles.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.9.I7d5eb42c6180c831d47aef1af44d0b8be3fac559@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc updates:
- Add the initrdmem= boot option to specify an initrd embedded in RAM
(flash most likely)
- Sanitize the CS value earlier during boot, which also fixes SEV-ES
- Various fixes and smaller cleanups"
* tag 'x86-boot-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Correct relocation destination on old linkers
x86/boot/compressed/64: Switch to __KERNEL_CS after GDT is loaded
x86/boot: Fix -Wint-to-pointer-cast build warning
x86/boot: Add kstrtoul() from lib/
x86/tboot: Mark tboot static
x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify initrd physical address
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Changing base clock frequency directly impacts TSC Hz but not CPUID.16h
value. An overclocked CPU supporting CPUID.16h and with partial CPUID.15h
support will set TSC KHZ according to "best guess" given by CPUID.16h
relying on tsc_refine_calibration_work to give better numbers later.
tsc_refine_calibration_work will refuse to do its work when the outcome is
off the early TSC KHZ value by more than 1% which is certain to happen on
an overclocked system.
Fix this by adding a tsc_early_khz command line parameter that makes the
kernel skip early TSC calibration and use the given value instead.
This allows the user to provide the expected TSC frequency that is closer
to reality than the one reported by the hardware, enabling
tsc_refine_calibration_work to do meaningful error checking.
[ tglx: Made the variable __initdata as it's only used on init and
removed the error checking in the argument parser because
kstrto*() only stores to the variable if the string is valid ]
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piecuch <piecuch@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/O2CpIOrqLZHgNRkfjRpz_LGqnc1ix_seNIiOCvHY4RHoulOVRo6kMXKuLOfBVTi0SMMevg6Go1uZ_cL9fLYtYdTRNH78ChaFaZyG3VAyYz8=@protonmail.com
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This option increases the number of SLB misses by limiting the number
of kernel SLB entries, and increased flushing of cached lookaside
information. This helps stress test difficult to hit paths in the
kernel.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Relocate the code into arch/powerpc/mm, s/torture/stress/]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511125825.3081305-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Get the noinstr section and annotation markers to base the RCU parts on.
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There is an special chapter inside the core-api book about
some debug infrastructure like tracepoints and debug objects.
It sounded to me that this is the best place to add a chapter
explaining how to use a FireWire controller to do remote
kernel debugging, as explained on this document.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9b489d36d08ad89d3ad5aefef1f52a0715b29716.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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'rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a', 'stall.2020.04.27a' and 'torture.2020.05.07a' into HEAD
fixes.2020.04.27a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2020.04.27a: Changes related to kfree_rcu().
rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a: Addition of new RCU-tasks flavors.
stall.2020.04.27a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates.
torture.2020.05.07a: Torture-test updates.
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This commit provides an rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread module parameter
to allow rcutorture to starve the grace-period kthread. This allows
testing the code that detects such starvation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This commit aids testing of RCU task stall warning messages by adding
an rcutorture.stall_cpu_block module parameter that results in the
induced stall sleeping within the RCU read-side critical section.
Spinning with interrupts disabled is still available via the
rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff module parameter, and specifying neither
of these two module parameters will spin with preemption disabled.
Note that sleeping (as opposed to preemption) results in additional
complaints from RCU at context-switch time, so yet more testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Conflicts were all overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- add notes markups;
- 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>
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Not much to be done here:
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- mark a literal as such, in order to avoid a warning;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 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>
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- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- 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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There are changes in the usage of PCI for the user:
- new kernel parameter
- modification of the way functions are enumerated
Let's document these.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs. This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.
On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Add the initrdmem option:
initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost
always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing
phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel.
This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH,
but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH.
One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has
been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For
example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only
is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This
space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it
is.
This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added
to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing
a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address
and size.
At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or
syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification
should be available.
Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the
the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has
proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86.
Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem
command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried.
For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be
burnt in with a built-in command line which includes:
initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000
which specifies a location and size.
[ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org
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first for high speed devices")
Commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for
high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates
high-speed devices. Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme
first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start
with the "old" scheme. In theory this is better because the "old"
scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only
once instead of twice.
However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme. Zeng Tao
said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed
devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it.
William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio
laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung
up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme! Only
a cold reset will fix it.
Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new"
scheme first for high-speed devices.
Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader <williambader@hotmail.com>
Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Fixes: bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
CC: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the
random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode
serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and
RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is
released for reuse.
While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation
is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the
cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL.
The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it
increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other
effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom.
* Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using
either mitigations=off or srbds=off.
* Export vulnerability status via sysfs
* Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations.
[ bp: Massage,
- s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g,
- do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in,
- flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level,
- reflow comments.
jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings
tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now
]
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
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Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help
users of the media subsystem.
Move them to the admin-guide.
It should be noticed, however, that several of those files
are outdated and will require further work in order to make
them useful again.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
- Almost all of the rest of MM (memcg, slab-generic, slab, pagealloc,
gup, hugetlb, pagemap, memremap)
- Various other things (hfs, ocfs2, kmod, misc, seqfile)
* akpm: (34 commits)
ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index
kernel/gcov/fs.c: gcov_seq_next() should increase position index
fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions
drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c: fix platform_get_irq.cocci warnings
change email address for Pali Rohár
selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading
selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9
docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl
fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once()
kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled
mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params
powerpc/mm: thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping()
x86/mm: introduce __set_memory_prot()
x86/mm: thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping()
mm/memory_hotplug: rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params
mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions
mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial()
mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS
mm/vma: define a default value for VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS
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Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree"
* tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation: android: binderfs: add 'stats' mount option
Documentation: driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst Updates documentation links
docs: driver-api: address duplicate label warning
Documentation: sysrq: fix RST formatting
docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references
docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx
docs: filesystems: fix typo in qnx6.rst
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Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation
at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages.
However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading,
when the majority of memory is free. After some time the memory gets
fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB
block are getting close to zero. Even dropping caches manually doesn't
help a lot.
At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages
is quite expensive and complex. At the same time keeping some constant
percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't
using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB
pages.
The following solution can solve the problem:
1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed
as a kernel argument.
2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the
cma allocator and the dedicated cma area
In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a
high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody
is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs,
etc.
* On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node.
Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available
numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user.
Usage:
1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations:
pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument
2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g.
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed,
the current behavior of the system is preserved.
x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be
trivially added later.
The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan
Bakirov and Randy Dunlap. It also contains ideas and suggestions
proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Aslan Bakirov <aslan@fb.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix remaining broken references in kernel-parameters.txt.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-2-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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x86/mpx was removed in commit 45fc24e89b7c
("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86"), this removes the documentation of
parameter nompx.
Fixes: 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86")
Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-1-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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In commit 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem=
parameter") a global varialbe max_mem_size is added to store the value
parsed from 'mem= ', then checked when memory region is added. This truly
stops those DIMMs from being added into system memory during boot-time.
However, it also limits the later memory hotplug functionality. Any DIMM
can't be hotplugged any more if its region is beyond the max_mem_size. We
will get errors like:
[ 216.387164] acpi PNP0C80:02: add_memory failed
[ 216.389301] acpi PNP0C80:02: acpi_memory_enable_device() error
[ 216.392187] acpi PNP0C80:02: Enumeration failure
This will cause issue in a known use case where 'mem=' is added to the
hypervisor. The memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary will be assigned
to KVM guests. After commit 357b4da50a62 merged, memory can't be extended
dynamically if system memory on hypervisor is not sufficient.
So fix it by also checking if it's during boot-time restricting to add
memory. Otherwise, skip the restriction.
And also add this use case to document of 'mem=' kernel parameter.
Fixes: 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200204050643.20925-1-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Additional ACPI updates.
These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200326 upstream
revision, fix an ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86, update
Intel Tiger Lake device IDs in some places, add a new ACPI backlight
blacklist entry, update the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line
switch documentation and clean up a CPPC library routine.
Specifics:
- Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200326
including:
* Fix for a typo in a comment field (Bob Moore)
* acpiExec namespace init file fixes (Bob Moore)
* Addition of NHLT to the known tables list (Cezary Rojewski)
* Conversion of PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC (Erik
Kaneda)
* acpiexec cleanup (Erik Kaneda)
* WSMT-related typo fix (Erik Kaneda)
* sprintf() utility function fix (John Levon)
* IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing implementation (Michał Żygowski)
* IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name fix (Michał Żygowski)
- Fix ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86 (Qian Cai)
- Fix Intel Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs in several places (Gayatri
Kammela)
- Add ACPI backlight blacklist entry for Acer Aspire 5783z (Hans de
Goede)
- Fix documentation of the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line
switch (Randy Dunlap)
- Clean up the acpi_get_psd_map() CPPC library routine (Liguang
Zhang)"
* tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
x86: ACPI: fix CPU hotplug deadlock
thermal: int340x_thermal: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs
platform/x86: intel-hid: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device ID
ACPI: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs
ACPI: video: Use native backlight on Acer Aspire 5783z
ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter options
ACPICA: Update version 20200326
ACPICA: Fixes for acpiExec namespace init file
ACPICA: Add NHLT table signature
ACPICA: WSMT: Fix typo, no functional change
ACPICA: utilities: fix sprintf()
ACPICA: acpiexec: remove redeclaration of acpi_gbl_db_opt_no_region_support
ACPICA: Change PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC
ACPICA: Fix IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name
ACPICA: Implement IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing
ACPICA: Fix a typo in a comment field
ACPI: CPPC: clean up acpi_get_psd_map()
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