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* cpufreq: docs: Add missing cpuinfo_cur_freq descriptionRafael J. Wysocki2017-07-271-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | Add a description of the cpuinfo_cur_freq policy attribute in sysfs to the cpufreq documentation under Documentation/admin-guide/pm/ as it is missing after commit 2a0e49279850 (cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation) that overlooked it. Fixes: 2a0e49279850 (cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
* Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds2017-07-071-4/+13
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few hotfixes - various misc updates - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (108 commits) mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE mm, memory_hotplug: drop artificial restriction on online/offline mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure mm: memcontrol: use generic mod_memcg_page_state for kmem pages mm: memcontrol: use the node-native slab memory counters mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() mm/zswap.c: improve a size determination in zswap_frontswap_init() mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_pool_create() mm/swapfile.c: sort swap entries before free mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects mm: kmemleak: factor object reference updating out of scan_block() mm: kmemleak: slightly reduce the size of some structures on 64-bit architectures mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets ...
| * mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODEMichal Hocko2017-07-071-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 20b2f52b73fe ("numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node") has introduced CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE without a good explanation on why it is actually useful. It makes a lot of sense to make movable node semantic opt in but we already have that because the feature has to be explicitly enabled on the kernel command line. A config option on top only makes the configuration space larger without a good reason. It also adds an additional ifdefery that pollutes the code. Just drop the config option and make it de-facto always enabled. This shouldn't introduce any change to the semantic. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170529114141.536-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build timeKees Cook2017-07-071-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some hardened environments want to build kernels with slab_nomerge already set (so that they do not depend on remembering to set the kernel command line option). This is desired to reduce the risk of kernel heap overflows being able to overwrite objects from merged caches and changes the requirements for cache layout control, increasing the difficulty of these attacks. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits can usually only damage objects in the same cache (though the risk to metadata exploitation is unchanged). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170620230911.GA25238@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds2017-07-071-0/+12
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "PPC: - Better machine check handling for HV KVM - Ability to support guests with threads=2, 4 or 8 on POWER9 - Fix for a race that could cause delayed recognition of signals - Fix for a bug where POWER9 guests could sleep with interrupts pending. ARM: - VCPU request overhaul - allow timer and PMU to have their interrupt number selected from userspace - workaround for Cavium erratum 30115 - handling of memory poisonning - the usual crop of fixes and cleanups s390: - initial machine check forwarding - migration support for the CMMA page hinting information - cleanups and fixes x86: - nested VMX bugfixes and improvements - more reliable NMI window detection on AMD - APIC timer optimizations Generic: - VCPU request overhaul + documentation of common code patterns - kvm_stat improvements" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (124 commits) Update my email address kvm: vmx: allow host to access guest MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS x86: kvm: mmu: use ept a/d in vmcs02 iff used in vmcs12 kvm: x86: mmu: allow A/D bits to be disabled in an mmu x86: kvm: mmu: make spte mmio mask more explicit x86: kvm: mmu: dead code thanks to access tracking KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix typo in XICS-on-XIVE state saving code KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Close race with testing for signals on guest entry KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify dynamic micro-threading code KVM: x86: remove ignored type attribute KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay KVM: lapic: reorganize restart_apic_timer KVM: lapic: reorganize start_hv_timer kvm: nVMX: Check memory operand to INVVPID KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the nested guest KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the guest tools/kvm_stat: add new interactive command 'b' tools/kvm_stat: add new command line switch '-i' tools/kvm_stat: fix error on interactive command 'g' KVM: SVM: suppress unnecessary NMI singlestep on GIF=0 and nested exit ...
| * KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 common sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier2017-06-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we're able to safely handle common sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.common_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
| * KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-0 sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier2017-06-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we're able to safely handle Group-0 sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.group0_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
| * KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-1 sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier2017-06-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we're able to safely handle Group-1 sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.group1_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
* | Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-051-6/+15
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security layer updates from James Morris: - a major update for AppArmor. From JJ: * several bug fixes and cleanups * the patch to add symlink support to securityfs that was floated on the list earlier and the apparmorfs changes that make use of securityfs symlinks * it introduces the domain labeling base code that Ubuntu has been carrying for several years, with several cleanups applied. And it converts the current mediation over to using the domain labeling base, which brings domain stacking support with it. This finally will bring the base upstream code in line with Ubuntu and provide a base to upstream the new feature work that Ubuntu carries. * This does _not_ contain any of the newer apparmor mediation features/controls (mount, signals, network, keys, ...) that Ubuntu is currently carrying, all of which will be RFC'd on top of this. - Notable also is the Infiniband work in SELinux, and the new file:map permission. From Paul: "While we're down to 21 patches for v4.13 (it was 31 for v4.12), the diffstat jumps up tremendously with over 2k of line changes. Almost all of these changes are the SELinux/IB work done by Daniel Jurgens; some other noteworthy changes include a NFS v4.2 labeling fix, a new file:map permission, and reporting of policy capabilities on policy load" There's also now genfscon labeling support for tracefs, which was lost in v4.1 with the separation from debugfs. - Smack incorporates a safer socket check in file_receive, and adds a cap_capable call in privilege check. - TPM as usual has a bunch of fixes and enhancements. - Multiple calls to security_add_hooks() can now be made for the same LSM, to allow LSMs to have hook declarations across multiple files. - IMA now supports different "ima_appraise=" modes (eg. log, fix) from the boot command line. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (126 commits) apparmor: put back designators in struct initialisers seccomp: Switch from atomic_t to recount_t seccomp: Adjust selftests to avoid double-join seccomp: Clean up core dump logic IMA: update IMA policy documentation to include pcr= option ima: Log the same audit cause whenever a file has no signature ima: Simplify policy_func_show. integrity: Small code improvements ima: fix get_binary_runtime_size() ima: use ima_parse_buf() to parse template data ima: use ima_parse_buf() to parse measurements headers ima: introduce ima_parse_buf() ima: Add cgroups2 to the defaults list ima: use memdup_user_nul ima: fix up #endif comments IMA: Correct Kconfig dependencies for hash selection ima: define is_ima_appraise_enabled() ima: define Kconfig IMA_APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM option ima: define a set of appraisal rules requiring file signatures ima: extend the "ima_policy" boot command line to support multiple policies ...
| * | ima: define a set of appraisal rules requiring file signaturesMimi Zohar2017-06-211-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The builtin "ima_appraise_tcb" policy should require file signatures for at least a few of the hooks (eg. kernel modules, firmware, and the kexec kernel image), but changing it would break the existing userspace/kernel ABI. This patch defines a new builtin policy named "secure_boot", which can be specified on the "ima_policy=" boot command line, independently or in conjunction with the "ima_appraise_tcb" policy, by specifing ima_policy="appraise_tcb | secure_boot". The new appraisal rules requiring file signatures will be added prior to the "ima_appraise_tcb" rules. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Changelog: - Reference secure boot in the new builtin policy name. (Thiago Bauermann)
| * | ima: extend the "ima_policy" boot command line to support multiple policiesMimi Zohar2017-06-211-6/+11
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for providing multiple builtin policies on the "ima_policy=" boot command line. Use "|" as the delimitor separating the policy names. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | Merge tag 'pm-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-042-10/+8Star
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "The big ticket items here are the rework of suspend-to-idle in order to add proper support for power button wakeup from it on recent Dell laptops and the rework of interfaces exporting the current CPU frequency on x86. In addition to that, support for a few new pieces of hardware is added, the PCI/ACPI device wakeup infrastructure is simplified significantly and the wakeup IRQ framework is fixed to unbreak the IRQ bus locking infrastructure. Also, there are some functional improvements for intel_pstate, tools updates and small fixes and cleanups all over. Specifics: - Rework suspend-to-idle to allow it to take wakeup events signaled by the EC into account on ACPI-based platforms in order to properly support power button wakeup from suspend-to-idle on recent Dell laptops (Rafael Wysocki). That includes the core suspend-to-idle code rework, support for the Low Power S0 _DSM interface, and support for the ACPI INT0002 Virtual GPIO device from Hans de Goede (required for USB keyboard wakeup from suspend-to-idle to work on some machines). - Stop trying to export the current CPU frequency via /proc/cpuinfo on x86 as that is inaccurate and confusing (Len Brown). - Rework the way in which the current CPU frequency is exported by the kernel (over the cpufreq sysfs interface) on x86 systems with the APERF and MPERF registers by always using values read from these registers, when available, to compute the current frequency regardless of which cpufreq driver is in use (Len Brown). - Rework the PCI/ACPI device wakeup infrastructure to remove the questionable and artificial distinction between "devices that can wake up the system from sleep states" and "devices that can generate wakeup signals in the working state" from it, which allows the code to be simplified quite a bit (Rafael Wysocki). - Fix the wakeup IRQ framework by making it use SRCU instead of RCU which doesn't allow sleeping in the read-side critical sections, but which in turn is expected to be allowed by the IRQ bus locking infrastructure (Thomas Gleixner). - Modify some computations in the intel_pstate driver to avoid rounding errors resulting from them (Srinivas Pandruvada). - Reduce the overhead of the intel_pstate driver in the HWP (hardware-managed P-states) mode and when the "performance" P-state selection algorithm is in use by making it avoid registering scheduler callbacks in those cases (Len Brown). - Rework the energy_performance_preference sysfs knob in intel_pstate by changing the values that correspond to different symbolic hint names used by it (Len Brown). - Make it possible to use more than one cpuidle driver at the same time on ARM (Daniel Lezcano). - Make it possible to prevent the cpuidle menu governor from using the 0 state by disabling it via sysfs (Nicholas Piggin). - Add support for FFH (Fixed Functional Hardware) MWAIT in ACPI C1 on AMD systems (Yazen Ghannam). - Make the CPPC cpufreq driver take the lowest nonlinear performance information into account (Prashanth Prakash). - Add support for hi3660 to the cpufreq-dt driver, fix the imx6q driver and clean up the sfi, exynos5440 and intel_pstate drivers (Colin Ian King, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Octavian Purdila, Rafael Wysocki, Tao Wang). - Fix a few minor issues in the generic power domains (genpd) framework and clean it up somewhat (Krzysztof Kozlowski, Mikko Perttunen, Viresh Kumar). - Fix a couple of minor issues in the operating performance points (OPP) framework and clean it up somewhat (Viresh Kumar). - Fix a CONFIG dependency in the hibernation core and clean it up slightly (Balbir Singh, Arvind Yadav, BaoJun Luo). - Add rk3228 support to the rockchip-io adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) driver (David Wu). - Fix an incorrect bit shift operation in the RAPL power capping driver (Adam Lessnau). - Add support for the EPP field in the HWP (hardware managed P-states) control register, HWP.EPP, to the x86_energy_perf_policy tool and update msr-index.h with HWP.EPP values (Len Brown). - Fix some minor issues in the turbostat tool (Len Brown). - Add support for AMD family 0x17 CPUs to the cpupower tool and fix a minor issue in it (Sherry Hurwitz). - Assorted cleanups, mostly related to the constification of some data structures (Arvind Yadav, Joe Perches, Kees Cook, Krzysztof Kozlowski)" * tag 'pm-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (69 commits) cpufreq: Update scaling_cur_freq documentation cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up after performance governor changes PM: hibernate: constify attribute_group structures. cpuidle: menu: allow state 0 to be disabled intel_idle: Use more common logging style PM / Domains: Fix missing default_power_down_ok comment PM / Domains: Fix unsafe iteration over modified list of domains PM / Domains: Fix unsafe iteration over modified list of domain providers PM / Domains: Fix unsafe iteration over modified list of device links PM / Domains: Handle safely genpd_syscore_switch() call on non-genpd device PM / Domains: Call driver's noirq callbacks PM / core: Drop run_wake flag from struct dev_pm_info PCI / PM: Simplify device wakeup settings code PCI / PM: Drop pme_interrupt flag from struct pci_dev ACPI / PM: Consolidate device wakeup settings code ACPI / PM: Drop run_wake from struct acpi_device_wakeup_flags PM / QoS: constify *_attribute_group. PM / AVS: rockchip-io: add io selectors and supplies for rk3228 powercap/RAPL: prevent overridding bits outside of the mask PM / sysfs: Constify attribute groups ...
| * | cpufreq: Update scaling_cur_freq documentationRafael J. Wysocki2017-06-291-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit f8475cef9008 "x86: use common aperfmperf_khz_on_cpu() to calculate KHz using APERF/MPERF" modified the way the scaling_cur_freq cpufreq policy attribute in sysfs is handled on contemporary Intel-based x86 systems, so update the documentation to reflect that change. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
| * | cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up after performance governor changesRafael J. Wysocki2017-06-291-4/+2Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit 82b4e03e01bc (intel_pstate: skip scheduler hook when in "performance" mode) get_target_pstate_use_performance() and get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load() are never called if scaling_governor is "performance", so drop the CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE checks from them as they will never trigger anyway. Moreover, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the change made by the above commit, so do that too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
* | | Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-07-0411-13/+1152
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time around. Highlights include: - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain. - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates" * tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends Make the main documentation title less Geocities Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1 docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -> "minimum" docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt ...
| * | | Docs: fix table problems in ras.rstJonathan Corbet2017-06-231-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two table problems caused the PDF build to fail: - Evidently multirow cells are not appreciated in table headers, so remove such from the "CS Rows" table. - The logging message structure table was incorrectly formatted, with two "+" instead of "|". The HTML build is forgiving of such things, but PDF is not. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parametersSteffen Maier2017-06-221-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Another place in lib/Kconfig.debug was already fixed in commit f8998c226587 ("lib/Kconfig.debug: correct documentation paths"). Fixes: 9d85025b0418 ("docs-rst: create an user's manual book") Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | Merge remote-tracking branch 'mauro-exp/docbook3' into death-to-docbookJonathan Corbet2017-05-181-6/+0Star
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mauro says: This patch series convert the remaining DocBooks to ReST. The first version was originally send as 3 patch series: [PATCH 00/36] Convert DocBook documents to ReST [PATCH 0/5] Convert more books to ReST [PATCH 00/13] Get rid of DocBook The lsm book was added as if it were a text file under Documentation. The plan is to merge it with another file under Documentation/security, after both this series and a security Documentation patch series gets merged. It also adjusts some Sphinx-pedantic errors/warnings on some kernel-doc markups. I also added some patches here to add PDF output for all existing ReST books.
| | * | | docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab2017-05-161-6/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DocBook is mentioned several times at the documentation. Update the obsolete references from it at the DocBook. Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify Smack.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+858
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify LoadPin.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify Yama.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify tomoyo.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify apparmor.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify SELinux.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | doc: ReSTify and split LSM.txtKees Cook2017-05-182-0/+32
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing LSM.txt file covered both usage and development, so split this into two files, one under admin-guide and one under kernel development. Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | | Merge tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-044-1/+210
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" char/misc driver patchset for 4.13-rc1. Lots of stuff in here, a large thunderbolt update, w1 driver header reorg, the new mux driver subsystem, google firmware driver updates, and a raft of other smaller things. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with the only reported issue being a merge problem with this tree and the jc-docs tree in the w1 documentation area" * tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (147 commits) misc: apds990x: Use sysfs_match_string() helper mei: drop unreachable code in mei_start mei: validate the message header only in first fragment. DocBook: w1: Update W1 file locations and names in DocBook mux: adg792a: always require I2C support nvmem: rockchip-efuse: add support for rk322x-efuse nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find_cell nvmem: core: Call put_device() in nvmem_unregister() nvmem: core: fix leaks on registration errors nvmem: correct Broadcom OTP controller driver writes w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface drivers/fsi: Add module license to core driver drivers/fsi: Use asynchronous slave mode drivers/fsi: Add hub master support drivers/fsi: Add SCOM FSI client device driver drivers/fsi/gpio: Add tracepoints for GPIO master drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master drivers/fsi: Document FSI master sysfs files in ABI drivers/fsi: Add error handling for slave drivers/fsi: Add tracepoints for low-level operations ...
| * \ \ \ Merge 4.12-rc5 into char-misc-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman2017-06-124-9/+775
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We want the char/misc driver fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| * | | | | doc: Add coresight_cpu_debug.enable to kernel-parameters.txtLeo Yan2017-06-091-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add coresight_cpu_debug.enable to kernel-parameters.txt, this flag is used to enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| * | | | | thunderbolt: Add documentation how Thunderbolt bus can be usedMika Westerberg2017-06-092-0/+200
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since there are no such tool yet that handles all the low-level details of connecting devices and upgrading their firmware, add a small document that shows how the Thunderbolt bus can be used directly from command line. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| * | | | | vhost/vsock: use static minor numberStefan Hajnoczi2017-05-181-1/+3
| | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vhost-vsock is a software device so there is no probe call that causes the driver to register its misc char device node. This creates a chicken and egg problem: userspace applications must open /dev/vhost-vsock to use the driver but the file doesn't exist until the kernel module has been loaded. Use the devname modalias mechanism so that /dev/vhost-vsock is created at boot. The vhost_vsock kernel module is automatically loaded when the first application opens /dev/host-vsock. Note that the "reserved for local use" range in Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt is incorrect. The userio driver already occupies part of that range. I've updated the documentation accordingly. Cc: device@lanana.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | | | | Merge tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-041-0/+6
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the large tty/serial patchset for 4.13-rc1. A lot of tty and serial driver updates are in here, along with some fixups for some __get/put_user usages that were reported. Nothing huge, just lots of development by a number of different developers, full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (71 commits) tty: serial: lpuart: add a more accurate baud rate calculation method tty: serial: lpuart: add earlycon support for imx7ulp tty: serial: lpuart: add imx7ulp support dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: add i.MX7ULP support tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support tty: serial: lpuart: refactor lpuart32_{read|write} prototype tty: serial: lpuart: introduce lpuart_soc_data to represent SoC property serial: imx-serial - move DMA buffer configuration to DT serial: imx: Enable RTSD only when needed serial: imx: Remove unused members from imx_port struct serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix race b/w dma completion and RX timeout serial: 8250: Fix THRE flag usage for CAP_MINI tty/serial: meson_uart: update to stable bindings dt-bindings: serial: Add bindings for the Amlogic Meson UARTs serial: Delete dead code for CIR serial ports serial: sirf: make of_device_ids const serial/mpsc: switch to dma_alloc_attrs tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlycon dt-bindings: serial: Document Actions Semi Owl UARTs tty/serial: atmel: make the driver DT only ...
| * | | | | tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlyconAndreas Färber2017-06-201-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This implements an earlycon for Actions Semi S500/S900 SoCs. Based on LeMaker linux-actions tree. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-031-0/+9
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were KASLR improvements for rare environments with special boot options, by Baoquan He. Also misc smaller changes/cleanups" * 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/debug: Extend the lower bound of crash kernel low reservations x86/boot: Remove unused copy_*_gs() functions x86/KASLR: Use the right memcpy() implementation Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' boot option description x86/KASLR: Handle the memory limit specified by the 'memmap=' and 'mem=' boot options x86/KASLR: Parse all 'memmap=' boot option entries
| * | | | | | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' boot option descriptionBaoquan He2017-05-241-0/+9
| |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit: 9710f581bb4c ("x86, mm: Let "memmap=" take more entries one time") ... 'memmap=' was changed to adopt multiple, comma delimited values in a single entry, so update the related description. In the special case of only specifying size value without an offset, like memmap=nn[KMG], memmap behaves similarly to mem=nn[KMG], so update it too here. Furthermore, for memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG], an escape character needs be added before '$' for some bootloaders. E.g in grub2, if we specify memmap=100M$5G as suggested by the documentation, "memmap=100MG" gets passed to the kernel. Clarify all this. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dyoung@redhat.com Cc: m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494654390-23861-4-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com [ Various spelling fixes. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-07-031-10/+31
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The sole purpose of these changes is to shrink and simplify the RCU code base, which has suffered from creeping bloat over the past couple of years. The end result is a net removal of ~2700 lines of code: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) Plus there's a marked reduction in the Kconfig space complexity as well, here's the number of matches on 'grep RCU' in the .config: before after x86-defconfig 17 15 x86-allmodconfig 33 20" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (86 commits) rcu: Remove RCU CPU stall warnings from Tiny RCU rcu: Remove event tracing from Tiny RCU rcu: Move RCU debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Move RCU non-debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options rcu: Remove debugfs tracing srcu: Remove Classic SRCU srcu: Fix rcutorture-statistics typo rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option rcu: Remove typecheck() from RCU locking wrapper functions rcu: Remove #ifdef moving rcu_end_inkernel_boot from rcupdate.h rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine rcu: Remove the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig options srcu: Use rnp->lock wrappers to replace explicit memory barriers rcu: Move rnp->lock wrappers for SRCU use rcu: Convert rnp->lock wrappers to macros for SRCU use rcu: Refactor #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h bcm47xx: Fix build regression ...
| * | | | | Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar2017-06-131-10/+31
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: "The largest feature of this series is shrinking and simplification, with the following diffstat summary: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) In other words, this series represents a net reduction of more than 2700 lines of code." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| | * | | | rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig optionsPaul E. McKenney2017-06-091-7/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY Kconfig options are only useful for torture testing, and there are the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay, rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot parameters that rcutorture can use instead. The effect of these parameters is to artificially slow down grace period initialization and cleanup in order to make some types of race conditions happen more often. This commit therefore simplifies Tree RCU a bit by removing the Kconfig options and adding the corresponding kernel parameters to rcutorture's .boot files instead. However, this commit also leaves out the kernel parameters for TREE02, TREE04, and TREE07 in order to have about the same number of tests slowed as not slowed. TREE01, TREE03, TREE05, and TREE06 are slowed, and the rest are not slowed. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | | srcu: Prevent sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed counter wrapPaul E. McKenney2017-06-091-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a given CPU never happens to ever start an SRCU grace period, the grace-period sequence counter might wrap. If this CPU were to decide to finally start a grace period, the state of its sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed might make it appear that it has already requested this grace period, which would prevent starting the grace period. If no other CPU ever started a grace period again, this would look like a grace-period hang. Even if some other CPU took pity and started the needed grace period, the leaf rcu_node structure's ->srcu_data_have_cbs field won't have record of the fact that this CPU has a callback pending, which would look like a very localized grace-period hang. This might seem very unlikely, but SRCU grace periods can take less than a microsecond on small systems, which means that overflow can happen in much less than an hour on a 32-bit embedded system. And embedded systems are especially likely to have long-term idle CPUs. Therefore, it makes sense to prevent this scenario from happening. This commit therefore scans each srcu_data structure occasionally, with frequency controlled by the srcutree.counter_wrap_check kernel boot parameter. This parameter can be set to something like 255 in order to exercise the counter-wrap-prevention code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | | rcuperf: Add writer_holdoff boot parameterPaul E. McKenney2017-06-081-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a writer_holdoff boot parameter to rcuperf, which is intended to be used to test Tree SRCU's auto-expediting. This boot parameter is in microseconds, and defaults to zero (that is, disabled). Set it to a bit larger than srcutree.exp_holdoff, keeping the nanosecond/microsecond conversion, to force Tree SRCU to auto-expedite more aggressively. This commit also adds documentation for this parameter, and fixes some alphabetization while in the neighborhood. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | | rcuperf: Add ability to performance-test call_rcu() and friendsPaul E. McKenney2017-06-081-0/+11
| | |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit upgrades rcuperf so that it can do performance testing on asynchronous grace-period primitives such as call_srcu(). There is a new rcuperf.gp_async module parameter that specifies this new behavior, with the pre-existing rcuperf.gp_exp testing expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu_expedited, and with the default being to test synchronous non-expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu(). There is also a new rcuperf.gp_async_max module parameter that specifies the maximum number of outstanding callbacks per writer kthread, defaulting to 1,000. When this limit is exceeded, the writer thread invokes the appropriate flavor of rcu_barrier() to wait for callbacks to drain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Removed the redundant initialization noted by Arnd Bergmann. ]
* | / / / mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmasHugh Dickins2017-06-191-0/+7
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping. But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX] which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN. This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical, unfortunatelly. Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot. One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace, but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units). Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page: because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point, a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK and strict non-overcommit mode. Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start (or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(), and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that. Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-06-091-0/+9
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: "Mostly fairly minor, of note are: - Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware - Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space - Avoid needlessly restoring FP and vector registers Thanks to Aneesh Kumar K.V, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Bringmann, Nicholas Piggin, Vaibhav Jain" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc/book3s64: Move PPC_DT_CPU_FTRs and enable it by default powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl powerpc/perf: Fix Power9 test_adder fields powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation powerpc/kernel: Fix FP and vector register restoration powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE powerpc/hotplug-mem: Fix missing endian conversion of aa_index powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio: Fix oops in gpio save_regs function powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup option
| * | | powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup optionNicholas Piggin2017-06-011-0/+9
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a dt_cpu_ftrs= cmdline option to disable the dt_cpu_ftrs CPU feature discovery, and fall back to the "cputable" based version. Also allow control of advertising unknown features to userspace and with this parameter, and remove the clunky CONFIG option. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Add explicit early check of bootargs in dt_cpu_ftrs_init()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
* / / cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interfaceRafael J. Wysocki2017-05-143-9/+766
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a document describing the current behavior and user space interface of the intel_pstate driver in the RST format and drop the existing outdated intel_pstate.txt document. Also update admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst with proper RST references to the new intel_pstate.rst document. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* | Merge tag 'docs-4.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-05-112-2/+2
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Connect the newly RST-formatted documentation to the rest; this had to wait until the input pull was done. There's also a few small fixes that wandered in" * tag 'docs-4.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: doc: replace FTP URL to kernel.org with HTTPS one docs: update references to the device io book Documentation: earlycon: fix Marvell Armada 3700 UART name docs-rst: add input docs at main index and use kernel-figure
| * doc: replace FTP URL to kernel.org with HTTPS oneMichael Heimpold2017-05-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FTP services were shutdown some weeks ago, so the FTP URL does not work anymore. Fix this by replacing it with corresponding HTTPS URL. Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * Documentation: earlycon: fix Marvell Armada 3700 UART nameAndre Przywara2017-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Marvell Armada 3700 UART uses "ar3700_uart" for its earlycon name. Adjust documentation to match the code. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds2017-05-101-6/+0Star
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Highlights include: Stable bugfixes: - Fix use after free in write error path - Use GFP_NOIO for two allocations in writeback - Fix a hang in OPEN related to server reboot - Check the result of nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect - Fix an rcu lock leak Features: - Removal of the unmaintained and unused OSD pNFS layout - Cleanup and removal of lots of unnecessary dprintk()s - Cleanup and removal of some memory failure paths now that GFP_NOFS is guaranteed to never fail. - Remove the v3-only data server limitation on pNFS/flexfiles Bugfixes: - RPC/RDMA connection handling bugfixes - Copy offload: fixes to ensure the copied data is COMMITed to disk. - Readdir: switch back to using the ->iterate VFS interface - File locking fixes from Ben Coddington - Various use-after-free and deadlock issues in pNFS - Write path bugfixes" * tag 'nfs-for-4.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (89 commits) pNFS/flexfiles: Always attempt to call layoutstats when flexfiles is enabled NFSv4.1: Work around a Linux server bug... NFS append COMMIT after synchronous COPY NFSv4: Fix exclusive create attributes encoding NFSv4: Fix an rcu lock leak nfs: use kmap/kunmap directly NFS: always treat the invocation of nfs_getattr as cache hit when noac is on Fix nfs_client refcounting if kmalloc fails in nfs4_proc_exchange_id and nfs4_proc_async_renew NFSv4.1: RECLAIM_COMPLETE must handle NFS4ERR_CONN_NOT_BOUND_TO_SESSION pNFS: Fix NULL dereference in pnfs_generic_alloc_ds_commits pNFS: Fix a typo in pnfs_generic_alloc_ds_commits pNFS: Fix a deadlock when coalescing writes and returning the layout pNFS: Don't clear the layout return info if there are segments to return pNFS: Ensure we commit the layout if it has been invalidated pNFS: Don't send COMMITs to the DSes if the server invalidated our layout pNFS/flexfiles: Fix up the ff_layout_write_pagelist failure path pNFS: Ensure we check layout validity before marking it for return NFS4.1 handle interrupted slot reuse from ERR_DELAY NFSv4: check return value of xdr_inline_decode nfs/filelayout: fix NULL pointer dereference in fl_pnfs_update_layout() ...
| * | nfs: remove the objlayout driverChristoph Hellwig2017-04-201-6/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The objlayout code has been in the tree, but it's been unmaintained and no server product for it actually ever shipped. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>