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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here are all of the driver core and related patches for 4.19-rc1.
Nothing huge here, just a number of small cleanups and the ability to
now stop the deferred probing after init happens.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with only a merge
issue reported"
* tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits)
base: core: Remove WARN_ON from link dependencies check
drivers/base: stop new probing during shutdown
drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier
driver core: remove unnecessary function extern declare
sysfs.h: fix non-kernel-doc comment
PM / Domains: Stop deferring probe at the end of initcall
iommu: Remove IOMMU_OF_DECLARE
iommu: Stop deferring probe at end of initcalls
pinctrl: Support stopping deferred probe after initcalls
dt-bindings: pinctrl: add a 'pinctrl-use-default' property
driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init
driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices
sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates
base: fix order of OF initialization
linux/device.h: fix kernel-doc notation warning
Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference
kobject: Replace strncpy with memcpy
drivers: base: cacheinfo: use OF property_read_u32 instead of get_property,read_number
kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy
device: Add #define dev_fmt similar to #define pr_fmt
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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 big tty and serial driver pull request for 4.19-rc1.
It's not all that big, just a number of small serial driver updates
and fixes, along with some better vt handling for unicode characters
for those using braille terminals.
All of these patches have been in linux-next for a long time with no
reported issues"
* tag 'tty-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (73 commits)
tty: serial: 8250: Revert NXP SC16C2552 workaround
serial: 8250_exar: Read INT0 from slave device, too
tty: rocket: Fix possible buffer overwrite on register_PCI
serial: 8250_dw: Add ACPI support for uart on Broadcom SoC
serial: 8250_dw: always set baud rate in dw8250_set_termios
dt-bindings: serial: Add binding for uartlite
tty: serial: uartlite: Add support for suspend and resume
tty: serial: uartlite: Add clock adaptation
tty: serial: uartlite: Add structure for private data
serial: sh-sci: Improve support for separate TEI and DRI interrupts
serial: sh-sci: Remove SCIx_RZ_SCIFA_REGTYPE
serial: sh-sci: Allow for compressed SCIF address
serial: sh-sci: Improve interrupts description
serial: 8250: Use cached port name directly in messages
serial: 8250_exar: Drop unused variable in pci_xr17v35x_setup()
vt: drop unused struct vt_struct
vt: avoid a VLA in the unicode screen scroll function
vt: add /dev/vcsu* to devices.txt
vt: coherence validation code for the unicode screen buffer
vt: selection: take screen contents from uniscr if available
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- a few Y2038 fixes
- ntfs fixes
- arch/sh tweaks
- ocfs2 updates
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (111 commits)
mm/hmm.c: remove unused variables align_start and align_end
fs/userfaultfd.c: remove redundant pointer uwq
mm, vmacache: hash addresses based on pmd
mm/list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_walk_irq()
mm/list_lru.c: pass struct list_lru_node* as an argument to __list_lru_walk_one()
mm/list_lru.c: move locking from __list_lru_walk_one() to its caller
mm/list_lru.c: use list_lru_walk_one() in list_lru_walk_node()
mm, swap: make CONFIG_THP_SWAP depend on CONFIG_SWAP
mm/sparse: delete old sparse_init and enable new one
mm/sparse: add new sparse_init_nid() and sparse_init()
mm/sparse: move buffer init/fini to the common place
mm/sparse: use the new sparse buffer functions in non-vmemmap
mm/sparse: abstract sparse buffer allocations
mm/hugetlb.c: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages
mm, page_alloc: double zone's batchsize
mm/oom_kill.c: document oom_lock
mm/hugetlb: remove gigantic page support for HIGHMEM
mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock
kernel/dma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from dma_alloc_from_contiguous()
mm/cma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from cma_alloc()
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Add a flag which causes page-types to use the kernels's idle page
tracking to mark pages idle. As the tool already prints the idle flag
if set, subsequent runs will show which pages have been accessed since
last run.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify mark_page_idle()]
[chansen3@cisco.com: reorganize mark_page_idle() logic, add docs]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180706172237.21691-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612153223.13174-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a new flag that will read kpagecount for each PFN and print out the
number of times the page is mapped along with the flags in the listing
view.
This information is useful in understanding and optimizing memory usage.
Identifying pages which are not shared allows us to focus on adjusting
the memory layout or access patterns for the sole owning process.
Knowing the number of processes that share a page tells us how many
other times we must make the same adjustments or how many processes to
potentially disable.
Truncated sample output:
voffset map-cnt offset len flags
561a3591e 1 15fe8 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
561a3591f 1 2b103 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
561a36ca4 1 2cc78 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
7f588bb4e 14 2273c 1 __RU_lA____M______________________________
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[chansen3@cisco.com: add documentation, tweak whitespace]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705181204.5529-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612153205.12879-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Notable changes:
- A fix for a bug in our page table fragment allocator, where a page
table page could be freed and reallocated for something else while
still in use, leading to memory corruption etc. The fix reuses
pt_mm in struct page (x86 only) for a powerpc only refcount.
- Fixes to our pkey support. Several are user-visible changes, but
bring us in to line with x86 behaviour and/or fix outright bugs.
Thanks to Florian Weimer for reporting many of these.
- A series to improve the hvc driver & related OPAL console code,
which have been seen to cause hardlockups at times. The hvc driver
changes in particular have been in linux-next for ~month.
- Increase our MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y.
- Remove Power8 DD1 and Power9 DD1 support, neither chip should be in
use anywhere other than as a paper weight.
- An optimised memcmp implementation using Power7-or-later VMX
instructions
- Support for barrier_nospec on some NXP CPUs.
- Support for flushing the count cache on context switch on some IBM
CPUs (controlled by firmware), as a Spectre v2 mitigation.
- A series to enhance the information we print on unhandled signals
to bring it into line with other arches, including showing the
offending VMA and dumping the instructions around the fault.
Thanks to: Aaro Koskinen, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alexey Spirkov, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd Bergmann, Bartosz Golaszewski,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharat Bhushan, Bjoern Noetel, Boqun Feng,
Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly, Camelia Groza, Christophe Leroy, Christoph
Hellwig, Cyril Bur, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Klamt, Darren Stevens, Dave
Young, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Finn Thain, Florian Weimer,
Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geoff Levand,
Guenter Roeck, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel
Stanley, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Michael Schmitz, Mukesh Ojha,
Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nicholas Piggin, Parth Y Shah, Paul
Mackerras, Paul Menzel, Ram Pai, Randy Dunlap, Rashmica Gupta, Reza
Arbab, Rodrigo R. Galvao, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Scott Wood,
Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo, Souptick Joarder, Stan Johnson, Thiago
Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Venkat
Rao, zhong jiang"
* tag 'powerpc-4.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (234 commits)
powerpc/mm/book3s/radix: Add mapping statistics
powerpc/uaccess: Enable get_user(u64, *p) on 32-bit
powerpc/mm/hash: Remove unnecessary do { } while(0) loop
powerpc/64s: move machine check SLB flushing to mm/slb.c
powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix build error
powerpc/mm/tlbflush: update the mmu_gather page size while iterating address range
powerpc/mm: remove warning about ‘type’ being set
powerpc/32: Include setup.h header file to fix warnings
powerpc: Move `path` variable inside DEBUG_PROM
powerpc/powermac: Make some functions static
powerpc/powermac: Remove variable x that's never read
cxl: remove a dead branch
powerpc/powermac: Add missing include of header pmac.h
powerpc/kexec: Use common error handling code in setup_new_fdt()
powerpc/xmon: Add address lookup for percpu symbols
powerpc/mm: remove huge_pte_offset_and_shift() prototype
powerpc/lib: Use patch_site to patch copy_32 functions once cache is enabled
powerpc/pseries: Fix endianness while restoring of r3 in MCE handler.
powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to reduce PT_LOAD segements
powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci
Pull pci updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
- Decode AER errors with names similar to "lspci" (Tyler Baicar)
- Expose AER statistics in sysfs (Rajat Jain)
- Clear AER status bits selectively based on the type of recovery (Oza
Pawandeep)
- Honor "pcie_ports=native" even if HEST sets FIRMWARE_FIRST (Alexandru
Gagniuc)
- Don't clear AER status bits if we're using the "Firmware-First"
strategy where firmware owns the registers (Alexandru Gagniuc)
- Use sysfs_match_string() to simplify ASPM sysfs parsing (Andy
Shevchenko)
- Remove unnecessary includes of <linux/pci-aspm.h> (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Defer DPC event handling to work queue (Keith Busch)
- Use threaded IRQ for DPC bottom half (Keith Busch)
- Print AER status while handling DPC events (Keith Busch)
- Work around IDT switch ACS Source Validation erratum (James
Puthukattukaran)
- Emit diagnostics for all cases of PCIe Link downtraining (Links
operating slower than they're capable of) (Alexandru Gagniuc)
- Skip VFs when configuring Max Payload Size (Myron Stowe)
- Reduce Root Port Max Payload Size if necessary when hot-adding a
device below it (Myron Stowe)
- Simplify SHPC existence/permission checks (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Remove hotplug sample skeleton driver (Lukas Wunner)
- Convert pciehp to threaded IRQ handling (Lukas Wunner)
- Improve pciehp tolerance of missed events and initially unstable
links (Lukas Wunner)
- Clear spurious pciehp events on resume (Lukas Wunner)
- Add pciehp runtime PM support, including for Thunderbolt controllers
(Lukas Wunner)
- Support interrupts from pciehp bridges in D3hot (Lukas Wunner)
- Mark fall-through switch cases before enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough
(Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- Move DMA-debug PCI init from arch code to PCI core (Christoph
Hellwig)
- Fix pci_request_irq() usage of IRQF_ONESHOT when no handler is
supplied (Heiner Kallweit)
- Unify PCI and DMA direction #defines (Shunyong Yang)
- Add PCI_DEVICE_DATA() macro (Andy Shevchenko)
- Check for VPD completion before checking for timeout (Bert Kenward)
- Limit Netronome NFP5000 config space size to work around erratum
(Jakub Kicinski)
- Set IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE for PCI MSI irqchips (Heiner Kallweit)
- Document ACPI description of PCI host bridges (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Add "pci=disable_acs_redir=" parameter to disable ACS redirection for
peer-to-peer DMA support (we don't have the peer-to-peer support yet;
this is just one piece) (Logan Gunthorpe)
- Clean up devm_of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() resource allocation
(Jan Kiszka)
- Fixup resizable BARs after suspend/resume (Christian König)
- Make "pci=earlydump" generic (Sinan Kaya)
- Fix ROM BAR access routines to stay in bounds and check for signature
correctly (Rex Zhu)
- Add DMA alias quirk for Microsemi Switchtec NTB (Doug Meyer)
- Expand documentation for pci_add_dma_alias() (Logan Gunthorpe)
- To avoid bus errors, enable PASID only if entire path supports
End-End TLP prefixes (Sinan Kaya)
- Unify slot and bus reset functions and remove hotplug knowledge from
callers (Sinan Kaya)
- Add Function-Level Reset quirks for Intel and Samsung NVMe devices to
fix guest reboot issues (Alex Williamson)
- Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Marvell 88SS9183 PCIe SSD
Controller (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Remove Xilinx AXI-PCIe host bridge arch dependency (Palmer Dabbelt)
- Remove Aardvark outbound window configuration (Evan Wang)
- Fix Aardvark bridge window sizing issue (Zachary Zhang)
- Convert Aardvark to use pci_host_probe() to reduce code duplication
(Thomas Petazzoni)
- Correct the Cadence cdns_pcie_writel() signature (Alan Douglas)
- Add Cadence support for optional generic PHYs (Alan Douglas)
- Add Cadence power management ops (Alan Douglas)
- Remove redundant variable from Cadence driver (Colin Ian King)
- Add Kirin MSI support (Xiaowei Song)
- Drop unnecessary root_bus_nr setting from exynos, imx6, keystone,
armada8k, artpec6, designware-plat, histb, qcom, spear13xx (Shawn
Guo)
- Move link notification settings from DesignWare core to individual
drivers (Gustavo Pimentel)
- Add endpoint library MSI-X interfaces (Gustavo Pimentel)
- Correct signature of endpoint library IRQ interfaces (Gustavo
Pimentel)
- Add DesignWare endpoint library MSI-X callbacks (Gustavo Pimentel)
- Add endpoint library MSI-X test support (Gustavo Pimentel)
- Remove unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC from Hyper-V "new child" allocation
(Jia-Ju Bai)
- Add more devices to Broadcom PAXC quirk (Ray Jui)
- Work around corrupted Broadcom PAXC config space to enable SMMU and
GICv3 ITS (Ray Jui)
- Disable MSI parsing to work around broken Broadcom PAXC logic in some
devices (Ray Jui)
- Hide unconfigured functions to work around a Broadcom PAXC defect
(Ray Jui)
- Lower iproc log level to reduce console output during boot (Ray Jui)
- Fix mobiveil iomem/phys_addr_t type usage (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Fix mobiveil missing include file (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Add mobiveil Kconfig/Makefile support (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Fix mvebu I/O space remapping issues (Thomas Petazzoni)
- Use generic pci_host_bridge in mvebu instead of ARM-specific API
(Thomas Petazzoni)
- Whitelist VMD devices with fast interrupt handlers to avoid sharing
vectors with slow handlers (Keith Busch)
* tag 'pci-v4.19-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (153 commits)
PCI/AER: Don't clear AER bits if error handling is Firmware-First
PCI: Limit config space size for Netronome NFP5000
PCI/MSI: Set IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE for PCI-MSI irqchips
PCI/VPD: Check for VPD access completion before checking for timeout
PCI: Add PCI_DEVICE_DATA() macro to fully describe device ID entry
PCI: Match Root Port's MPS to endpoint's MPSS as necessary
PCI: Skip MPS logic for Virtual Functions (VFs)
PCI: Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Marvell 88SS9183
PCI: Check for PCIe Link downtraining
PCI: Add ACS Redirect disable quirk for Intel Sunrise Point
PCI: Add device-specific ACS Redirect disable infrastructure
PCI: Convert device-specific ACS quirks from NULL termination to ARRAY_SIZE
PCI: Add "pci=disable_acs_redir=" parameter for peer-to-peer support
PCI: Allow specifying devices using a base bus and path of devfns
PCI: Make specifying PCI devices in kernel parameters reusable
PCI: Hide ACS quirk declarations inside PCI core
PCI: Delay after FLR of Intel DC P3700 NVMe
PCI: Disable Samsung SM961/PM961 NVMe before FLR
PCI: Export pcie_has_flr()
PCI: mvebu: Drop bogus comment above mvebu_pcie_map_registers()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random
Pull random updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Some changes to trust cpu-based hwrng (such as RDRAND) for
initializing hashed pointers and (optionally, controlled by a config
option) to initialize the CRNG to avoid boot hangs"
* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
random: Make crng state queryable
random: remove preempt disabled region
random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng
vsprintf: Add command line option debug_boot_weak_hash
vsprintf: Use hw RNG for ptr_key
random: Return nbytes filled from hw RNG
random: Fix whitespace pre random-bytes work
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- Clean up devm_of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources() resource allocation
(Jan Kiszka)
- Fixup resizable BARs after suspend/resume (Christian König)
- Make "pci=earlydump" generic (Sinan Kaya)
- Fix ROM BAR access routines to stay in bounds and check for signature
correctly (Rex Zhu)
* pci/resource:
PCI: Make pci_get_rom_size() static
PCI: Add check code for last image indicator not set
PCI: Avoid accessing memory outside the ROM BAR
PCI: Make early dump functionality generic
PCI: Cleanup PCI_REBAR_CTRL_BAR_SHIFT handling
PCI: Restore resized BAR state on resume
PCI: Clean up resource allocation in devm_of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()
# Conflicts:
# Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull hardened usercopy updates from Kees Cook:
"This cleans up a minor Kconfig issue and adds a kernel boot option for
disabling hardened usercopy for distro users that may have corner-case
performance issues (e.g. high bandwidth small-packet UDP traffic).
Summary:
- drop unneeded Kconfig "select BUG" (Kamal Mostafa)
- add "hardened_usercopy=off" rare performance needs (Chris von
Recklinghausen)"
* tag 'hardened-usercopy-v4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
usercopy: Allow boot cmdline disabling of hardening
usercopy: Do not select BUG with HARDENED_USERCOPY
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Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection
of small fixes and updates.
We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes,
a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa
male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management
documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport"
* tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt
Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h
Remove gendered language from management style documentation
scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes
docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.
doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking
docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst
doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
"First pull request for this merge window, there will also be a
followup request with some stragglers.
This pull request contains:
- Fix for a thundering heard issue in the wbt block code (Anchal
Agarwal)
- A few NVMe pull requests:
* Improved tracepoints (Keith)
* Larger inline data support for RDMA (Steve Wise)
* RDMA setup/teardown fixes (Sagi)
* Effects log suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
* Buffered IO suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
* TP4004 (ANA) support (Christoph)
* Various NVMe fixes
- Block io-latency controller support. Much needed support for
properly containing block devices. (Josef)
- Series improving how we handle sense information on the stack
(Kees)
- Lightnvm fixes and updates/improvements (Mathias/Javier et al)
- Zoned device support for null_blk (Matias)
- AIX partition fixes (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
- DIF checksum code made generic (Max Gurtovoy)
- Add support for discard in iostats (Michael Callahan / Tejun)
- Set of updates for BFQ (Paolo)
- Removal of async write support for bsg (Christoph)
- Bio page dirtying and clone fixups (Christoph)
- Set of bcache fix/changes (via Coly)
- Series improving blk-mq queue setup/teardown speed (Ming)
- Series improving merging performance on blk-mq (Ming)
- Lots of other fixes and cleanups from a slew of folks"
* tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (190 commits)
blkcg: Make blkg_root_lookup() work for queues in bypass mode
bcache: fix error setting writeback_rate through sysfs interface
null_blk: add lock drop/acquire annotation
Blk-throttle: reduce tail io latency when iops limit is enforced
block: paride: pd: mark expected switch fall-throughs
block: Ensure that a request queue is dissociated from the cgroup controller
block: Introduce blk_exit_queue()
blkcg: Introduce blkg_root_lookup()
block: Remove two superfluous #include directives
blk-mq: count the hctx as active before allocating tag
block: bvec_nr_vecs() returns value for wrong slab
bcache: trivial - remove tailing backslash in macro BTREE_FLAG
bcache: make the pr_err statement used for ENOENT only in sysfs_attatch section
bcache: set max writeback rate when I/O request is idle
bcache: add code comments for bset.c
bcache: fix mistaken comments in request.c
bcache: fix mistaken code comments in bcache.h
bcache: add a comment in super.c
bcache: avoid unncessary cache prefetch bch_btree_node_get()
bcache: display rate debug parameters to 0 when writeback is not running
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Merge L1 Terminal Fault fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"L1TF, aka L1 Terminal Fault, is yet another speculative hardware
engineering trainwreck. It's a hardware vulnerability which allows
unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in the
Level 1 Data Cache when the page table entry controlling the virtual
address, which is used for the access, has the Present bit cleared or
other reserved bits set.
If an instruction accesses a virtual address for which the relevant
page table entry (PTE) has the Present bit cleared or other reserved
bits set, then speculative execution ignores the invalid PTE and loads
the referenced data if it is present in the Level 1 Data Cache, as if
the page referenced by the address bits in the PTE was still present
and accessible.
While this is a purely speculative mechanism and the instruction will
raise a page fault when it is retired eventually, the pure act of
loading the data and making it available to other speculative
instructions opens up the opportunity for side channel attacks to
unprivileged malicious code, similar to the Meltdown attack.
While Meltdown breaks the user space to kernel space protection, L1TF
allows to attack any physical memory address in the system and the
attack works across all protection domains. It allows an attack of SGX
and also works from inside virtual machines because the speculation
bypasses the extended page table (EPT) protection mechanism.
The assoicated CVEs are: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646
The mitigations provided by this pull request include:
- Host side protection by inverting the upper address bits of a non
present page table entry so the entry points to uncacheable memory.
- Hypervisor protection by flushing L1 Data Cache on VMENTER.
- SMT (HyperThreading) control knobs, which allow to 'turn off' SMT
by offlining the sibling CPU threads. The knobs are available on
the kernel command line and at runtime via sysfs
- Control knobs for the hypervisor mitigation, related to L1D flush
and SMT control. The knobs are available on the kernel command line
and at runtime via sysfs
- Extensive documentation about L1TF including various degrees of
mitigations.
Thanks to all people who have contributed to this in various ways -
patches, review, testing, backporting - and the fruitful, sometimes
heated, but at the end constructive discussions.
There is work in progress to provide other forms of mitigations, which
might be less horrible performance wise for a particular kind of
workloads, but this is not yet ready for consumption due to their
complexity and limitations"
* 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
x86/microcode: Allow late microcode loading with SMT disabled
tools headers: Synchronise x86 cpufeatures.h for L1TF additions
x86/mm/kmmio: Make the tracer robust against L1TF
x86/mm/pat: Make set_memory_np() L1TF safe
x86/speculation/l1tf: Make pmd/pud_mknotpresent() invert
x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings
cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation
KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry
x86/speculation: Use ARCH_CAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry
x86/speculation: Simplify sysfs report of VMX L1TF vulnerability
Documentation/l1tf: Remove Yonah processors from not vulnerable list
x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr()
x86/irq: Let interrupt handlers set kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d
x86: Don't include linux/irq.h from asm/hardirq.h
x86/KVM/VMX: Introduce per-host-cpu analogue of l1tf_flush_l1d
x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16
x86/KVM/VMX: Move the l1tf_flush_l1d test to vmx_l1d_flush()
x86/KVM/VMX: Replace 'vmx_l1d_flush_always' with 'vmx_l1d_flush_cond'
x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d to true from vmx_l1d_flush()
cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Early TSC based time stamping to allow better boot time analysis.
This comes with a general cleanup of the TSC calibration code which
grew warts and duct taping over the years and removes 250 lines of
code. Initiated and mostly implemented by Pavel with help from various
folks"
* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/kvmclock: Mark kvm_get_preset_lpj() as __init
x86/tsc: Consolidate init code
sched/clock: Disable interrupts when calling generic_sched_clock_init()
timekeeping: Prevent false warning when persistent clock is not available
sched/clock: Close a hole in sched_clock_init()
x86/tsc: Make use of tsc_calibrate_cpu_early()
x86/tsc: Split native_calibrate_cpu() into early and late parts
sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running
sched/clock: Enable sched clock early
sched/clock: Move sched clock initialization and merge with generic clock
x86/tsc: Use TSC as sched clock early
x86/tsc: Initialize cyc2ns when tsc frequency is determined
x86/tsc: Calibrate tsc only once
ARM/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
s390/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
timekeeping: Default boot time offset to local_clock()
timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
s390/time: Add read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
x86/xen/time: Output xen sched_clock time from 0
x86/xen/time: Initialize pv xen time in init_hypervisor_platform()
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To support peer-to-peer traffic on a segment of the PCI hierarchy, we must
disable the ACS redirect bits for select PCI bridges. The bridges must be
selected before the devices are discovered by the kernel and the IOMMU
groups created. Therefore, add a kernel command line parameter to specify
devices which must have their ACS bits disabled.
The new parameter takes a list of devices separated by a semicolon. Each
device specified will have its ACS redirect bits disabled. This is
similar to the existing 'resource_alignment' parameter.
The ACS Request P2P Request Redirect, P2P Completion Redirect and P2P
Egress Control bits are disabled, which is sufficient to always allow
passing P2P traffic uninterrupted. The bits are set after the kernel
(optionally) enables the ACS bits itself. It is also done regardless of
whether the kernel or platform firmware sets the bits.
If the user tries to disable the ACS redirect for a device without the ACS
capability, print a warning to dmesg.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
[bhelgaas: reorder to add the generic code first and move the
device-specific quirk to subsequent patches]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
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When specifying PCI devices on the kernel command line using a
bus/device/function address, bus numbers can change when adding or
replacing a device, changing motherboard firmware, or applying kernel
parameters like "pci=assign-buses". When bus numbers change, it's likely
the command line tweak will be applied to the wrong device.
Therefore, it is useful to be able to specify devices with a base bus
number and the path of devfns needed to get to it, similar to the "device
scope" structure in the Intel VT-d spec, Section 8.3.1.
Thus, we add an option to specify devices in the following format:
[<domain>:]<bus>:<device>.<func>[/<device>.<func>]*
The path can be any segment within the PCI hierarchy of any length and
determined through the use of 'lspci -t'. When specified this way, it is
less likely that a renumbered bus will result in a valid device
specification and the tweak won't be applied to the wrong device.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
[bhelgaas: use "device" instead of "slot" in documentation since that's the
usual language in the PCI specs]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
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Separate out the code to match a PCI device with a string (typically
originating from a kernel parameter) from the
pci_specified_resource_alignment() function into its own helper function.
While we are at it, this change fixes the kernel style of the function
(fixing a number of long lines and extra parentheses).
Additionally, make the analogous change to the kernel parameter
documentation: Separate the description of how to specify a PCI device
into its own section at the head of the "pci=" parameter.
This patch should have no functional alterations.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
[bhelgaas: use "device" instead of "slot" in documentation since that's the
usual language in the PCI specs]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
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Currently only supported on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Pull in 4.18-rc6 to get the NVMe core AEN change to avoid a
merge conflict down the line.
Signed-of-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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When nested virtualization is in use, VMENTER operations from the nested
hypervisor into the nested guest will always be processed by the bare metal
hypervisor, and KVM's "conditional cache flushes" mode in particular does a
flush on nested vmentry. Therefore, include the "skip L1D flush on
vmentry" bit in KVM's suggested ARCH_CAPABILITIES setting.
Add the relevant Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Dave reported, that it's not confirmed that Yonah processors are
unaffected. Remove them from the list.
Reported-by: ave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Currently, avg_lat is calculated by accumulating the mean of every
window in a long running cumulative average. As time goes on, the metric
becomes less and less useful due to the accumulated history.
This patch reuses the same calculation done in load averages to make the
avg_lat metric more lively. Unlike load averages, the avg only advances
when a window elapses (due to an io). Idle periods extend the most
recent window. Bucketing is used to limit the history of avg_lat by
binding it to the window size. So, the window range for 1/exp (decay
rate) is [1 min, 2.5 min) when windows elapse immediately.
The current sample window size is exposed in the debug info to enable
calculation of the window range.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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We need the driver core changes in here as well for testing.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Also mention that the traditional devices provide glyph values whereas
/dev/vcsu* is unicode based.
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Fix spelling and other typos
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Currently, the notsc kernel parameter disables the use of the TSC by
sched_clock(). However, this parameter does not prevent the kernel from
accessing tsc in other places.
The only rationale to boot with notsc is to avoid timing discrepancies on
multi-socket systems where TSC are not properly synchronized, and thus
exclude TSC from being used for time keeping. But that prevents using TSC
as sched_clock() as well, which is not necessary as the core sched_clock()
implementation can handle non synchronized TSC based sched clocks just
fine.
However, there is another method to solve the above problem: booting with
tsc=unstable parameter. This parameter allows sched_clock() to use TSC and
just excludes it from timekeeping.
So there is no real reason to keep notsc, but for compatibility reasons the
parameter has to stay. Make it behave like 'tsc=unstable' instead.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: pmladek@suse.com
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-12-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
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Add tracking of REQ_OP_DISCARD ios to the per-cgroup io.stat. Two
fields, dbytes and dios, to respectively count the total bytes and
number of discards are added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Newell <newella@fb.com>
Cc: Michael Callahan <michaelcallahan@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Currently printing [hashed] pointers requires enough entropy to be
available. Early in the boot sequence this may not be the case
resulting in a dummy string '(____ptrval____)' being printed. This
makes debugging the early boot sequence difficult. We can relax the
requirement to use cryptographically secure hashing during debugging.
This enables debugging while keeping development/production kernel
behaviour the same.
If new command line option debug_boot_weak_hash is enabled use
cryptographically insecure hashing and hash pointer value immediately.
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
- An optimization and a fix for RCU expedited grace periods, with
the fix being from Boqun Feng.
- Miscellaneous fixes, including a lockdep-annotation fix from
Boqun Feng.
- SRCU updates.
- Updates to rcutorture and associated scripting.
- Introduce grace-period sequence numbers to the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt,
and RCU-sched flavors, replacing the old ->gpnum and ->completed
pair of fields. This change allows lockless code to obtain the
complete grace-period state with a single READ_ONCE(), which is
needed to maintain tolerable lock contention during the upcoming
consolidation of the three RCU flavors. Note that grace-period
sequence numbers are already used by rcu_barrier(), expedited
RCU grace periods, and SRCU, and are thus already heavily used
and well-tested. Joel Fernandes contributed a number of excellent
fixes and improvements.
- Clean up some grace-period-reporting loose ends, including
improving the handling of quiescent states from offline CPUs
and fixing some false-positive WARN_ON_ONCE() invocations.
(Strictly speaking, the WARN_ON_ONCE() invocations were quite
correct, but their invariants were (harmlessly) violated by the
earlier sloppy handling of quiescent states from offline CPUs.)
In addition, improve grace-period forward-progress guarantees so
as to allow removal of fail-safe checks that required otherwise
needless lock acquisitions. Finally, add more diagnostics to
help debug the upcoming consolidation of the RCU-bh, RCU-preempt,
and RCU-sched flavors.
- Additional miscellaneous fixes, including those contributed by
Byungchul Park, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Joe Perches, Joel Fernandes,
Steven Rostedt, Andrea Parri, and Neil Brown.
- Additional torture-test changes, including several contributed by
Arnd Bergmann and Joel Fernandes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:
- Explain the problem and risks
- Document the mitigation mechanisms
- Document the command line controls
- Document the sysfs files
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de
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Introduce the 'l1tf=' kernel command line option to allow for boot-time
switching of mitigation that is used on processors affected by L1TF.
The possible values are:
full
Provides all available mitigations for the L1TF vulnerability. Disables
SMT and enables all mitigations in the hypervisors. SMT control via
/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot.
Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in
a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush
disabled.
full,force
Same as 'full', but disables SMT control. Implies the 'nosmt=force'
command line option. sysfs control of SMT and the hypervisor flush
control is disabled.
flush
Leaves SMT enabled and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation.
Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a
potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush
disabled.
flush,nosmt
Disables SMT and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. SMT
control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible
after boot. If SMT is reenabled or flushing disabled at runtime
hypervisors will issue a warning.
flush,nowarn
Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not warn when
a VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration.
off
Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any warnings.
Default is 'flush'.
Let KVM adhere to these semantics, which means:
- 'lt1f=full,force' : Performe L1D flushes. No runtime control
possible.
- 'l1tf=full'
- 'l1tf-flush'
- 'l1tf=flush,nosmt' : Perform L1D flushes and warn on VM start if
SMT has been runtime enabled or L1D flushing
has been run-time enabled
- 'l1tf=flush,nowarn' : Perform L1D flushes and no warnings are emitted.
- 'l1tf=off' : L1D flushes are not performed and no warnings
are emitted.
KVM can always override the L1D flushing behavior using its 'vmentry_l1d_flush'
module parameter except when lt1f=full,force is set.
This makes KVM's private 'nosmt' option redundant, and as it is a bit
non-systematic anyway (this is something to control globally, not on
hypervisor level), remove that option.
Add the missing Documentation entry for the l1tf vulnerability sysfs file
while at it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.202758176@linutronix.de
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Some RCU bugs have been sensitive to the frequency of CPU-hotplug
operations, which have been gradually increased over time. But this
frequency is now at the one-second lower limit that can be specified using
the rcutorture.onoff_interval kernel parameter. This commit therefore
changes the units of rcutorture.onoff_interval from seconds to jiffies,
and also sets the value specified for this kernel parameter in the TREE03
rcutorture scenario to 200, which is 200 milliseconds for HZ=1000.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Document the support for spec_store_bypass_disable that was added for
powerpc in commit a048a07d7f45 ("powerpc/64s: Add support for a store
forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit").
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This parameter introduced several years ago in the XHCI host controller
driver was somehow left undocumented. Add a few lines in the kernel
parameters text.
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Deferred probe will currently wait forever on dependent devices to probe,
but sometimes a driver will never exist. It's also not always critical for
a driver to exist. Platforms can rely on default configuration from the
bootloader or reset defaults for things such as pinctrl and power domains.
This is often the case with initial platform support until various drivers
get enabled. There's at least 2 scenarios where deferred probe can render
a platform broken. Both involve using a DT which has more devices and
dependencies than the kernel supports. The 1st case is a driver may be
disabled in the kernel config. The 2nd case is the kernel version may
simply not have the dependent driver. This can happen if using a newer DT
(provided by firmware perhaps) with a stable kernel version. Deferred
probe issues can be difficult to debug especially if the console has
dependencies or userspace fails to boot to a shell.
There are also cases like IOMMUs where only built-in drivers are
supported, so deferring probe after initcalls is not needed. The IOMMU
subsystem implemented its own mechanism to handle this using OF_DECLARE
linker sections.
This commit adds makes ending deferred probe conditional on initcalls
being completed or a debug timeout. Subsystems or drivers may opt-in by
calling driver_deferred_probe_check_init_done() instead of
unconditionally returning -EPROBE_DEFER. They may use additional
information from DT or kernel's config to decide whether to continue to
defer probe or not.
The timeout mechanism is intended for debug purposes and WARNs loudly.
The remaining deferred probe pending list will also be dumped after the
timeout. Not that this timeout won't work for the console which needs
to be enabled before userspace starts. However, if the console's
dependencies are resolved, then the kernel log will be printed (as
opposed to no output).
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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A basic documentation to describe the interface, statistics, and
behavior of io.latency.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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This parameter introduced several years ago in the XHCI host controller
driver was somehow left undocumented. Add a few lines in the kernel
parameters text.
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add a mitigation mode parameter "vmentry_l1d_flush" for CVE-2018-3620, aka
L1 terminal fault. The valid arguments are:
- "always" L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
- "cond" Conditional L1D cache flush, explained below
- "never" Disable the L1D cache flush mitigation
"cond" is trying to avoid L1D cache flushes on VMENTER if the code executed
between VMEXIT and VMENTER is considered safe, i.e. is not bringing any
interesting information into L1D which might exploited.
[ tglx: Split out from a larger patch ]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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If the L1TF CPU bug is present we allow the KVM module to be loaded as the
major of users that use Linux and KVM have trusted guests and do not want a
broken setup.
Cloud vendors are the ones that are uncomfortable with CVE 2018-3620 and as
such they are the ones that should set nosmt to one.
Setting 'nosmt' means that the system administrator also needs to disable
SMT (Hyper-threading) in the BIOS, or via the 'nosmt' command line
parameter, or via the /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control. See commit
05736e4ac13c ("cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT").
Other mitigations are to use task affinity, cpu sets, interrupt binding,
etc - anything to make sure that _only_ the same guests vCPUs are running
on sibling threads.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Enabling HARDENED_USERCOPY may cause measurable regressions in networking
performance: up to 8% under UDP flood.
I ran a small packet UDP flood using pktgen vs. a host b2b connected. On
the receiver side the UDP packets are processed by a simple user space
process that just reads and drops them:
https://github.com/netoptimizer/network-testing/blob/master/src/udp_sink.c
Not very useful from a functional PoV, but it helps to pin-point
bottlenecks in the networking stack.
When running a kernel with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y, I see a 5-8%
regression in the receive tput, compared to the same kernel without this
option enabled.
With CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y, perf shows ~6% of CPU time spent
cumulatively in __check_object_size (~4%) and __virt_addr_valid (~2%).
The call-chain is:
__GI___libc_recvfrom
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
do_syscall_64
__x64_sys_recvfrom
__sys_recvfrom
inet_recvmsg
udp_recvmsg
__check_object_size
udp_recvmsg() actually calls copy_to_iter() (inlined) and the latters
calls check_copy_size() (again, inlined).
A generic distro may want to enable HARDENED_USERCOPY in their default
kernel config, but at the same time, such distro may want to be able to
avoid the performance penalties in with the default configuration and
disable the stricter check on a per-boot basis.
This change adds a boot parameter that conditionally disables
HARDENED_USERCOPY via "hardened_usercopy=off".
Signed-off-by: Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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-rc1 broke the docs build due to changes in the e100/e1000 drivers; -rc3
got the fixes via the networking tree. Pull in -rc3 so that the docs tree
can actually build the docs again.
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Dave Hansen reported, that it's outright dangerous to keep SMT siblings
disabled completely so they are stuck in the BIOS and wait for SIPI.
The reason is that Machine Check Exceptions are broadcasted to siblings and
the soft disabled sibling has CR4.MCE = 0. If a MCE is delivered to a
logical core with CR4.MCE = 0, it asserts IERR#, which shuts down or
reboots the machine. The MCE chapter in the SDM contains the following
blurb:
Because the logical processors within a physical package are tightly
coupled with respect to shared hardware resources, both logical
processors are notified of machine check errors that occur within a
given physical processor. If machine-check exceptions are enabled when
a fatal error is reported, all the logical processors within a physical
package are dispatched to the machine-check exception handler. If
machine-check exceptions are disabled, the logical processors enter the
shutdown state and assert the IERR# signal. When enabling machine-check
exceptions, the MCE flag in control register CR4 should be set for each
logical processor.
Reverting the commit which ignores siblings at enumeration time solves only
half of the problem. The core cpuhotplug logic needs to be adjusted as
well.
This thoughtful engineered mechanism also turns the boot process on all
Intel HT enabled systems into a MCE lottery. MCE is enabled on the boot CPU
before the secondary CPUs are brought up. Depending on the number of
physical cores the window in which this situation can happen is smaller or
larger. On a HSW-EX it's about 750ms:
MCE is enabled on the boot CPU:
[ 0.244017] mce: CPU supports 22 MCE banks
The corresponding sibling #72 boots:
[ 1.008005] .... node #0, CPUs: #72
That means if an MCE hits on physical core 0 (logical CPUs 0 and 72)
between these two points the machine is going to shutdown. At least it's a
known safe state.
It's obvious that the early boot can be hit by an MCE as well and then runs
into the same situation because MCEs are not yet enabled on the boot CPU.
But after enabling them on the boot CPU, it does not make any sense to
prevent the kernel from recovering.
Adjust the nosmt kernel parameter documentation as well.
Reverts: 2207def700f9 ("x86/apic: Ignore secondary threads if nosmt=force")
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Move early dump functionality into common code so that it is available for
all architectures. No need to carry arch-specific reads around as the read
hooks are already initialized by the time pci_setup_device() is getting
called during scan.
Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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Add a label to the top of the file to allow cross-referencing.
Currently it's not possible to cross-reference this file from
Documentation/process/howto.rst because of the missing label.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rodin <michael-git@rodin.online>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Document the recently introduced hwp_dynamic_boost sysfs knob
allowing user space to tell intel_pstate to use iowait boosting
in the active mode with HWP enabled (to improve performance).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
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Fix an incorrect sysfs path in the intel_pstate admin-guide
documentation.
Fixes: 33fc30b47098 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interface)
Reported-by: Pawit Pornkitprasan <p.pawit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Provide a command line and a sysfs knob to control SMT.
The command line options are:
'nosmt': Enumerate secondary threads, but do not online them
'nosmt=force': Ignore secondary threads completely during enumeration
via MP table and ACPI/MADT.
The sysfs control file has the following states (read/write):
'on': SMT is enabled. Secondary threads can be freely onlined
'off': SMT is disabled. Secondary threads, even if enumerated
cannot be onlined
'forceoff': SMT is permanentely disabled. Writes to the control
file are rejected.
'notsupported': SMT is not supported by the CPU
The command line option 'nosmt' sets the sysfs control to 'off'. This
can be changed to 'on' to reenable SMT during runtime.
The command line option 'nosmt=force' sets the sysfs control to
'forceoff'. This cannot be changed during runtime.
When SMT is 'on' and the control file is changed to 'off' then all online
secondary threads are offlined and attempts to online a secondary thread
later on are rejected.
When SMT is 'off' and the control file is changed to 'on' then secondary
threads can be onlined again. The 'off' -> 'on' transition does not
automatically online the secondary threads.
When the control file is set to 'forceoff', the behaviour is the same as
setting it to 'off', but the operation is irreversible and later writes to
the control file are rejected.
When the control status is 'notsupported' then writes to the control file
are rejected.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Fix a typo in the intel_pstate admin-guide documentation.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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The alsa parameters file was renamed to alsa-configuration.rst.
With regards to OSS, it got retired as a hole by at changeset
727dede0ba8a ("sound: Retire OSS"). So, it doesn't make sense
to keep mentioning it at kernel-parameters.txt.
Fixes: 727dede0ba8a ("sound: Retire OSS")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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