linux-toradex.git/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v4.11-rc1

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds

2017-02-01T10:01:30+00:00

We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit:

  ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice")

... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality
it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies.

This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the
value set failed, such as HZ=100:

  root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
  root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
  10

Fix this to be milliseconds all around.

Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax()

2017-01-26T17:21:24+00:00

We perform the conversion between kernel jiffies and ms only when
exporting kernel value to user space.

We need to do the opposite operation when value is written by user.

Only matters when HZ != 1000

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-12-15T21:49:34+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has a few updates:

   - STM can hook into the function tracer
   - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching
   - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests
   - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs
   - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time
   - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input
   - Optimizations to the ring buffer
   - Removal of kmap in trace_marker
   - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file
   - Other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc
  tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits
  tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation
  tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
  tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
  fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace
  tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing
  ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall()
  tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
  tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up
  tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail
  ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline
  ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined
  ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions
  tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline
  tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
  ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()
  ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined
  ...

coredump: clarify "unsafe core_pattern" warning

2016-12-15T00:04:07+00:00

I was amused to find "unsafe core_pattern" warning having these lines in
/etc/sysctl.conf:

	fs.suid_dumpable=2
	kernel.core_pattern=/core/core-%e-%p-%E
	kernel.core_uses_pid=0

Turns out kernel is formally right.  Default core_pattern is just "core",
which doesn't qualify for secure path while setting suid.dumpable.

Hint admins about solution, clarify sysctl names, delete unnecessary '\'
characters (string literals are concatenated regardless) and reformat for
easier grepping.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161029152124.GA1258@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-12-12T21:49:57+00:00

Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - a large number of call stack dumping/printing improvements: higher
     robustness, better cross-context dumping, improved output, etc.
     (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - vDSO getcpu() performance improvement for future Intel CPUs with
     the RDPID instruction (Andy Lutomirski)

   - add two new Intel AVX512 features and the CPUID support
     infrastructure for it: AVX512IFMA and AVX512VBMI. (Gayatri Kammela,
     He Chen)

   - more copy-user unification (Borislav Petkov)

   - entry code assembly macro simplifications (Alexander Kuleshov)

   - vDSO C/R support improvements (Dmitry Safonov)

   - misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle)"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Fix address line detection on x86
  x86/boot/64: Use defines for page size
  x86/dumpstack: Make stack name tags more comprehensible
  selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu()
  x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
  x86/dumpstack: Handle NULL stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl()
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable new AVX512 cpu features
  x86/cpuid: Provide get_scattered_cpuid_leaf()
  x86/cpuid: Cleanup cpuid_regs definitions
  x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down
  x86/vdso: Set vDSO pointer only after success
  x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address
  x86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion
  x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer
  x86/decoder: Use stderr if insn sanity test fails
  x86/decoder: Use stdout if insn decoder test is successful
  mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()
  x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump
  ...

tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key

2016-11-23T20:52:45+00:00

Currently, when tracepoint_printk is set (enabled by the "tp_printk" kernel
command line), it causes trace events to print via printk(). This is a very
dangerous operation, but is useful for debugging.

The issue is, it's seldom used, but it is always checked even if it's not
enabled by the kernel command line. Instead of having this feature called by
a branch against a variable, turn that variable into a static key, and this
will remove the test and jump.

To simplify things, the functions output_printk() and
trace_event_buffer_commit() were moved from trace_events.c to trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump

2016-10-25T16:40:37+00:00

For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack
values:

  ...
  [registers]
  Stack:
   ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0
   ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321
   0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  Call Trace:
  ...

This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed
anymore.  It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be
actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses.

Linus says:

  "The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be
   useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because
   stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I
   definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having
   used them in the last ten+ years.

   Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've
   likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so
   useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above
   harder."

This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the
'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Kill the unused 'sched_shares_window_ns' tunable

2016-10-20T06:44:57+00:00

The last user of this tunable was removed in 2012 in commit:

  82958366cfea ("sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation")

Delete it since its very existence confuses people.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161019141059.26408-1-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar