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2020-10-12Merge tag 'x86_fpu_for_v5.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fpu updates from Borislav Petkov: - Allow clearcpuid= to accept multiple bits (Arvind Sankar) - Move clearcpuid= parameter handling earlier in the boot, away from the FPU init code and to a generic location (Mike Hommey) * tag 'x86_fpu_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/fpu: Handle FPU-related and clearcpuid command line arguments earlier x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameter
2020-10-12Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "There's quite a lot of code here, but much of it is due to the addition of a new PMU driver as well as some arm64-specific selftests which is an area where we've traditionally been lagging a bit. In terms of exciting features, this includes support for the Memory Tagging Extension which narrowly missed 5.9, hopefully allowing userspace to run with use-after-free detection in production on CPUs that support it. Work is ongoing to integrate the feature with KASAN for 5.11. Another change that I'm excited about (assuming they get the hardware right) is preparing the ASID allocator for sharing the CPU page-table with the SMMU. Those changes will also come in via Joerg with the IOMMU pull. We do stray outside of our usual directories in a few places, mostly due to core changes required by MTE. Although much of this has been Acked, there were a couple of places where we unfortunately didn't get any review feedback. Other than that, we ran into a handful of minor conflicts in -next, but nothing that should post any issues. Summary: - Userspace support for the Memory Tagging Extension introduced by Armv8.5. Kernel support (via KASAN) is likely to follow in 5.11. - Selftests for MTE, Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context switching. - Fix and subsequent rewrite of our Spectre mitigations, including the addition of support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC. - Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements. - Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing page-tables with the SMMU. - MM updates, including treating flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() as a no-op. - Perf/PMU driver updates, including addition of the ARM CMN PMU driver and also support to handle CPU PMU IRQs as NMIs. - Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal non-cacheable mappings. - Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding. - Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT failure. - Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their corresponding numerical constants. - Removal of TEXT_OFFSET. - Removal of some unused functions, parameters and prototypes. - Removal of MPIDR-based topology detection in favour of firmware description. - Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in preparation for potential future optimisation of handling across syscalls. - Cleanups to the SDEI driver in preparation for support in KVM. - Miscellaneous cleanups and refactoring work" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits) Revert "arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier" arm64: random: Remove no longer needed prototypes arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier kselftest/arm64: Check mte tagged user address in kernel kselftest/arm64: Verify KSM page merge for MTE pages kselftest/arm64: Verify all different mmap MTE options kselftest/arm64: Check forked child mte memory accessibility kselftest/arm64: Verify mte tag inclusion via prctl kselftest/arm64: Add utilities and a test to validate mte memory perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op arm64: Add support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC prctl() option arm64: Pull in task_stack_page() to Spectre-v4 mitigation code KVM: arm64: Allow patching EL2 vectors even with KASLR is not enabled arm64: Get rid of arm64_ssbd_state KVM: arm64: Convert ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 to arm64_get_spectre_v4_state() KVM: arm64: Get rid of kvm_arm_have_ssbd() KVM: arm64: Simplify handling of ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 ...
2020-10-12Merge branch 'printk-rework' into for-linusPetr Mladek
2020-10-09Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull v5.10 RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney: - Debugging for smp_call_function(). - Strict grace periods for KASAN. The point of this series is to find RCU-usage bugs, so the corresponding new RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD Kconfig option depends on both DEBUG_KERNEL and RCU_EXPERT, and is further disabled by dfefault. Finally, the help text includes a goodly list of scary caveats. - New smp_call_function() torture test. - Torture-test updates. - Documentation updates. - Miscellaneous fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-10-08docs: gpio: add a new document to its index.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
There's now a new ReST file. Add it to the index.rst file. Fixes: ce7a2f77f976 ("docs: gpio: Add GPIO Aggregator documentation") Fixes: 2fd1abe99e5f ("Documentation: gpio: add documentation for gpio-mockup") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bad4d85c218d59c1bf69157df8e1012577680d88.1601616399.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2020-10-08PNP: remove the now unused pnp_find_card() functionChristoph Hellwig
All user of the pnp_find_card() compat wrapper are gone, so remove the function as well. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-10-06dma-mapping: merge <linux/dma-contiguous.h> into <linux/dma-map-ops.h>Christoph Hellwig
Merge dma-contiguous.h into dma-map-ops.h, after removing the comment describing the contiguous allocator into kernel/dma/contigous.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-10-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netDavid S. Miller
Rejecting non-native endian BTF overlapped with the addition of support for it. The rest were more simple overlapping changes, except the renesas ravb binding update, which had to follow a file move as well as a YAML conversion. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-10-05Merge back cpuidle material for 5.10.Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpuidle: cpuidle: record state entry rejection statistics cpuidle: psci: Allow PM domain to be initialized even if no OSI mode firmware: psci: Extend psci_set_osi_mode() to allow reset to PC mode ACPI: processor: Print more information when acpi_processor_evaluate_cst() fails cpuidle: tegra: Correctly handle result of arm_cpuidle_simple_enter()
2020-10-04Merge tag 'v5.9-rc7' into patchworkMauro Carvalho Chehab
Linux 5.9-rc7 * tag 'v5.9-rc7': (683 commits) Linux 5.9-rc7 mm/thp: Split huge pmds/puds if they're pinned when fork() mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range() mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned mm: validate pmd after splitting mm: don't rely on system state to detect hot-plug operations mm: replace memmap_context by meminit_context arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c: fix __copy_user_flushcache() cache writeback lib/memregion.c: include memregion.h lib/string.c: implement stpcpy mm/migrate: correct thp migration stats mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding mm: memcontrol: fix missing suffix of workingset_restore mm, THP, swap: fix allocating cluster for swapfile by mistake mm: slab: fix potential double free in ___cache_free Documentation/llvm: Fix clang target examples io_uring: ensure async buffered read-retry is setup properly KVM: SVM: Add a dedicated INVD intercept routine io_uring: don't unconditionally set plug->nowait = true ...
2020-10-03media: add Zoran cardlistMauro Carvalho Chehab
Now that Zoran was re-added, we need to add its cardlist to the admin guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-02docs: mm: numaperf.rst Add brief description for access class 1.Jonathan Cameron
Try to make minimal changes to the document which already describes access class 0 in a generic fashion (including IO initiatiors that are not CPUs). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-10-02tty/sysrq: Extend the sysrq_key_table to cover capital lettersAndrzej Pietrasiewicz
All slots in sysrq_key_table[] are either used, reserved or at least commented with their intended use. This patch adds capital letter versions available, which means adding 26 more entries. For already existing SysRq operations the user presses Alt-SysRq-<key>, and for the newly added ones Alt-Shift-SysRq-<key>. Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@collabora.com> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818112825.6445-2-andrzej.p@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-02media: admin-guide: update cardlistsMauro Carvalho Chehab
Update them according with the current support on drivers. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-10-02media: siano: rename a duplicated card stringMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are two different variants for Hauppauge WinTV MiniCard: [SMS1XXX_BOARD_HAUPPAUGE_TIGER_MINICARD] = { .name = "Hauppauge WinTV MiniCard", .type = SMS_NOVA_B0, .fw[DEVICE_MODE_DVBT_BDA] = SMS_FW_DVBT_HCW_55XXX, .default_mode = DEVICE_MODE_DVBT_BDA, .lna_ctrl = 29, .board_cfg.foreign_lna0_ctrl = 29, .rf_switch = 17, .board_cfg.rf_switch_uhf = 17, }, [SMS1XXX_BOARD_HAUPPAUGE_TIGER_MINICARD_R2] = { .name = "Hauppauge WinTV MiniCard Rev 2", .type = SMS_NOVA_B0, .fw[DEVICE_MODE_DVBT_BDA] = SMS_FW_DVBT_HCW_55XXX, .default_mode = DEVICE_MODE_DVBT_BDA, .lna_ctrl = -1, }, As it can be seen, the RF part of the definitions are different. So, better to use different names in order to distinguish between them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-09-30media: docs: ipu3.rst: rely at automarkup extensionMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are several :c:type: definitions there, in order to do cross-references with the driver's documentation. Those are broken when docs are built with Sphinx 3.x, as it would require :c:struct: instead. For Sphinx < 3.x, the automarkup.py extension is able to do the replacement already, and a future improvement on it should make it also work with Sphinx 3.x. So, get rid of the usage of the :c:type: macro there. Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-09-30Documentation: PM: Fix a reStructuredText syntax errorYoann Congal
Fix a reStructuredText syntax error in the cpuidle PM admin-guide documentation: the ``...'' quotation marks are parsed as partial ''...'' reStructuredText markup and break the output formatting. This change them to "...". Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-09-30Documentation: gpio: add documentation for gpio-mockupBartosz Golaszewski
There's some documentation for gpio-mockup's debugfs interface in the driver's source but it's not much. Add proper documentation for this testing module. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2020-09-28perf: Add Arm CMN-600 PMU driverRobin Murphy
Initial driver for PMU event counting on the Arm CMN-600 interconnect. CMN sports an obnoxiously complex distributed PMU system as part of its debug and trace features, which can do all manner of things like sampling, cross-triggering and generating CoreSight trace. This driver covers the PMU functionality, plus the relevant aspects of watchpoints for simply counting matching flits. Tested-by: Tsahi Zidenberg <tsahee@amazon.com> Tested-by: Tuan Phan <tuanphan@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-09-27media: admin-guide: add documentation file rkisp1.rstDafna Hirschfeld
Add the file 'rkisp1.rst' that documents the rkisp1 driver. Signed-off-by: Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com> Acked-by: Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
2020-09-26mm: memcontrol: fix missing suffix of workingset_restoreMuchun Song
We forget to add the suffix to the workingset_restore string, so fix it. And also update the documentation of cgroup-v2.rst. Fixes: 170b04b7ae49 ("mm/workingset: prepare the workingset detection infrastructure for anon LRU") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200916100030.71698-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-09-25nfsd: remove fault injection codeJ. Bruce Fields
It was an interesting idea but nobody seems to be using it, it's buggy at this point, and nfs4state.c is already complicated enough without it. The new nfsd/clients/ code provides some of the same functionality, and could probably do more if desired. This feature has been deprecated since 9d60d93198c6 ("Deprecate nfsd fault injection"). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2020-09-25xfs: remove deprecated sysctl optionsPavel Reichl
These optionr were for Irix compatibility, probably for clustered XFS clients in a heterogenous cluster which contained both Irix & Linux machines, so that behavior would be consistent. That doesn't exist anymore and it's no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Pavel Reichl <preichl@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> [darrick: actually state when the sysctls go away] Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2020-09-25xfs: remove deprecated mount optionsPavel Reichl
ikeep/noikeep was a workaround for old DMAPI code which is no longer relevant. attr2/noattr2 - is for controlling upgrade behaviour from fixed attribute fork sizes in the inode (attr1) and dynamic attribute fork sizes (attr2). mkfs has defaulted to setting attr2 since 2007, hence just about every XFS filesystem out there in production right now uses attr2. Signed-off-by: Pavel Reichl <preichl@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> [darrick: fix minor typos] Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2020-09-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵Christoph Hellwig
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into dma-mapping-for-next Pull in the latest 5.9 tree for the commit to revert the V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT uapi addition.
2020-09-24Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parametersRandy Dunlap
The command-line parameters "dyndbg" and "async_probe" are not parameters for kernel/module.c but instead they are for the module that is being loaded. Try to make that distinction in the help text. OTOH, "module.sig_enforce" is handled as a parameter of kernel/module.c so "module." is correct for it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/67d40b6d-c073-a3bf-cbb6-6cad941cceeb@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rstStephen Kitt
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to match current kernels: * the list of files is now the table of contents; * links are used to point to other documentation and other sections; * all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes them; * document vsyscall32. Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917072123.8847-1-steve@sk2.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of "rdev"Randy Dunlap
Remove use of "rdev" from blockdev/ramdisk.rst and update admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. "rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated {choose any or all}. "rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3f Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-3-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"Randy Dunlap
"rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated {choose any or all}. Remove use of "rdev" and "vidmode" (a symlink to rdev) in admin-guide/README.rst and admin-guide/svga.rst. "rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3f Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-2-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: capitalize KorinaRandy Dunlap
Fix typo, capitalize Korina proper noun. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054722.28713-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation: admin-guide: kernel-parameters: reformat "lapic=" boot optionRandy Dunlap
Reformat "lapic=" to try to make it more understandable and similar to the style that is mostly used in this file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054739.2523-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: fix "io7" parameter descriptionRandy Dunlap
Fix punctuation and capitalization for the "io7" boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054751.6538-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: fix "disable_ddw" wordingRandy Dunlap
Drop and extraneous word (if) in a sentence. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918054803.6588-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation: Remove CMA's dependency on architectureTian Tao
CMA only depends on MMU. It doesn't depend on arch too much. such as ARM, ARM64, X86, MIPS etc. so We remove the dependency of cma about the architecture in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1600412758-60545-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24docs: admin-guide: update kdump documentation due to change of crash URLlijiang
Since crash utility has been moved to github, the original URL is no longer available. Let's update it accordingly. Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a088bff5-1174-25fa-ac26-6e46795f4085@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Documentation: kernel-parameters: fix formatting of MIPS "machtype"Randy Dunlap
For the "machtype" boot parameter, fix word spacing, line wrap, and plural of "laptops". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c9059e35-188d-a749-1907-767b53479328@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24Doc: admin-guide: Add entry for kvm_cma_resv_ratio kernel paramSatheesh Rajendran
Add document entry for kvm_cma_resv_ratio kernel param which is used to alter the KVM contiguous memory allocation percentage for hash pagetable allocation used by hash mode PowerPC KVM guests. Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200921090220.14981-1-sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-23cpuidle: record state entry rejection statisticsLina Iyer
CPUs may fail to enter the chosen idle state if there was a pending interrupt, causing the cpuidle driver to return an error value. Record that and export it via sysfs along with the other idle state statistics. This could prove useful in understanding behavior of the governor and the system during usecases that involve multiple CPUs. Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org> [ rjw: Changelog and documentation edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-09-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netDavid S. Miller
Two minor conflicts: 1) net/ipv4/route.c, adding a new local variable while moving another local variable and removing it's initial assignment. 2) drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz9477.c, overlapping changes. One pretty prints the port mode differently, whilst another changes the driver to try and obtain the port mode from the port node rather than the switch node. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-09-22dm crypt: document encrypted keyring key optionMilan Broz
Commit 27f5411a718c4 ("dm crypt: support using encrypted keys") introduced support for encrypted keyring type. Fix documentation in admin guide to mention this type. Fixes: 27f5411a718c4 ("dm crypt: support using encrypted keys") Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2020-09-22dm crypt: document new no_workqueue flagsMilan Broz
Commit 39d42fa96ba1 ("dm crypt: add flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues") introduced new dm-crypt 'no_read_workqueue' and 'no_write_workqueue' flags. Add documentation to admin guide for them. Fixes: 39d42fa96ba1 ("dm crypt: add flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues") Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2020-09-22printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_infoJohn Ogness
Dictionaries are only used for SUBSYSTEM and DEVICE properties. The current implementation stores the property names each time they are used. This requires more space than otherwise necessary. Also, because the dictionary entries are currently considered optional, it cannot be relied upon that they are always available, even if the writer wanted to store them. These issues will increase should new dictionary properties be introduced. Rather than storing the subsystem and device properties in the dict ring, introduce a struct dev_printk_info with separate fields to store only the property values. Embed this struct within the struct printk_info to provide guaranteed availability. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mu1jl6ne.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
2020-09-16docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rstStephen Kitt
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to match current kernels: * the list of files is now the table of contents; * links are used to point to other documentation and other sections; * all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes them; * document vsyscall32. Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911190152.29730-1-steve@sk2.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-16Documentation: arm64 also supports disable hugeiomapTian Tao
arm64 also supports disable hugeiomap,updated documentation. Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1599740386-47210-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-15xfs: deprecate the V4 formatDarrick J. Wong
The V4 filesystem format contains known weaknesses in the on-disk format that make metadata verification diffiult. In addition, the format does not support dates past 2038 and will not be upgraded to do so. We should start the process of retiring the old format to close off attack surfaces and to encourage users to migrate onto V5. Therefore, make XFS V4 support a configurable option. For the first period it will be default Y in case some distributors want to withdraw support early; for the second period it will be default N so that anyone who wishes to continue support can do so; and after that, support will be removed from the kernel. Dates for these events have been added to the upstream kernel. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
2020-09-15printk: ringbuffer: add finalization/extension supportJohn Ogness
Add support for extending the newest data block. For this, introduce a new finalization state (desc_finalized) denoting a committed descriptor that cannot be extended. Until a record is finalized, a writer can reopen that record to append new data. Reopening a record means transitioning from the desc_committed state back to the desc_reserved state. A writer can explicitly finalize a record if there is no intention of extending it. Also, records are automatically finalized when a new record is reserved. This relieves writers of needing to explicitly finalize while also making such records available to readers sooner. (Readers can only traverse finalized records.) Four new memory barrier pairs are introduced. Two of them are insignificant additions (data_realloc:A/desc_read:D and data_realloc:A/data_push_tail:B) because they are alternate path memory barriers that exactly match the purpose, pairing, and context of the two existing memory barrier pairs they provide an alternate path for. The other two new memory barrier pairs are significant additions: desc_reopen_last:A / _prb_commit:B - When reopening a descriptor, ensure the state transitions back to desc_reserved before fully trusting the descriptor data. _prb_commit:B / desc_reserve:D - When committing a descriptor, ensure the state transitions to desc_committed before checking the head ID to see if the descriptor needs to be finalized. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-6-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-15printk: ringbuffer: change representation of statesJohn Ogness
Rather than deriving the state by evaluating bits within the flags area of the state variable, assign the states explicit values and set those values in the flags area. Introduce macros to make it simple to read and write state values for the state variable. Although the functionality is preserved, the binary representation for the states is changed. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-13Merge tag 'char-misc-5.9-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char / misc driver fixes from Greg KH: "Here are a number of small driver fixes for 5.9-rc5 Included in here are: - habanalabs driver fixes - interconnect driver fixes - soundwire driver fixes - dyndbg fixes for reported issues, and then reverts to fix it all up to a sane state. - phy driver fixes All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-5.9-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: Revert "dyndbg: accept query terms like file=bar and module=foo" Revert "dyndbg: fix problem parsing format="foo bar"" scripts/tags.sh: exclude tools directory from tags generation video: fbdev: fix OOB read in vga_8planes_imageblit() dyndbg: fix problem parsing format="foo bar" dyndbg: refine export, rename to dynamic_debug_exec_queries() dyndbg: give %3u width in pr-format, cosmetic only interconnect: qcom: Fix small BW votes being truncated to zero soundwire: fix double free of dangling pointer interconnect: Show bandwidth for disabled paths as zero in debugfs habanalabs: fix report of RAZWI initiator coordinates habanalabs: prevent user buff overflow phy: omap-usb2-phy: disable PHY charger detect phy: qcom-qmp: Use correct values for ipq8074 PCIe Gen2 PHY init soundwire: bus: fix typo in comment on INTSTAT registers phy: qualcomm: fix return value check in qcom_ipq806x_usb_phy_probe() phy: qualcomm: fix platform_no_drv_owner.cocci warnings
2020-09-10Revert "dyndbg: accept query terms like file=bar and module=foo"Greg Kroah-Hartman
This reverts commit 14775b04964264189caa4a0862eac05dab8c0502 as there were still some parsing problems with it, and the follow-on patch for it. Let's revisit it later, just drop it for now. Cc: <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Fixes: 14775b049642 ("dyndbg: accept query terms like file=bar and module=foo") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-09-10x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameterArvind Sankar
Commit 0c2a3913d6f5 ("x86/fpu: Parse clearcpuid= as early XSAVE argument") changed clearcpuid parsing from __setup() to cmdline_find_option(). While the __setup() function would have been called for each clearcpuid= parameter on the command line, cmdline_find_option() will only return the last one, so the change effectively made it impossible to disable more than one bit. Allow a comma-separated list of bit numbers as the argument for clearcpuid to allow multiple bits to be disabled again. Log the bits being disabled for informational purposes. Also fix the check on the return value of cmdline_find_option(). It returns -1 when the option is not found, so testing as a boolean is incorrect. Fixes: 0c2a3913d6f5 ("x86/fpu: Parse clearcpuid= as early XSAVE argument") Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907213919.2423441-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu