linux-toradex.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.12-rc5

Merge tag 'xfs-5.12-merge-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

2021-02-28T19:45:25+00:00

Pull more xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "The most notable fix here prevents premature reuse of freed metadata
  blocks, and adding the ability to detect accidental nested
  transactions, which are not allowed here.

   - Restore a disused sysctl control knob that was inadvertently
     dropped during the merge window to avoid fstests regressions.

   - Don't speculatively release freed blocks from the busy list until
     we're actually allocating them, which fixes a rare log recovery
     regression.

   - Don't nest transactions when scanning for free space.

   - Add an idiot^Wmaintainer light to detect nested transactions. ;)"

* tag 'xfs-5.12-merge-6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
  xfs: use current->journal_info for detecting transaction recursion
  xfs: don't nest transactions when scanning for eofblocks
  xfs: don't reuse busy extents on extent trim
  xfs: restore speculative_cow_prealloc_lifetime sysctl

Merge tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2021-02-26T22:21:18+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, nothing all that
  notable"

* tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: proc.rst: fix indentation warning
  Documentation: cgroup-v2: fix path to example BPF program
  docs: powerpc: Fix tables in syscall64-abi.rst
  Documentation: features: refresh feature list
  Documentation: features: remove c6x references
  docs: ABI: testing: ima_policy: Fixed missing bracket
  Fix unaesthetic indentation
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix array element capture in pointer-to-func parsing
  doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line
  Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg

Merge tag '5.12-smb3-part1' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6

2021-02-26T22:09:41+00:00

Pull cifs updates from Steve French:

 - improvements to mode bit conversion, chmod and chown when using
   cifsacl mount option

 - two new mount options for controlling attribute caching

 - improvements to crediting and reconnect, improved debugging

 - reconnect fix

 - add SMB3.1.1 dialect to default dialects for vers=3

* tag '5.12-smb3-part1' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (27 commits)
  cifs: update internal version number
  cifs: use discard iterator to discard unneeded network data more efficiently
  cifs: introduce helper for finding referral server to improve DFS target resolution
  cifs: check all path components in resolved dfs target
  cifs: fix DFS failover
  cifs: fix nodfs mount option
  cifs: fix handling of escaped ',' in the password mount argument
  cifs: Add new parameter "acregmax" for distinct file and directory metadata timeout
  cifs: convert revalidate of directories to using directory metadata cache timeout
  cifs: Add new mount parameter "acdirmax" to allow caching directory metadata
  cifs: If a corrupted DACL is returned by the server, bail out.
  cifs: minor simplification to smb2_is_network_name_deleted
  TCON Reconnect during STATUS_NETWORK_NAME_DELETED
  cifs: cleanup a few le16 vs. le32 uses in cifsacl.c
  cifs: Change SIDs in ACEs while transferring file ownership.
  cifs: Retain old ACEs when converting between mode bits and ACL.
  cifs: Fix cifsacl ACE mask for group and others.
  cifs: clarify hostname vs ip address in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData
  cifs: change confusing field serverName (to ip_addr)
  cifs: Fix inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
  ...

lib: stackdepot: add support to disable stack depot

2021-02-26T17:41:04+00:00

Add a kernel parameter stack_depot_disable to disable stack depot.  So
that stack hash table doesn't consume any memory when stack depot is
disabled.

The use case is CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER without page_owner=on.  Without this
patch, stackdepot will consume the memory for the hashtable.  By default,
it's 8M which is never trivial.

With this option, in CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER configured system, page_owner=off,
stack_depot_disable in kernel command line, we could save the wasted
memory for the hashtable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_STACKDEPOT=n build]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611749198-24316-2-git-send-email-vjitta@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon 
Signed-off-by: Vijayanand Jitta 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Yogesh Lal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Miguel has moved

2021-02-26T17:41:03+00:00

Update contact info.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210206162524.GA11520@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: sysfs/memory: clarify some memory block device properties

2021-02-26T17:41:00+00:00

In commit 53cdc1cb29e8 ("drivers/base/memory.c: indicate all memory blocks
as removable") we changed the output of the "removable" property of memory
devices to return "1" if and only if the kernel supports memory offlining.

Let's update documentation, stating that the interface is legacy.  Also
update documentation of the "state" property and "valid_zones" properties.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jonathan Cameron 
Cc: Ilya Dryomov 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers/base/memory: don't store phys_device in memory blocks

2021-02-26T17:41:00+00:00

No need to store the value for each and every memory block, as we can
easily query the value at runtime.  Reshuffle the members to optimize the
memory layout.  Also, let's clarify what the interface once was used for
and why it's legacy nowadays.

"phys_device" was used on s390x in older versions of lsmem[2]/chmem[3],
back when they were still part of s390x-tools.  They were later replaced
by the variants in linux-utils.  For example, RHEL6 and RHEL7 contain
lsmem/chmem from s390-utils.  RHEL8 switched to versions from util-linux
on s390x [4].

"phys_device" was added with sysfs support for memory hotplug in commit
3947be1969a9 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions") in
2005.  It always returned 0.

s390x started returning something != 0 on some setups (if sclp.rzm is set
by HW) in 2010 via commit 57b552ba0b2f ("memory hotplug/s390: set
phys_device").

For s390x, it allowed for identifying which memory block devices belong to
the same storage increment (RZM).  Only if all memory block devices
comprising a single storage increment were offline, the memory could
actually be removed in the hypervisor.

Since commit e5d709bb5fb7 ("s390/memory hotplug: provide
memory_block_size_bytes() function") in 2013 a memory block device spans
at least one storage increment - which is why the interface isn't really
helpful/used anymore (except by old lsmem/chmem tools).

There were once RFC patches to make use of "phys_device" in ACPI context;
however, the underlying problem could be solved using different interfaces
[1].

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2163871/
[2] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/lsmem
[3] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/chmem
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504134

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Ilya Dryomov 
Cc: Vaibhav Jain 
Cc: Tom Rix 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: cgroup-v2: fix path to example BPF program

2021-02-25T20:07:31+00:00

This file has been moved into the "progs" subdirectory, together with all
test BPF programs.

Fixes: bd4aed0ee73c ("selftests: bpf: centre kernel bpf objects under new subdir "progs"")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Terceiro 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Jiong Wang 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210224131631.349287-1-antonio.terceiro@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-02-25T00:20:38+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "A few small subsystems and some of MM.

  172 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: hexagon, scripts, ntfs,
  ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, debug, pagecache, swap,
  memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, page-reporting, vmalloc, kasan,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
  mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, and migration)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (172 commits)
  mm/migrate: remove unneeded semicolons
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded return value of hugetlb_vmtruncate()
  hugetlbfs: fix some comment typos
  hugetlbfs: correct some obsolete comments about inode i_mutex
  hugetlbfs: make hugepage size conversion more readable
  hugetlbfs: remove meaningless variable avoid_reserve
  hugetlbfs: correct obsolete function name in hugetlbfs_read_iter()
  hugetlbfs: use helper macro default_hstate in init_hugetlbfs_fs
  hugetlbfs: remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()
  hugetlbfs: remove special hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty()
  mm/hugetlb: change hugetlb_reserve_pages() to type bool
  mm, oom: fix a comment in dump_task()
  mm/mempolicy: use helper range_in_vma() in queue_pages_test_walk()
  numa balancing: migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes
  mm, compaction: make fast_isolate_freepages() stay within zone
  mm/compaction: fix misbehaviors of fast_find_migrateblock()
  mm/compaction: correct deferral logic for proactive compaction
  mm/compaction: remove duplicated VM_BUG_ON_PAGE !PageLocked
  mm/compaction: remove rcu_read_lock during page compaction
  z3fold: simplify the zhdr initialization code in init_z3fold_page()
  ...

mm/vmscan: restore zone_reclaim_mode ABI

2021-02-24T21:38:34+00:00

I went to go add a new RECLAIM_* mode for the zone_reclaim_mode sysctl.
Like a good kernel developer, I also went to go update the
documentation.  I noticed that the bits in the documentation didn't
match the bits in the #defines.

The VM never explicitly checks the RECLAIM_ZONE bit.  The bit is,
however implicitly checked when checking 'node_reclaim_mode==0'.  The
RECLAIM_ZONE #define was removed in a cleanup.  That, by itself is fine.

But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also got
changed.  That's not OK because the bit values are documented to mean
one specific thing.  Users surely do not expect the meaning to change
from kernel to kernel.

The end result is that if someone had a script that did:

	sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1

it would have gone from enabling node reclaim for clean unmapped pages
to writing out pages during node reclaim after the commit in question.
That's not great.

Put the bits back the way they were and add a comment so something like
this is a bit harder to do again.  Update the documentation to make it
clear that the first bit is ignored.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219172555.FF0CDF23@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Fixes: 648b5cf368e0 ("mm/vmscan: remove unused RECLAIM_OFF/RECLAIM_ZONE")
Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky 
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Daniel Wagner 
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Qian Cai 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds