This patch adds the kernel command line parameter "no_tb_segs" which
forces the kernel to use 256MB rather than 1TB segments. Forcing the use
of 256MB segments makes it considerably easier to test code that depends
on an SLB miss occurring.
Suggested-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Suggested-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NOliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE specifies the default value for the
memory hotplug onlining policy.  Add a command line parameter to make it
possible to override the default.  It may come handy for debug and
testing purposes.
Signed-off-by: NVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Running self-tests for a short-lived KVM VM takes 28ms on my laptop.
This commit adds a flag 'cryptomgr.notests' which allows them to be
disabled.

However if fips=1 as well, we ignore this flag as FIPS mode mandates
that the self-tests are run.
Signed-off-by: NRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

This patch introduces acpi_osi=!! so that quirks may use it to revert
acpi_osi=!.
Tested-by: NLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Tested-by: NChen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Split off the bulk of the existing meson_serial_console_write()
implementation into meson_serial_port_write() for implementing
meson_serial_early_console_write().

Use "meson" as the earlycon driver name, courtesy of Nicolas.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Saenz Julienne <nicolassaenzj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NCarlo Caione <carlo@endlessm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

For platforms which are controlled via remove node manager, enable _PPC by
default. These platforms are mostly categorized as enterprise server or
performance servers. These platforms needs to go through some
certifications tests, which tests control via _PPC.
The relative risk of enabling by default is  low as this is is less likely
that these systems have broken _PSS table.
Signed-off-by: NSrinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Use ACPI _PPC notification to limit max P state driver will request.
ACPI _PPC change notification is sent by BIOS to limit max P state
in several cases:
- Reduce impact of platform thermal condition
- When Config TDP feature is used, a changed _PPC is sent to
follow TDP change
- Remote node managers in server want to control platform power
via baseboard management controller (BMC)

This change registers with ACPI processor performance lib so that
_PPC changes are notified to cpufreq core, which in turns will
result in call to .setpolicy() callback. Also the way _PSS
table identifies a turbo frequency is not compatible to max turbo
frequency in intel_pstate, so the very first entry in _PSS needs
to be adjusted.

This feature can be turned on by using kernel parameters:
intel_pstate=support_acpi_ppc
Signed-off-by: NSrinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
[ rjw: Minor cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

If both ACPI and DT platform descriptions are available, and the
kernel was configured at build time to support both flavours, the
default policy is to prefer DT over ACPI, and preferring ACPI over
DT while still allowing DT as a fallback is not possible.

Since some enterprise features (such as RAS) depend on ACPI, it may
be desirable for, e.g., distro installers to prefer ACPI boot but
fall back to DT rather than failing completely if no ACPI tables are
available.

So introduce the 'acpi=on' kernel command line parameter for arm64,
which signifies that ACPI should be used if available, and DT should
only be used as a fallback.
Acked-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Commit 6c2ff84e979a ("s390: add SMT support") added the nosmt and smt
early kernel parameters for restricting the use of symmetric
multithreading (SMT). They are quite useful for debugging and testing,
so document them.
Signed-off-by: NSascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Add a new NO_REPORT_LUNS quirk and set it for Seagate drives with
an usb-id of: 0bc2:331a, as these will fail to respond to a
REPORT_LUNS command.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-and-tested-by: NDavid Webb <djw@noc.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This patch introduces a new kernel parameter, ivrs_acpihid.
This is used to override existing ACPI-HID IVHD device entry,
or add an entry in case it is missing in the IVHD.
Signed-off-by: NWan Zongshun <Vincent.Wan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NSuravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>

According to kernel documentation, the pci=firmware command line
parameter is only meant to be used on IXP2000 ARM platforms to prevent
the kernel from assigning PCI resources configured by the bootloader.

Since the IXP2000 ARM platforms support has been removed from the
kernel in commit:

commit c65f2abf ("ARM: remove ixp23xx and ixp2000 platforms")

its platforms specific kernel parameters should be removed
too from the kernel documentation along with the kernel code
currently handling them in that they have just become obsolete.

This patch removes the pci=firmware command line parameter handling
from ARM code and the related kernel parameters documentation
section.
Signed-off-by: NLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Acked-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: NLennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

For several years, the common practice has been to boot UVs with the
"nobau" parameter on the command line, to disable the BAU.  We've
decided that it makes more sense to just disable the BAU by default in
the kernel, and provide the option to turn it on, if desired.

For now, having the on/off switch doesn't buy us any more than just
reversing the logic would, but we're working towards having the BAU
enabled by default on UV4.  When those changes are in place, having the
on/off switch will make more sense than an enable flag, since the
default behavior will be different depending on the system version.

I've also added a bit of documentation for the new parameter to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: NHedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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/1459451909-121845-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Boot-time activity can legitimately grab CPUs for extended time periods,
so the commit adds a boot parameter to delay the start of the performance
test until boot has completed.  Defaults to 10 seconds.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This commit adds documentation for the new rcuperf module's kernel
boot parameters.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Page poisoning is currently set up as a feature if architectures don't
have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages.  It has
uses apart from that though.  Clearing of the pages on free provides an
increase in security as it helps to limit the risk of information leaks.
Allow page poisoning to be enabled as a separate option independent of
kernel_map pages since the two features do separate work.  Because of
how hiberanation is implemented, the checks on alloc cannot occur if
hibernation is enabled.  The runtime alloc checks can also be enabled
with an option when !HIBERNATION.

Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work
Signed-off-by: NLaura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch extends existing "kernelcore" option and introduces
kernelcore=mirror option.  By specifying "mirror" instead of specifying
the amount of memory, non-mirrored (non-reliable) region will be
arranged into ZONE_MOVABLE.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=n]
Signed-off-by: NTaku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: NSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Now the noltlbs kernel parameter is also applicable to PPC8xx
Signed-off-by: NChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: NScott Wood <oss@buserror.net>

Some HP laptops seem to have invalid 64 bit FADT X_PM* addresses
which are causing various boot issues.  In these cases, it would
be useful to force ACPI to use the valid legacy 32 bit equivalent
PM addresses.  Add a acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr to set the ACPICA
acpi_gbl_use32_bit_fadt_addresses to TRUE to force this override.

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1529381Signed-off-by: NColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Armada-3700's uart is a simple serial port, which doesn't
support. Configuring the modem control lines. The uart port has a 32
bytes Tx FIFO and a 64 bytes Rx FIFO

The uart driver implements the uart core operations. It also support the
system (early) console based on Armada-3700's serial port.

Known Issue:

The uart driver currently doesn't support clock programming, which means
the baud-rate stays with the default value configured by the bootloader
at boot time

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com: Rewrite many part which are too long
to enumerate]
Signed-off-by: NWilson Ding <dingwei@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: NNadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: NGregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: NRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Most newer Rockchip SoCs provide the possibility to use a usb-phy
as passthrough for the debug uart (uart2), making it possible to
for example get console output without needing to open the device.

This patch adds an early_initcall to enable this functionality
conditionally via the commandline and also disables the corresponding
usb controller in the devicetree.

Currently only data for the rk3288 is provided, but at least the
rk3188 and arm64 rk3368 also provide this functionality and will be
enabled later.

On a spliced usb cable the signals are tx on white wire(D+) and
rx on green wire(D-).

The one caveat is that currently the reconfiguration of the phy
happens as early_initcall, as the code depends on the unflattened
devicetree being available. Everything is fine if only a regular
console is active as the console-replay will happen after the
reconfiguation. But with earlycon active output up to smp-init
currently will get lost.

The phy is an optional property for the connected dwc2 controller,
so we still provide the phy device but fail all phy-ops with -EBUSY
to make sure the dwc2 does not try to transmit anything on the
repurposed phy.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Signed-off-by: NKishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>

It may be useful to debug writes to the readonly sections of memory,
so provide a cmdline "rodata=off" to allow for this. This can be
expanded in the future to support "log" and "write" modes, but that
will need to be architecture-specific.

This also makes KDB software breakpoints more usable, as read-only
mappings can now be disabled on any kernel.
Suggested-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

This sets the bit in 'cr4' to actually enable the protection
keys feature.  We also include a boot-time disable for the
feature "nopku".

Seting X86_CR4_PKE will cause the X86_FEATURE_OSPKE cpuid
bit to appear set.  At this point in boot, identify_cpu()
has already run the actual CPUID instructions and populated
the "cpu features" structures.  We need to go back and
re-run identify_cpu() to make sure it gets updated values.

We *could* simply re-populate the 11th word of the cpuid
data, but this is probably quick enough.

Also note that with the cpu_has() check and X86_FEATURE_PKU
present in disabled-features.h, we do not need an #ifdef
for setup_pku().
Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
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: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210229.6708027C@viggo.jf.intel.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Add cgroup_no_v1= to kernel-parameters.txt, and a small blurb to
cgroup-v2.txt section about transitioning from cgroup to cgroup2.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Workqueue used to guarantee local execution for work items queued
without explicit target CPU.  The guarantee is gone now which can
break some usages in subtle ways.  To flush out those cases, this
patch implements a debug feature which forces round-robin CPU
selection for all such work items.

The debug feature defaults to off and can be enabled with a kernel
parameter.  The default can be flipped with a debug config option.

If you hit this commit during bisection, please refer to 041bd12e
("Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu"") for
more information and ping me.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

This adds a chicken bit to turn off INVPCID in case something goes
wrong.  It's an early_param() because we do TLB flushes before we
parse __setup() parameters.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f586317ed1bc2b87aee652267e515b90051af385.1454096309.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

schedstats is very useful during debugging and performance tuning but it
incurs overhead to calculate the stats. As such, even though it can be
disabled at build time, it is often enabled as the information is useful.

This patch adds a kernel command-line and sysctl tunable to enable or
disable schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled
by default as someone who knows they need it can also learn to enable
it when necessary.

The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is.
If it is then the patch reduces the number of cycles spent calculating
the stats with a small benefit from reducing the cache footprint of the
scheduler.

These measurements were taken from a 48-core 2-socket
machine with Xeon(R) E5-2670 v3 cpus although they were also tested on a
single socket machine 8-core machine with Intel i7-3770 processors.

netperf-tcp
                           4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                             vanilla          nostats-v3r1
Hmean    64         560.45 (  0.00%)      575.98 (  2.77%)
Hmean    128        766.66 (  0.00%)      795.79 (  3.80%)
Hmean    256        950.51 (  0.00%)      981.50 (  3.26%)
Hmean    1024      1433.25 (  0.00%)     1466.51 (  2.32%)
Hmean    2048      2810.54 (  0.00%)     2879.75 (  2.46%)
Hmean    3312      4618.18 (  0.00%)     4682.09 (  1.38%)
Hmean    4096      5306.42 (  0.00%)     5346.39 (  0.75%)
Hmean    8192     10581.44 (  0.00%)    10698.15 (  1.10%)
Hmean    16384    18857.70 (  0.00%)    18937.61 (  0.42%)

Small gains here, UDP_STREAM showed nothing intresting and neither did
the TCP_RR tests. The gains on the 8-core machine were very similar.

tbench4
                                 4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                                   vanilla          nostats-v3r1
Hmean    mb/sec-1         500.85 (  0.00%)      522.43 (  4.31%)
Hmean    mb/sec-2         984.66 (  0.00%)     1018.19 (  3.41%)
Hmean    mb/sec-4        1827.91 (  0.00%)     1847.78 (  1.09%)
Hmean    mb/sec-8        3561.36 (  0.00%)     3611.28 (  1.40%)
Hmean    mb/sec-16       5824.52 (  0.00%)     5929.03 (  1.79%)
Hmean    mb/sec-32      10943.10 (  0.00%)    10802.83 ( -1.28%)
Hmean    mb/sec-64      15950.81 (  0.00%)    16211.31 (  1.63%)
Hmean    mb/sec-128     15302.17 (  0.00%)    15445.11 (  0.93%)
Hmean    mb/sec-256     14866.18 (  0.00%)    15088.73 (  1.50%)
Hmean    mb/sec-512     15223.31 (  0.00%)    15373.69 (  0.99%)
Hmean    mb/sec-1024    14574.25 (  0.00%)    14598.02 (  0.16%)
Hmean    mb/sec-2048    13569.02 (  0.00%)    13733.86 (  1.21%)
Hmean    mb/sec-3072    12865.98 (  0.00%)    13209.23 (  2.67%)

Small gains of 2-4% at low thread counts and otherwise flat.  The
gains on the 8-core machine were slightly different

tbench4 on 8-core i7-3770 single socket machine
Hmean    mb/sec-1        442.59 (  0.00%)      448.73 (  1.39%)
Hmean    mb/sec-2        796.68 (  0.00%)      794.39 ( -0.29%)
Hmean    mb/sec-4       1322.52 (  0.00%)     1343.66 (  1.60%)
Hmean    mb/sec-8       2611.65 (  0.00%)     2694.86 (  3.19%)
Hmean    mb/sec-16      2537.07 (  0.00%)     2609.34 (  2.85%)
Hmean    mb/sec-32      2506.02 (  0.00%)     2578.18 (  2.88%)
Hmean    mb/sec-64      2511.06 (  0.00%)     2569.16 (  2.31%)
Hmean    mb/sec-128     2313.38 (  0.00%)     2395.50 (  3.55%)
Hmean    mb/sec-256     2110.04 (  0.00%)     2177.45 (  3.19%)
Hmean    mb/sec-512     2072.51 (  0.00%)     2053.97 ( -0.89%)

In constract, this shows a relatively steady 2-3% gain at higher thread
counts. Due to the nature of the patch and the type of workload, it's
not a surprise that the result will depend on the CPU used.

hackbench-pipes
                         4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                           vanilla          nostats-v3r1
Amean    1        0.0637 (  0.00%)      0.0660 ( -3.59%)
Amean    4        0.1229 (  0.00%)      0.1181 (  3.84%)
Amean    7        0.1921 (  0.00%)      0.1911 (  0.52%)
Amean    12       0.3117 (  0.00%)      0.2923 (  6.23%)
Amean    21       0.4050 (  0.00%)      0.3899 (  3.74%)
Amean    30       0.4586 (  0.00%)      0.4433 (  3.33%)
Amean    48       0.5910 (  0.00%)      0.5694 (  3.65%)
Amean    79       0.8663 (  0.00%)      0.8626 (  0.43%)
Amean    110      1.1543 (  0.00%)      1.1517 (  0.22%)
Amean    141      1.4457 (  0.00%)      1.4290 (  1.16%)
Amean    172      1.7090 (  0.00%)      1.6924 (  0.97%)
Amean    192      1.9126 (  0.00%)      1.9089 (  0.19%)

Some small gains and losses and while the variance data is not included,
it's close to the noise. The UMA machine did not show anything particularly
different

pipetest
                             4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                               vanilla          nostats-v2r2
Min         Time        4.13 (  0.00%)        3.99 (  3.39%)
1st-qrtle   Time        4.38 (  0.00%)        4.27 (  2.51%)
2nd-qrtle   Time        4.46 (  0.00%)        4.39 (  1.57%)
3rd-qrtle   Time        4.56 (  0.00%)        4.51 (  1.10%)
Max-90%     Time        4.67 (  0.00%)        4.60 (  1.50%)
Max-93%     Time        4.71 (  0.00%)        4.65 (  1.27%)
Max-95%     Time        4.74 (  0.00%)        4.71 (  0.63%)
Max-99%     Time        4.88 (  0.00%)        4.79 (  1.84%)
Max         Time        4.93 (  0.00%)        4.83 (  2.03%)
Mean        Time        4.48 (  0.00%)        4.39 (  1.91%)
Best99%Mean Time        4.47 (  0.00%)        4.39 (  1.91%)
Best95%Mean Time        4.46 (  0.00%)        4.38 (  1.93%)
Best90%Mean Time        4.45 (  0.00%)        4.36 (  1.98%)
Best50%Mean Time        4.36 (  0.00%)        4.25 (  2.49%)
Best10%Mean Time        4.23 (  0.00%)        4.10 (  3.13%)
Best5%Mean  Time        4.19 (  0.00%)        4.06 (  3.20%)
Best1%Mean  Time        4.13 (  0.00%)        4.00 (  3.39%)

Small improvement and similar gains were seen on the UMA machine.

The gain is small but it stands to reason that doing less work in the
scheduler is a good thing. The downside is that the lack of schedstats and
tracepoints may be surprising to experts doing performance analysis until
they find the existence of the schedstats= parameter or schedstats sysctl.
It will be automatically activated for latencytop and sleep profiling to
alleviate the problem. For tracepoints, there is a simple warning as it's
not safe to activate schedstats in the context when it's known the tracepoint
may be wanted but is unavailable.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: NMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: NSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454663316-22048-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

If we isolate CPUs, then we don't want random device interrupts on them. Even
w/o the user space irq balancer enabled we can end up with irqs on non boot
cpus and chasing newly requested interrupts is a tedious task.

Allow to restrict the default irq affinity mask.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1602031948190.25254@nanosSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch provides a way of working around a slight regression
introduced by commit 84638335 ("mm: rework virtual memory
accounting").

Before that commit RLIMIT_DATA have control only over size of the brk
region.  But that change have caused problems with all existing versions
of valgrind, because it set RLIMIT_DATA to zero.

This patch fixes rlimit check (limit actually in bytes, not pages) and
by default turns it into warning which prints at first VmData misuse:

  "mmap: top (795): VmData 516096 exceed data ulimit 512000.  Will be forbidden soon."

Behavior is controlled by boot param ignore_rlimit_data=y/n and by sysfs
/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.  For now it set to "y".

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt text[
Signed-off-by: NKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151228211015.GL2194@uranusReported-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Move them to a separate header and have the following
dependency:

  x86/cpufeatures.h <- x86/processor.h <- x86/cpufeature.h

This makes it easier to use the header in asm code and not
include the whole cpufeature.h and add guards for asm.
Suggested-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NBorislav 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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Kmem accounting might incur overhead that some users can't put up with.
Besides, the implementation is still considered unstable.  So let's
provide a way to disable it for those users who aren't happy with it.

To disable kmem accounting for cgroup2, pass cgroup.memory=nokmem at
boot time.
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add an `ieee754=' kernel parameter to control IEEE Std 754 conformance
mode.

Use separate flags copied from the respective CPU feature flags, and
adjusted according to the conformance mode selected, to make binaries
requesting individual NaN encoding modes accepted or rejected as needed.
Update the initial setting for FCSR and, in the full FPU emulation mode,
its read-only mask accordingly.  Accept the mode selection requested for
legacy processors as well.

As with the EF_MIPS_NAN2008 ELF file header flag adjust both ABS2008 and
NAN2008 bits at the same time, to match the choice made for hardware
currently implemented.
Signed-off-by: NMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11481/Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Socket memory can be a significant share of overall memory consumed by
common workloads.  In order to provide reasonable resource isolation in
the unified hierarchy, this type of memory needs to be included in the
tracking/accounting of a cgroup under active memory resource control.

Overhead is only incurred when a non-root control group is created AND
the memory controller is instructed to track and account the memory
footprint of that group.  cgroup.memory=nosocket can be specified on the
boot commandline to override any runtime configuration and forcibly
exclude socket memory from active memory resource control.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

People complained that setting the PCI config space access mechanism
through "pci=conf1" or "pci=conf2" on the command line is not really
documented. Yeah, can you blame them? Look at what we have now.

So try to improve the situation a bit by explaining what those "conf1"
and "conf2" things actually mean.

See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info.
Suggested-by: NEric Morton <Eric.Morton@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[jc: Added the above URL to the document too]
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Instead of defining a new field in the uart_amba_port structure, use the
existing iotype field of the uart_port structure, which is intended for
this purpose.  If we need to use 32-bit register access, we set iotype
to UPIO_MEM32, otherwise we set it to UPIO_MEM.

For early console, specify the "mmio32" option on the kernel command-line.
Example:

        earlycon=pl011,mmio32,0x3ced1000
Signed-off-by: NTimur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The brd driver has never supported the ramdisk_blocksize kernel
parameter that was in the rd driver it replaced, so remove
mention of this parameter from comments and Documentation.

Commit 9db5579b ("rewrite rd") replaced rd with brd, keeping
a brd_blocksize variable in struct brd_device but never using it.

Commit a2cba291 ("brd: get rid of unused members from struct
brd_device") removed the unused variable.

Commit f5abc8e7 ("Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt: updates")
removed mentions of ramdisk_blocksize from that file.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This patch introduces a command line parameter apic_extnmi:

 apic_extnmi=( bsp|all|none )

The default value is "bsp" and this is the current behavior: only the
Boot-Strapping Processor receives an external NMI.

"all" allows external NMIs to be broadcast to all CPUs. This would
raise the success rate of panic on NMI when BSP hangs in NMI context
or the external NMI is swallowed by other NMI handlers on the BSP.

If you specify "none", no CPUs receive external NMIs. This is useful for
the dump capture kernel so that it cannot be shot down by accidentally
pressing the external NMI button (on platforms which have it) while
saving a crash dump.
Signed-off-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210014632.25437.43778.stgit@softrsSigned-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Currently, 8-bit (MMIO) and 32-bit (MMIO32) register interfaces are
supported for the 8250 console, but the 16-bit (MMIO16) is not.
The 8250 UART device on my board is connected to a 16-bit bus and
my main motivation is to use earlycon with it.
(Refer to arch/arm/boot/dts/uniphier-support-card.dtsi)
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: NPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Workqueue stalls can happen from a variety of usage bugs such as
missing WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag or concurrency managed work item
indefinitely staying RUNNING.  These stalls can be extremely difficult
to hunt down because the usual warning mechanisms can't detect
workqueue stalls and the internal state is pretty opaque.

To alleviate the situation, this patch implements workqueue lockup
detector.  It periodically monitors all worker_pools periodically and,
if any pool failed to make forward progress longer than the threshold
duration, triggers warning and dumps workqueue state as follows.

 BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 31s!
 Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
 workqueue events: flags=0x0
   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=17/256
     pending: monkey_wrench_fn, e1000_watchdog, cache_reap, vmstat_shepherd, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, cgroup_release_agent
 workqueue events_power_efficient: flags=0x80
   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
     pending: check_lifetime, neigh_periodic_work
 workqueue cgroup_pidlist_destroy: flags=0x0
   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1
     pending: cgroup_pidlist_destroy_work_fn
 ...

The detection mechanism is controller through kernel parameter
workqueue.watchdog_thresh and can be updated at runtime through the
sysfs module parameter file.

v2: Decoupled from softlockup control knobs.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

The rcu_expedited, rcu_normal, and rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot
parameters are pointless in the case of TINY_RCU because in that case
synchronous grace periods, both expedited and normal, are no-ops.
However, these three symbols contribute several hundred bytes of bloat.
This commit therefore uses CPP directives to avoid compiling this code
in TINY_RCU kernels.
Reported-by: Nkbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>