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2019-09-17Merge tag 'please-pull-ia64_for_5.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux Pull ia64 updates from Tony Luck: "The big change here is removal of support for SGI Altix" * tag 'please-pull-ia64_for_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: (33 commits) genirq: remove the is_affinity_mask_valid hook ia64: remove CONFIG_SWIOTLB ifdefs ia64: remove support for machvecs ia64: move the screen_info setup to common code ia64: move the ROOT_DEV setup to common code ia64: rework iommu probing ia64: remove the unused sn_coherency_id symbol ia64: remove the SGI UV simulator support ia64: remove the zx1 swiotlb machvec ia64: remove CONFIG_ACPI ifdefs ia64: remove CONFIG_PCI ifdefs ia64: remove the hpsim platform ia64: remove now unused machvec indirections ia64: remove support for the SGI SN2 platform drivers: remove the SGI SN2 IOC4 base support drivers: remove the SGI SN2 IOC3 base support qla2xxx: remove SGI SN2 support qla1280: remove SGI SN2 support misc/sgi-xp: remove SGI SN2 support char/mspec: remove SGI SN2 support ...
2019-09-17Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+52
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "Although there isn't tonnes of code in terms of line count, there are a fair few headline features which I've noted both in the tag and also in the merge commits when I pulled everything together. The part I'm most pleased with is that we had 35 contributors this time around, which feels like a big jump from the usual small group of core arm64 arch developers. Hopefully they all enjoyed it so much that they'll continue to contribute, but we'll see. It's probably worth highlighting that we've pulled in a branch from the risc-v folks which moves our CPU topology code out to where it can be shared with others. Summary: - 52-bit virtual addressing in the kernel - New ABI to allow tagged user pointers to be dereferenced by syscalls - Early RNG seeding by the bootloader - Improve robustness of SMP boot - Fix TLB invalidation in light of recent architectural clarifications - Support for i.MX8 DDR PMU - Remove direct LSE instruction patching in favour of static keys - Function error injection using kprobes - Support for the PPTT "thread" flag introduced by ACPI 6.3 - Move PSCI idle code into proper cpuidle driver - Relaxation of implicit I/O memory barriers - Build with RELR relocations when toolchain supports them - Numerous cleanups and non-critical fixes" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (114 commits) arm64: remove __iounmap arm64: atomics: Use K constraint when toolchain appears to support it arm64: atomics: Undefine internal macros after use arm64: lse: Make ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS depend on JUMP_LABEL arm64: asm: Kill 'asm/atomic_arch.h' arm64: lse: Remove unused 'alt_lse' assembly macro arm64: atomics: Remove atomic_ll_sc compilation unit arm64: avoid using hard-coded registers for LSE atomics arm64: atomics: avoid out-of-line ll/sc atomics arm64: Use correct ll/sc atomic constraints jump_label: Don't warn on __exit jump entries docs/perf: Add documentation for the i.MX8 DDR PMU perf/imx_ddr: Add support for AXI ID filtering arm64: kpti: ensure patched kernel text is fetched from PoU arm64: fix fixmap copy for 16K pages and 48-bit VA perf/smmuv3: Validate groups for global filtering perf/smmuv3: Validate group size arm64: Relax Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst arm64: kvm: Replace hardcoded '1' with SYS_PAR_EL1_F arm64: mm: Ignore spurious translation faults taken from the kernel ...
2019-09-16Merge branch 'sched/rt' into sched/core, to pick up -rt changesIngo Molnar3-12/+2
Pick up the first couple of patches working towards PREEMPT_RT. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-09-14Documentation: Add "earlycon=sbi" to the admin guidePalmer Dabbelt1-0/+4
This argument is supported on RISC-V systems and widely used, but was not documented here. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-09-14devices.txt: improve entry for comedi (char major 98)Ian Abbott1-1/+10
Describe how the comedi minor device numbers are split across comedi devices and comedi subdevices. Replace the current, long dead URL with an official URL for the Comedi project. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-09-12dm: add clone targetNikos Tsironis1-0/+333
Add the dm-clone target, which allows cloning of arbitrary block devices. dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source device into a writable destination device: It presents a virtual block device which makes all data appear immediately, and redirects reads and writes accordingly. The main use case of dm-clone is to clone a potentially remote, high-latency, read-only, archival-type block device into a writable, fast, primary-type device for fast, low-latency I/O. The cloned device is visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to the destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user I/O. When the cloning completes, the dm-clone table can be removed altogether and be replaced, e.g., by a linear table, mapping directly to the destination device. For further information and examples of how to use dm-clone, please read Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-clone.rst Suggested-by: Vangelis Koukis <vkoukis@arrikto.com> Co-developed-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com> Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com> Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-09-11Merge branches 'arm/omap', 'arm/exynos', 'arm/smmu', 'arm/mediatek', ↵Joerg Roedel1-1/+6
'arm/qcom', 'arm/renesas', 'x86/amd', 'x86/vt-d' and 'core' into next
2019-09-11iommu/vt-d: Check whether device requires bounce bufferLu Baolu1-0/+5
This adds a helper to check whether a device needs to use bounce buffer. It also provides a boot time option to disable the bounce buffer. Users can use this to prevent the iommu driver from using the bounce buffer for performance gain. Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Xu Pengfei <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
2019-09-07platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add ThinkPad PrivacyGuardAlexander Schremmer1-0/+23
This feature is found optionally in T480s, T490, T490s. The feature is called lcdshadow and visible via /proc/acpi/ibm/lcdshadow. The ACPI methods \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC.HKEY.{GSSS,SSSS,TSSS,CSSS} are available in these machines. They get, set, toggle or change the state apparently. The patch was tested on a 5.0 series kernel on a T480s. Signed-off-by: Alexander Schremmer <alex@alexanderweb.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2019-09-06Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B'Adam Borowski1-11/+9
This advice is obsolete and slightly harmful for filesystems from this millenium: any modern filesystem can handle unexpected crashes without requiring fsck -- and on the other hand, trying to write to the disk when the kernel is in a bad state risks introducing corruption. For ext2, any unsafe shutdown meant widespread breakage, but it's no longer a reasonable filesystem for any non-special use. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-09-05powerpc/64s/radix: introduce options to disable use of the tlbie instructionNicholas Piggin1-0/+4
Introduce two options to control the use of the tlbie instruction. A boot time option which completely disables the kernel using the instruction, this is currently incompatible with HASH MMU, KVM, and coherent accelerators. And a debugfs option can be switched at runtime and avoids using tlbie for invalidating CPU TLBs for normal process and kernel address mappings. Coherent accelerators are still managed with tlbie, as will KVM partition scope translations. Cross-CPU TLB flushing is implemented with IPIs and tlbiel. This is a basic implementation which does not attempt to make any optimisation beyond the tlbie implementation. This is useful for performance testing among other things. For example in certain situations on large systems, using IPIs may be faster than tlbie as they can be directed rather than broadcast. Later we may also take advantage of the IPIs to do more interesting things such as trim the mm cpumask more aggressively. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190902152931.17840-7-npiggin@gmail.com
2019-09-04tty: serial: Add linflexuart driver for S32V234Stefan-gabriel Mirea1-0/+6
Introduce support for LINFlex driver, based on: - the version of Freescale LPUART driver after commit b3e3bf2ef2c7 ("Merge 4.0-rc7 into tty-next"); - commit abf1e0a98083 ("tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: lock port on console write"). In this basic version, the driver can be tested using initramfs and relies on the clocks and pin muxing set up by U-Boot. Remarks concerning the earlycon support: - LinFlexD does not allow character transmissions in the INIT mode (see section 47.4.2.1 in the reference manual[1]). Therefore, a mutual exclusion between the first linflex_setup_watermark/linflex_set_termios executions and linflex_earlycon_putchar was employed and the characters normally sent to earlycon during initialization are kept in a buffer and sent afterwards. - Empirically, character transmission is also forbidden within the last 1-2 ms before entering the INIT mode, so we use an explicit timeout (PREINIT_DELAY) between linflex_earlycon_putchar and the first call to linflex_setup_watermark. - U-Boot currently uses the UART FIFO mode, while this driver makes the transition to the buffer mode. Therefore, the earlycon putchar function matches the U-Boot behavior before initializations and the Linux behavior after. [1] https://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=S32V234RM Signed-off-by: Stoica Cosmin-Stefan <cosmin.stoica@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian.Nitu <adrian.nitu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Larisa Grigore <Larisa.Grigore@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Ana Nedelcu <B56683@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Mihaela Martinas <Mihaela.Martinas@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Nunez <matthew.nunez@nxp.com> [stefan-gabriel.mirea@nxp.com: Reduced for upstreaming and implemented earlycon support] Signed-off-by: Stefan-Gabriel Mirea <stefan-gabriel.mirea@nxp.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190809112853.15846-6-stefan-gabriel.mirea@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-09-03Documentation:kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Remove reference to elevator=Marcos Paulo de Souza1-5/+3
This argument was not being considered since blk-mq was set by default, so removed this documentation to avoid confusion. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com> .txt file is now .rst Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-09-03block: elevator.c: Remove now unused elevator= argumentMarcos Paulo de Souza1-6/+0
Since the inclusion of blk-mq, elevator argument was not being considered anymore, and it's utility died long with the legacy IO path, now removed too. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com> Fold with doc removal patch. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-09-03sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controllerPatrick Bellasi1-0/+34
The cgroup CPU bandwidth controller allows to assign a specified (maximum) bandwidth to the tasks of a group. However this bandwidth is defined and enforced only on a temporal base, without considering the actual frequency a CPU is running on. Thus, the amount of computation completed by a task within an allocated bandwidth can be very different depending on the actual frequency the CPU is running that task. The amount of computation can be affected also by the specific CPU a task is running on, especially when running on asymmetric capacity systems like Arm's big.LITTLE. With the availability of schedutil, the scheduler is now able to drive frequency selections based on actual task utilization. Moreover, the utilization clamping support provides a mechanism to bias the frequency selection operated by schedutil depending on constraints assigned to the tasks currently RUNNABLE on a CPU. Giving the mechanisms described above, it is now possible to extend the cpu controller to specify the minimum (or maximum) utilization which should be considered for tasks RUNNABLE on a cpu. This makes it possible to better defined the actual computational power assigned to task groups, thus improving the cgroup CPU bandwidth controller which is currently based just on time constraints. Extend the CPU controller with a couple of new attributes uclamp.{min,max} which allow to enforce utilization boosting and capping for all the tasks in a group. Specifically: - uclamp.min: defines the minimum utilization which should be considered i.e. the RUNNABLE tasks of this group will run at least at a minimum frequency which corresponds to the uclamp.min utilization - uclamp.max: defines the maximum utilization which should be considered i.e. the RUNNABLE tasks of this group will run up to a maximum frequency which corresponds to the uclamp.max utilization These attributes: a) are available only for non-root nodes, both on default and legacy hierarchies, while system wide clamps are defined by a generic interface which does not depends on cgroups. This system wide interface enforces constraints on tasks in the root node. b) enforce effective constraints at each level of the hierarchy which are a restriction of the group requests considering its parent's effective constraints. Root group effective constraints are defined by the system wide interface. This mechanism allows each (non-root) level of the hierarchy to: - request whatever clamp values it would like to get - effectively get only up to the maximum amount allowed by its parent c) have higher priority than task-specific clamps, defined via sched_setattr(), thus allowing to control and restrict task requests. Add two new attributes to the cpu controller to collect "requested" clamp values. Allow that at each non-root level of the hierarchy. Keep it simple by not caring now about "effective" values computation and propagation along the hierarchy. Update sysctl_sched_uclamp_handler() to use the newly introduced uclamp_mutex so that we serialize system default updates with cgroup relate updates. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190822132811.31294-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-08-30Merge branches 'for-next/52-bit-kva', 'for-next/cpu-topology', ↵Will Deacon1-0/+52
'for-next/error-injection', 'for-next/perf', 'for-next/psci-cpuidle', 'for-next/rng', 'for-next/smpboot', 'for-next/tbi' and 'for-next/tlbi' into for-next/core * for-next/52-bit-kva: (25 commits) Support for 52-bit virtual addressing in kernel space * for-next/cpu-topology: (9 commits) Move CPU topology parsing into core code and add support for ACPI 6.3 * for-next/error-injection: (2 commits) Support for function error injection via kprobes * for-next/perf: (8 commits) Support for i.MX8 DDR PMU and proper SMMUv3 group validation * for-next/psci-cpuidle: (7 commits) Move PSCI idle code into a new CPUidle driver * for-next/rng: (4 commits) Support for 'rng-seed' property being passed in the devicetree * for-next/smpboot: (3 commits) Reduce fragility of secondary CPU bringup in debug configurations * for-next/tbi: (10 commits) Introduce new syscall ABI with relaxed requirements for pointer tags * for-next/tlbi: (6 commits) Handle spurious page faults arising from kernel space
2019-08-30powerpc/prom_init: Add the ESM call to prom_initRam Pai1-0/+5
Make the Enter-Secure-Mode (ESM) ultravisor call to switch the VM to secure mode. Pass kernel base address and FDT address so that the Ultravisor is able to verify the integrity of the VM using information from the ESM blob. Add "svm=" command line option to turn on switching to secure mode. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> [ andmike: Generate an RTAS os-term hcall when the ESM ucall fails. ] Signed-off-by: Michael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com> [ bauerman: Cleaned up the code a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820021326.6884-5-bauerman@linux.ibm.com
2019-08-29blkcg: add tools/cgroup/iocost_coef_gen.pyTejun Heo1-0/+3
Add a script which can be used to generate device-specific iocost linear model coefficients. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-29blkcg: implement blk-iocostTejun Heo1-0/+94
This patchset implements IO cost model based work-conserving proportional controller. While io.latency provides the capability to comprehensively prioritize and protect IOs depending on the cgroups, its protection is binary - the lowest latency target cgroup which is suffering is protected at the cost of all others. In many use cases including stacking multiple workload containers in a single system, it's necessary to distribute IO capacity with better granularity. One challenge of controlling IO resources is the lack of trivially observable cost metric. The most common metrics - bandwidth and iops - can be off by orders of magnitude depending on the device type and IO pattern. However, the cost isn't a complete mystery. Given several key attributes, we can make fairly reliable predictions on how expensive a given stream of IOs would be, at least compared to other IO patterns. The function which determines the cost of a given IO is the IO cost model for the device. This controller distributes IO capacity based on the costs estimated by such model. The more accurate the cost model the better but the controller adapts based on IO completion latency and as long as the relative costs across differents IO patterns are consistent and sensible, it'll adapt to the actual performance of the device. Currently, the only implemented cost model is a simple linear one with a few sets of default parameters for different classes of device. This covers most common devices reasonably well. All the infrastructure to tune and add different cost models is already in place and a later patch will also allow using bpf progs for cost models. Please see the top comment in blk-iocost.c and documentation for more details. v2: Rebased on top of RQ_ALLOC_TIME changes and folded in Rik's fix for a divide-by-zero bug in current_hweight() triggered by zero inuse_sum. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Newell <newella@fb.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-28docs/perf: Add documentation for the i.MX8 DDR PMUJoakim Zhang1-0/+52
Add some documentation describing the DDR PMU residing in the Freescale i.MDX SoC and its perf driver implementation in Linux. Signed-off-by: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-08-25Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A few fixes for x86: - Fix a boot regression caused by the recent bootparam sanitizing change, which escaped the attention of all people who reviewed that code. - Address a boot problem on machines with broken E820 tables caused by an underflow which ended up placing the trampoline start at physical address 0. - Handle machines which do not advertise a legacy timer of any form, but need calibration of the local APIC timer gracefully by making the calibration routine independent from the tick interrupt. Marked for stable as well as there seems to be quite some new laptops rolled out which expose this. - Clear the RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h and 16h CPUs which are affected by broken firmware which does not initialize RDRAND correctly after resume. Add a command line parameter to override this for machine which either do not use suspend/resume or have a fixed BIOS. Unfortunately there is no way to detect this on boot, so the only safe decision is to turn it off by default. - Prevent RFLAGS from being clobbers in CALL_NOSPEC on 32bit which caused fast KVM instruction emulation to break. - Explain the Intel CPU model naming convention so that the repeating discussions come to an end" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/retpoline: Don't clobber RFLAGS during CALL_NOSPEC on i386 x86/boot: Fix boot regression caused by bootparam sanitizing x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix boot on machines with broken E820 table x86/apic: Handle missing global clockevent gracefully x86/cpu: Explain Intel model naming convention
2019-08-23dm verity: add root hash pkcs#7 signature verificationJaskaran Khurana1-0/+7
The verification is to support cases where the root hash is not secured by Trusted Boot, UEFI Secureboot or similar technologies. One of the use cases for this is for dm-verity volumes mounted after boot, the root hash provided during the creation of the dm-verity volume has to be secure and thus in-kernel validation implemented here will be used before we trust the root hash and allow the block device to be created. The signature being provided for verification must verify the root hash and must be trusted by the builtin keyring for verification to succeed. The hash is added as a key of type "user" and the description is passed to the kernel so it can look it up and use it for verification. Adds CONFIG_DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG which can be turned on if root hash verification is needed. Kernel commandline dm_verity module parameter 'require_signatures' will indicate whether to force root hash signature verification (for all dm verity volumes). Signed-off-by: Jaskaran Khurana <jaskarankhurana@linux.microsoft.com> Tested-and-Reviewed-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-08-23Documentation: Update Documentation for iommu.passthroughJoerg Roedel1-1/+1
This kernel parameter now takes also effect on X86. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
2019-08-22Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-6/+11
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU and LKMM changes from Paul E. McKenney: - A few more RCU flavor consolidation cleanups. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Updates to RCU's list-traversal macros improving lockdep usability. - Torture-test updates. - Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Avoid ignoring incoming callbacks during grace-period waits. - Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Use ->cblist structure to take advantage of others' grace periods. - Also added a small commit that avoids needlessly inflicting scheduler-clock ticks on callback-offloaded CPUs. - Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Reduce contention on ->nocb_lock guarding ->cblist. - Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Add ->nocb_bypass list to further reduce contention on ->nocb_lock guarding ->cblist. - LKMM updates. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-08-22powerpc: Document xmon optionsGustavo Romero1-0/+19
Document all options currently supported by xmon debugger. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190814205638.25322-1-gromero@linux.ibm.com
2019-08-20security: Add a static lockdown policy LSMMatthew Garrett1-0/+9
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 Lendacky1-0/+7
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 Hellwig1-1/+1
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>
2019-08-14rcu/nocb: Rename rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel boot parameterPaul E. McKenney1-6/+7
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>
2019-08-09docs: admin-guide: remove references to IPX and token-ringStephen Hemminger1-28/+1
Both IPX and TR have not been supported for a while now. Remove them from the /proc/sys/net documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-08-08PCI: Correct pci=resource_alignment parameter exampleAlexey Kardashevskiy1-2/+3
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>
2019-08-03Documentation: Add swapgs description to the Spectre v1 documentationJosh Poimboeuf1-8/+80
Add documentation to the Spectre document about the new swapgs variant of Spectre v1. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-08-02rcu: Add kernel parameter to dump trace after RCU CPU stall warningPaul E. McKenney1-0/+4
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>
2019-07-31docs: fs: cifs: convert to ReST and add to admin-guide bookMauro Carvalho Chehab8-0/+1209
The filenames for cifs documentation is not using the same convention as almost all Kernel documents is using. So, rename them to a more appropriate name. Then, manually convert the documentation files for CIFS to ReST. By doing a manual conversion, we can preserve the original author's style, while making it to look more like the other Kernel documents. Most of the conversion here is trivial. The most complex one was the README file (which was renamed to usage.rst). Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31docs: wimax: convert to ReST and add to admin-guideMauro Carvalho Chehab4-0/+392
Manually convert wimax documentation to ReST and add theit to the Kernel doc body, inside the admin-guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31docs: admin-guide: add auxdisplay files to it after conversion to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab4-0/+165
Those two files describe userspace-faced information. While part of it might fit on uAPI, it sounds to me that the admin guide is the best place for them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31Documentation: filesystems: Convert ufs.txt to reStructuredText formatShobhit Kukreti2-0/+69
This converts the plain text documentation of ufs.txt to reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process and verified with make htmldocs Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31Documentation: filesystems: Convert jfs.txt toShobhit Kukreti2-0/+67
This converts the plain text documentation of jfs.txt to reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process and verified with make htmldocs Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-31docs: cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst: remove a CFQ left overMauro Carvalho Chehab1-6/+0
changeset fb5772cbfe48 ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ") removed cgroup references to CFQ, but it kept one left. Get rid of it. Fixes: fb5772cbfe48 ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-30Documentation: filesystem: fix "Removed Sysctls" tableSheriff Esseson1-2/+3
the "Removed Sysctls" section is a table - bring it alive with ReST. Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-28Merge branch master from ↵Thomas Gleixner140-103/+23430
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Pick up the spectre documentation so the Grand Schemozzle can be added.
2019-07-26Merge tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2-11/+1
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "This is mostly a set of follow-on fixes from Mauro fixing various fallout from the massive RST conversion; a few other small fixes as well" * tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (21 commits) docs: phy: Drop duplicate 'be made' doc:it_IT: translations in process/ docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise reference doc:it_IT: rephrase statement doc:it_IT: align translation to mainline docs: load_config.py: ensure subdirs end with "/" docs: virtual: add it to the documentation body docs: remove extra conf.py files docs: load_config.py: avoid needing a conf.py just due to LaTeX docs scripts/sphinx-pre-install: seek for Noto CJK fonts for pdf output scripts/sphinx-pre-install: cleanup Gentoo checks scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix latexmk dependencies scripts/sphinx-pre-install: don't use LaTeX with CentOS 7 scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix script for RHEL/CentOS docs: conf.py: only use CJK if the font is available docs: conf.py: add CJK package needed by translations docs: pdf: add all Documentation/*/index.rst to PDF output docs: fix broken doc references due to renames docs: power: add it to to the main documentation index docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst ...
2019-07-24Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
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 Hellwig1-1/+1
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>
2019-07-22docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise referenceJeremy Cline1-1/+1
Fix an off-by-one typo in the transparent huge pages admin documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-22Merge branch 'pdf_fixes_v1' of https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental ↵Jonathan Corbet1-10/+0
into mauro Bring in a set of post-thrashup fixes from Mauro.
2019-07-19Merge tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-21/+7
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 Torvalds1-0/+13
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 ...
2019-07-18Merge tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linuxLinus Torvalds2-0/+467
Pull xfs cleanups from Darrick Wong: "We had a few more lateish cleanup patches come in for 5.3 -- a couple of syncups with the userspace libxfs code and a conversion of the XFS administrator's guide to ReST format. Summary: - Bring fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c in sync with userspace libxfs. - Convert the xfs administrator guide to rst and move it into the official admin guide under Documentation" * tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: Documentation: filesystem: Convert xfs.txt to ReST xfs: sync up xfs_trans_inode with userspace xfs: move xfs_trans_inode.c to libxfs/
2019-07-17Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-0/+11
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 ...