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The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped
disk partitions from the userspace PoV.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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As stated at the documentation, this is meant to be for
users to better understand namespaces.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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The perf infrastructure is used for userspace to track issues.
At least a good part of what's described here is related to
it.
So, add it to the admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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This is actually a subsystem description, with contains both
kAPI and uAPI.
While it should ideally be slplit, let's place it at driver-api,
as most things are related to kAPI and driver-specific info.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the
README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other
files there via TOC markup.
Despite being written on different times with different
styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar
look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both
raw text file and as via the html output produced by the
Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Rename the blockdev documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
The drbd sub-directory contains some graphs and data flows.
Add those too to the documentation.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Rename the laptops documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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Rename the accounting documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Convert the m68k kernel-options.txt file to ReST.
The conversion is trivial, as the document is already on a format
close enough to ReST. Just some small adjustments were needed in
order to make it both good for being parsed while keeping it on
a good txt shape.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- Removal of the NPU DMA code, used by the out-of-tree Nvidia driver,
as well as some other functions only used by drivers that haven't
(yet?) made it upstream.
- A fix for a bug in our handling of hardware watchpoints (eg. perf
record -e mem: ...) which could lead to register corruption and
kernel crashes.
- Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP, which allows us to use large pages for
vmalloc when using the Radix MMU.
- A large but incremental rewrite of our exception handling code to
use gas macros rather than multiple levels of nested CPP macros.
And the usual small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter, Christophe
Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Denis
Efremov, Enrico Weigelt, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Gen Zhang, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz,
Gustavo Romero, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro
Yamada, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael Neuling, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N.
Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nishad Kamdar, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Segher
Boessenkool, Shaokun Zhang, Shawn Anastasio, Stewart Smith, Suraj
Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (163 commits)
powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix restore of SPRN_LDBAR for POWER9 stop state.
powerpc/eeh: Handle hugepages in ioremap space
ocxl: Update for AFU descriptor template version 1.1
powerpc/boot: pass CONFIG options in a simpler and more robust way
powerpc/boot: add {get, put}_unaligned_be32 to xz_config.h
powerpc/irq: Don't WARN continuously in arch_local_irq_restore()
powerpc/module64: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc/module32: Use symbolic instructions names.
powerpc: Move PPC_HA() PPC_HI() and PPC_LO() to ppc-opcode.h
powerpc/module64: Fix comment in R_PPC64_ENTRY handling
powerpc/boot: Add lzo support for uImage
powerpc/boot: Add lzma support for uImage
powerpc/boot: don't force gzipped uImage
powerpc/8xx: Add microcode patch to move SMC parameter RAM.
powerpc/8xx: Use IO accessors in microcode programming.
powerpc/8xx: replace #ifdefs by IS_ENABLED() in microcode.c
powerpc/8xx: refactor programming of microcode CPM params.
powerpc/8xx: refactor printing of microcode patch name.
powerpc/8xx: Refactor microcode write
powerpc/8xx: refactor writing of CPM microcode arrays
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
"Am experimenting with splitting MM up into identifiable subsystems
perhaps with a view to gitifying it in complex ways. Also with more
verbose "incoming" emails.
Most of MM is here and a few other trees.
Subsystems affected by this patch series:
- hotfixes
- iommu
- scripts
- arch/sh
- ocfs2
- mm:slab-generic
- mm:slub
- mm:kmemleak
- mm:kasan
- mm:cleanups
- mm:debug
- mm:pagecache
- mm:swap
- mm:memcg
- mm:gup
- mm:pagemap
- mm:infrastructure
- mm:vmalloc
- mm:initialization
- mm:pagealloc
- mm:vmscan
- mm:tools
- mm:proc
- mm:ras
- mm:oom-kill
hotfixes:
mm: vmscan: scan anonymous pages on file refaults
mm/nvdimm: add is_ioremap_addr and use that to check ioremap address
mm/memcontrol: fix wrong statistics in memory.stat
mm/z3fold.c: lock z3fold page before __SetPageMovable()
nilfs2: do not use unexported cpu_to_le32()/le32_to_cpu() in uapi header
MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: update email address
iommu:
include/linux/dmar.h: replace single-char identifiers in macros
scripts:
scripts/decode_stacktrace: match basepath using shell prefix operator, not regex
scripts/decode_stacktrace: look for modules with .ko.debug extension
scripts/spelling.txt: drop "sepc" from the misspelling list
scripts/spelling.txt: add spelling fix for prohibited
scripts/decode_stacktrace: Accept dash/underscore in modules
scripts/spelling.txt: add more spellings to spelling.txt
arch/sh:
arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig: remove CONFIG_LOGFS
sh: config: remove left-over BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT
sh: prevent warnings when using iounmap
ocfs2:
fs: ocfs: fix spelling mistake "hearbeating" -> "heartbeat"
ocfs2/dlm: use struct_size() helper
ocfs2: add last unlock times in locking_state
ocfs2: add locking filter debugfs file
ocfs2: add first lock wait time in locking_state
ocfs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c: unneeded variable: "status"
ocfs2: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
mm:slab-generic:
Patch series "mm/slab: Improved sanity checking":
mm/slab: validate cache membership under freelist hardening
mm/slab: sanity-check page type when looking up cache
lkdtm/heap: add tests for freelist hardening
mm:slub:
mm/slub.c: avoid double string traverse in kmem_cache_flags()
slub: don't panic for memcg kmem cache creation failure
mm:kmemleak:
mm/kmemleak.c: fix check for softirq context
mm/kmemleak.c: change error at _write when kmemleak is disabled
docs: kmemleak: add more documentation details
mm:kasan:
mm/kasan: print frame description for stack bugs
Patch series "Bitops instrumentation for KASAN", v5:
lib/test_kasan: add bitops tests
x86: use static_cpu_has in uaccess region to avoid instrumentation
asm-generic, x86: add bitops instrumentation for KASAN
Patch series "mm/kasan: Add object validation in ksize()", v3:
mm/kasan: introduce __kasan_check_{read,write}
mm/kasan: change kasan_check_{read,write} to return boolean
lib/test_kasan: Add test for double-kzfree detection
mm/slab: refactor common ksize KASAN logic into slab_common.c
mm/kasan: add object validation in ksize()
mm:cleanups:
include/linux/pfn_t.h: remove pfn_t_to_virt()
Patch series "remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL where it has no effect":
arm: remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
s390: remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
sparc: remove ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
mm/gup.c: make follow_page_mask() static
mm/memory.c: trivial clean up in insert_page()
mm: make !CONFIG_HUGE_PAGE wrappers into static inlines
include/linux/mm_types.h: ifdef struct vm_area_struct::swap_readahead_info
mm: remove the account_page_dirtied export
mm/page_isolation.c: change the prototype of undo_isolate_page_range()
include/linux/vmpressure.h: use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock
mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages
include/linux/pagemap.h: document trylock_page() return value
mm:debug:
mm/failslab.c: by default, do not fail allocations with direct reclaim only
Patch series "debug_pagealloc improvements":
mm, debug_pagelloc: use static keys to enable debugging
mm, page_alloc: more extensive free page checking with debug_pagealloc
mm, debug_pagealloc: use a page type instead of page_ext flag
mm:pagecache:
Patch series "fix filler_t callback type mismatches", v2:
mm/filemap.c: fix an overly long line in read_cache_page
mm/filemap: don't cast ->readpage to filler_t for do_read_cache_page
jffs2: pass the correct prototype to read_cache_page
9p: pass the correct prototype to read_cache_page
mm/filemap.c: correct the comment about VM_FAULT_RETRY
mm:swap:
mm, swap: fix race between swapoff and some swap operations
mm/swap_state.c: simplify total_swapcache_pages() with get_swap_device()
mm, swap: use rbtree for swap_extent
mm/mincore.c: fix race between swapoff and mincore
mm:memcg:
memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
memcg, fsnotify: no oom-kill for remote memcg charging
mm, memcg: introduce memory.events.local
mm: memcontrol: dump memory.stat during cgroup OOM
Patch series "mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal", v7:
mm: memcg/slab: postpone kmem_cache memcg pointer initialization to memcg_link_cache()
mm: memcg/slab: rename slab delayed deactivation functions and fields
mm: memcg/slab: generalize postponed non-root kmem_cache deactivation
mm: memcg/slab: introduce __memcg_kmem_uncharge_memcg()
mm: memcg/slab: unify SLAB and SLUB page accounting
mm: memcg/slab: don't check the dying flag on kmem_cache creation
mm: memcg/slab: synchronize access to kmem_cache dying flag using a spinlock
mm: memcg/slab: rework non-root kmem_cache lifecycle management
mm: memcg/slab: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages
mm: memcg/slab: reparent memcg kmem_caches on cgroup removal
mm, memcg: add a memcg_slabinfo debugfs file
mm:gup:
Patch series "switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP", v4:
mm: use untagged_addr() for get_user_pages_fast addresses
mm: simplify gup_fast_permitted
mm: lift the x86_32 PAE version of gup_get_pte to common code
MIPS: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
sh: add the missing pud_page definition
sh: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
sparc64: add the missing pgd_page definition
sparc64: define untagged_addr()
sparc64: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
mm: rename CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP
mm: reorder code blocks in gup.c
mm: consolidate the get_user_pages* implementations
mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags
mm: move the powerpc hugepd code to mm/gup.c
mm: switch gup_hugepte to use try_get_compound_head
mm: mark the page referenced in gup_hugepte
mm/gup: speed up check_and_migrate_cma_pages() on huge page
mm/gup.c: remove some BUG_ONs from get_gate_page()
mm/gup.c: mark undo_dev_pagemap as __maybe_unused
mm:pagemap:
asm-generic, x86: introduce generic pte_{alloc,free}_one[_kernel]
alpha: switch to generic version of pte allocation
arm: switch to generic version of pte allocation
arm64: switch to generic version of pte allocation
csky: switch to generic version of pte allocation
m68k: sun3: switch to generic version of pte allocation
mips: switch to generic version of pte allocation
nds32: switch to generic version of pte allocation
nios2: switch to generic version of pte allocation
parisc: switch to generic version of pte allocation
riscv: switch to generic version of pte allocation
um: switch to generic version of pte allocation
unicore32: switch to generic version of pte allocation
mm/pgtable: drop pgtable_t variable from pte_fn_t functions
mm/memory.c: fail when offset == num in first check of __vm_map_pages()
mm:infrastructure:
mm/mmu_notifier: use hlist_add_head_rcu()
mm:vmalloc:
Patch series "Some cleanups for the KVA/vmalloc", v5:
mm/vmalloc.c: remove "node" argument
mm/vmalloc.c: preload a CPU with one object for split purpose
mm/vmalloc.c: get rid of one single unlink_va() when merge
mm/vmalloc.c: switch to WARN_ON() and move it under unlink_va()
mm/vmalloc.c: spelling> s/informaion/information/
mm:initialization:
mm/large system hash: use vmalloc for size > MAX_ORDER when !hashdist
mm/large system hash: clear hashdist when only one node with memory is booted
mm:pagealloc:
arm64: move jump_label_init() before parse_early_param()
Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10:
mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options
mm: init: report memory auto-initialization features at boot time
mm:vmscan:
mm: vmscan: remove double slab pressure by inc'ing sc->nr_scanned
mm: vmscan: correct some vmscan counters for THP swapout
mm:tools:
tools/vm/slabinfo: order command line options
tools/vm/slabinfo: add partial slab listing to -X
tools/vm/slabinfo: add option to sort by partial slabs
tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu
mm:proc:
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/maps
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/pagemap
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/clear_refs
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/map_files
mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm
mm: smaps: split PSS into components
mm: vmalloc: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo
mm:ras:
mm/memory-failure.c: clarify error message
mm:oom-kill:
mm: memcontrol: use CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS at mem_cgroup_scan_tasks()
mm, oom: refactor dump_tasks for memcg OOMs
mm, oom: remove redundant task_in_mem_cgroup() check
oom: decouple mems_allowed from oom_unkillable_task
mm/oom_kill.c: remove redundant OOM score normalization in select_bad_process()"
* akpm: (147 commits)
mm/oom_kill.c: remove redundant OOM score normalization in select_bad_process()
oom: decouple mems_allowed from oom_unkillable_task
mm, oom: remove redundant task_in_mem_cgroup() check
mm, oom: refactor dump_tasks for memcg OOMs
mm: memcontrol: use CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS at mem_cgroup_scan_tasks()
mm/memory-failure.c: clarify error message
mm: vmalloc: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo
mm: smaps: split PSS into components
mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/map_files
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/clear_refs
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/pagemap
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/maps
tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu
tools/vm/slabinfo: add option to sort by partial slabs
tools/vm/slabinfo: add partial slab listing to -X
tools/vm/slabinfo: order command line options
mm: vmscan: correct some vmscan counters for THP swapout
mm: vmscan: remove double slab pressure by inc'ing sc->nr_scanned
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Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10.
Provide init_on_alloc and init_on_free boot options.
These are aimed at preventing possible information leaks and making the
control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.
Enabling either of the options guarantees that the memory returned by the
page allocator and SL[AU]B is initialized with zeroes. SLOB allocator
isn't supported at the moment, as its emulation of kmem caches complicates
handling of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches correctly.
Enabling init_on_free also guarantees that pages and heap objects are
initialized right after they're freed, so it won't be possible to access
stale data by using a dangling pointer.
As suggested by Michal Hocko, right now we don't let the heap users to
disable initialization for certain allocations. There's not enough
evidence that doing so can speed up real-life cases, and introducing ways
to opt-out may result in things going out of control.
This patch (of 2):
The new options are needed to prevent possible information leaks and make
control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.
This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome OS. And it
gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros too via the
boot args. (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested by folks
where memory forensics is included in their threat models.)
init_on_alloc=1 makes the kernel initialize newly allocated pages and heap
objects with zeroes. Initialization is done at allocation time at the
places where checks for __GFP_ZERO are performed.
init_on_free=1 makes the kernel initialize freed pages and heap objects
with zeroes upon their deletion. This helps to ensure sensitive data
doesn't leak via use-after-free accesses.
Both init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 guarantee that the allocator
returns zeroed memory. The two exceptions are slab caches with
constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag. Those are never
zero-initialized to preserve their semantics.
Both init_on_alloc and init_on_free default to zero, but those defaults
can be overridden with CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON and
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
If either SLUB poisoning or page poisoning is enabled, those options take
precedence over init_on_alloc and init_on_free: initialization is only
applied to unpoisoned allocations.
Slowdown for the new features compared to init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0:
hackbench, init_on_free=1: +7.62% sys time (st.err 0.74%)
hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.75% sys time (st.err 2.14%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +8.38% wall time (st.err 0.39%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +24.42% sys time (st.err 0.52%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.13% wall time (st.err 0.42%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +0.57% sys time (st.err 0.40%)
The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the baseline
is within the standard error.
The new features are also going to pave the way for hardware memory
tagging (e.g. arm64's MTE), which will require both on_alloc and on_free
hooks to set the tags for heap objects. With MTE, tagging will have the
same cost as memory initialization.
Although init_on_free is rather costly, there are paranoid use-cases where
in-memory data lifetime is desired to be minimized. There are various
arguments for/against the realism of the associated threat models, but
given that we'll need the infrastructure for MTE anyway, and there are
people who want wipe-on-free behavior no matter what the performance cost,
it seems reasonable to include it in this series.
[glider@google.com: v8]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626121943.131390-2-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: v9]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627130316.254309-2-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: v10]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628093131.199499-2-glider@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617151050.92663-2-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [page and dmapool parts
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The memory controller in cgroup v2 exposes memory.events file for each
memcg which shows the number of times events like low, high, max, oom
and oom_kill have happened for the whole tree rooted at that memcg.
Users can also poll or register notification to monitor the changes in
that file. Any event at any level of the tree rooted at memcg will
notify all the listeners along the path till root_mem_cgroup. There are
existing users which depend on this behavior.
However there are users which are only interested in the events
happening at a specific level of the memcg tree and not in the events in
the underlying tree rooted at that memcg. One such use-case is a
centralized resource monitor which can dynamically adjust the limits of
the jobs running on a system. The jobs can create their sub-hierarchy
for their own sub-tasks. The centralized monitor is only interested in
the events at the top level memcgs of the jobs as it can then act and
adjust the limits of the jobs. Using the current memory.events for such
centralized monitor is very inconvenient. The monitor will keep
receiving events which it is not interested and to find if the received
event is interesting, it has to read memory.event files of the next
level and compare it with the top level one. So, let's introduce
memory.events.local to the memcg which shows and notify for the events
at the memcg level.
Now, does memory.stat and memory.pressure need their local versions. IMHO
no due to the no internal process contraint of the cgroup v2. The
memory.stat file of the top level memcg of a job shows the stats and
vmevents of the whole tree. The local stats or vmevents of the top level
memcg will only change if there is a process running in that memcg but v2
does not allow that. Similarly for memory.pressure there will not be any
process in the internal nodes and thus no chance of local pressure.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527174643.209172-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext
array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that
we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as
guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces
memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other
features requiring the page_ext array.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "large" TTY and Serial driver update for 5.3-rc1.
It's in the negative number of lines overall as we removed an obsolete
serial driver that was causing problems for some people who were
trying to clean up some apis (the mpsc.c driver, which only worked for
some pre-production hardware that no one has anymore.)
Other than that, lots of tiny changes, cleaning up small things along
with some platform-specific serial driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (68 commits)
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: add imx8qxp support
serial: imx: set_termios(): preserve RTS state
serial: imx: set_termios(): clarify RTS/CTS bits calculation
serial: imx: set_termios(): factor-out 'ucr2' initial value
serial: sh-sci: Terminate TX DMA during buffer flushing
serial: sh-sci: Fix TX DMA buffer flushing and workqueue races
serial: mpsc: Remove obsolete MPSC driver
serial: 8250: 8250_core: Fix missing unlock on error in serial8250_register_8250_port()
serial: stm32: add RX and TX FIFO flush
serial: stm32: add support of RX FIFO threshold
serial: stm32: add support of TX FIFO threshold
serial: stm32: update PIO transmission
serial: stm32: add support of timeout interrupt for RX
Revert "serial: 8250: Don't service RX FIFO if interrupts are disabled"
tty/serial/8250: use mctrl_gpio helpers
serial: mctrl_gpio: Check if GPIO property exisits before requesting it
serial: 8250: pericom_do_set_divisor can be static
tty: serial_core: Set port active bit in uart_port_activate
serial: 8250: Add MSR/MCR TIOCM conversion wrapper functions
serial: 8250: factor out serial8250_{set,clear}_THRI() helpers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull security/loadpin updates from Kees Cook:
- Allow exclusion of specific file types (Ke Wu)
* tag 'loadpin-v5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
security/loadpin: Allow to exclude specific file types
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Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which
will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost"
* 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS
cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The changes in this cycle are:
- RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
- SRCU updates
- RCU-sync flavor consolidation
- Torture-test updates
- Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the
addition of plain C-language accesses"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
tools/memory-model: Improve data-race detection
tools/memory-model: Change definition of rcu-fence
tools/memory-model: Expand definition of barrier
tools/memory-model: Do not use "herd" to refer to "herd7"
tools/memory-model: Fix comment in MP+poonceonces.litmus
Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()
rcu: Force inlining of rcu_read_lock()
rcu: Fix irritating whitespace error in rcu_assign_pointer()
rcu: Upgrade sync_exp_work_done() to smp_mb()
rcutorture: Upper case solves the case of the vanishing NULL pointer
torture: Suppress propagating trace_printk() warning
rcutorture: Dump trace buffer for callback pipe drain failures
torture: Add --trust-make to suppress "make clean"
torture: Make --cpus override idleness calculations
torture: Run kernel build in source directory
torture: Add function graph-tracing cheat sheet
torture: Capture qemu output
rcutorture: Tweak kvm options
rcutorture: Add trivial RCU implementation
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The documentation is more appropriate for the administrator than for
the internal kernel API section it is currently in.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 vsyscall updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Further hardening of the legacy vsyscall by providing support for
execute only mode and switching the default to it.
This prevents a certain class of attacks which rely on the vsyscall
page being accessible at a fixed address in the canonical kernel
address space"
* 'x86-entry-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftests/x86: Add a test for process_vm_readv() on the vsyscall page
x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables
x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly
selftests/x86/vsyscall: Verify that vsyscall=none blocks execution
x86/vsyscall: Document odd SIGSEGV error code for vsyscalls
x86/vsyscall: Show something useful on a read fault
x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly mode
Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation
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Support for the Marvell MV64x60 line of bridge chips that contained
MPSC controllers has been removed and there are no other components
that have that controller so remove its driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190626160553.28518-1-mgreer@animalcreek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 243e25112d06 ("powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE
interrupt controller") added an option to turn off Linux native XIVE
usage via the xive=off kernel command line option.
This documents this option.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull rcu/next + tools/memory-model changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- RCU flavor consolidation cleanups and optmizations
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
- SRCU updates
- RCU-sync flavor consolidation
- Torture-test updates
- Linux-kernel memory-consistency-model updates, most notably the addition of plain C-language accesses
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to
indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as
an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code,
"``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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With vsyscall emulation on, a readable vsyscall page is still exposed that
contains syscall instructions that validly implement the vsyscalls.
This is required because certain dynamic binary instrumentation tools
attempt to read the call targets of call instructions in the instrumented
code. If the instrumented code uses vsyscalls, then the vsyscall page needs
to contain readable code.
Unfortunately, leaving readable memory at a deterministic address can be
used to help various ASLR bypasses, so some hardening value can be gained
by disallowing vsyscall reads.
Given how rarely the vsyscall page needs to be readable, add a mechanism to
make the vsyscall page be execute only.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d17655777c21bc09a7af1bbcf74e6f2b69a51152.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
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The vsyscall=native feature is gone -- remove the docs.
Fixes: 076ca272a14c ("x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d77c7105eb4c57c1a95a95b6a5b8ba194a18e764.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
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Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:
- Explain the problem and risks
- Document the mitigation mechanisms
- Document the command line controls
- Document the sysfs files
Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This sets the HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP option, and defines the required
page table functions.
This enables huge (2MB and 1GB) ioremap mappings. I don't have a
benchmark for this change, but huge vmap will be used by a later core
kernel change to enable huge vmalloc memory mappings. This improves
cached `git diff` performance by about 5% on a 2-node POWER9 with 32MB
size dentry cache hash.
Profiling git diff dTLB misses with a vanilla kernel:
81.75% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __d_lookup_rcu
7.21% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] strncpy_from_user
1.77% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] find_get_entry
1.59% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] kmem_cache_free
40,168 dTLB-miss
0.100342754 seconds time elapsed
With powerpc huge vmalloc:
2,987 dTLB-miss
0.095933138 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Sphinx need to know when a paragraph ends. So, do some adjustments
at the file for it to be properly parsed.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
that's said, I believe that this file should be moved to the
GPU/DRM documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Convert those documents and prepare them to be part of the kernel
API book, as most of the stuff there are related to the
Kernel interfaces.
Still, in the future, it would make sense to split the docs,
as some of the stuff is clearly focused on sysadmin tasks.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to
allow a later addition to the admin-guide.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the
user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on
sysadmins that would be enabling kdump.
Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its
sub-sections:
PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline)
I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content,
in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The kbuild documentation clearly shows that the documents
there are written at different times: some use markdown,
some use their own peculiar logic to split sections.
Convert everything to ReST without affecting too much
the author's style and avoiding adding uneeded markups.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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We need to pick up post-rc1 changes to various document files so they don't
get lost in Mauro's massive RST conversion push.
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Convert all text files with s390 documentation to ReST format.
Tried to preserve as much as possible the original document
format. Still, some of the files required some work in order
for it to be visible on both plain text and after converted
to html.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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The hisax driver got removed on 85993b8c9786 ("isdn: remove hisax driver"),
but a left-over was kept at kernel-parameters.txt.
Fixes: 85993b8c9786 ("isdn: remove hisax driver")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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When building it, it gets this warning:
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst:168: WARNING: Footnote [1] is not referenced.
The problem is that this is not really a reference, as it is not
mentioned within the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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memory.stat and other files already consider subtrees in their output, and
we should too in order to not present an inconsistent interface.
The current situation is fairly confusing, because people interacting with
cgroups expect hierarchical behaviour in the vein of memory.stat,
cgroup.events, and other files. For example, this causes confusion when
debugging reclaim events under low, as currently these always read "0" at
non-leaf memcg nodes, which frequently causes people to misdiagnose breach
behaviour. The same confusion applies to other counters in this file when
debugging issues.
Aggregation is done at write time instead of at read-time since these
counters aren't hot (unlike memory.stat which is per-page, so it does it
at read time), and it makes sense to bundle this with the file
notifications.
After this patch, events are propagated up the hierarchy:
[root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
low 0
high 0
max 0
oom 0
oom_kill 0
[root@ktst ~]# systemd-run -p MemoryMax=1 true
Running as unit: run-r251162a189fb4562b9dabfdc9b0422f5.service
[root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
low 0
high 0
max 7
oom 1
oom_kill 1
As this is a change in behaviour, this can be reverted to the old
behaviour by mounting with the `memory_localevents' flag set. However, we
use the new behaviour by default as there's a lack of evidence that there
are any current users of memory.events that would find this change
undesirable.
akpm: this is a behaviour change, so Cc:stable. THis is so that
forthcoming distros which use cgroup v2 are more likely to pick up the
revised behaviour.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190208224419.GA24772@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel already provide MODULE_SIG and KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG to
make sure loaded kernel module and kernel image are trusted. This
patch adds a kernel command line option "loadpin.exclude" which
allows to exclude specific file types from LoadPin. This is useful
when people want to use different mechanisms to verify module and
kernel image while still use LoadPin to protect the integrity of
other files kernel loads.
Signed-off-by: Ke Wu <mikewu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
[kees: fix array size issue reported by Coverity via Colin Ian King]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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cgroup already uses floating point for percent[ile] numbers and there
are several controllers which want to take them as input. Add a
generic parse helper to handle inputs.
Update the interface convention documentation about the use of
percentage numbers. While at it, also clarify the default time unit.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The default behavior of hardlockup depends on the config of
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC.
Fix the description of nmi_watchdog to make it clear.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing
without affecting other softirq work. This commit therefore introduces
the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core
work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc. Use of
SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
to kthreads. That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.
Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core
processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked
from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition
in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock()
while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent
bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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Commit 13bac55ef7ae ("doc/mm: New documentation for memory performance")
added numaperf.rst, but did not add it to the TOC tree. There was also an
incorrectly marked literal block leading to this warning sequence:
numaperf.rst:24: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
numaperf.rst:24: WARNING: Inline substitution_reference start-string without end-string.
numaperf.rst:25: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Fix the block and add the file to the document tree.
Fixes: 13bac55ef7ae ("doc/mm: New documentation for memory performance")
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Currently on panic, kernel will lower the loglevel and print out pending
printk msg only with console_flush_on_panic().
Add an option for users to configure the "panic_print" to replay all
dmesg in buffer, some of which they may have never seen due to the
loglevel setting, which will help panic debugging .
[feng.tang@intel.com: keep the original console_flush_on_panic() inside panic()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556199137-14163-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[feng.tang@intel.com: use logbuf lock to protect the console log index]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556269868-22654-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556095872-36838-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- some minor cleanups
- two small corrections for Xen on ARM
- two fixes for Xen PVH guest support
- a patch for a new command line option to tune virtual timer handling
* tag 'for-linus-5.2b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/arm: Use p2m entry with lock protection
xen/arm: Free p2m entry if fail to add it to RB tree
xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0
xen/pvh: set xen_domain_type to HVM in xen_pvh_init
xenbus: drop useless LIST_HEAD in xenbus_write_watch() and xenbus_file_write()
xen-netfront: mark expected switch fall-through
xen: xen-pciback: fix warning Using plain integer as NULL pointer
x86/xen: Add "xen_timer_slop" command line option
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