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2019-01-02Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.21' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: - Page table code for AMD IOMMU now supports large pages where smaller page-sizes were mapped before. VFIO had to work around that in the past and I included a patch to remove it (acked by Alex Williamson) - Patches to unmodularize a couple of IOMMU drivers that would never work as modules anyway. - Work to unify the the iommu-related pointers in 'struct device' into one pointer. This work is not finished yet, but will probably be in the next cycle. - NUMA aware allocation in iommu-dma code - Support for r8a774a1 and r8a774c0 in the Renesas IOMMU driver - Scalable mode support for the Intel VT-d driver - PM runtime improvements for the ARM-SMMU driver - Support for the QCOM-SMMUv2 IOMMU hardware from Qualcom - Various smaller fixes and improvements * tag 'iommu-updates-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (78 commits) iommu: Check for iommu_ops == NULL in iommu_probe_device() ACPI/IORT: Don't call iommu_ops->add_device directly iommu/of: Don't call iommu_ops->add_device directly iommu: Consolitate ->add/remove_device() calls iommu/sysfs: Rename iommu_release_device() dmaengine: sh: rcar-dmac: Use device_iommu_mapped() xhci: Use device_iommu_mapped() powerpc/iommu: Use device_iommu_mapped() ACPI/IORT: Use device_iommu_mapped() iommu/of: Use device_iommu_mapped() driver core: Introduce device_iommu_mapped() function iommu/tegra: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/qcom: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/of: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/mediatek: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/dma: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/arm-smmu: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec ACPI/IORT: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu: Introduce wrappers around dev->iommu_fwspec ...
2019-01-01tty: serial: Add RDA8810PL UART driverManivannan Sadhasivam1-0/+6
Add UART driver for RDA Micro RDA8810PL SoC. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2018-12-29Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds8-32/+132
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes. As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments" * tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits) docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc doc:process: add links where missing docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting doc:it: add some process/* translations doc:it: fixes in process/1.Intro Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation ...
2018-12-29Merge branch 'for-4.21' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-7/+183
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Waiman's cgroup2 cpuset support has been finally merged closing one of the last remaining feature gaps. - cgroup.procs could show non-leader threads when cgroup2 threaded mode was used in certain ways. I forgot to push the fix during the last cycle. - A patch to fix mount option parsing when all mount options have been consumed by someone else (LSM). - cgroup_no_v1 boot param can now block named cgroup1 hierarchies too. * 'for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Add named hierarchy disabling to cgroup_no_v1 boot param cgroup: fix parsing empty mount option string cpuset: Remove set but not used variable 'cs' cgroup: fix CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS cgroup: Add .__DEBUG__. prefix to debug file names cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updates cpuset: Expose cpuset.cpus.subpartitions with cgroup_debug cpuset: Add documentation about the new "cpuset.sched.partition" flag cpuset: Use descriptive text when reading/writing cpuset.sched.partition cpuset: Expose cpus.effective and mems.effective on cgroup v2 root cpuset: Make generate_sched_domains() work with partition cpuset: Make CPU hotplug work with partition cpuset: Track cpusets that use parent's effective_cpus cpuset: Add an error state to cpuset.sched.partition cpuset: Add new v2 cpuset.sched.partition flag cpuset: Simply allocation and freeing of cpumasks cpuset: Define data structures to support scheduling partition cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy cgroup: remove unnecessary unlikely()
2018-12-29Merge tag 'char-misc-4.21-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char and misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1. Lots of different types of driver things in here, as this tree seems to be the "collection of various driver subsystems not big enough to have their own git tree" lately. Anyway, some highlights of the changes in here: - binderfs: is it a rule that all driver subsystems will eventually grow to have their own filesystem? Binder now has one to handle the use of it in containerized systems. This was discussed at the Plumbers conference a few months ago and knocked into mergable shape very fast by Christian Brauner. Who also has signed up to be another binder maintainer, showing a distinct lack of good judgement :) - binder updates and fixes - mei driver updates - fpga driver updates and additions - thunderbolt driver updates - soundwire driver updates - extcon driver updates - nvmem driver updates - hyper-v driver updates - coresight driver updates - pvpanic driver additions and reworking for more device support - lp driver updates. Yes really, it's _finally_ moved to the proper parallal port driver model, something I never thought I would see happen. Good stuff. - other tiny driver updates and fixes. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (116 commits) MAINTAINERS: add another Android binder maintainer intel_th: msu: Fix an off-by-one in attribute store stm class: Add a reference to the SyS-T document stm class: Fix a module refcount leak in policy creation error path char: lp: use new parport device model char: lp: properly count the lp devices char: lp: use first unused lp number while registering char: lp: detach the device when parallel port is removed char: lp: introduce list to save port number bus: qcom: remove duplicated include from qcom-ebi2.c VMCI: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation char/rtc: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure ptp: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check genwqe: Fix size check binder: implement binderfs binder: fix use-after-free due to ksys_close() during fdget() bus: fsl-mc: remove duplicated include files bus: fsl-mc: explicitly define the fsl_mc_command endianness misc: ti-st: make array read_ver_cmd static, shrinks object size ...
2018-12-29Merge tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-3/+5
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block/storage for 4.21. Larger than usual, it was a busy round with lots of goodies queued up. Most notable is the removal of the old IO stack, which has been a long time coming. No new features for a while, everything coming in this week has all been fixes for things that were previously merged. This contains: - Use atomic counters instead of semaphores for mtip32xx (Arnd) - Cleanup of the mtip32xx request setup (Christoph) - Fix for circular locking dependency in loop (Jan, Tetsuo) - bcache (Coly, Guoju, Shenghui) * Optimizations for writeback caching * Various fixes and improvements - nvme (Chaitanya, Christoph, Sagi, Jay, me, Keith) * host and target support for NVMe over TCP * Error log page support * Support for separate read/write/poll queues * Much improved polling * discard OOM fallback * Tracepoint improvements - lightnvm (Hans, Hua, Igor, Matias, Javier) * Igor added packed metadata to pblk. Now drives without metadata per LBA can be used as well. * Fix from Geert on uninitialized value on chunk metadata reads. * Fixes from Hans and Javier to pblk recovery and write path. * Fix from Hua Su to fix a race condition in the pblk recovery code. * Scan optimization added to pblk recovery from Zhoujie. * Small geometry cleanup from me. - Conversion of the last few drivers that used the legacy path to blk-mq (me) - Removal of legacy IO path in SCSI (me, Christoph) - Removal of legacy IO stack and schedulers (me) - Support for much better polling, now without interrupts at all. blk-mq adds support for multiple queue maps, which enables us to have a map per type. This in turn enables nvme to have separate completion queues for polling, which can then be interrupt-less. Also means we're ready for async polled IO, which is hopefully coming in the next release. - Killing of (now) unused block exports (Christoph) - Unification of the blk-rq-qos and blk-wbt wait handling (Josef) - Support for zoned testing with null_blk (Masato) - sx8 conversion to per-host tag sets (Christoph) - IO priority improvements (Damien) - mq-deadline zoned fix (Damien) - Ref count blkcg series (Dennis) - Lots of blk-mq improvements and speedups (me) - sbitmap scalability improvements (me) - Make core inflight IO accounting per-cpu (Mikulas) - Export timeout setting in sysfs (Weiping) - Cleanup the direct issue path (Jianchao) - Export blk-wbt internals in block debugfs for easier debugging (Ming) - Lots of other fixes and improvements" * tag 'for-4.21/block-20181221' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (364 commits) kyber: use sbitmap add_wait_queue/list_del wait helpers sbitmap: add helpers for add/del wait queue handling block: save irq state in blkg_lookup_create() dm: don't reuse bio for flushes nvme-pci: trace SQ status on completions nvme-rdma: implement polling queue map nvme-fabrics: allow user to pass in nr_poll_queues nvme-fabrics: allow nvmf_connect_io_queue to poll nvme-core: optionally poll sync commands block: make request_to_qc_t public nvme-tcp: fix spelling mistake "attepmpt" -> "attempt" nvme-tcp: fix endianess annotations nvmet-tcp: fix endianess annotations nvme-pci: refactor nvme_poll_irqdisable to make sparse happy nvme-pci: only set nr_maps to 2 if poll queues are supported nvmet: use a macro for default error location nvmet: fix comparison of a u16 with -1 blk-mq: enable IO poll if .nr_queues of type poll > 0 blk-mq: change blk_mq_queue_busy() to blk_mq_queue_inflight() blk-mq: skip zero-queue maps in blk_mq_map_swqueue ...
2018-12-28cgroup: Add named hierarchy disabling to cgroup_no_v1 boot paramTejun Heo1-2/+6
It can be useful to inhibit all cgroup1 hierarchies especially during transition and for debugging. cgroup_no_v1 can block hierarchies with controllers which leaves out the named hierarchies. Expand it to cover the named hierarchies so that "cgroup_no_v1=all,named" disables all cgroup1 hierarchies. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Marcin Pawlowski <mpawlowski@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2018-12-28Merge branch 'for-4.20-fixes' into for-4.21Tejun Heo1-1/+1
2018-12-27Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20181224' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux Pull selinux patches from Paul Moore: "I already used my best holiday pull request lines in the audit pull request, so this one is going to be a bit more boring, sorry about that. To make up for this, we do have a birthday of sorts to celebrate: SELinux turns 18 years old this December. Perhaps not the most exciting thing in the world for most people, but I think it's safe to say that anyone reading this email doesn't exactly fall into the "most people" category. Back to business and the pull request itself: Ondrej has five patches in this pull request and I lump them into three categories: one patch to always allow submounts (using similar logic to elsewhere in the kernel), one to fix some issues with the SELinux policydb, and the others to cleanup and improve the SELinux sidtab. The other patches from Alexey and Petr and trivial fixes that are adequately described in their respective subject lines. With this last pull request of the year, I want to thank everyone who has contributed patches, testing, and reviews to the SELinux project this year, and the past 18 years. Like any good open source effort, SELinux is only as good as the community which supports it, and I'm very happy that we have the community we do - thank you all!" * tag 'selinux-pr-20181224' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux: selinux: overhaul sidtab to fix bug and improve performance selinux: use separate table for initial SID lookup selinux: make "selinux_policycap_names[]" const char * selinux: always allow mounting submounts selinux: refactor sidtab conversion Documentation: Update SELinux reference policy URL selinux: policydb - fix byte order and alignment issues
2018-12-27Merge tag 'powerpc-4.21-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Notable changes: - Mitigations for Spectre v2 on some Freescale (NXP) CPUs. - A large series adding support for pass-through of Nvidia V100 GPUs to guests on Power9. - Another large series to enable hardware assistance for TLB table walk on MPC8xx CPUs. - Some preparatory changes to our DMA code, to make way for further cleanups from Christoph. - Several fixes for our Transactional Memory handling discovered by fuzzing the signal return path. - Support for generating our system call table(s) from a text file like other architectures. - A fix to our page fault handler so that instead of generating a WARN_ON_ONCE, user accesses of kernel addresses instead print a ratelimited and appropriately scary warning. - A cosmetic change to make our unhandled page fault messages more similar to other arches and also more compact and informative. - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include elimination of legacy clock bindings use from dts files, an 83xx watchdog handler, fixes to old dts interrupt errors, and some minor cleanup." And many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc. Thanks to: Alexandre Belloni, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Darren Stevens, David Gibson, Diana Craciun, Dmitry V. Levin, Firoz Khan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley, Kees Cook, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Mathieu Malaterre, Michal Suchánek, Naveen N. Rao, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai, Ravi Bangoria, Rob Herring, Russell Currey, Sabyasachi Gupta, Sam Bobroff, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Wood, Segher Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Tang Yuantian, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Yangtao Li, Yuantian Tang, Yue Haibing" * tag 'powerpc-4.21-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (201 commits) Revert "powerpc/fsl_pci: simplify fsl_pci_dma_set_mask" powerpc/zImage: Also check for stdout-path powerpc: Fix HMIs on big-endian with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y macintosh: Use of_node_name_{eq, prefix} for node name comparisons ide: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons powerpc: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons powerpc/pseries/pmem: Convert to %pOFn instead of device_node.name powerpc/mm: Remove very old comment in hash-4k.h powerpc/pseries: Fix node leak in update_lmb_associativity_index() powerpc/configs/85xx: Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix dtc-flagged interrupt errors clk: qoriq: add more compatibles strings powerpc/fsl: Use new clockgen binding powerpc/83xx: handle machine check caused by watchdog timer powerpc/fsl-rio: fix spelling mistake "reserverd" -> "reserved" powerpc/fsl_pci: simplify fsl_pci_dma_set_mask arch/powerpc/fsl_rmu: Use dma_zalloc_coherent vfio_pci: Add NVIDIA GV100GL [Tesla V100 SXM2] subdriver vfio_pci: Allow regions to add own capabilities vfio_pci: Allow mapping extra regions ...
2018-12-27Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-18/+17
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest RCU changes in this cycle were: - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar. - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation updates from Joel Fernandes. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture testing. - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a bag-on-head-class bug. - RCU torture-test updates" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (112 commits) rcutorture: Don't do busted forward-progress testing rcutorture: Use 100ms buckets for forward-progress callback histograms rcutorture: Recover from OOM during forward-progress tests rcutorture: Print forward-progress test age upon failure rcutorture: Print time since GP end upon forward-progress failure rcutorture: Print histogram of CB invocation at OOM time rcutorture: Print GP age upon forward-progress failure rcu: Print per-CPU callback counts for forward-progress failures rcu: Account for nocb-CPU callback counts in RCU CPU stall warnings rcutorture: Dump grace-period diagnostics upon forward-progress OOM rcutorture: Prepare for asynchronous access to rcu_fwd_startat torture: Remove unnecessary "ret" variables rcutorture: Affinity forward-progress test to avoid housekeeping CPUs rcutorture: Break up too-long rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function rcutorture: Remove cbflood facility torture: Bring any extra CPUs online during kernel startup rcutorture: Add call_rcu() flooding forward-progress tests rcutorture/formal: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() tools/kernel.h: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() net/decnet: Replace rcu_barrier_bh() with rcu_barrier() ...
2018-12-26Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-1/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner: "No point in speculating what's in this parcel: - Drop the swap storage limit when L1TF is disabled so the full space is available - Add support for the new AMD STIBP always on mitigation mode - Fix a bunch of STIPB typos" * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off x86/speculation: Change misspelled STIPB to STIBP
2018-12-21Merge branches 'pm-cpuidle', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpufreq-sched'Rafael J. Wysocki4-1/+644
* pm-cpuidle: cpuidle: Add 'above' and 'below' idle state metrics cpuidle: big.LITTLE: fix refcount leak cpuidle: Add cpuidle.governor= command line parameter cpuidle: poll_state: Disregard disable idle states Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle document * pm-cpufreq: cpufreq: qcom-hw: Add support for QCOM cpufreq HW driver dt-bindings: cpufreq: Introduce QCOM cpufreq firmware bindings cpufreq: nforce2: Remove meaningless return cpufreq: ia64: Remove unused header files cpufreq: imx6q: save one condition block for normal case of nvmem read cpufreq: imx6q: remove unused code cpufreq: pmac64: add of_node_put() cpufreq: powernv: add of_node_put() Documentation: intel_pstate: Clarify coordination of P-State limits cpufreq: intel_pstate: Force HWP min perf before offline cpufreq: s3c24xx: Change to use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro * pm-cpufreq-sched: sched/cpufreq: Add the SPDX tags
2018-12-20powerpc/fsl: Add FSL_PPC_BOOK3E as supported arch for nospectre_v2 boot argDiana Craciun1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-12-20Merge branches 'iommu/fixes', 'arm/renesas', 'arm/mediatek', 'arm/tegra', ↵Joerg Roedel1-6/+6
'arm/omap', 'arm/smmu', 'x86/vt-d', 'x86/amd' and 'core' into next
2018-12-14Smack: Improve DocumentationJosé Bollo1-0/+4
Add some words about the mount option "smackfstransmute=label". Signed-off-by: José Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
2018-12-13cpuidle: Add 'above' and 'below' idle state metricsRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+10
Add two new metrics for CPU idle states, "above" and "below", to count the number of times the given state had been asked for (or entered from the kernel's perspective), but the observed idle duration turned out to be too short or too long for it (respectively). These metrics help to estimate the quality of the CPU idle governor in use. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-12-11cpuidle: Add cpuidle.governor= command line parameterRafael J. Wysocki2-0/+10
Add cpuidle.governor= command line parameter to allow the default cpuidle governor to be replaced. That is useful, for example, if someone running a tickful kernel wants to use the menu governor on it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-12-11x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=offMichal Hocko2-1/+8
Swap storage is restricted to max_swapfile_size (~16TB on x86_64) whenever the system is deemed affected by L1TF vulnerability. Even though the limit is quite high for most deployments it seems to be too restrictive for deployments which are willing to live with the mitigation disabled. We have a customer to deploy 8x 6,4TB PCIe/NVMe SSD swap devices which is clearly out of the limit. Drop the swap restriction when l1tf=off is specified. It also doesn't make much sense to warn about too much memory for the l1tf mitigation when it is forcefully disabled by the administrator. [ tglx: Folded the documentation delta change ] Fixes: 377eeaa8e11f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181113184910.26697-1-mhocko@kernel.org
2018-12-11iommu/vt-d: Enumerate the scalable mode capabilityLu Baolu1-6/+6
The Intel vt-d spec rev3.0 introduces a new translation mode called scalable mode, which enables PASID-granular translations for first level, second level, nested and pass-through modes. At the same time, the previous Extended Context (ECS) mode is deprecated (no production ever implements ECS). This patch adds enumeration for Scalable Mode and removes the deprecated ECS enumeration. It provides a boot time option to disable scalable mode even hardware claims to support it. Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sanjay Kumar <sanjay.k.kumar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
2018-12-08blkcg: associate writeback bios with a blkgDennis Zhou1-3/+5
One of the goals of this series is to remove a separate reference to the css of the bio. This can and should be accessed via bio_blkcg(). In this patch, wbc_init_bio() now requires a bio to have a device associated with it. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-12-06doc:process: add links where missingFederico Vaga1-0/+1
Some documents are refering to others without links. With this patch I add those missing links. This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where necessary. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-06Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rstAlexey Budankov1-0/+1
Extend index.rst index file at admin-guide root directory with the reference to perf-security.rst file being introduced. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-06Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst fileAlexey Budankov1-0/+97
Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-12-05thunderbolt: Export IOMMU based DMA protection support to userspaceMika Westerberg1-0/+20
Recent systems with Thunderbolt ports may support IOMMU natively. In practice this means that Thunderbolt connected devices are placed behind an IOMMU during the whole time it is connected (including during boot) making Thunderbolt security levels redundant. This is called Kernel DMA protection [1] by Microsoft. Some of these systems still have Thunderbolt security level set to "user" in order to support OS downgrade (the older version of the OS might not support IOMMU based DMA protection so connecting a device still relies on user approval). Export this information to userspace by introducing a new sysfs attribute (iommu_dma_protection). Based on it userspace tools can make more accurate decision whether or not authorize the connected device. In addition update Thunderbolt documentation regarding IOMMU based DMA protection. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/kernel-dma-protection-for-thunderbolt Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>
2018-12-04Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-18/+17
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney: - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar. - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation updates from Joel Fernandes. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture testing. - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a bag-on-head-class bug. - RCU torture-test updates. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-12-03Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle documentRafael J. Wysocki2-0/+615
Important information is missing from user/admin cpuidle documentation available today, so add a new user/admin document for cpuidle containing current and comprehensive information to admin-guide and drop the old .txt documents it is replacing. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
2018-12-01rcutorture: Remove cbflood facilityPaul E. McKenney1-18/+0
Now that the forward-progress code does a full-bore continuous callback flood lasting multiple seconds, there is little point in also posting a mere 60,000 callbacks every second or so. This commit therefore removes the old cbflood testing. Over time, it may be desirable to concurrently do full-bore continuous callback floods on all CPUs simultaneously, but one dragon at a time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-12-01Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+54
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull STIBP fallout fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The performance destruction department finally got it's act together and came up with a cure for the STIPB regression: - Provide a command line option to control the spectre v2 user space mitigations. Default is either seccomp or prctl (if seccomp is disabled in Kconfig). prctl allows mitigation opt-in, seccomp enables the migitation for sandboxed processes. - Rework the code to handle the conditional STIBP/IBPB control and remove the now unused ptrace_may_access_sched() optimization attempt - Disable STIBP automatically when SMT is disabled - Optimize the switch_to() logic to avoid MSR writes and invocations of __switch_to_xtra(). - Make the asynchronous speculation TIF updates synchronous to prevent stale mitigation state. As a general cleanup this also makes retpoline directly depend on compiler support and removes the 'minimal retpoline' option which just pretended to provide some form of security while providing none" * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation x86/speculation: Prepare arch_smt_update() for PRCTL mode x86/speculation: Prevent stale SPEC_CTRL msr content x86/speculation: Split out TIF update ptrace: Remove unused ptrace_may_access_sched() and MODE_IBRS x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() x86/speculation: Avoid __switch_to_xtra() calls x86/process: Consolidate and simplify switch_to_xtra() code x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation x86/speculation: Unify conditional spectre v2 print functions x86/speculataion: Mark command line parser data __initdata x86/speculation: Mark string arrays const correctly x86/speculation: Reorder the spec_v2 code x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key ...
2018-12-01psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernelsJohannes Weiner1-0/+4
Mel Gorman reports a hackbench regression with psi that would prohibit shipping the suse kernel with it default-enabled, but he'd still like users to be able to opt in at little to no cost to others. With the current combination of CONFIG_PSI and the psi_disabled bool set from the commandline, this is a challenge. Do the following things to make it easier: 1. Add a config option CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED that allows distros to enable CONFIG_PSI in their kernel but leave the feature disabled unless a user requests it at boot-time. To avoid double negatives, rename psi_disabled= to psi=. 2. Make psi_disabled a static branch to eliminate any branch costs when the feature is disabled. In terms of numbers before and after this patch, Mel says: : The following is a comparision using CONFIG_PSI=n as a baseline against : your patch and a vanilla kernel : : 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 : kconfigdisable-v1r1 vanilla psidisable-v1r1 : Amean 1 1.3100 ( 0.00%) 1.3923 ( -6.28%) 1.3427 ( -2.49%) : Amean 3 3.8860 ( 0.00%) 4.1230 * -6.10%* 3.8860 ( -0.00%) : Amean 5 6.8847 ( 0.00%) 8.0390 * -16.77%* 6.7727 ( 1.63%) : Amean 7 9.9310 ( 0.00%) 10.8367 * -9.12%* 9.9910 ( -0.60%) : Amean 12 16.6577 ( 0.00%) 18.2363 * -9.48%* 17.1083 ( -2.71%) : Amean 18 26.5133 ( 0.00%) 27.8833 * -5.17%* 25.7663 ( 2.82%) : Amean 24 34.3003 ( 0.00%) 34.6830 ( -1.12%) 32.0450 ( 6.58%) : Amean 30 40.0063 ( 0.00%) 40.5800 ( -1.43%) 41.5087 ( -3.76%) : Amean 32 40.1407 ( 0.00%) 41.2273 ( -2.71%) 39.9417 ( 0.50%) : : It's showing that the vanilla kernel takes a hit (as the bisection : indicated it would) and that disabling PSI by default is reasonably : close in terms of performance for this particular workload on this : particular machine so; Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127165329.GA29728@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-11-30Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes: - counter freezing related regression fix - uprobes race fix - Intel PMU unusual event combination fix - .. and diverse tooling fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs. unregister() + register() race once more perf/x86/intel: Disallow precise_ip on BTS events perf/x86/intel: Add generic branch tracing check to intel_pmu_has_bts() perf/x86/intel: Move branch tracing setup to the Intel-specific source file perf/x86/intel: Fix regression by default disabling perfmon v4 interrupt handling perf tools beauty ioctl: Support new ISO7816 commands tools uapi asm-generic: Synchronize ioctls.h tools arch x86: Update tools's copy of cpufeatures.h tools headers uapi: Synchronize i915_drm.h perf tools: Restore proper cwd on return from mnt namespace tools build feature: Check if get_current_dir_name() is available perf tools: Fix crash on synthesizing the unit
2018-11-30Documentation: intel_pstate: Clarify coordination of P-State limitsSrinivas Pandruvada1-1/+9
Explain influence of per-core P-states and hyper threading on the effective performance. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-11-28x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line optionsThomas Gleixner1-0/+12
Provide the possibility to enable IBPB always in combination with 'prctl' and 'seccomp'. Add the extra command line options and rework the IBPB selection to evaluate the command instead of the mode selected by the STIPB switch case. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com> Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.144047038@linutronix.de
2018-11-28x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection modeThomas Gleixner1-1/+8
If 'prctl' mode of user space protection from spectre v2 is selected on the kernel command-line, STIBP and IBPB are applied on tasks which restrict their indirect branch speculation via prctl. SECCOMP enables the SSBD mitigation for sandboxed tasks already, so it makes sense to prevent spectre v2 user space to user space attacks as well. The Intel mitigation guide documents how STIPB works: Setting bit 1 (STIBP) of the IA32_SPEC_CTRL MSR on a logical processor prevents the predicted targets of indirect branches on any logical processor of that core from being controlled by software that executes (or executed previously) on another logical processor of the same core. Ergo setting STIBP protects the task itself from being attacked from a task running on a different hyper-thread and protects the tasks running on different hyper-threads from being attacked. While the document suggests that the branch predictors are shielded between the logical processors, the observed performance regressions suggest that STIBP simply disables the branch predictor more or less completely. Of course the document wording is vague, but the fact that there is also no requirement for issuing IBPB when STIBP is used points clearly in that direction. The kernel still issues IBPB even when STIBP is used until Intel clarifies the whole mechanism. IBPB is issued when the task switches out, so malicious sandbox code cannot mistrain the branch predictor for the next user space task on the same logical processor. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com> Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.051663132@linutronix.de
2018-11-28x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_userThomas Gleixner1-1/+6
Now that all prerequisites are in place: - Add the prctl command line option - Default the 'auto' mode to 'prctl' - When SMT state changes, update the static key which controls the conditional STIBP evaluation on context switch. - At init update the static key which controls the conditional IBPB evaluation on context switch. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com> Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.958421388@linutronix.de
2018-11-28x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculationThomas Gleixner1-2/+30
Add command line control for user space indirect branch speculation mitigations. The new option is: spectre_v2_user= The initial options are: - on: Unconditionally enabled - off: Unconditionally disabled -auto: Kernel selects mitigation (default off for now) When the spectre_v2= command line argument is either 'on' or 'off' this implies that the application to application control follows that state even if a contradicting spectre_v2_user= argument is supplied. Originally-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com> Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.082720373@linutronix.de
2018-11-22Merge tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-10/+11
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH: "Here are some small char/misc driver fixes for issues that have been reported. Nothing major, highlights include: - gnss sync write fixes - uio oops fix - nvmem fixes - other minor fixes and some documentation/maintainers updates Full details are in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: Documentation/security-bugs: Postpone fix publication in exceptional cases MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer gnss: sirf: fix synchronous write timeout gnss: serial: fix synchronous write timeout uio: Fix an Oops on load test_firmware: fix error return getting clobbered nvmem: core: fix regression in of_nvmem_cell_get() misc: atmel-ssc: Fix section annotation on atmel_ssc_get_driver_data drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix Spectre v1 vulnerability Drivers: hv: kvp: Fix the recent regression caused by incorrect clean-up slimbus: ngd: remove unnecessary check
2018-11-22Merge tag 'usb-4.20-rc4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb Pull USB fixes from Greg KH: "Here are a number of small USB fixes for 4.20-rc4. There's the usual xhci and dwc2/3 fixes as well as a few minor other issues resolved for problems that have been reported. Full details are in the shortlog. All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'usb-4.20-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: usb: cdc-acm: add entry for Hiro (Conexant) modem usb: xhci: Prevent bus suspend if a port connect change or polling state is detected usb: core: Fix hub port connection events lost usb: dwc3: gadget: fix ISOC TRB type on unaligned transfers Revert "usb: gadget: ffs: Fix BUG when userland exits with submitted AIO transfers" usb: dwc2: pci: Fix an error code in probe usb: dwc3: Fix NULL pointer exception in dwc3_pci_remove() xhci: Add quirk to workaround the errata seen on Cavium Thunder-X2 Soc usb: xhci: fix timeout for transition from RExit to U0 usb: xhci: fix uninitialized completion when USB3 port got wrong status xhci: Add check for invalid byte size error when UAS devices are connected. xhci: handle port status events for removed USB3 hcd xhci: Fix leaking USB3 shared_hcd at xhci removal USB: misc: appledisplay: add 20" Apple Cinema Display USB: quirks: Add no-lpm quirk for Raydium touchscreens usb: quirks: Add delay-init quirk for Corsair K70 LUX RGB USB: Wait for extra delay time after USB_PORT_FEAT_RESET for quirky hub usb: dwc3: gadget: Properly check last unaligned/zero chain TRB usb: dwc3: core: Clean up ULPI device
2018-11-20perf/x86/intel: Fix regression by default disabling perfmon v4 interrupt ↵Peter Zijlstra1-1/+2
handling Kyle Huey reported that 'rr', a replay debugger, broke due to the following commit: af3bdb991a5c ("perf/x86/intel: Add a separate Arch Perfmon v4 PMI handler") Rework the 'disable_counter_freezing' __setup() parameter such that we can explicitly enable/disable it and switch to default disabled. To this purpose, rename the parameter to "perf_v4_pmi=" which is a much better description and allows requiring a bool argument. [ mingo: Improved the changelog some more. ] Reported-by: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: acme@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120170842.GZ2131@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-11-20Documentation/security-bugs: Postpone fix publication in exceptional casesWill Deacon1-10/+11
At the request of the reporter, the Linux kernel security team offers to postpone the publishing of a fix for up to 5 business days from the date of a report. While it is generally undesirable to keep a fix private after it has been developed, this short window is intended to allow distributions to package the fix into their kernel builds and permits early inclusion of the security team in the case of a co-ordinated disclosure with other parties. Unfortunately, discussions with major Linux distributions and cloud providers has revealed that 5 business days is not sufficient to achieve either of these two goals. As an example, cloud providers need to roll out KVM security fixes to a global fleet of hosts with sufficient early ramp-up and monitoring. An end-to-end timeline of less than two weeks dramatically cuts into the amount of early validation and increases the chance of guest-visible regressions. The consequence of this timeline mismatch is that security issues are commonly fixed without the involvement of the Linux kernel security team and are instead analysed and addressed by an ad-hoc group of developers across companies contributing to Linux. In some cases, mainline (and therefore the official stable kernels) can be left to languish for extended periods of time. This undermines the Linux kernel security process and puts upstream developers in a difficult position should they find themselves involved with an undisclosed security problem that they are unable to report due to restrictions from their employer. To accommodate the needs of these users of the Linux kernel and encourage them to engage with the Linux security team when security issues are first uncovered, extend the maximum period for which fixes may be delayed to 7 calendar days, or 14 calendar days in exceptional cases, where the logistics of QA and large scale rollouts specifically need to be accommodated. This brings parity with the linux-distros@ maximum embargo period of 14 calendar days. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Amit Shah <aams@amazon.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Co-developed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-20Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"Will Deacon2-2/+2
Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth: | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more | formal, and "while" is the common word. | | [...] | | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never | uses? dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation. Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while". Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-20docs/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst: grammar and style fixupsMike Rapoport1-25/+26
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-19Documentation: Update SELinux reference policy URLPetr Vorel1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2018-11-13cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updatesTejun Heo1-3/+3
* Rename the partition file from "cpuset.sched.partition" to "cpuset.cpus.partition". * When writing to the partition file, drop "0" and "1" and only accept "member" and "root". Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2018-11-12doc: Document rcutorture forward-progress test kernel parametersPaul E. McKenney1-0/+17
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2018-11-08cpuset: Add documentation about the new "cpuset.sched.partition" flagWaiman Long1-0/+73
The cgroup-v2.rst file is updated to document the purpose of the new "cpuset.sched.partition" flag and how its usage. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2018-11-08cpuset: Expose cpus.effective and mems.effective on cgroup v2 rootWaiman Long1-2/+2
Because of the fact that setting the "cpuset.sched.partition" in a direct child of root can remove CPUs from the root's effective CPU list, it makes sense to know what CPUs are left in the root cgroup for scheduling purpose. So the "cpuset.cpus.effective" control file is now exposed in the v2 cgroup root. For consistency, the "cpuset.mems.effective" control file is exposed as well. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2018-11-08cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchyWaiman Long1-5/+104
Given the fact that thread mode had been merged into 4.14, it is now time to enable cpuset to be used in the default hierarchy (cgroup v2) as it is clearly threaded. The cpuset controller had experienced feature creep since its introduction more than a decade ago. Besides the core cpus and mems control files to limit cpus and memory nodes, there are a bunch of additional features that can be controlled from the userspace. Some of the features are of doubtful usefulness and may not be actively used. This patch enables cpuset controller in the default hierarchy with a minimal set of features, namely just the cpus and mems and their effective_* counterparts. We can certainly add more features to the default hierarchy in the future if there is a real user need for them later on. Alternatively, with the unified hiearachy, it may make more sense to move some of those additional cpuset features, if desired, to memory controller or may be to the cpu controller instead of staying with cpuset. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2018-11-08Documentation/ras: Typo s/use use/use/Geert Uytterhoeven1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-08Documentation: dynamic-debug: fix wildcard descriptionRandy Dunlap1-2/+2
Fix grammar about wildcards and insert a space between sentences. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Korteland <will@korte.land> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>