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2020-05-07rcutorture: Add flag to produce non-busy-wait task stallsPaul E. McKenney
This commit aids testing of RCU task stall warning messages by adding an rcutorture.stall_cpu_block module parameter that results in the induced stall sleeping within the RCU read-side critical section. Spinning with interrupts disabled is still available via the rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff module parameter, and specifying neither of these two module parameters will spin with preemption disabled. Note that sleeping (as opposed to preemption) results in additional complaints from RCU at context-switch time, so yet more testing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-10Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - Almost all of the rest of MM (memcg, slab-generic, slab, pagealloc, gup, hugetlb, pagemap, memremap) - Various other things (hfs, ocfs2, kmod, misc, seqfile) * akpm: (34 commits) ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index kernel/gcov/fs.c: gcov_seq_next() should increase position index fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c: fix platform_get_irq.cocci warnings change email address for Pali Rohár selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9 docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once() kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params powerpc/mm: thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping() x86/mm: introduce __set_memory_prot() x86/mm: thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping() mm/memory_hotplug: rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial() mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS mm/vma: define a default value for VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS ...
2020-04-10Merge tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree" * tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: android: binderfs: add 'stats' mount option Documentation: driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst Updates documentation links docs: driver-api: address duplicate label warning Documentation: sysrq: fix RST formatting docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx docs: filesystems: fix typo in qnx6.rst
2020-04-10mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cmaRoman Gushchin
Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages. However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading, when the majority of memory is free. After some time the memory gets fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB block are getting close to zero. Even dropping caches manually doesn't help a lot. At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages is quite expensive and complex. At the same time keeping some constant percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB pages. The following solution can solve the problem: 1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed as a kernel argument. 2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the cma allocator and the dedicated cma area In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs, etc. * On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node. Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user. Usage: 1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations: pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument 2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g. echo 10 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed, the current behavior of the system is preserved. x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be trivially added later. The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan Bakirov and Randy Dunlap. It also contains ideas and suggestions proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Aslan Bakirov <aslan@fb.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken referencesJimmy Assarsson
Fix remaining broken references in kernel-parameters.txt. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-2-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-07docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompxJimmy Assarsson
x86/mpx was removed in commit 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86"), this removes the documentation of parameter nompx. Fixes: 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86") Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-1-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-07mm/memory_hotplug.c: only respect mem= parameter during boot stageBaoquan He
In commit 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter") a global varialbe max_mem_size is added to store the value parsed from 'mem= ', then checked when memory region is added. This truly stops those DIMMs from being added into system memory during boot-time. However, it also limits the later memory hotplug functionality. Any DIMM can't be hotplugged any more if its region is beyond the max_mem_size. We will get errors like: [ 216.387164] acpi PNP0C80:02: add_memory failed [ 216.389301] acpi PNP0C80:02: acpi_memory_enable_device() error [ 216.392187] acpi PNP0C80:02: Enumeration failure This will cause issue in a known use case where 'mem=' is added to the hypervisor. The memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary will be assigned to KVM guests. After commit 357b4da50a62 merged, memory can't be extended dynamically if system memory on hypervisor is not sufficient. So fix it by also checking if it's during boot-time restricting to add memory. Otherwise, skip the restriction. And also add this use case to document of 'mem=' kernel parameter. Fixes: 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter") Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200204050643.20925-1-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-06Merge tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional ACPI updates. These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200326 upstream revision, fix an ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86, update Intel Tiger Lake device IDs in some places, add a new ACPI backlight blacklist entry, update the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch documentation and clean up a CPPC library routine. Specifics: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200326 including: * Fix for a typo in a comment field (Bob Moore) * acpiExec namespace init file fixes (Bob Moore) * Addition of NHLT to the known tables list (Cezary Rojewski) * Conversion of PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC (Erik Kaneda) * acpiexec cleanup (Erik Kaneda) * WSMT-related typo fix (Erik Kaneda) * sprintf() utility function fix (John Levon) * IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing implementation (Michał Żygowski) * IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name fix (Michał Żygowski) - Fix ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86 (Qian Cai) - Fix Intel Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs in several places (Gayatri Kammela) - Add ACPI backlight blacklist entry for Acer Aspire 5783z (Hans de Goede) - Fix documentation of the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch (Randy Dunlap) - Clean up the acpi_get_psd_map() CPPC library routine (Liguang Zhang)" * tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: x86: ACPI: fix CPU hotplug deadlock thermal: int340x_thermal: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs platform/x86: intel-hid: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device ID ACPI: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs ACPI: video: Use native backlight on Acer Aspire 5783z ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter options ACPICA: Update version 20200326 ACPICA: Fixes for acpiExec namespace init file ACPICA: Add NHLT table signature ACPICA: WSMT: Fix typo, no functional change ACPICA: utilities: fix sprintf() ACPICA: acpiexec: remove redeclaration of acpi_gbl_db_opt_no_region_support ACPICA: Change PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC ACPICA: Fix IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name ACPICA: Implement IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing ACPICA: Fix a typo in a comment field ACPI: CPPC: clean up acpi_get_psd_map()
2020-04-06Merge tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional power management updates. These fix a corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source, add a kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages via the kernel command line, add a document desctibing system-wide suspend and resume code flows, modify cpufreq Kconfig to choose schedutil as the preferred governor by default in a couple of cases and do some assorted cleanups. Specifics: - Fix corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source (Hans de Goede). - Add document describing system-wide suspend and resume code flows to the admin guide (Rafael Wysocki). - Add kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages (Chen Yu). - Choose schedutil as the preferred scaling governor by default on ARM big.LITTLE systems and on x86 systems using the intel_pstate driver in the passive mode (Linus Walleij, Rafael Wysocki). - Drop racy and redundant checks from the PM core's device_prepare() routine (Rafael Wysocki). - Make resume from hibernation take the hibernation_restore() return value into account (Dexuan Cui)" * tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: platform/x86: intel_int0002_vgpio: Use acpi_register_wakeup_handler() ACPI: PM: Add acpi_[un]register_wakeup_handler() Documentation: PM: sleep: Document system-wide suspend code flows cpufreq: Select schedutil when using big.LITTLE PM: sleep: Add pm_debug_messages kernel command line option PM: sleep: core: Drop racy and redundant checks from device_prepare() PM: hibernate: Propagate the return value of hibernation_restore() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Select schedutil as the default governor
2020-04-02Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - GICv4.1 support - 32bit host removal PPC: - secure (encrypted) using under the Protected Execution Framework ultravisor s390: - allow disabling GISA (hardware interrupt injection) and protected VMs/ultravisor support. x86: - New dirty bitmap flag that sets all bits in the bitmap when dirty page logging is enabled; this is faster because it doesn't require bulk modification of the page tables. - Initial work on making nested SVM event injection more similar to VMX, and less buggy. - Various cleanups to MMU code (though the big ones and related optimizations were delayed to 5.8). Instead of using cr3 in function names which occasionally means eptp, KVM too has standardized on "pgd". - A large refactoring of CPUID features, which now use an array that parallels the core x86_features. - Some removal of pointer chasing from kvm_x86_ops, which will also be switched to static calls as soon as they are available. - New Tigerlake CPUID features. - More bugfixes, optimizations and cleanups. Generic: - selftests: cleanups, new MMU notifier stress test, steal-time test - CSV output for kvm_stat" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (277 commits) x86/kvm: fix a missing-prototypes "vmread_error" KVM: x86: Fix BUILD_BUG() in __cpuid_entry_get_reg() w/ CONFIG_UBSAN=y KVM: VMX: Add a trampoline to fix VMREAD error handling KVM: SVM: Annotate svm_x86_ops as __initdata KVM: VMX: Annotate vmx_x86_ops as __initdata KVM: x86: Drop __exit from kvm_x86_ops' hardware_unsetup() KVM: x86: Copy kvm_x86_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection KVM: x86: Set kvm_x86_ops only after ->hardware_setup() completes KVM: VMX: Configure runtime hooks using vmx_x86_ops KVM: VMX: Move hardware_setup() definition below vmx_x86_ops KVM: x86: Move init-only kvm_x86_ops to separate struct KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs s390/gmap: return proper error code on ksm unsharing KVM: selftests: Fix cosmetic copy-paste error in vm_mem_region_move() KVM: Fix out of range accesses to memslots KVM: X86: Micro-optimize IPI fastpath delay KVM: X86: Delay read msr data iff writes ICR MSR KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a capability for enabling secure guests KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow non-trapping WFI when using HW SGIs ...
2020-04-02PM: sleep: Add pm_debug_messages kernel command line optionChen Yu
Debug messages from the system suspend/hibernation infrastructure are disabled by default, and can only be enabled after the system has boot up via /sys/power/pm_debug_messages. This makes the hibernation resume hard to track as it involves system boot up across hibernation. There's no chance for software_resume() to track the resume process, for example. Add a kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages during boot up. Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> [ rjw: Subject & changelog ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-04-01ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter optionsRandy Dunlap
Update the Documentation for "acpi_backlight" by adding 2 new options (native and none). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-03-31Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20200330' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux Pull SELinux updates from Paul Moore: "We've got twenty SELinux patches for the v5.7 merge window, the highlights are below: - Deprecate setting /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot to 1. This flag was originally created to deal with legacy userspace and the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag. We changed the default from 1 to 0 back in Linux v4.4 and now we are taking the next step of deprecating it, at some point in the future we will take the final step of rejecting 1. - Allow kernfs symlinks to inherit the SELinux label of the parent directory. In order to preserve backwards compatibility this is protected by the genfs_seclabel_symlinks SELinux policy capability. - Optimize how we store filename transitions in the kernel, resulting in some significant improvements to policy load times. - Do a better job calculating our internal hash table sizes which resulted in additional policy load improvements and likely general SELinux performance improvements as well. - Remove the unused initial SIDs (labels) and improve how we handle initial SIDs. - Enable per-file labeling for the bpf filesystem. - Ensure that we properly label NFS v4.2 filesystems to avoid a temporary unlabeled condition. - Add some missing XFS quota command types to the SELinux quota access controls. - Fix a problem where we were not updating the seq_file position index correctly in selinuxfs. - We consolidate some duplicated code into helper functions. - A number of list to array conversions. - Update Stephen Smalley's email address in MAINTAINERS" * tag 'selinux-pr-20200330' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux: selinux: clean up indentation issue with assignment statement NFS: Ensure security label is set for root inode MAINTAINERS: Update my email address selinux: avtab_init() and cond_policydb_init() return void selinux: clean up error path in policydb_init() selinux: remove unused initial SIDs and improve handling selinux: reduce the use of hard-coded hash sizes selinux: Add xfs quota command types selinux: optimize storage of filename transitions selinux: factor out loop body from filename_trans_read() security: selinux: allow per-file labeling for bpffs selinux: generalize evaluate_cond_node() selinux: convert cond_expr to array selinux: convert cond_av_list to array selinux: convert cond_list to array selinux: sel_avc_get_stat_idx should increase position index selinux: allow kernfs symlinks to inherit parent directory context selinux: simplify evaluate_cond_node() Documentation,selinux: deprecate setting checkreqprot to 1 selinux: move status variables out of selinux_ss
2020-03-31Merge branch 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 vmware updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main change in this tree is the addition of 'steal time clock support' for VMware guests" * 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/vmware: Use bool type for vmw_sched_clock x86/vmware: Enable steal time accounting x86/vmware: Add steal time clock support for VMware guests x86/vmware: Remove vmware_sched_clock_setup() x86/vmware: Make vmware_select_hypercall() __init
2020-03-31Merge tag 'kvmarm-5.7' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm updates for Linux 5.7 - GICv4.1 support - 32bit host removal
2020-03-30Merge tag 'x86-splitlock-2020-03-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 splitlock updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Support for 'split lock' detection: Atomic operations (lock prefixed instructions) which span two cache lines have to acquire the global bus lock. This is at least 1k cycles slower than an atomic operation within a cache line and disrupts performance on other cores. Aside of performance disruption this is a unpriviledged form of DoS. Some newer CPUs have the capability to raise an #AC trap when such an operation is attempted. The detection is by default enabled in warning mode which will warn once when a user space application is caught. A command line option allows to disable the detection or to select fatal mode which will terminate offending applications with SIGBUS" * tag 'x86-splitlock-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/split_lock: Avoid runtime reads of the TEST_CTRL MSR x86/split_lock: Rework the initialization flow of split lock detection x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel
2020-03-30Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - Various NUMA scheduling updates: harmonize the load-balancer and NUMA placement logic to not work against each other. The intended result is better locality, better utilization and fewer migrations. - Introduce Thermal Pressure tracking and optimizations, to improve task placement on thermally overloaded systems. - Implement frequency invariant scheduler accounting on (some) x86 CPUs. This is done by observing and sampling the 'recent' CPU frequency average at ~tick boundaries. The CPU provides this data via the APERF/MPERF MSRs. This hopefully makes our capacity estimates more precise and keeps tasks on the same CPU better even if it might seem overloaded at a lower momentary frequency. (As usual, turbo mode is a complication that we resolve by observing the maximum frequency and renormalizing to it.) - Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan to improve capacity utilization on asymmetric topologies. (big.LITTLE systems) - PSI fixes and optimizations. - RT scheduling capacity awareness fixes & improvements. - Optimize the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED constraints code. - Misc fixes, cleanups and optimizations - see the changelog for details" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits) threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change sched/fair: Fix condition of avg_load calculation sched/rt: cpupri_find: Trigger a full search as fallback kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule() sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zero psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags MAINTAINERS: Add maintenance information for psi psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared cgroups psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks sched/rt: Allow pulling unfitting task sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems sched/rt: Re-instate old behavior in select_task_rq_rt() sched/rt: cpupri_find: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair() sched/fair: Fix runnable_avg for throttled cfs ...
2020-03-30Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Make kfree_rcu() use kfree_bulk() for added performance - RCU updates - Callback-overload handling updates - Tasks-RCU KCSAN and sparse updates - Locking torture test and RCU torture test updates - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits) rcu: Make rcu_barrier() account for offline no-CBs CPUs rcu: Mark rcu_state.gp_seq to detect concurrent writes Documentation/memory-barriers: Fix typos doc: Add rcutorture scripting to torture.txt doc/RCU/rcu: Use https instead of http if possible doc/RCU/rcu: Use absolute paths for non-rst files doc/RCU/rcu: Use ':ref:' for links to other docs doc/RCU/listRCU: Update example function name doc/RCU/listRCU: Fix typos in a example code snippets doc/RCU/Design: Remove remaining HTML tags in ReST files doc: Add some more RCU list patterns in the kernel rcutorture: Set KCSAN Kconfig options to detect more data races rcutorture: Manually clean up after rcu_barrier() failure rcutorture: Make rcu_torture_barrier_cbs() post from corresponding CPU rcuperf: Measure memory footprint during kfree_rcu() test rcutorture: Annotation lockless accesses to rcu_torture_current rcutorture: Add READ_ONCE() to rcu_torture_count and rcu_torture_batch rcutorture: Fix stray access to rcu_fwd_cb_nodelay rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_one_read()/rcu_torture_writer() data race rcutorture: Make kvm-find-errors.sh abort on bad directory ...
2020-03-30Merge tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200214 upstream release including: * Fix to re-enable the sleep button after wakeup (Anchal Agarwal). * Fixes for mistakes in comments and typos (Bob Moore). * ASL-ASL+ converter updates (Erik Kaneda). * Type casting cleanups (Sven Barth). - Clean up the intialization of the EC driver and eliminate some dead code from it (Rafael Wysocki). - Clean up the quirk tables in the AC and battery drivers (Hans de Goede). - Fix the global lock handling on x86 to ignore unspecified bit positions in the global lock field (Jan Engelhardt). - Add a new "tiny" driver for ACPI button devices exposed by VMs to guest kernels to send signals directly to init (Josh Triplett). - Add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRT on x86 (Alex Hung). - Make the ACPI PCI host bridge and fan drivers use scnprintf() to avoid potential buffer overflows (Takashi Iwai). - Clean up assorted pieces of code: * Reorder "asmlinkage" to make g++ happy (Alexey Dobriyan). * Drop unneeded variable initialization (Colin Ian King). * Add missing __acquires/__releases annotations (Jules Irenge). * Replace list_for_each_safe() with list_for_each_entry_safe() (chenqiwu)" * tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (31 commits) ACPICA: Update version to 20200214 ACPI: PCI: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow ACPI: fan: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow ACPI: EC: Eliminate EC_FLAGS_QUERY_HANDSHAKE ACPI: EC: Do not clear boot_ec_is_ecdt in acpi_ec_add() ACPI: EC: Simplify acpi_ec_ecdt_start() and acpi_ec_init() ACPI: EC: Consolidate event handler installation code acpi/x86: ignore unspecified bit positions in the ACPI global lock field acpi/x86: add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRT x86/acpi: make "asmlinkage" part first thing in the function definition ACPI: list_for_each_safe() -> list_for_each_entry_safe() ACPI: video: remove redundant assignments to variable result ACPI: OSL: Add missing __acquires/__releases annotations ACPI / battery: Cleanup Lenovo Ideapad Miix 320 DMI table entry ACPI / AC: Cleanup DMI quirk table ACPI: EC: Use fast path in acpi_ec_add() for DSDT boot EC ACPI: EC: Simplify acpi_ec_add() ACPI: EC: Drop AE_NOT_FOUND special case from ec_install_handlers() ACPI: EC: Avoid passing redundant argument to functions ACPI: EC: Avoid printing confusing messages in acpi_ec_setup() ...
2020-03-30Merge tag 'driver-core-5.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" set of driver core changes for 5.7-rc1. Nothing huge in here, just lots of little firmware core changes and use of new apis, a libfs fix, a debugfs api change, and some driver core deferred probe rework. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (44 commits) Revert "driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default" driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default driver core: Replace open-coded list_last_entry() driver core: Read atomic counter once in driver_probe_done() libfs: fix infoleak in simple_attr_read() driver core: Add device links from fwnode only for the primary device platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add info for the Chuwi Vi8 Plus tablet platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add EFI embedded firmware info support Input: icn8505 - Switch to firmware_request_platform for retreiving the fw Input: silead - Switch to firmware_request_platform for retreiving the fw selftests: firmware: Add firmware_request_platform tests test_firmware: add support for firmware_request_platform firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform() Revert "drivers: base: power: wakeup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking" drivers: base: power: wakeup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking component: allow missing unbind callback debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_file_size() debugfs: Check module state before warning in {full/open}_proxy_open() firmware: fix a double abort case with fw_load_sysfs_fallback arch_topology: Fix putting invalid cpu clk ...
2020-03-30Merge tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This has been a busy cycle for documentation work. Highlights include: - Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others. Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe... - Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api manual. - Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation. - Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..." * tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits) Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual ...
2020-03-24Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney: - Make kfree_rcu() use kfree_bulk() for added performance - RCU updates - Callback-overload handling updates - Tasks-RCU KCSAN and sparse updates - Locking torture test and RCU torture test updates - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-03-24x86/vmware: Enable steal time accountingAlexey Makhalov
Set paravirt_steal_rq_enabled if steal clock present. paravirt_steal_rq_enabled is used in sched/core.c to adjust task progress by offsetting stolen time. Use 'no-steal-acc' off switch (share same name with KVM) to disable steal time accounting. Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200323195707.31242-5-amakhalov@vmware.com
2020-03-21Merge branches 'doc.2020.02.27a', 'fixes.2020.03.21a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'kfree_rcu.2020.02.20a', 'locktorture.2020.02.20a', 'ovld.2020.02.20a', 'rcu-tasks.2020.02.20a', 'srcu.2020.02.20a' and 'torture.2020.02.20a' into HEAD doc.2020.02.27a: Documentation updates. fixes.2020.03.21a: Miscellaneous fixes. kfree_rcu.2020.02.20a: Updates to kfree_rcu(). locktorture.2020.02.20a: Lock torture-test updates. ovld.2020.02.20a: Updates to callback-overload handling. rcu-tasks.2020.02.20a: RCU-tasks updates. srcu.2020.02.20a: SRCU updates. torture.2020.02.20a: Torture-test updates.
2020-03-14acpi/x86: add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRTAlex Hung
BGRT is for displaying seamless OEM logo from booting to login screen; however, this mechanism does not always work well on all configurations and the OEM logo can be displayed multiple times. This looks worse than without BGRT enabled. This patch adds a kernel parameter to disable BGRT in boot time. This is easier than re-compiling a kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT disabled. Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-03-10Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctlGuilherme G. Piccoli
Commit 9c44bc03fff4 ("softlockup: allow panic on lockup") added the softlockup_panic sysctl, but didn't add information about it to the file Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst (which in that time certainly wasn't rst and had other name!). This patch just adds the respective documentation and references it from the corresponding entry in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. This patch was strongly based on Scott Wood's commit d22881dc13b6 ("Documentation: Better document the hardlockup_panic sysctl"). Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200310183649.23163-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-09Merge 5.6-rc5 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need the driver core and debugfs changes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-06sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay periodThara Gopinath
Thermal pressure follows pelt signals which means the decay period for thermal pressure is the default pelt decay period. Depending on SoC characteristics and thermal activity, it might be beneficial to decay thermal pressure slower, but still in-tune with the pelt signals. One way to achieve this is to provide a command line parameter to set a decay shift parameter to an integer between 0 and 10. Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-10-thara.gopinath@linaro.org
2020-03-04of: property: Delete of_devlink kernel commandline optionSaravana Kannan
With the addition of fw_devlink kernel commandline option, of_devlink is redundant and not useful anymore. So, delete it. Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222014038.180923-6-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-04driver core: Add fw_devlink kernel commandline optionSaravana Kannan
fwnode_operations.add_links allows creating device links from information provided by firmware. fwnode_operations.add_links is currently implemented only by OF/devicetree code and a specific case of efi. However, there's nothing preventing ACPI or other firmware types from implementing it. The OF implementation is currently controlled by a kernel commandline parameter called of_devlink. Since this feature is generic isn't limited to OF, add a generic fw_devlink kernel commandline parameter to control this feature across firmware types. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222014038.180923-3-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-02Documentation: nfsroot.rst: Fix references to nfsroot.rstNiklas Söderlund
When converting and moving nfsroot.txt to nfsroot.rst the references to the old text file was not updated to match the change, fix this. Fixes: f9a9349846f92b2d ("Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST") Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200212181332.520545-1-niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-02docs: admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Document earlycon options for i.MX UARTsJonathan Neuschäfer
drivers/tty/serial/imx.c implements these earlycon options. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200229132750.2783-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-27s390/protvirt: introduce host side setupVasily Gorbik
Add "prot_virt" command line option which controls if the kernel protected VMs support is enabled at early boot time. This has to be done early, because it needs large amounts of memory and will disable some features like STP time sync for the lpar. Extend ultravisor info definitions and expose it via uv_info struct filled in during startup. Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> [borntraeger@de.ibm.com: patch merging, splitting, fixing] Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2020-02-25Documentation: fix a typo for intel_iommu=nobounceAlex Hung
"untrusted" was mis-spelled as "unstrusted" Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-20torture: Allow disabling of boottime CPU-hotplug torture operationsPaul E. McKenney
In theory, RCU-hotplug operations are supposed to work as soon as there is more than one CPU online. However, in practice, in normal production there is no way to make them happen until userspace is up and running. Besides which, on smaller systems, rcutorture doesn't start doing hotplug operations until 30 seconds after the start of boot, which on most systems also means the better part of 30 seconds after the end of boot. This commit therefore provides a new torture.disable_onoff_at_boot kernel boot parameter that suppresses CPU-hotplug torture operations until about the time that init is spawned. Of course, if you know of a need for boottime CPU-hotplug operations, then you should avoid passing this argument to any of the torture tests. You might also want to look at the splats linked to below. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191206185208.GA25636@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/ Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-02-20rcutorture: Allow boottime stall warnings to be suppressedPaul E. McKenney
In normal production, an RCU CPU stall warning at boottime is often just as bad as at any other time. In fact, given the desire for fast boot, any sort of long-term stall at boot is a bad idea. However, heavy rcutorture testing on large hyperthreaded systems can generate boottime RCU CPU stalls as a matter of course. This commit therefore provides a kernel boot parameter that suppresses reporting of boottime RCU CPU stall warnings and similarly of rcutorture writer stalls. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-02-20rcu: React to callback overload by aggressively seeking quiescent statesPaul E. McKenney
In default configutions, RCU currently waits at least 100 milliseconds before asking cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help seeking quiescent states to end a grace period. But 100 milliseconds can be one good long time during an RCU callback flood, for example, as can happen when user processes repeatedly open and close files in a tight loop. These 100-millisecond gaps in successive grace periods during a callback flood can result in excessive numbers of callbacks piling up, unnecessarily increasing memory footprint. This commit therefore asks cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help as early as the first FQS scan when at least one of the CPUs has more than 20,000 callbacks queued, a number that can be changed using the new rcutree.qovld kernel boot parameter. An auxiliary qovld_calc variable is used to avoid acquisition of locks that have not yet been initialized. Early tests indicate that this reduces the RCU-callback memory footprint during rcutorture floods by from 50% to 4x, depending on configuration. Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [ paulmck: Fix bug located by Qian Cai. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
2020-02-20x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernelPeter Zijlstra (Intel)
A split-lock occurs when an atomic instruction operates on data that spans two cache lines. In order to maintain atomicity the core takes a global bus lock. This is typically >1000 cycles slower than an atomic operation within a cache line. It also disrupts performance on other cores (which must wait for the bus lock to be released before their memory operations can complete). For real-time systems this may mean missing deadlines. For other systems it may just be very annoying. Some CPUs have the capability to raise an #AC trap when a split lock is attempted. Provide a command line option to give the user choices on how to handle this: split_lock_detect= off - not enabled (no traps for split locks) warn - warn once when an application does a split lock, but allow it to continue running. fatal - Send SIGBUS to applications that cause split lock On systems that support split lock detection the default is "warn". Note that if the kernel hits a split lock in any mode other than "off" it will OOPs. One implementation wrinkle is that the MSR to control the split lock detection is per-core, not per thread. This might result in some short lived races on HT systems in "warn" mode if Linux tries to enable on one thread while disabling on the other. Race analysis by Sean Christopherson: - Toggling of split-lock is only done in "warn" mode. Worst case scenario of a race is that a misbehaving task will generate multiple #AC exceptions on the same instruction. And this race will only occur if both siblings are running tasks that generate split-lock #ACs, e.g. a race where sibling threads are writing different values will only occur if CPUx is disabling split-lock after an #AC and CPUy is re-enabling split-lock after *its* previous task generated an #AC. - Transitioning between off/warn/fatal modes at runtime isn't supported and disabling is tracked per task, so hardware will always reach a steady state that matches the configured mode. I.e. split-lock is guaranteed to be enabled in hardware once all _TIF_SLD threads have been scheduled out. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200126200535.GB30377@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
2020-02-19docs: Fix path to MTD command line partition parserJonathan Neuschäfer
cmdlinepart.c has been moved to drivers/mtd/parsers/. Fixes: a3f12a35c91d ("mtd: parsers: Move CMDLINE parser") Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-10Documentation,selinux: deprecate setting checkreqprot to 1Stephen Smalley
Deprecate setting the SELinux checkreqprot tunable to 1 via kernel parameter or /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. Setting it to 0 is left intact for compatibility since Android and some Linux distributions do so for security and treat an inability to set it as a fatal error. Eventually setting it to 0 will become a no-op and the kernel will stop using checkreqprot's value internally altogether. checkreqprot was originally introduced as a compatibility mechanism for legacy userspace and the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag. However, if set to 1, it weakens security by allowing mappings to be made executable without authorization by policy. The default value for the SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE config option was changed from 1 to 0 in commit 2a35d196c160e3 ("selinux: change CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE default") and both Android and Linux distributions began explicitly setting /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot to 0 some time ago. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-02-10ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at bootJean Delvare
In case the WDAT interface is broken, give the user an option to ignore it to let a native driver bind to the watchdog device instead. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-02-06Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Added new "bootconfig". This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options, and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers. Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup. Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line. - Created dynamic event creation. Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe events. - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer" - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer" Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer" - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code. - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly - Various other small fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits) bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes bootconfig: Add more parse error messages bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add() tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers tracing: Move tracing test module configs together tracing: Move all function tracing configs together tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API ...
2020-02-05bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdlineSteven Rostedt (VMware)
As the bootconfig is appended to the initrd it is not as easy to modify as the kernel command line. If there's some issue with the kernel, and the developer wants to boot a pristine kernel, it should not be needed to modify the initrd to remove the bootconfig for a single boot. As bootconfig is silently added (if the admin does not know where to look they may not know it's being loaded). It should be explicitly added to the kernel cmdline. The loading of the bootconfig is only done if "bootconfig" is on the kernel command line. This will let admins know that the kernel command line is extended. Note, after adding printk()s for when the size is too great or the checksum is wrong, exposed that the current method always looked for the boot config, and if this size and checksum matched, it would parse it (as if either is wrong a printk has been added to show this). It's better to only check this if the boot config is asked to be looked for. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjfjO+h6bQzrTf=YCZA53Y3EDyAs3Z4gEsT7icA3u_Psw@mail.gmail.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-01-31s390/boot: add dfltcc= kernel command line parameterMikhail Zaslonko
Add the new kernel command line parameter 'dfltcc=' to configure s390 zlib hardware support. Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on level 1 and decompression (default) off: No s390 zlib hardware support def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate only (compression on level 1) inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate only (decompression) always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression level always using hardware support (used for debugging) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-5-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-01-28Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Cleanup of the GOP [graphics output] handling code in the EFI stub - Complete refactoring of the mixed mode handling in the x86 EFI stub - Overhaul of the x86 EFI boot/runtime code - Increase robustness for mixed mode code - Add the ability to disable DMA at the root port level in the EFI stub - Get rid of RWX mappings in the EFI memory map and page tables, where possible - Move the support code for the old EFI memory mapping style into its only user, the SGI UV1+ support code. - plus misc fixes, updates, smaller cleanups. ... and due to interactions with the RWX changes, another round of PAT cleanups make a guest appearance via the EFI tree - with no side effects intended" * 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits) efi/x86: Disable instrumentation in the EFI runtime handling code efi/libstub/x86: Fix EFI server boot failure efi/x86: Disallow efi=old_map in mixed mode x86/boot/compressed: Relax sed symbol type regex for LLVM ld.lld efi/x86: avoid KASAN false positives when accessing the 1: 1 mapping efi: Fix handling of multiple efi_fake_mem= entries efi: Fix efi_memmap_alloc() leaks efi: Add tracking for dynamically allocated memmaps efi: Add a flags parameter to efi_memory_map efi: Fix comment for efi_mem_type() wrt absent physical addresses efi/arm: Defer probe of PCIe backed efifb on DT systems efi/x86: Limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV machines efi/x86: Avoid RWX mappings for all of DRAM efi/x86: Don't map the entire kernel text RW for mixed mode x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd efi/libstub/x86: Fix unused-variable warning efi/libstub/x86: Use mandatory 16-byte stack alignment in mixed mode efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit() efi: Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot efi/x86: Allow translating 64-bit arguments for mixed mode calls ...
2020-01-28Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The RCU changes in this cycle were: - Expedited grace-period updates - kfree_rcu() updates - RCU list updates - Preemptible RCU updates - Torture-test updates - Miscellaneous fixes - Documentation updates" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits) rcu: Remove unused stop-machine #include powerpc: Remove comment about read_barrier_depends() .mailmap: Add entries for old paulmck@kernel.org addresses srcu: Apply *_ONCE() to ->srcu_last_gp_end rcu: Switch force_qs_rnp() to for_each_leaf_node_cpu_mask() rcu: Move rcu_{expedited,normal} definitions into rcupdate.h rcu: Move gp_state_names[] and gp_state_getname() to tree_stall.h rcu: Remove the declaration of call_rcu() in tree.h rcu: Fix tracepoint tracking RCU CPU kthread utilization rcu: Fix harmless omission of "CONFIG_" from #if condition rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering rcu: Provide wrappers for uses of ->rcu_read_lock_nesting rcu: Use READ_ONCE() for ->expmask in rcu_read_unlock_special() rcu: Clear ->rcu_read_unlock_special only once rcu: Clear .exp_hint only when deferred quiescent state has been reported rcu: Rename some instance of CONFIG_PREEMPTION to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: Remove kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() rcu: Remove kfree_rcu() special casing and lazy-callback handling rcu: Add support for debug_objects debugging for kfree_rcu() rcu: Add multiple in-flight batches of kfree_rcu() work ...
2020-01-27Merge tag 'irq-core-2020-01-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The interrupt departement provides: - A mechanism to shield isolated tasks from managed interrupts: The affinity of managed interrupts is completely controlled by the kernel and user space has no influence on them. The reason is that the automatically assigned affinity correlates to the multi-queue CPU handling of block devices. If the generated affinity mask spaws both housekeeping and isolated CPUs the interrupt could be routed to an isolated CPU which would then be disturbed by I/O submitted by a housekeeping CPU. The new mechamism ensures that as long as one housekeeping CPU is online in the assigned affinity mask the interrupt is routed to a housekeeping CPU. If there is no online housekeeping CPU in the affinity mask, then the interrupt is routed to an isolated CPU to keep the device queue intact, but unless the isolated CPU submits I/O by itself these interrupts are not raised. - A small addon to the device tree irqdomain core code to avoid duplication in irq chip drivers - Conversion of the SiFive PLIC to hierarchical domains - The usual pile of new irq chip drivers: SiFive GPIO, Aspeed SCI, NXP INTMUX, Meson A1 GPIO - The first cut of support for the new ARM GICv4.1 - The usual pile of fixes and improvements in core and driver code" * tag 'irq-core-2020-01-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits) genirq, sched/isolation: Isolate from handling managed interrupts irqchip/gic-v4.1: Allow direct invalidation of VLPIs irqchip/gic-v4.1: Suppress per-VLPI doorbell irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add VPE INVALL callback irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add VPE eviction callback irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add VPE residency callback irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add mask/unmask doorbell callbacks irqchip/gic-v4.1: Plumb skeletal VPE irqchip irqchip/gic-v4.1: Implement the v4.1 flavour of VMOVP irqchip/gic-v4.1: Don't use the VPE proxy if RVPEID is set irqchip/gic-v4.1: Implement the v4.1 flavour of VMAPP irqchip/gic-v4.1: VPE table (aka GICR_VPROPBASER) allocation irqchip/gic-v3: Add GICv4.1 VPEID size discovery irqchip/gic-v3: Detect GICv4.1 supporting RVPEID irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix get_vlpi_map() breakage with doorbells irqdomain: Fix a memory leak in irq_domain_push_irq() irqchip: Add NXP INTMUX interrupt multiplexer support dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add binding for NXP INTMUX interrupt multiplexer irqchip: Define EXYNOS_IRQ_COMBINER irqchip/meson-gpio: Add support for meson a1 SoCs ...
2020-01-24rcu: Remove kfree_call_rcu_nobatch()Joel Fernandes (Google)
Now that the kfree_rcu() special-casing has been removed from tree RCU, this commit removes kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() since it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-01-24rcuperf: Add kfree_rcu() performance TestsJoel Fernandes (Google)
This test runs kfree_rcu() in a loop to measure performance of the new kfree_rcu() batching functionality. The following table shows results when booting with arguments: rcuperf.kfree_loops=20000 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num=8000 rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuperf.kfree_no_batch=X rcuperf.kfree_no_batch=X # Grace Periods Test Duration (s) X=1 (old behavior) 9133 11.5 X=0 (new behavior) 1732 12.5 On a 16 CPU system with the above boot parameters, we see that the total number of grace periods that elapse during the test drops from 9133 when not batching to 1732 when batching (a 5X improvement). The kfree_rcu() flood itself slows down a bit when batching, though, as shown. Note that the active memory consumption during the kfree_rcu() flood does increase to around 200-250MB due to the batching (from around 50MB without batching). However, this memory consumption is relatively constant. In other words, the system is able to keep up with the kfree_rcu() load. The memory consumption comes down considerably if KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES is increased from HZ/50 to HZ/80. A later patch will reduce memory consumption further by using multiple lists. Also, when running the test, please disable CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PROVE_RCU for realistic comparisons with/without batching. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-01-22genirq, sched/isolation: Isolate from handling managed interruptsMing Lei
The affinity of managed interrupts is completely handled in the kernel and cannot be changed via the /proc/irq/* interfaces from user space. As the kernel tries to spread out interrupts evenly accross CPUs on x86 to prevent vector exhaustion, it can happen that a managed interrupt whose affinity mask contains both isolated and housekeeping CPUs is routed to an isolated CPU. As a consequence IO submitted on a housekeeping CPU causes interrupts on the isolated CPU. Add a new sub-parameter 'managed_irq' for 'isolcpus' and the corresponding logic in the interrupt affinity selection code. The subparameter indicates to the interrupt affinity selection logic that it should try to avoid the above scenario. This isolation is best effort and only effective if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a device queue contains isolated and housekeeping CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU cannot disturb the isolated CPU. If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are only happening when tasks running on those isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those queues. If the affinity mask contains both housekeeping and isolated CPUs, but none of the contained housekeeping CPUs is online, then the interrupt is also routed to an isolated CPU. Interrupts are only delivered when one of the isolated CPUs in the affinity mask submits IO. If one of the contained housekeeping CPUs comes online, the CPU hotplug logic migrates the interrupt automatically back to the upcoming housekeeping CPU. Depending on the type of interrupt controller, this can require that at least one interrupt is delivered to the isolated CPU in order to complete the migration. [ tglx: Removed unused parameter, added and edited comments/documentation and rephrased the changelog so it contains more details. ] Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120091625.17912-1-ming.lei@redhat.com