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2020-05-22x86/tsc: Add tsc_early_khz command line parameterKrzysztof Piecuch1-0/+6
Changing base clock frequency directly impacts TSC Hz but not CPUID.16h value. An overclocked CPU supporting CPUID.16h and with partial CPUID.15h support will set TSC KHZ according to "best guess" given by CPUID.16h relying on tsc_refine_calibration_work to give better numbers later. tsc_refine_calibration_work will refuse to do its work when the outcome is off the early TSC KHZ value by more than 1% which is certain to happen on an overclocked system. Fix this by adding a tsc_early_khz command line parameter that makes the kernel skip early TSC calibration and use the given value instead. This allows the user to provide the expected TSC frequency that is closer to reality than the one reported by the hardware, enabling tsc_refine_calibration_work to do meaningful error checking. [ tglx: Made the variable __initdata as it's only used on init and removed the error checking in the argument parser because kstrto*() only stores to the variable if the string is valid ] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piecuch <piecuch@protonmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/O2CpIOrqLZHgNRkfjRpz_LGqnc1ix_seNIiOCvHY4RHoulOVRo6kMXKuLOfBVTi0SMMevg6Go1uZ_cL9fLYtYdTRNH78ChaFaZyG3VAyYz8=@protonmail.com
2020-05-20powerpc/64s/hash: Add stress_slb kernel boot option to increase SLB faultsNicholas Piggin1-0/+5
This option increases the number of SLB misses by limiting the number of kernel SLB entries, and increased flushing of cached lookaside information. This helps stress test difficult to hit paths in the kernel. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Relocate the code into arch/powerpc/mm, s/torture/stress/] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511125825.3081305-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2020-05-19Merge tag 'noinstr-lds-2020-05-19' into core/rcuThomas Gleixner1-2/+1
Get the noinstr section and annotation markers to base the RCU parts on.
2020-05-15docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api bookMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
There is an special chapter inside the core-api book about some debug infrastructure like tracepoints and debug objects. It sounded to me that this is the best place to add a chapter explaining how to use a FireWire controller to do remote kernel debugging, as explained on this document. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9b489d36d08ad89d3ad5aefef1f52a0715b29716.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-07Merge branches 'fixes.2020.04.27a', 'kfree_rcu.2020.04.27a', ↵Paul E. McKenney1-0/+19
'rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a', 'stall.2020.04.27a' and 'torture.2020.05.07a' into HEAD fixes.2020.04.27a: Miscellaneous fixes. kfree_rcu.2020.04.27a: Changes related to kfree_rcu(). rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a: Addition of new RCU-tasks flavors. stall.2020.04.27a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates. torture.2020.05.07a: Torture-test updates.
2020-05-07rcu: Allow rcutorture to starve grace-period kthreadPaul E. McKenney1-0/+7
This commit provides an rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread module parameter to allow rcutorture to starve the grace-period kthread. This allows testing the code that detects such starvation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-05-07rcutorture: Add flag to produce non-busy-wait task stallsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
This commit aids testing of RCU task stall warning messages by adding an rcutorture.stall_cpu_block module parameter that results in the induced stall sleeping within the RCU read-side critical section. Spinning with interrupts disabled is still available via the rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff module parameter, and specifying neither of these two module parameters will spin with preemption disabled. Note that sleeping (as opposed to preemption) results in additional complaints from RCU at context-switch time, so yet more testing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-05-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netDavid S. Miller1-2/+1
Conflicts were all overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-30docs: networking: convert netconsole.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
- add SPDX header; - add a document title; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark tables as such; - add notes markups; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-29docs: networking: convert ipv6.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab1-3/+3
Not much to be done here: - add SPDX header; - add a document title; - mark a literal as such, in order to avoid a warning; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-29docs: networking: convert ip-sysctl.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
- add SPDX header; - adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark lists as such; - mark tables as such; - use footnote markup; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-29docs: networking: convert decnet.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
- add SPDX header; - adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups; - mark lists as such; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-28s390/pci: Documentation for zPCIPierre Morel1-0/+2
There are changes in the usage of PCI for the user: - new kernel parameter - modification of the way functions are enumerated Let's document these. Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-27rcu-tasks: Provide boot parameter to delay IPIs until late in grace periodPaul E. McKenney1-0/+7
This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs. This delay allows more tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing (or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent. On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2 resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that elapsed during that test. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify initrd physical addressRonald G. Minnich1-0/+7
Add the initrdmem option: initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG] which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel. This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH, but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH. One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it is. This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address and size. At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification should be available. Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86. Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried. For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be burnt in with a built-in command line which includes: initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000 which specifies a location and size. [ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org
2020-04-23USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme ↵Alan Stern1-2/+1
first for high speed devices") Commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates high-speed devices. Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start with the "old" scheme. In theory this is better because the "old" scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only once instead of twice. However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme. Zeng Tao said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it. William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme! Only a cold reset will fix it. Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new" scheme first for high-speed devices. Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader <williambader@hotmail.com> Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219 Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Fixes: bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") CC: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-04-20x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigationMark Gross1-0/+20
SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is released for reuse. While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL. The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom. * Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using either mitigations=off or srbds=off. * Export vulnerability status via sysfs * Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations. [ bp: Massage, - s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g, - do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in, - flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level, - reflow comments. jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now ] Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
2020-04-14media: docs: move user-facing docs to the admin guideMauro Carvalho Chehab1-2/+2
Most of the driver-specific documentation is meant to help users of the media subsystem. Move them to the admin-guide. It should be noticed, however, that several of those files are outdated and will require further work in order to make them useful again. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-04-11Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-0/+8
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - Almost all of the rest of MM (memcg, slab-generic, slab, pagealloc, gup, hugetlb, pagemap, memremap) - Various other things (hfs, ocfs2, kmod, misc, seqfile) * akpm: (34 commits) ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index kernel/gcov/fs.c: gcov_seq_next() should increase position index fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c: fix platform_get_irq.cocci warnings change email address for Pali Rohár selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9 docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once() kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params powerpc/mm: thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping() x86/mm: introduce __set_memory_prot() x86/mm: thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping() mm/memory_hotplug: rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial() mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS mm/vma: define a default value for VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS ...
2020-04-11Merge tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-6/+2
Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree" * tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: android: binderfs: add 'stats' mount option Documentation: driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst Updates documentation links docs: driver-api: address duplicate label warning Documentation: sysrq: fix RST formatting docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx docs: filesystems: fix typo in qnx6.rst
2020-04-11mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cmaRoman Gushchin1-0/+8
Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages. However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading, when the majority of memory is free. After some time the memory gets fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB block are getting close to zero. Even dropping caches manually doesn't help a lot. At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages is quite expensive and complex. At the same time keeping some constant percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB pages. The following solution can solve the problem: 1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed as a kernel argument. 2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the cma allocator and the dedicated cma area In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs, etc. * On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node. Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user. Usage: 1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations: pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument 2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g. echo 10 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed, the current behavior of the system is preserved. x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be trivially added later. The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan Bakirov and Randy Dunlap. It also contains ideas and suggestions proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Aslan Bakirov <aslan@fb.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken referencesJimmy Assarsson1-2/+2
Fix remaining broken references in kernel-parameters.txt. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-2-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-07docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompxJimmy Assarsson1-4/+0
x86/mpx was removed in commit 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86"), this removes the documentation of parameter nompx. Fixes: 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86") Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-1-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-07mm/memory_hotplug.c: only respect mem= parameter during boot stageBaoquan He1-2/+11
In commit 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter") a global varialbe max_mem_size is added to store the value parsed from 'mem= ', then checked when memory region is added. This truly stops those DIMMs from being added into system memory during boot-time. However, it also limits the later memory hotplug functionality. Any DIMM can't be hotplugged any more if its region is beyond the max_mem_size. We will get errors like: [ 216.387164] acpi PNP0C80:02: add_memory failed [ 216.389301] acpi PNP0C80:02: acpi_memory_enable_device() error [ 216.392187] acpi PNP0C80:02: Enumeration failure This will cause issue in a known use case where 'mem=' is added to the hypervisor. The memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary will be assigned to KVM guests. After commit 357b4da50a62 merged, memory can't be extended dynamically if system memory on hypervisor is not sufficient. So fix it by also checking if it's during boot-time restricting to add memory. Otherwise, skip the restriction. And also add this use case to document of 'mem=' kernel parameter. Fixes: 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter") Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200204050643.20925-1-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-06Merge tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional ACPI updates. These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200326 upstream revision, fix an ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86, update Intel Tiger Lake device IDs in some places, add a new ACPI backlight blacklist entry, update the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch documentation and clean up a CPPC library routine. Specifics: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200326 including: * Fix for a typo in a comment field (Bob Moore) * acpiExec namespace init file fixes (Bob Moore) * Addition of NHLT to the known tables list (Cezary Rojewski) * Conversion of PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC (Erik Kaneda) * acpiexec cleanup (Erik Kaneda) * WSMT-related typo fix (Erik Kaneda) * sprintf() utility function fix (John Levon) * IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing implementation (Michał Żygowski) * IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name fix (Michał Żygowski) - Fix ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86 (Qian Cai) - Fix Intel Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs in several places (Gayatri Kammela) - Add ACPI backlight blacklist entry for Acer Aspire 5783z (Hans de Goede) - Fix documentation of the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch (Randy Dunlap) - Clean up the acpi_get_psd_map() CPPC library routine (Liguang Zhang)" * tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: x86: ACPI: fix CPU hotplug deadlock thermal: int340x_thermal: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs platform/x86: intel-hid: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device ID ACPI: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs ACPI: video: Use native backlight on Acer Aspire 5783z ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter options ACPICA: Update version 20200326 ACPICA: Fixes for acpiExec namespace init file ACPICA: Add NHLT table signature ACPICA: WSMT: Fix typo, no functional change ACPICA: utilities: fix sprintf() ACPICA: acpiexec: remove redeclaration of acpi_gbl_db_opt_no_region_support ACPICA: Change PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC ACPICA: Fix IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name ACPICA: Implement IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing ACPICA: Fix a typo in a comment field ACPI: CPPC: clean up acpi_get_psd_map()
2020-04-06Merge tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional power management updates. These fix a corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source, add a kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages via the kernel command line, add a document desctibing system-wide suspend and resume code flows, modify cpufreq Kconfig to choose schedutil as the preferred governor by default in a couple of cases and do some assorted cleanups. Specifics: - Fix corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source (Hans de Goede). - Add document describing system-wide suspend and resume code flows to the admin guide (Rafael Wysocki). - Add kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages (Chen Yu). - Choose schedutil as the preferred scaling governor by default on ARM big.LITTLE systems and on x86 systems using the intel_pstate driver in the passive mode (Linus Walleij, Rafael Wysocki). - Drop racy and redundant checks from the PM core's device_prepare() routine (Rafael Wysocki). - Make resume from hibernation take the hibernation_restore() return value into account (Dexuan Cui)" * tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: platform/x86: intel_int0002_vgpio: Use acpi_register_wakeup_handler() ACPI: PM: Add acpi_[un]register_wakeup_handler() Documentation: PM: sleep: Document system-wide suspend code flows cpufreq: Select schedutil when using big.LITTLE PM: sleep: Add pm_debug_messages kernel command line option PM: sleep: core: Drop racy and redundant checks from device_prepare() PM: hibernate: Propagate the return value of hibernation_restore() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Select schedutil as the default governor
2020-04-03Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - GICv4.1 support - 32bit host removal PPC: - secure (encrypted) using under the Protected Execution Framework ultravisor s390: - allow disabling GISA (hardware interrupt injection) and protected VMs/ultravisor support. x86: - New dirty bitmap flag that sets all bits in the bitmap when dirty page logging is enabled; this is faster because it doesn't require bulk modification of the page tables. - Initial work on making nested SVM event injection more similar to VMX, and less buggy. - Various cleanups to MMU code (though the big ones and related optimizations were delayed to 5.8). Instead of using cr3 in function names which occasionally means eptp, KVM too has standardized on "pgd". - A large refactoring of CPUID features, which now use an array that parallels the core x86_features. - Some removal of pointer chasing from kvm_x86_ops, which will also be switched to static calls as soon as they are available. - New Tigerlake CPUID features. - More bugfixes, optimizations and cleanups. Generic: - selftests: cleanups, new MMU notifier stress test, steal-time test - CSV output for kvm_stat" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (277 commits) x86/kvm: fix a missing-prototypes "vmread_error" KVM: x86: Fix BUILD_BUG() in __cpuid_entry_get_reg() w/ CONFIG_UBSAN=y KVM: VMX: Add a trampoline to fix VMREAD error handling KVM: SVM: Annotate svm_x86_ops as __initdata KVM: VMX: Annotate vmx_x86_ops as __initdata KVM: x86: Drop __exit from kvm_x86_ops' hardware_unsetup() KVM: x86: Copy kvm_x86_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection KVM: x86: Set kvm_x86_ops only after ->hardware_setup() completes KVM: VMX: Configure runtime hooks using vmx_x86_ops KVM: VMX: Move hardware_setup() definition below vmx_x86_ops KVM: x86: Move init-only kvm_x86_ops to separate struct KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs s390/gmap: return proper error code on ksm unsharing KVM: selftests: Fix cosmetic copy-paste error in vm_mem_region_move() KVM: Fix out of range accesses to memslots KVM: X86: Micro-optimize IPI fastpath delay KVM: X86: Delay read msr data iff writes ICR MSR KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a capability for enabling secure guests KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow non-trapping WFI when using HW SGIs ...
2020-04-02PM: sleep: Add pm_debug_messages kernel command line optionChen Yu1-0/+3
Debug messages from the system suspend/hibernation infrastructure are disabled by default, and can only be enabled after the system has boot up via /sys/power/pm_debug_messages. This makes the hibernation resume hard to track as it involves system boot up across hibernation. There's no chance for software_resume() to track the resume process, for example. Add a kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages during boot up. Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> [ rjw: Subject & changelog ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-04-01ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter optionsRandy Dunlap1-3/+5
Update the Documentation for "acpi_backlight" by adding 2 new options (native and none). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-04-01Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20200330' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux Pull SELinux updates from Paul Moore: "We've got twenty SELinux patches for the v5.7 merge window, the highlights are below: - Deprecate setting /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot to 1. This flag was originally created to deal with legacy userspace and the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag. We changed the default from 1 to 0 back in Linux v4.4 and now we are taking the next step of deprecating it, at some point in the future we will take the final step of rejecting 1. - Allow kernfs symlinks to inherit the SELinux label of the parent directory. In order to preserve backwards compatibility this is protected by the genfs_seclabel_symlinks SELinux policy capability. - Optimize how we store filename transitions in the kernel, resulting in some significant improvements to policy load times. - Do a better job calculating our internal hash table sizes which resulted in additional policy load improvements and likely general SELinux performance improvements as well. - Remove the unused initial SIDs (labels) and improve how we handle initial SIDs. - Enable per-file labeling for the bpf filesystem. - Ensure that we properly label NFS v4.2 filesystems to avoid a temporary unlabeled condition. - Add some missing XFS quota command types to the SELinux quota access controls. - Fix a problem where we were not updating the seq_file position index correctly in selinuxfs. - We consolidate some duplicated code into helper functions. - A number of list to array conversions. - Update Stephen Smalley's email address in MAINTAINERS" * tag 'selinux-pr-20200330' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux: selinux: clean up indentation issue with assignment statement NFS: Ensure security label is set for root inode MAINTAINERS: Update my email address selinux: avtab_init() and cond_policydb_init() return void selinux: clean up error path in policydb_init() selinux: remove unused initial SIDs and improve handling selinux: reduce the use of hard-coded hash sizes selinux: Add xfs quota command types selinux: optimize storage of filename transitions selinux: factor out loop body from filename_trans_read() security: selinux: allow per-file labeling for bpffs selinux: generalize evaluate_cond_node() selinux: convert cond_expr to array selinux: convert cond_av_list to array selinux: convert cond_list to array selinux: sel_avc_get_stat_idx should increase position index selinux: allow kernfs symlinks to inherit parent directory context selinux: simplify evaluate_cond_node() Documentation,selinux: deprecate setting checkreqprot to 1 selinux: move status variables out of selinux_ss
2020-03-31Merge branch 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 vmware updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main change in this tree is the addition of 'steal time clock support' for VMware guests" * 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/vmware: Use bool type for vmw_sched_clock x86/vmware: Enable steal time accounting x86/vmware: Add steal time clock support for VMware guests x86/vmware: Remove vmware_sched_clock_setup() x86/vmware: Make vmware_select_hypercall() __init
2020-03-31Merge tag 'kvmarm-5.7' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm updates for Linux 5.7 - GICv4.1 support - 32bit host removal
2020-03-31Merge tag 'x86-splitlock-2020-03-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+22
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 splitlock updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Support for 'split lock' detection: Atomic operations (lock prefixed instructions) which span two cache lines have to acquire the global bus lock. This is at least 1k cycles slower than an atomic operation within a cache line and disrupts performance on other cores. Aside of performance disruption this is a unpriviledged form of DoS. Some newer CPUs have the capability to raise an #AC trap when such an operation is attempted. The detection is by default enabled in warning mode which will warn once when a user space application is caught. A command line option allows to disable the detection or to select fatal mode which will terminate offending applications with SIGBUS" * tag 'x86-splitlock-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/split_lock: Avoid runtime reads of the TEST_CTRL MSR x86/split_lock: Rework the initialization flow of split lock detection x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel
2020-03-31Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - Various NUMA scheduling updates: harmonize the load-balancer and NUMA placement logic to not work against each other. The intended result is better locality, better utilization and fewer migrations. - Introduce Thermal Pressure tracking and optimizations, to improve task placement on thermally overloaded systems. - Implement frequency invariant scheduler accounting on (some) x86 CPUs. This is done by observing and sampling the 'recent' CPU frequency average at ~tick boundaries. The CPU provides this data via the APERF/MPERF MSRs. This hopefully makes our capacity estimates more precise and keeps tasks on the same CPU better even if it might seem overloaded at a lower momentary frequency. (As usual, turbo mode is a complication that we resolve by observing the maximum frequency and renormalizing to it.) - Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan to improve capacity utilization on asymmetric topologies. (big.LITTLE systems) - PSI fixes and optimizations. - RT scheduling capacity awareness fixes & improvements. - Optimize the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED constraints code. - Misc fixes, cleanups and optimizations - see the changelog for details" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits) threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change sched/fair: Fix condition of avg_load calculation sched/rt: cpupri_find: Trigger a full search as fallback kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule() sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zero psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags MAINTAINERS: Add maintenance information for psi psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared cgroups psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks sched/rt: Allow pulling unfitting task sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems sched/rt: Re-instate old behavior in select_task_rq_rt() sched/rt: cpupri_find: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair() sched/fair: Fix runnable_avg for throttled cfs ...
2020-03-31Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+19
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Make kfree_rcu() use kfree_bulk() for added performance - RCU updates - Callback-overload handling updates - Tasks-RCU KCSAN and sparse updates - Locking torture test and RCU torture test updates - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits) rcu: Make rcu_barrier() account for offline no-CBs CPUs rcu: Mark rcu_state.gp_seq to detect concurrent writes Documentation/memory-barriers: Fix typos doc: Add rcutorture scripting to torture.txt doc/RCU/rcu: Use https instead of http if possible doc/RCU/rcu: Use absolute paths for non-rst files doc/RCU/rcu: Use ':ref:' for links to other docs doc/RCU/listRCU: Update example function name doc/RCU/listRCU: Fix typos in a example code snippets doc/RCU/Design: Remove remaining HTML tags in ReST files doc: Add some more RCU list patterns in the kernel rcutorture: Set KCSAN Kconfig options to detect more data races rcutorture: Manually clean up after rcu_barrier() failure rcutorture: Make rcu_torture_barrier_cbs() post from corresponding CPU rcuperf: Measure memory footprint during kfree_rcu() test rcutorture: Annotation lockless accesses to rcu_torture_current rcutorture: Add READ_ONCE() to rcu_torture_count and rcu_torture_batch rcutorture: Fix stray access to rcu_fwd_cb_nodelay rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_one_read()/rcu_torture_writer() data race rcutorture: Make kvm-find-errors.sh abort on bad directory ...
2020-03-31Merge tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200214 upstream release including: * Fix to re-enable the sleep button after wakeup (Anchal Agarwal). * Fixes for mistakes in comments and typos (Bob Moore). * ASL-ASL+ converter updates (Erik Kaneda). * Type casting cleanups (Sven Barth). - Clean up the intialization of the EC driver and eliminate some dead code from it (Rafael Wysocki). - Clean up the quirk tables in the AC and battery drivers (Hans de Goede). - Fix the global lock handling on x86 to ignore unspecified bit positions in the global lock field (Jan Engelhardt). - Add a new "tiny" driver for ACPI button devices exposed by VMs to guest kernels to send signals directly to init (Josh Triplett). - Add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRT on x86 (Alex Hung). - Make the ACPI PCI host bridge and fan drivers use scnprintf() to avoid potential buffer overflows (Takashi Iwai). - Clean up assorted pieces of code: * Reorder "asmlinkage" to make g++ happy (Alexey Dobriyan). * Drop unneeded variable initialization (Colin Ian King). * Add missing __acquires/__releases annotations (Jules Irenge). * Replace list_for_each_safe() with list_for_each_entry_safe() (chenqiwu)" * tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (31 commits) ACPICA: Update version to 20200214 ACPI: PCI: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow ACPI: fan: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow ACPI: EC: Eliminate EC_FLAGS_QUERY_HANDSHAKE ACPI: EC: Do not clear boot_ec_is_ecdt in acpi_ec_add() ACPI: EC: Simplify acpi_ec_ecdt_start() and acpi_ec_init() ACPI: EC: Consolidate event handler installation code acpi/x86: ignore unspecified bit positions in the ACPI global lock field acpi/x86: add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRT x86/acpi: make "asmlinkage" part first thing in the function definition ACPI: list_for_each_safe() -> list_for_each_entry_safe() ACPI: video: remove redundant assignments to variable result ACPI: OSL: Add missing __acquires/__releases annotations ACPI / battery: Cleanup Lenovo Ideapad Miix 320 DMI table entry ACPI / AC: Cleanup DMI quirk table ACPI: EC: Use fast path in acpi_ec_add() for DSDT boot EC ACPI: EC: Simplify acpi_ec_add() ACPI: EC: Drop AE_NOT_FOUND special case from ec_install_handlers() ACPI: EC: Avoid passing redundant argument to functions ACPI: EC: Avoid printing confusing messages in acpi_ec_setup() ...
2020-03-30Merge tag 'driver-core-5.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+18
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" set of driver core changes for 5.7-rc1. Nothing huge in here, just lots of little firmware core changes and use of new apis, a libfs fix, a debugfs api change, and some driver core deferred probe rework. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (44 commits) Revert "driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default" driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default driver core: Replace open-coded list_last_entry() driver core: Read atomic counter once in driver_probe_done() libfs: fix infoleak in simple_attr_read() driver core: Add device links from fwnode only for the primary device platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add info for the Chuwi Vi8 Plus tablet platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add EFI embedded firmware info support Input: icn8505 - Switch to firmware_request_platform for retreiving the fw Input: silead - Switch to firmware_request_platform for retreiving the fw selftests: firmware: Add firmware_request_platform tests test_firmware: add support for firmware_request_platform firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform() Revert "drivers: base: power: wakeup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking" drivers: base: power: wakeup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking component: allow missing unbind callback debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_file_size() debugfs: Check module state before warning in {full/open}_proxy_open() firmware: fix a double abort case with fw_load_sysfs_fallback arch_topology: Fix putting invalid cpu clk ...
2020-03-30Merge tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-10/+16
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This has been a busy cycle for documentation work. Highlights include: - Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others. Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe... - Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api manual. - Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation. - Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..." * tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits) Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual ...
2020-03-24Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+19
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney: - Make kfree_rcu() use kfree_bulk() for added performance - RCU updates - Callback-overload handling updates - Tasks-RCU KCSAN and sparse updates - Locking torture test and RCU torture test updates - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-03-24x86/vmware: Enable steal time accountingAlexey Makhalov1-1/+1
Set paravirt_steal_rq_enabled if steal clock present. paravirt_steal_rq_enabled is used in sched/core.c to adjust task progress by offsetting stolen time. Use 'no-steal-acc' off switch (share same name with KVM) to disable steal time accounting. Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200323195707.31242-5-amakhalov@vmware.com
2020-03-22Merge branches 'doc.2020.02.27a', 'fixes.2020.03.21a', ↵Paul E. McKenney1-0/+19
'kfree_rcu.2020.02.20a', 'locktorture.2020.02.20a', 'ovld.2020.02.20a', 'rcu-tasks.2020.02.20a', 'srcu.2020.02.20a' and 'torture.2020.02.20a' into HEAD doc.2020.02.27a: Documentation updates. fixes.2020.03.21a: Miscellaneous fixes. kfree_rcu.2020.02.20a: Updates to kfree_rcu(). locktorture.2020.02.20a: Lock torture-test updates. ovld.2020.02.20a: Updates to callback-overload handling. rcu-tasks.2020.02.20a: RCU-tasks updates. srcu.2020.02.20a: SRCU updates. torture.2020.02.20a: Torture-test updates.
2020-03-14acpi/x86: add a kernel parameter to disable ACPI BGRTAlex Hung1-0/+3
BGRT is for displaying seamless OEM logo from booting to login screen; however, this mechanism does not always work well on all configurations and the OEM logo can be displayed multiple times. This looks worse than without BGRT enabled. This patch adds a kernel parameter to disable BGRT in boot time. This is easier than re-compiling a kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT disabled. Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-03-10Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctlGuilherme G. Piccoli1-4/+4
Commit 9c44bc03fff4 ("softlockup: allow panic on lockup") added the softlockup_panic sysctl, but didn't add information about it to the file Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst (which in that time certainly wasn't rst and had other name!). This patch just adds the respective documentation and references it from the corresponding entry in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. This patch was strongly based on Scott Wood's commit d22881dc13b6 ("Documentation: Better document the hardlockup_panic sysctl"). Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200310183649.23163-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-09Merge 5.6-rc5 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+4
We need the driver core and debugfs changes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-06sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay periodThara Gopinath1-0/+16
Thermal pressure follows pelt signals which means the decay period for thermal pressure is the default pelt decay period. Depending on SoC characteristics and thermal activity, it might be beneficial to decay thermal pressure slower, but still in-tune with the pelt signals. One way to achieve this is to provide a command line parameter to set a decay shift parameter to an integer between 0 and 10. Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-10-thara.gopinath@linaro.org
2020-03-04of: property: Delete of_devlink kernel commandline optionSaravana Kannan1-6/+0
With the addition of fw_devlink kernel commandline option, of_devlink is redundant and not useful anymore. So, delete it. Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222014038.180923-6-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-04driver core: Add fw_devlink kernel commandline optionSaravana Kannan1-0/+18
fwnode_operations.add_links allows creating device links from information provided by firmware. fwnode_operations.add_links is currently implemented only by OF/devicetree code and a specific case of efi. However, there's nothing preventing ACPI or other firmware types from implementing it. The OF implementation is currently controlled by a kernel commandline parameter called of_devlink. Since this feature is generic isn't limited to OF, add a generic fw_devlink kernel commandline parameter to control this feature across firmware types. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222014038.180923-3-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-02Documentation: nfsroot.rst: Fix references to nfsroot.rstNiklas Söderlund1-4/+4
When converting and moving nfsroot.txt to nfsroot.rst the references to the old text file was not updated to match the change, fix this. Fixes: f9a9349846f92b2d ("Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST") Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200212181332.520545-1-niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-02docs: admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Document earlycon options for i.MX UARTsJonathan Neuschäfer1-0/+6
drivers/tty/serial/imx.c implements these earlycon options. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200229132750.2783-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-27s390/protvirt: introduce host side setupVasily Gorbik1-0/+5
Add "prot_virt" command line option which controls if the kernel protected VMs support is enabled at early boot time. This has to be done early, because it needs large amounts of memory and will disable some features like STP time sync for the lpar. Extend ultravisor info definitions and expose it via uv_info struct filled in during startup. Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> [borntraeger@de.ibm.com: patch merging, splitting, fixing] Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>