linux-toradex.git/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst, branch v5.17-rc7

arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch

2021-12-14T11:30:54+00:00

Like x86, some users may want to disable userspace PMU counter
altogether. Add a sysctl 'perf_user_access' file to control userspace
counter access. The default is '0' which is disabled. Writing '1'
enables access.

Note that x86 supports globally enabling user access by writing '2' to
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc. As there's not existing
userspace support to worry about, this shouldn't be necessary for Arm.
It could be added later if the need arises.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-4-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

docs: accounting: update delay-accounting.rst reference

2021-11-17T13:12:14+00:00

The file name: accounting/delay-accounting.rst
should be, instead: Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst.

Also, there's no need to use doc:`foo`, as automarkup.py will
automatically handle plain text mentions to Documentation/
files.

So, update its cross-reference accordingly.

Fixes: fcb501704554 ("delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl")
Fixes: c3123552aad3 ("docs: accounting: convert to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-06-30T00:29:11+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "191 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
  slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
  mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
  pagealloc, and memory-failure)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (191 commits)
  mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
  mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
  mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
  mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
  mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
  mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
  docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
  arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
  mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
  alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
  mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
  mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
  mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
  mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
  mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
  mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
  mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
  ...

doc: watchdog: modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u"

2021-06-29T17:53:46+00:00

"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work.  The current
description is extremely misleading.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-5-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Qais Yousef 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj 
Cc: Stephen Kitt 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2021-06-28T23:53:05+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a reasonably active cycle for documentation; this includes:

   - Some kernel-doc cleanups. That script is still regex onslaught from
     hell, but it has gotten a little better.

   - Improvements to the checkpatch docs, which are also used by the
     tool itself.

   - A major update to the pathname lookup documentation.

   - Elimination of :doc: markup, since our automarkup magic can create
     references from filenames without all the extra noise.

   - The flurry of Chinese translation activity continues.

  Plus, of course, the usual collection of updates, typo fixes, and
  warning fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (115 commits)
  docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals
  docs: path-lookup: update symlink description
  docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
  docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
  docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
  docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description
  docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
  docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description
  docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint
  docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
  docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part
  docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part
  docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part
  docs: Makefile: Use CONFIG_SHELL not SHELL
  docs: Take a little noise out of the build process
  docs: x86: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: virt: kvm: s390-pv-boot.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: userspace-api: landlock.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: trace: ftrace.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: trace: coresight: coresight.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  ...

docs: admin-guide: sysctl: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup

2021-06-17T19:24:36+00:00

The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/12abd2290c7ebc05c89178d2556bea740bd70fac.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes

2021-06-03T17:00:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2021-05-27T03:44:49+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter,
  can and wireless trees. Notably including fixes for the recently
  announced "FragAttacks" WiFi vulnerabilities. Rather large batch,
  touching some core parts of the stack, too, but nothing hair-raising.

  Current release - regressions:

   - tipc: make node link identity publish thread safe

   - dsa: felix: re-enable TAS guard band mode

   - stmmac: correct clocks enabled in stmmac_vlan_rx_kill_vid()

   - stmmac: fix system hang if change mac address after interface
     ifdown

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()

   - bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers

   - ethtool: stats: fix a copy-paste error - init correct array size

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc

   - net: really orphan skbs tied to closing sk

   - mlx4: fix EEPROM dump support

   - bpf: fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations

   - bpf: fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change

   - bpf, offload: reorder offload callback 'prepare' in verifier

   - stmmac: Fix MAC WoL not working if PHY does not support WoL

   - packetmmap: fix only tx timestamp on request

   - tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mac80211: address recent "FragAttacks" vulnerabilities

   - mac80211: do not accept/forward invalid EAPOL frames

   - mptcp: avoid potential error message floods

   - bpf, ringbuf: deny reserve of buffers larger than ringbuf to
     prevent out of buffer writes

   - bpf: forbid trampoline attach for functions with variable arguments

   - bpf: add deny list of functions to prevent inf recursion of tracing
     programs

   - tls splice: check SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK instead of MSG_DONTWAIT

   - can: isotp: prevent race between isotp_bind() and
     isotp_setsockopt()

   - netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: Add irq_fpu_usable() check,
     fallback to non-AVX2 version

  Misc:

   - bpf: add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default"

* tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (172 commits)
  net: phy: Document phydev::dev_flags bits allocation
  mptcp: validate 'id' when stopping the ADD_ADDR retransmit timer
  mptcp: avoid error message on infinite mapping
  mptcp: drop unconditional pr_warn on bad opt
  mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()
  nfp: update maintainer and mailing list addresses
  net: mvpp2: add buffer header handling in RX
  bnx2x: Fix missing error code in bnx2x_iov_init_one()
  net: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation
  net: hns: Fix kernel-doc
  sctp: fix the proc_handler for sysctl encap_port
  sctp: add the missing setting for asoc encap_port
  bpf, selftests: Adjust few selftest result_unpriv outcomes
  bpf: No need to simulate speculative domain for immediates
  bpf: Fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change
  bpf: Wrap aux data inside bpf_sanitize_info container
  bpf: Fix BPF_LSM kconfig symbol dependency
  selftests/bpf: Add test for l3 use of bpf_redirect_peer
  bpftool: Add sock_release help info for cgroup attach/prog load command
  net: dsa: microchip: enable phy errata workaround on 9567
  ...

delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl

2021-05-18T10:53:53+00:00

Update sysctl/kernel.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512114035.GH3672@suse.de

docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.modprobe sysctl

2021-05-15T02:41:32+00:00

When I added CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH, I neglected to update Documentation/.
It's still true that this defaults to /sbin/modprobe, but now via a level
of indirection.  So document that the kernel might have been built with
something other than /sbin/modprobe as the initial value.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210420125324.1246826-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Fixes: 17652f4240f7a ("modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jessica Yu 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds