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2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner: "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality Monitoring (CQM) facility. The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and horrible. After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top. As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single management facility with a consistent user interface" * 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits) x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local) x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar: "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex hardware features of x86 CPUs: - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.) Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles, v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging. This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by default. (By Kirill A. Shutemov) - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and decrypt) as well. This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled by default. (By Tom Lendacky) - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we switch mm's. (By Andy Lutomirski) All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they are all enabled in v4.14 at once" * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits) x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y) x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable() x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits() x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit() x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Ingo Molnar: "Update documentation, improve robustness and fix a memory leak" * 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode patches saving flow x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods x86/microcode/AMD: Free unneeded patch before exit from update_cache()
2017-08-01x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing unitsFenghua Yu
CPUID.(EAX=0x10, ECX=res#):EBX[31:0] reports a bit mask for a resource. Each set bit within the length of the CBM indicates the corresponding unit of the resource allocation may be used by other entities in the platform (e.g. an integrated graphics engine or hardware units outside the processor core and have direct access to the resource). Each cleared bit within the length of the CBM indicates the corresponding allocation unit can be configured to implement a priority-based allocation scheme without interference with other hardware agents in the system. Bits outside the length of the CBM are reserved. More details on the bit mask are described in x86 Software Developer's Manual. The bitmask is shown in "info" directory for each resource. It's up to user to decide how to use the bitmask within a CBM in a partition to share or isolate a resource with other executing units. Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725223904.12996-1-tony.luck@intel.com
2017-08-01x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Documentation for resctrl based RDT MonitoringVikas Shivappa
Add a description of resctrl based RDT(resource director technology) monitoring extension and its usage. [Tony: Added descriptions for how monitoring and allocation are measured and some cleanups] Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
2017-07-26x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinderJosh Poimboeuf
Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework. It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections. For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to profiling workloads like perf. Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas: splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [ Extended the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-25x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txtWang Kai
Replace PKEY_DENY_WRITE with PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE, to match the source code. Signed-off-by: Wang Kai <morgan.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-25x86/microcode: Document the three loading methodsBorislav Petkov
Paul Menzel recently asked how to load microcode on a system and I realized that we don't really have all the methods written down somewhere. Do that, so people can go and look them up. Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724101228.17326-3-bp@alien8.de [ Fix whitespace noise in the new description. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-21x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=yKirill A. Shutemov
Most of things are in place and we can enable support for 5-level paging. The patch makes XEN_PV and XEN_PVH dependent on !X86_5LEVEL. Both are not ready to work with 5-level paging. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170716225954.74185-9-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com [ Minor readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-18x86/cpu/AMD: Document AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME)Tom Lendacky
Create a Documentation entry to describe the AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature and add documentation for the mem_encrypt= kernel parameter. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca0a0c13b055fd804cfc92cbaca8acd68057eed0.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-14x86/mce: Update bootlog description to reflect behavior on AMDYazen Ghannam
The bootlog option is only disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older systems. Update bootlog description to say this. Change the family value to hex to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613162835.30750-9-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-09x86/intel_rdt: Fix a typo in DocumentationXiaochen Shen
Example 3 contains a typo: "C0" in "# echo C0 > p0/cpus" is wrong because it specifies core 6-7 instead of wanted core 4-7. Correct this typo to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com> Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493781356-24229-1-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-05-01Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main x86 MM changes in this cycle were: - continued native kernel PCID support preparation patches to the TLB flushing code (Andy Lutomirski) - various fixes related to 32-bit compat syscall returning address over 4Gb in applications, launched from 64-bit binaries - motivated by C/R frameworks such as Virtuozzo. (Dmitry Safonov) - continued Intel 5-level paging enablement: in particular the conversion of x86 GUP to the generic GUP code. (Kirill A. Shutemov) - x86/mpx ABI corner case fixes/enhancements (Joerg Roedel) - ... plus misc updates, fixes and cleanups" * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits) mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference to fix pmem crash x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_page() on Xen x86/mm: Make flush_tlb_mm_range() more predictable x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task() x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly() x86/mm/64: Fix crash in remove_pagetable() Revert "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation" x86/boot/e820: Remove a redundant self assignment x86/mm: Fix dump pagetables for 4 levels of page tables x86/mpx, selftests: Only check bounds-vs-shadow when we keep shadow x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space Revert "x86/mm/numa: Remove numa_nodemask_from_meminfo()" x86/espfix: Add support for 5-level paging x86/kasan: Extend KASAN to support 5-level paging x86/mm: Add basic defines/helpers for CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y x86/paravirt: Add 5-level support to the paravirt code x86/mm: Define virtual memory map for 5-level paging x86/asm: Remove __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT==47 assert x86/boot: Detect 5-level paging support x86/mm/numa: Remove numa_nodemask_from_meminfo() ...
2017-05-01Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpu updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest changes are an extension of the Intel RDT code to extend it with Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation CPU support: MBA allows bandwidth allocation between cores, while CBM (already upstream) allows CPU cache partitioning. There's also misc smaller fixes and updates" * 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) x86/intel_rdt: Return error for incorrect resource names in schemata x86/intel_rdt: Trim whitespace while parsing schemata input x86/intel_rdt: Fix padding when resource is enabled via mount x86/intel_rdt: Get rid of anon union x86/cpu: Keep model defines sorted by model number x86/intel_rdt/mba: Add schemata file support for MBA x86/intel_rdt: Make schemata file parsers resource specific x86/intel_rdt/mba: Add info directory files for Memory Bandwidth Allocation x86/intel_rdt: Make information files resource specific x86/intel_rdt/mba: Add primary support for Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) x86/intel_rdt/mba: Memory bandwith allocation feature detect x86/intel_rdt: Add resource specific msr update function x86/intel_rdt: Move CBM specific data into a struct x86/intel_rdt: Cleanup namespace to support multiple resource types Documentation, x86: Intel Memory bandwidth allocation x86/intel_rdt: Organize code properly x86/intel_rdt: Init padding only if a device exists x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus_list rdtgroup file x86/intel_rdt: Cleanup kernel-doc x86/intel_rdt: Update schemata read to show data in tabular format ...
2017-04-14Documentation, x86: Intel Memory bandwidth allocationVikas Shivappa
Update the 'intel_rdt_ui' documentation to have Memory bandwidth(b/w) allocation interface usage. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491611637-20417-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-11Merge branch 'x86/boot' into x86/mm, to avoid conflictIngo Molnar
There's a conflict between ongoing level-5 paging support and the E820 rewrite. Since the E820 rewrite is essentially ready, merge it into x86/mm to reduce tree conflicts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-10x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus_list rdtgroup fileJiri Olsa
The resource control filesystem provides only a bitmask based cpus file for assigning CPUs to a resource group. That's cumbersome with large cpumasks and non-intuitive when modifying the file from the command line. Range based cpu lists are commonly used along with bitmask based cpu files in various subsystems throughout the kernel. Add 'cpus_list' file which is CPU range based. # cd /sys/fs/resctrl/ # echo 1-10 > krava/cpus_list # cat krava/cpus_list 1-10 # cat krava/cpus 0007fe # cat cpus fffff9 # cat cpus_list 0,3-23 [ tglx: Massaged changelog and replaced "bitmask lists" by "CPU ranges" ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410145232.GF25354@krava Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-05x86/intel_rdt: Implement "update" mode when writing schemata fileTony Luck
The schemata file can have multiple lines and it is cumbersome to update all lines. Remove code that requires that the user provides values for every resource (in the right order). If the user provides values for just a few resources, update them and leave the rest unchanged. Side benefit: we now check which values were updated and only send IPIs to cpus that actually have updates. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: h.peter.anvin@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491255857-17213-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-04x86/mm: Define virtual memory map for 5-level pagingKirill A. Shutemov
The first part of memory map (up to %esp fixup) simply scales existing map for 4-level paging by factor of 9 -- number of bits addressed by the additional page table level. The rest of the map is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170330080731.65421-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16x86/mm: Adapt MODULES_END based on fixmap section sizeThomas Garnier
This patch aligns MODULES_END to the beginning of the fixmap section. It optimizes the space available for both sections. The address is pre-computed based on the number of pages required by the fixmap section. It will allow GDT remapping in the fixmap section. The current MODULES_END static address does not provide enough space for the kernel to support a large number of processors. Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Luis R . Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@htc.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314170508.100882-1-thgarnie@google.com [ Small build fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-01Merge branch 'linus' into WIP.x86/boot, to fix up conflicts and to pick up ↵Ingo Molnar
updates Conflicts: arch/x86/xen/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-28Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two documentation updates, plus a debugging annotation fix" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/crash: Update the stale comment in reserve_crashkernel() x86/irq, trace: Add __irq_entry annotation to x86's platform IRQ handlers Documentation, x86, resctrl: Recommend locking for resctrlfs
2017-02-20Merge branches 'x86/cache', 'x86/debug' and 'x86/irq' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
Pick up simple singular commits from their topic branches. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-07efi: Get and store the secure boot statusDavid Howells
Get the firmware's secure-boot status in the kernel boot wrapper and stash it somewhere that the main kernel image can find. The efi_get_secureboot() function is extracted from the ARM stub and (a) generalised so that it can be called from x86 and (b) made to use efi_call_runtime() so that it can be run in mixed-mode. For x86, it is stored in boot_params and can be overridden by the boot loader or kexec. This allows secure-boot mode to be passed on to a new kernel. Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486380166-31868-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org [ Small readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-28x86/boot/e820: Rename everything to e820_tableIngo Molnar
No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-28x86/boot/e820: Rename 'e820_map' variables to 'e820_array'Ingo Molnar
In line with the rename to 'struct e820_array', harmonize the naming of common e820 table variable names as well: e820 => e820_array e820_saved => e820_array_saved e820_map => e820_array initial_e820 => e820_array_init This makes the variable names more consistent and easier to grep for. No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-28x86/boot/e820: Rename the basic e820 data types to 'struct e820_entry' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'struct e820_array' The 'e820entry' and 'e820map' names have various annoyances: - the missing underscore departs from the usual kernel style and makes the code look weird, - in the past I kept confusing the 'map' with the 'entry', because a 'map' is ambiguous in that regard, - it's not really clear from the 'e820map' that this is a regular C array. Rename them to 'struct e820_entry' and 'struct e820_array' accordingly. ( Leave the legacy UAPI header alone but do the rename in the bootparam.h and e820/types.h file - outside tools relying on these defines should either adjust their code, or should use the legacy header, or should create their private copies for the definitions. ) No change in functionality. Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-12-23Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "There's a number of fixes: - a round of fixes for CPUID-less legacy CPUs - a number of microcode loader fixes - i8042 detection robustization fixes - stack dump/unwinder fixes - x86 SoC platform driver fixes - a GCC 7 warning fix - virtualization related fixes" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) Revert "x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address" x86/paravirt: Mark unused patch_default label x86/microcode/AMD: Reload proper initrd start address x86/platform/intel/quark: Add printf attribute to imr_self_test_result() x86/platform/intel-mid: Switch MPU3050 driver to IIO x86/alternatives: Do not use sync_core() to serialize I$ x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_id x86/hyperv: Handle unknown NMIs on one CPU when unknown_nmi_panic x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self x86/microcode/intel: Replace sync_core() with native_cpuid() Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing" x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels x86/cpu: Probe CPUID leaf 6 even when cpuid_level == 6 x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c x86/unwind: Dump stack data on warnings x86/unwind: Adjust last frame check for aligned function stacks x86/init: Fix a couple of comment typos x86/init: Remove i8042_detect() from platform ops Input: i8042 - Trust firmware a bit more when probing on X86 x86/init: Add i8042 state to the platform data ...
2016-12-22Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cache allocation interface from Thomas Gleixner: "This provides support for Intel's Cache Allocation Technology, a cache partitioning mechanism. The interface is odd, but the hardware interface of that CAT stuff is odd as well. We tried hard to come up with an abstraction, but that only allows rather simple partitioning, but no way of sharing and dealing with the per package nature of this mechanism. In the end we decided to expose the allocation bitmaps directly so all combinations of the hardware can be utilized. There are two ways of associating a cache partition: - Task A task can be added to a resource group. It uses the cache partition associated to the group. - CPU All tasks which are not member of a resource group use the group to which the CPU they are running on is associated with. That allows for simple CPU based partitioning schemes. The main expected user sare: - Virtualization so a VM can only trash only the associated part of the cash w/o disturbing others - Real-Time systems to seperate RT and general workloads. - Latency sensitive enterprise workloads - In theory this also can be used to protect against cache side channel attacks" [ Intel RDT is "Resource Director Technology". The interface really is rather odd and very specific, which delayed this pull request while I was thinking about it. The pull request itself came in early during the merge window, I just delayed it until things had calmed down and I had more time. But people tell me they'll use this, and the good news is that it is _so_ specific that it's rather independent of anything else, and no user is going to depend on the interface since it's pretty rare. So if push comes to shove, we can just remove the interface and nothing will break ] * 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/intel_rdt: Implement show_options() for resctrlfs x86/intel_rdt: Call intel_rdt_sched_in() with preemption disabled x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount x86/intel_rdt: Fix setting of closid when adding CPUs to a group x86/intel_rdt: Update percpu closid immeditately on CPUs affected by changee x86/intel_rdt: Reset per cpu closids on unmount x86/intel_rdt: Select KERNFS when enabling INTEL_RDT_A x86/intel_rdt: Prevent deadlock against hotplug lock x86/intel_rdt: Protect info directory from removal x86/intel_rdt: Add info files to Documentation x86/intel_rdt: Export the minimum number of set mask bits in sysfs x86/intel_rdt: Propagate error in rdt_mount() properly x86/intel_rdt: Add a missing #include MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for Intel RDT resource allocation x86/intel_rdt: Add scheduler hook x86/intel_rdt: Add schemata file x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus file x86/intel_rdt: Add mkdir to resctrl file system x86/intel_rdt: Add "info" files to resctrl file system ...
2016-12-20x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_idBorislav Petkov
It means different things on Intel and AMD so write it down so that there's no confusion. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117094557.jm6hwzdd52h7iwnj@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-12-15Documentation, x86, resctrl: Recommend locking for resctrlfsMarcelo Tosatti
Concurrent write or read/write access from applications to the resctrlfs directory can result in incorrect readouts or setups. Recommend a standard locking scheme for applications to use. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161214170835.GA16924@amt.cnet Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-12Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...
2016-11-07x86/intel_rdt: Add info files to DocumentationThomas Gleixner
The content of the directories and files in the info directory of the resctrl filesystem are not documented. Add the missing bits and pieces. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2016-10-30Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel resource allocation user interfaceFenghua Yu
The documentation describes user interface of how to allocate resource in Intel RDT. Please note that the documentation covers generic user interface. Current patch set code only implemente CAT L3. CAT L2 code will be sent later. [ tglx: Added cpu example ] Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Shaohua Li" <shli@fb.com> Cc: "Sai Prakhya" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com> Cc: "Nilay Vaish" <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: "Vikas Shivappa" <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477692289-37412-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-10-25x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dumpJosh Poimboeuf
For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack values: ... [registers] Stack: ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0 ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: ... This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed anymore. It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses. Linus says: "The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having used them in the last ten+ years. Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above harder." This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the 'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-24docs: fix locations of several documents that got movedMauro Carvalho Chehab
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner: "This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the documentation. The mm side of this has been acked by Mel" * 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/pkeys: Update documentation x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches x86/pkeys: Add self-tests x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/ generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls x86: Wire up protection keys system calls x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit
2016-10-05x86/pkeys: Update documentationDave Hansen
There are a few items that have gotten stale in the protection keys documentation. The config option description only applied to the execute-only support and is not accurate for the current code. There was also a typo with the number of system calls. I also wanted to call out that pkey_set() is not a kernel-provided facility, and where to find an implementation. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004163857.71E0D6F6@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-09pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/Dave Hansen
This spells out all of the pkey-related system calls that we have and provides some example code fragments to demonstrate how we expect them to be used. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160729163020.59350E33@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-06x86: fix memory ranges in mm documentationLorenzo Stoakes
This is a trivial fix to correct upper bound addresses to always be inclusive. Previously, the majority of ranges specified were inclusive with a small minority specifying an exclusive upper bound. This patch fixes this inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-07Merge tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present" * tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1 Documenation: update cgroup's document path Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
2016-08-03Documenation: update cgroup's document pathseokhoon.yoon
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it. Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-07-27Merge branch 'linus' into x86/microcode, to pick up merge window changesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-25Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes: - add initial commits to randomize kernel memory section virtual addresses, enabled via a new kernel option: RANDOMIZE_MEMORY (Thomas Garnier, Kees Cook, Baoquan He, Yinghai Lu) - enhance KASLR (RANDOMIZE_BASE) physical memory randomization (Kees Cook) - EBDA/BIOS region boot quirk cleanups (Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar) - misc cleanups/fixes" * 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/boot: Simplify EBDA-vs-BIOS reservation logic x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions x86/mm: Separate variable for trampoline PGD x86/mm: Add PUD VA support for physical mapping x86/mm: Update physical mapping variable names x86/mm: Refactor KASLR entropy functions x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations x86/boot/64: Add forgotten end of function marker x86/KASLR: Allow randomization below the load address x86/KASLR: Extend kernel image physical address randomization to addresses larger than 4G x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
2016-07-08x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regionsThomas Garnier
Randomizes the virtual address space of kernel memory regions for x86_64. This first patch adds the infrastructure and does not randomize any region. The following patches will randomize the physical memory mapping, vmalloc and vmemmap regions. This security feature mitigates exploits relying on predictable kernel addresses. These addresses can be used to disclose the kernel modules base addresses or corrupt specific structures to elevate privileges bypassing the current implementation of KASLR. This feature can be enabled with the CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY option. The order of each memory region is not changed. The feature looks at the available space for the regions based on different configuration options and randomizes the base and space between each. The size of the physical memory mapping is the available physical memory. No performance impact was detected while testing the feature. Entropy is generated using the KASLR early boot functions now shared in the lib directory (originally written by Kees Cook). Randomization is done on PGD & PUD page table levels to increase possible addresses. The physical memory mapping code was adapted to support PUD level virtual addresses. This implementation on the best configuration provides 30,000 possible virtual addresses in average for each memory region. An additional low memory page is used to ensure each CPU can start with a PGD aligned virtual address (for realmode). x86/dump_pagetable was updated to correctly display each region. Updated documentation on x86_64 memory layout accordingly. Performance data, after all patches in the series: Kernbench shows almost no difference (-+ less than 1%): Before: Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.63 (1.2695) User Time 1034.89 (1.18115) System Time 87.056 (0.456416) Percent CPU 1092.9 (13.892) Context Switches 199805 (3455.33) Sleeps 97907.8 (900.636) After: Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.489 (1.10636) User Time 1034.86 (1.36053) System Time 87.764 (0.49345) Percent CPU 1095 (12.7715) Context Switches 199036 (4298.1) Sleeps 97681.6 (1031.11) Hackbench shows 0% difference on average (hackbench 90 repeated 10 times): attemp,before,after 1,0.076,0.069 2,0.072,0.069 3,0.066,0.066 4,0.066,0.068 5,0.066,0.067 6,0.066,0.069 7,0.067,0.066 8,0.063,0.067 9,0.067,0.065 10,0.068,0.071 average,0.0677,0.0677 Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466556426-32664-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-01x86/Documentation: Fix various typos in Documentation/x86/ filesMasanari Iida
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160701034601.30308-1-standby24x7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-08Documentation/microcode: Document some aspects for more clarityBorislav Petkov
Document that builtin microcode is 64-bit only. Also, improve/add comments to places. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465225850-7352-10-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-19Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A bit busier this time around. The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel docs. Someday. Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits) doc: self-protection: provide initial details serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space docproc: abstract docproc directive detection docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes ...
2016-04-28Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakesEric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-04-22Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, to fix semantic conflictIngo Molnar
'cpu_has_pse' has changed to boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE), fix this up in the merge commit when merging the x86/urgent tree that includes the following commit: 103f6112f253 ("x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>