1. 24 1月, 2014 1 次提交
  2. 16 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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      x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter · 151e0c7d
      HATAYAMA Daisuke 提交于
      Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter. To use this kernel parameter,
      specify an initial APIC ID of the corresponding CPU you want to
      disable.
      
      This is mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to disable BSP to wake up
      multiple CPUs without causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT
      from AP to BSP.
      
      Kdump users first figure out initial APIC ID of the BSP, CPU0 in the
      1st kernel, for example from /proc/cpuinfo and then set up this kernel
      parameter for the 2nd kernel using the obtained APIC ID.
      
      However, doing this procedure at each boot time manually is awkward,
      which should be automatically done by user-land service scripts, for
      example, kexec-tools on fedora/RHEL distributions.
      
      This design is more flexible than disabling BSP in kernel boot time
      automatically in that in kernel boot time we have no choice but
      referring to ACPI/MP table to obtain initial APIC ID for BSP, meaning
      that the method is not applicable to the systems without such BIOS
      tables.
      
      One assumption behind this design is that users get initial APIC ID of
      the BSP in still healthy state and so BSP is uniquely kept in
      CPU0. Thus, through the kernel parameter, only one initial APIC ID can
      be specified.
      
      In a comparison with disabled_cpu_apicid, we use read_apic_id(), not
      boot_cpu_physical_apicid, because on some platforms, the variable is
      modified to the apicid reported as BSP through MP table and this
      function is executed with the temporarily modified
      boot_cpu_physical_apicid. As a result, disabled_cpu_apicid kernel
      parameter doesn't work well for apicids of APs.
      
      Fixing the wrong handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid requires some
      reviews and tests beyond some platforms and it could take some
      time. The fix here is a kind of workaround to focus on the main topic
      of this patch.
      Signed-off-by: NHATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115064458.1545.38775.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      151e0c7d
  3. 17 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  4. 12 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  5. 04 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  6. 02 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  7. 13 11月, 2013 2 次提交
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      drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processes · 3d035f58
      Prarit Bhargava 提交于
      The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET
      registers to userspace.  The Kconfig help points out that in some cases
      this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the
      map such that additional data is exposed to userspace.
      
      This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP
      functionality but it comes with a significant security risk.  In an effort
      to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP
      functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that
      is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed.
      Signed-off-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMatt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
      Signed-off-by: NClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
      Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3d035f58
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      mem-hotplug: introduce movable_node boot option · c5320926
      Tang Chen 提交于
      The hot-Pluggable field in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable.
      As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it
      cannot be hot-removed.  So memory hotplug users may want to set all
      hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE so that the kernel won't use it.
      
      Memory hotplug users may also set a node as movable node, which has
      ZONE_MOVABLE only, so that the whole node can be hot-removed.
      
      But the kernel cannot use memory in ZONE_MOVABLE.  By doing this, the
      kernel cannot use memory in movable nodes.  This will cause NUMA
      performance down.  And other users may be unhappy.
      
      So we need a way to allow users to enable and disable this functionality.
      In this patch, we introduce movable_node boot option to allow users to
      choose to not to consume hotpluggable memory at early boot time and later
      we can set it as ZONE_MOVABLE.
      
      To achieve this, the movable_node boot option will control the memblock
      allocation direction.  That said, after memblock is ready, before SRAT is
      parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image as we explained in
      the previous patches.  So if movable_node boot option is set, the kernel
      does the following:
      
      1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory bottom up.
      2. After SRAT is parsed, make memblock behave as default, allocate memory
         top down.
      
      Users can specify "movable_node" in kernel commandline to enable this
      functionality.  For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want
      to lose their NUMA performance, just don't specify anything.  The kernel
      will work as before.
      Signed-off-by: NTang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Suggested-by: NKamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
      Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c5320926
  8. 02 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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      x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping · d2f7cbe7
      Borislav Petkov 提交于
      We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
      with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
      for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
      services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
      them.
      
      Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
      the kernel namespace.
      
      Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
      options and chicken bits from the command line.
      
      While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
      a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
      some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
      hold up the sarcasm here...).
      
      Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.
      Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      d2f7cbe7
  9. 29 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  10. 27 10月, 2013 2 次提交
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      ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms · e7a2ad7e
      Mimi Zohar 提交于
      The IMA measurement list contains two hashes - a template data hash
      and a filedata hash.  The template data hash is committed to the TPM,
      which is limited, by the TPM v1.2 specification, to 20 bytes.  The
      filedata hash is defined as 20 bytes as well.
      
      Now that support for variable length measurement list templates was
      added, the filedata hash is not limited to 20 bytes.  This patch adds
      Kconfig support for defining larger default filedata hash algorithms
      and replacing the builtin default with one specified on the kernel
      command line.
      
      <uapi/linux/hash_info.h> contains a list of hash algorithms.  The
      Kconfig default hash algorithm is a subset of this list, but any hash
      algorithm included in the list can be specified at boot, using the
      'ima_hash=' kernel command line option.
      
      Changelog v2:
      - update Kconfig
      
      Changelog:
      - support hashes that are configured
      - use generic HASH_ALGO_ definitions
      - add Kconfig support
      - hash_setup must be called only once (Dmitry)
      - removed trailing whitespaces (Roberto Sassu)
      Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
      e7a2ad7e
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      ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default · 9b9d4ce5
      Roberto Sassu 提交于
      This patch allows users to specify from the kernel command line the
      template descriptor, among those defined, that will be used to generate
      and display measurement entries. If an user specifies a wrong template,
      IMA reverts to the template descriptor set in the kernel configuration.
      Signed-off-by: NRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
      Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      9b9d4ce5
  11. 18 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  12. 16 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  13. 13 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  14. 01 10月, 2013 2 次提交
  15. 25 9月, 2013 1 次提交
  16. 05 9月, 2013 1 次提交
  17. 24 8月, 2013 1 次提交
  18. 05 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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      vt: make the default color configurable · 3855ae1c
      Clemens Ladisch 提交于
      The virtual console has (undocumented) module parameters to set the
      colors for italic and underlined text, but the default text color was
      hardcoded for some reason.  This made it impossible to change the color
      for startup messages, or to set the default for new virtual consoles.
      Add a module parameter for that, and document the entire bunch.
      
      Any hacker who thinks that a command prompt on a "black screen with
      white font" is not supicious enough can now use the kernel parameter
      vt.color=10 to get a nice, evil green.
      Signed-off-by: NClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      3855ae1c
  19. 23 7月, 2013 2 次提交
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      ACPI: Add facility to remove all _OSI strings · 741d8128
      Lv Zheng 提交于
      This patch changes the "acpi_osi=" boot parameter implementation so
      that:
      1. "acpi_osi=!" can be used to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings by
         default.  It is meaningless to specify "acpi_osi=!" multiple
         times as it can only affect the default state of the target _OSI
         strings.
      2. "acpi_osi=!*" can be used to remove all _OSI OS vendor strings
         and all _OSI feature group strings.  It is useful to specify
         "acpi_osi=!*" multiple times through kernel command line to
         override the current state of the target _OSI strings.
      Signed-off-by: NLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      741d8128
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      ACPI: Add facility to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings · 5dc17986
      Lv Zheng 提交于
      This patch introduces "acpi_osi=!" command line to force Linux replying
      "UNSUPPORTED" to all of the _OSI strings.  This patch is based on an
      ACPICA enhancement - the new API acpi_update_interfaces().
      
      The _OSI object provides the platform with the ability to query OSPM
      to determine the set of ACPI related interfaces, behaviors, or
      features that the operating system supports.  The argument passed to
      the _OSI is a string like the followings:
      1. Feature Group String, examples include
         Module Device
         Processor Device
         3.0 _SCP Extensions
         Processor Aggregator Device
         ...
      2. OS Vendor String, examples include
         Linux
         FreeBSD
         Windows
         ...
      
      There are AML codes provided in the ACPI namespace written in the
      following style to determine OSPM interfaces / features:
          Method(OSCK)
          {
              if (CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0))
              {
                  if (\_OSI("Windows"))
                  {
                      Return (One)
                  }
                  if (\_OSI("Windows 2006"))
                  {
                      Return (Ones)
                  }
                  Return (Zero)
              }
              Return (Zero)
          }
      
      There is a debugging facility implemented in Linux.  Users can pass
      "acpi_osi=" boot parameters to the kernel to tune the _OSI evaluation
      result so that certain AML codes can be executed.  Current
      implementation includes:
      1. 'acpi_osi=' - this makes CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0) TRUE
      2. 'acpi_osi="Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") TRUE
      3. 'acpi_osi="!Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") FALSE
      The function to implement this feature is also used as a quirk mechanism
      in the Linux ACPI subystem.
      
      When _OSI is evaluatated by the AML codes, ACPICA replies "SUPPORTED"
      to all Windows operating system vendor strings.  This is because
      Windows operating systems return "SUPPORTED" if the argument to the
      _OSI method specifies an earlier version of Windows.  Please refer to
      the following MSDN document:
      
      How to Identify the Windows Version in ACPI by Using _OSI
      http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hardware/gg463275.aspx
      
      This adds difficulties when developers want to feed specific Windows
      operating system vendor string to the BIOS codes for debugging
      purpose, multiple acpi_osi="!xxx" have to be specified in the command
      line to force Linux replying "UNSUPPORTED" to the Windows OS vendor
      strings listed in the AML codes.
      Signed-off-by: NLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      5dc17986
  20. 10 7月, 2013 1 次提交
  21. 21 6月, 2013 1 次提交
  22. 20 6月, 2013 2 次提交
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      integrity: move integrity_audit_msg() · d726d8d7
      Mimi Zohar 提交于
      This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to
      security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit'
      boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig
      help text to reflect the actual code.
      
      Changelog:
      - Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu)
      Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      d726d8d7
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      tracing: Disable tracing on warning · de7edd31
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
      as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
      the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
      ring buffer.
      
      This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
      a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
      the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
      resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
      by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      de7edd31
  23. 15 6月, 2013 1 次提交
  24. 22 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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      libata: Add atapi_dmadir force flag · 966fbe19
      Vincent Pelletier 提交于
      Some device require DMADIR to be enabled, but are not detected as such
      by atapi_id_dmadir.  One such example is "Asus Serillel 2"
      SATA-host-to-PATA-device bridge: the bridge itself requires DMADIR,
      even if the bridged device does not.
      
      As atapi_dmadir module parameter can cause problems with some devices
      (as per Tejun Heo's memory), enabling it globally may not be possible
      depending on the hardware.
      
      This patch adds atapi_dmadir in the form of a "force" horkage value,
      allowing global, per-bus and per-device control.
      Signed-off-by: NVincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      966fbe19
  25. 17 5月, 2013 1 次提交
  26. 15 5月, 2013 3 次提交
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      xen/tmem: Don't use self[ballooning|shrinking] if frontswap is off. · 37d46e15
      Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 提交于
      There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and
      more pages in the swap disk without any purpose.
      
      The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking
      is when frontswap is being utilized.
      Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      37d46e15
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      xen/tmem: Remove the boot options and fold them in the tmem.X parameters. · 2ca62b04
      Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 提交于
      If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on
      the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option>
      instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and
      "nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning";
      and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c
      and the patches:
      
       xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead.
       xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead.
      
      remove them.
      
      Also add documentation.
      Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      2ca62b04
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      workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues · cee22a15
      Viresh Kumar 提交于
      Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
      bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
      effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
      scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
      process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
      core that is already awake.
      
      Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
      However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system.  To enable
      power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
      be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
      workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.
      
      tj: Updated config description and comments.  Renamed
          CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
      Signed-off-by: NViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
      Reviewed-by: NAmit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      cee22a15
  27. 28 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  28. 20 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  29. 19 4月, 2013 2 次提交
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      nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbs · d1e43fa5
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so
      that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU
      callbacks.
      
      Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot
      parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs=
      
      The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be
      excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked
      early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity
      to stop its tick.
      Suggested-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Reviewed-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
      Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
      Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
      Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      d1e43fa5
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      nohz: Force boot CPU outside full dynticks range · 0453b435
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      The timekeeping job must be able to run early on boot
      because there may be some pre-SMP (and thus pre-initcalls )
      components that rely on it. The IO-APIC is one such users
      as it tests the timer health by watching jiffies progression.
      
      Given that it happens before we know the initial online
      set, we can't rely on it to select a timekeeper. We need
      one before SMP time otherwise we simply crash on boot.
      
      To fix this and keep things simple for now, force the boot CPU
      outside of the full dynticks range in any case and do this early
      on kernel parameter parsing time.
      
      We might want a trickier solution later, expecially for aSMP
      architectures that need to assign housekeeping tasks to arbitrary
      low power CPUs.
      
      But it's still first pass KISS time for now.
      Reviewed-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
      Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
      Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
      Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      0453b435
  30. 18 4月, 2013 3 次提交