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Provide an early kernel option "ktext=" which allows the kernel text
replication to be enabled. This takes a boolean argument.
The way this has been implemented means that we take all the same paths
through the kernel at runtime whether kernel text replication has been
enabled or not; this allows the performance effects of the code changes
to be evaluated separately from the act of running with replicating the
kernel text.
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/gds fixes from Dave Hansen:
"Mitigate Gather Data Sampling issue:
- Add Base GDS mitigation
- Support GDS_NO under KVM
- Fix a documentation typo"
* tag 'gds-for-linus-2023-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/x86: Fix backwards on/off logic about YMM support
KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM
x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS
x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation
x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigation
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Add a mitigation for the speculative return address stack overflow
vulnerability found on AMD processors.
The mitigation works by ensuring all RET instructions speculate to
a controlled location, similar to how speculation is controlled in the
retpoline sequence. To accomplish this, the __x86_return_thunk forces
the CPU to mispredict every function return using a 'safe return'
sequence.
To ensure the safety of this mitigation, the kernel must ensure that the
safe return sequence is itself free from attacker interference. In Zen3
and Zen4, this is accomplished by creating a BTB alias between the
untraining function srso_untrain_ret_alias() and the safe return
function srso_safe_ret_alias() which results in evicting a potentially
poisoned BTB entry and using that safe one for all function returns.
In older Zen1 and Zen2, this is accomplished using a reinterpretation
technique similar to Retbleed one: srso_untrain_ret() and
srso_safe_ret().
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
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The Gather Data Sampling (GDS) vulnerability allows malicious software
to infer stale data previously stored in vector registers. This may
include sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. GDS is mitigated in
microcode, and systems with up-to-date microcode are protected by
default. However, any affected system that is running with older
microcode will still be vulnerable to GDS attacks.
Since the gather instructions used by the attacker are part of the
AVX2 and AVX512 extensions, disabling these extensions prevents gather
instructions from being executed, thereby mitigating the system from
GDS. Disabling AVX2 is sufficient, but we don't have the granularity
to do this. The XCR0[2] disables AVX, with no option to just disable
AVX2.
Add a kernel parameter gather_data_sampling=force that will enable the
microcode mitigation if available, otherwise it will disable AVX on
affected systems.
This option will be ignored if cmdline mitigations=off.
This is a *big* hammer. It is known to break buggy userspace that
uses incomplete, buggy AVX enumeration. Unfortunately, such userspace
does exist in the wild:
https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg33046.html
[ dhansen: add some more ominous warnings about disabling AVX ]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows
unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in
vector registers.
Intel processors that support AVX2 and AVX512 have gather instructions
that fetch non-contiguous data elements from memory. On vulnerable
hardware, when a gather instruction is transiently executed and
encounters a fault, stale data from architectural or internal vector
registers may get transiently stored to the destination vector
register allowing an attacker to infer the stale data using typical
side channel techniques like cache timing attacks.
This mitigation is different from many earlier ones for two reasons.
First, it is enabled by default and a bit must be set to *DISABLE* it.
This is the opposite of normal mitigation polarity. This means GDS can
be mitigated simply by updating microcode and leaving the new control
bit alone.
Second, GDS has a "lock" bit. This lock bit is there because the
mitigation affects the hardware security features KeyLocker and SGX.
It needs to be enabled and *STAY* enabled for these features to be
mitigated against GDS.
The mitigation is enabled in the microcode by default. Disable it by
setting gather_data_sampling=off or by disabling all mitigations with
mitigations=off. The mitigation status can be checked by reading:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Pull mode documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A half-dozen late arriving docs patches. They are mostly fixes, but we
also have a kernel-doc tweak for enums and the long-overdue removal of
the outdated and redundant patch-submission comments at the top of the
MAINTAINERS file"
* tag 'docs-6.5-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
scripts: kernel-doc: support private / public marking for enums
Documentation: KVM: SEV: add a missing backtick
Documentation: ACPI: fix typo in ssdt-overlays.rst
Fix documentation of panic_on_warn
docs: remove the tips on how to submit patches from MAINTAINERS
docs: fix typo in zh_TW and zh_CN translation
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The kernel cmdline option panic_on_warn expects an integer, it is not a
plain option as documented. A number of uses in the tree figured this
already, and use panic_on_warn=1 for their purpose.
Adjust a comment which otherwise may mislead people in the future.
Fixes: 9e3961a09798 ("kernel: add panic_on_warn")
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for ACPI
- Various cleanups to the ISA string parsing, including making them
case-insensitive
- Support for the vector extension
- Support for independent irq/softirq stacks
- Our CPU DT binding now has "unevaluatedProperties: false"
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.5-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (78 commits)
riscv: hibernate: remove WARN_ON in save_processor_state
dt-bindings: riscv: cpus: switch to unevaluatedProperties: false
dt-bindings: riscv: cpus: add a ref the common cpu schema
riscv: stack: Add config of thread stack size
riscv: stack: Support HAVE_SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK
riscv: stack: Support HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
RISC-V: always report presence of extensions formerly part of the base ISA
dt-bindings: riscv: explicitly mention assumption of Zicntr & Zihpm support
RISC-V: remove decrement/increment dance in ISA string parser
RISC-V: rework comments in ISA string parser
RISC-V: validate riscv,isa at boot, not during ISA string parsing
RISC-V: split early & late of_node to hartid mapping
RISC-V: simplify register width check in ISA string parsing
perf: RISC-V: Limit the number of counters returned from SBI
riscv: replace deprecated scall with ecall
riscv: uprobes: Restore thread.bad_cause
riscv: mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first
riscv: mm: Pre-allocate PGD entries for vmalloc/modules area
RISC-V: hwprobe: Expose Zba, Zbb, and Zbs
RISC-V: Track ISA extensions per hart
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
"Core changes:
- iova_magazine_alloc() optimization
- Make flush-queue an IOMMU driver capability
- Consolidate the error handling around device attachment
AMD IOMMU changes:
- AVIC Interrupt Remapping Improvements
- Some minor fixes and cleanups
Intel VT-d changes from Lu Baolu:
- Small and misc cleanups
ARM-SMMU changes from Will Deacon:
- Device-tree binding updates:
- Add missing clocks for SC8280XP and SA8775 Adreno SMMUs
- Add two new Qualcomm SMMUs in SDX75 and SM6375
- Workarounds for Arm MMU-700 errata:
- 1076982: Avoid use of SEV-based cmdq wakeup
- 2812531: Terminate command batches with a CMD_SYNC
- Enforce single-stage translation to avoid nesting-related errata
- Set the correct level hint for range TLB invalidation on teardown
.. and some other minor fixes and cleanups (including Freescale PAMU
and virtio-iommu changes)"
* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (50 commits)
iommu/vt-d: Remove commented-out code
iommu/vt-d: Remove two WARN_ON in domain_context_mapping_one()
iommu/vt-d: Handle the failure case of dmar_reenable_qi()
iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
iommu/amd: Remove extern from function prototypes
iommu/amd: Use BIT/BIT_ULL macro to define bit fields
iommu/amd: Fix DTE_IRQ_PHYS_ADDR_MASK macro
iommu/amd: Fix compile error for unused function
iommu/amd: Improving Interrupt Remapping Table Invalidation
iommu/amd: Do not Invalidate IRT when IRTE caching is disabled
iommu/amd: Introduce Disable IRTE Caching Support
iommu/amd: Remove the unused struct amd_ir_data.ref
iommu/amd: Switch amd_iommu_update_ga() to use modify_irte_ga()
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set TTL invalidation hint better
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Document nesting-related errata
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add explicit feature for nesting
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Document MMU-700 erratum 2812531
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Work around MMU-600 erratum 1076982
dt-bindings: arm-smmu: Add SDX75 SMMU compatible
dt-bindings: arm-smmu: Add SM6375 GPU SMMU
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Pull MIPS updates from Thomas Bogendoerfer:
- add support for TP-Link HC220 G5 v1
- add support for Wifi/Bluetooth on CI20
- rework Ralink clock and reset handling
- cleanups and fixes
* tag 'mips_6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (58 commits)
MIPS: Loongson64: DTS: Add RTC support to Loongson-2K1000
MIPS: Loongson64: DTS: Add RTC support to LS7A PCH
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: cleanup divider calculation
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: introduce dwc3_octeon_{read,write}q
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: move gpio config to separate function
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: use bitfields for shim register
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: use bitfields for host config register
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: use bitfields for control register
MIPS: OCTEON: octeon-usb: add all register offsets
mips: ralink: match all supported system controller compatible strings
MIPS: dec: prom: Address -Warray-bounds warning
MIPS: DTS: CI20: Raise VDDCORE voltage to 1.125 volts
clk: ralink: mtmips: Fix uninitialized use of ret in mtmips_register_{fixed,factor}_clocks()
mips: ralink: introduce commonly used remap node function
mips: pci-mt7620: use dev_info() to log PCIe device detection result
mips: pci-mt7620: do not print NFTS register value as error log
MAINTAINERS: add Mediatek MTMIPS Clock maintainer
mips: ralink: get cpu rate from new driver code
mips: ralink: remove reset related code
mips: ralink: mt7620: remove clock related code
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Pull arm64 documentation move from Jonathan Corbet:
"Move the arm64 architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/.
This brings some order to the documentation directory, declutters the
top-level directory, and makes the documentation organization more
closely match that of the source"
* tag 'docs-arm64-move' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
perf arm-spe: Fix a dangling Documentation/arm64 reference
mm: Fix a dangling Documentation/arm64 reference
arm64: Fix dangling references to Documentation/arm64
dt-bindings: fix dangling Documentation/arm64 reference
docs: arm64: Move arm64 documentation under Documentation/arch/
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
- Concurrency-managed per-cpu work items that hog CPUs and delay the
execution of other work items are now automatically detected and
excluded from concurrency management. Reporting on such work items
can also be enabled through a config option.
- Added tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py which improves visibility into
workqueue usages and behaviors.
- Arnd's minimal fix for gcc-13 enum warning on 32bit compiles,
superseded by commit afa4bb778e48 in mainline.
* tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Disable per-cpu CPU hog detection when wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us is 0
workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle()
workqueue: fix enum type for gcc-13
workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage
workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism
workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE
workqueue: Improve locking rule description for worker fields
workqueue: Move worker_set/clr_flags() upwards
workqueue: Re-order struct worker fields
workqueue: Add pwq->stats[] and a monitoring script
Further upgrade queue_work_on() comment
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molar:
"Build footprint & performance improvements:
- Reduce memory usage with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
In the worst case of an allyesconfig+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y kernel,
DWARF creates almost 200 million relocations, ballooning objtool's
peak heap usage to 53GB. These patches reduce that to 25GB.
On a distro-type kernel with kernel IBT enabled, they reduce
objtool's peak heap usage from 4.2GB to 2.8GB.
These changes also improve the runtime significantly.
Debuggability improvements:
- Add the unwind_debug command-line option, for more extend unwinding
debugging output
- Limit unreachable warnings to once per function
- Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions
- Include backtrace in verbose mode
- Detect missing __noreturn annotations
- Ignore exc_double_fault() __noreturn warnings
- Remove superfluous global_noreturns entries
- Move noreturn function list to separate file
- Add __kunit_abort() to noreturns
Unwinder improvements:
- Allow stack operations in UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED regions
- drm/vmwgfx: Add unwind hints around RBP clobber
Cleanups:
- Move the x86 entry thunk restore code into thunk functions
- x86/unwind/orc: Use swap() instead of open coding it
- Remove unnecessary/unused variables
Fixes for modern stack canary handling"
* tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
x86/orc: Make the is_callthunk() definition depend on CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
objtool: Skip reading DWARF section data
objtool: Free insns when done
objtool: Get rid of reloc->rel[a]
objtool: Shrink elf hash nodes
objtool: Shrink reloc->sym_reloc_entry
objtool: Get rid of reloc->jump_table_start
objtool: Get rid of reloc->addend
objtool: Get rid of reloc->type
objtool: Get rid of reloc->offset
objtool: Get rid of reloc->idx
objtool: Get rid of reloc->list
objtool: Allocate relocs in advance for new rela sections
objtool: Add for_each_reloc()
objtool: Don't free memory in elf_close()
objtool: Keep GElf_Rel[a] structs synced
objtool: Add elf_create_section_pair()
objtool: Add mark_sec_changed()
objtool: Fix reloc_hash size
objtool: Consolidate rel/rela handling
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mtrr updates from Borislav Petkov:
"A serious scrubbing of the MTRR code including adding a new map
mechanism in order to look up the memory type of a region easily.
Also address memory range lookup issues like returning an invalid
memory type. Furthermore, this handles the decoupling of PAT from MTRR
more naturally.
All work by Juergen Gross"
* tag 'x86_mtrr_for_v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/xen: Set default memory type for PV guests to WB
x86/mtrr: Unify debugging printing
x86/mtrr: Remove unused code
x86/mm: Only check uniform after calling mtrr_type_lookup()
x86/mtrr: Don't let mtrr_type_lookup() return MTRR_TYPE_INVALID
x86/mtrr: Use new cache_map in mtrr_type_lookup()
x86/mtrr: Add mtrr=debug command line option
x86/mtrr: Construct a memory map with cache modes
x86/mtrr: Add get_effective_type() service function
x86/mtrr: Allocate mtrr_value array dynamically
x86/mtrr: Move 32-bit code from mtrr.c to legacy.c
x86/mtrr: Have only one set_mtrr() variant
x86/mtrr: Replace vendor tests in MTRR code
x86/xen: Set MTRR state when running as Xen PV initial domain
x86/hyperv: Set MTRR state when running as SEV-SNP Hyper-V guest
x86/mtrr: Support setting MTRR state for software defined MTRRs
x86/mtrr: Replace size_or_mask and size_and_mask with a much easier concept
x86/mtrr: Remove physical address size calculation
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively calm cycle in docsland. We do have:
- Some initial page-table documentation from Linus (the other Linus)
- Regression-handling documentation improvements from Thorsten
- Addition of kerneldoc documentation for the ERR_PTR() and related
macros from James Seo
... and the usual collection of fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: consolidate storage interfaces
Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tag
Documentation: KVM: make corrections to vcpu-requests.rst
Documentation: KVM: make corrections to ppc-pv.rst
Documentation: KVM: make corrections to locking.rst
Documentation: KVM: make corrections to halt-polling.rst
Documentation: virt: correct location of haltpoll module params
Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation
docs: crypto: async-tx-api: fix typo in struct name
docs/doc-guide: Clarify how to write tables
docs: handling-regressions: rework section about fixing procedures
docs: process: fix a typoed cross-reference
docs: submitting-patches: Discuss interleaved replies
MAINTAINERS: direct process doc changes to a dedicated ML
Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-api
err.h: Add missing kerneldocs for error pointer functions
Documentation: conf.py: Add __force to c_id_attributes
docs: clarify KVM related kernel parameters' descriptions
docs: consolidate human interface subsystems
docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
"Documentation updates
Miscellaneous fixes, perhaps most notably:
- Remove RCU_NONIDLE(). The new visibility of most of the idle loop
to RCU has obsoleted this API.
- Make the RCU_SOFTIRQ callback-invocation time limit also apply to
the rcuc kthreads that invoke callbacks for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
- Add a jiffies-based callback-invocation time limit to handle
long-running callbacks. (The local_clock() function is only invoked
once per 32 callbacks due to its high overhead.)
- Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs, which
fixes a bug that can occur on systems with non-contiguous CPU
numbering.
kvfree_rcu updates:
- Eliminate the single-argument variant of k[v]free_rcu() now that
all uses have been converted to k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep().
- Add WARN_ON_ONCE() checks for k[v]free_rcu*() freeing callbacks too
soon. Yes, this is closing the barn door after the horse has
escaped, but Murphy says that there will be more horses.
Callback-offloading updates:
- Fix a number of bugs involving the shrinker and lazy callbacks.
Tasks RCU updates
Torture-test updates"
* tag 'rcu.2023.06.22a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (32 commits)
torture: Remove duplicated argument -enable-kvm for ppc64
doc/rcutorture: Add description of rcutorture.stall_cpu_block
rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale
rcu/rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_*() after kfree_scale_cleanup()
rcutorture: Correct name of use_softirq module parameter
locktorture: Add long_hold to adjust lock-hold delays
rcu/nocb: Make shrinker iterate only over NOCB CPUs
rcu-tasks: Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs
rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() rely on interrupts being disabled
rcu: Mark rcu_cpu_kthread() accesses to ->rcu_cpu_has_work
rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp
rcu: Employ jiffies-based backstop to callback time limit
rcu: Check callback-invocation time limit for rcuc kthreads
rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE()
rcu: Add more RCU files to kernel-api.rst
rcu-tasks: Clarify the cblist_init_generic() function's pr_info() output
rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()
rcu/nocb: Recheck lazy callbacks under the ->nocb_lock from shrinker
rcu/nocb: Fix shrinker race against callback enqueuer
rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
"Notable features are user-space support for the memcpy/memset
instructions and the permission indirection extension.
- Support for the Armv8.9 Permission Indirection Extensions. While
this feature doesn't add new functionality, it enables future
support for Guarded Control Stacks (GCS) and Permission Overlays
- User-space support for the Armv8.8 memcpy/memset instructions
- arm64 perf: support the HiSilicon SoC uncore PMU, Arm CMN sysfs
identifier, support for the NXP i.MX9 SoC DDRC PMU, fixes and
cleanups
- Removal of superfluous ISBs on context switch (following
retrospective architecture tightening)
- Decode the ISS2 register during faults for additional information
to help with debugging
- KPTI clean-up/simplification of the trampoline exit code
- Addressing several -Wmissing-prototype warnings
- Kselftest improvements for signal handling and ptrace
- Fix TPIDR2_EL0 restoring on sigreturn
- Clean-up, robustness improvements of the module allocation code
- More sysreg conversions to the automatic register/bitfields
generation
- CPU capabilities handling cleanup
- Arm documentation updates: ACPI, ptdump"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (124 commits)
kselftest/arm64: Add a test case for TPIDR2 restore
arm64/signal: Restore TPIDR2 register rather than memory state
arm64: alternatives: make clean_dcache_range_nopatch() noinstr-safe
Documentation/arm64: Add ptdump documentation
arm64: hibernate: remove WARN_ON in save_processor_state
kselftest/arm64: Log signal code and address for unexpected signals
docs: perf: Fix warning from 'make htmldocs' in hisi-pmu.rst
arm64/fpsimd: Exit streaming mode when flushing tasks
docs: perf: Add new description for HiSilicon UC PMU
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon UC PMU driver
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon H60PA and PAv3 PMU driver
perf: arm_cspmu: Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
perf/arm-cmn: Add sysfs identifier
perf/arm-cmn: Revamp model detection
perf/arm_dmc620: Add cpumask
arm64: mm: fix VA-range sanity check
arm64/mm: remove now-superfluous ISBs from TTBR writes
Documentation/arm64: Update ACPI tables from BBR
Documentation/arm64: Update references in arm-acpi
Documentation/arm64: Update ARM and arch reference
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ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A large update for SMP management:
- Parallel CPU bringup
The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to
shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the
downtime of the VM tenants.
The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP:
1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads)
2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86)
3) Wait for the AP to report alive state
4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup
5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state
There are two significant delays:
#3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary()
on x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms
depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc.
#4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been
measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending
on the microcode patch size to apply.
On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU
spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to
come up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual
onlining procedure.
This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup
mechanism into two parts:
1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP
which needs to be brought up.
The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the
low level kernel startup code including microcode loading in
parallel up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2
above)
2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU
(#3 - #5 above) as it's done today.
Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible
in theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery
would be justified for a pretty small gain.
If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at
the first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the
wake-up of the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that
SKL from ~800ms to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x.
The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU,
microcode patch size and other factors. There are some
opportunities to reduce the overhead further, but that needs some
deep surgery in the x86 CPU bringup code.
For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality
obviously works for all SMP capable architectures.
- Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to
locate the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows
to measure IPI delivery time precisely"
* tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions
trace,smp: Add tracepoints around remotelly called functions
MAINTAINERS: Add CPU HOTPLUG entry
x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision
x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat()
x86/smp: Initialize cpu_primary_thread_mask late
cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()
x86/apic: Fix use of X{,2}APIC_ENABLE in asm with older binutils
x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it
x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs
x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack
x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address
cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE
x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask
x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup
cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism
cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up()
cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions
riscv: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
parisc: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
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Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy. Move
Documentation/arm64 into arch/ (along with the Chinese equvalent
translations) and fix up documentation references.
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yantengsi <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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An Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) stores interrupt remapping configuration
for each device. In a normal operation, the AMD IOMMU caches the table
to optimize subsequent data accesses. This requires the IOMMU driver to
invalidate IRT whenever it updates the table. The invalidation process
includes issuing an INVALIDATE_INTERRUPT_TABLE command following by
a COMPLETION_WAIT command.
However, there are cases in which the IRT is updated at a high rate.
For example, for IOMMU AVIC, the IRTE[IsRun] bit is updated on every
vcpu scheduling (i.e. amd_iommu_update_ga()). On system with large
amount of vcpus and VFIO PCI pass-through devices, the invalidation
process could potentially become a performance bottleneck.
Introducing a new kernel boot option:
amd_iommu=irtcachedis
which disables IRTE caching by setting the IRTCachedis bit in each IOMMU
Control register, and bypass the IRT invalidation process.
Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530141137.14376-4-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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hlt,nohlt paramaters are useful when debugging cpuidle
related issues.
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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Provide a generic smt parameters interface aligned with s390
to allow users to limit smt usage and threads per core.
It replaced previous undocumented "nothreads" parameter for
smp-cps which is ambiguous and does not cover smp-mt.
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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'nocb.2023.05.11a', 'rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a', 'torture.2023.05.15a' and 'rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a' into HEAD
doc.2023.05.10a: Documentation updates
fixes.2023.05.11a: Miscellaneous fixes
kvfree.2023.05.10a: kvfree_rcu updates
nocb.2023.05.11a: Callback-offloading updates
rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a: Tasks RCU updates
torture.2023.05.15a: Torture-test updates
rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a: Urgent SRCU fix
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Create a new block/early-lookup.c to keep the early block device lookup
code instead of having this code sit with the early mount code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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name_to_dev_t has a very misleading name, that doesn't make clear
it should only be used by the early init code, and also has a bad
calling convention that doesn't allow returning different kinds of
errors. Rename it to early_lookup_bdev to make the use case clear,
and return an errno, where -EINVAL means the string could not be
parsed, and -ENODEV means it the string was valid, but there was
no device found for it.
Also stub out the whole call for !CONFIG_BLOCK as all the non-block
root cases are always covered in the caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The nfs/cifs/ram special case only needs to be parsed once, and only in
the boot code. Move them out of name_to_dev_t and into
prepare_namespace.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-13-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Make it possible to disable the MOPS extension at runtime using the
kernel command line. This can be useful for testing or working around
hardware issues. For example it could be used to test new memory copy
routines that do not use MOPS instructions (e.g. from Arm Optimized
Routines).
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509142235.3284028-11-kristina.martsenko@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Initialize the ACPI core for RISC-V during boot.
ACPI tables and interpreter are initialized based on
the information passed from the firmware and the value of
the kernel parameter 'acpi'.
With ACPI support added for RISC-V, the kernel parameter 'acpi'
is also supported on RISC-V. Hence, update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515054928.2079268-9-sunilvl@ventanamicro.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Add a new command line option "mtrr=debug" for getting debug output
after building the new cache mode map. The output will include MTRR
register values and the resulting map.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502120931.20719-13-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
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The descriptions of certain KVM related kernel parameters can be
confusing. They state "Disable ...," which may make people think that
setting them to 1 will disable the associated feature when in fact the
opposite is true.
This commit addresses this issue by revising the descriptions of these
parameters by using "Control..." rather than "Enable/Disable...".
1==enabled or 0==disabled can be communicated by the description of
default value such as "1 (enabled)" or "0 (disabled)".
Also update the description of KVM's default value for kvm-intel.nested
as it is enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Yan-Jie Wang <yanjiewtw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230503081530.19956-1-yanjiewtw@gmail.com
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Information about intel_pstate active mode is added in the doc.
This operation mode could be used to set on the hardware when it's
not activated. Status of the mode could be checked from sysfs file
i.e., /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/status.
The information is already available in cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Natesh Sharma <nsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
[jc: reformatted for width ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230427083706.49882-1-nsharma@redhat.com
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Workqueue now automatically marks per-cpu work items that hog CPU for too
long as CPU_INTENSIVE, which excludes them from concurrency management and
prevents stalling other concurrency-managed work items. If a work function
keeps running over the thershold, it likely needs to be switched to use an
unbound workqueue.
This patch adds a debug mechanism which tracks the work functions which
trigger the automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism and report them using
pr_warn() with exponential backoff.
v3: Documentation update.
v2: Drop bouncing to kthread_worker for printing messages. It was to avoid
introducing circular locking dependency through printk but not effective
as it still had pool lock -> wci_lock -> printk -> pool lock loop. Let's
just print directly using printk_deferred().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from
starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends
to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in
concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be
error-prone and difficult to debug when missed.
This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a
concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold
(10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick()
which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and
automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE.
The mechanism isn't foolproof:
* Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the
right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least
temporarily.
* nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection.
* Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if
many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time.
However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations
reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code
complexity.
If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem
likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the
solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug
mechanism to help spot such cases.
v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to
kernel-parameters.txt.
v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as
suggested by Peter.
v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from
preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated
accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte
recursions and how they're avoided.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
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Sometimes the one-line ORC unwinder warnings aren't very helpful. Add a
new 'unwind_debug' cmdline option which will dump the full stack
contents of the current task when an error condition is encountered.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6afb9e48a05fd2046bfad47e69b061b43dfd0e0e.1681331449.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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If you build a kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y,
then run the rcutorture tests specifying stalls as follows:
runqemu kvm slirp nographic qemuparams="-m 1024 -smp 4" \
bootparams="console=ttyS0 rcutorture.stall_cpu=30 \
rcutorture.stall_no_softlockup=1 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1" -d
The tests will produce the following splat:
[ 10.841071] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_stall begin CPU stall
[ 10.841073] rcu_torture_stall start on CPU 3.
[ 10.841077] BUG: scheduling while atomic: rcu_torture_sta/66/0x0000000
....
[ 10.841108] Call Trace:
[ 10.841110] <TASK>
[ 10.841112] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0xb0
[ 10.841118] dump_stack+0x10/0x20
[ 10.841121] __schedule_bug+0x8b/0xb0
[ 10.841126] __schedule+0x2172/0x2940
[ 10.841157] schedule+0x9b/0x150
[ 10.841160] schedule_timeout+0x2e8/0x4f0
[ 10.841192] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x47/0x50
[ 10.841195] rcu_torture_stall+0x2e8/0x300
[ 10.841199] kthread+0x175/0x1a0
[ 10.841206] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
This is because the rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1 module parameter causes
rcu_torture_stall() to invoke schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() within
an RCU read-side critical section. This in turn results in a quiescent
state (which prevents the stall) and a sleep in an atomic context (which
produces the above splat).
Although this code is operating as designed, the design has proven to
be counterintuitive to many. This commit therefore updates the description
in kernel-parameters.txt accordingly.
[ paulmck: Apply Joel Fernandes feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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There is often significant latency in the early stages of CPU bringup, and
time is wasted by waking each CPU (e.g. with SIPI/INIT/INIT on x86) and
then waiting for it to respond before moving on to the next.
Allow a platform to enable parallel setup which brings all to be onlined
CPUs up to the CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP state. While this state advancement on the
control CPU (BP) is single-threaded the important part is the last state
CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP which wakes the to be onlined CPUs up.
This allows the CPUs to run up to the first sychronization point
cpuhp_ap_sync_alive() where they wait for the control CPU to release them
one by one for the full onlining procedure.
This parallelism depends on the CPU hotplug core sync mechanism which
ensures that the parallel brought up CPUs wait for release before touching
any state which would make the CPU visible to anything outside the hotplug
control mechanism.
To handle the SMT constraints of X86 correctly the bringup happens in two
iterations when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT is enabled. The control CPU brings up
the primary SMT threads of each core first, which can load the microcode
without the need to rendevouz with the thread siblings. Once that's
completed it brings up the secondary SMT threads.
Co-developed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205257.240231377@linutronix.de
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This was introduced together with commit e1c467e69040 ("x86, hotplug: Wake
up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI") to eventually support
physical hotplug of CPU0:
"We'll change this code in the future to wake up hard offlined CPU0 if
real platform and request are available."
11 years later this has not happened and physical hotplug is not officially
supported. Remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205255.715707999@linutronix.de
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This commit adds kernel-parameters.txt documentation for the
rcutree.rcu_resched_ns module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This commit puts the rcutree module parameters back into proper
alphabetical order.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for runtime detection of the Svnapot extension
- Support for Zicboz when clearing pages
- We've moved to GENERIC_ENTRY
- Support for !MMU on rv32 systems
- The linear region is now mapped via huge pages
- Support for building relocatable kernels
- Support for the hwprobe interface
- Various fixes and cleanups throughout the tree
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.4-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (57 commits)
RISC-V: hwprobe: Explicity check for -1 in vdso init
RISC-V: hwprobe: There can only be one first
riscv: Allow to downgrade paging mode from the command line
dt-bindings: riscv: add sv57 mmu-type
RISC-V: hwprobe: Remove __init on probe_vendor_features()
riscv: Use --emit-relocs in order to move .rela.dyn in init
riscv: Check relocations at compile time
powerpc: Move script to check relocations at compile time in scripts/
riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
riscv: Move .rela.dyn outside of init to avoid empty relocations
riscv: Prepare EFI header for relocatable kernels
riscv: Unconditionnally select KASAN_VMALLOC if KASAN
riscv: Fix ptdump when KASAN is enabled
riscv: Fix EFI stub usage of KASAN instrumented strcmp function
riscv: Move DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA to the kernel address space
riscv: Rework kasan population functions
riscv: Split early and final KASAN population functions
riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping
riscv: Move the linear mapping creation in its own function
riscv: Get rid of riscv_pfn_base variable
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics
- Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
architectures it's not even consistently available.
* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
smp: reword smp call IPI comment
treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
Raghav.
- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.
- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.
- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).
- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
caused by its unintuitive meaning.
- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
harness.
- Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
- Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
- Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
- Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
- Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
- Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
- Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
per-VMA locking.
- Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
- Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
logic.
- Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
- Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
flushing.
- David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
userfaultfd and shmem.
- Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
code paths.
- David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
testing of our pte state changing.
- Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
- Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
selftests.
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
accounting.
- Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
selftests/mm code.
- Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
pages.
- Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
- Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
per-process and per-cgroup basis.
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:
- Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement
- Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules
- My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.
Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.
Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:
The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
together all types of supported module memory types in one data
structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.
Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
specific dynamic debug information.
Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
so to:
a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is
active with no clear solution in sight.
b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags
In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").
Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
being part of a module, and if so define a new define
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].
A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
with no clear solution in sight [1].
In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:
./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)
You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.
Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.
The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.
The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
instead"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]
* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
module: extract patient module check into helper
modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
interconnect: remove module-related code
interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.4-rc1.
Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening
in the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and
"struct class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these
changes.
This will make the future rust interactions with the driver core more
"provably correct" as well as providing more obvious lifetime rules
for all busses and classes in the kernel.
The changes required for this did touch many individual classes and
busses as many callbacks were changed to take const * parameters
instead. All of these changes have been submitted to the various
subsystem maintainers, giving them plenty of time to review, and most
of them actually did so.
Other than those changes, included in here are a small set of other
things:
- kobject logging improvements
- cacheinfo improvements and updates
- obligatory fw_devlink updates and fixes
- documentation updates
- device property cleanups and const * changes
- firwmare loader dependency fixes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems"
* tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (120 commits)
device property: make device_property functions take const device *
driver core: update comments in device_rename()
driver core: Don't require dynamic_debug for initcall_debug probe timing
firmware_loader: rework crypto dependencies
firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path
zram: fix up permission for the hot_add sysfs file
cacheinfo: Add use_arch[|_cache]_info field/function
arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT
cacheinfo: Check cache properties are present in DT
cacheinfo: Check sib_leaf in cache_leaves_are_shared()
cacheinfo: Allow early level detection when DT/ACPI info is missing/broken
cacheinfo: Add arm64 early level initializer implementation
cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer
tty: make tty_class a static const structure
driver core: class: remove struct class_interface * from callbacks
driver core: class: mark the struct class in struct class_interface constant
driver core: class: make class_register() take a const *
driver core: class: mark class_release() as taking a const *
driver core: remove incorrect comment for device_create*
MIPS: vpe-cmp: remove module owner pointer from struct class usage.
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Add 2 early command line parameters that allow to downgrade satp mode
(using the same naming as x86):
- "no5lvl": use a 4-level page table (down from sv57 to sv48)
- "no4lvl": use a 3-level page table (down from sv57/sv48 to sv39)
Note that going through the device tree to get the kernel command line
works with ACPI too since the efi stub creates a device tree anyway with
the command line.
In KASAN kernels, we can't use the libfdt that early in the boot process
since we are not ready to execute instrumented functions. So instead of
using the "generic" libfdt, we compile our own versions of those functions
that are not instrumented and that are prefixed so that they do not
conflict with the generic ones. We also need the non-instrumented versions
of the string functions and the prefixed versions of memcpy/memmove.
This is largely inspired by commit aacd149b6238 ("arm64: head: avoid
relocating the kernel twice for KASLR") from which I removed compilation
flags that were not relevant to RISC-V at the moment (LTO, SCS). Also
note that we have to link with -z norelro to avoid ld.lld to throw a
warning with the new .got sections, like in commit 311bea3cb9ee ("arm64:
link with -z norelro for LLD or aarch64-elf").
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230424092313.178699-2-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These update several cpufreq drivers and the cpufreq core, add sysfs
interface for exposing the time really spent in the platform low-power
state during suspend-to-idle, update devfreq (core and drivers) and
the pm-graph suite of tools and clean up code.
Specifics:
- Fix the frequency unit in cpufreq_verify_current_freq checks()
Sanjay Chandrashekara)
- Make mode_state_machine in amd-pstate static (Tom Rix)
- Make the cpufreq core require drivers with target_index() to set
freq_table (Viresh Kumar)
- Fix typo in the ARM_BRCMSTB_AVS_CPUFREQ Kconfig entry (Jingyu Wang)
- Use of_property_read_bool() for boolean properties in the pmac32
cpufreq driver (Rob Herring)
- Make the cpufreq sysfs interface return proper error codes on
obviously invalid input (qinyu)
- Add guided autonomous mode support to the AMD P-state driver (Wyes
Karny)
- Make the Intel P-state driver enable HWP IO boost on all server
platforms (Srinivas Pandruvada)
- Add opp and bandwidth support to tegra194 cpufreq driver (Sumit
Gupta)
- Use of_property_present() for testing DT property presence (Rob
Herring)
- Remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules (Nick Alcock)
- Add SM7225 to cpufreq-dt-platdev blocklist (Luca Weiss)
- Optimizations and fixes for qcom-cpufreq-hw driver (Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Konrad Dybcio, and Bjorn Andersson)
- DT binding updates for qcom-cpufreq-hw driver (Konrad Dybcio and
Bartosz Golaszewski)
- Updates and fixes for mediatek driver (Jia-Wei Chang and
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno)
- Use of_property_present() for testing DT property presence in the
cpuidle code (Rob Herring)
- Drop unnecessary (void *) conversions from the PM core (Li zeming)
- Add sysfs files to represent time spent in a platform sleep state
during suspend-to-idle and make AMD and Intel PMC drivers use them
Mario Limonciello)
- Use of_property_present() for testing DT property presence (Rob
Herring)
- Add set_required_opps() callback to the 'struct opp_table', to make
the code paths cleaner (Viresh Kumar)
- Update the pm-graph siute of utilities to v5.11 with the following
changes:
* New script which allows users to install the latest pm-graph
from the upstream github repo.
* Update all the dmesg suspend/resume PM print formats to be able
to process recent timelines using dmesg only.
* Add ethtool output to the log for the system's ethernet device
if ethtool exists.
* Make the tool more robustly handle events where mangled dmesg
or ftrace outputs do not include all the requisite data.
- Make the sleepgraph utility recognize "CPU killed" messages (Xueqin
Luo)
- Remove unneeded SRCU selection in Kconfig because it's always set
from devfreq core (Paul E. McKenney)
- Drop of_match_ptr() macro from exynos-bus.c because this driver is
always using the DT table for driver probe (Krzysztof Kozlowski)
- Use the preferred of_property_present() instead of the low-level
of_get_property() on exynos-bus.c (Rob Herring)
- Use devm_platform_get_and_ioream_resource() in exyno-ppmu.c (Yang
Li)"
* tag 'pm-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (44 commits)
platform/x86/intel/pmc: core: Report duration of time in HW sleep state
platform/x86/intel/pmc: core: Always capture counters on suspend
platform/x86/amd: pmc: Report duration of time in hw sleep state
PM: Add sysfs files to represent time spent in hardware sleep state
cpufreq: use correct unit when verify cur freq
cpufreq: tegra194: add OPP support and set bandwidth
cpufreq: amd-pstate: Make varaiable mode_state_machine static
PM: core: Remove unnecessary (void *) conversions
cpufreq: drivers with target_index() must set freq_table
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Use devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource()
OPP: Move required opps configuration to specialized callback
OPP: Handle all genpd cases together in _set_required_opps()
cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Revert adding cpufreq qos
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Add QCM2290
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Sanitize data per compatible
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Allow just 1 frequency domain
cpufreq: Add SM7225 to cpufreq-dt-platdev blocklist
cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: fix double IO unmap and resource release on exit
cpufreq: mediatek: Raise proc and sram max voltage for MT7622/7623
cpufreq: mediatek: raise proc/sram max voltage for MT8516
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Commit volume in documentation is relatively low this time, but there
is still a fair amount going on, including:
- Reorganize the architecture-specific documentation under
Documentation/arch
This makes the structure match the source directory and helps to
clean up the mess that is the top-level Documentation directory a
bit. This work creates the new directory and moves x86 and most of
the less-active architectures there.
The current plan is to move the rest of the architectures in 6.5,
with the patches going through the appropriate subsystem trees.
- Some more Spanish translations and maintenance of the Italian
translation
- A new "Kernel contribution maturity model" document from Ted
- A new tutorial on quickly building a trimmed kernel from Thorsten
Plus the usual set of updates and fixes"
* tag 'docs-6.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (47 commits)
media: Adjust column width for pdfdocs
media: Fix building pdfdocs
docs: clk: add documentation to log which clocks have been disabled
docs: trace: Fix typo in ftrace.rst
Documentation/process: always CC responsible lists
docs: kmemleak: adjust to config renaming
ELF: document some de-facto PT_* ABI quirks
Documentation: arm: remove stih415/stih416 related entries
docs: turn off "smart quotes" in the HTML build
Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage
docs/mm: Physical Memory: Fix grammar
Documentation: Add document for false sharing
dma-api-howto: typo fix
docs: move m68k architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/
docs: move parisc documentation under Documentation/arch/
docs: move ia64 architecture docs under Documentation/arch/
docs: Move arc architecture docs under Documentation/arch/
docs: move nios2 documentation under Documentation/arch/
docs: move openrisc documentation under Documentation/arch/
docs: move superh documentation under Documentation/arch/
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The finit_module() system call can in the worst case use up to more than
twice of a module's size in virtual memory. Duplicate finit_module()
system calls are non fatal, however they unnecessarily strain virtual
memory during bootup and in the worst case can cause a system to fail
to boot. This is only known to currently be an issue on systems with
larger number of CPUs.
To help debug this situation we need to consider the different sources for
finit_module(). Requests from the kernel that rely on module auto-loading,
ie, the kernel's *request_module() API, are one source of calls. Although
modprobe checks to see if a module is already loaded prior to calling
finit_module() there is a small race possible allowing userspace to
trigger multiple modprobe calls racing against modprobe and this not
seeing the module yet loaded.
This adds debugging support to the kernel module auto-loader (*request_module()
calls) to easily detect duplicate module requests. To aid with possible bootup
failure issues incurred by this, it will converge duplicates requests to a
single request. This avoids any possible strain on virtual memory during
bootup which could be incurred by duplicate module autoloading requests.
Folks debugging virtual memory abuse on bootup can and should enable
this to see what pr_warn()s come on, to see if module auto-loading is to
blame for their wores. If they see duplicates they can further debug this
by enabling the module.enable_dups_trace kernel parameter or by enabling
CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE.
Current evidence seems to point to only a few duplicates for module
auto-loading. And so the source for other duplicates creating heavy
virtual memory pressure due to larger number of CPUs should becoming
from another place (likely udev).
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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LoongArch maintains cache coherency in hardware, but when paired with
LS7A chipsets the WUC attribute (Weak-ordered UnCached, which is similar
to WriteCombine) is out of the scope of cache coherency machanism for
PCIe devices (this is a PCIe protocol violation, which may be fixed in
newer chipsets).
This means WUC can only used for write-only memory regions now, so this
option is disabled by default, making WUC silently fallback to SUC for
ioremap(). You can enable this option if the kernel is ensured to run on
hardware without this bug.
Kernel parameter writecombine=on/off can be used to override the Kconfig
option.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
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MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.
This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.
Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.
[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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