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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 48 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst | 54 |
2 files changed, 94 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 04545725f187..9b3c086d4266 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2279,8 +2279,7 @@ state is kept private from the host. Not valid if the kernel is running in EL2. - Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support and - the value of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE. + Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 @@ -4061,6 +4060,17 @@ fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. + randomize_kstack_offset= + [KNL] Enable or disable kernel stack offset + randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of + entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks + that depend on stack address determinism or + cross-syscall address exposures. This is only + available on architectures that have defined + CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. + Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) + Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. + ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options cec_disable [X86] @@ -5100,27 +5110,37 @@ spia_peddr= split_lock_detect= - [X86] Enable split lock detection + [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic instructions that access data across cache line - boundaries will result in an alignment check exception. + boundaries will result in an alignment check exception + for split lock detection or a debug exception for + bus lock detection. off - not enabled - warn - the kernel will emit rate limited warnings + warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings about applications triggering the #AC - exception. This mode is the default on CPUs - that supports split lock detection. + exception or the #DB exception. This mode is + the default on CPUs that support split lock + detection or bus lock detection. Default + behavior is by #AC if both features are + enabled in hardware. fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications - that trigger the #AC exception. + that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB + exception. Default behavior is by #AC if + both features are enabled in hardware. If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" mode. + #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when + CPL > 0. + srbds= [X86,INTEL] Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation. @@ -5462,6 +5482,18 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details. + trusted.source= [KEYS] + Format: <string> + This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend + for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust + sources: + - "tpm" + - "tee" + If not specified then it defaults to iterating through + the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the + first trust source as a backend which is initialized + successfully during iteration. + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst index 404a5c3d9d00..546979360513 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst @@ -53,6 +53,60 @@ Example usage of perf:: $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl3_l3c0/rd_hit_cpipe/ sleep 5 $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl3_l3c0/config=0x02/ sleep 5 +For HiSilicon uncore PMU v2 whose identifier is 0x30, the topology is the same +as PMU v1, but some new functions are added to the hardware. + +(a) L3C PMU supports filtering by core/thread within the cluster which can be +specified as a bitmap:: + + $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl3_l3c0/config=0x02,tt_core=0x3/ sleep 5 + +This will only count the operations from core/thread 0 and 1 in this cluster. + +(b) Tracetag allow the user to chose to count only read, write or atomic +operations via the tt_req parameeter in perf. The default value counts all +operations. tt_req is 3bits, 3'b100 represents read operations, 3'b101 +represents write operations, 3'b110 represents atomic store operations and +3'b111 represents atomic non-store operations, other values are reserved:: + + $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl3_l3c0/config=0x02,tt_req=0x4/ sleep 5 + +This will only count the read operations in this cluster. + +(c) Datasrc allows the user to check where the data comes from. It is 5 bits. +Some important codes are as follows: +5'b00001: comes from L3C in this die; +5'b01000: comes from L3C in the cross-die; +5'b01001: comes from L3C which is in another socket; +5'b01110: comes from the local DDR; +5'b01111: comes from the cross-die DDR; +5'b10000: comes from cross-socket DDR; +etc, it is mainly helpful to find that the data source is nearest from the CPU +cores. If datasrc_cfg is used in the multi-chips, the datasrc_skt shall be +configured in perf command:: + + $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl3_l3c0/config=0xb9,datasrc_cfg=0xE/, + hisi_sccl3_l3c0/config=0xb9,datasrc_cfg=0xF/ sleep 5 + +(d)Some HiSilicon SoCs encapsulate multiple CPU and IO dies. Each CPU die +contains several Compute Clusters (CCLs). The I/O dies are called Super I/O +clusters (SICL) containing multiple I/O clusters (ICLs). Each CCL/ICL in the +SoC has a unique ID. Each ID is 11bits, include a 6-bit SCCL-ID and 5-bit +CCL/ICL-ID. For I/O die, the ICL-ID is followed by: +5'b00000: I/O_MGMT_ICL; +5'b00001: Network_ICL; +5'b00011: HAC_ICL; +5'b10000: PCIe_ICL; + +Users could configure IDs to count data come from specific CCL/ICL, by setting +srcid_cmd & srcid_msk, and data desitined for specific CCL/ICL by setting +tgtid_cmd & tgtid_msk. A set bit in srcid_msk/tgtid_msk means the PMU will not +check the bit when matching against the srcid_cmd/tgtid_cmd. + +If all of these options are disabled, it can works by the default value that +doesn't distinguish the filter condition and ID information and will return +the total counter values in the PMU counters. + The current driver does not support sampling. So "perf record" is unsupported. Also attach to a task is unsupported as the events are all uncore. |