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2018-01-14Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner: "This contains: - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least and is incorrect according to the AMD manual. - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will be worked on. - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions - add PTI documentation - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually implements what it advertises. - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the status. - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline: + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM code + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation trap + The RSB fill after vmexit - initial objtool support for retpoline As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on hold: - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs - the RSB fill after context switch Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality" * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits) x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC ...
2018-01-13Merge tag 'pci-v4.15-fixes-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci Pull PCI fixes from Bjorn Helgaas: "Fix AMD boot regression due to 64-bit window conflicting with system memory (Christian König)" * tag 'pci-v4.15-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: x86/PCI: Move and shrink AMD 64-bit window to avoid conflict x86/PCI: Add "pci=big_root_window" option for AMD 64-bit windows
2018-01-12x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigationDavid Woodhouse
Add a spectre_v2= option to select the mitigation used for the indirect branch speculation vulnerability. Currently, the only option available is retpoline, in its various forms. This will be expanded to cover the new IBRS/IBPB microcode features. The RETPOLINE_AMD feature relies on a serializing LFENCE for speculation control. For AMD hardware, only set RETPOLINE_AMD if LFENCE is a serializing instruction, which is indicated by the LFENCE_RDTSC feature. [ tglx: Folded back the LFENCE/AMD fixes and reworked it so IBRS integration becomes simple ] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-5-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
2018-01-11x86/PCI: Add "pci=big_root_window" option for AMD 64-bit windows=?UTF-8?q?Christian=20K=C3=B6nig?=
Only try to enable a 64-bit window on AMD CPUs when "pci=big_root_window" is specified. This taints the kernel because the new 64-bit window uses address space we don't know anything about, and it may contain unreported devices or memory that would conflict with the window. The pci_amd_enable_64bit_bar() quirk that enables the window is specific to AMD CPUs. The generic solution would be to have the firmware enable the window and describe it in the host bridge's _CRS method, or at least describe it in the _PRS method so the OS would have the option of enabling it. Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> [bhelgaas: changelog, extend doc, mention taint in dmesg] Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
2018-01-08locking/Documentation: Remove stale crossrelease_fullstack parameterDavid Sterba
The cross-release lockdep functionality has been removed in: e966eaeeb623: ("locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks") ... leaving the kernel parameter docs behind. The code handling the parameter does not exist so this is a plain documentation change. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108152731.27613-1-dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-01-06x86/Documentation: Add PTI descriptionDave Hansen
Add some details about how PTI works, what some of the downsides are, and how to debug it when things go wrong. Also document the kernel parameter: 'pti/nopti'. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at> Cc: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at> Cc: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at> Cc: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andi Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105174436.1BC6FA2B@viggo.jf.intel.com
2017-12-31Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A couple of fixlets for x86: - Fix the ESPFIX double fault handling for 5-level pagetables - Fix the commandline parsing for 'apic=' on 32bit systems and update documentation - Make zombie stack traces reliable - Fix kexec with stack canary - Fix the delivery mode for APICs which was missed when the x86 vector management was converted to single target delivery. Caused a regression due to the broken hardware which ignores affinity settings in lowest prio delivery mode. - Unbreak modules when AMD memory encryption is enabled - Remove an unused parameter of prepare_switch_to" * 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/apic: Switch all APICs to Fixed delivery mode x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver x86/apic: Avoid wrong warning when parsing 'apic=' in X86-32 case x86-32: Fix kexec with stack canary (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) x86: Remove unused parameter of prepare_switch_to x86/stacktrace: Make zombie stack traces reliable x86/mm: Unbreak modules that use the DMA API x86/build: Make isoimage work on Debian x86/espfix/64: Fix espfix double-fault handling on 5-level systems
2017-12-31Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Three patches addressing the fallout of the CPU_ISOLATION changes especially with NO_HZ_FULL plus documentation of boot parameter dependency" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/isolation: Document boot parameters dependency on CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y sched/isolation: Enable CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y by default sched/isolation: Make CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL select CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION
2017-12-29Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 page table isolation updates from Thomas Gleixner: "This is the final set of enabling page table isolation on x86: - Infrastructure patches for handling the extra page tables. - Patches which map the various bits and pieces which are required to get in and out of user space into the user space visible page tables. - The required changes to have CR3 switching in the entry/exit code. - Optimizations for the CR3 switching along with documentation how the ASID/PCID mechanism works. - Updates to dump pagetables to cover the user space page tables for W+X scans and extra debugfs files to analyze both the kernel and the user space visible page tables The whole functionality is compile time controlled via a config switch and can be turned on/off on the command line as well" * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) x86/ldt: Make the LDT mapping RO x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Check user space page table for WX pages x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Add page table directory to the debugfs VFS hierarchy x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig x86/dumpstack: Indicate in Oops whether PTI is configured and enabled x86/mm: Clarify the whole ASID/kernel PCID/user PCID naming x86/mm: Use INVPCID for __native_flush_tlb_single() x86/mm: Optimize RESTORE_CR3 x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches x86/mm: Abstract switching CR3 x86/mm: Allow flushing for future ASID switches x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on x86/mm/64: Make a full PGD-entry size hole in the memory map x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area x86/cpu_entry_area: Add debugstore entries to cpu_entry_area x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space x86/mm/pti: Share entry text PMD x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary ...
2017-12-28x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driverDou Liyang
There are two consumers of apic=: the APIC debug level and the low level generic architecture code, but Linux just documented the first one. Append the second description. Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204040313.24824-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
2017-12-23x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentationBorislav Petkov
Keep the "nopti" optional for traditional reasons. [ tglx: Don't allow force on when running on XEN PV and made 'on' printout conditional ] Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171212133952.10177-1-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-23x86/mm/pti: Add infrastructure for page table isolationThomas Gleixner
Add the initial files for kernel page table isolation, with a minimal init function and the boot time detection for this misfeature. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-18sched/isolation: Document boot parameters dependency on CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=yFrederic Weisbecker
The "isolcpus=" and "nohz_full=" boot parameters depend on CPU Isolation support. Let's document that. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Cc: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513275507-29200-4-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-24Merge tag 'kvm-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář: "Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15: - GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM - re-introduce support for CPUs without virtual NMI (cc stable) and allow testing of KVM without virtual NMI on available CPUs - fix long-standing performance issues with assigned devices on AMD (cc stable)" * tag 'kvm-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (30 commits) kvm: vmx: Allow disabling virtual NMI support kvm: vmx: Reinstate support for CPUs without virtual NMI KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT KVM: arm/arm64: Don't queue VLPIs on INV/INVALL KVM: arm/arm64: Fix GICv4 ITS initialization issues KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Theory of operations KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Enable VLPI support KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Prevent userspace from changing doorbell affinity KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Prevent a VM using GICv4 from being saved KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Enable virtual cpuif if VLPIs can be delivered KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Hook vPE scheduling into vgic flush/sync KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Use the doorbell interrupt as an unblocking source KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Add doorbell interrupt handling KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Use pending_last as a scheduling hint KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Handle INVALL applied to a vPE KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Propagate property updates to VLPIs KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Handle MOVALL applied to a vPE KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Handle CLEAR applied to a VLPI KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Propagate affinity changes to the physical ITS KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Unmap VLPI when freeing an LPI ...
2017-11-23Merge tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build enhancement from Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build (but only when additional warnings have been requested in general)" * tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in paring example kokr/memory-barriers/txt: Replace uses of "transitive" Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
2017-11-20Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txtRandy Dunlap
Correctly the formatting of several additions to the profile= option that have been added by using <profiletype> and listing the choices for it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-11-17Merge tag 'kvm-arm-gicv4-for-v4.15' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15
2017-11-16Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle. Non-highlights: - Five fixes for the >128T address space handling, both to fix bugs in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line with x86. Highlights: - Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc. - Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver. - Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery. - Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM to notify the Linux partition of topology changes. - Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND). - Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on some Power9 revisions. - Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users. - A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API. - Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are using transactional memory. - Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on Power9. - Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver handles requests. - Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit. Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley, Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu, Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee, Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A. Kennington III" * tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits) powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use >= 128T powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal() powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm() powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes ...
2017-11-15Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.15' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie: "This is the main drm pull request for v4.15. Core: - Atomic object lifetime fixes - Atomic iterator improvements - Sparse/smatch fixes - Legacy kms ioctls to be interruptible - EDID override improvements - fb/gem helper cleanups - Simple outreachy patches - Documentation improvements - Fix dma-buf rcu races - DRM mode object leasing for improving VR use cases. - vgaarb improvements for non-x86 platforms. New driver: - tve200: Faraday Technology TVE200 block. This "TV Encoder" encodes a ITU-T BT.656 stream and can be found in the StorLink SL3516 (later Cortina Systems CS3516) as well as the Grain Media GM8180. New bridges: - SiI9234 support New panels: - S6E63J0X03, OTM8009A, Seiko 43WVF1G, 7" rpi touch panel, Toshiba LT089AC19000, Innolux AT043TN24 i915: - Remove Coffeelake from alpha support - Cannonlake workarounds - Infoframe refactoring for DisplayPort - VBT updates - DisplayPort vswing/emph/buffer translation refactoring - CCS fixes - Restore GPU clock boost on missed vblanks - Scatter list updates for userptr allocations - Gen9+ transition watermarks - Display IPC (Isochronous Priority Control) - Private PAT management - GVT: improved error handling and pci config sanitizing - Execlist refactoring - Transparent Huge Page support - User defined priorities support - HuC/GuC firmware refactoring - DP MST fixes - eDP power sequencing fixes - Use RCU instead of stop_machine - PSR state tracking support - Eviction fixes - BDW DP aux channel timeout fixes - LSPCON fixes - Cannonlake PLL fixes amdgpu: - Per VM BO support - Powerplay cleanups - CI powerplay support - PASID mgr for kfd - SR-IOV fixes - initial GPU reset for vega10 - Prime mmap support - TTM updates - Clock query interface for Raven - Fence to handle ioctl - UVD encode ring support on Polaris - Transparent huge page DMA support - Compute LRU pipe tweaks - BO flag to allow buffers to opt out of implicit sync - CTX priority setting API - VRAM lost infrastructure plumbing qxl: - fix flicker since atomic rework amdkfd: - Further improvements from internal AMD tree - Usermode events - Drop radeon support nouveau: - Pascal temperature sensor support - Improved BAR2 handling - MMU rework to support Pascal MMU exynos: - Improved HDMI/mixer support - HDMI audio interface support tegra: - Prep work for tegra186 - Cleanup/fixes msm: - Preemption support for a5xx - Display fixes for 8x96 (snapdragon 820) - Async cursor plane fixes - FW loading rework - GPU debugging improvements vc4: - Prep for DSI panels - fix T-format tiling scanout - New madvise ioctl Rockchip: - LVDS support omapdrm: - omap4 HDMI CEC support etnaviv: - GPU performance counters groundwork sun4i: - refactor driver load + TCON backend - HDMI improvements - A31 support - Misc fixes udl: - Probe/EDID read fixes. tilcdc: - Misc fixes. pl111: - Support more variants adv7511: - Improve EDID handling. - HDMI CEC support sii8620: - Add remote control support" * tag 'drm-for-v4.15' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1480 commits) drm/rockchip: analogix_dp: Use mutex rather than spinlock drm/mode_object: fix documentation for object lookups. drm/i915: Reorder context-close to avoid calling i915_vma_close() under RCU drm/i915: Move init_clock_gating() back to where it was drm/i915: Prune the reservation shared fence array drm/i915: Idle the GPU before shinking everything drm/i915: Lock llist_del_first() vs llist_del_all() drm/i915: Calculate ironlake intermediate watermarks correctly, v2. drm/i915: Disable lazy PPGTT page table optimization for vGPU drm/i915/execlists: Remove the priority "optimisation" drm/i915: Filter out spurious execlists context-switch interrupts drm/amdgpu: use irq-safe lock for kiq->ring_lock drm/amdgpu: bypass lru touch for KIQ ring submission drm/amdgpu: Potential uninitialized variable in amdgpu_vm_update_directories() drm/amdgpu: potential uninitialized variable in amdgpu_vce_ring_parse_cs() drm/amd/powerplay: initialize a variable before using it drm/amd/powerplay: suppress KASAN out of bounds warning in vega10_populate_all_memory_levels drm/amd/amdgpu: fix evicted VRAM bo adjudgement condition drm/vblank: Tune drm_crtc_accurate_vblank_count() WARN down to a debug drm/rockchip: add CONFIG_OF dependency for lvds ...
2017-11-15kmemcheck: rip it outLevin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-13Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather large update for the interrupt core code and the irq chip drivers: - Add a new bitmap matrix allocator and supporting changes, which is used to replace the x86 vector allocator which comes with separate pull request. This allows to replace the convoluted nested loop allocation function in x86 with a facility which supports the recently added property of managed interrupts proper and allows to switch to a best effort vector reservation scheme, which addresses problems with vector exhaustion. - A large update to the ARM GIC-V3-ITS driver adding support for range selectors. - New interrupt controllers: - Meson and Meson8 GPIO - BCM7271 L2 - Socionext EXIU If you expected that this will stop at some point, I have to disappoint you. There are new ones posted already. Sigh! - STM32 interrupt controller support for new platforms. - A pile of fixes, cleanups and updates to the MIPS GIC driver - The usual small fixes, cleanups and updates all over the place. Most visible one is to move the irq chip drivers Kconfig switches into a separate Kconfig menu" * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits) genirq: Fix type of shifting literal 1 in __setup_irq() irqdomain: Drop pointless NULL check in virq_debug_show_one genirq/proc: Return proper error code when irq_set_affinity() fails irq/work: Use llist_for_each_entry_safe irqchip: mips-gic: Print warning if inherited GIC base is used irqchip/mips-gic: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages irqchip/stm32: Move the wakeup on interrupt mask irqchip/stm32: Fix initial values irqchip/stm32: Add stm32h7 support dt-bindings/interrupt-controllers: Add compatible string for stm32h7 irqchip/stm32: Add multi-bank management irqchip/stm32: Select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP irqchip/exiu: Add support for Socionext Synquacer EXIU controller dt-bindings: Add description of Socionext EXIU interrupt controller irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix VPE activate callback return value irqchip: mips-gic: Make IPI bitmaps static irqchip: mips-gic: Share register writes in gic_set_type() irqchip: mips-gic: Remove gic_vpes variable irqchip: mips-gic: Use num_possible_cpus() to reserve IPIs irqchip: mips-gic: Configure EIC when CPUs come online ...
2017-11-13Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main updates in this cycle were: - Group balancing enhancements and cleanups (Brendan Jackman) - Move CPU isolation related functionality into its separate kernel/sched/isolation.c file, with related 'housekeeping_*()' namespace and nomenclature et al. (Frederic Weisbecker) - Improve the interactive/cpu-intense fairness calculation (Josef Bacik) - Improve the PELT code and related cleanups (Peter Zijlstra) - Improve the logic of pick_next_task_fair() (Uladzislau Rezki) - Improve the RT IPI based balancing logic (Steven Rostedt) - Various micro-optimizations: - better !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG optimizations (Patrick Bellasi) - better idle loop (Cheng Jian) - ... plus misc fixes, cleanups and updates" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits) sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds sched/sysctl: Fix attributes of some extern declarations sched/isolation: Document isolcpus= boot parameter flags, mark it deprecated sched/isolation: Add basic isolcpus flags sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping code sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter sched/isolation: Introduce housekeeping flags sched/isolation: Split out new CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y config from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL sched/isolation: Rename is_housekeeping_cpu() to housekeeping_cpu() sched/isolation: Use its own static key sched/isolation: Make the housekeeping cpumask private sched/isolation: Provide a dynamic off-case to housekeeping_any_cpu() sched/isolation, watchdog: Use housekeeping_cpumask() instead of ad-hoc version sched/isolation: Move housekeeping related code to its own file sched/idle: Micro-optimize the idle loop sched/isolcpus: Fix "isolcpus=" boot parameter handling when !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK x86/tsc: Append the 'tsc=' description for the 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic block/ioprio: Use a helper to check for RT prio sched/rt: Add a helper to test for a RT task ...
2017-11-13Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - Another attempt at enabling cross-release lockdep dependency tracking (automatically part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y), this time with better performance and fewer false positives. (Byungchul Park) - Introduce lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() and convert open-coded equivalents to lockdep variants. (Frederic Weisbecker) - Add down_read_killable() and use it in the VFS's iterate_dir() method. (Kirill Tkhai) - Convert remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(). Most of the conversion was Coccinelle driven. (Mark Rutland, Paul E. McKenney) - Get rid of lockless_dereference(), by strengthening Alpha atomics, strengthening READ_ONCE() with smp_read_barrier_depends() and thus being able to convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE(). (Will Deacon) - Various micro-optimizations: - better PV qspinlocks (Waiman Long), - better x86 barriers (Michael S. Tsirkin) - better x86 refcounts (Kees Cook) - ... plus other fixes and enhancements. (Borislav Petkov, Juergen Gross, Miguel Bernal Marin)" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits) locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE rcu: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled netpoll: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled timers/posix-cpu-timers: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled sched/clock, sched/cputime: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled irq_work: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled irq/timings: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled perf/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled x86: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled timers/hrtimer: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled timers/nohz: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled workqueue: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled locking/lockdep: Add IRQs disabled/enabled assertion APIs: lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks locking/rwlocks: Fix comments x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for wait_for_completion() workqueue: Remove now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes ...
2017-11-13Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - Documentation updates - RCU CPU stall-warning updates - Torture-test updates - Miscellaneous fixes Size wise the biggest updates are to documentation. Excluding documentation most of the code increase comes from a single commit which expands debugging" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) srcu: Add parameters to SRCU docbook comments doc: Rewrite confusing statement about memory barriers memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in pairing example rcu/segcblist: Include rcupdate.h rcu: Add extended-quiescent-state testing advice rcu: Suppress lockdep false-positive ->boost_mtx complaints rcu: Do not include rtmutex_common.h unconditionally torture: Provide TMPDIR environment variable to specify tmpdir rcutorture: Dump writer stack if stalled rcutorture: Add interrupt-disable capability to stall-warning tests rcu: Suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while dumping trace rcu: Turn off tracing before dumping trace rcu: Make RCU CPU stall warnings check for irq-disabled CPUs sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() provide RCU quiescent state sched: Make resched_cpu() unconditional irq_work: Map irq_work_on_queue() to irq_work_on() in !SMP rcu: Create call_rcu_tasks() kthread at boot time rcu: Fix up pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle memory-barriers: Rework multicopy-atomicity section memory-barriers: Replace uses of "transitive" ...
2017-11-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens: "Since Martin is on vacation you get the s390 pull request for the v4.15 merge window this time from me. Besides a lot of cleanups and bug fixes these are the most important changes: - a new regset for runtime instrumentation registers - hardware accelerated AES-GCM support for the aes_s390 module - support for the new CEX6S crypto cards - support for FORTIFY_SOURCE - addition of missing z13 and new z14 instructions to the in-kernel disassembler - generate opcode tables for the in-kernel disassembler out of a simple text file instead of having to manually maintain those tables - fast memset16, memset32 and memset64 implementations - removal of named saved segment support - hardware counter support for z14 - queued spinlocks and queued rwlocks implementations for s390 - use the stack_depth tracking feature for s390 BPF JIT - a new s390_sthyi system call which emulates the sthyi (store hypervisor information) instruction - removal of the old KVM virtio transport - an s390 specific CPU alternatives implementation which is used in the new spinlock code" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (88 commits) MAINTAINERS: add virtio-ccw.h to virtio/s390 section s390/noexec: execute kexec datamover without DAT s390: fix transactional execution control register handling s390/bpf: take advantage of stack_depth tracking s390: simplify transactional execution elf hwcap handling s390/zcrypt: Rework struct ap_qact_ap_info. s390/virtio: remove unused header file kvm_virtio.h s390: avoid undefined behaviour s390/disassembler: generate opcode tables from text file s390/disassembler: remove insn_to_mnemonic() s390/dasd: avoid calling do_gettimeofday() s390: vfio-ccw: Do not attempt to free no-op, test and tic cda. s390: remove named saved segment support s390/archrandom: Reconsider s390 arch random implementation s390/pci: do not require AIS facility s390/qdio: sanitize put_indicator s390/qdio: use atomic_cmpxchg s390/nmi: avoid using long-displacement facility s390: pass endianness info to sparse s390/decompressor: remove informational messages ...
2017-11-10KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Enable VLPI supportMarc Zyngier
All it takes is the has_v4 flag to be set in gic_kvm_info as well as "kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=1" being passed on the command line for GICv4 to be enabled in KVM. Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
2017-11-02irqchip/gic: Deal with broken firmware exposing only 4kB of GICv2 CPU interfaceMarc Zyngier
There is a lot of broken firmware out there that don't really expose the information the kernel requires when it comes with dealing with GICv2: (1) Firmware that only describes the first 4kB of GICv2 (2) Firmware that describe 128kB of CPU interface, while the usable portion of the address space is between 60 and 68kB So far, we only deal with (2). But we have platforms exhibiting behaviour (1), resulting in two sub-cases: (a) The GIC is occupying 8kB, as required by the GICv2 architecture (b) It is actually spread 128kB, and this is likely to be a version of (2) This patch tries to work around both (a) and (b) by poking at the outside of the described memory region, and try to work out what is actually there. This is of course unsafe, and should only be enabled if there is no way to otherwise fix the DT provided by the firmware (we provide a "irqchip.gicv2_force_probe" option to that effect). Note that for the time being, we restrict ourselves to GICv2 implementations provided by ARM, since there I have no knowledge of an alternative implementations. This could be relaxed if such an implementation comes to light on a broken platform. Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2017-10-31sched/isolation: Document isolcpus= boot parameter flags, mark it deprecatedFrederic Weisbecker
Document the latest updates on the isolcpus= boot option. While at it, let's also fix the details about the preferred way to isolate a set of CPUs from the scheduler general domains. Cpusets offer a much better interface to achieve that. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509419914-16179-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org [ Clarified the text some more, marked the boot option deprecated. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-25locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and ↵Byungchul Park
disable it by default Johan Hovold reported a heavy performance regression caused by lockdep cross-release: > Boot time (from "Linux version" to login prompt) had in fact doubled > since 4.13 where it took 17 seconds (with my current config) compared to > the 35 seconds I now see with 4.14-rc4. > > I quick bisect pointed to lockdep and specifically the following commit: > > 28a903f63ec0 ("locking/lockdep: Handle non(or multi)-acquisition > of a crosslock") > > which I've verified is the commit which doubled the boot time (compared > to 28a903f63ec0^) (added by lockdep crossrelease series [1]). Currently cross-release performs unwind on every acquisition, but that is very expensive. This patch makes unwind optional and disables it by default and only records acquire_ip. Full stack traces are sometimes required for full analysis, in which case a boot paramter, crossrelease_fullstack, can be specified. On my qemu Ubuntu machine (x86_64, 4 cores, 512M), the regression was fixed. We measure boot times with 'perf stat --null --repeat 10 $QEMU', where $QEMU launches a kernel with init=/bin/true: 1. No lockdep enabled: Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs): 2.756558155 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.09% ) 2. Lockdep enabled: Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs): 2.968710420 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.12% ) 3. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled: Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs): 3.153839636 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.31% ) 4. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled + this patch applied: Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs): 2.963669551 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.11% ) I.e. lockdep cross-release performance is now indistinguishable from vanilla lockdep. Bisected-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Analyzed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: amir73il@gmail.com Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: darrick.wong@oracle.com Cc: david@fromorbit.com Cc: hch@infradead.org Cc: idryomov@gmail.com Cc: johannes.berg@intel.com Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508921765-15396-5-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-20powerpc/tm: Add commandline option to disable hardware transactional memoryCyril Bur
Currently the kernel relies on firmware to inform it whether or not the CPU supports HTM and as long as the kernel was built with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y then it will allow userspace to make use of the facility. There may be situations where it would be advantageous for the kernel to not allow userspace to use HTM, currently the only way to achieve this is to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n. This patch adds a simple commandline option so that HTM can be disabled at boot time. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> [mpe: Simplify to a bool, move to prom.c, put doco in the right place. Always disable, regardless of initial state, to avoid user confusion.] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-18s390: introduce CPU alternativesVasily Gorbik
Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability. A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching. Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr) is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done: 1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long, 2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length. alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility); alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2); Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes. .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of __init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization. Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2017-10-12Documentation: fix media related doc refsTom Saeger
Make media doc refs valid. Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-12Documentation: fix input related doc refsTom Saeger
Make `input` document refs valid including: - joystick - joystick-parport Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-12Documentation: fix admin-guide doc refsTom Saeger
Make admin-guide document refs valid. Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-10x86/tsc: Append the 'tsc=' description for the 'tsc=unstable' boot parameterDou Liyang
Commit: 8309f86cd41e ("x86/tsc: Provide 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter") added a new 'tsc=unstable' parameter, but didn't document it. Document it. Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507539813-11420-1-git-send-email-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-09rcutorture: Add interrupt-disable capability to stall-warning testsPaul E. McKenney
When rcutorture sees the rcutorture.stall_cpu kernel boot parameter, it loops with preemption disabled, which does in fact normally generate an RCU CPU stall warning message. However, there are test scenarios that need the stalling CPU to have interrupts disabled. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff kernel boot parameter that causes the stalling CPU to disable interrupts. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-10-07PM: docs: Fix stale reference in kernel-parameters.txtRafael J. Wysocki
Commit 7aa7a0360a66 (PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt document) forgot to update kernel-parameters.txt with a reference to the new sleep-states.rst document and it still points to states.txt that was dropped, so fix it now. Fixes: 7aa7a0360a66 (PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt document) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-03Documentation: Improve softlockup_panic= description textBorislav Petkov
It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value means. I had to look at the code... Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> [jc: changed non-null to nonzero] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-09-28Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2017-09-20' of ↵Dave Airlie
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-misc into drm-next UAPI Changes: Cross-subsystem Changes: Core Changes: - DP SDP defines (Ville) - polish for scdc helpers (Thierry Reding) - fix lifetimes for connector/plane state across crtc changes (Maarten Lankhorst). - sparse fixes (Ville+Thierry) - make legacy kms ioctls all interruptible (Maarten) - push edid override into the edid helpers (out of probe helpers) (Jani) - DP ESI defines for link status (DK) Driver Changes: - drm-panel is now in drm-misc! - minor panel-simple cleanups/refactoring by various folks - drm_bridge_add cleanup (Inki Dae) - constify a few i2c_device_id structs (Arvind Yadav) - More patches from Noralf's fb/gem helper cleanup - bridge/synopsis: reset fix (Philippe Cornu) - fix tracepoint include handling in drivers (Thierry) - rockchip: lvds support (Sandy Huang) - move sun4i into drm-misc fold (Maxime Ripard) - sun4i: refactor driver load + support TCON backend/layer muxing (Chen-Yu Tsai) - pl111: support more pl11x variants (Linus Walleij) - bridge/adv7511: robustify probing/edid handling (Lars-Petersen Clausen) New hw support: - S6E63J0X03 panel (Hoegeun Kwon) - OTM8009A panel (Philippe CORNU) - Seiko 43WVF1G panel (Marco Franchi) - tve200 driver (Linus Walleij) Plus assorted of tiny patches all over, including our first outreachy patches from applicants for the winter round! * tag 'drm-misc-next-2017-09-20' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-misc: (101 commits) drm: add backwards compatibility support for drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware drm: handle override and firmware EDID at drm_do_get_edid() level drm/dp: DPCD register defines for link status within ESI field drm/rockchip: Replace dev_* with DRM_DEV_* drm/tinydrm: Drop driver registered message drm/gem-fb-helper: Use debug message on gem lookup failure drm/imx: Use drm_gem_fb_create() and drm_gem_fb_prepare_fb() drm/bridge: adv7511: Constify HDMI CODEC platform data drm/bridge: adv7511: Enable connector polling when no interrupt is specified drm/bridge: adv7511: Remove private copy of the EDID drm/bridge: adv7511: Properly update EDID when no EDID was found drm/crtc: Convert setcrtc ioctl locking to interruptible. drm/atomic: Convert pageflip ioctl locking to interruptible. drm/legacy: Convert setplane ioctl locking to interruptible. drm/legacy: Convert cursor ioctl locking to interruptible. drm/atomic: Convert atomic ioctl locking to interruptible. drm/atomic: Prepare drm_modeset_lock infrastructure for interruptible waiting, v2. drm/tve200: Clean up panel bridging drm/doc: Update todo.rst drm/dp/mst: Sideband message transaction to power up/down nodes ...
2017-09-26console: Update to reflect new default valueDaniel Xu
The default value was changed from 10 minutes to disabled in commit a4199f5eb8096d6. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-09-19drm: handle override and firmware EDID at drm_do_get_edid() levelJani Nikula
Handle debugfs override edid and firmware edid at the low level to transparently and completely replace the real edid. Previously, we practically only used the modes from the override EDID, and none of the other data, such as audio parameters. This change also prevents actual EDID reads when the EDID is to be overridden, but retains the DDC probe. This is useful if the reason for preferring override EDID are problems with reading the data, or corruption of the data. Move firmware EDID loading from helper to core, as the functionality moves to lower level as well. This will result in a change of module parameter from drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware to drm.edid_firmware, which arguably makes more sense anyway. Some future work remains related to override and firmware EDID validation. Like before, no validation is done for override EDID. The firmware EDID is validated separately in the loader. Some unification and deduplication would be in order, to validate all of them at the drm_do_get_edid() level, like "real" EDIDs. v2: move firmware loading to core v3: rebase, commit message refresh Cc: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1e8a710bcac46e5136c1a7b430074893c81f364a.1505203831.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
2017-09-08Merge tag 'arc-4.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta: - Support for HSDK board hosting a Quad core HS38x4 based SoC running @1GHz (and some prerrquisite changes such as ability to scoot the kernel code/data from start of memory map etc) - Quite a few updates for EZChip (Mellanox) platform - Fixes to fault/exception printing * tag 'arc-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (26 commits) ARC: Re-enable MMU upon Machine Check exception ARC: Show fault information passed to show_kernel_fault_diag() ARC: [plat-hsdk] initial port for HSDK board ARC: mm: Decouple RAM base address from kernel link address ARCv2: IOC: Tighten up the contraints (specifically base / size alignment) ARC: [plat-axs103] refactor the DT fudging code ARC: [plat-axs103] use clk driver #2: Add core pll node to DT to manage cpu clk ARC: [plat-axs103] use clk driver #1: Get rid of platform specific cpu clk setting ARCv2: SLC: provide a line based flush routine for debugging ARC: Hardcode ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to max line length we may have ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #2: kernel/entry exit ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #1: save/restore on context switch ARC: [plat-eznps] avoid toggling of DPC register ARC: [plat-eznps] Update the init sequence of aux regs per cpu. ARC: [plat-eznps] new command line argument for HW scheduler at MTM ARC: set boot print log level to PR_INFO ARC: [plat-eznps] Handle user memory error same in simulation and silicon ARC: [plat-eznps] use schd.wft instruction instead of sleep at idle task ARC: create cpu specific version of arch_cpu_idle() ARC: [plat-eznps] spinlock aware for MTM ...
2017-09-06mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONEMichal Hocko
Patch series "cleanup zonelists initialization", v1. This is aimed at cleaning up the zonelists initialization code we have but the primary motivation was bug report [2] which got resolved but the usage of stop_machine is just too ugly to live. Most patches are straightforward but 3 of them need a special consideration. Patch 1 removes zone ordered zonelists completely. I am CCing linux-api because this is a user visible change. As I argue in the patch description I do not think we have a strong usecase for it these days. I have kept sysctl in place and warn into the log if somebody tries to configure zone lists ordering. If somebody has a real usecase for it we can revert this patch but I do not expect anybody will actually notice runtime differences. This patch is not strictly needed for the rest but it made patch 6 easier to implement. Patch 7 removes stop_machine from build_all_zonelists without adding any special synchronization between iterators and updater which I _believe_ is acceptable as explained in the changelog. I hope I am not missing anything. Patch 8 then removes zonelists_mutex which is kind of ugly as well and not really needed AFAICS but a care should be taken when double checking my thinking. This patch (of 9): Supporting zone ordered zonelists costs us just a lot of code while the usefulness is arguable if existent at all. Mel has already made node ordering default on 64b systems. 32b systems are still using ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE because it is considered better to fallback to a different NUMA node rather than consume precious lowmem zones. This argument is, however, weaken by the fact that the memory reclaim has been reworked to be node rather than zone oriented. This means that lowmem requests have to skip over all highmem pages on LRUs already and so zone ordering doesn't save the reclaim time much. So the only advantage of the zone ordering is under a light memory pressure when highmem requests do not ever hit into lowmem zones and the lowmem pressure doesn't need to reclaim. Considering that 32b NUMA systems are rather suboptimal already and it is generally advisable to use 64b kernel on such a HW I believe we should rather care about the code maintainability and just get rid of ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE altogether. Keep systcl in place and warn if somebody tries to set zone ordering either from kernel command line or the sysctl. [mhocko@suse.com: reading vm.numa_zonelist_order will never terminate] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: "The first part of the s390 updates for 4.14: - Add machine type 0x3906 for IBM z14 - Add IBM z14 TLB flushing improvements for KVM guests - Exploit the TOD clock epoch extension to provide a continuous TOD clock afer 2042/09/17 - Add NIAI spinlock hints for IBM z14 - Rework the vmcp driver and use CMA for the respone buffer of z/VM CP commands - Drop some s390 specific asm headers and use the generic version - Add block discard for DASD-FBA devices under z/VM - Add average request times to DASD statistics - A few of those constify patches which seem to be in vogue right now - Cleanup and bug fixes" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (50 commits) s390/mm: avoid empty zero pages for KVM guests to avoid postcopy hangs s390/dasd: Add discard support for FBA devices s390/zcrypt: make CPRBX const s390/uaccess: avoid mvcos jump label s390/mm: use generic mm_hooks s390/facilities: fix typo s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_response_free() s390/topology: Remove the unused parent_node() macro s390/dasd: Change unsigned long long to unsigned long s390/smp: convert cpuhp_setup_state() return code to zero on success s390: fix 'novx' early parameter handling s390/dasd: add average request times to dasd statistics s390/scm: use common completion path s390/pci: log changes to uid checking s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_ioctl() s390/vmcp: return -ENOTTY for unknown ioctl commands s390/vmcp: split vmcp header file and move to uapi s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocator s390/cpcmd,vmcp: avoid GFP_DMA allocations s390/vmcp: fix uaccess check and avoid undefined behavior ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner: "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality Monitoring (CQM) facility. The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and horrible. After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top. As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single management facility with a consistent user interface" * 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits) x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local) x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar: "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex hardware features of x86 CPUs: - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.) Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles, v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging. This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by default. (By Kirill A. Shutemov) - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and decrypt) as well. This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled by default. (By Tom Lendacky) - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we switch mm's. (By Andy Lutomirski) All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they are all enabled in v4.14 at once" * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits) x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y) x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable() x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits() x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit() x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure ...
2017-08-28ARC: [plat-eznps] new command line argument for HW scheduler at MTMNoam Camus
We add ability for all cores at NPS SoC to control the number of cycles HW thread can execute before it is replace with another eligible HW thread within the same core. The replacement is done by the HW scheduler. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> [vgupta: simplified handlign of out of range argument value]
2017-08-25x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technologyTony Luck
Command line options allow us to ignore features that we don't want. Also we can re-enable options that have been disabled on a platform (so long as the underlying h/w actually supports the option). [ tglx: Marked the option array __initdata and the helper function __init ] Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c37b0d4dbc30977a3c1cee08b66420f83662694.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
2017-08-09s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocatorHeiko Carstens
If memory is fragmented it is unlikely that large order memory allocations succeed. This has been an issue with the vmcp device driver since a long time, since it requires large physical contiguous memory ares for large responses. To hopefully resolve this issue make use of the contiguous memory allocator (cma). This patch adds a vmcp specific vmcp cma area with a default size of 4MB. The size can be changed either via the VMCP_CMA_SIZE config option at compile time or with the "vmcp_cma" kernel parameter (e.g. "vmcp_cma=16m"). For any vmcp response buffers larger than 16k memory from the cma area will be allocated. If such an allocation fails, there is a fallback to the buddy allocator. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2017-07-24documentation: Fix relation between nohz_full and rcu_nocbsPaul E. McKenney
If a CPU is specified in the nohz_full= kernel boot parameter to a kernel built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, then that CPU's callbacks will be offloaded, just as if that CPU had also been specified in the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter. But the current documentation states that the user must keep these two boot parameters manually synchronized. This commit therefore updates the documentation to reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>