linux-toradex.git/Documentation/features/debug, branch v4.16-rc6

Merge tag 'xtensa-20180129' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa

2018-01-30T00:40:28+00:00

Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - add SSP support

 - add KASAN support

 - improvements to xtensa-specific assembly:
    - use ENTRY and ENDPROC consistently
    - clean up and unify word alignment macros
    - clean up and unify fixup marking
    - use 'call' instead of 'callx' where possible

 - various cleanups:
    - consiolidate kernel stack size related definitions
    - replace #ifdef'fed/commented out debug printk statements with
      pr_debug
    - use struct exc_table instead of flat array for exception handling
      data

 - build kernel with -mtext-section-literals; simplify xtensa linker
   script

 - fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()

* tag 'xtensa-20180129' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa: (21 commits)
  xtensa: fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
  xtensa: shut up gcc-8 warnings
  xtensa: print kernel sections info in mem_init
  xtensa: use generic strncpy_from_user with KASAN
  xtensa: use __memset in __xtensa_clear_user
  xtensa: add support for KASAN
  xtensa: move fixmap and kmap just above the KSEG
  xtensa: don't clear swapper_pg_dir in paging_init
  xtensa: extract init_kio
  xtensa: implement early_trap_init
  xtensa: clean up exception handling structure
  xtensa: clean up custom-controlled debug output
  xtensa: enable stack protector
  xtensa: print hardware config ID on startup
  xtensa: consolidate kernel stack size related definitions
  xtensa: clean up functions in assembly code
  xtensa: clean up word alignment macros in assembly code
  xtensa: clean up fixups in assembly code
  xtensa: use call instead of callx in assembly code
  xtensa: build kernel with text-section-literals
  ...

xtensa: add support for KASAN

2017-12-17T06:37:12+00:00

Cover kernel addresses above 0x90000000 by the shadow map. Enable
HAVE_ARCH_KASAN when MMU is enabled. Provide kasan_early_init that fills
shadow map with writable copies of kasan_zero_page. Call
kasan_early_init right after mmu initialization in the setup_arch.
Provide kasan_init that allocates proper shadow map pages from the
memblock and puts these pages into the shadow map for addresses from
VMALLOC area to the end of KSEG. Call kasan_init right after memblock
initialization. Don't use KASAN for the boot code, MMU and KASAN
initialization and page fault handler. Make kernel stack size 4 times
larger when KASAN is enabled to avoid stack overflows.
GCC 7.3, 8 or newer is required to build the xtensa kernel with KASAN.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

xtensa: enable stack protector

2017-12-17T06:37:07+00:00

The implementation is adopted from the ARM arch. GCC 7.3, 8 or newer is
required for building the xtensa kernel with SSP.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

Documentation/features/KASAN: mark KASAN as supported only on 64-bit on x86

2017-10-03T20:40:22+00:00

Relevant part is:
arch/x86/Kconfig: select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN  if X86_64 && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-05-05T18:36:44+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we
     use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access
     to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap().

   - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller.

   - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9.

   - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator
     Interface Architecture 2.0".

   - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and
     runtime.

   - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as
     support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE.

   - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts,
     correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and
     using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should
     aid debugging and robustness.

   - Many fixes and other minor enhancements.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple,
  Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton
  Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
  Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy,
  Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin,
  Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J
  Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew
  R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell
  Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C.
  Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar,
  Yang Shi"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it
  powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2
  powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie
  powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode
  powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body
  powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs
  powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC
  powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset()
  powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions
  powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event()
  cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence
  cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected()
  cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow
  powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST
  powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors
  powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids
  powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO
  powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables
  powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc
  powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory
  ...

docs: remove all references to AVR32 architecture

2017-05-01T07:27:15+00:00

The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel,
hence remove all references to it from Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt 
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre 
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon

powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE

2017-04-24T09:07:58+00:00

Allow kprobes to be placed on ftrace _mcount() call sites. This optimization
avoids the use of a trap, by riding on ftrace infrastructure.

This depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which depends on MPROFILE_KERNEL,
which is only currently enabled on powerpc64le with newer toolchains.

Based on the x86 code by Masami.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Documentation/features/KASAN: arm64 supports KASAN now

2015-10-12T16:46:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Documentation: MIPS now supports uprobes.

2015-09-03T10:08:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Documentation/features/debug: Add feature description and arch support status file for 'gcov-profile-all'

2015-06-03T10:51:43+00:00

Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar