BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch dev-5.8-intel

Merge tag 'v5.8.17' into dev-5.8

2020-10-30T02:37:00+00:00

This is the 5.8.17 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameter

2020-10-29T09:07:14+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0a4bb5e5507a585532cc413125b921c8546fc39f ] Commit 0c2a3913d6f5 ("x86/fpu: Parse clearcpuid= as early XSAVE argument") changed clearcpuid parsing from __setup() to cmdline_find_option(). While the __setup() function would have been called for each clearcpuid= parameter on the command line, cmdline_find_option() will only return the last one, so the change effectively made it impossible to disable more than one bit. Allow a comma-separated list of bit numbers as the argument for clearcpuid to allow multiple bits to be disabled again. Log the bits being disabled for informational purposes. Also fix the check on the return value of cmdline_find_option(). It returns -1 when the option is not found, so testing as a boolean is incorrect. Fixes: 0c2a3913d6f5 ("x86/fpu: Parse clearcpuid= as early XSAVE argument") Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907213919.2423441-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'v5.8.8' into dev-5.8

2020-09-10T01:32:56+00:00

This is the 5.8.8 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list

2020-09-03T09:29:37+00:00

[ Upstream commit 27bc446e2def38db3244a6eb4bb1d6312936610a ] In the scenario of writing sparse files, the per-inode prealloc list may be very long, resulting in high overhead for ext4_mb_use_preallocated(). To circumvent this problem, we limit the maximum length of per-inode prealloc list to 512 and allow users to modify it. After patching, we observed that the sys ratio of cpu has dropped, and the system throughput has increased significantly. We created a process to write the sparse file, and the running time of the process on the fixed kernel was significantly reduced, as follows: Running time on unfixed kernel： [root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat real 0m2.051s user 0m0.008s sys 0m2.026s Running time on fixed kernel： [root@TENCENT64 ~]# time taskset 0x01 ./sparse /data1/sparce.dat real 0m0.471s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.395s Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7a98178-056b-6db5-6bce-4ead23f4a257@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'v5.8.5' into dev-5.8

2020-08-31T00:46:57+00:00

This is the 5.8.5 stable release Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

x86/bugs/multihit: Fix mitigation reporting when VMX is not in use

2020-08-21T11:15:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit f29dfa53cc8ae6ad93bae619bcc0bf45cab344f7 ] On systems that have virtualization disabled or unsupported, sysfs mitigation for X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT is reported incorrectly as: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit KVM: Vulnerable System is not vulnerable to DoS attack from a rogue guest when virtualization is disabled or unsupported in the hardware. Change the mitigation reporting for these cases. Fixes: b8e8c8303ff2 ("kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation") Reported-by: Nelson Dsouza Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Tony Luck Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ba029932a816179b9d14a30db38f0f11ef1f166.1594925782.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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

2020-08-06T00:30:29+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: 9 Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

Documentation: update for gcc 4.9 requirement

2020-07-08T19:28:44+00:00

Update Documentation for the gcc v4.9 upgrade requirement. Fixes: 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8") Fixes: 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-5.8/dm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2020-06-27T15:57:16+00:00

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer: - Quite a few DM zoned target fixes and a Zone append fix in DM core. Considering the amount of dm-zoned changes that went in during the 5.8 merge window these fixes are not that surprising. - A few DM writecache target fixes. - A fix to Documentation index to include DM ebs target docs. - Small cleanup to use struct_size() in DM core's retrieve_deps(). * tag 'for-5.8/dm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm writecache: add cond_resched to loop in persistent_memory_claim() dm zoned: Fix reclaim zone selection dm zoned: Fix random zone reclaim selection dm: update original bio sector on Zone Append dm zoned: Fix metadata zone size check docs: device-mapper: add dm-ebs.rst to an index file dm ioctl: use struct_size() helper in retrieve_deps() dm writecache: skip writecache_wait when using pmem mode dm writecache: correct uncommitted_block when discarding uncommitted entry dm zoned: assign max_io_len correctly dm zoned: fix uninitialized pointer dereference

doc: THP CoW fault no longer allocate THP

2020-06-26T07:27:37+00:00

Since commit 3917c80280c9 ("thp: change CoW semantics for anon-THP"), THP CoW page fault is rewritten. Now it just splits pmd then fallback to base page fault, it doesn't try to allocate THP anymore. So it is no longer counted in THP_FAULT_ALLOC. Remove the obsolete statement in documentation about THP CoW allocation to avoid confusion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592424895-5421-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds