kernel/linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.9.136

ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel parameter cover all GPEs

2018-11-10T15:42:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0f27cff8597d86f881ea8274b49b63b678c14a3c ] The acpi_mask_gpe= kernel parameter documentation states that the range of mask is 128 GPEs (0x00 to 0x7F). The acpi_masked_gpes mask is a u64 so only 64 GPEs (0x00 to 0x3F) can really be masked. Use a bitmap of size 0xFF instead of a u64 for the GPE mask so 256 GPEs can be masked. Fixes: 9c4aa1eecb48 (ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE flooding) Signed-off-by: Prarit Bharava Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

inet: frags: break the 2GB limit for frags storage

2018-10-18T07:13:24+00:00

Some users are willing to provision huge amounts of memory to be able to perform reassembly reasonnably well under pressure. Current memory tracking is using one atomic_t and integers. Switch to atomic_long_t so that 64bit arches can use more than 2GB, without any cost for 32bit arches. Note that this patch avoids an overflow error, if high_thresh was set to ~2GB, since this test in inet_frag_alloc() was never true : if (... || frag_mem_limit(nf) > nf->high_thresh) Tested: $ echo 16000000000 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh $ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat FRAG: inuse 14705885 memory 16000002880 $ nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Reas IpReasmReqds 3317150 0.0 IpReasmFails 3317112 0.0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller (cherry picked from commit 3e67f106f619dcfaf6f4e2039599bdb69848c714) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

inet: frags: use rhashtables for reassembly units

2018-10-18T07:13:24+00:00

Some applications still rely on IP fragmentation, and to be fair linux reassembly unit is not working under any serious load. It uses static hash tables of 1024 buckets, and up to 128 items per bucket (!!!) A work queue is supposed to garbage collect items when host is under memory pressure, and doing a hash rebuild, changing seed used in hash computations. This work queue blocks softirqs for up to 25 ms when doing a hash rebuild, occurring every 5 seconds if host is under fire. Then there is the problem of sharing this hash table for all netns. It is time to switch to rhashtables, and allocate one of them per netns to speedup netns dismantle, since this is a critical metric these days. Lookup is now using RCU. A followup patch will even remove the refcount hold/release left from prior implementation and save a couple of atomic operations. Before this patch, 16 cpus (16 RX queue NIC) could not handle more than 1 Mpps frags DDOS. After the patch, I reach 9 Mpps without any tuning, and can use up to 2GB of storage for the fragments (exact number depends on frags being evicted after timeout) $ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat FRAG: inuse 1966916 memory 2140004608 A followup patch will change the limits for 64bit arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Alexander Aring Cc: Stefan Schmidt Signed-off-by: David S. Miller (cherry picked from commit 648700f76b03b7e8149d13cc2bdb3355035258a9) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: dts: at91: add new compatibility string for macb on sama5d3

2018-10-18T07:13:20+00:00

[ Upstream commit 321cc359d899a8e988f3725d87c18a628e1cc624 ] We need this new compatibility string as we experienced different behavior for this 10/100Mbits/s macb interface on this particular SoC. Backward compatibility is preserved as we keep the alternative strings. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/fpu: Finish excising 'eagerfpu'

2018-10-13T07:18:59+00:00

commit e63650840e8b053aa09ad934877e87e9941ed135 upstream. Now that eagerfpu= is gone, remove it from the docs and some comments. Also sync the changes to tools/. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cf430dd4481d41280e93ac6cf0def1007a67fc8e.1476740397.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Daniel Sangorrin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hwmon: (ina2xx) fix sysfs shunt resistor read access

2018-10-04T00:01:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3ad867001c91657c46dcf6656d52eb6080286fd5 ] fix the sysfs shunt resistor read access: return the shunt resistor value, not the calibration register contents. update email address Signed-off-by: Lothar Felten Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed

2018-08-17T18:59:29+00:00

commit 934193a654c1f4d0643ddbf4b2529b508cae926e upstream. Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools"). Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to kmod instead of module-init-tools. Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Chih-Wei Huang Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry

2018-08-15T16:14:53+00:00

commit 5b76a3cff011df2dcb6186c965a2e4d809a05ad4 upstream When nested virtualization is in use, VMENTER operations from the nested hypervisor into the nested guest will always be processed by the bare metal hypervisor, and KVM's "conditional cache flushes" mode in particular does a flush on nested vmentry. Therefore, include the "skip L1D flush on vmentry" bit in KVM's suggested ARCH_CAPABILITIES setting. Add the relevant Documentation. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Add a framework for supporting MSR-based features

2018-08-15T16:14:52+00:00

commit 801e459a6f3a63af9d447e6249088c76ae16efc4 upstream Provide a new KVM capability that allows bits within MSRs to be recognized as features. Two new ioctls are added to the /dev/kvm ioctl routine to retrieve the list of these MSRs and then retrieve their values. A kvm_x86_ops callback is used to determine support for the listed MSR-based features. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini [Tweaked documentation. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation/l1tf: Remove Yonah processors from not vulnerable list

2018-08-15T16:14:52+00:00

commit 58331136136935c631c2b5f06daf4c3006416e91 upstream Dave reported, that it's not confirmed that Yonah processors are unaffected. Remove them from the list. Reported-by: ave Hansen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman