- 15 7月, 2019 7 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use in order to solve issues on their systems. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The docs under Documentation/laptops contain users specific information. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the :orphan: from its index file. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other files there via TOC markup. Despite being written on different times with different styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both raw text file and as via the html output produced by the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the blockdev documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. The drbd sub-directory contains some graphs and data flows. Add those too to the documentation. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Rename the laptops documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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- 13 7月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Alexander Potapenko 提交于
Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10. Provide init_on_alloc and init_on_free boot options. These are aimed at preventing possible information leaks and making the control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic. Enabling either of the options guarantees that the memory returned by the page allocator and SL[AU]B is initialized with zeroes. SLOB allocator isn't supported at the moment, as its emulation of kmem caches complicates handling of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches correctly. Enabling init_on_free also guarantees that pages and heap objects are initialized right after they're freed, so it won't be possible to access stale data by using a dangling pointer. As suggested by Michal Hocko, right now we don't let the heap users to disable initialization for certain allocations. There's not enough evidence that doing so can speed up real-life cases, and introducing ways to opt-out may result in things going out of control. This patch (of 2): The new options are needed to prevent possible information leaks and make control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic. This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome OS. And it gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros too via the boot args. (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested by folks where memory forensics is included in their threat models.) init_on_alloc=1 makes the kernel initialize newly allocated pages and heap objects with zeroes. Initialization is done at allocation time at the places where checks for __GFP_ZERO are performed. init_on_free=1 makes the kernel initialize freed pages and heap objects with zeroes upon their deletion. This helps to ensure sensitive data doesn't leak via use-after-free accesses. Both init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 guarantee that the allocator returns zeroed memory. The two exceptions are slab caches with constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag. Those are never zero-initialized to preserve their semantics. Both init_on_alloc and init_on_free default to zero, but those defaults can be overridden with CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON and CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. If either SLUB poisoning or page poisoning is enabled, those options take precedence over init_on_alloc and init_on_free: initialization is only applied to unpoisoned allocations. Slowdown for the new features compared to init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0: hackbench, init_on_free=1: +7.62% sys time (st.err 0.74%) hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.75% sys time (st.err 2.14%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +8.38% wall time (st.err 0.39%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1: +24.42% sys time (st.err 0.52%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.13% wall time (st.err 0.42%) Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +0.57% sys time (st.err 0.40%) The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the baseline is within the standard error. The new features are also going to pave the way for hardware memory tagging (e.g. arm64's MTE), which will require both on_alloc and on_free hooks to set the tags for heap objects. With MTE, tagging will have the same cost as memory initialization. Although init_on_free is rather costly, there are paranoid use-cases where in-memory data lifetime is desired to be minimized. There are various arguments for/against the realism of the associated threat models, but given that we'll need the infrastructure for MTE anyway, and there are people who want wipe-on-free behavior no matter what the performance cost, it seems reasonable to include it in this series. [glider@google.com: v8] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626121943.131390-2-glider@google.com [glider@google.com: v9] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627130316.254309-2-glider@google.com [glider@google.com: v10] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628093131.199499-2-glider@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617151050.92663-2-glider@google.comSigned-off-by: NAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> [page and dmapool parts Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>] Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@android.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于
When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other features requiring the page_ext array. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 7月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
The FSGSBASE series turned out to have serious bugs and there is still an open issue which is not fully understood yet. The confidence in those changes has become close to zero especially as the test cases which have been shipped with that series were obviously never run before sending the final series out to LKML. ./fsgsbase_64 >/dev/null Segmentation fault As the merge window is close, the only sane decision is to revert FSGSBASE support. The revert is necessary as this branch has been merged into perf/core already and rebasing all of that a few days before the merge window is not the most brilliant idea. I could definitely slap myself for not noticing the test case fail when merging that series, but TBH my expectations weren't that low back then. Won't happen again. Revert the following commits: 539bca53 ("x86/entry/64: Fix and clean up paranoid_exit") 2c7b5ac5 ("Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode") f987c955 ("x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2") 2032f1f9 ("x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit") 5bf0cab6 ("x86/entry/64: Document GSBASE handling in the paranoid path") 708078f6 ("x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit") 79e1932f ("x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro") 1d07316b ("x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry") f60a83df ("x86/process/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace") 1ab5f3f7 ("x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available") a86b4625 ("x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions") 8b71340d ("x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions") b64ed19b ("x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE") Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 01 7月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Michael Neuling 提交于
commit 243e2511 ("powerpc/xive: Native exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller") added an option to turn off Linux native XIVE usage via the xive=off kernel command line option. This documents this option. Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: NCédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Acked-by: NStewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 28 6月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
With vsyscall emulation on, a readable vsyscall page is still exposed that contains syscall instructions that validly implement the vsyscalls. This is required because certain dynamic binary instrumentation tools attempt to read the call targets of call instructions in the instrumented code. If the instrumented code uses vsyscalls, then the vsyscall page needs to contain readable code. Unfortunately, leaving readable memory at a deterministic address can be used to help various ASLR bypasses, so some hardening value can be gained by disallowing vsyscall reads. Given how rarely the vsyscall page needs to be readable, add a mechanism to make the vsyscall page be execute only. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d17655777c21bc09a7af1bbcf74e6f2b69a51152.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
The vsyscall=native feature is gone -- remove the docs. Fixes: 076ca272 ("x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls") Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d77c7105eb4c57c1a95a95b6a5b8ba194a18e764.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
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- 22 6月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
Now that FSGSBASE is fully supported, remove unsafe_fsgsbase, enable FSGSBASE by default, and add nofsgsbase to disable it. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NChang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-17-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
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由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于
This is temporary. It will allow the next few patches to be tested incrementally. Setting unsafe_fsgsbase is a root hole. Don't do it. Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NChang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-4-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
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- 19 6月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Nicholas Piggin 提交于
This sets the HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP option, and defines the required page table functions. This enables huge (2MB and 1GB) ioremap mappings. I don't have a benchmark for this change, but huge vmap will be used by a later core kernel change to enable huge vmalloc memory mappings. This improves cached `git diff` performance by about 5% on a 2-node POWER9 with 32MB size dentry cache hash. Profiling git diff dTLB misses with a vanilla kernel: 81.75% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __d_lookup_rcu 7.21% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] strncpy_from_user 1.77% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] find_get_entry 1.59% git [kernel.vmlinux] [k] kmem_cache_free 40,168 dTLB-miss 0.100342754 seconds time elapsed With powerpc huge vmalloc: 2,987 dTLB-miss 0.095933138 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: NNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 15 6月, 2019 6 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Sphinx need to know when a paragraph ends. So, do some adjustments at the file for it to be properly parsed. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. that's said, I believe that this file should be moved to the GPU/DRM documentation. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Convert those documents and prepare them to be part of the kernel API book, as most of the stuff there are related to the Kernel interfaces. Still, in the future, it would make sense to split the docs, as some of the stuff is clearly focused on sysadmin tasks. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: NGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to allow a later addition to the admin-guide. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Convert kdump documentation to ReST and add it to the user faced manual, as the documents are mainly focused on sysadmins that would be enabling kdump. Note: the vmcoreinfo.rst has one very long title on one of its sub-sections: PG_lru|PG_private|PG_swapcache|PG_swapbacked|PG_slab|PG_hwpoision|PG_head_mask|PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_buddy)|PAGE_OFFLINE_MAPCOUNT_VALUE(~PG_offline) I opted to break this one, into two entries with the same content, in order to make it easier to display after being parsed in html and PDF. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 11 6月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Convert all text files with s390 documentation to ReST format. Tried to preserve as much as possible the original document format. Still, some of the files required some work in order for it to be visible on both plain text and after converted to html. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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- 09 6月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The hisax driver got removed on 85993b8c ("isdn: remove hisax driver"), but a left-over was kept at kernel-parameters.txt. Fixes: 85993b8c ("isdn: remove hisax driver") Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: NWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Reviewed-by: NSven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NBhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 30 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Zhenzhong Duan 提交于
The default behavior of hardlockup depends on the config of CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC. Fix the description of nmi_watchdog to make it clear. Suggested-by: NSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 26 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing without affecting other softirq work. This commit therefore introduces the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc. Use of SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq to kthreads. That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority. Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default. Reported-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> [ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ] [ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock() while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ] Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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- 19 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Feng Tang 提交于
Currently on panic, kernel will lower the loglevel and print out pending printk msg only with console_flush_on_panic(). Add an option for users to configure the "panic_print" to replay all dmesg in buffer, some of which they may have never seen due to the loglevel setting, which will help panic debugging . [feng.tang@intel.com: keep the original console_flush_on_panic() inside panic()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556199137-14163-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com [feng.tang@intel.com: use logbuf lock to protect the console log index] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556269868-22654-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556095872-36838-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.comSigned-off-by: NFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 5月, 2019 3 次提交
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由 Waiman Long 提交于
The maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers was limited to 32k. That limit should be big enough for most use cases. However, there are some users out there requesting for more, especially those that are migrating from Solaris which uses 24 bits for unique identifiers. To satisfy the need of those users, a new boot time kernel option "ipcmni_extend" is added to extend the IPCMNI value to 16M. This is a 512X increase which should be big enough for users out there that need a large number of unique IPC identifier. The use of this new option will change the pattern of the IPC identifiers returned by functions like shmget(2). An application that depends on such pattern may not work properly. So it should only be used if the users really need more than 32k of unique IPC numbers. This new option does have the side effect of reducing the maximum number of unique sequence numbers from 64k down to 128. So it is a trade-off. The computation of a new IPC id is not done in the performance critical path. So a little bit of additional overhead shouldn't have any real performance impact. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329204930.21620-1-longman@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Aaro Koskinen 提交于
Allow specifying reboot_mode for panic only. This is needed on systems where ramoops is used to store panic logs, and user wants to use warm reset to preserve those, while still having cold reset on normal reboots. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190322004735.27702-1-aaro.koskinen@iki.fiSigned-off-by: NAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Dan Williams 提交于
Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10. This patch (of 3): Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC (high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in front of higher latency persistent memory [1]. Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here: It's been a problem in the HPC space: http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/ A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing users to deploy remedies like: "To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job; nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth falls below 300 GB/s." A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03 ("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized ("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance. However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case. The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance. Here are some performance impact details of the patches: 1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a 3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts. The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node. 2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8% for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%. 3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with randomization in one case. 4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some improvements and some losses [3]. While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0 parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems. Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first onlined. Quoting Kees: "While we already have a base-address randomization (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't important: only the relative positions between allocated memory). This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc. I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator." While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated. However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization. Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a follow-on patch). The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10, 4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling. MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the expectation that the security implications of finer granularity randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to other memory initialization work. This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together, page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant impact to the cache conflict rate. [1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/ [2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM [3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309 [dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NQian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 01 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
Configure arm64 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre v2, and Speculative Store Bypass. The default behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> [will: reorder checks so KASLR implies KPTI and SSBS is affected by cmdline] Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 29 4月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Sebastian Ott 提交于
Allow users to disable usage of MIO instructions by specifying pci=nomio at the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: NSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Sebastian Ott 提交于
Provide a kernel parameter to force the usage of floating interrupts. Signed-off-by: NSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 26 4月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Linton 提交于
There are various reasons, such as benchmarking, to disable spectrev2 mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line option to do so. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> Reviewed-by: NSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Reviewed-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Reviewed-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: NStefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 23 4月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Ryan Thibodeaux 提交于
Add a new command-line option "xen_timer_slop=<INT>" that sets the minimum delta of virtual Xen timers. This commit does not change the default timer slop value for virtual Xen timers. Lowering the timer slop value should improve the accuracy of virtual timers (e.g., better process dispatch latency), but it will likely increase the number of virtual timer interrupts (relative to the original slop setting). The original timer slop value has not changed since the introduction of the Xen-aware Linux kernel code. This commit provides users an opportunity to tune timer performance given the refinements to hardware and the Xen event channel processing. It also mirrors a feature in the Xen hypervisor - the "timer_slop" Xen command line option. [boris: updated comment describing TIMER_SLOP] Signed-off-by: NRyan Thibodeaux <ryan.thibodeaux@starlab.io> Reviewed-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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- 22 4月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Dave Young 提交于
crashkernel=xM tries to reserve memory for the crash kernel under 4G, which is enough, usually. But this could fail sometimes, for example when one tries to reserve a big chunk like 2G, for example. So let the crashkernel=xM just fall back to use high memory in case it fails to find a suitable low range. Do not set the ,high as default because it allocates extra low memory for DMA buffers and swiotlb, and this is not always necessary for all machines. Typically, crashkernel=128M usually works with low reservation under 4G, so keep <4G as default. [ bp: Massage. ] Signed-off-by: NDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: NBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: piliu@redhat.com Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thymo van Beers <thymovanbeers@gmail.com> Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Zhimin Gu <kookoo.gu@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422031905.GA8387@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
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- 21 4月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Christophe Leroy 提交于
This patch implements a framework for Kernel Userspace Access Protection. Then subarches will have the possibility to provide their own implementation by providing setup_kuap() and allow/prevent_user_access(). Some platforms will need to know the area accessed and whether it is accessed from read, write or both. Therefore source, destination and size and handed over to the two functions. mpe: Rename to allow/prevent rather than unlock/lock, and add read/write wrappers. Drop the 32-bit code for now until we have an implementation for it. Add kuap to pt_regs for 64-bit as well as 32-bit. Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited(). Signed-off-by: NChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: NRussell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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由 Christophe Leroy 提交于
This patch adds a skeleton for Kernel Userspace Execution Prevention. Then subarches implementing it have to define CONFIG_PPC_HAVE_KUEP and provide setup_kuep() function. Signed-off-by: NChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> [mpe: Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited()] Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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- 18 4月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
Add MDS to the new 'mitigations=' cmdline option. Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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