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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ufs | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/map_hash.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/map_lru_hash_update.dot | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.yaml | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml | 4 |
12 files changed, 92 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 6a1acabb29d8..53755b2021ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsa /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort Date: January 2018 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ufs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ufs index 5fa6655aee84..16f17e91ee49 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ufs +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ufs @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ Description: This file shows the thin provisioning type. This is one of The file is read only. -What: /sys/class/scsi_device/*/device/unit_descriptor/physical_memory_resourse_count +What: /sys/class/scsi_device/*/device/unit_descriptor/physical_memory_resource_count Date: February 2018 Contact: Stanislav Nijnikov <stanislav.nijnikov@wdc.com> Description: This file shows the total physical memory resources. This is diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst index 1302fd1b55e8..6dba18dbb9ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst @@ -157,9 +157,7 @@ This is achieved by using the otherwise unused and obsolete VERW instruction in combination with a microcode update. The microcode clears the affected CPU buffers when the VERW instruction is executed. -Kernel reuses the MDS function to invoke the buffer clearing: - - mds_clear_cpu_buffers() +Kernel does the buffer clearing with x86_clear_cpu_buffers(). On MDS affected CPUs, the kernel already invokes CPU buffer clear on kernel/userspace, hypervisor/guest and C-state (idle) transitions. No diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index b5cb36148554..f402bbaccc8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -6993,6 +6993,19 @@ having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing scenarios. + tsa= [X86] Control mitigation for Transient Scheduler + Attacks on AMD CPUs. Search the following in your + favourite search engine for more details: + + "Technical guidance for mitigating transient scheduler + attacks". + + off - disable the mitigation + on - enable the mitigation (default) + user - mitigate only user/kernel transitions + vm - mitigate only guest/host transitions + + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst index 5a2e6c0ef04a..3518671e1a85 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ enters a C-state. The kernel provides a function to invoke the buffer clearing: - mds_clear_cpu_buffers() + x86_clear_cpu_buffers() Also macro CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS can be used in ASM late in exit-to-user path. Other than CFLAGS.ZF, this macro doesn't clobber any registers. @@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ Mitigation points idle clearing would be a window dressing exercise and is therefore not activated. - The invocation is controlled by the static key mds_idle_clear which is - switched depending on the chosen mitigation mode and the SMT state of - the system. + The invocation is controlled by the static key cpu_buf_idle_clear which is + switched depending on the chosen mitigation mode and the SMT state of the + system. The buffer clear is only invoked before entering the C-State to prevent that stale data from the idling CPU from spilling to the Hyper-Thread diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/map_hash.rst b/Documentation/bpf/map_hash.rst index d2343952f2cb..8606bf958a8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/map_hash.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/map_hash.rst @@ -233,10 +233,16 @@ attempts in order to enforce the LRU property which have increasing impacts on other CPUs involved in the following operation attempts: - Attempt to use CPU-local state to batch operations -- Attempt to fetch free nodes from global lists +- Attempt to fetch ``target_free`` free nodes from global lists - Attempt to pull any node from a global list and remove it from the hashmap - Attempt to pull any node from any CPU's list and remove it from the hashmap +The number of nodes to borrow from the global list in a batch, ``target_free``, +depends on the size of the map. Larger batch size reduces lock contention, but +may also exhaust the global structure. The value is computed at map init to +avoid exhaustion, by limiting aggregate reservation by all CPUs to half the map +size. With a minimum of a single element and maximum budget of 128 at a time. + This algorithm is described visually in the following diagram. See the description in commit 3a08c2fd7634 ("bpf: LRU List") for a full explanation of the corresponding operations: diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/map_lru_hash_update.dot b/Documentation/bpf/map_lru_hash_update.dot index a0fee349d29c..ab10058f5b79 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/map_lru_hash_update.dot +++ b/Documentation/bpf/map_lru_hash_update.dot @@ -35,18 +35,18 @@ digraph { fn_bpf_lru_list_pop_free_to_local [shape=rectangle,fillcolor=2, label="Flush local pending, Rotate Global list, move - LOCAL_FREE_TARGET + target_free from global -> local"] // Also corresponds to: // fn__local_list_flush() // fn_bpf_lru_list_rotate() fn___bpf_lru_node_move_to_free[shape=diamond,fillcolor=2, - label="Able to free\nLOCAL_FREE_TARGET\nnodes?"] + label="Able to free\ntarget_free\nnodes?"] fn___bpf_lru_list_shrink_inactive [shape=rectangle,fillcolor=3, label="Shrink inactive list up to remaining - LOCAL_FREE_TARGET + target_free (global LRU -> local)"] fn___bpf_lru_list_shrink [shape=diamond,fillcolor=2, label="> 0 entries in\nlocal free list?"] diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst index d1154eb43810..cca94469fa41 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ kernel. As of today, modules that make use of symbols exported into namespaces, are required to import the namespace. Otherwise the kernel will, depending on its configuration, reject loading the module or warn about a missing import. +Additionally, it is possible to put symbols into a module namespace, strictly +limiting which modules are allowed to use these symbols. + 2. How to define Symbol Namespaces ================================== @@ -84,6 +87,22 @@ unit as preprocessor statement. The above example would then read:: within the corresponding compilation unit before any EXPORT_SYMBOL macro is used. +2.3 Using the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro +=================================================== + +Symbols exported using this macro are put into a module namespace. This +namespace cannot be imported. + +The macro takes a comma separated list of module names, allowing only those +modules to access this symbol. Simple tail-globs are supported. + +For example: + + EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*") + +will limit usage of this symbol to modules whoes name matches the given +patterns. + 3. How to use Symbols exported in Namespaces ============================================ @@ -155,3 +174,6 @@ in-tree modules:: You can also run nsdeps for external module builds. A typical usage is:: $ make -C <path_to_kernel_src> M=$PWD nsdeps + +Note: it will happily generate an import statement for the module namespace; +which will not work and generates build and runtime failures. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.yaml index b57ae6963e62..6b6f6762d122 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.yaml @@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ properties: resets: items: - - description: module reset + - description: + Module reset. This property is optional for controllers in Tegra194, + Tegra234 etc where an internal software reset is available as an + alternative. reset-names: items: @@ -116,6 +119,13 @@ properties: - const: rx - const: tx +required: + - compatible + - reg + - interrupts + - clocks + - clock-names + allOf: - $ref: /schemas/i2c/i2c-controller.yaml - if: @@ -169,6 +179,18 @@ allOf: properties: power-domains: false + - if: + not: + properties: + compatible: + contains: + enum: + - nvidia,tegra194-i2c + then: + required: + - resets + - reset-names + unevaluatedProperties: false examples: diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml index 692aa05500fd..6ba0325039be 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ allOf: - ns16550 - ns16550a then: - anyOf: + oneOf: - required: [ clock-frequency ] - required: [ clocks ] diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst index 7964e0c245ae..81607ce40759 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst @@ -656,6 +656,20 @@ cc-cross-prefix endif endif +$(RUSTC) support functions +-------------------------- + +rustc-min-version + rustc-min-version tests if the value of $(CONFIG_RUSTC_VERSION) is greater + than or equal to the provided value and evaluates to y if so. + + Example:: + + rustflags-$(call rustc-min-version, 108500) := -Cfoo + + In this example, rustflags-y will be assigned the value -Cfoo if + $(CONFIG_RUSTC_VERSION) is >= 1.85.0. + $(LD) support functions ----------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml index c5579a5412fc..043f205bc1ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ definitions: type: u8 doc: log(P_max / (qth-max - qth-min)) - - name: Scell_log + name: Scell-log type: u8 doc: cell size for idle damping - @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ definitions: name: DPs type: u32 - - name: def_DP + name: def-DP type: u32 - name: grio |