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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-05-25 08:04:39 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-05-25 08:04:39 +0200 |
commit | 0548dc5cde19e88b8495cb74e3893d8c8713392a (patch) | |
tree | 69dd6c504d7ef286b0241e9f1a57bac60302810c /Documentation | |
parent | bb4e30a48045c9cc16c4efe447489542750397cc (diff) | |
parent | 4ff648decf4712d39f184fc2df3163f43975575a (diff) | |
download | linux-0548dc5cde19e88b8495cb74e3893d8c8713392a.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 45 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-pp2.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz90x1.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst | 94 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 6 |
8 files changed, 164 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl index 640f65e79ef1..8e69345c37cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl @@ -244,3 +244,11 @@ Description: read only Returns 1 if the psl timebase register is synchronized with the core timebase register, 0 otherwise. Users: https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl + +What: /sys/class/cxl/<card>/tunneled_ops_supported +Date: May 2018 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: read only + Returns 1 if tunneled operations are supported in capi mode, + 0 otherwise. +Users: https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 025b7cf3768d..bd4975e132d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass Date: January 2018 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 11fc28ecdb6d..f2040d46f095 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2680,6 +2680,9 @@ allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent to spectre_v2=off. + nospec_store_bypass_disable + [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability + noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. @@ -4025,6 +4028,48 @@ Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. + spec_store_bypass_disable= + [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation + (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) + + Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a + a common industry wide performance optimization known + as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores + to the same memory location may not be observed by + later loads during speculative execution. The idea + is that such stores are unlikely and that they can + be detected prior to instruction retirement at the + end of a particular speculation execution window. + + In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded + store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for + example to read memory to which the attacker does not + directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). + + This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store + Bypass optimization is used. + + on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass + off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass + auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an + implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and + picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the + CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the + CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is + architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. + prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread + via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled + for a process by default. The state of the control + is inherited on fork. + seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads + will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. + + Default mitigations: + X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" + spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] spia_fio_base= spia_pedr= diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-pp2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-pp2.txt index 1814fa13f6ab..fc019df0d863 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-pp2.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-pp2.txt @@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ Required properties: - main controller clock (for both armada-375-pp2 and armada-7k-pp2) - GOP clock (for both armada-375-pp2 and armada-7k-pp2) - MG clock (only for armada-7k-pp2) + - MG Core clock (only for armada-7k-pp2) - AXI clock (only for armada-7k-pp2) -- clock-names: names of used clocks, must be "pp_clk", "gop_clk", "mg_clk" - and "axi_clk" (the 2 latter only for armada-7k-pp2). +- clock-names: names of used clocks, must be "pp_clk", "gop_clk", "mg_clk", + "mg_core_clk" and "axi_clk" (the 3 latter only for armada-7k-pp2). The ethernet ports are represented by subnodes. At least one port is required. @@ -80,8 +81,8 @@ cpm_ethernet: ethernet@0 { compatible = "marvell,armada-7k-pp22"; reg = <0x0 0x100000>, <0x129000 0xb000>; clocks = <&cpm_syscon0 1 3>, <&cpm_syscon0 1 9>, - <&cpm_syscon0 1 5>, <&cpm_syscon0 1 18>; - clock-names = "pp_clk", "gop_clk", "gp_clk", "axi_clk"; + <&cpm_syscon0 1 5>, <&cpm_syscon0 1 6>, <&cpm_syscon0 1 18>; + clock-names = "pp_clk", "gop_clk", "mg_clk", "mg_core_clk", "axi_clk"; eth0: eth0 { interrupts = <ICU_GRP_NSR 39 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>, diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz90x1.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz90x1.txt index 42a248301615..e22d8cfea687 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz90x1.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz90x1.txt @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ KSZ9031: - txd2-skew-ps : Skew control of TX data 2 pad - txd3-skew-ps : Skew control of TX data 3 pad + - micrel,force-master: + Boolean, force phy to master mode. Only set this option if the phy + reference clock provided at CLK125_NDO pin is used as MAC reference + clock because the clock jitter in slave mode is to high (errata#2). + Attention: The link partner must be configurable as slave otherwise + no link will be established. + Examples: mdio { diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst index 7b2eb1b7d4ca..a3233da7fa88 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ place where this information is gathered. no_new_privs seccomp_filter unshare + spec_ctrl .. only:: subproject and html diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..32f3d55c54b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +=================== +Speculation Control +=================== + +Quite some CPUs have speculation-related misfeatures which are in +fact vulnerabilities causing data leaks in various forms even across +privilege domains. + +The kernel provides mitigation for such vulnerabilities in various +forms. Some of these mitigations are compile-time configurable and some +can be supplied on the kernel command line. + +There is also a class of mitigations which are very expensive, but they can +be restricted to a certain set of processes or tasks in controlled +environments. The mechanism to control these mitigations is via +:manpage:`prctl(2)`. + +There are two prctl options which are related to this: + + * PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL + + * PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL + +PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL +----------------------- + +PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL returns the state of the speculation misfeature +which is selected with arg2 of prctl(2). The return value uses bits 0-3 with +the following meaning: + +==== ===================== =================================================== +Bit Define Description +==== ===================== =================================================== +0 PR_SPEC_PRCTL Mitigation can be controlled per task by + PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL. +1 PR_SPEC_ENABLE The speculation feature is enabled, mitigation is + disabled. +2 PR_SPEC_DISABLE The speculation feature is disabled, mitigation is + enabled. +3 PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE Same as PR_SPEC_DISABLE, but cannot be undone. A + subsequent prctl(..., PR_SPEC_ENABLE) will fail. +==== ===================== =================================================== + +If all bits are 0 the CPU is not affected by the speculation misfeature. + +If PR_SPEC_PRCTL is set, then the per-task control of the mitigation is +available. If not set, prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL) for the speculation +misfeature will fail. + +PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL +----------------------- + +PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL allows to control the speculation misfeature, which +is selected by arg2 of :manpage:`prctl(2)` per task. arg3 is used to hand +in the control value, i.e. either PR_SPEC_ENABLE or PR_SPEC_DISABLE or +PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE. + +Common error codes +------------------ +======= ================================================================= +Value Meaning +======= ================================================================= +EINVAL The prctl is not implemented by the architecture or unused + prctl(2) arguments are not 0. + +ENODEV arg2 is selecting a not supported speculation misfeature. +======= ================================================================= + +PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL error codes +----------------------------------- +======= ================================================================= +Value Meaning +======= ================================================================= +0 Success + +ERANGE arg3 is incorrect, i.e. it's neither PR_SPEC_ENABLE nor + PR_SPEC_DISABLE nor PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE. + +ENXIO Control of the selected speculation misfeature is not possible. + See PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL. + +EPERM Speculation was disabled with PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE and caller + tried to enable it again. +======= ================================================================= + +Speculation misfeature controls +------------------------------- +- PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS: Speculative Store Bypass + + Invocations: + * prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, 0, 0, 0); + * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0); + * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0); + * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0); diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt index d4f33eb805dd..ab022dcd0911 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side flag || value || meaning ================================================================================== -KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED || 0 || guest checks this feature bit to - || || determine if there is vCPU pinning - || || and there is no vCPU over-commitment, +KVM_HINTS_REALTIME || 0 || guest checks this feature bit to + || || determine that vCPUs are never + || || preempted for an unlimited time, || || allowing optimizations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |