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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"From the functional perspective, the most significant change here is
the addition of support for Energy Models that can be updated
dynamically at run time.
There is also the addition of LZ4 compression support for hibernation,
the new preferred core support in amd-pstate, new platforms support in
the Intel RAPL driver, new model-specific EPP handling in intel_pstate
and more.
Apart from that, the cpufreq default transition delay is reduced from
10 ms to 2 ms (along with some related adjustments), the system
suspend statistics code undergoes a significant rework and there is a
usual bunch of fixes and code cleanups all over.
Specifics:
- Allow the Energy Model to be updated dynamically (Lukasz Luba)
- Add support for LZ4 compression algorithm to the hibernation image
creation and loading code (Nikhil V)
- Fix and clean up system suspend statistics collection (Rafael
Wysocki)
- Simplify device suspend and resume handling in the power management
core code (Rafael Wysocki)
- Fix PCI hibernation support description (Yiwei Lin)
- Make hibernation take set_memory_ro() return values into account as
appropriate (Christophe Leroy)
- Set mem_sleep_current during kernel command line setup to avoid an
ordering issue with handling it (Maulik Shah)
- Fix wake IRQs handling when pm_runtime_force_suspend() is used as a
driver's system suspend callback (Qingliang Li)
- Simplify pm_runtime_get_if_active() usage and add a replacement for
pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() (Sakari Ailus)
- Add a tracepoint for runtime_status changes tracking (Vilas Bhat)
- Fix section title markdown in the runtime PM documentation (Yiwei
Lin)
- Enable preferred core support in the amd-pstate cpufreq driver
(Meng Li)
- Fix min_perf assignment in amd_pstate_adjust_perf() and make the
min/max limit perf values in amd-pstate always stay within the
(highest perf, lowest perf) range (Tor Vic, Meng Li)
- Allow intel_pstate to assign model-specific values to strings used
in the EPP sysfs interface and make it do so on Meteor Lake
(Srinivas Pandruvada)
- Drop long-unused cpudata::prev_cummulative_iowait from the
intel_pstate cpufreq driver (Jiri Slaby)
- Prevent scaling_cur_freq from exceeding scaling_max_freq when the
latter is an inefficient frequency (Shivnandan Kumar)
- Change default transition delay in cpufreq to 2ms (Qais Yousef)
- Remove references to 10ms minimum sampling rate from comments in
the cpufreq code (Pierre Gondois)
- Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us in cpufreq (Qais
Yousef)
- Stop unregistering cpufreq cooling on CPU hot-remove (Viresh Kumar)
- General enhancements / cleanups to ARM cpufreq drivers (tianyu2,
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado, Erick Archer, Arnd Bergmann, Anastasia
Belova)
- Update cpufreq-dt-platdev to block/approve devices (Richard Acayan)
- Make the SCMI cpufreq driver get a transition delay value from
firmware (Pierre Gondois)
- Prevent the haltpoll cpuidle governor from shrinking guest
poll_limit_ns below grow_start (Parshuram Sangle)
- Avoid potential overflow in integer multiplication when computing
cpuidle state parameters (C Cheng)
- Adjust MWAIT hint target C-state computation in the ACPI cpuidle
driver and in intel_idle to return a correct value for C0 (He
Rongguang)
- Address multiple issues in the TPMI RAPL driver and add support for
new platforms (Lunar Lake-M, Arrow Lake) to Intel RAPL (Zhang Rui)
- Fix freq_qos_add_request() return value check in dtpm_cpu (Daniel
Lezcano)
- Fix kernel-doc for dtpm_create_hierarchy() (Yang Li)
- Fix file leak in get_pkg_num() in x86_energy_perf_policy (Samasth
Norway Ananda)
- Fix cpupower-frequency-info.1 man page typo (Jan Kratochvil)
- Fix a couple of warnings in the OPP core code related to W=1 builds
(Viresh Kumar)
- Move dev_pm_opp_{init|free}_cpufreq_table() to pm_opp.h (Viresh
Kumar)
- Extend dev_pm_opp_data with turbo support (Sibi Sankar)
- dt-bindings: drop maxItems from inner items (David Heidelberg)"
* tag 'pm-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (95 commits)
dt-bindings: opp: drop maxItems from inner items
OPP: debugfs: Fix warning around icc_get_name()
OPP: debugfs: Fix warning with W=1 builds
cpufreq: Move dev_pm_opp_{init|free}_cpufreq_table() to pm_opp.h
OPP: Extend dev_pm_opp_data with turbo support
Fix cpupower-frequency-info.1 man page typo
cpufreq: scmi: Set transition_delay_us
firmware: arm_scmi: Populate fast channel rate_limit
firmware: arm_scmi: Populate perf commands rate_limit
cpuidle: ACPI/intel: fix MWAIT hint target C-state computation
PM: sleep: wakeirq: fix wake irq warning in system suspend
powercap: dtpm: Fix kernel-doc for dtpm_create_hierarchy() function
cpufreq: Don't unregister cpufreq cooling on CPU hotplug
PM: suspend: Set mem_sleep_current during kernel command line setup
cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us
cpufreq: Limit resolving a frequency to policy min/max
Documentation: PM: Fix runtime_pm.rst markdown syntax
cpufreq: amd-pstate: adjust min/max limit perf
cpufreq: Remove references to 10ms min sampling rate
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update default EPPs for Meteor Lake
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux
Pull gpio updates from Bartosz Golaszewski:
"The biggest feature is the locking overhaul. Up until now the
synchronization in the GPIO subsystem was broken. There was a single
spinlock "protecting" multiple data structures but doing it wrong (as
evidenced by several places where it would be released when a sleeping
function was called and then reacquired without checking the protected
state).
We tried to use an RW semaphore before but the main issue with GPIO is
that we have drivers implementing the interfaces in both sleeping and
non-sleeping ways as well as user-facing interfaces that can be called
both from process as well as atomic contexts. Both ends converge in
the same code paths that can use neither spinlocks nor mutexes. The
only reasonable way out is to use SRCU and go mostly lockless. To that
end: we add several SRCU structs in relevant places and use them to
assure consistency between API calls together with atomic reads and
writes of GPIO descriptor flags where it makes sense.
This code has spent several weeks in next and has received several
fixes in the first week or two after which it stabilized nicely. The
GPIO subsystem is now resilient to providers being suddenly unbound.
We managed to also remove the existing character device RW semaphore
and the obsolete global spinlock.
Other than the locking rework we have one new driver (for Chromebook
EC), much appreciated documentation improvements from Kent and the
regular driver improvements, DT-bindings updates and GPIOLIB core
tweaks.
Serialization rework:
- use SRCU to serialize access to the global GPIO device list, to
GPIO device structs themselves and to GPIO descriptors
- make the GPIO subsystem resilient to the GPIO providers being
unbound while the API calls are in progress
- don't dereference the SRCU-protected chip pointer if the
information we need can be obtained from the GPIO device structure
- move some of the information contained in struct gpio_chip to
struct gpio_device to further reduce the need to dereference the
former
- pass the GPIO device struct instead of the GPIO chip to sysfs
callback to, again, reduce the need for accessing the latter
- get GPIO descriptors from the GPIO device, not from the chip for
the same reason
- allow for mostly lockless operation of the GPIO driver API: assure
consistency with SRCU and atomic operations
- remove the global GPIO spinlock
- remove the character device RW semaphore
Core GPIOLIB:
- constify pointers in GPIO API where applicable
- unify the GPIO counting APIs for ACPI and OF
- provide a macro for iterating over all GPIOs, not only the ones
that are requested
- remove leftover typedefs
- pass the consumer device to GPIO core in
devm_fwnode_gpiod_get_index() for improved logging
- constify the GPIO bus type
- don't warn about removing GPIO chips with descriptors still held by
users as we can now handle this situation gracefully
- remove unused logging helpers
- unexport functions that are only used internally in the GPIO
subsystem
- set the device type (assign the relevant struct device_type) for
GPIO devices
New drivers:
- add the ChromeOS EC GPIO driver
Driver improvements:
- allow building gpio-vf610 with COMPILE_TEST as well as disabling it
in menuconfig (before it was always built for i.MX cofigs)
- count the number of EICs using the device properties instead of
hard-coding it in gpio-eic-sprd
- improve the device naming, extend the debugfs output and add
lockdep asserts to gpio-sim
DT bindings:
- document the 'label' property for gpio-pca9570
- convert aspeed,ast2400-gpio bindings to DT schema
- disallow unevaluated properties for gpio-mvebu
- document a new model in renesas,rcar-gpio
Documentation:
- improve the character device kerneldocs in user-space headers
- add proper documentation for the character device uAPI (both v1 and v2)
- move the sysfs and gpio-mockup docs into the "obsolete" section
- improve naming consistency for GPIO terms
- clarify the line values description for sysfs
- minor docs improvements
- improve the driver API contract for setting GPIO direction
- mark unsafe APIs as deprecated in kerneldocs and suggest
replacements
Other:
- remove an obsolete test from selftests"
* tag 'gpio-updates-for-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux: (79 commits)
gpio: sysfs: repair export returning -EPERM on 1st attempt
selftest: gpio: remove obsolete gpio-mockup test
gpiolib: Deduplicate cleanup for-loop in gpiochip_add_data_with_key()
dt-bindings: gpio: aspeed,ast2400-gpio: Convert to DT schema
gpio: acpi: Make acpi_gpio_count() take firmware node as a parameter
gpio: of: Make of_gpio_get_count() take firmware node as a parameter
gpiolib: Pass consumer device through to core in devm_fwnode_gpiod_get_index()
gpio: sim: use for_each_hwgpio()
gpio: provide for_each_hwgpio()
gpio: don't warn about removing GPIO chips with active users anymore
gpio: sim: delimit the fwnode name with a ":" when generating labels
gpio: sim: add lockdep asserts
gpio: Add ChromeOS EC GPIO driver
gpio: constify of_phandle_args in of_find_gpio_device_by_xlate()
gpio: fix memory leak in gpiod_request_commit()
gpio: constify opaque pointer "data" in gpio_device_find()
gpio: cdev: fix a NULL-pointer dereference with DEBUG enabled
gpio: uapi: clarify default_values being logical
gpio: sysfs: fix inverted pointer logic
gpio: don't let lockdep complain about inherently dangerous RCU usage
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper VDO target from Mike Snitzer:
"Introduce the DM vdo target which provides block-level deduplication,
compression, and thin provisioning. Please see:
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
The DM vdo target handles its concurrency by pinning an IO, and
subsequent stages of handling that IO, to a particular VDO thread.
This aspect of VDO is "unique" but its overall implementation is very
tightly coupled to its mostly lockless threading model. As such, VDO
is not easily changed to use more traditional finer-grained locking
and Linux workqueues. Please see the "Zones and Threading" section of
vdo-design.rst
The DM vdo target has been used in production for many years but has
seen significant changes over the past ~6 years to prepare it for
upstream inclusion. The codebase is still large but it is isolated to
drivers/md/dm-vdo/ and has been made considerably more approachable
and maintainable.
Matt Sakai has been added to the MAINTAINERS file to reflect that he
will send VDO changes upstream through the DM subsystem maintainers"
* tag 'for-6.9/dm-vdo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (142 commits)
dm vdo: document minimum metadata size requirements
dm vdo: remove meaningless version number constant
dm vdo: remove vdo_perform_once
dm vdo block-map: Remove stray semicolon
dm vdo string-utils: change from uds_ to vdo_ namespace
dm vdo logger: change from uds_ to vdo_ namespace
dm vdo funnel-queue: change from uds_ to vdo_ namespace
dm vdo indexer: fix use after free
dm vdo logger: remove log level to string conversion code
dm vdo: document log_level parameter
dm vdo: add 'log_level' module parameter
dm vdo: remove all sysfs interfaces
dm vdo target: eliminate inappropriate uses of UDS_SUCCESS
dm vdo indexer: update ASSERT and ASSERT_LOG_ONLY usage
dm vdo encodings: update some stale comments
dm vdo permassert: audit all of ASSERT to test for VDO_SUCCESS
dm-vdo funnel-workqueue: return VDO_SUCCESS from make_simple_work_queue
dm vdo thread-utils: return VDO_SUCCESS on vdo_create_thread success
dm vdo int-map: return VDO_SUCCESS on success
dm vdo: check for VDO_SUCCESS return value from memory-alloc functions
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- Freelist loading optimization (Chengming Zhou)
When the per-cpu slab is depleted and a new one loaded from the cpu
partial list, optimize the loading to avoid an irq enable/disable
cycle. This results in a 3.5% performance improvement on the "perf
bench sched messaging" test.
- Kernel boot parameters cleanup after SLAB removal (Xiongwei Song)
Due to two different main slab implementations we've had boot
parameters prefixed either slab_ and slub_ with some later becoming
an alias as both implementations gained the same functionality (i.e.
slab_nomerge vs slub_nomerge). In order to eventually get rid of the
implementation-specific names, the canonical and documented
parameters are now all prefixed slab_ and the slub_ variants become
deprecated but still working aliases.
- SLAB_ kmem_cache creation flags cleanup (Vlastimil Babka)
The flags had hardcoded #define values which became tedious and
error-prone when adding new ones. Assign the values via an enum that
takes care of providing unique bit numbers. Also deprecate
SLAB_MEM_SPREAD which was only used by SLAB, so it's a no-op since
SLAB removal. Assign it an explicit zero value. The removals of the
flag usage are handled independently in the respective subsystems,
with a final removal of any leftover usage planned for the next
release.
- Misc cleanups and fixes (Chengming Zhou, Xiaolei Wang, Zheng Yejian)
Includes removal of unused code or function parameters and a fix of a
memleak.
* tag 'slab-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
slab: remove PARTIAL_NODE slab_state
mm, slab: remove memcg_from_slab_obj()
mm, slab: remove the corner case of inc_slabs_node()
mm/slab: Fix a kmemleak in kmem_cache_destroy()
mm, slab, kasan: replace kasan_never_merge() with SLAB_NO_MERGE
mm, slab: use an enum to define SLAB_ cache creation flags
mm, slab: deprecate SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag
mm, slab: fix the comment of cpu partial list
mm, slab: remove unused object_size parameter in kmem_cache_flags()
mm/slub: remove parameter 'flags' in create_kmalloc_caches()
mm/slub: remove unused parameter in next_freelist_entry()
mm/slub: remove full list manipulation for non-debug slab
mm/slub: directly load freelist from cpu partial slab in the likely case
mm/slub: make the description of slab_min_objects helpful in doc
mm/slub: replace slub_$params with slab_$params in slub.rst
mm/slub: unify all sl[au]b parameters with "slab_$param"
Documentation: kernel-parameters: remove noaliencache
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Large effort by Eric to lower rtnl_lock pressure and remove locks:
- Make commonly used parts of rtnetlink (address, route dumps
etc) lockless, protected by RCU instead of rtnl_lock.
- Add a netns exit callback which already holds rtnl_lock,
allowing netns exit to take rtnl_lock once in the core instead
of once for each driver / callback.
- Remove locks / serialization in the socket diag interface.
- Remove 6 calls to synchronize_rcu() while holding rtnl_lock.
- Remove the dev_base_lock, depend on RCU where necessary.
- Support busy polling on a per-epoll context basis. Poll length and
budget parameters can be set independently of system defaults.
- Introduce struct net_hotdata, to make sure read-mostly global
config variables fit in as few cache lines as possible.
- Add optional per-nexthop statistics to ease monitoring / debug of
ECMP imbalance problems.
- Support TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT in MPTCP.
- Ensure that IPv6 temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are long
enough, compared to other configured lifetimes, and at least 2 sec.
- Support forwarding of ICMP Error messages in IPSec, per RFC 4301.
- Add support for the independent control state machine for bonding
per IEEE 802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing coupled
control state machine.
- Add "network ID" to MCTP socket APIs to support hosts with multiple
disjoint MCTP networks.
- Re-use the mono_delivery_time skbuff bit for packets which user
space wants to be sent at a specified time. Maintain the timing
information while traversing veth links, bridge etc.
- Take advantage of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES for RxRPC DATA and ACK packets.
- Simplify many places iterating over netdevs by using an xarray
instead of a hash table walk (hash table remains in place, for use
on fastpaths).
- Speed up scanning for expired routes by keeping a dedicated list.
- Speed up "generic" XDP by trying harder to avoid large allocations.
- Support attaching arbitrary metadata to netconsole messages.
Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:
- Enforce VM_IOREMAP flag and range in ioremap_page_range and
introduce VM_SPARSE kind and vm_area_[un]map_pages (used by
bpf_arena).
- Rework selftest harness to enable the use of the full range of ksft
exit code (pass, fail, skip, xfail, xpass).
Netfilter:
- Allow userspace to define a table that is exclusively owned by a
daemon (via netlink socket aliveness) without auto-removing this
table when the userspace program exits. Such table gets marked as
orphaned and a restarting management daemon can re-attach/regain
ownership.
- Speed up element insertions to nftables' concatenated-ranges set
type. Compact a few related data structures.
BPF:
- Add BPF token support for delegating a subset of BPF subsystem
functionality from privileged system-wide daemons such as systemd
through special mount options for userns-bound BPF fs to a trusted
& unprivileged application.
- Introduce bpf_arena which is sparse shared memory region between
BPF program and user space where structures inside the arena can
have pointers to other areas of the arena, and pointers work
seamlessly for both user-space programs and BPF programs.
- Introduce may_goto instruction that is a contract between the
verifier and the program. The verifier allows the program to loop
assuming it's behaving well, but reserves the right to terminate
it.
- Extend the BPF verifier to enable static subprog calls in spin lock
critical sections.
- Support registration of struct_ops types from modules which helps
projects like fuse-bpf that seeks to implement a new struct_ops
type.
- Add support for retrieval of cookies for perf/kprobe multi links.
- Support arbitrary TCP SYN cookie generation / validation in the TC
layer with BPF to allow creating SYN flood handling in BPF
firewalls.
- Add code generation to inline the bpf_kptr_xchg() helper which
improves performance when stashing/popping the allocated BPF
objects.
Wireless:
- Add SPP (signaling and payload protected) AMSDU support.
- Support wider bandwidth OFDMA, as required for EHT operation.
Driver API:
- Major overhaul of the Energy Efficient Ethernet internals to
support new link modes (2.5GE, 5GE), share more code between
drivers (especially those using phylib), and encourage more
uniform behavior. Convert and clean up drivers.
- Define an API for querying per netdev queue statistics from
drivers.
- IPSec: account in global stats for fully offloaded sessions.
- Create a concept of Ethernet PHY Packages at the Device Tree level,
to allow parameterizing the existing PHY package code.
- Enable Rx hashing (RSS) on GTP protocol fields.
Misc:
- Improvements and refactoring all over networking selftests.
- Create uniform module aliases for TC classifiers, actions, and
packet schedulers to simplify creating modprobe policies.
- Address all missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings in networking.
- Extend the Netlink descriptions in YAML to cover message
encapsulation or "Netlink polymorphism", where interpretation of
nested attributes depends on link type, classifier type or some
other "class type".
Drivers:
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Add a new driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC VF.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- support E825-C devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support devices with one port and multiple PCIe links
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support n-tuple filters
- support configuring the RSS key
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- implement irq_domain for TXGBE's sub-interrupts
- Pensando/AMD:
- support XDP
- optimize queue submission and wakeup handling (+17% bps)
- optimize struct layout, saving 28% of memory on queues
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google cloud vNIC:
- refactor driver to perform memory allocations for new queue
config before stopping and freeing the old queue memory
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- obey queueMaxSDU and implement counters required by 802.1Qbv
- Renesas (ravb):
- support packet checksum offload
- suspend to RAM and runtime PM support
- Ethernet switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support for nexthop group statistics
- Microchip:
- ksz8: implement PHY loopback
- add support for KSZ8567, a 7-port 10/100Mbps switch
- PTP:
- New driver for RENESAS FemtoClock3 Wireless clock generator.
- Support OCP PTP cards designed and built by Adva.
- CAN:
- Support recvmsg() flags for own, local and remote traffic on CAN
BCM sockets.
- Support for esd GmbH PCIe/402 CAN device family.
- m_can:
- Rx/Tx submission coalescing
- wake on frame Rx
- WiFi:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enable signaling and payload protected A-MSDUs
- support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
- support for new devices
- bump FW API to 89 for AX devices; 90 for BZ/SC devices
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7915: newer ADIE version support
- mt7925: radio temperature sensor support
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI),
Standard Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)
- QCA6390 & WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces
- QCA2066 support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
support
- 1024 Block Ack window size support
- firmware-2.bin support
- support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs
to have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)
- QCN9274: support split-PHY devices
- WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode
- WCN7850: P2P support
- RealTek:
- rtw88: support for more rtw8811cu and rtw8821cu devices
- rtw89: support SCAN_RANDOM_SN and SET_SCAN_DWELL
- rtlwifi: speed up USB firmware initialization
- rtwl8xxxu:
- RTL8188F: concurrent interface support
- Channel Switch Announcement (CSA) support in AP mode
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- per-vendor feature support
- per-vendor SAE password setup
- DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro"
* tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2255 commits)
nexthop: Fix splat with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
nexthop: Fix out-of-bounds access during attribute validation
nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for dump messages that require it
nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for get messages that require it
bpf: move sleepable flag from bpf_prog_aux to bpf_prog
bpf: hardcode BPF_PROG_PACK_SIZE to 2MB * num_possible_nodes()
selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi triggering benchmarks
ptp: Move from simple ida to xarray
vxlan: Remove generic .ndo_get_stats64
vxlan: Do not alloc tstats manually
devlink: Add comments to use netlink gen tool
nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure
net/packet: Add getsockopt support for PACKET_COPY_THRESH
net/netlink: Add getsockopt support for NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID
selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_htab test.
selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_list test.
selftests/bpf: Add unit tests for bpf_arena_alloc/free_pages
bpf: Add helper macro bpf_addr_space_cast()
libbpf: Recognize __arena global variables.
bpftool: Recognize arena map type
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around.
- Some cleanup of the main index page for easier navigation
- Rework some of the other top-level pages for better readability
and, with luck, fewer merge conflicts in the future.
- Submit-checklist improvements, hopefully the first of many.
- New Italian translations
- A fair number of kernel-doc fixes and improvements. We have also
dropped the recommendation to use an old version of Sphinx.
- A new document from Thorsten on bisection
... and lots of fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (54 commits)
docs: verify/bisect: fixes, finetuning, and support for Arch
docs: Makefile: Add dependency to $(YNL_INDEX) for targets other than htmldocs
docs: Move ja_JP/howto.rst to ja_JP/process/howto.rst
docs: submit-checklist: use subheadings
docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
docs: new text on bisecting which also covers bug validation
docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies
docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Remove code for Sphinx <2.4
docs: Restore "smart quotes" for quotes
docs/zh_CN: accurate translation of "function"
docs: Include simplified link titles in main index
docs: Correct formatting of title in admin-guide/index.rst
docs: kernel_feat.py: fix build error for missing files
MAINTAINERS: Set the field name for subsystem profile section
kasan: Add documentation for CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
Fixed case issue with 'fault-injection' in documentation
kernel-doc: handle #if in enums as well
Documentation: update mailing list addresses
doc: kerneldoc.py: fix indentation
scripts/kernel-doc: simplify signature printing
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 RFDS mitigation from Dave Hansen:
"RFDS is a CPU vulnerability that may allow a malicious userspace to
infer stale register values from kernel space. Kernel registers can
have all kinds of secrets in them so the mitigation is basically to
wait until the kernel is about to return to userspace and has user
values in the registers. At that point there is little chance of
kernel secrets ending up in the registers and the microarchitectural
state can be cleared.
This leverages some recent robustness fixes for the existing MDS
vulnerability. Both MDS and RFDS use the VERW instruction for
mitigation"
* tag 'rfds-for-linus-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
KVM/x86: Export RFDS_NO and RFDS_CLEAR to guests
x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS)
Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDS
x86/mmio: Disable KVM mitigation when X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF is set
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
- The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:
- This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
inline assembly code.
- The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
accesses in assembly code.
- These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.
- Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
of FPU switching - which also generates better code
- Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
slightly better code
- Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options
- Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
logic
- Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic
- Misc cleanups and fixes
* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY => CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY => CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras
Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add a FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) memory poison manager which
collects and manages previously encountered hw errors in order to
save them to persistent storage across reboots. Previously recorded
errors are "replayed" upon reboot in order to poison memory which has
caused said errors in the past.
The main use case is stacked, on-chip memory which cannot simply be
replaced so poisoning faulty areas of it and thus making them
inaccessible is the only strategy to prolong its lifetime.
- Add an AMD address translation library glue which converts the
reported addresses of hw errors into system physical addresses in
order to be used by other subsystems like memory failure, for
example. Add support for MI300 accelerators to that library.
- igen6: Add support for Alder Lake-N SoC
- i10nm: Add Grand Ridge support
- The usual fixlets and cleanups
* tag 'edac_updates_for_v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
EDAC/versal: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
RAS/AMD/FMPM: Fix off by one when unwinding on error
RAS/AMD/FMPM: Add debugfs interface to print record entries
RAS/AMD/FMPM: Save SPA values
RAS: Export helper to get ras_debugfs_dir
RAS/AMD/ATL: Fix bit overflow in denorm_addr_df4_np2()
RAS: Introduce a FRU memory poison manager
RAS/AMD/ATL: Add MI300 row retirement support
Documentation: Move RAS section to admin-guide
EDAC/versal: Make the bit position of injected errors configurable
EDAC/i10nm: Add Intel Grand Ridge micro-server support
EDAC/igen6: Add one more Intel Alder Lake-N SoC support
RAS/AMD/ATL: Add MI300 DRAM to normalized address translation support
RAS/AMD/ATL: Fix array overflow in get_logical_coh_st_fabric_id_mi300()
RAS/AMD/ATL: Add MI300 support
Documentation: RAS: Add index and address translation section
EDAC/amd64: Use new AMD Address Translation Library
RAS: Introduce AMD Address Translation Library
EDAC/synopsys: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Fix a wrong check in the function reporting whether a CPU executes
(or not) a NMI handler
- Ratelimit unknown NMIs messages in order to not potentially slow down
the machine
- Other fixlets
* tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check
Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add C++ tail comments exception
Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add Closes tag
x86/nmi: Rate limit unknown NMI messages
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add spec_rstack_overflow to mitigations=off
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.
This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
up to date.
This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
next cycle.
- Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
-mcmodel=kernel
- The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place
* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 FRED support from Thomas Gleixner:
"Support for x86 Fast Return and Event Delivery (FRED).
FRED is a replacement for IDT event delivery on x86 and addresses most
of the technical nightmares which IDT exposes:
1) Exception cause registers like CR2 need to be manually preserved
in nested exception scenarios.
2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is suboptimal for nested
exceptions as the interrupt stack mechanism rewinds the stack on
each entry which requires a massive effort in the low level entry
of #NMI code to handle this.
3) No hardware distinction between entry from kernel or from user
which makes establishing kernel context more complex than it needs
to be especially for unconditionally nestable exceptions like NMI.
4) NMI nesting caused by IRET unconditionally reenabling NMIs, which
is a problem when the perf NMI takes a fault when collecting a
stack trace.
5) Partial restore of ESP when returning to a 16-bit segment
6) Limitation of the vector space which can cause vector exhaustion
on large systems.
7) Inability to differentiate NMI sources
FRED addresses these shortcomings by:
1) An extended exception stack frame which the CPU uses to save
exception cause registers. This ensures that the meta information
for each exception is preserved on stack and avoids the extra
complexity of preserving it in software.
2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is non-rewinding if a nested
exception uses the currently interrupt stack.
3) The entry points for kernel and user context are separate and GS
BASE handling which is required to establish kernel context for
per CPU variable access is done in hardware.
4) NMIs are now nesting protected. They are only reenabled on the
return from NMI.
5) FRED guarantees full restore of ESP
6) FRED does not put a limitation on the vector space by design
because it uses a central entry points for kernel and user space
and the CPUstores the entry type (exception, trap, interrupt,
syscall) on the entry stack along with the vector number. The
entry code has to demultiplex this information, but this removes
the vector space restriction.
The first hardware implementations will still have the current
restricted vector space because lifting this limitation requires
further changes to the local APIC.
7) FRED stores the vector number and meta information on stack which
allows having more than one NMI vector in future hardware when the
required local APIC changes are in place.
The series implements the initial FRED support by:
- Reworking the existing entry and IDT handling infrastructure to
accomodate for the alternative entry mechanism.
- Expanding the stack frame to accomodate for the extra 16 bytes FRED
requires to store context and meta information
- Providing FRED specific C entry points for events which have
information pushed to the extended stack frame, e.g. #PF and #DB.
- Providing FRED specific C entry points for #NMI and #MCE
- Implementing the FRED specific ASM entry points and the C code to
demultiplex the events
- Providing detection and initialization mechanisms and the necessary
tweaks in context switching, GS BASE handling etc.
The FRED integration aims for maximum code reuse vs the existing IDT
implementation to the extent possible and the deviation in hot paths
like context switching are handled with alternatives to minimalize the
impact. The low level entry and exit paths are seperate due to the
extended stack frame and the hardware based GS BASE swichting and
therefore have no impact on IDT based systems.
It has been extensively tested on existing systems and on the FRED
simulation and as of now there are no outstanding problems"
* tag 'x86-fred-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
x86/fred: Fix init_task thread stack pointer initialization
MAINTAINERS: Add a maintainer entry for FRED
x86/fred: Fix a build warning with allmodconfig due to 'inline' failing to inline properly
x86/fred: Invoke FRED initialization code to enable FRED
x86/fred: Add FRED initialization functions
x86/syscall: Split IDT syscall setup code into idt_syscall_init()
KVM: VMX: Call fred_entry_from_kvm() for IRQ/NMI handling
x86/entry: Add fred_entry_from_kvm() for VMX to handle IRQ/NMI
x86/entry/calling: Allow PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS being used beyond actual entry code
x86/fred: Fixup fault on ERETU by jumping to fred_entrypoint_user
x86/fred: Let ret_from_fork_asm() jmp to asm_fred_exit_user when FRED is enabled
x86/traps: Add sysvec_install() to install a system interrupt handler
x86/fred: FRED entry/exit and dispatch code
x86/fred: Add a machine check entry stub for FRED
x86/fred: Add a NMI entry stub for FRED
x86/fred: Add a debug fault entry stub for FRED
x86/idtentry: Incorporate definitions/declarations of the FRED entries
x86/fred: Make exc_page_fault() work for FRED
x86/fred: Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task
x86/fred: No ESPFIX needed when FRED is enabled
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 APIC updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Rework of APIC enumeration and topology evaluation.
The current implementation has a couple of shortcomings:
- It fails to handle hybrid systems correctly.
- The APIC registration code which handles CPU number assignents is
in the middle of the APIC code and detached from the topology
evaluation.
- The various mechanisms which enumerate APICs, ACPI, MPPARSE and
guest specific ones, tweak global variables as they see fit or in
case of XENPV just hack around the generic mechanisms completely.
- The CPUID topology evaluation code is sprinkled all over the vendor
code and reevaluates global variables on every hotplug operation.
- There is no way to analyze topology on the boot CPU before bringing
up the APs. This causes problems for infrastructure like PERF which
needs to size certain aspects upfront or could be simplified if
that would be possible.
- The APIC admission and CPU number association logic is
incomprehensible and overly complex and needs to be kept around
after boot instead of completing this right after the APIC
enumeration.
This update addresses these shortcomings with the following changes:
- Rework the CPUID evaluation code so it is common for all vendors
and provides information about the APIC ID segments in a uniform
way independent of the number of segments (Thread, Core, Module,
..., Die, Package) so that this information can be computed instead
of rewriting global variables of dubious value over and over.
- A few cleanups and simplifcations of the APIC, IO/APIC and related
interfaces to prepare for the topology evaluation changes.
- Seperation of the parser stages so the early evaluation which tries
to find the APIC address can be seperately overridden from the late
evaluation which enumerates and registers the local APIC as further
preparation for sanitizing the topology evaluation.
- A new registration and admission logic which
- encapsulates the inner workings so that parsers and guest logic
cannot longer fiddle in it
- uses the APIC ID segments to build topology bitmaps at
registration time
- provides a sane admission logic
- allows to detect the crash kernel case, where CPU0 does not run
on the real BSP, automatically. This is required to prevent
sending INIT/SIPI sequences to the real BSP which would reset
the whole machine. This was so far handled by a tedious command
line parameter, which does not even work in nested crash
scenarios.
- Associates CPU number after the enumeration completed and
prevents the late registration of APICs, which was somehow
tolerated before.
- Converting all parsers and guest enumeration mechanisms over to the
new interfaces.
This allows to get rid of all global variable tweaking from the
parsers and enumeration mechanisms and sanitizes the XEN[PV]
handling so it can use CPUID evaluation for the first time.
- Mopping up existing sins by taking the information from the APIC ID
segment bitmaps.
This evaluates hybrid systems correctly on the boot CPU and allows
for cleanups and fixes in the related drivers, e.g. PERF.
The series has been extensively tested and the minimal late fallout
due to a broken ACPI/MADT table has been addressed by tightening the
admission logic further"
* tag 'x86-apic-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (76 commits)
x86/topology: Ignore non-present APIC IDs in a present package
x86/apic: Build the x86 topology enumeration functions on UP APIC builds too
smp: Provide 'setup_max_cpus' definition on UP too
smp: Avoid 'setup_max_cpus' namespace collision/shadowing
x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand
x86/cpu/topology: Get rid of cpuinfo::x86_max_cores
x86/cpu/topology: Provide __num_[cores|threads]_per_package
x86/cpu/topology: Rename topology_max_die_per_package()
x86/cpu/topology: Rename smp_num_siblings
x86/cpu/topology: Retrieve cores per package from topology bitmaps
x86/cpu/topology: Use topology logical mapping mechanism
x86/cpu/topology: Provide logical pkg/die mapping
x86/cpu/topology: Simplify cpu_mark_primary_thread()
x86/cpu/topology: Mop up primary thread mask handling
x86/cpu/topology: Use topology bitmaps for sizing
x86/cpu/topology: Let XEN/PV use topology from CPUID/MADT
x86/xen/smp_pv: Count number of vCPUs early
x86/cpu/topology: Assign hotpluggable CPUIDs during init
x86/cpu/topology: Reject unknown APIC IDs on ACPI hotplug
x86/topology: Add a mechanism to track topology via APIC IDs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A large set of updates and features for timers and timekeeping:
- The hierarchical timer pull model
When timer wheel timers are armed they are placed into the timer
wheel of a CPU which is likely to be busy at the time of expiry.
This is done to avoid wakeups on potentially idle CPUs.
This is wrong in several aspects:
1) The heuristics to select the target CPU are wrong by
definition as the chance to get the prediction right is
close to zero.
2) Due to #1 it is possible that timers are accumulated on
a single target CPU
3) The required computation in the enqueue path is just overhead
for dubious value especially under the consideration that the
vast majority of timer wheel timers are either canceled or
rearmed before they expire.
The timer pull model avoids the above by removing the target
computation on enqueue and queueing timers always on the CPU on
which they get armed.
This is achieved by having separate wheels for CPU pinned timers
and global timers which do not care about where they expire.
As long as a CPU is busy it handles both the pinned and the global
timers which are queued on the CPU local timer wheels.
When a CPU goes idle it evaluates its own timer wheels:
- If the first expiring timer is a pinned timer, then the global
timers can be ignored as the CPU will wake up before they
expire.
- If the first expiring timer is a global timer, then the expiry
time is propagated into the timer pull hierarchy and the CPU
makes sure to wake up for the first pinned timer.
The timer pull hierarchy organizes CPUs in groups of eight at the
lowest level and at the next levels groups of eight groups up to
the point where no further aggregation of groups is required, i.e.
the number of levels is log8(NR_CPUS). The magic number of eight
has been established by experimention, but can be adjusted if
needed.
In each group one busy CPU acts as the migrator. It's only one CPU
to avoid lock contention on remote timer wheels.
The migrator CPU checks in its own timer wheel handling whether
there are other CPUs in the group which have gone idle and have
global timers to expire. If there are global timers to expire, the
migrator locks the remote CPU timer wheel and handles the expiry.
Depending on the group level in the hierarchy this handling can
require to walk the hierarchy downwards to the CPU level.
Special care is taken when the last CPU goes idle. At this point
the CPU is the systemwide migrator at the top of the hierarchy and
it therefore cannot delegate to the hierarchy. It needs to arm its
own timer device to expire either at the first expiring timer in
the hierarchy or at the first CPU local timer, which ever expires
first.
This completely removes the overhead from the enqueue path, which
is e.g. for networking a true hotpath and trades it for a slightly
more complex idle path.
This has been in development for a couple of years and the final
series has been extensively tested by various teams from silicon
vendors and ran through extensive CI.
There have been slight performance improvements observed on network
centric workloads and an Intel team confirmed that this allows them
to power down a die completely on a mult-die socket for the first
time in a mostly idle scenario.
There is only one outstanding ~1.5% regression on a specific
overloaded netperf test which is currently investigated, but the
rest is either positive or neutral performance wise and positive on
the power management side.
- Fixes for the timekeeping interpolation code for cross-timestamps:
cross-timestamps are used for PTP to get snapshots from hardware
timers and interpolated them back to clock MONOTONIC. The changes
address a few corner cases in the interpolation code which got the
math and logic wrong.
- Simplifcation of the clocksource watchdog retry logic to
automatically adjust to handle larger systems correctly instead of
having more incomprehensible command line parameters.
- Treewide consolidation of the VDSO data structures.
- The usual small improvements and cleanups all over the place"
* tag 'timers-core-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
timer/migration: Fix quick check reporting late expiry
tick/sched: Fix build failure for CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=n
vdso/datapage: Quick fix - use asm/page-def.h for ARM64
timers: Assert no next dyntick timer look-up while CPU is offline
tick: Assume timekeeping is correctly handed over upon last offline idle call
tick: Shut down low-res tick from dying CPU
tick: Split nohz and highres features from nohz_mode
tick: Move individual bit features to debuggable mask accesses
tick: Move got_idle_tick away from common flags
tick: Assume the tick can't be stopped in NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE mode
tick: Move broadcast cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING
tick: Move tick cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING
tick: Start centralizing tick related CPU hotplug operations
tick/sched: Don't clear ts::next_tick again in can_stop_idle_tick()
tick/sched: Rename tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to tick_nohz_full_stop_tick()
tick: Use IS_ENABLED() whenever possible
tick/sched: Remove useless oneshot ifdeffery
tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between lowres and highres handlers
tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() and tick_setup_sched_timer()
hrtimer: Select housekeeping CPU during migration
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RFDS is a CPU vulnerability that may allow userspace to infer kernel
stale data previously used in floating point registers, vector registers
and integer registers. RFDS only affects certain Intel Atom processors.
Intel released a microcode update that uses VERW instruction to clear
the affected CPU buffers. Unlike MDS, none of the affected cores support
SMT.
Add RFDS bug infrastructure and enable the VERW based mitigation by
default, that clears the affected buffers just before exiting to
userspace. Also add sysfs reporting and cmdline parameter
"reg_file_data_sampling" to control the mitigation.
For details see:
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Add the documentation for transient execution vulnerability Register
File Data Sampling (RFDS) that affects Intel Atom CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A quiet cycle. One trivial doc update patch. Two patches to drop the
now defunct memory_spread_slab feature from cgroup1 cpuset"
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup/cpuset: Mark memory_spread_slab as obsolete
cgroup/cpuset: Remove cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread()
docs: cgroup-v1: add missing code-block tags
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"This cycle, a lot of workqueue changes including some that are
significant and invasive.
- During v6.6 cycle, unbound workqueues were updated so that they are
more topology aware and flexible, which among other things improved
workqueue behavior on modern multi-L3 CPUs. In the process, commit
636b927eba5b ("workqueue: Make unbound workqueues to use per-cpu
pool_workqueues") switched unbound workqueues to use per-CPU
frontend pool_workqueues as a part of increasing front-back mapping
flexibility.
An unwelcome side effect of this change was that this made max
concurrency enforcement per-CPU blowing up the maximum number of
allowed concurrent executions. I incorrectly assumed that this
wouldn't cause practical problems as most unbound workqueue users
are self-regulate max concurrency; however, there definitely are
which don't (e.g. on IO paths) and the drastic increase in the
allowed max concurrency led to noticeable perf regressions in some
use cases.
This is now addressed by separating out max concurrency enforcement
to a separate struct - wq_node_nr_active - which makes @max_active
consistently mean system-wide max concurrency regardless of the
number of CPUs or (finally) NUMA nodes. This is a rather invasive
and, in places, a bit clunky; however, the clunkiness rises from
the the inherent requirement to handle the disagreement between the
execution locality domain and max concurrency enforcement domain on
some modern machines.
See commit 5797b1c18919 ("workqueue: Implement system-wide
nr_active enforcement for unbound workqueues") for more details.
- BH workqueue support is added.
They are similar to per-CPU workqueues but execute work items in
the softirq context. This is expected to replace tasklet. However,
currently, it's missing the ability to disable and enable work
items which is needed to convert many tasklet users. To avoid
crowding this merge window too much, this will be included in the
next merge window. A separate pull request will be sent for the
couple conversion patches that are currently pending.
- Waiman plugged a long-standing hole in workqueue CPU isolation
where ordered workqueues didn't follow wq_unbound_cpumask updates.
Ordered workqueues now follow the same rules as other unbound
workqueues.
- More CPU isolation improvements: Juri fixed another deficit in
workqueue isolation where unbound rescuers don't respect
wq_unbound_cpumask. Leonardo fixed delayed_work timers firing on
isolated CPUs.
- Other misc changes"
* tag 'wq-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (54 commits)
workqueue: Drain BH work items on hot-unplugged CPUs
workqueue: Introduce from_work() helper for cleaner callback declarations
workqueue: Control intensive warning threshold through cmdline
workqueue: Make @flags handling consistent across set_work_data() and friends
workqueue: Remove clear_work_data()
workqueue: Factor out work_grab_pending() from __cancel_work_sync()
workqueue: Clean up enum work_bits and related constants
workqueue: Introduce work_cancel_flags
workqueue: Use variable name irq_flags for saving local irq flags
workqueue: Reorganize flush and cancel[_sync] functions
workqueue: Rename __cancel_work_timer() to __cancel_timer_sync()
workqueue: Use rcu_read_lock_any_held() instead of rcu_read_lock_held()
workqueue: Cosmetic changes
workqueue, irq_work: Build fix for !CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
workqueue: Fix queue_work_on() with BH workqueues
async: Use a dedicated unbound workqueue with raised min_active
workqueue: Implement workqueue_set_min_active()
workqueue: Fix kernel-doc comment of unplug_oldest_pwq()
workqueue: Bind unbound workqueue rescuer to wq_unbound_cpumask
kernel/workqueue: Let rescuers follow unbound wq cpumask changes
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Merge cpufreq changes for 6.9-rc1:
- Enable preferred core support in the amd-pstate cpufreq driver (Meng
Li).
- Fix min_perf assignment in amd_pstate_adjust_perf() and make the
min/max limit perf values in amd-pstate always stay within the
(highest perf, lowest perf) range (Tor Vic, Meng Li).
- Change default transition delay in cpufreq to 2ms (Qais Yousef).
- Drop long-unused cpudata::prev_cummulative_iowait from the
intel_pstate cpufreq driver (Jiri Slaby).
- Allow intel_pstate to assign model-specific values to strings used in
the EPP sysfs interface and make it do so on Meteor Lake (Srinivas
Pandruvada).
- Remove references to 10ms minimum sampling rate from comments in the
cpufreq code (Pierre Gondois).
- Prevent scaling_cur_freq from exceeding scaling_max_freq when the
latter is an inefficient frequency (Shivnandan Kumar).
- Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us in cpufreq (Qais
Yousef).
- Stop unregistering cpufreq cooling on CPU hot-remove (Viresh Kumar).
- General enhancements / cleanups to ARM cpufreq drivers (tianyu2,
Nícolas F. R. A. Prado, Erick Archer, Arnd Bergmann, Anastasia
Belova).
- Update cpufreq-dt-platdev to block/approve devices (Richard Acayan).
- Make the SCMI cpufreq driver get a transition delay value from
firmware (Pierre Gondois).
* pm-cpufreq: (28 commits)
cpufreq: scmi: Set transition_delay_us
firmware: arm_scmi: Populate fast channel rate_limit
firmware: arm_scmi: Populate perf commands rate_limit
cpufreq: Don't unregister cpufreq cooling on CPU hotplug
cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us
cpufreq: Limit resolving a frequency to policy min/max
cpufreq: amd-pstate: adjust min/max limit perf
cpufreq: Remove references to 10ms min sampling rate
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update default EPPs for Meteor Lake
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Allow model specific EPPs
cpufreq: qcom-hw: add CONFIG_COMMON_CLK dependency
cpufreq: dt-platdev: block SDM670 in cpufreq-dt-platdev
cpufreq: intel_pstate: remove cpudata::prev_cummulative_iowait
cpufreq: Change default transition delay to 2ms
cpufreq: amd-pstate: Fix min_perf assignment in amd_pstate_adjust_perf()
Documentation: PM: amd-pstate: Fix section title underline
Documentation: introduce amd-pstate preferrd core mode kernel command line options
Documentation: amd-pstate: introduce amd-pstate preferred core
cpufreq: amd-pstate: Update amd-pstate preferred core ranking dynamically
ACPI: cpufreq: Add highest perf change notification
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Merge changes related to system-wide power management for 6.9-rc1:
- Fix and clean up system suspend statistics collection (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Simplify device suspend and resume handling in the power management
core code (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add support for LZ4 compression algorithm to the hibernation image
creation and loading code (Nikhil V).
- Fix PCI hibernation support description (Yiwei Lin).
- Make hibernation take set_memory_ro() return values into account as
appropriate (Christophe Leroy).
- Set mem_sleep_current during kernel command line setup to avoid an
ordering issue with handling it (Maulik Shah).
- Fix wake IRQs handling when pm_runtime_force_suspend() is used as a
driver's system suspend callback (Qingliang Li).
* pm-sleep: (21 commits)
PM: sleep: wakeirq: fix wake irq warning in system suspend
PM: suspend: Set mem_sleep_current during kernel command line setup
PM: hibernate: Don't ignore return from set_memory_ro()
PM: hibernate: Support to select compression algorithm
Documentation: PM: Fix PCI hibernation support description
PM: hibernate: Add support for LZ4 compression for hibernation
PM: hibernate: Move to crypto APIs for LZO compression
PM: hibernate: Rename lzo* to make it generic
PM: sleep: Call dpm_async_fn() directly in each suspend phase
PM: sleep: Move devices to new lists earlier in each suspend phase
PM: sleep: Move some assignments from under a lock
PM: sleep: stats: Log errors right after running suspend callbacks
PM: sleep: stats: Use locking in dpm_save_failed_dev()
PM: sleep: stats: Call dpm_save_failed_step() at most once per phase
PM: sleep: stats: Define suspend_stats next to the code using it
PM: sleep: stats: Use unsigned int for success and failure counters
PM: sleep: stats: Use an array of step failure counters
PM: sleep: stats: Use array of suspend step names
PM: sleep: Relocate two device PM core functions
PM: sleep: Simplify dpm_suspended_list walk in dpm_resume()
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Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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Assorted changes for the recently added document.
Improvements:
* Add instructions for installing required software on Arch Linux.
Fixes:
* Move a 'git remote add -t master stable [...]' from a totally wrong
to the right place.
* Fix two anchors.
* Add two required packages to the openSUSE install instructions.
Fine tuning:
* Improve the reference section about downloading Linux mainline sources
to make it more obvious that those are alternatives.
* Include the full instructions for git bundles to ensure the remote
gets the right name; that way the text also works stand alone.
* Install ncurses and qt headers for use of menuconfig and xconfig by
default, but tell users that they are free to omit them.
* Mention ahead of time which version number are meant as example in
commands used during the step-by-step guide.
* Mention that 'kernel-install remove' might do a incomplete job.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <6592c9ef4244faa484b4113f088dbc1beca61015.1709716794.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
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Signed-off-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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Add a second document on bisecting regressions explaining the whole
process from beginning to end -- while also describing how to validate
if a problem is still present in mainline. This "two in one" approach
is possible, as checking whenever a bug is in mainline is one of the
first steps before performing a bisection anyway and thus needs to be
described. Due to this approach the text also works quite nicely in
conjunction with Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst, as it
covers all typical cases where users will need to build a kernel in
exactly the same order.
The text targets users that normally run kernels from their Linux
distributor who might never have compiled their own kernel.
This aim is why the first kernel built while following this guide is
generated from the latest mainline codebase. This will rule out that the
regression (a) was fixed already and (b) is caused by config change a
vendor distributor performed; checking mainline will furthermore (c)
determine if the issue is something that needs to be reported to the
regular developers or the stable team (this is needed even when readers
bisect within a stable series).
Only then are readers instructed to build their own variant of the
'good' kernel to validate the trimmed .config file created during early
in the guide, as performing a bisection with a broken one would be a
waste of time. There is a small downside of this order: readers might
have to go back to testing mainline, if it turns out there is a problem
with their .config. But that should be rare -- and if the regression was
already fixed readers might not get to this point anyway. Hence in the
end this order should mean that readers built less kernels overall.
This sequence allows the text to easily cover the "check if a bug is
present in the upstream kernel" case while only making things a tiny bit
more complicated.
The text tries to prevent readers from running into many mistakes users
are known to frequently make. The steps required for this might look
superfluous for people that are already familiar with bisections -- but
anyone with that knowledge should be able to adapt the instructions to
their use-case or will not need this text at all.
Style and structure of the text match the one
Documentation/admin-guide/quickly-build-trimmed-linux.rst uses. Quite a
few paragraphs are even copied from there and not changed at all or only
slightly. This will complicate maintenance, as some future changes to
one of these documents will have to be replicated in the other. But this
is the lesser evil: solutions like "sending readers from one document
over to the other" or "extracting the common parts into a separate
document" might work in other cases, but would be too confusing here
given the topic and the target audience.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
[jc: Undo spurious removal of subsection header line]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <02b084a06de4ad61ac4ecd92b9265d4df4d03d71.1709282441.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
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We've removed the SLAB allocator, cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() and
SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, memory_spread_slab is a no-op now. We can mark
memory_spread_slab as obsolete in case someone still wants to use it after
cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() removed. For more details, please check [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/32bc1403-49da-445a-8c00-9686a3b0d6a3@redhat.com/T/#m8e292e21b00f95a4bb8086371fa7387fa4ea8f60
tj: Description and cosmetic updates.
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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This patch adds /proc/sys/net/core/mem_pcpu_rsv sysctl file,
to make SK_MEMORY_PCPU_RESERV tunable.
Commit 3cd3399dd7a8 ("net: implement per-cpu reserves for
memory_allocated") introduced per-cpu forward alloc cache:
"Implement a per-cpu cache of +1/-1 MB, to reduce number
of changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated, which
would otherwise be cause of false sharing."
sk_prot->memory_allocated points to global atomic variable:
atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
If increasing the per-cpu cache size from 1MB to e.g. 16MB,
changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated can be further reduced.
Performance may be improved on system with many cores.
Signed-off-by: Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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'rcu-exp.2024.02.14a', 'rcu-tasks.2024.02.26a' and 'rcu-misc.2024.02.14a' into rcu.2024.02.26a
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Currently the default compression algorithm is selected based on
compile time options. Introduce a module parameter "hibernate.compressor"
to override this behaviour.
Different compression algorithms have different characteristics and
hibernation may benefit when it uses any of these algorithms, especially
when a secondary algorithm(LZ4) offers better decompression speeds over
a default algorithm(LZO), which in turn reduces hibernation image
restore time.
Users can override the default algorithm in two ways:
1) Passing "hibernate.compressor" as kernel command line parameter.
Usage:
LZO: hibernate.compressor=lzo
LZ4: hibernate.compressor=lz4
2) Specifying the algorithm at runtime.
Usage:
LZO: echo lzo > /sys/module/hibernate/parameters/compressor
LZ4: echo lz4 > /sys/module/hibernate/parameters/compressor
Currently LZO and LZ4 are the supported algorithms. LZO is the default
compression algorithm used with hibernation.
Signed-off-by: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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When CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel will report
the work functions which violate the intensive_threshold_us repeatedly.
And now, only when the violate times exceed 4 and is a power of 2,
the kernel warning could be triggered.
However, sometimes, even if a long work execution time occurs only once,
it may cause other work to be delayed for a long time. This may also
cause some problems sometimes.
In order to freely control the threshold of warninging, a boot argument
is added so that the user can control the warning threshold to be printed.
At the same time, keep the exponential backoff to prevent reporting too much.
By default, the warning threshold is 4.
tj: Updated kernel-parameters.txt description.
Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Adjust the title of "The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide" to
adhere to the expected reStructuredText (rst) formatting, using double
equal signs for the main header.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109155643.3489369-2-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
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On a 8-socket server the TSC is wrongly marked as 'unstable' and disabled
during boot time on about one out of 120 boot attempts:
clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU227: wd-tsc-wd excessive read-back delay of 153560ns vs. limit of 125000ns,
wd-wd read-back delay only 11440ns, attempt 3, marking tsc unstable
tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog
TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'.
sched_clock: Marking unstable (119294969739, 159204297)<-(125446229205, -5992055152)
clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 319 to CPUs 0,99,136,180,210,542,601,896.
clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet
The reason is that for platform with a large number of CPUs, there are
sporadic big or huge read latencies while reading the watchog/clocksource
during boot or when system is under stress work load, and the frequency and
maximum value of the latency goes up with the number of online CPUs.
The cCurrent code already has logic to detect and filter such high latency
case by reading the watchdog twice and checking the two deltas. Due to the
randomness of the latency, there is a low probabilty that the first delta
(latency) is big, but the second delta is small and looks valid. The
watchdog code retries the readouts by default twice, which is not
necessarily sufficient for systems with a large number of CPUs.
There is a command line parameter 'max_cswd_read_retries' which allows to
increase the number of retries, but that's not user friendly as it needs to
be tweaked per system. As the number of required retries is proportional to
the number of online CPUs, this parameter can be calculated at runtime.
Scale and enlarge the number of retries according to the number of online
CPUs and remove the command line parameter completely.
[ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ]
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jin Wang <jin1.wang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com
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Add more documentation details for most aspects of the data_vio
read and write processes. Also correct a few minor errors and
rewrite some text for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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This adds the admin-guide documentation for dm-vdo.
vdo.rst is the guide to using dm-vdo. vdo-design is an overview of the
design of dm-vdo.
Co-developed-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net>
Signed-off-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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When a kdump kernel is started from a crashing CPU then there is no
guarantee that this CPU is the real boot CPU (BSP). If the kdump kernel
tries to online the BSP then the INIT sequence will reset the machine.
There is a command line option to prevent this, but in case of nested kdump
kernels this is wrong.
But that command line option is not required at all because the real
BSP is enumerated as the first CPU by firmware. Support for the only
known system which was different (Voyager) got removed long ago.
Detect whether the boot CPU APIC ID is the first APIC ID enumerated by
the firmware. If the first APIC ID enumerated is not matching the boot
CPU APIC ID then skip registering it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213210252.348542071@linutronix.de
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Updates the bootloader and installation instructions in
admin-guide/README.rst to align with modern practices.
Details of Changes:
- Added guidance on using EFISTUB for UEFI/EFI systems.
- Noted that LILO is no longer in active development and provides
alternatives.
- Kept LILO instructions but marked as Legacy LILO Instructions.
Suggest removal in future patch.
Signed-off-by: Hunter Chasens <hunter.chasens18@ncf.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
[jc: repaired added whitespace warnings]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207171007.45405-1-hunter.chasens18@ncf.edu
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This is where this stuff should be.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87a5pes8jy.fsf@meer.lwn.net
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To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel
for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU.
Specify:
rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0]
Which also requires
rcu_nocbs=all
at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU.
To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new
CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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Kernel boot parameters declared with early_param() are parsed before
embedded parameters are extracted from initrd, and early_param()
parameters are not helpful when embedded in initrd. Therefore,
mark early_param() kernel boot parameters with "EARLY" in
kernel-parameters.txt.
The following early_param() calls declare kernel boot parameters that
are undocumented:
early_param("atmel.pm_modes", at91_pm_modes_select);
early_param("mem_fclk_21285", early_fclk);
early_param("ecc", early_ecc);
early_param("cachepolicy", early_cachepolicy);
early_param("nodebugmon", early_debug_disable);
early_param("kfence.sample_interval", parse_kfence_early_init);
early_param("additional_cpus", setup_additional_cpus);
early_param("stram_pool", atari_stram_setup);
early_param("disable_octeon_edac", disable_octeon_edac);
early_param("rd_start", rd_start_early);
early_param("rd_size", rd_size_early);
early_param("coherentio", setcoherentio);
early_param("nocoherentio", setnocoherentio);
early_param("fadump", early_fadump_param);
early_param("fadump_reserve_mem", early_fadump_reserve_mem);
early_param("no_stf_barrier", handle_no_stf_barrier);
early_param("no_rfi_flush", handle_no_rfi_flush);
early_param("smt-enabled", early_smt_enabled);
early_param("ppc_pci_reset_phbs", pci_reset_phbs_setup);
early_param("ps3fb", early_parse_ps3fb);
early_param("ps3flash", early_parse_ps3flash);
early_param("novx", disable_vector_extension);
early_param("nobp", nobp_setup_early);
early_param("nospec", nospec_setup_early);
early_param("possible_cpus", _setup_possible_cpus);
early_param("stp", early_parse_stp);
early_param("nopfault", nopfault);
early_param("nmi_mode", nmi_mode_setup);
early_param("sh_mv", early_parse_mv);
early_param("pmb", early_pmb);
early_param("hvirq", early_hvirq_major);
early_param("cfi", cfi_parse_cmdline);
early_param("disableapic", setup_disableapic);
early_param("noapictimer", parse_disable_apic_timer);
early_param("disable_cpu_apicid", apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid);
early_param("uv_memblksize", parse_mem_block_size);
early_param("retbleed", retbleed_parse_cmdline);
early_param("no-kvmclock-vsyscall", parse_no_kvmclock_vsyscall);
early_param("update_mptable", update_mptable_setup);
early_param("alloc_mptable", parse_alloc_mptable_opt);
early_param("possible_cpus", _setup_possible_cpus);
early_param("lsmsi", early_parse_ls_scfg_msi);
early_param("nokgdbroundup", opt_nokgdbroundup);
early_param("kgdbcon", opt_kgdb_con);
early_param("kasan", early_kasan_flag);
early_param("kasan.mode", early_kasan_mode);
early_param("kasan.vmalloc", early_kasan_flag_vmalloc);
early_param("kasan.page_alloc.sample", early_kasan_flag_page_alloc_sample);
early_param("kasan.page_alloc.sample.order", early_kasan_flag_page_alloc_sample_order);
early_param("kasan.fault", early_kasan_fault);
early_param("kasan.stacktrace", early_kasan_flag_stacktrace);
early_param("kasan.stack_ring_size", early_kasan_flag_stack_ring_size);
early_param("accept_memory", accept_memory_parse);
early_param("page_table_check", early_page_table_check_param);
sh_early_platform_init("earlytimer", &sh_cmt_device_driver);
early_param_on_off("gbpages", "nogbpages", direct_gbpages, CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES);
These are not necessarily bugs, given that some kernel boot parameters
are intended for deep debugging rather than general use.
This work does not cover all of the kernel boot parameters declared using
cmdline_find_option() and cmdline_find_option_bool(). If these are in
fact guaranteed to be early (which appears to be the case), they can be
added in a later version of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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dependent patches
Merge in pending alternatives patching infrastructure changes, before
applying more patches.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Title under line too short
Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
[ rjw: Subject edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Linux 6.8-rc4
Pulling this for a bugfix upstream with which the gpio/for-next branch
conflicts.
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- Add missing article "the"
- s/above example/example above/
- Add missing comma after introductory clause to improve readability
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205132409.1957-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
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The number of possible CPUs is set be kernel in early boot time through
some discovery mechanisms, like ACPI in x86. We have a parameter both
in x86 and S390 to override that - there are some cases of BIOSes exposing
more possible CPUs than the available ones, so this parameter is a good
testing mechanism, but for some reason wasn't mentioned so far in the
kernel parameters guide - let's fix that.
Cc: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203152208.1461293-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
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It was meant well at the time but nothing's using it so get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202163510.GDZb0Zvj8qOndvFOiZ@fat_crate.local
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options
amd-pstate driver support enable/disable preferred core.
Default enabled on platforms supporting amd-pstate preferred core.
Disable amd-pstate preferred core with
"amd_prefcore=disable" added to the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Introduce amd-pstate preferred core.
check preferred core state set by the kernel parameter:
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/prefcore
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Let command line option "fred" accept multiple options to make it
easier to tweak its behavior.
Currently, two options 'on' and 'off' are allowed, and the default
behavior is to disable FRED. To enable FRED, append "fred=on" to the
kernel command line.
[ bp: Use cpu_feature_enabled(), touch ups. ]
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-9-xin3.li@intel.com
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Commit 1db9d06aaa55 ("mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and
Makefile") removes the config SLAB and makes the SLUB allocator the only
default allocator in the kernel. Hence, the advice on reducing OS jitter
due to kworker kernel threads to build with CONFIG_SLUB instead of
CONFIG_SLAB is obsolete.
Remove the obsolete advice to build with SLUB instead of SLAB.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130095515.21586-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
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This comment about DRM drivers has been there since the first git
commit. It simply doesn't belong in kernel-parameters; remove it.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111085220.3693059-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
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