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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-siox | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/sve.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt | 96 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 170 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/sifive.yaml | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/rds.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 48 |
16 files changed, 323 insertions, 147 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-siox b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-siox index fed7c3765a4e..c2a403f20b90 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-siox +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-siox @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X/active KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: On reading represents the current state of the bus. If it contains a "0" the bus is stopped and connected devices are @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X/device_add KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Write-only file. Write @@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X/device_remove KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Write-only file. A single write removes the last device in the siox chain. What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X/poll_interval_ns KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Defines the interval between two poll cycles in nano seconds. Note this is rounded to jiffies on writing. On reading the current value @@ -41,33 +41,33 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/connected KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Read-only value. "0" means the Yth device on siox bus X isn't "connected" i.e. communication with it is not ensured. "1" signals a working connection. What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/inbytes KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Read-only value reporting the inbytes value provided to siox-X/device_add What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/status_errors KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Counts the number of time intervals when the read status byte doesn't yield the expected value. What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/type KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Read-only value reporting the type value provided to siox-X/device_add. What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/watchdog KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Read-only value reporting if the watchdog of the siox device is active. "0" means the watchdog is not active and the device is expected to @@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ Description: What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/watchdog_errors KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Read-only value reporting the number to time intervals when the watchdog was active. What: /sys/bus/siox/devices/siox-X-Y/outbytes KernelVersion: 4.16 -Contact: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> +Contact: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@eckelmann.de>, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Description: Read-only value reporting the outbytes value provided to siox-X/device_add. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi index 7122d6264c49..c310db4ccbc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-qmi @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Contact: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Description: Unsigned integer. - Write a number ranging from 1 to 127 to add a qmap mux + Write a number ranging from 1 to 254 to add a qmap mux based network device, supported by recent Qualcomm based modems. @@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ Contact: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Description: Unsigned integer. - Write a number ranging from 1 to 127 to delete a previously + Write a number ranging from 1 to 254 to delete a previously created qmap mux based network device. diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt index 9940e924a47e..5689fc9a976a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt @@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A. is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_ARM_SVE, &iov). +* Whenever SVE scalable register values (Zn, Pn, FFR) are exchanged in memory + between userspace and the kernel, the register value is encoded in memory in + an endianness-invariant layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] encoded at + byte offset i from the start of the memory representation. This affects for + example the signal frame (struct sve_context) and ptrace interface + (struct user_sve_header) and associated data. + + Beware that on big-endian systems this results in a different byte order than + for the FPSIMD V-registers, which are stored as single host-endian 128-bit + values, with bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] of the register encoded at + byte offset i. (struct fpsimd_context, struct user_fpsimd_state). + 2. Vector length terminology ----------------------------- @@ -124,6 +136,10 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture. size and layout. Macros SVE_SIG_* are defined [1] to facilitate access to the members. +* Each scalable register (Zn, Pn, FFR) is stored in an endianness-invariant + layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] stored at byte offset i from the + start of the register's representation in memory. + * If the SVE context is too big to fit in sigcontext.__reserved[], then extra space is allocated on the stack, an extra_context record is written in __reserved[] referencing this space. sve_context is then written in the diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt index 3b2612e342f1..7977f6fb8b20 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt @@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ you can do so by typing: # mount none /sys -t sysfs -As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the -IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible, -for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but -set a specific device to use the deadline or noop schedulers - which -can improve that device's throughput). +It is possible to change the IO scheduler for a given block device on +the fly to select one of mq-deadline, none, bfq, or kyber schedulers - +which can improve that device's throughput. To set a specific scheduler, simply do this: @@ -30,8 +28,8 @@ The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets: -# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -noop deadline [cfq] -# echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -noop [deadline] cfq +# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler +[mq-deadline] kyber bfq none +# echo none >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler +# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler +[none] mq-deadline kyber bfq diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt index 673dc34d3f78..d1a1b7bdd03a 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.txt @@ -8,61 +8,13 @@ both at leaf nodes as well as at intermediate nodes in a storage hierarchy. Plan is to use the same cgroup based management interface for blkio controller and based on user options switch IO policies in the background. -Currently two IO control policies are implemented. First one is proportional -weight time based division of disk policy. It is implemented in CFQ. Hence -this policy takes effect only on leaf nodes when CFQ is being used. The second -one is throttling policy which can be used to specify upper IO rate limits -on devices. This policy is implemented in generic block layer and can be -used on leaf nodes as well as higher level logical devices like device mapper. +One IO control policy is throttling policy which can be used to +specify upper IO rate limits on devices. This policy is implemented in +generic block layer and can be used on leaf nodes as well as higher +level logical devices like device mapper. HOWTO ===== -Proportional Weight division of bandwidth ------------------------------------------ -You can do a very simple testing of running two dd threads in two different -cgroups. Here is what you can do. - -- Enable Block IO controller - CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y - -- Enable group scheduling in CFQ - CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y - -- Compile and boot into kernel and mount IO controller (blkio); see - cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?. - - mount -t tmpfs cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup - mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio - mount -t cgroup -o blkio none /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio - -- Create two cgroups - mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test1/ /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test2 - -- Set weights of group test1 and test2 - echo 1000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test1/blkio.weight - echo 500 > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test2/blkio.weight - -- Create two same size files (say 512MB each) on same disk (file1, file2) and - launch two dd threads in different cgroup to read those files. - - sync - echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches - - dd if=/mnt/sdb/zerofile1 of=/dev/null & - echo $! > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test1/tasks - cat /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test1/tasks - - dd if=/mnt/sdb/zerofile2 of=/dev/null & - echo $! > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test2/tasks - cat /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/test2/tasks - -- At macro level, first dd should finish first. To get more precise data, keep - on looking at (with the help of script), at blkio.disk_time and - blkio.disk_sectors files of both test1 and test2 groups. This will tell how - much disk time (in milliseconds), each group got and how many sectors each - group dispatched to the disk. We provide fairness in terms of disk time, so - ideally io.disk_time of cgroups should be in proportion to the weight. - Throttling/Upper Limit policy ----------------------------- - Enable Block IO controller @@ -94,7 +46,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy Hierarchical Cgroups ==================== -Both CFQ and throttling implement hierarchy support; however, +Throttling implements hierarchy support; however, throttling's hierarchy support is enabled iff "sane_behavior" is enabled from cgroup side, which currently is a development option and not publicly available. @@ -107,9 +59,8 @@ If somebody created a hierarchy like as follows. | test3 -CFQ by default and throttling with "sane_behavior" will handle the -hierarchy correctly. For details on CFQ hierarchy support, refer to -Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt. For throttling, all limits apply +Throttling with "sane_behavior" will handle the +hierarchy correctly. For throttling, all limits apply to the whole subtree while all statistics are local to the IOs directly generated by tasks in that cgroup. @@ -130,10 +81,6 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP - Debug help. Right now some additional stats file show up in cgroup if this option is enabled. -CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED - - Enables group scheduling in CFQ. Currently only 1 level of group - creation is allowed. - CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING - Enable block device throttling support in block layer. @@ -344,32 +291,3 @@ Common files among various policies - blkio.reset_stats - Writing an int to this file will result in resetting all the stats for that cgroup. - -CFQ sysfs tunable -================= -/sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/slice_idle ------------------------------------------- -On a faster hardware CFQ can be slow, especially with sequential workload. -This happens because CFQ idles on a single queue and single queue might not -drive deeper request queue depths to keep the storage busy. In such scenarios -one can try setting slice_idle=0 and that would switch CFQ to IOPS -(IO operations per second) mode on NCQ supporting hardware. - -That means CFQ will not idle between cfq queues of a cfq group and hence be -able to driver higher queue depth and achieve better throughput. That also -means that cfq provides fairness among groups in terms of IOPS and not in -terms of disk time. - -/sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/group_idle ------------------------------------------- -If one disables idling on individual cfq queues and cfq service trees by -setting slice_idle=0, group_idle kicks in. That means CFQ will still idle -on the group in an attempt to provide fairness among groups. - -By default group_idle is same as slice_idle and does not do anything if -slice_idle is enabled. - -One can experience an overall throughput drop if you have created multiple -groups and put applications in that group which are not driving enough -IO to keep disk busy. In that case set group_idle=0, and CFQ will not idle -on individual groups and throughput should improve. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.txt index 106245c3aecc..1260e5369b9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.txt @@ -32,14 +32,18 @@ Brief summary of control files hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit -For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control +For a system supporting three hugepage sizes (64k, 32M and 1G), the control files include: -hugetlb.16GB.limit_in_bytes -hugetlb.16GB.max_usage_in_bytes -hugetlb.16GB.usage_in_bytes -hugetlb.16GB.failcnt -hugetlb.16MB.limit_in_bytes -hugetlb.16MB.max_usage_in_bytes -hugetlb.16MB.usage_in_bytes -hugetlb.16MB.failcnt +hugetlb.1GB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.1GB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.1GB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.1GB.failcnt +hugetlb.64KB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.64KB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.64KB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.64KB.failcnt +hugetlb.32MB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.32MB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.32MB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.32MB.failcnt diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt index 188c8bd4eb67..5a0111d4de58 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Required properties: - compatible: Should be one of the following: - "microchip,mcp2510" for MCP2510. - "microchip,mcp2515" for MCP2515. + - "microchip,mcp25625" for MCP25625. - reg: SPI chip select. - clocks: The clock feeding the CAN controller. - interrupts: Should contain IRQ line for the CAN controller. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f97a4ecd7b91 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT) +%YAML 1.2 +--- +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/riscv/cpus.yaml# +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# + +title: RISC-V bindings for 'cpus' DT nodes + +maintainers: + - Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> + - Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> + +allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/cpus.yaml# + +properties: + $nodename: + const: cpus + description: Container of cpu nodes + + '#address-cells': + const: 1 + description: | + A single unsigned 32-bit integer uniquely identifies each RISC-V + hart in a system. (See the "reg" node under the "cpu" node, + below). + + '#size-cells': + const: 0 + +patternProperties: + '^cpu@[0-9a-f]+$': + properties: + compatible: + type: array + items: + - enum: + - sifive,rocket0 + - sifive,e5 + - sifive,e51 + - sifive,u54-mc + - sifive,u54 + - sifive,u5 + - const: riscv + description: + Identifies that the hart uses the RISC-V instruction set + and identifies the type of the hart. + + mmu-type: + allOf: + - $ref: "/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string" + - enum: + - riscv,sv32 + - riscv,sv39 + - riscv,sv48 + description: + Identifies the MMU address translation mode used on this + hart. These values originate from the RISC-V Privileged + Specification document, available from + https://riscv.org/specifications/ + + riscv,isa: + allOf: + - $ref: "/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string" + - enum: + - rv64imac + - rv64imafdc + description: + Identifies the specific RISC-V instruction set architecture + supported by the hart. These are documented in the RISC-V + User-Level ISA document, available from + https://riscv.org/specifications/ + + timebase-frequency: + type: integer + minimum: 1 + description: + Specifies the clock frequency of the system timer in Hz. + This value is common to all harts on a single system image. + + interrupt-controller: + type: object + description: Describes the CPU's local interrupt controller + + properties: + '#interrupt-cells': + const: 1 + + compatible: + const: riscv,cpu-intc + + interrupt-controller: true + + required: + - '#interrupt-cells' + - compatible + - interrupt-controller + + required: + - riscv,isa + - timebase-frequency + - interrupt-controller + +examples: + - | + // Example 1: SiFive Freedom U540G Development Kit + cpus { + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + timebase-frequency = <1000000>; + cpu@0 { + clock-frequency = <0>; + compatible = "sifive,rocket0", "riscv"; + device_type = "cpu"; + i-cache-block-size = <64>; + i-cache-sets = <128>; + i-cache-size = <16384>; + reg = <0>; + riscv,isa = "rv64imac"; + cpu_intc0: interrupt-controller { + #interrupt-cells = <1>; + compatible = "riscv,cpu-intc"; + interrupt-controller; + }; + }; + cpu@1 { + clock-frequency = <0>; + compatible = "sifive,rocket0", "riscv"; + d-cache-block-size = <64>; + d-cache-sets = <64>; + d-cache-size = <32768>; + d-tlb-sets = <1>; + d-tlb-size = <32>; + device_type = "cpu"; + i-cache-block-size = <64>; + i-cache-sets = <64>; + i-cache-size = <32768>; + i-tlb-sets = <1>; + i-tlb-size = <32>; + mmu-type = "riscv,sv39"; + reg = <1>; + riscv,isa = "rv64imafdc"; + tlb-split; + cpu_intc1: interrupt-controller { + #interrupt-cells = <1>; + compatible = "riscv,cpu-intc"; + interrupt-controller; + }; + }; + }; + + - | + // Example 2: Spike ISA Simulator with 1 Hart + cpus { + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + cpu@0 { + device_type = "cpu"; + reg = <0>; + compatible = "riscv"; + riscv,isa = "rv64imafdc"; + mmu-type = "riscv,sv48"; + interrupt-controller { + #interrupt-cells = <1>; + interrupt-controller; + compatible = "riscv,cpu-intc"; + }; + }; + }; +... diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/sifive.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/sifive.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9d17dc2f3f84 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/sifive.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT) +%YAML 1.2 +--- +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/riscv/sifive.yaml# +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# + +title: SiFive SoC-based boards + +maintainers: + - Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> + - Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> + +description: + SiFive SoC-based boards + +properties: + $nodename: + const: '/' + compatible: + items: + - enum: + - sifive,freedom-unleashed-a00 + - const: sifive,fu540-c000 + - const: sifive,fu540 +... diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst index 25f50eace28b..8fecfa11d4ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst @@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ fields of ``struct uio_mem``: - ``int memtype``: Required if the mapping is used. Set this to ``UIO_MEM_PHYS`` if you you have physical memory on your card to be mapped. Use ``UIO_MEM_LOGICAL`` for logical memory (e.g. allocated - with :c:func:`kmalloc()`). There's also ``UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL`` for - virtual memory. + with :c:func:`__get_free_pages()` but not kmalloc()). There's also + ``UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL`` for virtual memory. - ``phys_addr_t addr``: Required if the mapping is used. Fill in the address of your memory block. This address is the one that appears in diff --git a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt index 60a5ec04e8f0..5a865437b33f 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ C. Boot options Select the initial font to use. The value 'name' can be any of the compiled-in fonts: 10x18, 6x10, 7x14, Acorn8x8, MINI4x6, - PEARL8x8, ProFont6x11, SUN12x22, SUN8x16, VGA8x16, VGA8x8. + PEARL8x8, ProFont6x11, SUN12x22, SUN8x16, TER16x32, VGA8x16, VGA8x8. Note, not all drivers can handle font with widths not divisible by 8, such as vga16fb. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index eef7d9d259e8..1da2f1668f08 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -336,8 +336,20 @@ the copied layers will fail the verification of the lower root file handle. Non-standard behavior --------------------- -Overlayfs can now act as a POSIX compliant filesystem with the following -features turned on: +Current version of overlayfs can act as a mostly POSIX compliant +filesystem. + +This is the list of cases that overlayfs doesn't currently handle: + +a) POSIX mandates updating st_atime for reads. This is currently not +done in the case when the file resides on a lower layer. + +b) If a file residing on a lower layer is opened for read-only and then +memory mapped with MAP_SHARED, then subsequent changes to the file are not +reflected in the memory mapping. + +The following options allow overlayfs to act more like a standards +compliant filesystem: 1) "redirect_dir" diff --git a/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst b/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst index e14d7d40fc75..50bccbf68308 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst @@ -316,16 +316,16 @@ A: When a netdev of a physical NIC is initialized, Linux usually all the traffic, you can force the netdev to only have 1 queue, queue id 0, and then bind to queue 0. You can use ethtool to do this:: - sudo ethtool -L <interface> combined 1 + sudo ethtool -L <interface> combined 1 If you want to only see part of the traffic, you can program the NIC through ethtool to filter out your traffic to a single queue id that you can bind your XDP socket to. Here is one example in which UDP traffic to and from port 4242 are sent to queue 2:: - sudo ethtool -N <interface> rx-flow-hash udp4 fn - sudo ethtool -N <interface> flow-type udp4 src-port 4242 dst-port \ - 4242 action 2 + sudo ethtool -N <interface> rx-flow-hash udp4 fn + sudo ethtool -N <interface> flow-type udp4 src-port 4242 dst-port \ + 4242 action 2 A number of other ways are possible all up to the capabilitites of the NIC you have. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 14fe93049d28..22f6b8b1110a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -255,6 +255,14 @@ tcp_base_mss - INTEGER Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled, this is the initial MSS used by the connection. +tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER + TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option, + as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691. + If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss, + it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss. + + Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment) + tcp_congestion_control - STRING Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but @@ -772,6 +780,14 @@ tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks) Default: 100 +tcp_rx_skb_cache - BOOLEAN + Controls a per TCP socket cache of one skb, that might help + performance of some workloads. This might be dangerous + on systems with a lot of TCP sockets, since it increases + memory usage. + + Default: 0 (disabled) + UDP variables: udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rds.txt b/Documentation/networking/rds.txt index 0235ae69af2a..f2a0147c933d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/rds.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/rds.txt @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ Multipath RDS (mprds) a common (to all paths) part, and a per-path struct rds_conn_path. All I/O workqs and reconnect threads are driven from the rds_conn_path. Transports such as TCP that are multipath capable may then set up a - TPC socket per rds_conn_path, and this is managed by the transport via + TCP socket per rds_conn_path, and this is managed by the transport via the transport privatee cp_transport_data pointer. Transports announce themselves as multipath capable by setting the diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index ba6c42c576dd..2a4531bb06bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ yet and must be cleared on entry. 4.35 KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION -Capability: KVM_CAP_USER_MEM +Capability: KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY Architectures: all Type: vm ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_userspace_memory_region (in) @@ -3857,43 +3857,59 @@ Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_nested_state (in/out) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error Errors: - E2BIG: the total state size (including the fixed-size part of struct - kvm_nested_state) exceeds the value of 'size' specified by + E2BIG: the total state size exceeds the value of 'size' specified by the user; the size required will be written into size. struct kvm_nested_state { __u16 flags; __u16 format; __u32 size; + union { - struct kvm_vmx_nested_state vmx; - struct kvm_svm_nested_state svm; + struct kvm_vmx_nested_state_hdr vmx; + struct kvm_svm_nested_state_hdr svm; + + /* Pad the header to 128 bytes. */ __u8 pad[120]; - }; - __u8 data[0]; + } hdr; + + union { + struct kvm_vmx_nested_state_data vmx[0]; + struct kvm_svm_nested_state_data svm[0]; + } data; }; #define KVM_STATE_NESTED_GUEST_MODE 0x00000001 #define KVM_STATE_NESTED_RUN_PENDING 0x00000002 +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS 0x00000004 -#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_SMM_GUEST_MODE 0x00000001 -#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_SMM_VMXON 0x00000002 +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_FORMAT_VMX 0 +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_FORMAT_SVM 1 -struct kvm_vmx_nested_state { +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_VMCS_SIZE 0x1000 + +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_SMM_GUEST_MODE 0x00000001 +#define KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_SMM_VMXON 0x00000002 + +struct kvm_vmx_nested_state_hdr { __u64 vmxon_pa; - __u64 vmcs_pa; + __u64 vmcs12_pa; struct { __u16 flags; } smm; }; +struct kvm_vmx_nested_state_data { + __u8 vmcs12[KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_VMCS_SIZE]; + __u8 shadow_vmcs12[KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_VMCS_SIZE]; +}; + This ioctl copies the vcpu's nested virtualization state from the kernel to userspace. -The maximum size of the state, including the fixed-size part of struct -kvm_nested_state, can be retrieved by passing KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE to -the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl(). +The maximum size of the state can be retrieved by passing KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE +to the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl(). 4.115 KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE @@ -3903,8 +3919,8 @@ Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_nested_state (in) Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error -This copies the vcpu's kvm_nested_state struct from userspace to the kernel. For -the definition of struct kvm_nested_state, see KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE. +This copies the vcpu's kvm_nested_state struct from userspace to the kernel. +For the definition of struct kvm_nested_state, see KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE. 4.116 KVM_(UN)REGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO |