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2019-07-14Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentationAndy Lutomirski
commit d974ffcfb7447db5f29a4b662a3eaf99a4e1109e upstream. The vsyscall=native feature is gone -- remove the docs. Fixes: 076ca272a14c ("x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls") Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Kees 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-14Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for SpectreTim Chen
commit 6e88559470f581741bcd0f2794f9054814ac9740 upstream. Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms: - Explain the problem and risks - Document the mitigation mechanisms - Document the command line controls - Document the sysfs files Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-09mm, memcg: consider subtrees in memory.eventsChris Down
commit 9852ae3fe5293264f01c49f2571ef7688f7823ce upstream. memory.stat and other files already consider subtrees in their output, and we should too in order to not present an inconsistent interface. The current situation is fairly confusing, because people interacting with cgroups expect hierarchical behaviour in the vein of memory.stat, cgroup.events, and other files. For example, this causes confusion when debugging reclaim events under low, as currently these always read "0" at non-leaf memcg nodes, which frequently causes people to misdiagnose breach behaviour. The same confusion applies to other counters in this file when debugging issues. Aggregation is done at write time instead of at read-time since these counters aren't hot (unlike memory.stat which is per-page, so it does it at read time), and it makes sense to bundle this with the file notifications. After this patch, events are propagated up the hierarchy: [root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events low 0 high 0 max 0 oom 0 oom_kill 0 [root@ktst ~]# systemd-run -p MemoryMax=1 true Running as unit: run-r251162a189fb4562b9dabfdc9b0422f5.service [root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events low 0 high 0 max 7 oom 1 oom_kill 1 As this is a change in behaviour, this can be reverted to the old behaviour by mounting with the `memory_localevents' flag set. However, we use the new behaviour by default as there's a lack of evidence that there are any current users of memory.events that would find this change undesirable. akpm: this is a behaviour change, so Cc:stable. THis is so that forthcoming distros which use cgroup v2 are more likely to pick up the revised behaviour. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190208224419.GA24772@chrisdown.name Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs valuesTyler Hicks
commit ea01668f9f43021b28b3f4d5ffad50106a1e1301 upstream Adjust the last two rows in the table that display possible values when MDS mitigation is enabled. They both were slightly innacurate. In addition, convert the table of possible values and their descriptions to a list-table. The simple table format uses the top border of equals signs to determine cell width which resulted in the first column being far too wide in comparison to the second column that contained the majority of the text. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentationspeck for Pawan Gupta
commit e672f8bf71c66253197e503f75c771dd28ada4a0 upstream Updated the documentation for a new CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) which is a variant of Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is a family of side channel attacks on internal buffers in Intel CPUs. MDSUM is a special case of MSBDS, MFBDS and MLPDS. An uncacheable load from memory that takes a fault or assist can leave data in a microarchitectural structure that may later be observed using one of the same methods used by MSBDS, MFBDS or MLPDS. There are no new code changes expected for MDSUM. The existing mitigation for MDS applies to MDSUM as well. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDSJosh Poimboeuf
commit 5c14068f87d04adc73ba3f41c2a303d3c3d1fa12 upstream Add MDS to the new 'mitigations=' cmdline option. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14s390/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline optionJosh Poimboeuf
commit 0336e04a6520bdaefdb0769d2a70084fa52e81ed upstream Configure s390 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Spectre v1 and Spectre v2. The default behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86) Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4a161805458a5ec88812aac0307ae3908a030fc.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14powerpc/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline optionJosh Poimboeuf
commit 782e69efb3dfed6e8360bc612e8c7827a901a8f9 upstream Configure powerpc CPU runtime speculation bug mitigations in accordance with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre v1, Spectre v2, and Speculative Store Bypass. The default behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86) Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/245a606e1a42a558a310220312d9b6adb9159df6.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline optionJosh Poimboeuf
commit d68be4c4d31295ff6ae34a8ddfaa4c1a8ff42812 upstream Configure x86 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre v2, Speculative Store Bypass, and L1TF. The default behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86) Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6616d0ae169308516cfdf5216bedd169f8a8291b.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline optionJosh Poimboeuf
commit 98af8452945c55652de68536afdde3b520fec429 upstream Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation bugs has become overwhelming for many users. It's getting more and more complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given architecture. Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to have its own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability. Most users fall into a few basic categories: a) they want all mitigations off; b) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT enabled even if it's vulnerable; or c) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT disabled if vulnerable. Define a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an aggregation of existing options: - mitigations=off: Disable all mitigations. - mitigations=auto: [default] Enable all the default mitigations, but leave SMT enabled, even if it's vulnerable. - mitigations=auto,nosmt: Enable all the default mitigations, disabling SMT if needed by a mitigation. Currently, these options are placeholders which don't actually do anything. They will be fleshed out in upcoming patches. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86) Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b07a8ef9b7c5055c3a4637c87d07c296d5016fe0.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline optionJosh Poimboeuf
commit d71eb0ce109a124b0fa714832823b9452f2762cf upstream Add the mds=full,nosmt cmdline option. This is like mds=full, but with SMT disabled if the CPU is vulnerable. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentationThomas Gleixner
commit 5999bbe7a6ea3c62029532ec84dc06003a1fa258 upstream Add the initial MDS vulnerability documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directoryThomas Gleixner
commit 65fd4cb65b2dad97feb8330b6690445910b56d6a upstream Move L!TF to a separate directory so the MDS stuff can be added at the side. Otherwise the all hardware vulnerabilites have their own top level entry. Should have done that right away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-14x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDSThomas Gleixner
commit bc1241700acd82ec69fde98c5763ce51086269f8 upstream Now that the mitigations are in place, add a command line parameter to control the mitigation, a mitigation selector function and a SMT update mechanism. This is the minimal straight forward initial implementation which just provides an always on/off mode. The command line parameter is: mds=[full|off] This is consistent with the existing mitigations for other speculative hardware vulnerabilities. The idle invocation is dynamically updated according to the SMT state of the system similar to the dynamic update of the STIBP mitigation. The idle mitigation is limited to CPUs which are only affected by MSBDS and not any other variant, because the other variants cannot be mitigated on SMT enabled systems. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-03-16Merge tag 'for-5.1/block-post-20190315' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull more block layer changes from Jens Axboe: "This is a collection of both stragglers, and fixes that came in after I finalized the initial pull. This contains: - An MD pull request from Song, with a few minor fixes - Set of NVMe patches via Christoph - Pull request from Konrad, with a few fixes for xen/blkback - pblk fix IO calculation fix (Javier) - Segment calculation fix for pass-through (Ming) - Fallthrough annotation for blkcg (Mathieu)" * tag 'for-5.1/block-post-20190315' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (25 commits) blkcg: annotate implicit fall through nvme-tcp: support C2HData with SUCCESS flag nvmet: ignore EOPNOTSUPP for discard nvme: add proper write zeroes setup for the multipath device nvme: add proper discard setup for the multipath device nvme: remove nvme_ns_config_oncs nvme: disable Write Zeroes for qemu controllers nvmet-fc: bring Disconnect into compliance with FC-NVME spec nvmet-fc: fix issues with targetport assoc_list list walking nvme-fc: reject reconnect if io queue count is reduced to zero nvme-fc: fix numa_node when dev is null nvme-fc: use nr_phys_segments to determine existence of sgl nvme-loop: init nvmet_ctrl fatal_err_work when allocate nvme: update comment to make the code easier to read nvme: put ns_head ref if namespace fails allocation nvme-trace: fix cdw10 buffer overrun nvme: don't warn on block content change effects nvme: add get-feature to admin cmds tracer md: Fix failed allocation of md_register_thread It's wrong to add len to sector_nr in raid10 reshape twice ...
2019-03-12raid5: set write hint for PPLMariusz Dabrowski
When the Partial Parity Log is enabled, circular buffer is used to store PPL data. Each write to RAID device causes overwrite of data in this buffer so some write_hint can be set to those request to help drives handle garbage collection. This patch adds new sysfs attribute which can be used to specify which write_hint should be assigned to PPL. Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Dabrowski <mariusz.dabrowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
2019-03-10Merge branch 'core-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull watchdog core update from Thomas Gleixner: "A single commit adding a command line parameter which allows to set the watchdog threshold on the kernel command-line, so kernels with massive debug facilities enabled won't trigger the watchdog during early boot and before the threshold can be changed via sysctl" * 'core-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: watchdog/core: Add watchdog_thresh command line parameter
2019-03-10Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: - Pseudo NMI support for arm64 using GICv3 interrupt priorities - uaccess macros clean-up (unsafe user accessors also merged but reverted, waiting for objtool support on arm64) - ptrace regsets for Pointer Authentication (ARMv8.3) key management - inX() ordering w.r.t. delay() on arm64 and riscv (acks in place by the riscv maintainers) - arm64/perf updates: PMU bindings converted to json-schema, unused variable and misleading comment removed - arm64/debug fixes to ensure checking of the triggering exception level and to avoid the propagation of the UNKNOWN FAR value into the si_code for debug signals - Workaround for Fujitsu A64FX erratum 010001 - lib/raid6 ARM NEON optimisations - NR_CPUS now defaults to 256 on arm64 - Minor clean-ups (documentation/comments, Kconfig warning, unused asm-offsets, clang warnings) - MAINTAINERS update for list information to the ARM64 ACPI entry * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits) arm64: mmu: drop paging_init comments arm64: debug: Ensure debug handlers check triggering exception level arm64: debug: Don't propagate UNKNOWN FAR into si_code for debug signals Revert "arm64: uaccess: Implement unsafe accessors" arm64: avoid clang warning about self-assignment arm64: Kconfig.platforms: fix warning unmet direct dependencies lib/raid6: arm: optimize away a mask operation in NEON recovery routine lib/raid6: use vdupq_n_u8 to avoid endianness warnings arm64: io: Hook up __io_par() for inX() ordering riscv: io: Update __io_[p]ar() macros to take an argument asm-generic/io: Pass result of I/O accessor to __io_[p]ar() arm64: Add workaround for Fujitsu A64FX erratum 010001 arm64: Rename get_thread_info() arm64: Remove documentation about TIF_USEDFPU arm64: irqflags: Fix clang build warnings arm64: Enable the support of pseudo-NMIs arm64: Skip irqflags tracing for NMI in IRQs disabled context arm64: Skip preemption when exiting an NMI arm64: Handle serror in NMI context irqchip/gic-v3: Allow interrupts to be set as pseudo-NMI ...
2019-03-09Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from Thomas" * tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files Docs: Correct /proc/stat path scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches' perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is" ...
2019-03-07Merge branch 'next-general' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: - Extend LSM stacking to allow sharing of cred, file, ipc, inode, and task blobs. This paves the way for more full-featured LSMs to be merged, and is specifically aimed at LandLock and SARA LSMs. This work is from Casey and Kees. - There's a new LSM from Micah Morton: "SafeSetID gates the setid family of syscalls to restrict UID/GID transitions from a given UID/GID to only those approved by a system-wide whitelist." This feature is currently shipping in ChromeOS. * 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (62 commits) keys: fix missing __user in KEYCTL_PKEY_QUERY LSM: Update list of SECURITYFS users in Kconfig LSM: Ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is specified LSM: Update function documentation for cap_capable security: mark expected switch fall-throughs and add a missing break tomoyo: Bump version. LSM: fix return value check in safesetid_init_securityfs() LSM: SafeSetID: add selftest LSM: SafeSetID: remove unused include LSM: SafeSetID: 'depend' on CONFIG_SECURITY LSM: Add 'name' field for SafeSetID in DEFINE_LSM LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid calls LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid calls tomoyo: Allow multiple use_group lines. tomoyo: Coding style fix. tomoyo: Swicth from cred->security to task_struct->security. security: keys: annotate implicit fall throughs security: keys: annotate implicit fall throughs security: keys: annotate implicit fall through capabilities:: annotate implicit fall through ...
2019-03-07Merge branch 'for-5.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Oleg's pids controller accounting update which gets rid of rcu delay in pids accounting updates - rstat (cgroup hierarchical stat collection mechanism) optimization - Doc updates * 'for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cpuset: remove unused task_has_mempolicy() cgroup, rstat: Don't flush subtree root unless necessary cgroup: add documentation for pids.events file Documentation: cgroup-v2: eliminate markup warnings MAINTAINERS: Update cgroup entry cgroup/pids: turn cgroup_subsys->free() into cgroup_subsys->release() to fix the accounting
2019-03-06Merge tag 'usb-5.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb Pull USB/PHY updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big USB/PHY driver pull request for 5.1-rc1. The usual set of gadget driver updates, phy driver updates, xhci updates, and typec additions. Also included in here are a lot of small cleanups and fixes and driver updates where needed. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'usb-5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (167 commits) wusb: Remove unnecessary static function ckhdid_printf usb: core: make default autosuspend delay configurable usb: core: Fix typo in description of "authorized_default" usb: chipidea: Refactor USB PHY selection and keep a single PHY usb: chipidea: Grab the (legacy) USB PHY by phandle first usb: chipidea: imx: set power polarity dt-bindings: usb: ci-hdrc-usb2: add property power-active-high usb: chipidea: imx: remove unused header files usb: chipidea: tegra: Fix missed ci_hdrc_remove_device() usb: core: add option of only authorizing internal devices usb: typec: tps6598x: handle block writes separately with plain-I2C adapters usb: xhci: Fix for Enabling USB ROLE SWITCH QUIRK on INTEL_SUNRISEPOINT_LP_XHCI usb: xhci: fix build warning - missing prototype usb: xhci: dbc: Fixing typo error. usb: xhci: remove unused member 'parent' in xhci_regset struct xhci: tegra: Prevent error pointer dereference USB: serial: option: add Telit ME910 ECM composition usb: core: Replace hardcoded check with inline function from usb.h usb: core: skip interfaces disabled in devicetree usb: typec: mux: remove redundant check on variable match ...
2019-03-06Merge tag 'driver-core-5.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big driver core patchset for 5.1-rc1 More patches than "normal" here this merge window, due to some work in the driver core by Alexander Duyck to rework the async probe functionality to work better for a number of devices, and independant work from Rafael for the device link functionality to make it work "correctly". Also in here is: - lots of BUS_ATTR() removals, the macro is about to go away - firmware test fixups - ihex fixups and simplification - component additions (also includes i915 patches) - lots of minor coding style fixups and cleanups. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (65 commits) driver core: platform: remove misleading err_alloc label platform: set of_node in platform_device_register_full() firmware: hardcode the debug message for -ENOENT driver core: Add missing description of new struct device_link field driver core: Fix PM-runtime for links added during consumer probe drivers/component: kerneldoc polish async: Add cmdline option to specify drivers to be async probed driver core: Fix possible supplier PM-usage counter imbalance PM-runtime: Fix __pm_runtime_set_status() race with runtime resume driver: platform: Support parsing GpioInt 0 in platform_get_irq() selftests: firmware: fix verify_reqs() return value Revert "selftests: firmware: remove use of non-standard diff -Z option" Revert "selftests: firmware: add CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK to config" device: Fix comment for driver_data in struct device kernfs: Allocating memory for kernfs_iattrs with kmem_cache. sysfs: remove unused include of kernfs-internal.h driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until after devres release driver core: Document limitation related to DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE PM-runtime: Take suppliers into account in __pm_runtime_set_status() device.h: Add __cold to dev_<level> logging functions ...
2019-03-06Merge tag 'pm-5.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are PM-runtime framework changes to use ktime instead of jiffies for accounting, new PM core flag to mark devices that don't need any form of power management, cpuidle updates including driver API documentation and a new governor, cpufreq updates including a new driver for Armada 8K, thermal cleanups and more, some energy-aware scheduling (EAS) enabling changes, new chips support in the intel_idle and RAPL drivers and assorted cleanups in some other places. Specifics: - Update the PM-runtime framework to use ktime instead of jiffies for accounting (Thara Gopinath, Vincent Guittot) - Optimize the autosuspend code in the PM-runtime framework somewhat (Ladislav Michl) - Add a PM core flag to mark devices that don't need any form of power management (Sudeep Holla) - Introduce driver API documentation for cpuidle and add a new cpuidle governor for tickless systems (Rafael Wysocki) - Add Jacobsville support to the intel_idle driver (Zhang Rui) - Clean up a cpuidle core header file and the cpuidle-dt and ACPI processor-idle drivers (Yangtao Li, Joseph Lo, Yazen Ghannam) - Add new cpufreq driver for Armada 8K (Gregory Clement) - Fix and clean up cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar, Amit Kucheria) - Add support for light-weight tear-down and bring-up of CPUs to the cpufreq core and use it in the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh Kumar) - Fix cpu_cooling Kconfig dependencies, add support for CPU cooling auto-registration to the cpufreq core and use it in multiple cpufreq drivers (Amit Kucheria) - Fix some minor issues and do some cleanups in the davinci, e_powersaver, ap806, s5pv210, qcom and kryo cpufreq drivers (Bartosz Golaszewski, Gustavo Silva, Julia Lawall, Paweł Chmiel, Taniya Das, Viresh Kumar) - Add a Hisilicon CPPC quirk to the cppc_cpufreq driver (Xiongfeng Wang) - Clean up the intel_pstate and acpi-cpufreq drivers (Erwan Velu, Rafael Wysocki) - Clean up multiple cpufreq drivers (Yangtao Li) - Update cpufreq-related MAINTAINERS entries (Baruch Siach, Lukas Bulwahn) - Add support for exposing the Energy Model via debugfs and make multiple cpufreq drivers register an Energy Model to support energy-aware scheduling (Quentin Perret, Dietmar Eggemann, Matthias Kaehlcke) - Add Ice Lake mobile and Jacobsville support to the Intel RAPL power-capping driver (Gayatri Kammela, Zhang Rui) - Add a power estimation helper to the operating performance points (OPP) framework and clean up a core function in it (Quentin Perret, Viresh Kumar) - Make minor improvements in the generic power domains (genpd), OPP and system suspend frameworks and in the PM core (Aditya Pakki, Douglas Anderson, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Rafael Wysocki, Yangtao Li)" * tag 'pm-5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (80 commits) cpufreq: kryo: Release OPP tables on module removal cpufreq: ap806: add missing of_node_put after of_device_is_available cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Report if CPU doesn't support boost technologies cpufreq: Pass updated policy to driver ->setpolicy() callback cpufreq: Fix two debug messages in cpufreq_set_policy() cpufreq: Reorder and simplify cpufreq_update_policy() cpufreq: Add kerneldoc comments for two core functions PM / core: Add support to skip power management in device/driver model cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rework iowait boosting to be less aggressive cpufreq: intel_pstate: Eliminate intel_pstate_get_base_pstate() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid redundant initialization of local vars powercap/intel_rapl: add Ice Lake mobile ACPI / processor: Set P_LVL{2,3} idle state descriptions cpufreq / cppc: Work around for Hisilicon CPPC cpufreq ACPI / CPPC: Add a helper to get desired performance cpufreq: davinci: move configuration to include/linux/platform_data cpufreq: speedstep: convert BUG() to BUG_ON() cpufreq: powernv: fix missing check of return value in init_powernv_pstates() cpufreq: longhaul: remove unneeded semicolon cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: remove unneeded semicolon ..
2019-03-06Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (159 commits) tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include proc: more robust bulk read test proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm proc: use seq_puts() everywhere proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup() fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self() fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self() proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly ...
2019-03-06Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main EFI changes in this cycle were: - Use 32-bit alignment for efi_guid_t - Allow the SetVirtualAddressMap() call to be omitted - Implement earlycon=efifb based on existing earlyprintk code - Various minor fixes and code cleanups from Sai, Ard and me" * 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: efi: Fix build error due to enum collision between efi.h and ima.h efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation x86: Make ARCH_USE_MEMREMAP_PROT a generic Kconfig symbol efi/arm/arm64: Allow SetVirtualAddressMap() to be omitted efi: Replace GPL license boilerplate with SPDX headers efi/fdt: Apply more cleanups efi: Use 32-bit alignment for efi_guid_t efi/memattr: Don't bail on zero VA if it equals the region's PA x86/efi: Mark can_free_region() as an __init function
2019-03-05mm: memcontrol: expose THP events on a per-memcg basisChris Down
Currently THP allocation events data is fairly opaque, since you can only get it system-wide. This patch makes it easier to reason about transparent hugepage behaviour on a per-memcg basis. For anonymous THP-backed pages, we already have MEMCG_RSS_HUGE in v1, which is used for v1's rss_huge [sic]. This is reused here as it's fairly involved to untangle NR_ANON_THPS right now to make it per-memcg, since right now some of this is delegated to rmap before we have any memcg actually assigned to the page. It's a good idea to rework that, but let's leave untangling THP allocation for a future patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [chris@chrisdown.name: fix memcontrol build when THP is disabled] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190131160802.GA5777@chrisdown.name Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129205852.GA7310@chrisdown.name Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offlineDavid Hildenbrand
PG_balloon was introduced to implement page migration/compaction for pages inflated in virtio-balloon. Nowadays, it is only a marker that a page is part of virtio-balloon and therefore logically offline. We also want to make use of this flag in other balloon drivers - for inflated pages or when onlining a section but keeping some pages offline (e.g. used right now by XEN and Hyper-V via set_online_page_callback()). We are going to expose this flag to dump tools like makedumpfile. But instead of exposing PG_balloon, let's generalize the concept of marking pages as logically offline, so it can be reused for other purposes later on. Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched (e.g. a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for the guest to dump an unused page). We can then e.g. exclude such pages from dumps. We replace and reuse KPF_BALLOON (23), as this shouldn't really harm (and for now the semantics stay the same). In following patches, we will make use of this bit also in other balloon drivers. While at it, document PGTABLE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text, per David] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119101616.8901-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pankaj gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main RCU related changes in this cycle were: - Additional cleanups after RCU flavor consolidation - Grace-period forward-progress cleanups and improvements - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - spin_is_locked() conversions to lockdep - SPDX changes to RCU source and header files - SRCU updates - Torture-test updates, including nolibc updates and moving nolibc to tools/include" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits) locking/locktorture: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/torture: Convert to SPDX license identifier torture: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/srcu: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcutree: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcutiny: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcu_sync: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcu_segcblist: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcupdate: Convert to SPDX license identifier linux/rcu_node_tree: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/update: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/tree: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/tiny: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/sync: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/srcu: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcutorture: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcu_segcblist: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcuperf: Convert to SPDX license identifier rcu/rcu.h: Convert to SPDX license identifier RCU/torture.txt: Remove section MODULE PARAMETERS ...
2019-03-04Merge branches 'pm-cpuidle' and 'powercap'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpuidle: ACPI / processor: Set P_LVL{2,3} idle state descriptions intel_idle: add support for Jacobsville cpuidle: dt: bail out if the idle-state DT node is not compatible cpuidle: use BIT() for idle state flags and remove CPUIDLE_DRIVER_FLAGS_MASK Documentation: driver-api: PM: Add cpuidle document cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems * powercap: powercap/intel_rapl: add Ice Lake mobile powercap: intel_rapl: add support for Jacobsville
2019-02-25LSM: Ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is specifiedKees Cook
To avoid potential confusion, explicitly ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is used on the command line, and report that it is happening. Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
2019-02-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Three conflicts, one of which, for marvell10g.c is non-trivial and requires some follow-up from Heiner or someone else. The issue is that Heiner converted the marvell10g driver over to use the generic c45 code as much as possible. However, in 'net' a bug fix appeared which makes sure that a new local mask (MDIO_AN_10GBT_CTRL_ADV_NBT_MASK) with value 0x01e0 is cleared. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-22Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirementRandy Dunlap
Fix minimum gcc version as specified in Documentation/process/changes.rst. Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-22usb: core: add option of only authorizing internal devicesDmitry Torokhov
On Chrome OS we want to use USBguard to potentially limit access to USB devices based on policy. We however to do not want to wait for userspace to come up before initializing fixed USB devices to not regress our boot times. This patch adds option to instruct the kernel to only authorize devices connected to the internal ports. Previously we could either authorize all or none (or, by default, we'd only authorize wired devices). The behavior is controlled via usbcore.authorized_default command line option. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-20Merge tag 'docs-5.0-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation fix from Jonathan Corbet: "A single patch from Arnd bringing some top-level docs into the 5.0 era" * tag 'docs-5.0-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x
2019-02-17perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columnsAlexey Budankov
Implemented formatting of paragraphs to be not wider than 72 columns. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged usersAlexey Budankov
Elaborate on possible perf_event/Perf privileged users groups and document steps about creating such groups. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categoriesAlexey Budankov
Document and categorize system and performance data into groups that can be captured by perf_events/Perf and explicitly indicate the group that can contain process sensitive data. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource controlAlexey Budankov
Extend perf-security.rst file with perf_events/Perf resource control section describing RLIMIT_NOFILE and perf_event_mlock_kb settings for performance monitoring user processes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-17Merge branch 'docs-5.0-fix' into docs-nextJonathan Corbet
Pick up Arnd's fix here as well.
2019-02-17Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.xArnd Bergmann
As linux-5.0.x is coming up soon, the documentation should match, in particular the README.rst file, so change all 4.x references accordingly. There was a mix of lowercase and uppercase X here, which I changed to using lowercase consistently. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
The netfilter conflicts were rather simple overlapping changes. However, the cls_tcindex.c stuff was a bit more complex. On the 'net' side, Cong is fixing several races and memory leaks. Whilst on the 'net-next' side we have Vlad adding the rtnl-ness support. What I've decided to do, in order to resolve this, is revert the conversion over to using a workqueue that Cong did, bringing us back to pure RCU. I did it this way because I believe that either Cong's races don't apply with have Vlad did things, or Cong will have to implement the race fix slightly differently. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-02-14async: Add cmdline option to specify drivers to be async probedFeng Tang
Asynchronous driver probing can help much on kernel fastboot, and this option can provide a flexible way to optimize and quickly verify async driver probe. Also it will help in below cases: * Some driver actually covers several families of HWs, some of which could use async probing while others don't. So we can't simply turn on the PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS flag in driver, but use this cmdline option, like igb driver async patch discussed at https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg545986.html * For SOC (System on Chip) with multiple spi or i2c controllers, most of the slave spi/i2c devices will be assigned with fixed controller number, while async probing may make those controllers get different index for each boot, which prevents those controller drivers to be async probed. For platforms not using these spi/i2c slave devices, they can use this cmdline option to benefit from the async probing. Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-13Merge branch 'rcu-next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull the latest RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney: - Additional cleanups after RCU flavor consolidation - Grace-period forward-progress cleanups and improvements - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - spin_is_locked() conversions to lockdep - SPDX changes to RCU source and header files - SRCU updates - Torture-test updates, including nolibc updates and moving nolibc to tools/include Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-08Documentation: cgroup-v2: eliminate markup warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix markup warnings in cgroup-v2.rst: Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst:1509: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst:1511: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst:1512: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-02-06Documentation: Document arm64 kpti controlJeremy Linton
For a while Arm64 has been capable of force enabling or disabling the kpti mitigations. Lets make sure the documentation reflects that. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-06doc: kernel-parameters.txt: fix documentation of elevator parameterOtto Sabart
Legacy IO schedulers (cfq, deadline and noop) were removed in f382fb0bcef4. The documentation for deadline was retained because it carries over to mq-deadline as well, but location of the doc file was changed over time. The old iosched algorithms were removed from elevator= kernel parameter and mq-deadline, kyber and bfq were added with a reference to their documentation. Fixes: f382fb0bcef4 ("block: remove legacy IO schedulers") Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-06arm64: Enable the support of pseudo-NMIsJulien Thierry
Add a build option and a command line parameter to build and enable the support of pseudo-NMIs. Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2019-02-04efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementationArd Biesheuvel
Move the x86 EFI earlyprintk implementation to a shared location under drivers/firmware and tweak it slightly so we can expose it as an earlycon implementation (which is generic) rather than earlyprintk (which is only implemented for a few architectures) This also involves switching to write-combine mappings by default (which is required on ARM since device mappings lack memory semantics, and so memcpy/memset may not be used on them), and adding support for shared memory framebuffers on cache coherent non-x86 systems (which do not tolerate mismatched attributes). Note that 32-bit ARM does not populate its struct screen_info early enough for earlycon=efifb to work, so it is disabled there. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190202094119.13230-10-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-01ipconfig: add carrier_timeout kernel parameterMartin Kepplinger
commit 3fb72f1e6e61 ("ipconfig wait for carrier") added a "wait for carrier" policy, with a fixed worst case maximum wait of two minutes. Now make the wait for carrier timeout configurable on the kernel commandline and use the 120s as the default. The timeout messages introduced with commit 5e404cd65860 ("ipconfig: add informative timeout messages while waiting for carrier") are done in a fixed interval of 20 seconds, just like they were before (240/12). Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>