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2017-09-05Merge tag 'pm-4.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "This time (again) cpufreq gets the majority of changes which mostly are driver updates (including a major consolidation of intel_pstate), some schedutil governor modifications and core cleanups. There also are some changes in the system suspend area, mostly related to diagnostics and debug messages plus some renames of things related to suspend-to-idle. One major change here is that suspend-to-idle is now going to be preferred over S3 on systems where the ACPI tables indicate to do so and provide requsite support (the Low Power Idle S0 _DSM in particular). The system sleep documentation and the tools related to it are updated too. The rest is a few cpuidle changes (nothing major), devfreq updates, generic power domains (genpd) framework updates and a few assorted modifications elsewhere. Specifics: - Drop the P-state selection algorithm based on a PID controller from intel_pstate and make it use the same P-state selection method (based on the CPU load) for all types of systems in the active mode (Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada). - Rework the cpufreq core and governors to make it possible to take cross-CPU utilization updates into account and modify the schedutil governor to actually do so (Viresh Kumar). - Clean up the handling of transition latency information in the cpufreq core and untangle it from the information on which drivers cannot do dynamic frequency switching (Viresh Kumar). - Add support for new SoCs (MT2701/MT7623 and MT7622) to the mediatek cpufreq driver and update its DT bindings (Sean Wang). - Modify the cpufreq dt-platdev driver to autimatically create cpufreq devices for the new (v2) Operating Performance Points (OPP) DT bindings and update its whitelist of supported systems (Viresh Kumar, Shubhrajyoti Datta, Marc Gonzalez, Khiem Nguyen, Finley Xiao). - Add support for Ux500 to the cpufreq-dt driver and drop the obsolete dbx500 cpufreq driver (Linus Walleij, Arnd Bergmann). - Add new SoC (R8A7795) support to the cpufreq rcar driver (Khiem Nguyen). - Fix and clean up assorted issues in the cpufreq drivers and core (Arvind Yadav, Christophe Jaillet, Colin Ian King, Gustavo Silva, Julia Lawall, Leonard Crestez, Rob Herring, Sudeep Holla). - Update the IO-wait boost handling in the schedutil governor to make it less aggressive (Joel Fernandes). - Rework system suspend diagnostics to make it print fewer messages to the kernel log by default, add a sysfs knob to allow more suspend-related messages to be printed and add Low Power S0 Idle constraints checks to the ACPI suspend-to-idle code (Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada). - Prefer suspend-to-idle over S3 on ACPI-based systems with the ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0 flag set and the Low Power Idle S0 _DSM interface present in the ACPI tables (Rafael Wysocki). - Update documentation related to system sleep and rename a number of items in the code to make it cleare that they are related to suspend-to-idle (Rafael Wysocki). - Export a variable allowing device drivers to check the target system sleep state from the core system suspend code (Florian Fainelli). - Clean up the cpuidle subsystem to handle the polling state on x86 in a more straightforward way and to use %pOF instead of full_name (Rafael Wysocki, Rob Herring). - Update the devfreq framework to fix and clean up a few minor issues (Chanwoo Choi, Rob Herring). - Extend diagnostics in the generic power domains (genpd) framework and clean it up slightly (Thara Gopinath, Rob Herring). - Fix and clean up a couple of issues in the operating performance points (OPP) framework (Viresh Kumar, Waldemar Rymarkiewicz). - Add support for RV1108 to the rockchip-io Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) driver (David Wu). - Fix the usage of notifiers in CPU power management on some platforms (Alex Shi). - Update the pm-graph system suspend/hibernation and boot profiling utility (Todd Brandt). - Make it possible to run the cpupower utility without CPU0 (Prarit Bhargava)" * tag 'pm-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (87 commits) cpuidle: Make drivers initialize polling state cpuidle: Move polling state initialization code to separate file cpuidle: Eliminate the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START symbol cpufreq: imx6q: Fix imx6sx low frequency support cpufreq: speedstep-lib: make several arrays static, makes code smaller PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt document PM: docs: Describe high-level PM strategies and sleep states PM / devfreq: Fix memory leak when fail to register device PM / devfreq: Add dependency on PM_OPP PM / devfreq: Move private devfreq_update_stats() into devfreq PM / devfreq: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name PM / AVS: rockchip-io: add io selectors and supplies for RV1108 cpufreq: ti: Fix 'of_node_put' being called twice in error handling path cpufreq: dt-platdev: Drop few entries from whitelist cpufreq: dt-platdev: Automatically create cpufreq device with OPP v2 ARM: ux500: don't select CPUFREQ_DT cpuidle: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name cpufreq: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name PM / Domains: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name cpufreq: Cap the default transition delay value to 10 ms ...
2017-09-05Merge tag 'char-misc-4.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.14-rc1. Lots of different stuff in here, it's been an active development cycle for some reason. Highlights are: - updated binder driver, this brings binder up to date with what shipped in the Android O release, plus some more changes that happened since then that are in the Android development trees. - coresight updates and fixes - mux driver file renames to be a bit "nicer" - intel_th driver updates - normal set of hyper-v updates and changes - small fpga subsystem and driver updates - lots of const code changes all over the driver trees - extcon driver updates - fmc driver subsystem upadates - w1 subsystem minor reworks and new features and drivers added - spmi driver updates Plus a smattering of other minor driver updates and fixes. All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while" * tag 'char-misc-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (244 commits) ANDROID: binder: don't queue async transactions to thread. ANDROID: binder: don't enqueue death notifications to thread todo. ANDROID: binder: Don't BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked()). ANDROID: binder: Add BINDER_GET_NODE_DEBUG_INFO ioctl ANDROID: binder: push new transactions to waiting threads. ANDROID: binder: remove proc waitqueue android: binder: Add page usage in binder stats android: binder: fixup crash introduced by moving buffer hdr drivers: w1: add hwmon temp support for w1_therm drivers: w1: refactor w1_slave_show to make the temp reading functionality separate drivers: w1: add hwmon support structures eeprom: idt_89hpesx: Support both ACPI and OF probing mcb: Fix an error handling path in 'chameleon_parse_cells()' MCB: add support for SC31 to mcb-lpc mux: make device_type const char: virtio: constify attribute_group structures. Documentation/ABI: document the nvmem sysfs files lkdtm: fix spelling mistake: "incremeted" -> "incremented" perf: cs-etm: Fix ETMv4 CONFIGR entry in perf.data file nvmem: include linux/err.h from header ...
2017-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: "The first part of the s390 updates for 4.14: - Add machine type 0x3906 for IBM z14 - Add IBM z14 TLB flushing improvements for KVM guests - Exploit the TOD clock epoch extension to provide a continuous TOD clock afer 2042/09/17 - Add NIAI spinlock hints for IBM z14 - Rework the vmcp driver and use CMA for the respone buffer of z/VM CP commands - Drop some s390 specific asm headers and use the generic version - Add block discard for DASD-FBA devices under z/VM - Add average request times to DASD statistics - A few of those constify patches which seem to be in vogue right now - Cleanup and bug fixes" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (50 commits) s390/mm: avoid empty zero pages for KVM guests to avoid postcopy hangs s390/dasd: Add discard support for FBA devices s390/zcrypt: make CPRBX const s390/uaccess: avoid mvcos jump label s390/mm: use generic mm_hooks s390/facilities: fix typo s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_response_free() s390/topology: Remove the unused parent_node() macro s390/dasd: Change unsigned long long to unsigned long s390/smp: convert cpuhp_setup_state() return code to zero on success s390: fix 'novx' early parameter handling s390/dasd: add average request times to dasd statistics s390/scm: use common completion path s390/pci: log changes to uid checking s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_ioctl() s390/vmcp: return -ENOTTY for unknown ioctl commands s390/vmcp: split vmcp header file and move to uapi s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocator s390/cpcmd,vmcp: avoid GFP_DMA allocations s390/vmcp: fix uaccess check and avoid undefined behavior ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner: "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality Monitoring (CQM) facility. The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and horrible. After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top. As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single management facility with a consistent user interface" * 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits) x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local) x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar: "PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex hardware features of x86 CPUs: - Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.) Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles, v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging. This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by default. (By Kirill A. Shutemov) - Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and decrypt) as well. This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled by default. (By Tom Lendacky) - Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we switch mm's. (By Andy Lutomirski) All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they are all enabled in v4.14 at once" * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits) x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y) x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable() x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits() x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit() x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure ...
2017-09-04Merge branch 'pm-docs'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-docs: PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt document PM: docs: Describe high-level PM strategies and sleep states
2017-09-04Merge branch 'intel_pstate'Rafael J. Wysocki
* intel_pstate: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Shorten a couple of long names cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_pstate_adjust_pstate() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Improve IO performance with per-core P-states cpufreq: intel_pstate: Drop INTEL_PSTATE_HWP_SAMPLING_INTERVAL cpufreq: intel_pstate: Drop ->update_util from pstate_funcs cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use PID-based P-state selection
2017-09-04Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpufreq: (33 commits) cpufreq: imx6q: Fix imx6sx low frequency support cpufreq: speedstep-lib: make several arrays static, makes code smaller cpufreq: ti: Fix 'of_node_put' being called twice in error handling path cpufreq: dt-platdev: Drop few entries from whitelist cpufreq: dt-platdev: Automatically create cpufreq device with OPP v2 ARM: ux500: don't select CPUFREQ_DT cpufreq: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name cpufreq: Cap the default transition delay value to 10 ms cpufreq: dbx500: Delete obsolete driver mfd: db8500-prcmu: Get rid of cpufreq dependency cpufreq: enable the DT cpufreq driver on the Ux500 cpufreq: Loongson2: constify platform_device_id cpufreq: dt: Add r8a7796 support to to use generic cpufreq driver cpufreq: remove setting of policy->cpu in policy->cpus during init cpufreq: mediatek: add support of cpufreq to MT7622 SoC cpufreq: mediatek: add cleanups with the more generic naming cpufreq: rcar: Add support for R8A7795 SoC cpufreq: dt: Add rk3328 compatible to use generic cpufreq driver cpufreq: s5pv210: add missing of_node_put() cpufreq: Allow dynamic switching with CPUFREQ_ETERNAL latency ...
2017-08-29PM: docs: Describe high-level PM strategies and sleep statesRafael J. Wysocki
Reorganize the power management part of admin-guide by adding a description of major power management strategies supported by the kernel (system-wide and working-state power management) to it and dividing the rest of the material into the system-wide PM and working-state PM chapters. On top of that, add a description of system sleep states to the system-wide PM chapter. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
2017-08-26Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm to pick up fixes and to fix conflictsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/head64.c arch/x86/mm/mmap.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-25x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technologyTony Luck
Command line options allow us to ignore features that we don't want. Also we can re-enable options that have been disabled on a platform (so long as the underlying h/w actually supports the option). [ tglx: Marked the option array __initdata and the helper function __init ] Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c37b0d4dbc30977a3c1cee08b66420f83662694.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
2017-08-21Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: - Removal of spin_unlock_wait() - SRCU updates - Torture-test updates - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - CPU-hotplug fixes - Miscellaneous non-RCU fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-21Merge back intel_pstate material for v4.14.Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-14Merge 4.13-rc5 into char-misc-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
We want the firmware, and other changes, in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-09s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocatorHeiko Carstens
If memory is fragmented it is unlikely that large order memory allocations succeed. This has been an issue with the vmcp device driver since a long time, since it requires large physical contiguous memory ares for large responses. To hopefully resolve this issue make use of the contiguous memory allocator (cma). This patch adds a vmcp specific vmcp cma area with a default size of 4MB. The size can be changed either via the VMCP_CMA_SIZE config option at compile time or with the "vmcp_cma" kernel parameter (e.g. "vmcp_cma=16m"). For any vmcp response buffers larger than 16k memory from the cma area will be allocated. If such an allocation fails, there is a fallback to the buddy allocator. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2017-07-27cpufreq: docs: Add missing cpuinfo_cur_freq descriptionRafael J. Wysocki
Add a description of the cpuinfo_cur_freq policy attribute in sysfs to the cpufreq documentation under Documentation/admin-guide/pm/ as it is missing after commit 2a0e49279850 (cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation) that overlooked it. Fixes: 2a0e49279850 (cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2017-07-26cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use PID-based P-state selectionRafael J. Wysocki
All systems with a defined ACPI preferred profile that are not "servers" have been using the load-based P-state selection algorithm in intel_pstate since 4.12-rc1 (mobile systems and laptops have been using it since 4.10-rc1) and no problems with it have been reported to date. In particular, no regressions with respect to the PID-based P-state selection have been reported. Also testing indicates that the P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load is generally on par with the PID-based algorithm performance-wise, and for some workloads it turns out to be better than the other one, while being more straightforward and easier to understand at the same time. Moreover, the PID-based P-state selection algorithm in intel_pstate is known to be unstable in some situation and generally problematic, the issues with it are hard to address and it has become a significant maintenance burden. For these reasons, make intel_pstate use the "powersave" P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load in the active mode on all systems and drop the PID-based P-state selection code along with all things related to it from the driver. Also update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-07-24documentation: Fix relation between nohz_full and rcu_nocbsPaul E. McKenney
If a CPU is specified in the nohz_full= kernel boot parameter to a kernel built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, then that CPU's callbacks will be offloaded, just as if that CPU had also been specified in the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter. But the current documentation states that the user must keep these two boot parameters manually synchronized. This commit therefore updates the documentation to reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-22cpufreq: governor: Drop min_sampling_rateViresh Kumar
The cpufreq core and governors aren't supposed to set a limit on how fast we want to try changing the frequency. This is currently done for the legacy governors with help of min_sampling_rate. At worst, we may end up setting the sampling rate to a value lower than the rate at which frequency can be changed and then one of the CPUs in the policy will be only changing frequency for ever. But that is something for the user to decide and there is no need to have special handling for such cases in the core. Leave it for the user to figure out. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-07-18x86/cpu/AMD: Document AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME)Tom Lendacky
Create a Documentation entry to describe the AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature and add documentation for the mem_encrypt= kernel parameter. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca0a0c13b055fd804cfc92cbaca8acd68057eed0.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-18Merge branch 'x86/boot' into x86/mm, to pick up interacting changesIngo Molnar
The SME patches we are about to apply add some E820 logic, so merge in pending E820 code changes first, to have a single code base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-17char_dev: extend dynamic allocation of majors into a higher rangeLogan Gunthorpe
We've run into problems with running out of dynamicly assign char device majors particullarly on automated test systems with all-yes-configs. Roughly 40 dynamic assignments can be made with such kernels at this time while space is reserved for only 20. Currently, the kernel only prints a warning when dynamic allocation overflows the reserved region. And when this happens drivers that have fixed assignments can randomly fail depending on the order of initialization of other drivers. Thus, adding a new char device can cause unexpected failures in completely unrelated parts of the kernel. This patch solves the problem by extending dynamic major number allocations down from 511 once the 234-254 region fills up. Fixed majors already exist above 255 so the infrastructure to support high number majors is already in place. The patch reserves an additional 128 major numbers which should hopefully last us a while. Kernels that don't require more than 20 dynamic majors assigned (which is pretty typical) should not be affected by this change. Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/4/107 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-06Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few hotfixes - various misc updates - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (108 commits) mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE mm, memory_hotplug: drop artificial restriction on online/offline mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure mm: memcontrol: use generic mod_memcg_page_state for kmem pages mm: memcontrol: use the node-native slab memory counters mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() mm/zswap.c: improve a size determination in zswap_frontswap_init() mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_pool_create() mm/swapfile.c: sort swap entries before free mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects mm: kmemleak: factor object reference updating out of scan_block() mm: kmemleak: slightly reduce the size of some structures on 64-bit architectures mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets ...
2017-07-06Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "PPC: - Better machine check handling for HV KVM - Ability to support guests with threads=2, 4 or 8 on POWER9 - Fix for a race that could cause delayed recognition of signals - Fix for a bug where POWER9 guests could sleep with interrupts pending. ARM: - VCPU request overhaul - allow timer and PMU to have their interrupt number selected from userspace - workaround for Cavium erratum 30115 - handling of memory poisonning - the usual crop of fixes and cleanups s390: - initial machine check forwarding - migration support for the CMMA page hinting information - cleanups and fixes x86: - nested VMX bugfixes and improvements - more reliable NMI window detection on AMD - APIC timer optimizations Generic: - VCPU request overhaul + documentation of common code patterns - kvm_stat improvements" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (124 commits) Update my email address kvm: vmx: allow host to access guest MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS x86: kvm: mmu: use ept a/d in vmcs02 iff used in vmcs12 kvm: x86: mmu: allow A/D bits to be disabled in an mmu x86: kvm: mmu: make spte mmio mask more explicit x86: kvm: mmu: dead code thanks to access tracking KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix typo in XICS-on-XIVE state saving code KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Close race with testing for signals on guest entry KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify dynamic micro-threading code KVM: x86: remove ignored type attribute KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay KVM: lapic: reorganize restart_apic_timer KVM: lapic: reorganize start_hv_timer kvm: nVMX: Check memory operand to INVVPID KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the nested guest KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the guest tools/kvm_stat: add new interactive command 'b' tools/kvm_stat: add new command line switch '-i' tools/kvm_stat: fix error on interactive command 'g' KVM: SVM: suppress unnecessary NMI singlestep on GIF=0 and nested exit ...
2017-07-06mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODEMichal Hocko
Commit 20b2f52b73fe ("numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node") has introduced CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE without a good explanation on why it is actually useful. It makes a lot of sense to make movable node semantic opt in but we already have that because the feature has to be explicitly enabled on the kernel command line. A config option on top only makes the configuration space larger without a good reason. It also adds an additional ifdefery that pollutes the code. Just drop the config option and make it de-facto always enabled. This shouldn't introduce any change to the semantic. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170529114141.536-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build timeKees Cook
Some hardened environments want to build kernels with slab_nomerge already set (so that they do not depend on remembering to set the kernel command line option). This is desired to reduce the risk of kernel heap overflows being able to overwrite objects from merged caches and changes the requirements for cache layout control, increasing the difficulty of these attacks. By keeping caches unmerged, these kinds of exploits can usually only damage objects in the same cache (though the risk to metadata exploitation is unchanged). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170620230911.GA25238@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-05Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security layer updates from James Morris: - a major update for AppArmor. From JJ: * several bug fixes and cleanups * the patch to add symlink support to securityfs that was floated on the list earlier and the apparmorfs changes that make use of securityfs symlinks * it introduces the domain labeling base code that Ubuntu has been carrying for several years, with several cleanups applied. And it converts the current mediation over to using the domain labeling base, which brings domain stacking support with it. This finally will bring the base upstream code in line with Ubuntu and provide a base to upstream the new feature work that Ubuntu carries. * This does _not_ contain any of the newer apparmor mediation features/controls (mount, signals, network, keys, ...) that Ubuntu is currently carrying, all of which will be RFC'd on top of this. - Notable also is the Infiniband work in SELinux, and the new file:map permission. From Paul: "While we're down to 21 patches for v4.13 (it was 31 for v4.12), the diffstat jumps up tremendously with over 2k of line changes. Almost all of these changes are the SELinux/IB work done by Daniel Jurgens; some other noteworthy changes include a NFS v4.2 labeling fix, a new file:map permission, and reporting of policy capabilities on policy load" There's also now genfscon labeling support for tracefs, which was lost in v4.1 with the separation from debugfs. - Smack incorporates a safer socket check in file_receive, and adds a cap_capable call in privilege check. - TPM as usual has a bunch of fixes and enhancements. - Multiple calls to security_add_hooks() can now be made for the same LSM, to allow LSMs to have hook declarations across multiple files. - IMA now supports different "ima_appraise=" modes (eg. log, fix) from the boot command line. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (126 commits) apparmor: put back designators in struct initialisers seccomp: Switch from atomic_t to recount_t seccomp: Adjust selftests to avoid double-join seccomp: Clean up core dump logic IMA: update IMA policy documentation to include pcr= option ima: Log the same audit cause whenever a file has no signature ima: Simplify policy_func_show. integrity: Small code improvements ima: fix get_binary_runtime_size() ima: use ima_parse_buf() to parse template data ima: use ima_parse_buf() to parse measurements headers ima: introduce ima_parse_buf() ima: Add cgroups2 to the defaults list ima: use memdup_user_nul ima: fix up #endif comments IMA: Correct Kconfig dependencies for hash selection ima: define is_ima_appraise_enabled() ima: define Kconfig IMA_APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM option ima: define a set of appraisal rules requiring file signatures ima: extend the "ima_policy" boot command line to support multiple policies ...
2017-07-05x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCIDAndy Lutomirski
The parameter is only present on x86_64 systems to save a few bytes, as PCID is always disabled on x86_32. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8bbb2e65bcd249a5f18bfb8128b4689f08ac2b60.1498751203.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-04Merge tag 'pm-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "The big ticket items here are the rework of suspend-to-idle in order to add proper support for power button wakeup from it on recent Dell laptops and the rework of interfaces exporting the current CPU frequency on x86. In addition to that, support for a few new pieces of hardware is added, the PCI/ACPI device wakeup infrastructure is simplified significantly and the wakeup IRQ framework is fixed to unbreak the IRQ bus locking infrastructure. Also, there are some functional improvements for intel_pstate, tools updates and small fixes and cleanups all over. Specifics: - Rework suspend-to-idle to allow it to take wakeup events signaled by the EC into account on ACPI-based platforms in order to properly support power button wakeup from suspend-to-idle on recent Dell laptops (Rafael Wysocki). That includes the core suspend-to-idle code rework, support for the Low Power S0 _DSM interface, and support for the ACPI INT0002 Virtual GPIO device from Hans de Goede (required for USB keyboard wakeup from suspend-to-idle to work on some machines). - Stop trying to export the current CPU frequency via /proc/cpuinfo on x86 as that is inaccurate and confusing (Len Brown). - Rework the way in which the current CPU frequency is exported by the kernel (over the cpufreq sysfs interface) on x86 systems with the APERF and MPERF registers by always using values read from these registers, when available, to compute the current frequency regardless of which cpufreq driver is in use (Len Brown). - Rework the PCI/ACPI device wakeup infrastructure to remove the questionable and artificial distinction between "devices that can wake up the system from sleep states" and "devices that can generate wakeup signals in the working state" from it, which allows the code to be simplified quite a bit (Rafael Wysocki). - Fix the wakeup IRQ framework by making it use SRCU instead of RCU which doesn't allow sleeping in the read-side critical sections, but which in turn is expected to be allowed by the IRQ bus locking infrastructure (Thomas Gleixner). - Modify some computations in the intel_pstate driver to avoid rounding errors resulting from them (Srinivas Pandruvada). - Reduce the overhead of the intel_pstate driver in the HWP (hardware-managed P-states) mode and when the "performance" P-state selection algorithm is in use by making it avoid registering scheduler callbacks in those cases (Len Brown). - Rework the energy_performance_preference sysfs knob in intel_pstate by changing the values that correspond to different symbolic hint names used by it (Len Brown). - Make it possible to use more than one cpuidle driver at the same time on ARM (Daniel Lezcano). - Make it possible to prevent the cpuidle menu governor from using the 0 state by disabling it via sysfs (Nicholas Piggin). - Add support for FFH (Fixed Functional Hardware) MWAIT in ACPI C1 on AMD systems (Yazen Ghannam). - Make the CPPC cpufreq driver take the lowest nonlinear performance information into account (Prashanth Prakash). - Add support for hi3660 to the cpufreq-dt driver, fix the imx6q driver and clean up the sfi, exynos5440 and intel_pstate drivers (Colin Ian King, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Octavian Purdila, Rafael Wysocki, Tao Wang). - Fix a few minor issues in the generic power domains (genpd) framework and clean it up somewhat (Krzysztof Kozlowski, Mikko Perttunen, Viresh Kumar). - Fix a couple of minor issues in the operating performance points (OPP) framework and clean it up somewhat (Viresh Kumar). - Fix a CONFIG dependency in the hibernation core and clean it up slightly (Balbir Singh, Arvind Yadav, BaoJun Luo). - Add rk3228 support to the rockchip-io adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) driver (David Wu). - Fix an incorrect bit shift operation in the RAPL power capping driver (Adam Lessnau). - Add support for the EPP field in the HWP (hardware managed P-states) control register, HWP.EPP, to the x86_energy_perf_policy tool and update msr-index.h with HWP.EPP values (Len Brown). - Fix some minor issues in the turbostat tool (Len Brown). - Add support for AMD family 0x17 CPUs to the cpupower tool and fix a minor issue in it (Sherry Hurwitz). - Assorted cleanups, mostly related to the constification of some data structures (Arvind Yadav, Joe Perches, Kees Cook, Krzysztof Kozlowski)" * tag 'pm-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (69 commits) cpufreq: Update scaling_cur_freq documentation cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up after performance governor changes PM: hibernate: constify attribute_group structures. cpuidle: menu: allow state 0 to be disabled intel_idle: Use more common logging style PM / Domains: Fix missing default_power_down_ok comment PM / Domains: Fix unsafe iteration over modified list of domains PM / Domains: Fix unsafe iteration over modified list of domain providers PM / Domains: Fix unsafe iteration over modified list of device links PM / Domains: Handle safely genpd_syscore_switch() call on non-genpd device PM / Domains: Call driver's noirq callbacks PM / core: Drop run_wake flag from struct dev_pm_info PCI / PM: Simplify device wakeup settings code PCI / PM: Drop pme_interrupt flag from struct pci_dev ACPI / PM: Consolidate device wakeup settings code ACPI / PM: Drop run_wake from struct acpi_device_wakeup_flags PM / QoS: constify *_attribute_group. PM / AVS: rockchip-io: add io selectors and supplies for rk3228 powercap/RAPL: prevent overridding bits outside of the mask PM / sysfs: Constify attribute groups ...
2017-07-03Merge tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There has been a fair amount of activity in the docs tree this time around. Highlights include: - Conversion of a bunch of security documentation into RST - The conversion of the remaining DocBook templates by The Amazing Mauro Machine. We can now drop the entire DocBook build chain. - The usual collection of fixes and minor updates" * tag 'docs-4.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (90 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: handle DECLARE_HASHTABLE Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst Docs: clean up some DocBook loose ends Make the main documentation title less Geocities Docs: Use kernel-figure in vidioc-g-selection.rst Docs: fix table problems in ras.rst Docs: Fix breakage with Sphinx 1.5 and upper Docs: Include the Latex "ifthen" package doc/kokr/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1 docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parameters doc: Document suitability of IBM Verse for kernel development Doc: fix a markup error in coding-style.rst docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information Documentation: DMA API: fix a typo in a function name Docs: Insert missing space to separate link from text doc/ko_KR/memory-barriers: Update control-dependencies example Documentation, kbuild: fix typo "minimun" -> "minimum" docs: Fix some formatting issues in request-key.rst doc: ReSTify keys-trusted-encrypted.txt doc: ReSTify keys-request-key.txt ...
2017-07-03Merge tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" char/misc driver patchset for 4.13-rc1. Lots of stuff in here, a large thunderbolt update, w1 driver header reorg, the new mux driver subsystem, google firmware driver updates, and a raft of other smaller things. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with the only reported issue being a merge problem with this tree and the jc-docs tree in the w1 documentation area" * tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (147 commits) misc: apds990x: Use sysfs_match_string() helper mei: drop unreachable code in mei_start mei: validate the message header only in first fragment. DocBook: w1: Update W1 file locations and names in DocBook mux: adg792a: always require I2C support nvmem: rockchip-efuse: add support for rk322x-efuse nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find_cell nvmem: core: Call put_device() in nvmem_unregister() nvmem: core: fix leaks on registration errors nvmem: correct Broadcom OTP controller driver writes w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface drivers/fsi: Add module license to core driver drivers/fsi: Use asynchronous slave mode drivers/fsi: Add hub master support drivers/fsi: Add SCOM FSI client device driver drivers/fsi/gpio: Add tracepoints for GPIO master drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master drivers/fsi: Document FSI master sysfs files in ABI drivers/fsi: Add error handling for slave drivers/fsi: Add tracepoints for low-level operations ...
2017-07-03Merge tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the large tty/serial patchset for 4.13-rc1. A lot of tty and serial driver updates are in here, along with some fixups for some __get/put_user usages that were reported. Nothing huge, just lots of development by a number of different developers, full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (71 commits) tty: serial: lpuart: add a more accurate baud rate calculation method tty: serial: lpuart: add earlycon support for imx7ulp tty: serial: lpuart: add imx7ulp support dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: add i.MX7ULP support tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support tty: serial: lpuart: refactor lpuart32_{read|write} prototype tty: serial: lpuart: introduce lpuart_soc_data to represent SoC property serial: imx-serial - move DMA buffer configuration to DT serial: imx: Enable RTSD only when needed serial: imx: Remove unused members from imx_port struct serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix race b/w dma completion and RX timeout serial: 8250: Fix THRE flag usage for CAP_MINI tty/serial: meson_uart: update to stable bindings dt-bindings: serial: Add bindings for the Amlogic Meson UARTs serial: Delete dead code for CIR serial ports serial: sirf: make of_device_ids const serial/mpsc: switch to dma_alloc_attrs tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlycon dt-bindings: serial: Document Actions Semi Owl UARTs tty/serial: atmel: make the driver DT only ...
2017-07-03Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were KASLR improvements for rare environments with special boot options, by Baoquan He. Also misc smaller changes/cleanups" * 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/debug: Extend the lower bound of crash kernel low reservations x86/boot: Remove unused copy_*_gs() functions x86/KASLR: Use the right memcpy() implementation Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' boot option description x86/KASLR: Handle the memory limit specified by the 'memmap=' and 'mem=' boot options x86/KASLR: Parse all 'memmap=' boot option entries
2017-07-03Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The sole purpose of these changes is to shrink and simplify the RCU code base, which has suffered from creeping bloat over the past couple of years. The end result is a net removal of ~2700 lines of code: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) Plus there's a marked reduction in the Kconfig space complexity as well, here's the number of matches on 'grep RCU' in the .config: before after x86-defconfig 17 15 x86-allmodconfig 33 20" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (86 commits) rcu: Remove RCU CPU stall warnings from Tiny RCU rcu: Remove event tracing from Tiny RCU rcu: Move RCU debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Move RCU non-debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options rcu: Remove debugfs tracing srcu: Remove Classic SRCU srcu: Fix rcutorture-statistics typo rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option rcu: Remove typecheck() from RCU locking wrapper functions rcu: Remove #ifdef moving rcu_end_inkernel_boot from rcupdate.h rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine rcu: Remove the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig options srcu: Use rnp->lock wrappers to replace explicit memory barriers rcu: Move rnp->lock wrappers for SRCU use rcu: Convert rnp->lock wrappers to macros for SRCU use rcu: Refactor #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h bcm47xx: Fix build regression ...
2017-06-29cpufreq: Update scaling_cur_freq documentationRafael J. Wysocki
Commit f8475cef9008 "x86: use common aperfmperf_khz_on_cpu() to calculate KHz using APERF/MPERF" modified the way the scaling_cur_freq cpufreq policy attribute in sysfs is handled on contemporary Intel-based x86 systems, so update the documentation to reflect that change. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-06-29cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up after performance governor changesRafael J. Wysocki
After commit 82b4e03e01bc (intel_pstate: skip scheduler hook when in "performance" mode) get_target_pstate_use_performance() and get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load() are never called if scaling_governor is "performance", so drop the CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE checks from them as they will never trigger anyway. Moreover, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the change made by the above commit, so do that too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
2017-06-23Docs: fix table problems in ras.rstJonathan Corbet
Two table problems caused the PDF build to fail: - Evidently multirow cells are not appreciated in table headers, so remove such from the "CS Rows" table. - The logging message structure table was incorrectly formatted, with two "+" instead of "|". The HTML build is forgiving of such things, but PDF is not. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-06-22docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parametersSteffen Maier
Another place in lib/Kconfig.debug was already fixed in commit f8998c226587 ("lib/Kconfig.debug: correct documentation paths"). Fixes: 9d85025b0418 ("docs-rst: create an user's manual book") Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-06-21ima: define a set of appraisal rules requiring file signaturesMimi Zohar
The builtin "ima_appraise_tcb" policy should require file signatures for at least a few of the hooks (eg. kernel modules, firmware, and the kexec kernel image), but changing it would break the existing userspace/kernel ABI. This patch defines a new builtin policy named "secure_boot", which can be specified on the "ima_policy=" boot command line, independently or in conjunction with the "ima_appraise_tcb" policy, by specifing ima_policy="appraise_tcb | secure_boot". The new appraisal rules requiring file signatures will be added prior to the "ima_appraise_tcb" rules. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Changelog: - Reference secure boot in the new builtin policy name. (Thiago Bauermann)
2017-06-21ima: extend the "ima_policy" boot command line to support multiple policiesMimi Zohar
Add support for providing multiple builtin policies on the "ima_policy=" boot command line. Use "|" as the delimitor separating the policy names. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-20tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlyconAndreas Färber
This implements an earlycon for Actions Semi S500/S900 SoCs. Based on LeMaker linux-actions tree. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-19mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmasHugh Dickins
Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping. But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX] which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN. This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical, unfortunatelly. Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot. One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace, but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units). Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page: because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point, a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK and strict non-overcommit mode. Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start (or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(), and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that. Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-15KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 common sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier
Now that we're able to safely handle common sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.common_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-06-15KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-0 sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier
Now that we're able to safely handle Group-0 sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.group0_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-06-15KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-1 sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier
Now that we're able to safely handle Group-1 sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.group1_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-06-13Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: "The largest feature of this series is shrinking and simplification, with the following diffstat summary: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) In other words, this series represents a net reduction of more than 2700 lines of code." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-12Merge 4.12-rc5 into char-misc-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
We want the char/misc driver fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-09Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: "Mostly fairly minor, of note are: - Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware - Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space - Avoid needlessly restoring FP and vector registers Thanks to Aneesh Kumar K.V, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Bringmann, Nicholas Piggin, Vaibhav Jain" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc/book3s64: Move PPC_DT_CPU_FTRs and enable it by default powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl powerpc/perf: Fix Power9 test_adder fields powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation powerpc/kernel: Fix FP and vector register restoration powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE powerpc/hotplug-mem: Fix missing endian conversion of aa_index powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio: Fix oops in gpio save_regs function powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup option
2017-06-09doc: Add coresight_cpu_debug.enable to kernel-parameters.txtLeo Yan
Add coresight_cpu_debug.enable to kernel-parameters.txt, this flag is used to enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-09thunderbolt: Add documentation how Thunderbolt bus can be usedMika Westerberg
Since there are no such tool yet that handles all the low-level details of connecting devices and upgrading their firmware, add a small document that shows how the Thunderbolt bus can be used directly from command line. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>