Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.
Original-patch-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY,
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT,
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP,
and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY Kconfig options are only
useful for torture testing, and there are the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay,
rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot parameters
that rcutorture can use instead.  The effect of these parameters is to
artificially slow down grace period initialization and cleanup in order
to make some types of race conditions happen more often.

This commit therefore simplifies Tree RCU a bit by removing the Kconfig
options and adding the corresponding kernel parameters to rcutorture's
.boot files instead.  However, this commit also leaves out the kernel
parameters for TREE02, TREE04, and TREE07 in order to have about the
same number of tests slowed as not slowed.  TREE01, TREE03, TREE05,
and TREE06 are slowed, and the rest are not slowed.
Reported-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

If a given CPU never happens to ever start an SRCU grace period, the
grace-period sequence counter might wrap.  If this CPU were to decide to
finally start a grace period, the state of its sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed
might make it appear that it has already requested this grace period,
which would prevent starting the grace period.  If no other CPU ever started
a grace period again, this would look like a grace-period hang.  Even
if some other CPU took pity and started the needed grace period, the
leaf rcu_node structure's ->srcu_data_have_cbs field won't have record
of the fact that this CPU has a callback pending, which would look like
a very localized grace-period hang.

This might seem very unlikely, but SRCU grace periods can take less than
a microsecond on small systems, which means that overflow can happen
in much less than an hour on a 32-bit embedded system.  And embedded
systems are especially likely to have long-term idle CPUs.  Therefore,
it makes sense to prevent this scenario from happening.

This commit therefore scans each srcu_data structure occasionally,
with frequency controlled by the srcutree.counter_wrap_check kernel
boot parameter.  This parameter can be set to something like 255
in order to exercise the counter-wrap-prevention code.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This commit adds a writer_holdoff boot parameter to rcuperf, which is
intended to be used to test Tree SRCU's auto-expediting.  This
boot parameter is in microseconds, and defaults to zero (that is,
disabled).  Set it to a bit larger than srcutree.exp_holdoff,
keeping the nanosecond/microsecond conversion, to force Tree SRCU
to auto-expedite more aggressively.

This commit also adds documentation for this parameter, and fixes some
alphabetization while in the neighborhood.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This commit upgrades rcuperf so that it can do performance testing on
asynchronous grace-period primitives such as call_srcu().  There is
a new rcuperf.gp_async module parameter that specifies this new behavior,
with the pre-existing rcuperf.gp_exp testing expedited grace periods such as
synchronize_rcu_expedited, and with the default being to test synchronous
non-expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu().

There is also a new rcuperf.gp_async_max module parameter that specifies
the maximum number of outstanding callbacks per writer kthread, defaulting
to 1,000.  When this limit is exceeded, the writer thread invokes the
appropriate flavor of rcu_barrier() to wait for callbacks to drain.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Removed the redundant initialization noted by Arnd Bergmann. ]

Provide a dt_cpu_ftrs= cmdline option to disable the dt_cpu_ftrs CPU
feature discovery, and fall back to the "cputable" based version.

Also allow control of advertising unknown features to userspace and
with this parameter, and remove the clunky CONFIG option.
Signed-off-by: NNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Add explicit early check of bootargs in dt_cpu_ftrs_init()]
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Add a document describing the current behavior and user space
interface of the intel_pstate driver in the RST format and
drop the existing outdated intel_pstate.txt document.

Also update admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst with proper RST references
to the new intel_pstate.rst document.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

FTP services were shutdown some weeks ago, so the FTP URL
does not work anymore. Fix this by replacing it with
corresponding HTTPS URL.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The Marvell Armada 3700 UART uses "ar3700_uart" for its earlycon name.
Adjust documentation to match the code.
Signed-off-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel,
hence remove all references to it from Documentation.
Signed-off-by: NHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Signed-off-by: NHåvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>

On small systems, in the absence of readers, expedited SRCU grace
periods can complete in less than a microsecond.  This means that an
eight-CPU system can have all CPUs doing synchronize_srcu() in a tight
loop and almost always expedite.  This might actually be desirable in
some situations, but in general it is a good way to needlessly burn
CPU cycles.  And in those situations where it is desirable, your friend
is the function synchronize_srcu_expedited().

For other situations, this commit adds a kernel parameter that specifies
a holdoff between completing the last SRCU grace period and auto-expediting
the next.  If the next grace period starts before the holdoff expires,
auto-expediting is disabled.  The holdoff is 50 microseconds by default,
and can be tuned to the desired number of nanoseconds.  A value of zero
disables auto-expediting.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>

IOMMU harms performance signficantly when we run very fast networking
workloads. It's 40GB networking doing XDP test. Software overhead is
almost unaware, but it's the IOTLB miss (based on our analysis) which
kills the performance. We observed the same performance issue even with
software passthrough (identity mapping), only the hardware passthrough
survives. The pps with iommu (with software passthrough) is only about
~30% of that without it. This is a limitation in hardware based on our
observation, so we'd like to disable the IOMMU force on, but we do want
to use TBOOT and we can sacrifice the DMA security bought by IOMMU. I
must admit I know nothing about TBOOT, but TBOOT guys (cc-ed) think not
eabling IOMMU is totally ok.

So introduce a new boot option to disable the force on. It's kind of
silly we need to run into intel_iommu_init even without force on, but we
need to disable TBOOT PMR registers. For system without the boot option,
nothing is changed.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>

In Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst there were a couple of paragraphs
that spilled over the 80 character line length. This was likely caused
when the document was converted to reStructuredText. Re-flow the
paragraphs and make the document references proper reStructuredText
:ref: links.

This also adds the appropriate reStructuredText file heading to
kernel-parameters.rst as referenced by the kernel-parameters link in
this patch.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Reviewed-by: NJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The objlayout code has been in the tree, but it's been unmaintained and
no server product for it actually ever shipped.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

The IOMMU core currently initialises the default domain for each group
to IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA, under the assumption that devices will use
IOMMU-backed DMA ops by default. However, in some cases it is desirable
for the DMA ops to bypass the IOMMU for performance reasons, reserving
use of translation for subsystems such as VFIO that require it for
enforcing device isolation.

Rather than modify each IOMMU driver to provide different semantics for
DMA domains, instead we introduce a command line parameter that can be
used to change the type of the default domain. Passthrough can then be
specified using "iommu.passthrough=1" on the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Disable kasan after the first report.  There are several reasons for
this:

 - Single bug quite often has multiple invalid memory accesses causing
   storm in the dmesg.

 - Write OOB access might corrupt metadata so the next report will print
   bogus alloc/free stacktraces.

 - Reports after the first easily could be not bugs by itself but just
   side effects of the first one.

Given that multiple reports usually only do harm, it makes sense to
disable kasan after the first one.  If user wants to see all the
reports, the boot-time parameter kasan_multi_shot must be used.

[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: wrote changelog and doc, added missing include]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323154416.30257-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.comSigned-off-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Introduce a simple data structure for collecting correctable errors
along with accessors. More detailed description in the code itself.

The error decoding is done with the decoding chain now and
mce_first_notifier() gets to see the error first and the CEC decides
whether to log it and then the rest of the chain doesn't hear about it -
basically the main reason for the CE collector - or to continue running
the notifiers.

When the CEC hits the action threshold, it will try to soft-offine the
page containing the ECC and then the whole decoding chain gets to see
the error.
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170327093304.10683-5-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Add support for earlyprintk by writing debug messages to the
USB3 debug port. Users can use this type of early printk by
specifying the kernel parameter of "earlyprintk=xdbc". This
gives users a chance of providing debugging output.

The hardware for USB3 debug port requires DMA memory blocks.
This requires to delay setting up debugging hardware and
registering boot console until the memblocks are filled.
Signed-off-by: NLu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490083293-3792-4-git-send-email-baolu.lu@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Add 'consistency_policy' attribute for array. It indicates how the array
maintains consistency in case of unexpected shutdown.

Add 'ppl_sector' and 'ppl_size' for rdev, which describe the location
and size of the PPL space on the device. They can't be changed for
active members if the array is started and PPL is enabled, so in the
setter functions only basic checks are performed. More checks are done
in ppl_validate_rdev() when starting the log.

These attributes are writable to allow enabling PPL for external
metadata arrays and (later) to enable/disable PPL for a running array.
Signed-off-by: NArtur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

Fix typos in admin-guide directory.
Make documentation clear and grammatically correct.
Signed-off-by: NTamara Diaconita <diaconita.tamara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The UAPI header split failed to update the documentation here; fix things
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The user/admin documentation of cpufreq is badly outdated.  It
conains stale and/or inaccurate information along with things
that are not particularly useful.  Also, some of the important
pieces are missing from it.

For this reason, add a new user/admin document for cpufreq
containing current information to admin-guide and drop the old
outdated .txt documents it is replacing.

Since there will be more PM documents in admin-guide going forward,
create a separate directory for them and put the cpufreq document
in there right away.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: NViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The kernel security team is regularly asked to provide CVE identifiers,
which we don't normally do. This updates the documentation to mention
this and adds some more details about coordination and patch handling
that come up regularly. Based on an earlier draft by Willy Tarreau.
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: NWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

For mouse devices we can currently change the polling interval
via usbhid.mousepoll. Implement the same thing for joysticks, so
users can reduce input latency this way.

This has been tested with a Logitech RumblePad 2 with jspoll=2,
resulting in a polling rate of 500Hz (verified with evhz).
Signed-off-by: NTobias Jakobi <tjakobi@math.uni-bielefeld.de>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline option.

At boot-time, this allows a user to request CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=n
behavior from a kernel built with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y.

This is analogous to the existing "cpuidle.off=1" option
and CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y

This capability is valuable when we need to debug end-user
issues in the BIOS or in Linux.  It is also convenient
for enabling comparisons, which may otherwise require a new kernel,
or help from BIOS SETUP, which may be buggy or unavailable.
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Early trace callgraphs can be extremely large on systems with
several seconds of boot time. The max_depth parameter limits how
deep the graph trace goes and reduces the output size. This
parameter is the same as the max_graph_depth file in tracefs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488499935-23216-1-git-send-email-todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: NTodd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
[ changed comments about debugfs to tracefs ]
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  an user||a user
  an userspace||a userspace

I also added "userspace" to the list since it is a common word in Linux.
I found some instances for "an userfaultfd", but I did not add it to the
list.  I felt it is endless to find words that start with "user" such as
"userland" etc., so must draw a line somewhere.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-4-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.comSigned-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

SLUB creates a per-cache directory under /sys/kernel/slab which hosts a
bunch of debug files.  Usually, there aren't that many caches on a
system and this doesn't really matter; however, if memcg is in use, each
cache can have per-cgroup sub-caches.  SLUB creates the same directories
for these sub-caches under /sys/kernel/slab/$CACHE/cgroup.

Unfortunately, because there can be a lot of cgroups, active or
draining, the product of the numbers of caches, cgroups and files in
each directory can reach a very high number - hundreds of thousands is
commonplace.  Millions and beyond aren't difficult to reach either.

What's under /sys/kernel/slab is primarily for debugging and the
information and control on the a root cache already cover its
sub-caches.  While having a separate directory for each sub-cache can be
helpful for development, it doesn't make much sense to pay this amount
of overhead by default.

This patch introduces a boot parameter slub_memcg_sysfs which determines
whether to create sysfs directories for per-memcg sub-caches.  It also
adds CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON which determines the boot parameter's
default value and defaults to 0.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kset_unregister(NULL) is legal]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170204145203.GB26958@mtj.duckdns.orgSigned-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The goldfish platform code registers the platform device unconditionally
which causes havoc in several ways if the goldfish_pdev_bus driver is
enabled:

 - Access to the hardcoded physical memory region, which is either not
   available or contains stuff which is completely unrelated.

 - Prevents that the interrupt of the serial port can be requested

 - In case of a spurious interrupt it goes into a infinite loop in the
   interrupt handler of the pdev_bus driver (which needs to be fixed
   seperately).

Add a 'goldfish' command line option to make the registration opt-in when
the platform is compiled in.

I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has seven
SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them figured
out that this is broken. Impressive fail!

Fixes: ddd70cf9 ("goldfish: platform device for x86")
Reported-by: NGabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

I'm starting document of the raid5-cache feature. Please note this is a
kernel doc instead of a mdadm manual, so I don't add the details about
how to use the feature in mdadm side.

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: NSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

Having a command line option to flip the errata handling for a
particular erratum is a little bit unusual, and it's vastly superior to
pass this in the DT. By common consensus, it's best to kill off the
command line parameter.
Signed-off-by: NDing Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
[Mark: split patch, reword commit message]
Signed-off-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: NDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>

Enable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT for Intel Xeon Phi x200 codenamed Knights
Landing.

Presence of this feature cannot be detected automatically (by reading any
other MSR) therefore it is required to explicitly check for the family and
model of the CPU before attempting to enable it.
Signed-off-by: NGrzegorz Andrejczuk <grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com>
Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-5-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.comSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Two of the example command lines use an argument to echo of "-c" which
isn't valid in (most versions of) echo causing these examples to fail.
Correct the argument to "-n" which works correctly.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Price <steven@ecrips.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

The old csrowX sysfs directories have per-csrow error counters, but the
new dimmX directories do not currently expose error counts.

EDAC already keeps these counts, add them to sysfs so per-DIMM counts
are still available when CONFIG_EDAC_LEGACY_SYSFS=n.
Signed-off-by: NAaron Miller <aaronmiller@fb.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161103220153.3997328-1-aaronmiller@fb.comSigned-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Use the early sclp code to provide a boot console. This boot console
is available if the kernel parameter "earlyprintk" has been specified,
just like it works for other architectures that also provide an early
boot console.

This makes debugging of early problems much easier, since now we
finally have working console output even before memory detection is
running.

The boot console will be automatically disabled as soon as another
console will be registered.
Reviewed-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

... and a minor missing period at EOL
Signed-off-by: NSanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This allows enabling earlycon for devices with a Lantiq serial console
by splitting lqasc_serial_port_write() from lqasc_console_write() and
re-using the new function for earlycon's write callback.

The kernel-parameter name matches the driver name ("lantiq"), similar
to how other drivers implement this.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Sometimes, the users may require a quirk to be provided from ACPI subsystem
core to prevent a GPE from flooding.
Normally, if a GPE cannot be dispatched, ACPICA core automatically prevents
the GPE from firing. But there are cases the GPE is dispatched by _Lxx/_Exx
provided via AML table, and OSPM is lacking of the knowledge to get
_Lxx/_Exx correctly executed to handle the GPE, thus the GPE flooding may
still occur.

The existing quirk mechanism can be enabled/disabled using the following
commands to prevent such kind of GPE flooding during runtime:
 # echo mask > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe00
 # echo unmask > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe00
To avoid GPE flooding during boot, we need a boot stage mechanism.

This patch provides such a boot stage quirk mechanism to stop this kind of
GPE flooding. This patch doesn't fix any feature gap but since the new
feature gaps could be found in the future endlessly, and can disappear if
the feature gaps are filled, providing a boot parameter rather than a DMI
table should suffice.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117481
Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793Signed-off-by: NLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

The IMA binary_runtime_measurements list is currently in platform native
format.

To allow restoring a measurement list carried across kexec with a
different endianness than the targeted kernel, this patch defines
little-endian as the canonical format.  For big endian systems wanting
to save/restore the measurement list from a system with a different
endianness, a new boot command line parameter named "ima_canonical_fmt"
is defined.

Considerations: use of the "ima_canonical_fmt" boot command line option
will break existing userspace applications on big endian systems
expecting the binary_runtime_measurements list to be in platform native
format.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480554346-29071-10-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org>
Cc: Josh Sklar <sklar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>