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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-dax | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ssd1307fb.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,irqc.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.txt | 73 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/halt-polling.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 41 |
15 files changed, 181 insertions, 75 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-dax b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-dax new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2cb9fc5e8bd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-dax @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +What: /sys/class/dax/ +Date: May, 2016 +KernelVersion: v4.7 +Contact: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org +Description: Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem + DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows memory ranges to be + allocated and mapped without need of an intervening file + system. Device DAX is strict, precise and predictable. + Specifically this interface: + + 1/ Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given + page size (pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time. + + 2/ Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about + what fault scenarios are supported. + + The /sys/class/dax/ interface enumerates all the + device-dax instances in the system. The ABI is + deprecated and will be removed after 2020. It is + replaced with the DAX bus interface /sys/bus/dax/ where + device-dax instances can be found under + /sys/bus/dax/devices/ diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs index a7ce33199457..91822ce25831 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs @@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ Description: The unit size is one block, now only support configuring in range of [1, 512]. +What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/umount_discard_timeout +Date: January 2019 +Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk@kernel.org> +Description: + Set timeout to issue discard commands during umount. + Default: 5 secs + What: /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_victim_search Date: January 2014 Contact: "Jaegeuk Kim" <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst index 84de718f24a4..3c51084ffd37 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst @@ -756,3 +756,6 @@ These currently include: The cache mode for raid5. raid5 could include an extra disk for caching. The mode can be "write-throuth" and "write-back". The default is "write-through". + + ppl_write_hint + NVMe stream ID to be set for each PPL write request. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt b/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt index 525452726d31..b9e060c5b61e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ TL;DR summary * Use only NEON instructions, or VFP instructions that don't rely on support code * Isolate your NEON code in a separate compilation unit, and compile it with - '-mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp' + '-march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp' * Put kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end() calls around the calls into your NEON code * Don't sleep in your NEON code, and be aware that it will be executed with @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ instructions appearing in unexpected places if no special care is taken. Therefore, the recommended and only supported way of using NEON/VFP in the kernel is by adhering to the following rules: * isolate the NEON code in a separate compilation unit and compile it with - '-mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp'; + '-march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp'; * issue the calls to kernel_neon_begin(), kernel_neon_end() as well as the calls into the unit containing the NEON code from a compilation unit which is *not* built with the GCC flag '-mfpu=neon' set. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ssd1307fb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ssd1307fb.txt index 209d931ef16c..b67f8caa212c 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ssd1307fb.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ssd1307fb.txt @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ ssd1307: oled@3c { reg = <0x3c>; pwms = <&pwm 4 3000>; reset-gpios = <&gpio2 7>; - reset-active-low; }; ssd1306: oled@3c { @@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ ssd1306: oled@3c { reg = <0x3c>; pwms = <&pwm 4 3000>; reset-gpios = <&gpio2 7>; - reset-active-low; solomon,com-lrremap; solomon,com-invdir; solomon,com-offset = <32>; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,irqc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,irqc.txt index 8de96a4fb2d5..f977ea7617f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,irqc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,irqc.txt @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Required properties: - "renesas,irqc-r8a7793" (R-Car M2-N) - "renesas,irqc-r8a7794" (R-Car E2) - "renesas,intc-ex-r8a774a1" (RZ/G2M) + - "renesas,intc-ex-r8a774c0" (RZ/G2E) - "renesas,intc-ex-r8a7795" (R-Car H3) - "renesas,intc-ex-r8a7796" (R-Car M3-W) - "renesas,intc-ex-r8a77965" (R-Car M3-N) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.txt index bbcb255c3150..93a7469e70d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.txt @@ -12,10 +12,15 @@ Required properties: Subnodes: The integrated switch subnode should be specified according to the binding -described in dsa/dsa.txt. As the QCA8K switches do not have a N:N mapping of -port and PHY id, each subnode describing a port needs to have a valid phandle -referencing the internal PHY connected to it. The CPU port of this switch is -always port 0. +described in dsa/dsa.txt. If the QCA8K switch is connect to a SoC's external +mdio-bus each subnode describing a port needs to have a valid phandle +referencing the internal PHY it is connected to. This is because there's no +N:N mapping of port and PHY id. + +Don't use mixed external and internal mdio-bus configurations, as this is +not supported by the hardware. + +The CPU port of this switch is always port 0. A CPU port node has the following optional node: @@ -31,8 +36,9 @@ For QCA8K the 'fixed-link' sub-node supports only the following properties: - 'full-duplex' (boolean, optional), to indicate that full duplex is used. When absent, half duplex is assumed. -Example: +Examples: +for the external mdio-bus configuration: &mdio0 { phy_port1: phy@0 { @@ -55,12 +61,12 @@ Example: reg = <4>; }; - switch0@0 { + switch@10 { compatible = "qca,qca8337"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; - reg = <0>; + reg = <0x10>; ports { #address-cells = <1>; @@ -108,3 +114,56 @@ Example: }; }; }; + +for the internal master mdio-bus configuration: + + &mdio0 { + switch@10 { + compatible = "qca,qca8337"; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + + reg = <0x10>; + + ports { + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + + port@0 { + reg = <0>; + label = "cpu"; + ethernet = <&gmac1>; + phy-mode = "rgmii"; + fixed-link { + speed = 1000; + full-duplex; + }; + }; + + port@1 { + reg = <1>; + label = "lan1"; + }; + + port@2 { + reg = <2>; + label = "lan2"; + }; + + port@3 { + reg = <3>; + label = "lan3"; + }; + + port@4 { + reg = <4>; + label = "lan4"; + }; + + port@5 { + reg = <5>; + label = "wan"; + }; + }; + }; + }; diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO index 66b3f54aa6dc..9267f3fb131f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers. 5) Continue to extend the smb3 "buildbot" which does automated xfstesting against Windows, Samba and Azure currently - to add additional tests and -to allow the buildbot to execute the tests faster. +to allow the buildbot to execute the tests faster. The URL for the +buildbot is: http://smb3-test-rhel-75.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com 6) Address various coverity warnings (most are not bugs per-se, but the more warnings are addressed, the easier it is to spot real diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt index 67756607246e..1be3d21c286e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt @@ -1,16 +1,21 @@ This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well - older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) + as for older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol which was the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now - called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the - CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network - file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 - as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS - server support for Linux and many other operating systems), Apple - systems, as well as most Network Attached Storage vendors, so - this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of - servers. + called SMB2 and SMB3. Use of SMB3 (and later, including SMB3.1.1) + is strongly preferred over using older dialects like CIFS due to + security reaasons. All modern dialects, including the most recent, + SMB3.1.1 are supported by the CIFS VFS module. The SMB3 protocol + is implemented and supported by all major file servers + such as all modern versions of Windows (including Windows 2016 + Server), as well as by Samba (which provides excellent + CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 server support and tools for Linux and many other + operating systems). Apple systems also support SMB3 well, as + do most Network Attached Storage vendors, so this network + filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of systems. + It also supports mounting to the cloud (for example + Microsoft Azure), including the necessary security features. The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced @@ -24,12 +29,17 @@ cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments. - This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from + This filesystem has a mount utility (mount.cifs) and various user space + tools (including smbinfo and setcifsacl) that can be obtained from - https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ + https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git + or + git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git - It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. + mount.cifs should be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. For more information on the module see the project wiki page at + https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS + and https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt index e46c2147ddf8..f7b5e4ff0de3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt @@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ disable_ext_identify Disable the extension list configured by mkfs, so f2fs does not aware of cold files such as media files. inline_xattr Enable the inline xattrs feature. noinline_xattr Disable the inline xattrs feature. +inline_xattr_size=%u Support configuring inline xattr size, it depends on + flexible inline xattr feature. inline_data Enable the inline data feature: New created small(<~3.4k) files can be written into inode block. inline_dentry Enable the inline dir feature: data in new created diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index f124be6e4c3a..03c065855eaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file. --- 7.4 mandatory-y - mandatory-y is essentially used by include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild.asm + mandatory-y is essentially used by include/(uapi/)asm-generic/Kbuild to define the minimum set of ASM headers that all architectures must have. This works like optional generic-y. If a mandatory header is missing diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.txt b/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.txt index 54128c50d508..ca2136c76042 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.txt @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ including the Netfilter hooks and the flowtable fastpath bypass. / \ / \ |Routing | / \ --> ingress ---> prerouting ---> |decision| | postrouting |--> neigh_xmit \_________/ \__________/ ---------- \____________/ ^ - | ^ | | ^ | - flowtable | | ____\/___ | | - | | | / \ | | - __\/___ | --------->| forward |------------ | + | ^ | ^ | + flowtable | ____\/___ | | + | | / \ | | + __\/___ | | forward |------------ | |-----| | \_________/ | |-----| | 'flow offload' rule | |-----| | adds entry to | diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 356156f5c52d..7de9eee73fcd 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -45,6 +45,23 @@ the API. The only supported use is one virtual machine per process, and one vcpu per thread. +It is important to note that althought VM ioctls may only be issued from +the process that created the VM, a VM's lifecycle is associated with its +file descriptor, not its creator (process). In other words, the VM and +its resources, *including the associated address space*, are not freed +until the last reference to the VM's file descriptor has been released. +For example, if fork() is issued after ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM), the VM will +not be freed until both the parent (original) process and its child have +put their references to the VM's file descriptor. + +Because a VM's resources are not freed until the last reference to its +file descriptor is released, creating additional references to a VM via +via fork(), dup(), etc... without careful consideration is strongly +discouraged and may have unwanted side effects, e.g. memory allocated +by and on behalf of the VM's process may not be freed/unaccounted when +the VM is shut down. + + 3. Extensions ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/halt-polling.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/halt-polling.txt index 4a8418318769..4f791b128dd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/halt-polling.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/halt-polling.txt @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ the global max polling interval then the polling interval can be increased in the hope that next time during the longer polling interval the wake up source will be received while the host is polling and the latency benefits will be received. The polling interval is grown in the function grow_halt_poll_ns() and -is multiplied by the module parameter halt_poll_ns_grow. +is multiplied by the module parameters halt_poll_ns_grow and +halt_poll_ns_grow_start. In the event that the total block time was greater than the global max polling interval then the host will never poll for long enough (limited by the global @@ -80,22 +81,30 @@ shrunk. These variables are defined in include/linux/kvm_host.h and as module parameters in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c, or arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c in the powerpc kvm-hv case. -Module Parameter | Description | Default Value +Module Parameter | Description | Default Value -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -halt_poll_ns | The global max polling interval | KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT - | which defines the ceiling value | - | of the polling interval for | (per arch value) - | each vcpu. | +halt_poll_ns | The global max polling | KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT + | interval which defines | + | the ceiling value of the | + | polling interval for | (per arch value) + | each vcpu. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -halt_poll_ns_grow | The value by which the halt | 2 - | polling interval is multiplied | - | in the grow_halt_poll_ns() | - | function. | +halt_poll_ns_grow | The value by which the | 2 + | halt polling interval is | + | multiplied in the | + | grow_halt_poll_ns() | + | function. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -halt_poll_ns_shrink | The value by which the halt | 0 - | polling interval is divided in | - | the shrink_halt_poll_ns() | - | function. | +halt_poll_ns_grow_start | The initial value to grow | 10000 + | to from zero in the | + | grow_halt_poll_ns() | + | function. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +halt_poll_ns_shrink | The value by which the | 0 + | halt polling interval is | + | divided in the | + | shrink_halt_poll_ns() | + | function. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These module parameters can be set from the debugfs files in: diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index e507a9e0421e..f365102c80f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -224,10 +224,6 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: A bitmap indicating which sptes in spt point (directly or indirectly) at pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsychronized pages reachable from a given page. - mmu_valid_gen: - Generation number of the page. It is compared with kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen - during hash table lookup, and used to skip invalidated shadow pages (see - "Zapping all pages" below.) clear_spte_count: Only present on 32-bit hosts, where a 64-bit spte cannot be written atomically. The reader uses this while running out of the MMU lock @@ -402,27 +398,6 @@ causes its disallow_lpage to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of a large spte. The frames at the end of an unaligned memory slot have artificially inflated ->disallow_lpages so they can never be instantiated. -Zapping all pages (page generation count) -========================================= - -For the large memory guests, walking and zapping all pages is really slow -(because there are a lot of pages), and also blocks memory accesses of -all VCPUs because it needs to hold the MMU lock. - -To make it be more scalable, kvm maintains a global generation number -which is stored in kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen. Every shadow page stores -the current global generation-number into sp->mmu_valid_gen when it -is created. Pages with a mismatching generation number are "obsolete". - -When KVM need zap all shadow pages sptes, it just simply increases the global -generation-number then reload root shadow pages on all vcpus. As the VCPUs -create new shadow page tables, the old pages are not used because of the -mismatching generation number. - -KVM then walks through all pages and zaps obsolete pages. While the zap -operation needs to take the MMU lock, the lock can be released periodically -so that the VCPUs can make progress. - Fast invalidation of MMIO sptes =============================== @@ -435,8 +410,7 @@ shadow pages, and is made more scalable with a similar technique. MMIO sptes have a few spare bits, which are used to store a generation number. The global generation number is stored in kvm_memslots(kvm)->generation, and increased whenever guest memory info -changes. This generation number is distinct from the one described in -the previous section. +changes. When KVM finds an MMIO spte, it checks the generation number of the spte. If the generation number of the spte does not equal the global generation @@ -452,13 +426,16 @@ stored into the MMIO spte. Thus, the MMIO spte might be created based on out-of-date information, but with an up-to-date generation number. To avoid this, the generation number is incremented again after synchronize_srcu -returns; thus, the low bit of kvm_memslots(kvm)->generation is only 1 during a +returns; thus, bit 63 of kvm_memslots(kvm)->generation set to 1 only during a memslot update, while some SRCU readers might be using the old copy. We do not want to use an MMIO sptes created with an odd generation number, and we can do -this without losing a bit in the MMIO spte. The low bit of the generation -is not stored in MMIO spte, and presumed zero when it is extracted out of the -spte. If KVM is unlucky and creates an MMIO spte while the low bit is 1, -the next access to the spte will always be a cache miss. +this without losing a bit in the MMIO spte. The "update in-progress" bit of the +generation is not stored in MMIO spte, and is so is implicitly zero when the +generation is extracted out of the spte. If KVM is unlucky and creates an MMIO +spte while an update is in-progress, the next access to the spte will always be +a cache miss. For example, a subsequent access during the update window will +miss due to the in-progress flag diverging, while an access after the update +window closes will have a higher generation number (as compared to the spte). Further reading |