linux-toradex.git/init, branch v4.7-rc4

mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init

2016-05-27T21:49:37+00:00

page_ext_init() checks suitable pages with pfn_to_nid(), but
pfn_to_nid() depends on memmap which will not be setup fully until
page_alloc_init_late() is done.  Use early_pfn_to_nid() instead of
pfn_to_nid() so that page extension could be still used early even
though CONFIG_ DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled and catch early page
allocation call sites.

Suggested by Joonsoo Kim [1], this fix basically undoes the change
introduced by commit b8f1a75d61d840 ("mm: call page_ext_init() after all
struct pages are initialized") and fixes the same problem with a better
approach.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAAmzW4OUmyPwQjvd7QUfc6W1Aic__TyAuH80MLRZNMxKy0-wPQ@mail.gmail.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464198689-23458-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-05-27T05:01:22+00:00

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - new option CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS which does a two-pass build and
   unexports symbols which are not used in the current config [Nicolas
   Pitre]

 - several kbuild rule cleanups [Masahiro Yamada]

 - warning option adjustments for gcov etc [Arnd Bergmann]

 - a few more small fixes

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (31 commits)
  kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
  kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order
  kbuild: fix adjust_autoksyms.sh for modules that need only one symbol
  kbuild: fix ksym_dep_filter when multiple EXPORT_SYMBOL() on the same line
  gcov: disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
  gcov: disable tree-loop-im to reduce stack usage
  gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST
  Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
  Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE definition
  kbuild: forbid kernel directory to contain spaces and colons
  kbuild: adjust ksym_dep_filter for some cmd_* renames
  kbuild: Fix dependencies for final vmlinux link
  kbuild: better abstract vmlinux sequential prerequisites
  kbuild: fix call to adjust_autoksyms.sh when output directory specified
  kbuild: Get rid of KBUILD_STR
  kbuild: rename cmd_as_s_S to cmd_cpp_s_S
  kbuild: rename cmd_cc_i_c to cmd_cpp_i_c
  kbuild: drop redundant "PHONY += FORCE"
  kbuild: delete unnecessary "@:"
  kbuild: mark help target as PHONY
  ...

init/main.c: simplify initcall_blacklisted()

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Using kasprintf to get the function name makes us look up the name
twice, along with all the vsnprintf overhead of parsing the format
string etc.  It also means there is an allocation failure case to deal
with.  Since symbol_string in vsprintf.c would anyway allocate an array
of size KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN on the stack, that might as well be done up
here.

Moreover, since this is a debug feature and the blacklisted_initcalls
list is usually empty, we might as well test that and thus avoid looking
up the symbol name even once in the common case.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk/nmi: increase the size of NMI buffer and make it configurable

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Testing has shown that the backtrace sometimes does not fit into the 4kB
temporary buffer that is used in NMI context.  The warnings are gone
when I double the temporary buffer size.

This patch doubles the buffer size and makes it configurable.

Note that this problem existed even in the x86-specific implementation
that was added by the commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI
stack trace on all CPUs").  Nobody noticed it because it did not print
any warnings.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

printk() takes some locks and could not be used a safe way in NMI
context.

The chance of a deadlock is real especially when printing stacks from
all CPUs.  This particular problem has been addressed on x86 by the
commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all
CPUs").

The patchset brings two big advantages.  First, it makes the NMI
backtraces safe on all architectures for free.  Second, it makes all NMI
messages almost safe on all architectures (the temporary buffer is
limited.  We still should keep the number of messages in NMI context at
minimum).

Note that there already are several messages printed in NMI context:
WARN_ON(in_nmi()), BUG_ON(in_nmi()), anything being printed out from MCE
handlers.  These are not easy to avoid.

This patch reuses most of the code and makes it generic.  It is useful
for all messages and architectures that support NMI.

The alternative printk_func is set when entering and is reseted when
leaving NMI context.  It queues IRQ work to copy the messages into the
main ring buffer in a safe context.

__printk_nmi_flush() copies all available messages and reset the buffer.
Then we could use a simple cmpxchg operations to get synchronized with
writers.  There is also used a spinlock to get synchronized with other
flushers.

We do not longer use seq_buf because it depends on external lock.  It
would be hard to make all supported operations safe for a lockless use.
It would be confusing and error prone to make only some operations safe.

The code is put into separate printk/nmi.c as suggested by Steven
Rostedt.  It needs a per-CPU buffer and is compiled only on
architectures that call nmi_enter().  This is achieved by the new
HAVE_NMI Kconfig flag.

The are MN10300 and Xtensa architectures.  We need to clean up NMI
handling there first.  Let's do it separately.

The patch is heavily based on the draft from Peter Zijlstra, see

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/327

[arnd@arndb.de: printk-nmi: use %zu format string for size_t]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: min_t->min - all types are size_t here]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Russell King 	[arm part]
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: call page_ext_init() after all struct pages are initialized

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

When DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled, just a subset of memmap at
boot are initialized, then the rest are initialized in parallel by
starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X.

If page_ext_init is called before it, some pages will not have valid
extension, this may lead the below kernel oops when booting up kernel:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 11 PID: 106 Comm: pgdatinit1 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc5-next-20160427 #26
  Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520HC/S5520HC, BIOS S5500.86B.01.10.0025.030220091519 03/02/2009
  task: ffff88017c080040 ti: ffff88017c084000 task.ti: ffff88017c084000
  RIP: 0010:[]  [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0
  RSP: 0000:ffff88017c087c48  EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
  RDX: 0000000000000980 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 0000000000660401
  RBP: ffff88017c087cd0 R08: 0000000000000401 R09: 0000000000000009
  R10: ffff88017c080040 R11: 000000000000000a R12: 0000000000000400
  R13: ffffea0019810000 R14: ffffea0019810040 R15: ffff88066cfe6080
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88066cd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002406000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  Call Trace:
    free_hot_cold_page+0x192/0x1d0
    __free_pages+0x5c/0x90
    __free_pages_boot_core+0x11a/0x14e
    deferred_free_range+0x50/0x62
    deferred_init_memmap+0x220/0x3c3
    kthread+0xf8/0x110
    ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
  Code: 49 89 d4 48 c1 e0 06 49 01 c5 e9 de fe ff ff 4c 89 f7 44 89 4d b8 4c 89 45 c0 44 89 5d c8 48 89 4d d0 e8 62 c7 07 00 48 8b 4d d0 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 5d c8 4c 8b 45 c0 44 8b 4d b8 a8 02 0f 84 05 ff
  RIP  [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0
   RSP 
  CR2: 0000000000000000

Move page_ext_init() after page_alloc_init_late() to make sure page extension
is setup for all pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463696006-31360-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: SLAB freelist randomization

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Provides an optional config (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM) to randomize
the SLAB freelist.  The list is randomized during initialization of a
new set of pages.  The order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed
at boot for performance.  Each kmem_cache has its own randomized
freelist.  Before pre-computed lists are available freelists are
generated dynamically.  This security feature reduces the predictability
of the kernel SLAB allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks
much less stable.

For example this attack against SLUB (also applicable against SLAB)
would be affected:

  https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/09/10/linux-kernel-can-slub-overflow/

Also, since v4.6 the freelist was moved at the end of the SLAB.  It
means a controllable heap is opened to new attacks not yet publicly
discussed.  A kernel heap overflow can be transformed to multiple
use-after-free.  This feature makes this type of attack harder too.

To generate entropy, we use get_random_bytes_arch because 0 bits of
entropy is available in the boot stage.  In the worse case this function
will fallback to the get_random_bytes sub API.  We also generate a shift
random number to shift pre-computed freelist for each new set of pages.

The config option name is not specific to the SLAB as this approach will
be extended to other allocators like SLUB.

Performance results highlighted no major changes:

Hackbench (running 90 10 times):

  Before average: 0.0698
  After average: 0.0663 (-5.01%)

slab_test 1 run on boot.  Difference only seen on the 2048 size test
being the worse case scenario covered by freelist randomization.  New
slab pages are constantly being created on the 10000 allocations.
Variance should be mainly due to getting new pages every few
allocations.

Before:

  Single thread testing
  =====================
  1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 99 cycles kfree -> 112 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 109 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 129 cycles kfree -> 137 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 141 cycles kfree -> 141 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 152 cycles kfree -> 148 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 195 cycles kfree -> 167 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 257 cycles kfree -> 199 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 393 cycles kfree -> 251 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 649 cycles kfree -> 228 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 806 cycles kfree -> 370 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 814 cycles kfree -> 411 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 892 cycles kfree -> 455 cycles
  2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cycles

After:

  Single thread testing
  =====================
  1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 130 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 121 cycles kfree -> 85 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 176 cycles kfree -> 102 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 178 cycles kfree -> 100 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 205 cycles kfree -> 109 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 262 cycles kfree -> 136 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 342 cycles kfree -> 157 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 701 cycles kfree -> 238 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 803 cycles kfree -> 364 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 835 cycles kfree -> 404 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 896 cycles kfree -> 441 cycles
  2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
  10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 123 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 142 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
  10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cycles

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: propagate gfp_t into cache_random_seq_create()]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE definition

2016-05-10T15:12:48+00:00

CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE disables the often useful -Wmaybe-unused warning,
because that causes a ridiculous amount of false positives when combined
with -Os.

This means a lot of warnings don't show up in testing by the developers
that should see them with an 'allmodconfig' kernel that has
CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE enabled, but only later in randconfig builds
that don't.

This changes the Kconfig logic around CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE to make
it a 'choice' statement defaulting to CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
that gets added for this purpose. The allmodconfig and allyesconfig
kernels now default to -O2 with the maybe-unused warning enabled.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

Make CONFIG_FHANDLE default y

2016-04-01T22:03:37+00:00

Newer Fedora and OpenSUSE didn't boot with my standard configuration.
It took me some time to figure out why, in fact I had to write a script
to try different config options systematically.

The problem is that something (systemd) in dracut depends on
CONFIG_FHANDLE, which adds open by file handle syscalls.

While it is set in defconfigs it is very easy to miss when updating
older configs because it is not default y.

Make it default y and also depend on EXPERT, as dracut use is likely
widespread.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS

2016-03-29T20:30:57+00:00

The config option to enable it all.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell