- 04 11月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Paolo Bonzini 提交于
With some Intel processors, putting the same virtual address in the TLB as both a 4 KiB and 2 MiB page can confuse the instruction fetch unit and cause the processor to issue a machine check resulting in a CPU lockup. Unfortunately when EPT page tables use huge pages, it is possible for a malicious guest to cause this situation. Add a knob to mark huge pages as non-executable. When the nx_huge_pages parameter is enabled (and we are using EPT), all huge pages are marked as NX. If the guest attempts to execute in one of those pages, the page is broken down into 4K pages, which are then marked executable. This is not an issue for shadow paging (except nested EPT), because then the host is in control of TLB flushes and the problematic situation cannot happen. With nested EPT, again the nested guest can cause problems shadow and direct EPT is treated in the same way. [ tglx: Fixup default to auto and massage wording a bit ] Originally-by: NJunaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 28 10月, 2019 3 次提交
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由 Pawan Gupta 提交于
Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation, guidance for system administrators. [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ] Co-developed-by: NAntonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAntonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NMark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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由 Pawan Gupta 提交于
Platforms which are not affected by X86_BUG_TAA may want the TSX feature enabled. Add "auto" option to the TSX cmdline parameter. When tsx=auto disable TSX when X86_BUG_TAA is present, otherwise enable TSX. More details on X86_BUG_TAA can be found here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.html [ bp: Extend the arg buffer to accommodate "auto\0". ] Signed-off-by: NPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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由 Pawan Gupta 提交于
Add a kernel cmdline parameter "tsx" to control the Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature. On CPUs that support TSX control, use "tsx=on|off" to enable or disable TSX. Not specifying this option is equivalent to "tsx=off". This is because on certain processors TSX may be used as a part of a speculative side channel attack. Carve out the TSX controlling functionality into a separate compilation unit because TSX is a CPU feature while the TSX async abort control machinery will go to cpu/bugs.c. [ bp: - Massage, shorten and clear the arg buffer. - Clarifications of the tsx= possible options - Josh. - Expand on TSX_CTRL availability - Pawan. ] Signed-off-by: NPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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- 08 10月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Boris Ostrovsky 提交于
Currently execution of panic() continues until Xen's panic notifier (xen_panic_event()) is called at which point we make a hypercall that never returns. This means that any notifier that is supposed to be called later as well as significant part of panic() code (such as pstore writes from kmsg_dump()) is never executed. There is no reason for xen_panic_event() to be this last point in execution since panic()'s emergency_restart() will call into xen_emergency_restart() from where we can perform our hypercall. Nevertheless, we will provide xen_legacy_crash boot option that will preserve original behavior during crash. This option could be used, for example, if running kernel dumper (which happens after panic notifiers) is undesirable. Reported-by: NJames Dingwall <james@dingwall.me.uk> Signed-off-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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- 25 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于
The debug_pagealloc functionality is useful to catch buggy page allocator users that cause e.g. use after free or double free. When page inconsistency is detected, debugging is often simpler by knowing the call stack of process that last allocated and freed the page. When page_owner is also enabled, we record the allocation stack trace, but not freeing. This patch therefore adds recording of freeing process stack trace to page owner info, if both page_owner and debug_pagealloc are configured and enabled. With only page_owner enabled, this info is not useful for the memory leak debugging use case. dump_page() is adjusted to print the info. An example result of calling __free_pages() twice may look like this (note the page last free stack trace): BUG: Bad page state in process bash pfn:13d8f8 page:ffffc31984f63e00 refcount:-1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 flags: 0x1affff800000000() raw: 01affff800000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: nonzero _refcount page_owner tracks the page as freed page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL) prep_new_page+0x143/0x150 get_page_from_freelist+0x289/0x380 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2d0 khugepaged+0x6e/0xc10 kthread+0xf9/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 page last free stack trace: free_pcp_prepare+0x134/0x1e0 free_unref_page+0x18/0x90 khugepaged+0x7b/0xc10 kthread+0xf9/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 Modules linked in: CPU: 3 PID: 271 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.3.0-rc4-2.g07a1a73-default+ #57 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x85/0xc0 bad_page.cold+0xba/0xbf rmqueue_pcplist.isra.0+0x6c5/0x6d0 rmqueue+0x2d/0x810 get_page_from_freelist+0x191/0x380 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2d0 __get_free_pages+0xd/0x30 __pud_alloc+0x2c/0x110 copy_page_range+0x4f9/0x630 dup_mmap+0x362/0x480 dup_mm+0x68/0x110 copy_process+0x19e1/0x1b40 _do_fork+0x73/0x310 __x64_sys_clone+0x75/0x80 do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x7f10af854a10 ... Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820131828.22684-5-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> 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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- 14 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Palmer Dabbelt 提交于
This argument is supported on RISC-V systems and widely used, but was not documented here. Signed-off-by: NPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 11 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Lu Baolu 提交于
This adds a helper to check whether a device needs to use bounce buffer. It also provides a boot time option to disable the bounce buffer. Users can use this to prevent the iommu driver from using the bounce buffer for performance gain. Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: NXu Pengfei <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: NMika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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- 05 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Nicholas Piggin 提交于
Introduce two options to control the use of the tlbie instruction. A boot time option which completely disables the kernel using the instruction, this is currently incompatible with HASH MMU, KVM, and coherent accelerators. And a debugfs option can be switched at runtime and avoids using tlbie for invalidating CPU TLBs for normal process and kernel address mappings. Coherent accelerators are still managed with tlbie, as will KVM partition scope translations. Cross-CPU TLB flushing is implemented with IPIs and tlbiel. This is a basic implementation which does not attempt to make any optimisation beyond the tlbie implementation. This is useful for performance testing among other things. For example in certain situations on large systems, using IPIs may be faster than tlbie as they can be directed rather than broadcast. Later we may also take advantage of the IPIs to do more interesting things such as trim the mm cpumask more aggressively. Signed-off-by: NNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190902152931.17840-7-npiggin@gmail.com
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- 04 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Stefan-gabriel Mirea 提交于
Introduce support for LINFlex driver, based on: - the version of Freescale LPUART driver after commit b3e3bf2e ("Merge 4.0-rc7 into tty-next"); - commit abf1e0a9 ("tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: lock port on console write"). In this basic version, the driver can be tested using initramfs and relies on the clocks and pin muxing set up by U-Boot. Remarks concerning the earlycon support: - LinFlexD does not allow character transmissions in the INIT mode (see section 47.4.2.1 in the reference manual[1]). Therefore, a mutual exclusion between the first linflex_setup_watermark/linflex_set_termios executions and linflex_earlycon_putchar was employed and the characters normally sent to earlycon during initialization are kept in a buffer and sent afterwards. - Empirically, character transmission is also forbidden within the last 1-2 ms before entering the INIT mode, so we use an explicit timeout (PREINIT_DELAY) between linflex_earlycon_putchar and the first call to linflex_setup_watermark. - U-Boot currently uses the UART FIFO mode, while this driver makes the transition to the buffer mode. Therefore, the earlycon putchar function matches the U-Boot behavior before initializations and the Linux behavior after. [1] https://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=S32V234RMSigned-off-by: NStoica Cosmin-Stefan <cosmin.stoica@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian.Nitu <adrian.nitu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: NLarisa Grigore <Larisa.Grigore@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: NAna Nedelcu <B56683@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: NMihaela Martinas <Mihaela.Martinas@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: NMatthew Nunez <matthew.nunez@nxp.com> [stefan-gabriel.mirea@nxp.com: Reduced for upstreaming and implemented earlycon support] Signed-off-by: NStefan-Gabriel Mirea <stefan-gabriel.mirea@nxp.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190809112853.15846-6-stefan-gabriel.mirea@nxp.comSigned-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 03 9月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Marcos Paulo de Souza 提交于
Since the inclusion of blk-mq, elevator argument was not being considered anymore, and it's utility died long with the legacy IO path, now removed too. Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: NBob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NMarcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com> Fold with doc removal patch. Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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- 30 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Ram Pai 提交于
Make the Enter-Secure-Mode (ESM) ultravisor call to switch the VM to secure mode. Pass kernel base address and FDT address so that the Ultravisor is able to verify the integrity of the VM using information from the ESM blob. Add "svm=" command line option to turn on switching to secure mode. Signed-off-by: NRam Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> [ andmike: Generate an RTAS os-term hcall when the ESM ucall fails. ] Signed-off-by: NMichael Anderson <andmike@linux.ibm.com> [ bauerman: Cleaned up the code a bit. ] Signed-off-by: NThiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190820021326.6884-5-bauerman@linux.ibm.com
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- 28 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This reverts commit 690ff788. Based on a lot of email and in-person discussions, this patch series is being reworked to address a number of issues that were pointed out that needed to be taken care of before it should be merged. It will be resubmitted with those changes hopefully soon. Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 23 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Joerg Roedel 提交于
This kernel parameter now takes also effect on X86. Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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- 22 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Gustavo Romero 提交于
Document all options currently supported by xmon debugger. Signed-off-by: NGustavo Romero <gromero@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190814205638.25322-1-gromero@linux.ibm.com
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- 20 8月, 2019 2 次提交
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由 Matthew Garrett 提交于
While existing LSMs can be extended to handle lockdown policy, distributions generally want to be able to apply a straightforward static policy. This patch adds a simple LSM that can be configured to reject either integrity or all lockdown queries, and can be configured at runtime (through securityfs), boot time (via a kernel parameter) or build time (via a kconfig option). Based on initial code by David Howells. Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Tom Lendacky 提交于
There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues to function properly. RDRAND support is indicated by CPUID Fn00000001_ECX[30]. This bit can be reset by clearing MSR C001_1004[62]. Any software that checks for RDRAND support using CPUID, including the kernel, will believe that RDRAND is not supported. Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family 15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family 15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the system will not be placed in suspend, the "rdrand=force" kernel parameter can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit. Additionally, update the suspend and resume path to save and restore the MSR C001_1004 value to ensure that the RDRAND CPUID setting remains in place after resuming from suspend. Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD. Signed-off-by: NTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> Cc: "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7543af91666f491547bd86cebb1e17c66824ab9f.1566229943.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
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- 17 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
The aim of this machvec is to support devices with < 32-bit dma masks. But given that ia64 only has a ZONE_DMA32 and not a ZONE_DMA that isn't supported by swiotlb either. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-21-hch@lst.deSigned-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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- 14 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
This commit changes the name of the rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel boot parameter to rcu_nocb_gp_stride in order to account for the new distinction between callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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- 09 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Alexey Kardashevskiy 提交于
The "pci=resource_alignment" parameter is described as requiring an order (not a size) and the code in pci_specified_resource_alignment() expects an order. But the example wrongly shows a size. Convert the example to an order. Fixes: 8b078c60 ("PCI: Update "pci=resource_alignment" documentation") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190606032557.107542-1-aik@ozlabs.ruSigned-off-by: NAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
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- 02 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
This commit adds a rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump kernel boot parameter, that, when set, causes the trace buffer to be dumped after an RCU CPU stall warning is printed. This kernel boot parameter is disabled by default, maintaining compatibility with previous behavior. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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- 01 8月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Saravana Kannan 提交于
Add device-links after the devices are created (but before they are probed) by looking at common DT bindings like clocks and interconnects. Automatically adding device-links for functional dependencies at the framework level provides the following benefits: - Optimizes device probe order and avoids the useless work of attempting probes of devices that will not probe successfully (because their suppliers aren't present or haven't probed yet). For example, in a commonly available mobile SoC, registering just one consumer device's driver at an initcall level earlier than the supplier device's driver causes 11 failed probe attempts before the consumer device probes successfully. This was with a kernel with all the drivers statically compiled in. This problem gets a lot worse if all the drivers are loaded as modules without direct symbol dependencies. - Supplier devices like clock providers, interconnect providers, etc need to keep the resources they provide active and at a particular state(s) during boot up even if their current set of consumers don't request the resource to be active. This is because the rest of the consumers might not have probed yet and turning off the resource before all the consumers have probed could lead to a hang or undesired user experience. Some frameworks (Eg: regulator) handle this today by turning off "unused" resources at late_initcall_sync and hoping all the devices have probed by then. This is not a valid assumption for systems with loadable modules. Other frameworks (Eg: clock) just don't handle this due to the lack of a clear signal for when they can turn off resources. This leads to downstream hacks to handle cases like this that can easily be solved in the upstream kernel. By linking devices before they are probed, we give suppliers a clear count of the number of dependent consumers. Once all of the consumers are active, the suppliers can turn off the unused resources without making assumptions about the number of consumers. By default we just add device-links to track "driver presence" (probe succeeded) of the supplier device. If any other functionality provided by device-links are needed, it is left to the consumer/supplier devices to change the link when they probe. kbuild test robot reported clang error about missing const Reported-by: Nkbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190731221721.187713-4-saravanak@google.comSigned-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 24 7月, 2019 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt, as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation to match that. Fixes: ed16648e ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:") Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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- 17 7月, 2019 4 次提交
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由 Zhenzhong Duan 提交于
Clean up unnecessory code after that operation. Signed-off-by: NZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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由 Zhenzhong Duan 提交于
In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the best option. However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking) we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a better choice. There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions, like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true. Suggested-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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由 Juergen Gross 提交于
The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental" state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13). The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too. Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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由 Kairui Song 提交于
Since commit 2724273e ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues. So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular vmcore without device dump data is still available. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NKairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Acked-by: NDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NBhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 7月, 2019 11 次提交
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book. Move them to their right place. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but are on random places (most under Documentation root dir). Move them to the admin guide. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: NAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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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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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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