starfive-tech/linux.git/init, branch master

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-05-07T07:34:51+00:00

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: "This is everything else from -mm for this merge window. 90 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub), alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat, checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov, panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc, drivers/char, and spelling" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (90 commits) mm: fix typos in comments mm: fix typos in comments treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft ipc/sem.c: spelling fix fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values kernel/sys.c: fix typo kernel/up.c: fix typo kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -> "desired" scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw" scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow" arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite() mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr() drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good mm: fix some typos and code style problems ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes ...

modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH

2021-05-07T07:26:33+00:00

Allow the developer to specifiy the initial value of the modprobe_path[] string. This can be used to set it to the empty string initially, thus effectively disabling request_module() during early boot until userspace writes a new value via the /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe interface. [1] When building a custom kernel (often for an embedded target), it's normal to build everything into the kernel that is needed for booting, and indeed the initramfs often contains no modules at all, so every such request_module() done before userspace init has mounted the real rootfs is a waste of time. This is particularly useful when combined with the previous patch, which made the initramfs unpacking asynchronous - for that to work, it had to make any usermodehelper call wait for the unpacking to finish before attempting to invoke the userspace helper. By eliminating all such (known-to-be-futile) calls of usermodehelper, the initramfs unpacking and the {device,late}_initcalls can proceed in parallel for much longer. For a relatively slow ppc board I'm working on, the two patches combined lead to 0.2s faster boot - but more importantly, the fact that the initramfs unpacking proceeds completely in the background while devices get probed means I get to handle the gpio watchdog in time without getting reset. [1] __request_module() already has an early -ENOENT return when modprobe_path is the empty string. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-3-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Jessica Yu Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously

2021-05-07T07:26:33+00:00

Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3. These two patches are independent, but better-together. The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g. the empty string, so that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the initramfs unpacking. The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread, allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_ initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of rootfs) to finish. Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any places I have missed. There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is only available as modules. But systems with a custom-made .config and initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating most of the first benefit). This patch (of 2): Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed. So instead of doing the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread. This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get attention soon enough. By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the watchdog much sooner. Normal desktops might benefit as well. On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel, my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M. That takes almost two seconds: [ 0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg. With this patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs() finished. Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_ and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this completely safe. But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one of the official kernel interfaces (i.e. request_firmware*(), call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs(). So there is an escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-05-05T20:50:15+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "The remainder of the main mm/ queue. 143 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series (all mm): pagecache, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, migration, cma, ksm, vmstat, mmap, kconfig, util, memory-hotplug, zswap, zsmalloc, highmem, cleanups, and kfence" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (143 commits) kfence: use power-efficient work queue to run delayed work kfence: maximize allocation wait timeout duration kfence: await for allocation using wait_event kfence: zero guard page after out-of-bounds access mm/process_vm_access.c: remove duplicate include mm/mempool: minor coding style tweaks mm/highmem.c: fix coding style issue btrfs: use memzero_page() instead of open coded kmap pattern iov_iter: lift memzero_page() to highmem.h mm/zsmalloc: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG. mm/zswap.c: switch from strlcpy to strscpy arm64/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE x86/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE mm,memory_hotplug: add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory acpi,memhotplug: enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range mm,memory_hotplug: factor out adjusting present pages into adjust_present_page_count() mm,memory_hotplug: relax fully spanned sections check drivers/base/memory: introduce memory_block_{online,offline} mm/memory_hotplug: remove broken locking of zone PCP structures during hot remove ...

userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode

2021-05-05T18:27:22+00:00

Patch series "userfaultfd: add minor fault handling", v9. Overview ======== This series adds a new userfaultfd feature, UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS. When enabled (via the UFFDIO_API ioctl), this feature means that any hugetlbfs VMAs registered with UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING will *also* get events for "minor" faults. By "minor" fault, I mean the following situation: Let there exist two mappings (i.e., VMAs) to the same page(s) (shared memory). One of the mappings is registered with userfaultfd (in minor mode), and the other is not. Via the non-UFFD mapping, the underlying pages have already been allocated & filled with some contents. The UFFD mapping has not yet been faulted in; when it is touched for the first time, this results in what I'm calling a "minor" fault. As a concrete example, when working with hugetlbfs, we have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() finds an existing page. We also add a new ioctl to resolve such faults: UFFDIO_CONTINUE. The idea is, userspace resolves the fault by either a) doing nothing if the contents are already correct, or b) updating the underlying contents using the second, non-UFFD mapping (via memcpy/memset or similar, or something fancier like RDMA, or etc...). In either case, userspace issues UFFDIO_CONTINUE to tell the kernel "I have ensured the page contents are correct, carry on setting up the mapping". Use Case ======== Consider the use case of VM live migration (e.g. under QEMU/KVM): 1. While a VM is still running, we copy the contents of its memory to a target machine. The pages are populated on the target by writing to the non-UFFD mapping, using the setup described above. The VM is still running (and therefore its memory is likely changing), so this may be repeated several times, until we decide the target is "up to date enough". 2. We pause the VM on the source, and start executing on the target machine. During this gap, the VM's user(s) will *see* a pause, so it is desirable to minimize this window. 3. Between the last time any page was copied from the source to the target, and when the VM was paused, the contents of that page may have changed - and therefore the copy we have on the target machine is out of date. Although we can keep track of which pages are out of date, for VMs with large amounts of memory, it is "slow" to transfer this information to the target machine. We want to resume execution before such a transfer would complete. 4. So, the guest begins executing on the target machine. The first time it touches its memory (via the UFFD-registered mapping), userspace wants to intercept this fault. Userspace checks whether or not the page is up to date, and if not, copies the updated page from the source machine, via the non-UFFD mapping. Finally, whether a copy was performed or not, userspace issues a UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl to tell the kernel "I have ensured the page contents are correct, carry on setting up the mapping". We don't have to do all of the final updates on-demand. The userfaultfd manager can, in the background, also copy over updated pages once it receives the map of which pages are up-to-date or not. Interaction with Existing APIs ============================== Because this is a feature, a registered VMA could potentially receive both missing and minor faults. I spent some time thinking through how the existing API interacts with the new feature: UFFDIO_CONTINUE cannot be used to resolve non-minor faults, as it does not allocate a new page. If UFFDIO_CONTINUE is used on a non-minor fault: - For non-shared memory or shmem, -EINVAL is returned. - For hugetlb, -EFAULT is returned. UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE cannot be used to resolve minor faults. Without modifications, the existing codepath assumes a new page needs to be allocated. This is okay, since userspace must have a second non-UFFD-registered mapping anyway, thus there isn't much reason to want to use these in any case (just memcpy or memset or similar). - If UFFDIO_COPY is used on a minor fault, -EEXIST is returned. - If UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE is used on a minor fault, -EEXIST is returned (or -EINVAL in the case of hugetlb, as UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE is unsupported in any case). - UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT simply doesn't work with shared memory, and returns -ENOENT in that case (regardless of the kind of fault). Future Work =========== This series only supports hugetlbfs. I have a second series in flight to support shmem as well, extending the functionality. This series is more mature than the shmem support at this point, and the functionality works fully on hugetlbfs, so this series can be merged first and then shmem support will follow. This patch (of 6): This feature allows userspace to intercept "minor" faults. By "minor" faults, I mean the following situation: Let there exist two mappings (i.e., VMAs) to the same page(s). One of the mappings is registered with userfaultfd (in minor mode), and the other is not. Via the non-UFFD mapping, the underlying pages have already been allocated & filled with some contents. The UFFD mapping has not yet been faulted in; when it is touched for the first time, this results in what I'm calling a "minor" fault. As a concrete example, when working with hugetlbfs, we have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() finds an existing page. This commit adds the new registration mode, and sets the relevant flag on the VMAs being registered. In the hugetlb fault path, if we find that we have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() does indeed find an existing page, then we have a "minor" fault, and if the VMA has the userfaultfd registration flag, we call into userfaultfd to handle it. This is implemented as a new registration mode, instead of an API feature. This is because the alternative implementation has significant drawbacks [1]. However, doing it this was requires we allocate a VM_* flag for the new registration mode. On 32-bit systems, there are no unused bits, so this feature is only supported on architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS. When attempting to register a VMA in MINOR mode on 32-bit architectures, we return -EINVAL. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1380226/ [peterx@redhat.com: fix minor fault page leak] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322175132.36659-1-peterx@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-1-axelrasmussen@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-2-axelrasmussen@google.com Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen Reviewed-by: Peter Xu Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chinwen Chang Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: Lokesh Gidra Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: "Michal Koutn" Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Shawn Anastasio Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Steven Price Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Adam Ruprecht Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Cannon Matthews Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Mina Almasry Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'trace-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2021-05-03T18:19:54+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "New feature: - A new "func-no-repeats" option in tracefs/options directory. When set the function tracer will detect if the current function being traced is the same as the previous one, and instead of recording it, it will keep track of the number of times that the function is repeated in a row. And when another function is recorded, it will write a new event that shows the function that repeated, the number of times it repeated and the time stamp of when the last repeated function occurred. Enhancements: - In order to implement the above "func-no-repeats" option, the ring buffer timestamp can now give the accurate timestamp of the event as it is being recorded, instead of having to record an absolute timestamp for all events. This helps the histogram code which no longer needs to waste ring buffer space. - New validation logic to make sure all trace events that access dereferenced pointers do so in a safe way, and will warn otherwise. Fixes: - No longer limit the PIDs of tasks that are recorded for "saved_cmdlines" to PID_MAX_DEFAULT (32768), as systemd now allows for a much larger range. This caused the mapping of PIDs to the task names to be dropped for all tasks with a PID greater than 32768. - Change trace_clock_global() to never block. This caused a deadlock. Clean ups: - Typos, prototype fixes, and removing of duplicate or unused code. - Better management of ftrace_page allocations" * tag 'trace-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (32 commits) tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block tracing: Map all PIDs to command lines ftrace: Reuse the output of the function tracer for func_repeats tracing: Add "func_no_repeats" option for function tracing tracing: Unify the logic for function tracing options tracing: Add method for recording "func_repeats" events tracing: Add "last_func_repeats" to struct trace_array tracing: Define new ftrace event "func_repeats" tracing: Define static void trace_print_time() ftrace: Simplify the calculation of page number for ftrace_page->records some more ftrace: Store the order of pages allocated in ftrace_page tracing: Remove unused argument from "ring_buffer_time_stamp() tracing: Remove duplicate struct declaration in trace_events.h tracing: Update create_system_filter() kernel-doc comment tracing: A minor cleanup for create_system_filter() kernel: trace: Mundane typo fixes in the file trace_events_filter.c tracing: Fix various typos in comments scripts/recordmcount.pl: Make vim and emacs indent the same scripts/recordmcount.pl: Make indent spacing consistent tracing: Add a verifier to check string pointers for trace events ...

Merge tag 'integrity-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity

2021-05-01T22:32:18+00:00

Pull IMA updates from Mimi Zohar: "In addition to loading the kernel module signing key onto the builtin keyring, load it onto the IMA keyring as well. Also six trivial changes and bug fixes" * tag 'integrity-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity: ima: ensure IMA_APPRAISE_MODSIG has necessary dependencies ima: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang integrity: Add declarations to init_once void arguments. ima: Fix function name error in comment. ima: enable loading of build time generated key on .ima keyring ima: enable signing of modules with build time generated key keys: cleanup build time module signing keys ima: Fix the error code for restoring the PCR value ima: without an IMA policy loaded, return quickly

mm: move mem_init_print_info() into mm_init()

2021-04-30T18:20:42+00:00

mem_init_print_info() is called in mem_init() on each architecture, and pass NULL argument, so using void argument and move it into mm_init(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317015210.33641-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: Dave Hansen [x86] Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy [powerpc] Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev [sparc64] Acked-by: Russell King [arm] Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: HUGE_VMAP arch support cleanup

2021-04-30T18:20:40+00:00

This changes the awkward approach where architectures provide init functions to determine which levels they can provide large mappings for, to one where the arch is queried for each call. This removes code and indirection, and allows constant-folding of dead code for unsupported levels. This also adds a prot argument to the arch query. This is unused currently but could help with some architectures (e.g., some powerpc processors can't map uncacheable memory with large pages). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317062402.533919-7-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Ding Tianhong Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Russell King Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2021-04-29T21:32:00+00:00

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Change 'option defconfig' to the environment variable KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST - Refactor tinyconfig without using allnoconfig_y - Remove 'option allnoconfig_y' syntax - Change 'option modules' to 'modules' - Do not use /boot/config-* etc. as base config for cross-compilation - Fix a search bug in nconf - Various code cleanups * tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits) kconfig: refactor .gitignore kconfig: highlight xconfig 'comment' lines with '***' kconfig: highlight gconfig 'comment' lines with '***' kconfig: gconf: remove unused code kconfig: remove unused PACKAGE definition kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y kconfig: nconf: refactor in print_in_middle() kconfig: nconf: remove meaningless wattrset() call from show_menu() kconfig: nconf: change set_config_filename() to void function kconfig: nconf: refactor attributes setup code kconfig: nconf: remove unneeded default for menu prompt kconfig: nconf: get rid of (void) casts from wattrset() calls kconfig: nconf: fix NORMAL attributes kconfig: mconf,nconf: remove unneeded '\0' termination after snprintf() kconfig: use /boot/config-* etc. as DEFCONFIG_LIST only for native build kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag kconfig: nconf: fix core dump when searching in empty menu kconfig: lxdialog: A spello fix and a punctuation added kconfig: streamline_config.pl: Couple of typo fixes ...