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2024-03-12Merge tag 'rfds-for-linus-2024-03-11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 RFDS mitigation from Dave Hansen: "RFDS is a CPU vulnerability that may allow a malicious userspace to infer stale register values from kernel space. Kernel registers can have all kinds of secrets in them so the mitigation is basically to wait until the kernel is about to return to userspace and has user values in the registers. At that point there is little chance of kernel secrets ending up in the registers and the microarchitectural state can be cleared. This leverages some recent robustness fixes for the existing MDS vulnerability. Both MDS and RFDS use the VERW instruction for mitigation" * tag 'rfds-for-linus-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: KVM/x86: Export RFDS_NO and RFDS_CLEAR to guests x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDS x86/mmio: Disable KVM mitigation when X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF is set
2024-03-11Merge tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar: - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the 'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak: - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous inline assembly code. - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs accesses in assembly code. - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area. - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling of FPU switching - which also generates better code - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate slightly better code - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the logic - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic - Misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits) x86/idle: Select idle routine only once x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup() x86/idle: Clean up idle selection x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call() x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32 x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach ) x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY => CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY => CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS ...
2024-03-11Merge tag 'edac_updates_for_v6.9' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov: - Add a FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) memory poison manager which collects and manages previously encountered hw errors in order to save them to persistent storage across reboots. Previously recorded errors are "replayed" upon reboot in order to poison memory which has caused said errors in the past. The main use case is stacked, on-chip memory which cannot simply be replaced so poisoning faulty areas of it and thus making them inaccessible is the only strategy to prolong its lifetime. - Add an AMD address translation library glue which converts the reported addresses of hw errors into system physical addresses in order to be used by other subsystems like memory failure, for example. Add support for MI300 accelerators to that library. - igen6: Add support for Alder Lake-N SoC - i10nm: Add Grand Ridge support - The usual fixlets and cleanups * tag 'edac_updates_for_v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras: EDAC/versal: Convert to platform remove callback returning void RAS/AMD/FMPM: Fix off by one when unwinding on error RAS/AMD/FMPM: Add debugfs interface to print record entries RAS/AMD/FMPM: Save SPA values RAS: Export helper to get ras_debugfs_dir RAS/AMD/ATL: Fix bit overflow in denorm_addr_df4_np2() RAS: Introduce a FRU memory poison manager RAS/AMD/ATL: Add MI300 row retirement support Documentation: Move RAS section to admin-guide EDAC/versal: Make the bit position of injected errors configurable EDAC/i10nm: Add Intel Grand Ridge micro-server support EDAC/igen6: Add one more Intel Alder Lake-N SoC support RAS/AMD/ATL: Add MI300 DRAM to normalized address translation support RAS/AMD/ATL: Fix array overflow in get_logical_coh_st_fabric_id_mi300() RAS/AMD/ATL: Add MI300 support Documentation: RAS: Add index and address translation section EDAC/amd64: Use new AMD Address Translation Library RAS: Introduce AMD Address Translation Library EDAC/synopsys: Convert to devm_platform_ioremap_resource()
2024-03-11Merge tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.9_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull misc x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov: - Fix a wrong check in the function reporting whether a CPU executes (or not) a NMI handler - Ratelimit unknown NMIs messages in order to not potentially slow down the machine - Other fixlets * tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/nmi: Fix the inverse "in NMI handler" check Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add C++ tail comments exception Documentation/maintainer-tip: Add Closes tag x86/nmi: Rate limit unknown NMI messages Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add spec_rstack_overflow to mitigations=off
2024-03-11Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov: - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support. This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side, providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment up to date. This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the next cycle. - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and -mcmodel=kernel - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place * tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits) x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry() x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands ...
2024-03-11Merge tag 'x86-fred-2024-03-10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 FRED support from Thomas Gleixner: "Support for x86 Fast Return and Event Delivery (FRED). FRED is a replacement for IDT event delivery on x86 and addresses most of the technical nightmares which IDT exposes: 1) Exception cause registers like CR2 need to be manually preserved in nested exception scenarios. 2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is suboptimal for nested exceptions as the interrupt stack mechanism rewinds the stack on each entry which requires a massive effort in the low level entry of #NMI code to handle this. 3) No hardware distinction between entry from kernel or from user which makes establishing kernel context more complex than it needs to be especially for unconditionally nestable exceptions like NMI. 4) NMI nesting caused by IRET unconditionally reenabling NMIs, which is a problem when the perf NMI takes a fault when collecting a stack trace. 5) Partial restore of ESP when returning to a 16-bit segment 6) Limitation of the vector space which can cause vector exhaustion on large systems. 7) Inability to differentiate NMI sources FRED addresses these shortcomings by: 1) An extended exception stack frame which the CPU uses to save exception cause registers. This ensures that the meta information for each exception is preserved on stack and avoids the extra complexity of preserving it in software. 2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is non-rewinding if a nested exception uses the currently interrupt stack. 3) The entry points for kernel and user context are separate and GS BASE handling which is required to establish kernel context for per CPU variable access is done in hardware. 4) NMIs are now nesting protected. They are only reenabled on the return from NMI. 5) FRED guarantees full restore of ESP 6) FRED does not put a limitation on the vector space by design because it uses a central entry points for kernel and user space and the CPUstores the entry type (exception, trap, interrupt, syscall) on the entry stack along with the vector number. The entry code has to demultiplex this information, but this removes the vector space restriction. The first hardware implementations will still have the current restricted vector space because lifting this limitation requires further changes to the local APIC. 7) FRED stores the vector number and meta information on stack which allows having more than one NMI vector in future hardware when the required local APIC changes are in place. The series implements the initial FRED support by: - Reworking the existing entry and IDT handling infrastructure to accomodate for the alternative entry mechanism. - Expanding the stack frame to accomodate for the extra 16 bytes FRED requires to store context and meta information - Providing FRED specific C entry points for events which have information pushed to the extended stack frame, e.g. #PF and #DB. - Providing FRED specific C entry points for #NMI and #MCE - Implementing the FRED specific ASM entry points and the C code to demultiplex the events - Providing detection and initialization mechanisms and the necessary tweaks in context switching, GS BASE handling etc. The FRED integration aims for maximum code reuse vs the existing IDT implementation to the extent possible and the deviation in hot paths like context switching are handled with alternatives to minimalize the impact. The low level entry and exit paths are seperate due to the extended stack frame and the hardware based GS BASE swichting and therefore have no impact on IDT based systems. It has been extensively tested on existing systems and on the FRED simulation and as of now there are no outstanding problems" * tag 'x86-fred-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits) x86/fred: Fix init_task thread stack pointer initialization MAINTAINERS: Add a maintainer entry for FRED x86/fred: Fix a build warning with allmodconfig due to 'inline' failing to inline properly x86/fred: Invoke FRED initialization code to enable FRED x86/fred: Add FRED initialization functions x86/syscall: Split IDT syscall setup code into idt_syscall_init() KVM: VMX: Call fred_entry_from_kvm() for IRQ/NMI handling x86/entry: Add fred_entry_from_kvm() for VMX to handle IRQ/NMI x86/entry/calling: Allow PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS being used beyond actual entry code x86/fred: Fixup fault on ERETU by jumping to fred_entrypoint_user x86/fred: Let ret_from_fork_asm() jmp to asm_fred_exit_user when FRED is enabled x86/traps: Add sysvec_install() to install a system interrupt handler x86/fred: FRED entry/exit and dispatch code x86/fred: Add a machine check entry stub for FRED x86/fred: Add a NMI entry stub for FRED x86/fred: Add a debug fault entry stub for FRED x86/idtentry: Incorporate definitions/declarations of the FRED entries x86/fred: Make exc_page_fault() work for FRED x86/fred: Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task x86/fred: No ESPFIX needed when FRED is enabled ...
2024-03-11Merge tag 'x86-apic-2024-03-10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 APIC updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Rework of APIC enumeration and topology evaluation. The current implementation has a couple of shortcomings: - It fails to handle hybrid systems correctly. - The APIC registration code which handles CPU number assignents is in the middle of the APIC code and detached from the topology evaluation. - The various mechanisms which enumerate APICs, ACPI, MPPARSE and guest specific ones, tweak global variables as they see fit or in case of XENPV just hack around the generic mechanisms completely. - The CPUID topology evaluation code is sprinkled all over the vendor code and reevaluates global variables on every hotplug operation. - There is no way to analyze topology on the boot CPU before bringing up the APs. This causes problems for infrastructure like PERF which needs to size certain aspects upfront or could be simplified if that would be possible. - The APIC admission and CPU number association logic is incomprehensible and overly complex and needs to be kept around after boot instead of completing this right after the APIC enumeration. This update addresses these shortcomings with the following changes: - Rework the CPUID evaluation code so it is common for all vendors and provides information about the APIC ID segments in a uniform way independent of the number of segments (Thread, Core, Module, ..., Die, Package) so that this information can be computed instead of rewriting global variables of dubious value over and over. - A few cleanups and simplifcations of the APIC, IO/APIC and related interfaces to prepare for the topology evaluation changes. - Seperation of the parser stages so the early evaluation which tries to find the APIC address can be seperately overridden from the late evaluation which enumerates and registers the local APIC as further preparation for sanitizing the topology evaluation. - A new registration and admission logic which - encapsulates the inner workings so that parsers and guest logic cannot longer fiddle in it - uses the APIC ID segments to build topology bitmaps at registration time - provides a sane admission logic - allows to detect the crash kernel case, where CPU0 does not run on the real BSP, automatically. This is required to prevent sending INIT/SIPI sequences to the real BSP which would reset the whole machine. This was so far handled by a tedious command line parameter, which does not even work in nested crash scenarios. - Associates CPU number after the enumeration completed and prevents the late registration of APICs, which was somehow tolerated before. - Converting all parsers and guest enumeration mechanisms over to the new interfaces. This allows to get rid of all global variable tweaking from the parsers and enumeration mechanisms and sanitizes the XEN[PV] handling so it can use CPUID evaluation for the first time. - Mopping up existing sins by taking the information from the APIC ID segment bitmaps. This evaluates hybrid systems correctly on the boot CPU and allows for cleanups and fixes in the related drivers, e.g. PERF. The series has been extensively tested and the minimal late fallout due to a broken ACPI/MADT table has been addressed by tightening the admission logic further" * tag 'x86-apic-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (76 commits) x86/topology: Ignore non-present APIC IDs in a present package x86/apic: Build the x86 topology enumeration functions on UP APIC builds too smp: Provide 'setup_max_cpus' definition on UP too smp: Avoid 'setup_max_cpus' namespace collision/shadowing x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand x86/cpu/topology: Get rid of cpuinfo::x86_max_cores x86/cpu/topology: Provide __num_[cores|threads]_per_package x86/cpu/topology: Rename topology_max_die_per_package() x86/cpu/topology: Rename smp_num_siblings x86/cpu/topology: Retrieve cores per package from topology bitmaps x86/cpu/topology: Use topology logical mapping mechanism x86/cpu/topology: Provide logical pkg/die mapping x86/cpu/topology: Simplify cpu_mark_primary_thread() x86/cpu/topology: Mop up primary thread mask handling x86/cpu/topology: Use topology bitmaps for sizing x86/cpu/topology: Let XEN/PV use topology from CPUID/MADT x86/xen/smp_pv: Count number of vCPUs early x86/cpu/topology: Assign hotpluggable CPUIDs during init x86/cpu/topology: Reject unknown APIC IDs on ACPI hotplug x86/topology: Add a mechanism to track topology via APIC IDs ...
2024-03-11Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-03-10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A large set of updates and features for timers and timekeeping: - The hierarchical timer pull model When timer wheel timers are armed they are placed into the timer wheel of a CPU which is likely to be busy at the time of expiry. This is done to avoid wakeups on potentially idle CPUs. This is wrong in several aspects: 1) The heuristics to select the target CPU are wrong by definition as the chance to get the prediction right is close to zero. 2) Due to #1 it is possible that timers are accumulated on a single target CPU 3) The required computation in the enqueue path is just overhead for dubious value especially under the consideration that the vast majority of timer wheel timers are either canceled or rearmed before they expire. The timer pull model avoids the above by removing the target computation on enqueue and queueing timers always on the CPU on which they get armed. This is achieved by having separate wheels for CPU pinned timers and global timers which do not care about where they expire. As long as a CPU is busy it handles both the pinned and the global timers which are queued on the CPU local timer wheels. When a CPU goes idle it evaluates its own timer wheels: - If the first expiring timer is a pinned timer, then the global timers can be ignored as the CPU will wake up before they expire. - If the first expiring timer is a global timer, then the expiry time is propagated into the timer pull hierarchy and the CPU makes sure to wake up for the first pinned timer. The timer pull hierarchy organizes CPUs in groups of eight at the lowest level and at the next levels groups of eight groups up to the point where no further aggregation of groups is required, i.e. the number of levels is log8(NR_CPUS). The magic number of eight has been established by experimention, but can be adjusted if needed. In each group one busy CPU acts as the migrator. It's only one CPU to avoid lock contention on remote timer wheels. The migrator CPU checks in its own timer wheel handling whether there are other CPUs in the group which have gone idle and have global timers to expire. If there are global timers to expire, the migrator locks the remote CPU timer wheel and handles the expiry. Depending on the group level in the hierarchy this handling can require to walk the hierarchy downwards to the CPU level. Special care is taken when the last CPU goes idle. At this point the CPU is the systemwide migrator at the top of the hierarchy and it therefore cannot delegate to the hierarchy. It needs to arm its own timer device to expire either at the first expiring timer in the hierarchy or at the first CPU local timer, which ever expires first. This completely removes the overhead from the enqueue path, which is e.g. for networking a true hotpath and trades it for a slightly more complex idle path. This has been in development for a couple of years and the final series has been extensively tested by various teams from silicon vendors and ran through extensive CI. There have been slight performance improvements observed on network centric workloads and an Intel team confirmed that this allows them to power down a die completely on a mult-die socket for the first time in a mostly idle scenario. There is only one outstanding ~1.5% regression on a specific overloaded netperf test which is currently investigated, but the rest is either positive or neutral performance wise and positive on the power management side. - Fixes for the timekeeping interpolation code for cross-timestamps: cross-timestamps are used for PTP to get snapshots from hardware timers and interpolated them back to clock MONOTONIC. The changes address a few corner cases in the interpolation code which got the math and logic wrong. - Simplifcation of the clocksource watchdog retry logic to automatically adjust to handle larger systems correctly instead of having more incomprehensible command line parameters. - Treewide consolidation of the VDSO data structures. - The usual small improvements and cleanups all over the place" * tag 'timers-core-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits) timer/migration: Fix quick check reporting late expiry tick/sched: Fix build failure for CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=n vdso/datapage: Quick fix - use asm/page-def.h for ARM64 timers: Assert no next dyntick timer look-up while CPU is offline tick: Assume timekeeping is correctly handed over upon last offline idle call tick: Shut down low-res tick from dying CPU tick: Split nohz and highres features from nohz_mode tick: Move individual bit features to debuggable mask accesses tick: Move got_idle_tick away from common flags tick: Assume the tick can't be stopped in NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE mode tick: Move broadcast cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING tick: Move tick cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING tick: Start centralizing tick related CPU hotplug operations tick/sched: Don't clear ts::next_tick again in can_stop_idle_tick() tick/sched: Rename tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to tick_nohz_full_stop_tick() tick: Use IS_ENABLED() whenever possible tick/sched: Remove useless oneshot ifdeffery tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between lowres and highres handlers tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() and tick_setup_sched_timer() hrtimer: Select housekeeping CPU during migration ...
2024-03-11x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS)Pawan Gupta
RFDS is a CPU vulnerability that may allow userspace to infer kernel stale data previously used in floating point registers, vector registers and integer registers. RFDS only affects certain Intel Atom processors. Intel released a microcode update that uses VERW instruction to clear the affected CPU buffers. Unlike MDS, none of the affected cores support SMT. Add RFDS bug infrastructure and enable the VERW based mitigation by default, that clears the affected buffers just before exiting to userspace. Also add sysfs reporting and cmdline parameter "reg_file_data_sampling" to control the mitigation. For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2024-03-11Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDSPawan Gupta
Add the documentation for transient execution vulnerability Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) that affects Intel Atom CPUs. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2024-03-11Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.9' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A quiet cycle. One trivial doc update patch. Two patches to drop the now defunct memory_spread_slab feature from cgroup1 cpuset" * tag 'cgroup-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup/cpuset: Mark memory_spread_slab as obsolete cgroup/cpuset: Remove cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() docs: cgroup-v1: add missing code-block tags
2024-03-11Merge tag 'wq-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "This cycle, a lot of workqueue changes including some that are significant and invasive. - During v6.6 cycle, unbound workqueues were updated so that they are more topology aware and flexible, which among other things improved workqueue behavior on modern multi-L3 CPUs. In the process, commit 636b927eba5b ("workqueue: Make unbound workqueues to use per-cpu pool_workqueues") switched unbound workqueues to use per-CPU frontend pool_workqueues as a part of increasing front-back mapping flexibility. An unwelcome side effect of this change was that this made max concurrency enforcement per-CPU blowing up the maximum number of allowed concurrent executions. I incorrectly assumed that this wouldn't cause practical problems as most unbound workqueue users are self-regulate max concurrency; however, there definitely are which don't (e.g. on IO paths) and the drastic increase in the allowed max concurrency led to noticeable perf regressions in some use cases. This is now addressed by separating out max concurrency enforcement to a separate struct - wq_node_nr_active - which makes @max_active consistently mean system-wide max concurrency regardless of the number of CPUs or (finally) NUMA nodes. This is a rather invasive and, in places, a bit clunky; however, the clunkiness rises from the the inherent requirement to handle the disagreement between the execution locality domain and max concurrency enforcement domain on some modern machines. See commit 5797b1c18919 ("workqueue: Implement system-wide nr_active enforcement for unbound workqueues") for more details. - BH workqueue support is added. They are similar to per-CPU workqueues but execute work items in the softirq context. This is expected to replace tasklet. However, currently, it's missing the ability to disable and enable work items which is needed to convert many tasklet users. To avoid crowding this merge window too much, this will be included in the next merge window. A separate pull request will be sent for the couple conversion patches that are currently pending. - Waiman plugged a long-standing hole in workqueue CPU isolation where ordered workqueues didn't follow wq_unbound_cpumask updates. Ordered workqueues now follow the same rules as other unbound workqueues. - More CPU isolation improvements: Juri fixed another deficit in workqueue isolation where unbound rescuers don't respect wq_unbound_cpumask. Leonardo fixed delayed_work timers firing on isolated CPUs. - Other misc changes" * tag 'wq-for-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (54 commits) workqueue: Drain BH work items on hot-unplugged CPUs workqueue: Introduce from_work() helper for cleaner callback declarations workqueue: Control intensive warning threshold through cmdline workqueue: Make @flags handling consistent across set_work_data() and friends workqueue: Remove clear_work_data() workqueue: Factor out work_grab_pending() from __cancel_work_sync() workqueue: Clean up enum work_bits and related constants workqueue: Introduce work_cancel_flags workqueue: Use variable name irq_flags for saving local irq flags workqueue: Reorganize flush and cancel[_sync] functions workqueue: Rename __cancel_work_timer() to __cancel_timer_sync() workqueue: Use rcu_read_lock_any_held() instead of rcu_read_lock_held() workqueue: Cosmetic changes workqueue, irq_work: Build fix for !CONFIG_IRQ_WORK workqueue: Fix queue_work_on() with BH workqueues async: Use a dedicated unbound workqueue with raised min_active workqueue: Implement workqueue_set_min_active() workqueue: Fix kernel-doc comment of unplug_oldest_pwq() workqueue: Bind unbound workqueue rescuer to wq_unbound_cpumask kernel/workqueue: Let rescuers follow unbound wq cpumask changes ...
2024-02-29cgroup/cpuset: Mark memory_spread_slab as obsoleteXiongwei Song
We've removed the SLAB allocator, cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() and SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, memory_spread_slab is a no-op now. We can mark memory_spread_slab as obsolete in case someone still wants to use it after cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() removed. For more details, please check [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/32bc1403-49da-445a-8c00-9686a3b0d6a3@redhat.com/T/#m8e292e21b00f95a4bb8086371fa7387fa4ea8f60 tj: Description and cosmetic updates. Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2024-02-26Merge branches 'rcu-doc.2024.02.14a', 'rcu-nocb.2024.02.14a', ↵Boqun Feng
'rcu-exp.2024.02.14a', 'rcu-tasks.2024.02.26a' and 'rcu-misc.2024.02.14a' into rcu.2024.02.26a
2024-02-22workqueue: Control intensive warning threshold through cmdlineXuewen Yan
When CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel will report the work functions which violate the intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. And now, only when the violate times exceed 4 and is a power of 2, the kernel warning could be triggered. However, sometimes, even if a long work execution time occurs only once, it may cause other work to be delayed for a long time. This may also cause some problems sometimes. In order to freely control the threshold of warninging, a boot argument is added so that the user can control the warning threshold to be printed. At the same time, keep the exponential backoff to prevent reporting too much. By default, the warning threshold is 4. tj: Updated kernel-parameters.txt description. Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2024-02-21clocksource: Scale the watchdog read retries automaticallyFeng Tang
On a 8-socket server the TSC is wrongly marked as 'unstable' and disabled during boot time on about one out of 120 boot attempts: clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU227: wd-tsc-wd excessive read-back delay of 153560ns vs. limit of 125000ns, wd-wd read-back delay only 11440ns, attempt 3, marking tsc unstable tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'. sched_clock: Marking unstable (119294969739, 159204297)<-(125446229205, -5992055152) clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 319 to CPUs 0,99,136,180,210,542,601,896. clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet The reason is that for platform with a large number of CPUs, there are sporadic big or huge read latencies while reading the watchog/clocksource during boot or when system is under stress work load, and the frequency and maximum value of the latency goes up with the number of online CPUs. The cCurrent code already has logic to detect and filter such high latency case by reading the watchdog twice and checking the two deltas. Due to the randomness of the latency, there is a low probabilty that the first delta (latency) is big, but the second delta is small and looks valid. The watchdog code retries the readouts by default twice, which is not necessarily sufficient for systems with a large number of CPUs. There is a command line parameter 'max_cswd_read_retries' which allows to increase the number of retries, but that's not user friendly as it needs to be tweaked per system. As the number of required retries is proportional to the number of online CPUs, this parameter can be calculated at runtime. Scale and enlarge the number of retries according to the number of online CPUs and remove the command line parameter completely. [ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ] Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jin Wang <jin1.wang@intel.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com
2024-02-15x86/cpu: Detect real BSP on crash kernelsThomas Gleixner
When a kdump kernel is started from a crashing CPU then there is no guarantee that this CPU is the real boot CPU (BSP). If the kdump kernel tries to online the BSP then the INIT sequence will reset the machine. There is a command line option to prevent this, but in case of nested kdump kernels this is wrong. But that command line option is not required at all because the real BSP is enumerated as the first CPU by firmware. Support for the only known system which was different (Voyager) got removed long ago. Detect whether the boot CPU APIC ID is the first APIC ID enumerated by the firmware. If the first APIC ID enumerated is not matching the boot CPU APIC ID then skip registering it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213210252.348542071@linutronix.de
2024-02-14Documentation: Move RAS section to admin-guideBorislav Petkov (AMD)
This is where this stuff should be. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87a5pes8jy.fsf@meer.lwn.net
2024-02-14rcu: Provide a boot time parameter to control lazy RCUQais Yousef
To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU. Specify: rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0] Which also requires rcu_nocbs=all at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU. To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used. Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io> Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
2024-02-14doc: Add EARLY flag to early-parsed kernel boot parametersPaul E. McKenney
Kernel boot parameters declared with early_param() are parsed before embedded parameters are extracted from initrd, and early_param() parameters are not helpful when embedded in initrd. Therefore, mark early_param() kernel boot parameters with "EARLY" in kernel-parameters.txt. The following early_param() calls declare kernel boot parameters that are undocumented: early_param("atmel.pm_modes", at91_pm_modes_select); early_param("mem_fclk_21285", early_fclk); early_param("ecc", early_ecc); early_param("cachepolicy", early_cachepolicy); early_param("nodebugmon", early_debug_disable); early_param("kfence.sample_interval", parse_kfence_early_init); early_param("additional_cpus", setup_additional_cpus); early_param("stram_pool", atari_stram_setup); early_param("disable_octeon_edac", disable_octeon_edac); early_param("rd_start", rd_start_early); early_param("rd_size", rd_size_early); early_param("coherentio", setcoherentio); early_param("nocoherentio", setnocoherentio); early_param("fadump", early_fadump_param); early_param("fadump_reserve_mem", early_fadump_reserve_mem); early_param("no_stf_barrier", handle_no_stf_barrier); early_param("no_rfi_flush", handle_no_rfi_flush); early_param("smt-enabled", early_smt_enabled); early_param("ppc_pci_reset_phbs", pci_reset_phbs_setup); early_param("ps3fb", early_parse_ps3fb); early_param("ps3flash", early_parse_ps3flash); early_param("novx", disable_vector_extension); early_param("nobp", nobp_setup_early); early_param("nospec", nospec_setup_early); early_param("possible_cpus", _setup_possible_cpus); early_param("stp", early_parse_stp); early_param("nopfault", nopfault); early_param("nmi_mode", nmi_mode_setup); early_param("sh_mv", early_parse_mv); early_param("pmb", early_pmb); early_param("hvirq", early_hvirq_major); early_param("cfi", cfi_parse_cmdline); early_param("disableapic", setup_disableapic); early_param("noapictimer", parse_disable_apic_timer); early_param("disable_cpu_apicid", apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid); early_param("uv_memblksize", parse_mem_block_size); early_param("retbleed", retbleed_parse_cmdline); early_param("no-kvmclock-vsyscall", parse_no_kvmclock_vsyscall); early_param("update_mptable", update_mptable_setup); early_param("alloc_mptable", parse_alloc_mptable_opt); early_param("possible_cpus", _setup_possible_cpus); early_param("lsmsi", early_parse_ls_scfg_msi); early_param("nokgdbroundup", opt_nokgdbroundup); early_param("kgdbcon", opt_kgdb_con); early_param("kasan", early_kasan_flag); early_param("kasan.mode", early_kasan_mode); early_param("kasan.vmalloc", early_kasan_flag_vmalloc); early_param("kasan.page_alloc.sample", early_kasan_flag_page_alloc_sample); early_param("kasan.page_alloc.sample.order", early_kasan_flag_page_alloc_sample_order); early_param("kasan.fault", early_kasan_fault); early_param("kasan.stacktrace", early_kasan_flag_stacktrace); early_param("kasan.stack_ring_size", early_kasan_flag_stack_ring_size); early_param("accept_memory", accept_memory_parse); early_param("page_table_check", early_page_table_check_param); sh_early_platform_init("earlytimer", &sh_cmt_device_driver); early_param_on_off("gbpages", "nogbpages", direct_gbpages, CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES); These are not necessarily bugs, given that some kernel boot parameters are intended for deep debugging rather than general use. This work does not cover all of the kernel boot parameters declared using cmdline_find_option() and cmdline_find_option_bool(). If these are in fact guaranteed to be early (which appears to be the case), they can be added in a later version of this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
2024-02-14Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before ↵Ingo Molnar
dependent patches Merge in pending alternatives patching infrastructure changes, before applying more patches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2024-02-03x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULTBorislav Petkov (AMD)
It was meant well at the time but nothing's using it so get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202163510.GDZb0Zvj8qOndvFOiZ@fat_crate.local
2024-01-30x86/fred: Add a fred= cmdline paramXin Li
Let command line option "fred" accept multiple options to make it easier to tweak its behavior. Currently, two options 'on' and 'off' are allowed, and the default behavior is to disable FRED. To enable FRED, append "fred=on" to the kernel command line. [ bp: Use cpu_feature_enabled(), touch ups. ] Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-9-xin3.li@intel.com
2024-01-23docs: admin-guide: remove obsolete advice related to SLAB allocatorLukas Bulwahn
Commit 1db9d06aaa55 ("mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and Makefile") removes the config SLAB and makes the SLUB allocator the only default allocator in the kernel. Hence, the advice on reducing OS jitter due to kworker kernel threads to build with CONFIG_SLUB instead of CONFIG_SLAB is obsolete. Remove the obsolete advice to build with SLUB instead of SLAB. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130095515.21586-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
2024-01-23doc: admin-guide/kernel-parameters: remove useless commentVegard Nossum
This comment about DRM drivers has been there since the first git commit. It simply doesn't belong in kernel-parameters; remove it. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111085220.3693059-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
2024-01-23docs: cgroup-v1: add missing code-block tagsXinyu Li
Hugetlb.rst lacks two code-block tags, causing a formatting issue. Signed-off-by: Xinyu Li <lixinyu20s@ict.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2024-01-23Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add spec_rstack_overflow to mitigations=offBorislav Petkov (AMD)
mitigations=off disables the SRSO mitigation too. Add it to the list. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240118163600.17857-1-bp@alien8.de
2024-01-20Merge tag 'v6.8-rc-part2-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull smb client updates from Steve French: "Various smb client fixes, including multichannel and for SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions: - debugging improvement (display start time for stats) - two reparse point handling fixes - various multichannel improvements and fixes - SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions open/create parsing fix - retry (reconnect) improvement including new retrans mount parm, and handling of two additional return codes that need to be retried on - two minor cleanup patches and another to remove duplicate query info code - two documentation cleanup, and one reviewer email correction" * tag 'v6.8-rc-part2-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: cifs: update iface_last_update on each query-and-update cifs: handle servers that still advertise multichannel after disabling cifs: new mount option called retrans cifs: reschedule periodic query for server interfaces smb: client: don't clobber ->i_rdev from cached reparse points smb: client: get rid of smb311_posix_query_path_info() smb: client: parse owner/group when creating reparse points smb: client: fix parsing of SMB3.1.1 POSIX create context cifs: update known bugs mentioned in kernel docs for cifs cifs: new nt status codes from MS-SMB2 cifs: pick channel for tcon and tdis cifs: open_cached_dir should not rely on primary channel smb3: minor documentation updates Update MAINTAINERS email address cifs: minor comment cleanup smb3: show beginning time for per share stats cifs: remove redundant variable tcon_exist
2024-01-19Merge tag 'loongarch-6.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen: - Raise minimum clang version to 18.0.0 - Enable initial Rust support for LoongArch - Add built-in dtb support for LoongArch - Use generic interface to support crashkernel=X,[high,low] - Some bug fixes and other small changes - Update the default config file. * tag 'loongarch-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (22 commits) MAINTAINERS: Add BPF JIT for LOONGARCH entry LoongArch: Update Loongson-3 default config file LoongArch: BPF: Prevent out-of-bounds memory access LoongArch: BPF: Support 64-bit pointers to kfuncs LoongArch: Fix definition of ftrace_regs_set_instruction_pointer() LoongArch: Use generic interface to support crashkernel=X,[high,low] LoongArch: Fix and simplify fcsr initialization on execve() LoongArch: Let cores_io_master cover the largest NR_CPUS LoongArch: Change SHMLBA from SZ_64K to PAGE_SIZE LoongArch: Add a missing call to efi_esrt_init() LoongArch: Parsing CPU-related information from DTS LoongArch: dts: DeviceTree for Loongson-2K2000 LoongArch: dts: DeviceTree for Loongson-2K1000 LoongArch: dts: DeviceTree for Loongson-2K0500 LoongArch: Allow device trees be built into the kernel dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc: Fix dtbs_check warning for interrupt-names dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc: Fix dtbs_check warning for reg-names dt-bindings: loongarch: Add Loongson SoC boards compatibles dt-bindings: loongarch: Add CPU bindings for LoongArch LoongArch: Enable initial Rust support ...
2024-01-19cifs: update known bugs mentioned in kernel docs for cifsSteve French
Remove bugs that have been addressed and add link to xfstest results wiki. Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
2024-01-18smb3: minor documentation updatesSteve French
Update the usage documentation to include some missing configuration options. Update the todo list documentation for cifs.ko Reviewed-by: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
2024-01-18Merge tag 'usb-6.8-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.8-rc1. Included in here are the following: - Thunderbolt subsystem and driver updates for USB 4 hardware and issues reported by real devices - xhci driver updates - dwc3 driver updates - uvc_video gadget driver updates - typec driver updates - gadget string functions cleaned up - other small changes All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'usb-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (169 commits) usb: typec: tipd: fix use of device-specific init function usb: typec: tipd: Separate reset for TPS6598x usb: mon: Fix atomicity violation in mon_bin_vma_fault usb: gadget: uvc: Remove nested locking usb: gadget: uvc: Fix use are free during STREAMOFF usb: typec: class: fix typec_altmode_put_partner to put plugs dt-bindings: usb: dwc3: Limit num-hc-interrupters definition dt-bindings: usb: xhci: Add num-hc-interrupters definition xhci: add support to allocate several interrupters USB: core: Use device_driver directly in struct usb_driver and usb_device_driver arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8195: Add 'rx-fifo-depth' for cherry usb: xhci-mtk: fix a short packet issue of gen1 isoc-in transfer dt-bindings: usb: mtk-xhci: add a property for Gen1 isoc-in transfer issue arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Remove PNoC clock from MSS arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Remove AGGRE2 clock from SLPI arm64: dts: qcom: msm8998: Remove AGGRE2 clock from SLPI arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: Drop RPM bus clocks arm64: dts: qcom: sdm630: Drop RPM bus clocks arm64: dts: qcom: qcs404: Drop RPM bus clocks arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Drop RPM bus clocks ...
2024-01-18Merge tag 'tty-6.8-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty / serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of tty and serial driver changes for 6.8-rc1. As usual, Jiri has a bunch of refactoring and cleanups for the tty core and drivers in here, along with the usual set of rs485 updates (someday this might work properly...) Along with those, in here are changes for: - sc16is7xx serial driver updates - platform driver removal api updates - amba-pl011 driver updates - tty driver binding updates - other small tty/serial driver updates and changes All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (197 commits) serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations serial: sc16is7xx: refactor FIFO access functions to increase commonality serial: sc16is7xx: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS serial: sc16is7xx: replace hardcoded divisor value with BIT() macro serial: sc16is7xx: add explicit return for some switch default cases serial: sc16is7xx: add macro for max number of UART ports serial: sc16is7xx: add driver name to struct uart_driver serial: sc16is7xx: use i2c_get_match_data() serial: sc16is7xx: use spi_get_device_match_data() serial: sc16is7xx: use DECLARE_BITMAP for sc16is7xx_lines bitfield serial: sc16is7xx: improve do/while loop in sc16is7xx_irq() serial: sc16is7xx: remove obsolete loop in sc16is7xx_port_irq() serial: sc16is7xx: set safe default SPI clock frequency serial: sc16is7xx: add check for unsupported SPI modes during probe serial: sc16is7xx: fix invalid sc16is7xx_lines bitfield in case of probe error serial: 8250_exar: Set missing rs485_supported flag serial: omap: do not override settings for RS485 support serial: core, imx: do not set RS485 enabled if it is not supported serial: core: make sure RS485 cannot be enabled when it is not supported ...
2024-01-18Merge tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1. Nothing major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups and some tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will come back in a safer way next release cycle. Included in here are: - more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes - fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior - kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions - cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many systems that add topologies and cpus after booting - other minor changes and cleanups All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective maintainers and are coming in here in one series. Everything has been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (51 commits) Revert "kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock" kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock class: fix use-after-free in class_register() PM: clk: make pm_clk_add_notifier() take a const pointer EDAC: constantify the struct bus_type usage kernfs: fix reference to renamed function driver core: device.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning driver core: class: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const driver core: container: make container_subsys const driver core: bus: constantify subsys_register() calls driver core: bus: make bus_sort_breadthfirst() take a const pointer kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing... driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe() kernfs: Convert kernfs_path_from_node_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy() kernfs: Convert kernfs_name_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy() kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy() initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file fs/kernfs/dir: obey S_ISGID kernel/cgroup: use kernfs_create_dir_ns() ...
2024-01-17Merge tag 'pm-6.8-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These restore the asynchronous device resume optimization removed by the previous PM merge, make the intel_pstate driver work better on Meteor Lake systems, optimize the PM QoS core code slightly and fix up typos in admin-guide. Specifics: - Restore the system-wide asynchronous device resume optimization removed by a recent concurrency fix (Rafael J. Wysocki) - Make the intel_pstate cpufreq driver allow Meteor Lake systems to run at somewhat higher frequencies (Srinivas Pandruvada) - Make the PM QoS core code use kcalloc() for array allocation (Erick Archer) - Fix two PM-related typos in admin-guide (Erwan Velu)" * tag 'pm-6.8-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM: sleep: Restore asynchronous device resume optimization Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Fix two typos cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update hybrid scaling factor for Meteor Lake PM: QoS: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
2024-01-17Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Generic: - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow. - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all architectures. - Clean up Kconfigs that all KVM architectures were selecting - New functionality around "guest_memfd", a new userspace API that creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor that refers to it. guest_memfd files are bound to their owning virtual machine, cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, and cannot be resized. guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE, which can be used to switch a memory area between guest_memfd and regular anonymous memory. - New ioctl KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allowing userspace to specify per-page attributes for a given page of guest memory; right now the only attribute is whether the guest expects to access memory via guest_memfd or not, which in Confidential SVMs backed by SEV-SNP, TDX or ARM64 pKVM is checked by firmware or hypervisor that guarantees confidentiality (AMD PSP, Intel TDX module, or EL2 in the case of pKVM). x86: - Support for "software-protected VMs" that can use the new guest_memfd and page attributes infrastructure. This is mostly useful for testing, since there is no pKVM-like infrastructure to provide a meaningfully reduced TCB. - Fix a relatively benign off-by-one error when splitting huge pages during CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG. - Fix a bug where KVM could incorrectly test-and-clear dirty bits in non-leaf TDP MMU SPTEs if a racing thread replaces a huge SPTE with a non-huge SPTE. - Use more generic lockdep assertions in paths that don't actually care about whether the caller is a reader or a writer. - let Xen guests opt out of having PV clock reported as "based on a stable TSC", because some of them don't expect the "TSC stable" bit (added to the pvclock ABI by KVM, but never set by Xen) to be set. - Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for TLB_CONTROL. - Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM always flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush requests. This allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware Workstation on top of KVM. - Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV support. - On AMD machines with vNMI, always rely on hardware instead of intercepting IRET in some cases to detect unmasking of NMIs - Support for virtualizing Linear Address Masking (LAM) - Fix a variety of vPMU bugs where KVM fail to stop/reset counters and other state prior to refreshing the vPMU model. - Fix a double-overflow PMU bug by tracking emulated counter events using a dedicated field instead of snapshotting the "previous" counter. If the hardware PMC count triggers overflow that is recognized in the same VM-Exit that KVM manually bumps an event count, KVM would pend PMIs for both the hardware-triggered overflow and for KVM-triggered overflow. - Turn off KVM_WERROR by default for all configs so that it's not inadvertantly enabled by non-KVM developers, which can be problematic for subsystems that require no regressions for W=1 builds. - Advertise all of the host-supported CPUID bits that enumerate IA32_SPEC_CTRL "features". - Don't force a masterclock update when a vCPU synchronizes to the current TSC generation, as updating the masterclock can cause kvmclock's time to "jump" unexpectedly, e.g. when userspace hotplugs a pre-created vCPU. - Use RIP-relative address to read kvm_rebooting in the VM-Enter fault paths, partly as a super minor optimization, but mostly to make KVM play nice with position independent executable builds. - Guard KVM-on-HyperV's range-based TLB flush hooks with an #ifdef on CONFIG_HYPERV as a minor optimization, and to self-document the code. - Add CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV to allow disabling KVM support for HyperV "emulation" at build time. ARM64: - LPA2 support, adding 52bit IPA/PA capability for 4kB and 16kB base granule sizes. Branch shared with the arm64 tree. - Large Fine-Grained Trap rework, bringing some sanity to the feature, although there is more to come. This comes with a prefix branch shared with the arm64 tree. - Some additional Nested Virtualization groundwork, mostly introducing the NV2 VNCR support and retargetting the NV support to that version of the architecture. - A small set of vgic fixes and associated cleanups. Loongarch: - Optimization for memslot hugepage checking - Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues - Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support RISC-V: - KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers - Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list selftest - Support for reporting steal time along with selftest s390: - Bugfixes Selftests: - Fix an annoying goof where the NX hugepage test prints out garbage instead of the magic token needed to run the test. - Fix build errors when a header is delete/moved due to a missing flag in the Makefile. - Detect if KVM bugged/killed a selftest's VM and print out a helpful message instead of complaining that a random ioctl() failed. - Annotate the guest printf/assert helpers with __printf(), and fix the various bugs that were lurking due to lack of said annotation" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (185 commits) x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled KVM: x86: add missing "depends on KVM" KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON KVM: arm64: Add missing memory barriers when switching to pKVM's hyp pgd KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support RISC-V: KVM: Fix indentation in kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_csr() ...
2024-01-17Merge tag 'docs-6.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-6.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs, kprobes: Add loongarch as supported architecture docs, kprobes: Update email address of Masami Hiramatsu docs: admin-guide: hw_random: update rng-tools website Documentation/core-api: fix spelling mistake in workqueue docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection Documentation: constrain alabaster package to older versions
2024-01-17LoongArch: Use generic interface to support crashkernel=X,[high,low]Youling Tang
LoongArch already supports two crashkernel regions in kexec-tools, so we can directly use the common interface to support crashkernel=X,[high,low] after commit 0ab97169aa0517079b ("crash_core: add generic function to do reservation"). With the help of newly changed function parse_crashkernel() and generic reserve_crashkernel_generic(), crashkernel reservation can be simplified by steps: 1) Add a new header file <asm/crash_core.h>, then define CRASH_ALIGN, CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX and CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX and in <asm/crash_core.h>; 2) Add arch_reserve_crashkernel() to call parse_crashkernel() and reserve_crashkernel_generic(); 3) Add ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_CRASHKERNEL_RESERVATION Kconfig in arch/loongarch/Kconfig. One can reserve the crash kernel from high memory above DMA zone range by explicitly passing "crashkernel=X,high"; or reserve a memory range below 4G with "crashkernel=X,low". Besides, there are few rules need to take notice: 1) "crashkernel=X,[high,low]" will be ignored if "crashkernel=size" is specified. 2) "crashkernel=X,low" is valid only when "crashkernel=X,high" is passed and there is enough memory to be allocated under 4G. 3) When allocating crashkernel above 4G and no "crashkernel=X,low" is specified, a 128M low memory will be allocated automatically for swiotlb bounce buffer. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more information. Following test cases have been performed as expected: 1) crashkernel=256M //low=256M 2) crashkernel=1G //low=1G 3) crashkernel=4G //high=4G, low=128M(default) 4) crashkernel=4G crashkernel=256M,high //high=4G, low=128M(default), high is ignored 5) crashkernel=4G crashkernel=256M,low //high=4G, low=128M(default), low is ignored 6) crashkernel=4G,high //high=4G, low=128M(default) 7) crashkernel=256M,low //low=0M, invalid 8) crashkernel=4G,high crashkernel=256M,low //high=4G, low=256M 9) crashkernel=4G,high crashkernel=4G,low //high=0M, low=0M, invalid 10) crashkernel=512M@2560M //low=512M 11) crashkernel=1G,high crashkernel=0M,low //high=1G, low=0M Recommended usage in general: 1) In the case of small memory: crashkernel=512M 2) In the case of large memory: crashkernel=1024M,high crashkernel=128M,low Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
2024-01-16Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-qos' into pmRafael J. Wysocki
* pm-sleep: PM: sleep: Restore asynchronous device resume optimization * pm-cpufreq: Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Fix two typos cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update hybrid scaling factor for Meteor Lake * pm-qos: PM: QoS: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
2024-01-12Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.8' of https://github.com/neeraju/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay: - Documentation and comment updates - RCU torture, locktorture updates that include cleanups; nolibc init build support for mips, ppc and rv64; testing of mid stall duration scenario and fixing fqs task creation conditions - Misc fixes, most notably restricting usage of RCU CPU stall notifiers, to confine their usage primarily to debug kernels - RCU tasks minor fixes - lockdep annotation fix for NMI-safe accesses, callback advancing/acceleration cleanup and documentation improvements * tag 'rcu.release.v6.8' of https://github.com/neeraju/linux: rcu: Force quiescent states only for ongoing grace period doc: Clarify historical disclaimers in memory-barriers.txt doc: Mention address and data dependencies in rcu_dereference.rst doc: Clarify RCU Tasks reader/updater checklist rculist.h: docs: Fix wrong function summary Documentation: RCU: Remove repeated word in comments srcu: Use try-lock lockdep annotation for NMI-safe access. srcu: Explain why callbacks invocations can't run concurrently srcu: No need to advance/accelerate if no callback enqueued srcu: Remove superfluous callbacks advancing from srcu_gp_start() rcu: Remove unused macros from rcupdate.h rcu: Restrict access to RCU CPU stall notifiers rcu-tasks: Mark RCU Tasks accesses to current->rcu_tasks_idle_cpu rcutorture: Add fqs_holdoff check before fqs_task is created rcutorture: Add mid-sized stall to TREE07 rcutorture: add nolibc init support for mips, ppc and rv64 locktorture: Increase Hamming distance between call_rcu_chain and rcu_call_chains
2024-01-12Merge tag 'media/v6.8-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - v4l core: subdev frame interval now supports which field - v4l kapi: moves and renames the init_cfg pad op to init_state as an internal op. - new sensor drivers: gc0308, gc2145, Avnet Alvium, ov64a40, tw9900 - new camera driver: STM32 DCMIPP - s5p-mfc has gained MFC v12 support - new ISP driver added to staging: Starfive - new stateful encoder/decoded: Wave5 codec It is found on the J721S2 SoC, JH7100 SoC, ssd202d SoC. Etc. - fwnode gained support for MIPI "DisCo for Imaging" (https://www.mipi.org/specifications/mipi-disco-imaging) - as usual, lots of cleanups, fixups and driver improvements. * tag 'media/v6.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (309 commits) media: i2c: thp7312: select CONFIG_FW_LOADER media: i2c: mt9m114: use fsleep() in place of udelay() media: videobuf2: core: Rename min_buffers_needed field in vb2_queue media: i2c: thp7312: Store frame interval in subdev state media: docs: uAPI: Fix documentation of 'which' field for routing ioctls media: docs: uAPI: Expand error documentation for invalid 'which' value media: docs: uAPI: Clarify error documentation for invalid 'which' value media: v4l2-subdev: Store frame interval in subdev state media: v4l2-subdev: Add which field to struct v4l2_subdev_frame_interval media: v4l2-subdev: Turn .[gs]_frame_interval into pad operations media: v4l: subdev: Move out subdev state lock macros outside CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER media: s5p-mfc: DPB Count Independent of VIDIOC_REQBUF media: s5p-mfc: Load firmware for each run in MFCv12. media: s5p-mfc: Set context for valid case before calling try_run media: s5p-mfc: Add support for DMABUF for encoder media: s5p-mfc: Add support for UHD encoding. media: s5p-mfc: Add support for rate controls in MFCv12 media: s5p-mfc: Add YV12 and I420 multiplanar format support media: s5p-mfc: Add initial support for MFCv12 media: s5p-mfc: Rename IS_MFCV10 macro ...
2024-01-11Merge tag 'docs-6.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: - The minimum Sphinx requirement has been raised to 2.4.4, following a warning that was added in 6.2 - Some reworking of the Documentation/process front page to, hopefully, make it more useful - Various kernel-doc tweaks to, for example, make it deal properly with __counted_by annotations - We have also restored a warning for documentation of nonexistent structure members that disappeared a while back. That had the delightful consequence of adding some 600 warnings to the docs build. A sustained effort by Randy, Vegard, and myself has addressed almost all of those, bringing the documentation back into sync with the code. The fixes are going through the appropriate maintainer trees - Various improvements to the HTML rendered docs, including automatic links to Git revisions and a nice new pulldown to make translations easy to access - Speaking of translations, more of those for Spanish and Chinese ... plus the usual stream of documentation updates and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits) MAINTAINERS: use tabs for indent of CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING THREAT MODEL A reworked process/index.rst ring-buffer/Documentation: Add documentation on buffer_percent file Translated the RISC-V architecture boot documentation. Docs: remove mentions of fdformat from util-linux Docs/zh_CN: Fix the meaning of DEBUG to pr_debug() Documentation: move driver-api/dcdbas to userspace-api/ Documentation: move driver-api/isapnp to userspace-api/ Documentation/core-api : fix typo in workqueue Documentation/trace: Fixed typos in the ftrace FLAGS section kernel-doc: handle a void function without producing a warning scripts/get_abi.pl: ignore some temp files docs: kernel_abi.py: fix command injection scripts/get_abi: fix source path leak CREDITS, MAINTAINERS, docs/process/howto: Update man-pages' maintainer docs: translations: add translations links when they exist kernel-doc: Align quick help and the code MAINTAINERS: add reviewer for Spanish translations docs: ignore __counted_by attribute in structure definitions scripts: kernel-doc: Clarify missing struct member description ..
2024-01-11Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "The most interesting thing is probably the networking structs reorganization and a significant amount of changes is around self-tests. Core & protocols: - Analyze and reorganize core networking structs (socks, netdev, netns, mibs) to optimize cacheline consumption and set up build time warnings to safeguard against future header changes This improves TCP performances with many concurrent connections up to 40% - Add page-pool netlink-based introspection, exposing the memory usage and recycling stats. This helps indentify bad PP users and possible leaks - Refine TCP/DCCP source port selection to no longer favor even source port at connect() time when IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE is set. This lowers the time taken by connect() for hosts having many active connections to the same destination - Refactor the TCP bind conflict code, shrinking related socket structs - Refactor TCP SYN-Cookie handling, as a preparation step to allow arbitrary SYN-Cookie processing via eBPF - Tune optmem_max for 0-copy usage, increasing the default value to 128KB and namespecifying it - Allow coalescing for cloned skbs coming from page pools, improving RX performances with some common configurations - Reduce extension header parsing overhead at GRO time - Add bridge MDB bulk deletion support, allowing user-space to request the deletion of matching entries - Reorder nftables struct members, to keep data accessed by the datapath first - Introduce TC block ports tracking and use. This allows supporting multicast-like behavior at the TC layer - Remove UAPI support for retired TC qdiscs (dsmark, CBQ and ATM) and classifiers (RSVP and tcindex) - More data-race annotations - Extend the diag interface to dump TCP bound-only sockets - Conditional notification of events for TC qdisc class and actions - Support for WPAN dynamic associations with nearby devices, to form a sub-network using a specific PAN ID - Implement SMCv2.1 virtual ISM device support - Add support for Batman-avd mulicast packet type BPF: - Tons of verifier improvements: - BPF register bounds logic and range support along with a large test suite - log improvements - complete precision tracking support for register spills - track aligned STACK_ZERO cases as imprecise spilled registers. This improves the verifier "instructions processed" metric from single digit to 50-60% for some programs - support for user's global BPF subprogram arguments with few commonly requested annotations for a better developer experience - support tracking of BPF_JNE which helps cases when the compiler transforms (unsigned) "a > 0" into "if a == 0 goto xxx" and the like - several fixes - Add initial TX metadata implementation for AF_XDP with support in mlx5 and stmmac drivers. Two types of offloads are supported right now, that is, TX timestamp and TX checksum offload - Fix kCFI bugs in BPF all forms of indirect calls from BPF into kernel and from kernel into BPF work with CFI enabled. This allows BPF to work with CONFIG_FINEIBT=y - Change BPF verifier logic to validate global subprograms lazily instead of unconditionally before the main program, so they can be guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques - Support uid/gid options when mounting bpffs - Add a new kfunc which acquires the associated cgroup of a task within a specific cgroup v1 hierarchy where the latter is identified by its id - Extend verifier to allow bpf_refcount_acquire() of a map value field obtained via direct load which is a use-case needed in sched_ext - Add BPF link_info support for uprobe multi link along with bpftool integration for the latter - Support for VLAN tag in XDP hints - Remove deprecated bpfilter kernel leftovers given the project is developed in user-space (https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter) Misc: - Support for parellel TC self-tests execution - Increase MPTCP self-tests coverage - Updated the bridge documentation, including several so-far undocumented features - Convert all the net self-tests to run in unique netns, to avoid random failures due to conflict and allow concurrent runs - Add TCP-AO self-tests - Add kunit tests for both cfg80211 and mac80211 - Autogenerate Netlink families documentation from YAML spec - Add yml-gen support for fixed headers and recursive nests, the tool can now generate user-space code for all genetlink families for which we have specs - A bunch of additional module descriptions fixes - Catch incorrect freeing of pages belonging to a page pool Driver API: - Rust abstractions for network PHY drivers; do not cover yet the full C API, but already allow implementing functional PHY drivers in rust - Introduce queue and NAPI support in the netdev Netlink interface, allowing complete access to the device <> NAPIs <> queues relationship - Introduce notifications filtering for devlink to allow control application scale to thousands of instances - Improve PHY validation, requesting rate matching information for each ethtool link mode supported by both the PHY and host - Add support for ethtool symmetric-xor RSS hash - ACPI based Wifi band RFI (WBRF) mitigation feature for the AMD platform - Expose pin fractional frequency offset value over new DPLL generic netlink attribute - Convert older drivers to platform remove callback returning void - Add support for PHY package MMD read/write New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - Octeon CN10K devices - Broadcom 5760X P7 - Qualcomm SM8550 SoC - Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY - Bluetooth: - IMC Networks Bluetooth radio Removed: - WiFi: - libertas 16-bit PCMCIA support - Atmel at76c50x drivers - HostAP ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver - zd1201 802.11b USB dongles - Orinoco ISA/PCMCIA 802.11b driver - Aviator/Raytheon driver - Planet WL3501 driver - RNDIS USB 802.11b driver Driver updates: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - allow one by one port representors creation and removal - add temperature and clock information reporting - add get/set for ethtool's header split ringparam - add again FW logging - adds support switchdev hardware packet mirroring - iavf: implement symmetric-xor RSS hash - igc: add support for concurrent physical and free-running timers - i40e: increase the allowable descriptors - nVidia/Mellanox: - Preparation for Socket-Direct multi-dev netdev. That will allow in future releases combining multiple PFs devices attached to different NUMA nodes under the same netdev - Broadcom (bnxt): - TX completion handling improvements - add basic ntuple filter support - reduce MSIX vectors usage for MQPRIO offload - add VXLAN support, USO offload and TX coalesce completion for P7 - Marvell Octeon EP: - xmit-more support - add PF-VF mailbox support and use it for FW notifications for VFs - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - implement ethtool functions to operate pause param, ring param, coalesce channel number and msglevel - Netronome/Corigine (nfp): - add flow-steering support - support UDP segmentation offload - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual: - Xilinx AXI: remove duplicate DMA code adopting the dma engine driver - stmmac: add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping - TI AM654x sw: add mqprio, frame preemption & coalescing - gve: add support for non-4k page sizes. - virtio-net: support dynamic coalescing moderation - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches: - allow firmware upgrade without a reboot - more flexible support for bridge flooding via the compressed FID flooding mode - Ethernet embedded switches: - Microchip: - fine-tune flow control and speed configurations in KSZ8xxx - KSZ88X3: enable setting rmii reference - Renesas: - add jumbo frames support - Marvell: - 88E6xxx: add "eth-mac" and "rmon" stats support - Ethernet PHYs: - aquantia: add firmware load support - at803x: refactor the driver to simplify adding support for more chip variants - NXP C45 TJA11xx: Add MACsec offload support - Wifi: - MediaTek (mt76): - NVMEM EEPROM improvements - mt7996 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) improvements - mt7996 Wireless Ethernet Dispatcher (WED) support - mt7996 36-bit DMA support - Qualcomm (ath12k): - support for a single MSI vector - WCN7850: support AP mode - Intel (iwlwifi): - new debugfs file fw_dbg_clear - allow concurrent P2P operation on DFS channels - Bluetooth: - QCA2066: support HFP offload - ISO: more broadcast-related improvements - NXP: better recovery in case receiver/transmitter get out of sync" * tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1714 commits) lan78xx: remove redundant statement in lan78xx_get_eee lan743x: remove redundant statement in lan743x_ethtool_get_eee bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_rx_flow_steer() bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_srxclsrldel() bnxt_en: Remove unneeded variable in bnxt_hwrm_clear_vnic_filter() tcp: Revert no longer abort SYN_SENT when receiving some ICMP Revert "mlx5 updates 2023-12-20" Revert "net: stmmac: Enable Per DMA Channel interrupt" ipvlan: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API ipvlan: Fix a typo in a comment net/sched: Remove ipt action tests net: stmmac: Use interrupt mode INTM=1 for per channel irq net: stmmac: Add support for TX/RX channel interrupt net: stmmac: Make MSI interrupt routine generic dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: per channel irq net: phy: at803x: make read_status more generic net: phy: at803x: add support for cdt cross short test for qca808x net: phy: at803x: refactor qca808x cable test get status function net: phy: at803x: generalize cdt fault length function net: ethernet: cortina: Drop TSO support ...
2024-01-11docs: admin-guide: hw_random: update rng-tools websiteBaruch Siach
rng-tools upstream moved to github. New upstream does not appear to consider itself official website for hw_random. Drop that part. Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ef52ace5008fa934084442149f64f5f9ddbba465.1704720105.git.baruch@tkos.co.il
2024-01-11docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injectionVegard Nossum
The kernel-feat directive passes its argument straight to the shell. This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Let's always use paths relative to $srctree/Documentation/ and use subprocess.check_call() instead of subprocess.Popen(shell=True). This also makes the code shorter. This is analogous to commit 3231dd586277 ("docs: kernel_abi.py: fix command injection") where we did exactly the same thing for kernel_abi.py, somehow I completely missed this one. Link: https://fosstodon.org/@jani/111676532203641247 Reported-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110174758.3680506-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
2024-01-10Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Fix two typosErwan Velu
Fix two typos in the admin-guide: - a missing e in "reference_perf" in cppc_sysfs.rst. - the amd_pstate sysfs path uses a dash instead of an underscore. Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu <e.velu@criteo.com> [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2024-01-10x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETPOLINE => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINEBreno Leitao
Step 5/10 of the namespace unification of CPU mitigations related Kconfig options. [ mingo: Converted a few more uses in comments/messages as well. ] Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ariel Miculas <amiculas@cisco.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121160740.1249350-6-leitao@debian.org
2024-01-09Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.8-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform driver updates from Hans de Goede: - Intel PMC / PMT / TPMI / uncore-freq / vsec improvements and new platform support - AMD PMC / PMF improvements and new platform support - AMD ACPI based Wifi band RFI mitigation feature (WBRF) - WMI bus driver cleanups and improvements (Armin Wolf) - acer-wmi Predator PHN16-71 support - New Silicom network appliance EC LEDs / GPIOs driver * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (96 commits) platform/x86/amd/pmc: Modify SMU message port for latest AMD platform platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add 1Ah family series to STB support list platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add idlemask support for 1Ah family platform/x86/amd/pmc: call amd_pmc_get_ip_info() during driver probe platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add VPE information for AMDI000A platform platform/x86/amd/pmc: Send OS_HINT command for AMDI000A platform platform/x86/amd/pmf: Return a status code only as a constant in two functions platform/x86/amd/pmf: Return directly after a failed apmf_if_call() in apmf_sbios_heartbeat_notify() platform/x86: wmi: linux/wmi.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add missing extern platform/x86/intel/pmc/lnl: Add GBE LTR ignore during suspend platform/x86/intel/pmc/arl: Add GBE LTR ignore during suspend platform/x86: intel-uncore-freq: Add additional client processors platform/x86: Remove "X86 PLATFORM DRIVERS - ARCH" from MAINTAINERS platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Removed needless asm-generic platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add Lunar Lake M support to intel_pmc_core driver platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add Arrow Lake S support to intel_pmc_core driver platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add ssram_init flag in PMC discovery in Meteor Lake platform/x86/intel/pmc: Move common code to core.c platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add PSON residency counter for Alder Lake ...
2024-01-09Merge tag 'regulator-v6.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator Pull regulator updates from Mark Brown: "The main updates for this release are around monitoring of regulators, largely for error handling purposes. We allow the stream of regulator events to be seen by userspace as netlink events and allow system integrators to describe individual regulators as system critical with information on how long the system is expected to last on error. The system level error handling is very much about best effort problem mitigation rather than providing something fully robust, the initial drive was to provide a mechanism for trying to avoid initiating any new writes to flash once we notice the power going out. Otherwise it's very quiet, mainly several new Qualcomm devices. - Support for marking regulators as system critical and providing information on how long the system might last with those regulators in a failure state, hooked into the existing critical shutdown error handling. - Optional support for generating netlink events for events, there are use cases for system monitoring UIs and error handling. - A command line option to leave unused controllable regulators enabled, useful for debugging. We already only disable regulators we were explicitly given permission to control. - Support for Quacomm MP5496, PM8010 and PM8937" * tag 'regulator-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator: (31 commits) regulator: event: Ensure atomicity for sequence number uapi: regulator: Fix typo regulator: Reuse LINEAR_RANGE() in REGULATOR_LINEAR_RANGE() dt-bindings: regulator: qcom,usb-vbus-regulator: clean up example regulator: qcom_smd: Add LDO5 MP5496 regulator regulator: qcom-rpmh: add support for pm8010 regulators regulator: dt-bindings: qcom,rpmh: add compatible for pm8010 regulator: qcom-rpmh: extend to support multiple linear voltage ranges regulator: wm8350: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: virtual: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: userspace-consumer: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: uniphier: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: stm32-vrefbuf: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: db8500-prcmu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: bd9571mwv: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: arizona-ldo1: Convert to platform remove callback returning void regulator: event: Add regulator netlink event support regulator: event: Add regulator netlink event support regulator: stpmic1: Fix kernel-doc notation warnings regulator: palmas: remove redundant initialization of pointer pdata ...
2024-01-09Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series 'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers' 'Some cleanups of maple tree' - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem' Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily have its memmap placed within that newly added memory. - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes) in the patch series 'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()' 'Make folio_start_writeback return void' 'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages' 'Convert aops->error_remove_page to ->error_remove_folio' 'Finish two folio conversions' 'More swap folio conversions' - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series 'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault' - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series 'tweak kmemleak report format'. - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction of no longer needed stack traces. - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm: page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'. - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series 'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'. - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series 'maple_tree: iterator state changes'. - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series 'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'. - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the series 'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS' 'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests' 'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8' - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'. - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during anonymous page faults. - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head cleanups'. - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series 'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free. - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs. - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'. - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the writeback paths'. - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan: save mempool stack traces'. - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series 'kasan: assorted clean-ups'. - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap: interface overhaul'. - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'. - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits) mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state() mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file() slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc() slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page() mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty() ...