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Currently we need to use as many acpi_mask_gpe options as we want to have
GPEs to be masked. Even with two it already becomes inconveniently large
the kernel command line.
Instead, allow acpi_mask_gpe to represent bitmap list.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Consolidating the flush queue logic also meant that the "iommu.strict"
option started taking effect on x86 as well. Make sure we document that.
Fixes: a250c23f15c2 ("iommu: remove DOMAIN_ATTR_DMA_USE_FLUSH_QUEUE")
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2c8c06e1b449d6b060c5bf9ad3b403cd142f405d.1623682646.git.robin.murphy@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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Add a kernel command line option that disables printing of events to
console at late_initcall_sync(). This is useful when needing to see
specific events written to console on boot up, but not wanting it when
user space starts, as user space may make the console so noisy that the
system becomes inoperable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Commit bf382fb0bcef4 ("block: remove legacy IO schedulers", Oct 12 2018)
removes the CFQ scheduler, together with blkio.weight and
blkio.weight_device described in cgroup v1 documentation. Users are
supposed to use the BFQ scheduler, which cgroup file for setting weight
is blkio.bfq.weight, but there is no way to set per-device weight.
Later, commit 795fe54c2a8 per-device weights for BFQ, meaning that
blkio.bfq.weight and blkio.bfq.weight_device can be used in a way
similar to the old CFQ cgroup interface.
Yet, the cgroup v1 docs were never updated. Fix this:
- use the new file names;
- fix the range for weight (used to be 10..1000, now 1..1000);
- link to BFQ scheduler docs.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Fix many formatting issues by stop (ab)using itemized lists for
everything (mostly replaced by definition lists).
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Remove redundant details of blkdev and fix up resulting kerndoc.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Stop poking into block layer internals and just open the block device
file an use kernel_read and kernel_write on it. Note that this means
the transformation from name_to_dev_t can't be used anymore when
pstore_blk is loaded as a module: a full filesystem device path name
must be used instead. Additionally removes ":internal:" kerndoc link,
since no such documentation remains.
Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst is the wrong place to describe
sysfs ABI. So move the cputopology ABI things to
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu and add a reference to
ABI doc in Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319041618.14316-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611052249.25776-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Some parts of the guide are aged, hence need be updated.
1) The backup area of the 1st 640K on X86_64 has been removed
by below commits, update the description accordingly.
commit 7c321eb2b843 ("x86/kdump: Remove the backup region handling")
commit 6f599d84231f ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified")
2) Sort out the descripiton of "crashkernel syntax" part.
3) And some other minor cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609083218.GB591017@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
[jc: added blank line to fix added build warning]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Commit acda97acb2e98c9 changes dax.txt to dax.rst.
Fix the references accordingly.
Cc: Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611030044.1982911-4-kolyshkin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There are two descriptions of the TEO (Timer Events Oriented) cpuidle
governor in the kernel source tree, one in the C file containing its
code and one in cpuidle.rst which is part of admin-guide.
Instead of trying to keep them both in sync and in order to reduce
text duplication, include the governor description from the C file
directly into cpuidle.rst.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Update document for the mixing value and subkeys on a key.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162262196510.264090.15044943496205914148.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Now that core scheduling is merged, update the documentation.
Co-developed-by: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com>
Co-developed-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210603013136.370918-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
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PSI accounts stalls for each cgroup separately and aggregates it at each
level of the hierarchy. This causes additional overhead with psi_avgs_work
being called for each cgroup in the hierarchy. psi_avgs_work has been
highly optimized, however on systems with large number of cgroups the
overhead becomes noticeable.
Systems which use PSI only at the system level could avoid this overhead
if PSI can be configured to skip per-cgroup stall accounting.
Add "cgroup_disable=pressure" kernel command-line option to allow
requesting system-wide only pressure stall accounting. When set, it
keeps system-wide accounting under /proc/pressure/ but skips accounting
for individual cgroups and does not expose PSI nodes in cgroup hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW build time and reservelow= command line option
allowed to control the amount of memory under 1M that would be reserved at
boot to avoid using memory that can be potentially clobbered by BIOS.
Since the entire range under 1M is always reserved there is no need for
these options anymore and they can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601075354.5149-3-rppt@kernel.org
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Add this option to enable the IOMMU on platforms like AMD Stoney,
where the kernel usually disables it because it may cause problems in
some scenarios.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210603130203.29016-1-joro@8bytes.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/html/Markdown->ReST
conversion and some cut-and-pasted text contain some characters that
aren't easily reachable on standard keyboards and/or could cause
troubles when parsed by the documentation build system.
Replace the occurences of the following characters:
- U+201c ('“'): LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
- U+201d ('”'): RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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The header defines the user space interface but may be mistaken as
kernel-only header due to its location. Add "uapi" directory under
driver's include directory and move the header there.
Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bingbu Cao <bingbu.cao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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With help from platform firmware (ACPI) it is possible to power on
retimers even when there is no USB4 link (e.g nothing is connected to
the USB4 ports). This allows us to bring the USB4 sideband up so that we
can access retimers and upgrade their NVM firmware.
If the platform has support for this, we expose two additional
attributes under USB4 ports: offline and rescan. These can be used to
bring the port offline, rescan for the retimers and put the port online
again. The retimer NVM upgrade itself works the same way than with cable
connected.
Signed-off-by: Rajmohan Mani <rajmohan.mani@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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We need the tty/serial fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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risc-v and arm64 support numa=off by common arch_numa_init()
in drivers/base/arch_numa.c. x86, ppc, mips, sparc support it
by arch-level early_param.
numa=off is widely used in linux distributions. it is better
to document it.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210524051715.13604-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter,
can and wireless trees. Notably including fixes for the recently
announced "FragAttacks" WiFi vulnerabilities. Rather large batch,
touching some core parts of the stack, too, but nothing hair-raising.
Current release - regressions:
- tipc: make node link identity publish thread safe
- dsa: felix: re-enable TAS guard band mode
- stmmac: correct clocks enabled in stmmac_vlan_rx_kill_vid()
- stmmac: fix system hang if change mac address after interface
ifdown
Current release - new code bugs:
- mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()
- bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers
- ethtool: stats: fix a copy-paste error - init correct array size
Previous releases - regressions:
- sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc
- net: really orphan skbs tied to closing sk
- mlx4: fix EEPROM dump support
- bpf: fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations
- bpf: fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change
- bpf, offload: reorder offload callback 'prepare' in verifier
- stmmac: Fix MAC WoL not working if PHY does not support WoL
- packetmmap: fix only tx timestamp on request
- tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs
Previous releases - always broken:
- mac80211: address recent "FragAttacks" vulnerabilities
- mac80211: do not accept/forward invalid EAPOL frames
- mptcp: avoid potential error message floods
- bpf, ringbuf: deny reserve of buffers larger than ringbuf to
prevent out of buffer writes
- bpf: forbid trampoline attach for functions with variable arguments
- bpf: add deny list of functions to prevent inf recursion of tracing
programs
- tls splice: check SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK instead of MSG_DONTWAIT
- can: isotp: prevent race between isotp_bind() and
isotp_setsockopt()
- netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: Add irq_fpu_usable() check,
fallback to non-AVX2 version
Misc:
- bpf: add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default"
* tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (172 commits)
net: phy: Document phydev::dev_flags bits allocation
mptcp: validate 'id' when stopping the ADD_ADDR retransmit timer
mptcp: avoid error message on infinite mapping
mptcp: drop unconditional pr_warn on bad opt
mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt()
nfp: update maintainer and mailing list addresses
net: mvpp2: add buffer header handling in RX
bnx2x: Fix missing error code in bnx2x_iov_init_one()
net: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation
net: hns: Fix kernel-doc
sctp: fix the proc_handler for sysctl encap_port
sctp: add the missing setting for asoc encap_port
bpf, selftests: Adjust few selftest result_unpriv outcomes
bpf: No need to simulate speculative domain for immediates
bpf: Fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change
bpf: Wrap aux data inside bpf_sanitize_info container
bpf: Fix BPF_LSM kconfig symbol dependency
selftests/bpf: Add test for l3 use of bpf_redirect_peer
bpftool: Add sock_release help info for cgroup attach/prog load command
net: dsa: microchip: enable phy errata workaround on 9567
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Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs.
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-4-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The turbo_pct and num_pstates sysfs attributes represent CPU
properties that may be different for differenty types of CPUs in
a hybrid processor, so avoid exposing them in that case.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Most litex boards using RISC-V soft cores us the sbi earlycon, however
this is not available for non RISC-V litex SoC's. This patch enables
earlycon for liteuart which is available on all Litex SoC's making
support for earycon debugging more widely available.
Cc: Florent Kermarrec <florent@enjoy-digital.fr>
Cc: Mateusz Holenko <mholenko@antmicro.com>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Gabriel L. Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210517115453.24365-1-shorne@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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'fixes.2021.05.13a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c', 'mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c', 'nocb.2021.05.12a', 'srcu.2021.05.12a', 'tasks.2021.05.18a' and 'torture.2021.05.10c' into HEAD
bitmaprange.2021.05.10c: Allow "all" for bitmap ranges.
doc.2021.05.10c: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.05.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c: kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c: mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.05.12a: RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
srcu.2021.05.12a: SRCU updates.
tasks.2021.05.18a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.05.10c: Torture-test updates.
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Since bus lock rate limit changes the split_lock_detect parameter,
update the documentation for the change.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419214958.4035512-4-fenghua.yu@intel.com
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Update sysctl/kernel.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512114035.GH3672@suse.de
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When I added CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH, I neglected to update Documentation/.
It's still true that this defaults to /sbin/modprobe, but now via a level
of indirection. So document that the kernel might have been built with
something other than /sbin/modprobe as the initial value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210420125324.1246826-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Fixes: 17652f4240f7a ("modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It's been a few releases since this defaulted to /sbin/hotplug. Update
the text, and include pointers to the two CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER{,_PATH}
config knobs whose help text could provide more info, but also hint
that the user probably doesn't need to care at all.
Fixes: 7934779a69f1 ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210420120638.1104016-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Assuming this stuff isn't actually used much; disable it by default
and avoid allocating and tracking the task_delay_info structure.
taskstats is changed to still report the regular sched and sched_info
and only skip the missing task_delay_info fields instead of not
reporting anything.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505111525.308018373@infradead.org
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Daniel Borkmann says:
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pull-request: bpf 2021-05-11
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree.
We've added 13 non-merge commits during the last 8 day(s) which contain
a total of 21 files changed, 817 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) Fix multiple ringbuf bugs in particular to prevent writable mmap of
read-only pages, from Andrii Nakryiko & Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo.
2) Fix verifier alu32 known-const subregister bound tracking for bitwise
operations and/or/xor, from Daniel Borkmann.
3) Reject trampoline attachment for functions with variable arguments,
and also add a deny list of other forbidden functions, from Jiri Olsa.
4) Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare() calls used by various helpers by
switching to per-CPU buffers, from Florent Revest.
5) Fix kernel compilation with BTF debug info on ppc64 due to pahole
missing TCP-CC functions like cubictcp_init, from Martin KaFai Lau.
6) Add a kconfig entry to provide an option to disallow unprivileged
BPF by default, from Daniel Borkmann.
7) Fix libbpf compilation for older libelf when GELF_ST_VISIBILITY()
macro is not available, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
8) Migrate test_tc_redirect to test_progs framework as prep work
for upcoming skb_change_head() fix & selftest, from Jussi Maki.
9) Fix a libbpf segfault in add_dummy_ksym_var() if BTF is not
present, from Ian Rogers.
10) Fix tx_only micro-benchmark in xdpsock BPF sample with proper frame
size, from Magnus Karlsson.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add a kconfig knob which allows for unprivileged bpf to be disabled by default.
If set, the knob sets /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to value of 2.
This still allows a transition of 2 -> {0,1} through an admin. Similarly,
this also still keeps 1 -> {1} behavior intact, so that once set to permanently
disabled, it cannot be undone aside from a reboot.
We've also added extra2 with max of 2 for the procfs handler, so that an admin
still has a chance to toggle between 0 <-> 2.
Either way, as an additional alternative, applications can make use of CAP_BPF
that we added a while ago.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
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Add a drain_page_cache() function to drain a per-cpu page cache.
The reason behind of it is a system can run into a low memory
condition, in that case a page shrinker can ask for its users
to free their caches in order to get extra memory available for
other needs in a system.
When a system hits such condition, a page cache is drained for
all CPUs in a system. By default a page cache work is delayed
with 5 seconds interval until a memory pressure disappears, if
needed it can be changed. See a rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec
module parameter.
Co-developed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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RCU code supports an 'all' group as a special case when parsing rcu_nocbs
parameter. This patch moves the 'all' support to the core bitmap_parse
code, so that all bitmap users can enjoy this extension.
Moving 'all' parsing to a bitmap_parse level also allows users to pass
patterns together with 'all' in regular group:pattern format, for example,
"rcu_nocbs=all:1/2" would offload all the even-numbered CPUs regardless
of the number of CPUs on the system.
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Give a brief overview of the cgroup.kill functionality.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503143922.3093755-2-brauner@kernel.org
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Merge master back into next, this allows us to resolve some conflicts in
arch/powerpc/Kconfig, and also re-sort the symbols under config PPC so
that they are in alphabetical order again.
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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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (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
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Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".
Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.
Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like
a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
-> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.
b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
-> mem_pfn_is_ram()
Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.
Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.
CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.
1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
/dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"
2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
pages, though)
3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
yourself into the foot.
4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
/proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
kernels can be used.
5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.
Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: James Troup <james.troup@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Theodore Dubois <tblodt@icloud.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for the memtest= kernel command-line argument.
- Support for building the kernel with FORTIFY_SOURCE.
- Support for generic clockevent broadcasts.
- Support for the buildtar build target.
- Some build system cleanups to pass more LLVM-friendly arguments.
- Support for kprobes.
- A rearranged kernel memory map, the first part of supporting sv48
systems.
- Improvements to kexec, along with support for kdump and crash
kernels.
- An alternatives-based errata framework, along with support for
handling a pair of errata that manifest on some SiFive designs
(including the HiFive Unmatched).
- Support for XIP.
- A device tree for the Microchip PolarFire ICICLE SoC and associated
dev board.
... along with a bunch of cleanups. There are already a handful of fixes
on the list so there will likely be a part 2.
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.13-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (45 commits)
RISC-V: Always define XIP_FIXUP
riscv: Remove 32b kernel mapping from page table dump
riscv: Fix 32b kernel build with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y
RISC-V: Fix error code returned by riscv_hartid_to_cpuid()
RISC-V: Enable Microchip PolarFire ICICLE SoC
RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board
dt-bindings: riscv: microchip: Add YAML documentation for the PolarFire SoC
RISC-V: Add Microchip PolarFire SoC kconfig option
RISC-V: enable XIP
RISC-V: Add crash kernel support
RISC-V: Add kdump support
RISC-V: Improve init_resources()
RISC-V: Add kexec support
RISC-V: Add EM_RISCV to kexec UAPI header
riscv: vdso: fix and clean-up Makefile
riscv/mm: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sys_read traced by kprobe
riscv: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX if MMU
riscv: module: Create module allocations without exec permissions
riscv: bpf: Avoid breaking W^X
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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A few late-arriving documentation fixes, including some oprofile
cleanup, a kernel-doc fix, some regression-reporting updates, and the
usual minor fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Enlisted oprofile version line removed
oprofiled version output line removed from the list
Removed the oprofiled version option
docs: reporting-issues.rst: CC subsystem and maintainers on regressions
docs: correct URL to bios and kernel developer's guide
docs/core-api: Consistent code style
docs/zh_CN: Adjust order and content of zh_CN/index.rst
Documentation: input: joydev file corrections
docs: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
kernel-doc: Add support for __deprecated
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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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux
Pull gpio updates from Bartosz Golaszewski:
- new driver for the Realtek Otto GPIO controller
- ACPI support for gpio-mpc8xxx
- edge event support for gpio-sch (+ Kconfig fixes)
- Kconfig improvements in gpio-ich
- fixes to older issues in gpio-mockup
- ACPI quirk for ignoring EC wakeups on Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055
- improve the GPIO aggregator code by using more generic interfaces
instead of reimplementing them in the driver
- convert the DT bindings for gpio-74x164 to yaml
- documentation improvements
- a slew of other minor fixes and improvements to GPIO drivers
* tag 'gpio-updates-for-v5.13-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux: (34 commits)
dt-bindings: gpio: add YAML description for rockchip,gpio-bank
gpio: mxs: remove useless function
dt-bindings: gpio: fairchild,74hc595: Convert to json-schema
gpio: it87: remove unused code
gpio: 104-dio-48e: Fix coding style issues
gpio: mpc8xxx: Add ACPI support
gpio: ich: Switch to be dependent on LPC_ICH
gpio: sch: Drop MFD_CORE selection
gpio: sch: depends on LPC_SCH
gpiolib: acpi: Add quirk to ignore EC wakeups on Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055
gpio: sch: Hook into ACPI GPE handler to catch GPIO edge events
gpio: sch: Add edge event support
gpio: aggregator: Replace custom get_arg() with a generic next_arg()
lib/cmdline: Export next_arg() for being used in modules
gpio: omap: Use device_get_match_data() helper
gpio: Add Realtek Otto GPIO support
dt-bindings: gpio: Binding for Realtek Otto GPIO
docs: kernel-parameters: Add gpio_mockup_named_lines
docs: kernel-parameters: Move gpio-mockup for alphabetic order
lib: bitmap: provide devm_bitmap_alloc() and devm_bitmap_zalloc()
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Self stored memmap leads to a sparse memory situation which is
unsuitable for workloads that requires large contiguous memory chunks,
so make this an opt-in which needs to be explicitly enabled.
To control this, let memory_hotplug have its own memory space, as
suggested by David, so we can add memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421102701.25051-7-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Document the special handling of page pinning when ZONE_MOVABLE present.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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