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2023-02-06Merge 6.2-rc7 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need the tty/serial fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-02-06media: docs: admin-guide: media: align HDMI CEC node names with dtschemaKrzysztof Kozlowski
The bindings expect "cec" for HDMI CEC node. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-02-03Documentation: amd-pstate: introduce new global sysfs attributesPerry Yuan
The amd-pstate driver supports switching working modes at runtime. Users can view and change modes by interacting with the "status" sysfs attribute. 1) check driver mode: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/status 2) switch mode: `# echo "passive" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/status` or `# echo "active" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/status` Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2023-02-03Documentation: introduce amd pstate active mode kernel command line optionsPerry Yuan
AMD Pstate driver support another firmware based autonomous mode with "amd_pstate=active" added to the kernel command line. In autonomous mode SMU firmware decides frequencies at runtime based on workload utilization, usage in other IPs, infrastructure limits such as power, thermals and so on. Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2023-02-03Documentation: amd-pstate: add amd pstate driver mode introductionPerry Yuan
The amd-pstate driver has two operation modes supported: * CPPC Autonomous (active) mode * CPPC non-autonomous (passive) mode. active mode and passive mode can be chosen by different kernel parameters. Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2023-02-03Documentation: amd-pstate: add EPP profiles introductionPerry Yuan
The amd-pstate driver supports a feature called energy performance preference (EPP). Add information to the documentation to explain how users can interact with the sysfs files for this feature. 1) See all EPP profiles $ sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/energy_performance_available_preferences default performance balance_performance balance_power power 2) Check current EPP profile $ sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/energy_performance_preference performance 3) Set new EPP profile $ sudo bash -c "echo power > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/energy_performance_preference" Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2023-02-02kexec: introduce sysctl parameters kexec_load_limit_*Ricardo Ribalda
kexec allows replacing the current kernel with a different one. This is usually a source of concerns for sysadmins that want to harden a system. Linux already provides a way to disable loading new kexec kernel via kexec_load_disabled, but that control is very coard, it is all or nothing and does not make distinction between a panic kexec and a normal kexec. This patch introduces new sysctl parameters, with finer tuning to specify how many times a kexec kernel can be loaded. The sysadmin can set different limits for kexec panic and kexec reboot kernels. The value can be modified at runtime via sysctl, but only with a stricter value. With these new parameters on place, a system with loadpin and verity enabled, using the following kernel parameters: sysctl.kexec_load_limit_reboot=0 sysct.kexec_load_limit_panic=1 can have a good warranty that if initrd tries to load a panic kernel, a malitious user will have small chances to replace that kernel with a different one, even if they can trigger timeouts on the disk where the panic kernel lives. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-3-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02Documentation: sysctl: correct kexec_load_disabledRicardo Ribalda
Patch series "kexec: Add new parameter to limit the access to kexec", v6. Add two parameter to specify how many times a kexec kernel can be loaded. These parameter allow hardening the system. While we are at it, fix a documentation issue and refactor some code. This patch (of 3): kexec_load_disabled affects both ``kexec_load`` and ``kexec_file_load`` syscalls. Make it explicit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-0-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-1-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update DAMOS actions/filters supports of ↵SeongJae Park
each DAMON operations set Supports of each DAMOS action and filters are up to DAMON operations set implementation, but it's not mentioned in detail on the documentation. Update the information on the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230110190400.119388-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02Merge branch 'stall.2023.01.09a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney
stall.2023.01.09a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates.
2023-02-02x86/tsc: Add option to force frequency recalibration with HW timerFeng Tang
The kernel assumes that the TSC frequency which is provided by the hardware / firmware via MSRs or CPUID(0x15) is correct after applying a few basic consistency checks. This disables the TSC recalibration against HPET or PM timer. As a result there is no mechanism to validate that frequency in cases where a firmware or hardware defect is suspected. And there was case that some user used atomic clock to measure the TSC frequency and reported an inaccuracy issue, which was later fixed in firmware. Add an option 'recalibrate' for 'tsc' kernel parameter to force the tsc freq recalibration with HPET or PM timer, and warn if the deviation from previous value is more than about 500 PPM, which provides a way to verify the data from hardware / firmware. There is no functional change to existing work flow. Recently there was a real-world case: "The 40ms/s divergence between TSC and HPET was observed on hardware that is quite recent" [1], on that platform the TSC frequence 1896 MHz was got from CPUID(0x15), and the force-reclibration with HPET/PMTIMER both calibrated out value of 1975 MHz, which also matched with check from software 'chronyd', indicating it's a problem of BIOS or firmware. [Thanks tglx for helping improving the commit log] [ paulmck: Wordsmith Kconfig help text. ] [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221117230910.GI4001@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/ Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2023-02-02printk: Document that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY required for boot_delay=Bjorn Helgaas
Document the fact that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY must be enabled for the "boot_delay" kernel parameter to work. Also mention that "lpj=" may be necessary. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126225420.1320276-1-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-02-02Documentation: admin-guide: correct spellingRandy Dunlap
Correct spelling problems for Documentation/admin-guide/ as reported by codespell. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230129231053.20863-2-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-02-02docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guideShuah Khan
Add a new section to the admin-guide with information of interest to application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the Linux kernel for safety critical applications. This section will contain documents supporting analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel subsystems expectations. Add a new workload-tracing document to this new section. Signed-off-by: Shefali Sharma <sshefali021@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230131221105.39216-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org [jc: tweaked the sphinx formatting a bit] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-02-02docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markupMike Rapoport (IBM)
It is enough to use a file name to cross-reference another rst document. Jon says: The right things will happen in the HTML output, readers of the plain-text will know immediately where to go, and we don't have to add the label clutter. Drop reference markup and unnecessary labels and use plain file names. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201094156.991542-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-31Sync mm-stable with mm-hotfixes-stable to pick up dependent patchesAndrew Morton
Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable
2023-01-31Revert "mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim"Michal Hocko
This reverts commit 12a5d3955227b0d7e04fb793ccceeb2a1dd275c5. Although it is recognized that a finer grained pro-active reclaim is something we need and want the semantic of this implementation is really ambiguous. In a follow up discussion it became clear that there are two essential usecases here. One is to use memory.reclaim to pro-actively reclaim memory and expectation is that the requested and reported amount of memory is uncharged from the memcg. Another usecase focuses on pro-active demotion when the memory is merely shuffled around to demotion targets while the overall charged memory stays unchanged. The current implementation considers demoted pages as reclaimed and that break both usecases. [1] has tried to address the reporting part but there are more issues with that summarized in [2] and follow up emails. Let's revert the nodemask based extension of the memcg pro-active reclaim for now until we settle with a more robust semantic. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206023406.3182800-1-almasrymina@google.com [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5bsmpCyeryu3Zz1@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5xASNe1x8cusiTx@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 12a5d3955227b0d ("mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: zefan li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-31docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace pathRoss Zwisler
The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing. But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst: Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system, the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing Many parts of Documentation still reference this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125213251.2013791-1-zwisler@google.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-31Doc/damon: fix the data path errorHui Su
%s/modules/module/ Signed-off-by: Hui Su <suhui_kernel@163.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexsshi@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y9Tm1FiKBPKA2Tcx@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-31Merge tag 'v6.2-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar
Pick up fixes before merging another batch of cpuidle updates. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-01-31drivers/block: Remove PARIDE core and high-level protocolsOndrej Zary
Remove PARIDE core and high level protocols, taking care not to break low-level drivers (used by pata_parport). Also update documentation. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
2023-01-31ata: pata_parport: add driver (PARIDE replacement)Ondrej Zary
The pata_parport is a libata-based replacement of the old PARIDE subsystem - driver for parallel port IDE devices. It uses the original paride low-level protocol drivers but does not need the high-level drivers (pd, pcd, pf, pt, pg). The IDE devices behind parallel port adapters are handled by the ATA layer. This will allow paride and its high-level drivers to be removed. Unfortunately, libata drivers cannot sleep so pata_parport claims parport before activating the ata host and keeps it claimed (and protocol connected) until the ata host is removed. This means that no devices can be chained (neither other pata_parport devices nor a printer). paride and pata_parport are mutually exclusive because the compiled protocol drivers are incompatible. Tested with: - Imation SuperDisk LS-120 and HP C4381A (EPAT) - Freecom Parallel CD (FRPW) - Toshiba Mobile CD-RW 2793008 w/Freecom Parallel Cable rev.903 (FRIQ) - Backpack CD-RW 222011 and CD-RW 19350 (BPCK6) The following bugs in low-level protocol drivers were found and will be fixed later: Note: EPP-32 mode is buggy in EPAT - and also in all other protocol drivers - they don't handle non-multiple-of-4 block transfers correctly. This causes problems with LS-120 drive. There is also another bug in EPAT: EPP modes don't work unless a 4-bit or 8-bit mode is used first (probably some initialization missing?). Once the device is initialized, EPP works until power cycle. So after device power on, you have to: echo "parport0 epat 0" >/sys/bus/pata_parport/new_device echo pata_parport.0 >/sys/bus/pata_parport/delete_device echo "parport0 epat 4" >/sys/bus/pata_parport/new_device (autoprobe will initialize correctly as it tries the slowest modes first but you'll get the broken EPP-32 mode) Note: EPP modes are buggy in FRPW, only modes 0 and 1 work. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
2023-01-25x86/cpu: Support AMD Automatic IBRSKim Phillips
The AMD Zen4 core supports a new feature called Automatic IBRS. It is a "set-and-forget" feature that means that, like Intel's Enhanced IBRS, h/w manages its IBRS mitigation resources automatically across CPL transitions. The feature is advertised by CPUID_Fn80000021_EAX bit 8 and is enabled by setting MSR C000_0080 (EFER) bit 21. Enable Automatic IBRS by default if the CPU feature is present. It typically provides greater performance over the incumbent generic retpolines mitigation. Reuse the SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS spectre_v2_mitigation enum. AMD Automatic IBRS and Intel Enhanced IBRS have similar enablement. Add NO_EIBRS_PBRSB to cpu_vuln_whitelist, since AMD Automatic IBRS isn't affected by PBRSB-eIBRS. The kernel command line option spectre_v2=eibrs is used to select AMD Automatic IBRS, if available. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230124163319.2277355-8-kim.phillips@amd.com
2023-01-23x86/resctrl: Include new features in command line optionsBabu Moger
Add the command line options to enable or disable the new resctrl features: smba: Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation bmec: Bandwidth Monitor Event Configuration. Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230113152039.770054-6-babu.moger@amd.com
2023-01-22Merge 6.2-rc5 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need the serial/tty changes into this branch as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-22media: tm6000: remove deprecated driverHans Verkuil
The tm6000 driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it uses the old vb1 framework and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to vb2. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether since we want to get rid of the old vb1 framework. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-01-22media: zr364xx: remove deprecated driverHans Verkuil
The zr364xx driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it uses the old vb1 framework and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to vb2. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether since we want to get rid of the old vb1 framework. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-01-22media: stkwebcam: remove deprecated driverHans Verkuil
The stkwebcam driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it implements this in the driver. This is error prone, and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to that framework. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-01-22media: fsl-viu: remove deprecated driverHans Verkuil
The fsl-viu driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it uses the old vb1 framework and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to vb2. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether since we want to get rid of the old vb1 framework. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-01-22media: cpia2: remove deprecated driverHans Verkuil
The cpia2 driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it implements this in the driver. This is error prone, and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to that framework. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-01-22media: meye: remove this deprecated driverHans Verkuil
The meye driver does not use the vb2 framework for streaming video, instead it implements this in the driver. This is error prone, and nobody stepped in to convert this driver to that framework. The hardware is very old, so the decision was made to remove it altogether. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
2023-01-19x86/vsyscall: Fix documentation to reflect the default modeSohil Mehta
The default vsyscall mode has been updated from emulate to xonly for a while. Update the kernel-parameters doc to reflect that. Fixes: 625b7b7f79c6 ("x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly") Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230111193211.1987047-1-sohil.mehta@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-19earlycon: Let users set the clock frequencyRicardo Ribalda
Some platforms, namely AMD Picasso, use non standard uart clocks (48M), witch makes it impossible to use with earlycon. Let the user select its own frequency. Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123-serial-clk-v3-1-49c516980ae0@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-18Docs/admin-guide/mm/numaperf: increase depth of subsectionsSeongJae Park
Each section of numaperf.rst has zero depth, and therefore be exposed to the index of admin-guide/mm. Especially 'See Also' section on the index makes the document weird. Hide the sections from the index by giving the document a title and increasing the depth of each section. [sj@kernel.org: change title to fix duplicate label warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230106194927.152663-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103180754.129637-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18selftests/vm: rename selftests/vm to selftests/mmSeongJae Park
Rename selftets/vm to selftests/mm for being more consistent with the code, documentation, and tools directories, and won't be confused with virtual machines. [sj@kernel.org: convert missing vm->mm changes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230107230643.252273-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103180754.129637-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18tools/vm: rename tools/vm to tools/mmSeongJae Park
Rename tools/vm to tools/mm for being more consistent with the code and documentation directories, and won't be confused with virtual machines. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103180754.129637-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filters of sysfsSeongJae Park
Document about the newly added files for DAMOS filters on the DAMON usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221205230830.144349-11-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18Docs/admin-guide/damon/reclaim: document 'skip_anon' parameterSeongJae Park
Document the newly added 'skip_anon' parameter of DAMON_RECLAIM, which can be used to avoid anonymous pages reclamation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221205230830.144349-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18mm: memcontrol: deprecate charge movingJohannes Weiner
Charge moving mode in cgroup1 allows memory to follow tasks as they migrate between cgroups. This is, and always has been, a questionable thing to do - for several reasons. First, it's expensive. Pages need to be identified, locked and isolated from various MM operations, and reassigned, one by one. Second, it's unreliable. Once pages are charged to a cgroup, there isn't always a clear owner task anymore. Cache isn't moved at all, for example. Mapped memory is moved - but if trylocking or isolating a page fails, it's arbitrarily left behind. Frequent moving between domains may leave a task's memory scattered all over the place. Third, it isn't really needed. Launcher tasks can kick off workload tasks directly in their target cgroup. Using dedicated per-workload groups allows fine-grained policy adjustments - no need to move tasks and their physical pages between control domains. The feature was never forward-ported to cgroup2, and it hasn't been missed. Despite it being a niche usecase, the maintenance overhead of supporting it is enormous. Because pages are moved while they are live and subject to various MM operations, the synchronization rules are complicated. There are lock_page_memcg() in MM and FS code, which non-cgroup people don't understand. In some cases we've been able to shift code and cgroup API calls around such that we can rely on native locking as much as possible. But that's fragile, and sometimes we need to hold MM locks for longer than we otherwise would (pte lock e.g.). Mark the feature deprecated. Hopefully we can remove it soon. And backport into -stable kernels so that people who develop against earlier kernels are warned about this deprecation as early as possible. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix memory.rst underlining] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5COd+qXwk/S+n8N@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-14ata: libata: cleanup fua support detectionDamien Le Moal
Move the detection of a device FUA support from ata_scsiop_mode_sense()/ata_dev_supports_fua() to device scan time in ata_dev_configure(). The function ata_dev_config_fua() is introduced to detect if a device supports FUA and this support is indicated using the new device flag ATA_DFLAG_FUA. In order to blacklist known buggy devices, the horkage flag ATA_HORKAGE_NO_FUA is introduced. Similarly to other horkage flags, the libata.force= arguments "fua" and "nofua" are also introduced to allow a user to control this horkage flag through the "force" libata module parameter. The ATA_DFLAG_FUA device flag is set only and only if all the following conditions are met: * libata.fua module parameter is set to 1 * The device supports the WRITE DMA FUA EXT command, * The device is not marked with the ATA_HORKAGE_NO_FUA flag, either from the blacklist or set by the user with libata.force=nofua * The device supports NCQ (while this is not mandated by the standards, this restriction is introduced to avoid problems with older non-NCQ devices). Enabling or diabling libata FUA support for all devices can now also be done using the "force=[no]fua" module parameter when libata.fua is set to 1. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
2023-01-12PCI/AER: Configure ECRC only if AER is nativeVidya Sagar
As the ECRC configuration bits are part of AER registers, configure ECRC only if AER is natively owned by the kernel. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112072111.20063-1-vidyas@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2023-01-12media: davinci: remove vpbe supportArnd Bergmann
The davinci dm3xx/dm644x platforms are gone now, and the remaining da8xx platforms do not use the vpbe driver, so the driver can be removed as well. Acked-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2023-01-11Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove zsmalloc's lack of writeback warningNhat Pham
Writeback has been implemented for zsmalloc, so this warning no longer holds. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230106220016.172303-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: 9997bc017549a ("zsmalloc: implement writeback mechanism for zsmalloc") Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-05rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis informationZhen Lei
Because RCU CPU stall warnings are driven from the scheduling-clock interrupt handler, a workload consisting of a very large number of short-duration hardware interrupts can result in misleading stall-warning messages. On systems supporting only a single level of interrupts, that is, where interrupts handlers cannot be interrupted, this can produce misleading diagnostics. The stack traces will show the innocent-bystander interrupted task, not the interrupts that are at the very least exacerbating the stall. This situation can be improved by displaying the number of interrupts and the CPU time that they have consumed. Diagnosing other types of stalls can be eased by also providing the count of softirqs and the CPU time that they consumed as well as the number of context switches and the task-level CPU time consumed. Consider the following output given this change: rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 0-....: (1250 ticks this GP) <omitted> rcu: hardirqs softirqs csw/system rcu: number: 624 45 0 rcu: cputime: 69 1 2425 ==> 2500(ms) This output shows that the number of hard and soft interrupts is small, there are no context switches, and the system takes up a lot of time. This indicates that the current task is looping with preemption disabled. The impact on system performance is negligible because snapshot is recorded only once for all continuous RCU stalls. This added debugging information is suppressed by default and can be enabled by building the kernel with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y or by booting with rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime=1. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2023-01-05docs: cgroup-v1: use numbered lists for user interface setupBagas Sanjaya
Setup instructions for memory resource controller UI uses a mix of section headings and normal paragraphs, whereas numbered lists are better fit for this purpose. While at it, also slightly reword the instructions and add reference to "Why are cgroups needed?" in the main cgroups documentation. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-01-05docs: cgroup-v1: add internal cross-referencesBagas Sanjaya
The documentation contains references to other sections in the doc (internal). Add cross-references for them so that these can be accessed without having to manually search for them. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-01-05docs: cgroup-v1: make swap extension subsections subsectionsBagas Sanjaya
Subsections text of swap extension section is marked up as bold text, whereas making them proper subsection is more appropriate. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-01-05docs: cgroup-v1: use bullet lists for list of stat file tablesBagas Sanjaya
The stat file section contains three tables, where the leading texts for them are subsection heading. Organize them in the bullet list, while demoting headings into normal text. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-01-05docs: cgroup-v1: move hierarchy of accounting captionBagas Sanjaya
The caption for hierarchy of accounting figure is in the code block, which is quite odd. Move the caption into :caption: option of code-block:: directive instead. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-01-05docs: cgroup-v1: fix footnotesBagas Sanjaya
The documentation contains external references, which some of them are marked as footnotes. Fix the syntax for them to be properly rendered as such. Non-footnote references aren't affected since the text for these is aligned the same to the footnotes. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>