BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch dev-5.10.49-intel

Merge tag 'v5.10.27' into dev-5.10

2021-04-06T07:39:04+00:00

This is the 5.10.27 stable release

drivers/base/memory: don't store phys_device in memory blocks

2021-03-17T16:06:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit e9a2e48e8704c9d20a625c6f2357147d03ea7b97 ] No need to store the value for each and every memory block, as we can easily query the value at runtime. Reshuffle the members to optimize the memory layout. Also, let's clarify what the interface once was used for and why it's legacy nowadays. "phys_device" was used on s390x in older versions of lsmem[2]/chmem[3], back when they were still part of s390x-tools. They were later replaced by the variants in linux-utils. For example, RHEL6 and RHEL7 contain lsmem/chmem from s390-utils. RHEL8 switched to versions from util-linux on s390x [4]. "phys_device" was added with sysfs support for memory hotplug in commit 3947be1969a9 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions") in 2005. It always returned 0. s390x started returning something != 0 on some setups (if sclp.rzm is set by HW) in 2010 via commit 57b552ba0b2f ("memory hotplug/s390: set phys_device"). For s390x, it allowed for identifying which memory block devices belong to the same storage increment (RZM). Only if all memory block devices comprising a single storage increment were offline, the memory could actually be removed in the hypervisor. Since commit e5d709bb5fb7 ("s390/memory hotplug: provide memory_block_size_bytes() function") in 2013 a memory block device spans at least one storage increment - which is why the interface isn't really helpful/used anymore (except by old lsmem/chmem tools). There were once RFC patches to make use of "phys_device" in ACPI context; however, the underlying problem could be solved using different interfaces [1]. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2163871/ [2] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/lsmem [3] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/chmem [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504134 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Ilya Dryomov Cc: Vaibhav Jain Cc: Tom Rix Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'v5.10.20' into dev-5.10

2021-03-04T12:48:12+00:00

This is the 5.10.20 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

mm/vmscan: restore zone_reclaim_mode ABI

2021-03-04T10:38:38+00:00

commit 519983645a9f2ec339cabfa0c6ef7b09be985dd0 upstream. I went to go add a new RECLAIM_* mode for the zone_reclaim_mode sysctl. Like a good kernel developer, I also went to go update the documentation. I noticed that the bits in the documentation didn't match the bits in the #defines. The VM never explicitly checks the RECLAIM_ZONE bit. The bit is, however implicitly checked when checking 'node_reclaim_mode==0'. The RECLAIM_ZONE #define was removed in a cleanup. That, by itself is fine. But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also got changed. That's not OK because the bit values are documented to mean one specific thing. Users surely do not expect the meaning to change from kernel to kernel. The end result is that if someone had a script that did: sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1 it would have gone from enabling node reclaim for clean unmapped pages to writing out pages during node reclaim after the commit in question. That's not great. Put the bits back the way they were and add a comment so something like this is a bit harder to do again. Update the documentation to make it clear that the first bit is ignored. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219172555.FF0CDF23@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Fixes: 648b5cf368e0 ("mm/vmscan: remove unused RECLAIM_OFF/RECLAIM_ZONE") Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Daniel Wagner Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Qian Cai Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/arm-cmn: Fix PMU instance naming

2021-03-04T10:37:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit 79d7c3dca99fa96033695ddf5d495b775a3a137b ] Although it's neat to avoid the suffix for the typical case of a single PMU, it means systems with multiple CMN instances end up with inconsistent naming. I think it also breaks perf tool's "uncore alias" logic if the common instance prefix is also the full name of one. Avoid any surprises by not trying to be clever and simply numbering every instance, even when it might technically prove redundant. Fixes: 0ba64770a2f2 ("perf: Add Arm CMN-600 PMU driver") Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/649a2281233f193d59240b13ed91b57337c77b32.1611839564.git.robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

/dev/mem: add a devmem kernel parameter to activate the device

2021-02-09T00:52:19+00:00

For security reasons, some configuration needs to run without /dev/mem but on some occasions, to debug HW for instance, it's still useful to be able to reboot the system with access to physical memory. Add a kernel parameter which activates the /dev/mem device only when 'mem.devmem' is enabled. OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 10 Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

x86/xen: Add xen_no_vector_callback option to test PCI INTX delivery

2021-01-27T10:55:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit b36b0fe96af13460278bf9b173beced1bd15f85d ] It's useful to be able to test non-vector event channel delivery, to make sure Linux will work properly on older Xen which doesn't have it. It's also useful for those working on Xen and Xen-compatible hypervisors, because there are guest kernels still in active use which use PCI INTX even when vector delivery is available. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210106153958.584169-4-dwmw2@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

dm integrity: conditionally disable "recalculate" feature

2021-01-27T10:54:55+00:00

commit 5c02406428d5219c367c5f53457698c58bc5f917 upstream. Otherwise a malicious user could (ab)use the "recalculate" feature that makes dm-integrity calculate the checksums in the background while the device is already usable. When the system restarts before all checksums have been calculated, the calculation continues where it was interrupted even if the recalculate feature is not requested the next time the dm device is set up. Disable recalculating if we use internal_hash or journal_hash with a key (e.g. HMAC) and we don't have the "legacy_recalculate" flag. This may break activation of a volume, created by an older kernel, that is not yet fully recalculated -- if this happens, the user should add the "legacy_recalculate" flag to constructor parameters. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Reported-by: Daniel Glockner Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: UAS: introduce a quirk to set no_write_same

2020-12-21T12:30:08+00:00

commit 8010622c86ca5bb44bc98492f5968726fc7c7a21 upstream. UAS does not share the pessimistic assumption storage is making that devices cannot deal with WRITE_SAME. A few devices supported by UAS, are reported to not deal well with WRITE_SAME. Those need a quirk. Add it to the device that needs it. Reported-by: David C. Partridge Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Cc: stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209152639.9195-1-oneukum@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'trace-v5.10-rc6-bootconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2020-12-02T20:09:36+00:00

Pull bootconfig fixes from Steven Rostedt: "Have bootconfig size and checksum be little endian In case the bootconfig is created on one kind of endian machine, and then read on the other kind of endian kernel, the size and checksum will be incorrect. Instead, have both the size and checksum always be little endian and have the tool and the kernel convert it from little endian to or from the host endian" * tag 'trace-v5.10-rc6-bootconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: docs: bootconfig: Add the endianness of fields tools/bootconfig: Store size and checksum in footer as le32 bootconfig: Load size and checksum in the footer as le32