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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These are commits that were not quite ready when I sent the original
pull request for 3.15-rc1 several days ago, but they have spent some
time in linux-next since then and appear to be good to go. All of
them are fixes and cleanups.
Specifics:
- Remaining changes from upstream ACPICA release 20140214 that
introduce code to automatically serialize the execution of methods
creating any named objects which really cannot be executed in
parallel with each other anyway (previously ACPICA attempted to
address that by aborting methods upon conflict detection, but that
wasn't reliable enough and led to other issues). From Bob Moore
and Lv Zheng.
- intel_pstate fix to use del_timer_sync() instead of del_timer() in
the exit path before freeing the timer structure from Dirk
Brandewie (original patch from Thomas Gleixner).
- cpufreq fix related to system resume from Viresh Kumar.
- Serialization of frequency transitions in cpufreq that involve
PRECHANGE and POSTCHANGE notifications to avoid ordering issues
resulting from race conditions. From Srivatsa S Bhat and Viresh
Kumar.
- Revert of an ACPI processor driver change that was based on a
specific interpretation of the ACPI spec which may not be correct
(the relevant part of the spec appears to be incomplete). From
Hanjun Guo.
- Runtime PM core cleanups and documentation updates from Geert
Uytterhoeven.
- PNP core cleanup from Michael Opdenacker"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.15-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
cpufreq: Make cpufreq_notify_transition & cpufreq_notify_post_transition static
cpufreq: Convert existing drivers to use cpufreq_freq_transition_{begin|end}
cpufreq: Make sure frequency transitions are serialized
intel_pstate: Use del_timer_sync in intel_pstate_cpu_stop
cpufreq: resume drivers before enabling governors
PM / Runtime: Spelling s/competing/completing/
PM / Runtime: s/foo_process_requests/foo_process_next_request/
PM / Runtime: GENERIC_SUBSYS_PM_OPS is gone
PM / Runtime: Correct documented return values for generic PM callbacks
PM / Runtime: Split line longer than 80 characters
PM / Runtime: dev_pm_info.runtime_error is signed
Revert "ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get APIC ID via GIC"
ACPICA: Enable auto-serialization as a default kernel behavior.
ACPICA: Ignore sync_level for methods that have been auto-serialized.
ACPICA: Add additional named objects for the auto-serialize method scan.
ACPICA: Add auto-serialization support for ill-behaved control methods.
ACPICA: Remove global option to serialize all control methods.
PNP: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 vdso changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is the revamp of the 32-bit vdso and the associated cleanups.
This adds timekeeping support to the 32-bit vdso that we already have
in the 64-bit vdso. Although 32-bit x86 is legacy, it is likely to
remain in the embedded space for a very long time to come.
This removes the traditional COMPAT_VDSO support; the configuration
variable is reused for simply removing the 32-bit vdso, which will
produce correct results but obviously suffer a performance penalty.
Only one beta version of glibc was affected, but that version was
unfortunately included in one OpenSUSE release.
This is not the end of the vdso cleanups. Stefani and Andy have
agreed to continue work for the next kernel cycle; in fact Andy has
already produced another set of cleanups that came too late for this
cycle.
An incidental, but arguably important, change is that this ensures
that unused space in the VVAR page is properly zeroed. It wasn't
before, and would contain whatever garbage was left in memory by BIOS
or the bootloader. Since the VVAR page is accessible to user space
this had the potential of information leaks"
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86, vdso: Fix the symbol versions on the 32-bit vDSO
x86, vdso, build: Don't rebuild 32-bit vdsos on every make
x86, vdso: Actually discard the .discard sections
x86, vdso: Fix size of get_unmapped_area()
x86, vdso: Finish removing VDSO32_PRELINK
x86, vdso: Move more vdso definitions into vdso.h
x86: Load the 32-bit vdso in place, just like the 64-bit vdsos
x86, vdso32: handle 32 bit vDSO larger one page
x86, vdso32: Disable stack protector, adjust optimizations
x86, vdso: Zero-pad the VVAR page
x86, vdso: Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 64 bit kernel
x86, vdso: Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel
x86, vdso: Patch alternatives in the 32-bit VDSO
x86, vdso: Introduce VVAR marco for vdso32
x86, vdso: Cleanup __vdso_gettimeofday()
x86, vdso: Replace VVAR(vsyscall_gtod_data) by gtod macro
x86, vdso: __vdso_clock_gettime() cleanup
x86, vdso: Revamp vclock_gettime.c
mm: Add new func _install_special_mapping() to mmap.c
x86, vdso: Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The majority of this material spent some time in linux-next, some of
it even several weeks. There are a few relatively fresh commits in
it, but they are mostly fixes and simple cleanups.
ACPI took the lead this time, both in terms of the number of commits
and the number of modified lines of code, cpufreq follows and there
are a few changes in the PM core and in cpuidle too.
A new feature that already got some LWN.net's attention is the device
PM QoS extension allowing latency tolerance requirements to be
propagated from leaf devices to their ancestors with hardware
interfaces for specifying latency tolerance. That should help systems
with hardware-driven power management to avoid going too far with it
in cases when there are latency tolerance constraints.
There also are some significant changes in the ACPI core related to
the way in which hotplug notifications are handled. They affect PCI
hotplug (ACPIPHP) and the ACPI dock station code too. The bottom line
is that all those notification now go through the root notify handler
and are propagated to the interested subsystems by means of callbacks
instead of having to install a notify handler for each device object
that we can potentially get hotplug notifications for.
In addition to that ACPICA will now advertise "Windows 2013"
compatibility for _OSI, because some systems out there don't work
correctly if that is not done (some of them don't even boot).
On the system suspend side of things, all of the device suspend and
resume callbacks, except for ->prepare() and ->complete(), are now
going to be executed asynchronously as that turns out to speed up
system suspend and resume on some platforms quite significantly and we
have a few more optimizations in that area.
Apart from that, there are some new device IDs and fixes and cleanups
all over. In particular, the system suspend and resume handling by
cpufreq should be improved and the cpuidle menu governor should be a
bit more robust now.
Specifics:
- Device PM QoS support for latency tolerance constraints on systems
with hardware interfaces allowing such constraints to be specified.
That is necessary to prevent hardware-driven power management from
becoming overly aggressive on some systems and to prevent power
management features leading to excessive latencies from being used
in some cases.
- Consolidation of the handling of ACPI hotplug notifications for
device objects. This causes all device hotplug notifications to go
through the root notify handler (that was executed for all of them
anyway before) that propagates them to individual subsystems, if
necessary, by executing callbacks provided by those subsystems
(those callbacks are associated with struct acpi_device objects
during device enumeration). As a result, the code in question
becomes both smaller in size and more straightforward and all of
those changes should not affect users.
- ACPICA update, including fixes related to the handling of _PRT in
cases when it is broken and the addition of "Windows 2013" to the
list of supported "features" for _OSI (which is necessary to
support systems that work incorrectly or don't even boot without
it). Changes from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng.
- Consolidation of ACPI _OST handling from Jiang Liu.
- ACPI battery and AC fixes allowing unusual system configurations to
be handled by that code from Alexander Mezin.
- New device IDs for the ACPI LPSS driver from Chiau Ee Chew.
- ACPI fan and thermal optimizations related to system suspend and
resume from Aaron Lu.
- Cleanups related to ACPI video from Jean Delvare.
- Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Hanjun Guo, Lan
Tianyu, Paul Bolle, Tomasz Nowicki.
- Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limits) driver cleanups from
Jacob Pan.
- intel_pstate fixes and cleanups from Dirk Brandewie.
- cpufreq fixes related to system suspend/resume handling from Viresh
Kumar.
- cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Stratos
Karafotis, Saravana Kannan, Rashika Kheria, Joe Perches.
- cpufreq drivers updates from Viresh Kumar, Zhuoyu Zhang, Rob
Herring.
- cpuidle fixes related to the menu governor from Tuukka Tikkanen.
- cpuidle fix related to coupled CPUs handling from Paul Burton.
- Asynchronous execution of all device suspend and resume callbacks,
except for ->prepare and ->complete, during system suspend and
resume from Chuansheng Liu.
- Delayed resuming of runtime-suspended devices during system suspend
for the PCI bus type and ACPI PM domain.
- New set of PM helper routines to allow device runtime PM callbacks
to be used during system suspend and resume more easily from Ulf
Hansson.
- Assorted fixes and cleanups in the PM core from Geert Uytterhoeven,
Prabhakar Lad, Philipp Zabel, Rashika Kheria, Sebastian Capella.
- devfreq fix from Saravana Kannan"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
PM / devfreq: Rewrite devfreq_update_status() to fix multiple bugs
PM / sleep: Correct whitespace errors in <linux/pm.h>
intel_pstate: Set core to min P state during core offline
cpufreq: Add stop CPU callback to cpufreq_driver interface
cpufreq: Remove unnecessary braces
cpufreq: Fix checkpatch errors and warnings
cpufreq: powerpc: add cpufreq transition latency for FSL e500mc SoCs
MAINTAINERS: Reorder maintainer addresses for PM and ACPI
PM / Runtime: Update runtime_idle() documentation for return value meaning
video / output: Drop display output class support
fujitsu-laptop: Drop unneeded include
acer-wmi: Stop selecting VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL
ACPI / gpu / drm: Stop selecting VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL
ACPI / video: fix ACPI_VIDEO dependencies
cpufreq: remove unused notifier: CPUFREQ_{SUSPENDCHANGE|RESUMECHANGE}
cpufreq: Do not allow ->setpolicy drivers to provide ->target
cpufreq: arm_big_little: set 'physical_cluster' for each CPU
cpufreq: arm_big_little: make vexpress driver depend on bL core driver
ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine
ACPI: Remove duplicate definitions of PREFIX
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 kaslr update from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds kernel module load address randomization"
* 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, kaslr: fix module lock ordering problem
x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address
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The previous commit "ACPICA: Add auto-serialization support for ill-behaved
control methods" introduced the auto-serialization facility as a workaround
that can be enabled by "acpi_auto_serialize":
This feature marks control methods that create named objects as "serialized"
to avoid unwanted AE_ALREADY_EXISTS control method evaluation failures.
Enable method auto-serialization as the default kernel behavior. The new kernel
parameter is also changed from "acpi_auto_serialize" to "acpi_no_auto_serialize"
to reflect the default behavior.
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52191
References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg49496.html
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This change adds support to automatically mark a control method as
"serialized" if the method creates any named objects. This will
positively prevent the method from being entered by more than one
thread and thus preventing a possible abort when an attempt is
made to create an object twice.
Implemented by parsing all non-serialize control methods at table
load time.
This feature is disabled by default and this patch also adds a new
Linux kernel parameter "acpi_auto_serialize" to allow this feature
to be turned on for a specific boot.
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52191
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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According to the reports, the "acpi_serialize" mechanism is broken as:
A. The parallel method calls can still happen when the interpreter lock is
released under the following conditions:
1. External callbacks are invoked, for example, by the region handlers,
the exception handlers, etc.;
2. Module level execution is performed when Load/LoadTable opcodes are
executed, and
3. The _REG control methods are invoked to complete the region
registrations.
B. For the following situations, the interpreter lock need to be released
even for a serialized method while currently, the lock-releasing
operation is marked as a no-op by
acpi_ex_relinquish/reacquire_interpreter() when this mechanism is
enabled:
1. Wait opcode is executed,
2. Acquire opcode is executed, and
3. Sleep opcode is executed.
This patch removes this mechanism and the internal
acpi_ex_relinquish/reacquire_interpreter() APIs. Lv Zheng.
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52191
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Pentium M
Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a functionally usable PAE
implementation. This adds the "forcepae" parameter which bypasses the boot
check for PAE, and sets the CPU as being PAE capable. Using this parameter
will taint the kernel with TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC.
Signed-off-by: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140307114040.GA4997@localhost
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
compatibility with a small range of glibc versions.
This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.
This also changes the default value of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO to n --
users configuring kernels from scratch almost certainly want that
choice.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4bb4690899106eb11430b1186d5cc66ca9d1660c.1394751608.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Randomize the load address of modules in the kernel to make kASLR
effective for modules. Modules can only be loaded within a particular
range of virtual address space. This patch adds 10 bits of entropy to
the load address by adding 1-1024 * PAGE_SIZE to the beginning range
where modules are loaded.
The single base offset was chosen because randomizing each module
load ends up wasting/fragmenting memory too much. Prior approaches to
minimizing fragmentation while doing randomization tend to result in
worse entropy than just doing a single base address offset.
Example kASLR boot without this change, with a single module loaded:
---[ Modules ]---
0xffffffffc0000000-0xffffffffc0001000 4K ro GLB x pte
0xffffffffc0001000-0xffffffffc0002000 4K ro GLB NX pte
0xffffffffc0002000-0xffffffffc0004000 8K RW GLB NX pte
0xffffffffc0004000-0xffffffffc0200000 2032K pte
0xffffffffc0200000-0xffffffffff000000 1006M pmd
---[ End Modules ]---
Example kASLR boot after this change, same module loaded:
---[ Modules ]---
0xffffffffc0000000-0xffffffffc0200000 2M pmd
0xffffffffc0200000-0xffffffffc03bf000 1788K pte
0xffffffffc03bf000-0xffffffffc03c0000 4K ro GLB x pte
0xffffffffc03c0000-0xffffffffc03c1000 4K ro GLB NX pte
0xffffffffc03c1000-0xffffffffc03c3000 8K RW GLB NX pte
0xffffffffc03c3000-0xffffffffc0400000 244K pte
0xffffffffc0400000-0xffffffffff000000 1004M pmd
---[ End Modules ]---
Signed-off-by: Andy Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140226005916.GA27083@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Sometimes, there might be bugs caused by unexpected AML which is compliant
to the Windows but not compliant to the Linux implementation.
There is a predefined validation mechanism implemented in ACPICA to repair
the unexpected AML evaluation results that are caused by the unexpected
AMLs. For example, BIOS may return misorder _CST result and the repair
mechanism can make an ascending order on the returned _CST package object
based on the C-state type.
This mechanism is quite useful to implement an AML interpreter with better
compliance with the real world where Windows is the de-facto standard and
BIOS codes are only tested on one platform thus not compliant to the
ACPI specification.
But if a compliance issue hasn't been figured out yet, it will be
difficult for developers to identify if the unexpected evaluation result
is caused by this mechanism or by the AML interpreter.
For example, _PR0 is expected to be a control method, but BIOS may use
Package: "Name(_PR0, Package(1) {P1PR})".
This boot option can disable the predefined validation mechanism so that
developers can make sure the root cause comes from the parser/executer.
This patch adds a new kernel parameter to disable this feature.
A build test has been made on a Dell Inspiron mini 1100 (i386 z530)
machine when this patch is applied and the corresponding boot test is
performed w/ or w/o the new kernel parameter specified.
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67901
Tested-by: Fabian Wehning <fabian.wehning@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options.
Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or
"marked".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb
Pull swiotlb bug-fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
- Don't DoS with 'swiotlb is full' message.
- Documentation update.
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb:
swiotlb: Don't DoS us with 'swiotlb buffer is full' (v2)
swiotlb: update format
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"As far as the number of commits goes, the top spot belongs to ACPI
this time with cpufreq in the second position and a handful of PM
core, PNP and cpuidle updates. They are fixes and cleanups mostly, as
usual, with a couple of new features in the mix.
The most visible change is probably that we will create struct
acpi_device objects (visible in sysfs) for all devices represented in
the ACPI tables regardless of their status and there will be a new
sysfs attribute under those objects allowing user space to check that
status via _STA.
Consequently, ACPI device eject or generally hot-removal will not
delete those objects, unless the table containing the corresponding
namespace nodes is unloaded, which is extremely rare. Also ACPI
container hotplug will be handled quite a bit differently and cpufreq
will support CPU boost ("turbo") generically and not only in the
acpi-cpufreq driver.
Specifics:
- ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for
every device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace
scans regardless of the current status of that device. In
accordance with this, ACPI hotplug operations will not delete those
objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables go away.
- On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects
allowing user space to check device status by triggering the
execution of _STA for its ACPI object. From Srinivas Pandruvada.
- ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating
the PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.
- ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the
code "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.
- ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218. This adds support for
the DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves
debug facilities. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.
- Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization
earlier. That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping
initialization and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.
From Chun-Yi Lee.
- Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over
from Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).
- New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in
drivers that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper. From
Jiang Liu.
- New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.
- Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun
Guo, Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava,
Rashika Kheria, Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.
- intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support,
from Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar
Ramachandra.
- Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz
Majewski.
- powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.
- cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark
Brown.
- Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John
Tobias, Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh
Kumar.
- cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.
- Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.
- Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC
disabled during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.
- PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf
Hansson.
- PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente
Kurusa, Rashika Kheria.
- New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a
cpupower tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (153 commits)
thermal: exynos: boost: Automatic enable/disable of BOOST feature (at Exynos4412)
cpufreq: exynos4x12: Change L0 driver data to CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ
Documentation: cpufreq / boost: Update BOOST documentation
cpufreq: exynos: Extend Exynos cpufreq driver to support boost
cpufreq / boost: Kconfig: Support for software-managed BOOST
acpi-cpufreq: Adjust the code to use the common boost attribute
cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.
cpufreq: introduce cpufreq_generic_get() routine
ARM: SA1100: Create dummy clk_get_rate() to avoid build failures
cpufreq: stats: create sysfs entries when cpufreq_stats is a module
cpufreq: stats: free table and remove sysfs entry in a single routine
cpufreq: stats: remove hotplug notifiers
cpufreq: stats: handle cpufreq_unregister_driver() and suspend/resume properly
cpufreq: speedstep: remove unused speedstep_get_state
platform: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus
PM / tools: new tool for suspend/resume performance optimization
ACPI: fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices
ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- the rest of MM
- add generic fixmap.h, use it
- backlight updates
- dynamic_debug updates
- printk() updates
- checkpatch updates
- binfmt_elf
- ramfs
- init/
- autofs4
- drivers/rtc
- nilfs
- hfsplus
- Documentation/
- coredump
- procfs
- fork
- exec
- kexec
- kdump
- partitions
- rapidio
- rbtree
- userns
- memstick
- w1
- decompressors
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
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Pull audit update from Eric Paris:
"Again we stayed pretty well contained inside the audit system.
Venturing out was fixing a couple of function prototypes which were
inconsistent (didn't hurt anything, but we used the same value as an
int, uint, u32, and I think even a long in a couple of places).
We also made a couple of minor changes to when a couple of LSMs called
the audit system. We hoped to add aarch64 audit support this go
round, but it wasn't ready.
I'm disappearing on vacation on Thursday. I should have internet
access, but it'll be spotty. If anything goes wrong please be sure to
cc rgb@redhat.com. He'll make fixing things his top priority"
* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (50 commits)
audit: whitespace fix in kernel-parameters.txt
audit: fix location of __net_initdata for audit_net_ops
audit: remove pr_info for every network namespace
audit: Modify a set of system calls in audit class definitions
audit: Convert int limit uses to u32
audit: Use more current logging style
audit: Use hex_byte_pack_upper
audit: correct a type mismatch in audit_syscall_exit()
audit: reorder AUDIT_TTY_SET arguments
audit: rework AUDIT_TTY_SET to only grab spin_lock once
audit: remove needless switch in AUDIT_SET
audit: use define's for audit version
audit: documentation of audit= kernel parameter
audit: wait_for_auditd rework for readability
audit: update MAINTAINERS
audit: log task info on feature change
audit: fix incorrect set of audit_sock
audit: print error message when fail to create audit socket
audit: fix dangling keywords in audit_log_set_loginuid() output
audit: log on errors from filter user rules
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The usage of the 'gpt' kernel parameter is twofold: (i) skip any mbr
integrity checks and (ii) enable the backup GPT header to be used in
situations where the primary one is corrupted. This last "feature" is not
obvious and needs to be properly documented in the kernel-parameters
document.
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63591
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: "Chandramouleeswaran,Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Murphy <bugzilla@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add "kmemcheck=xx" to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
neighbour.h: fix comment
sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
thermal: rcar: comment spelling
treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
arm: fix comment header and macro name
asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
mtd: onenand: fix comment header
doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
treewide: Fix typos in printk
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 kernel address space randomization support from Peter Anvin:
"This enables kernel address space randomization for x86"
* 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, kaslr: Clarify RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET
x86, kaslr: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
x86, kaslr: Use char array to gain sizeof sanity
x86, kaslr: Add a circular multiply for better bit diffusion
x86, kaslr: Mix entropy sources together as needed
x86/relocs: Add percpu fixup for GNU ld 2.23
x86, boot: Rename get_flags() and check_flags() to *_cpuflags()
x86, kaslr: Raise the maximum virtual address to -1 GiB on x86_64
x86, kaslr: Report kernel offset on panic
x86, kaslr: Select random position from e820 maps
x86, kaslr: Provide randomness functions
x86, kaslr: Return location from decompress_kernel
x86, boot: Move CPU flags out of cpucheck
x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 RAS changes from Ingo Molnar:
- SCI reporting for other error types not only correctable ones
- GHES cleanups
- Add the functionality to override error reporting agents as some
machines are sporting a new extended error logging capability which,
if done properly in the BIOS, makes a corresponding EDAC module
redundant
- PCIe AER tracepoint severity levels fix
- Error path correction for the mce device init
- MCE timer fix
- Add more flexibility to the error injection (EINJ) debugfs interface
* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, mce: Fix mce_start_timer semantics
ACPI, APEI, GHES: Cleanup ghes memory error handling
ACPI, APEI: Cleanup alignment-aware accesses
ACPI, APEI, GHES: Do not report only correctable errors with SCI
ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Changes to the ACPI/APEI/EINJ debugfs interface
ACPI, eMCA: Combine eMCA/EDAC event reporting priority
EDAC, sb_edac: Modify H/W event reporting policy
EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDAC
PCI, AER: Fix severity usage in aer trace event
x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This consists of two main parts:
- New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
groundwork for kexec support on EFI (Borislav Petkov)
- EFI kexec support itself (Dave Young)"
* 'x86-efi-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/efi: parse_efi_setup() build fix
x86: ksysfs.c build fix
x86/efi: Delete superfluous global variables
x86: Reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline
x86: Export x86 boot_params to sysfs
x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec
x86/efi: Pass necessary EFI data for kexec via setup_data
efi: Export EFI runtime memory mapping to sysfs
efi: Export more EFI table variables to sysfs
x86/efi: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode() function
x86/efi: Fix off-by-one bug in EFI Boot Services reservation
x86/efi: Add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed()
x86/efi: Remove unused variables in __map_region()
x86/efi: Check krealloc return value
x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping
x86/mm/cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd
x86/mm/pageattr: Add last levels of error path
x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PUD error unwinding path
x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PTE pagetable populating function
x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PMD pagetable populating function
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two main changes:
- improve local APIC Error Status Register reporting robustness
- add the 'disable_cpu_apicid=x' boot parameter for kexec booting"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, apic: Make disabled_cpu_apicid static read_mostly, fix typos
x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter
x86/apic: Read Error Status Register correctly
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
- add RCU torture scripts/tooling
- static analysis improvements
- update RCU documentation
- miscellaneous fixes
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h
rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h
rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow
rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq
rcu: Add an RCU_INITIALIZER for global RCU-protected pointers
rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe
bonding: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for better overhead and for sparse
rcu: Add comment on evaluate-once properties of rcu_assign_pointer().
rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions
rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments
rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values
rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings
rcutorture: Stop tracking FSF's postal address
rcutorture: Move checkarg to functions.sh
rcutorture: Flag errors and warnings with color coding
rcutorture: Record results from repeated runs of the same test scenario
rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness
rcutorture: Update comment in kvm.sh listing typical RCU trace events
rcutorture: Add tracing-enabled version of TREE08
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Fixup caught by checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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* acpi-init:
ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()
* acpi-hotplug:
ACPI / memhotplug: add parameter to disable memory hotplug
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When booting a kexec/kdump kernel on a system that has specific memory
hotplug regions the boot will fail with warnings like:
swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x84d0
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-65.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: QCI QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R, BIOS QSSC-S4R.QCI.01.00.S013.032920111005 03/29/2011
0000000000000000 ffff8800341bd8c8 ffffffff815bcc67 ffff8800341bd950
ffffffff8113b1a0 ffff880036339b00 0000000000000009 00000000000084d0
ffff8800341bd950 ffffffff815b87ee 0000000000000000 0000000000000200
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff815bcc67>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff8113b1a0>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf0/0x160
[<ffffffff815b87ee>] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xac/0x196
[<ffffffff8113f14f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ff/0xa00
[<ffffffff815b417c>] vmemmap_alloc_block+0x62/0xba
[<ffffffff815b41e9>] vmemmap_alloc_block_buf+0x15/0x3b
[<ffffffff815b1ff6>] vmemmap_populate+0xb4/0x21b
[<ffffffff815b461d>] sparse_mem_map_populate+0x27/0x35
[<ffffffff815b400f>] sparse_add_one_section+0x7a/0x185
[<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
[<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
[<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
[<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
[<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
[<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
[<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
[<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
[<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
[<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6
[<ffffffff81a1fd58>] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a
[<ffffffff810020e2>] do_one_initcall+0xe2/0x190
[<ffffffff819e20c4>] kernel_init_freeable+0x17c/0x207
[<ffffffff819e18d0>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
[<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff8159feae>] kernel_init+0xe/0x180
[<ffffffff815cca2c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
Mem-Info:
Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
CPU 0: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0
active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:872 slab_reclaimable:13 slab_unreclaimable:1880
mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
free_cma:0
because the system has run out of memory at boot time. This occurs
because of the following sequence in the boot:
Main kernel boots and sets E820 map. The second kernel is booted with a
map generated by the kdump service using memmap= and memmap=exactmap.
These parameters are added to the kernel parameters of the kexec/kdump
kernel. The kexec/kdump kernel has limited memory resources so as not
to severely impact the main kernel.
The system then panics and the kdump/kexec kernel boots (which is a
completely new kernel boot). During this boot ACPI is initialized and the
kernel (as can be seen above) traverses the ACPI namespace and finds an
entry for a memory device to be hotadded.
ie)
[<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
[<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
[<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
[<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
[<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
[<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
[<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
[<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
[<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
[<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6
At this point the kernel adds page table information and the the kexec/kdump
kernel runs out of memory.
This can also be reproduced by using the memmap=exactmap and mem=X
parameters on the main kernel and booting.
This patchset resolves the problem by adding a kernel parameter,
acpi_no_memhotplug, to disable ACPI memory hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter. To use this kernel parameter,
specify an initial APIC ID of the corresponding CPU you want to
disable.
This is mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to disable BSP to wake up
multiple CPUs without causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT
from AP to BSP.
Kdump users first figure out initial APIC ID of the BSP, CPU0 in the
1st kernel, for example from /proc/cpuinfo and then set up this kernel
parameter for the 2nd kernel using the obtained APIC ID.
However, doing this procedure at each boot time manually is awkward,
which should be automatically done by user-land service scripts, for
example, kexec-tools on fedora/RHEL distributions.
This design is more flexible than disabling BSP in kernel boot time
automatically in that in kernel boot time we have no choice but
referring to ACPI/MP table to obtain initial APIC ID for BSP, meaning
that the method is not applicable to the systems without such BIOS
tables.
One assumption behind this design is that users get initial APIC ID of
the BSP in still healthy state and so BSP is uniquely kept in
CPU0. Thus, through the kernel parameter, only one initial APIC ID can
be specified.
In a comparison with disabled_cpu_apicid, we use read_apic_id(), not
boot_cpu_physical_apicid, because on some platforms, the variable is
modified to the apicid reported as BSP through MP table and this
function is executed with the temporarily modified
boot_cpu_physical_apicid. As a result, disabled_cpu_apicid kernel
parameter doesn't work well for apicids of APs.
Fixing the wrong handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid requires some
reviews and tests beyond some platforms and it could take some
time. The fix here is a kind of workaround to focus on the main topic
of this patch.
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115064458.1545.38775.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Further documentation of the 3 possible kernel value of the audit
command line option.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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The default audit_backlog_limit is 64. This was a reasonable limit at one time.
systemd causes so much audit queue activity on startup that auditd doesn't
start before the backlog queue has already overflowed by more than a factor of
2. On a system with audit= not set on the kernel command line, this isn't an
issue since that history isn't kept for auditd when it is available. On a
system with audit=1 set on the kernel command line, kaudit tries to keep that
history until auditd is able to drain the queue.
This default can be changed by the "-b" option in audit.rules once the system
has booted, but won't help with lost messages on boot.
One way to solve this would be to increase the default backlog queue size to
avoid losing any messages before auditd is able to consume them. This would
be overkill to the embedded community and insufficient for some servers.
Another way to solve it might be to add a kconfig option to set the default
based on the system type. An embedded system would get the current (or
smaller) default, while Workstations might get more than now and servers might
get more.
None of these solutions helps if a system's compiled default is too small to
see the lost messages without compiling a new kernel.
This patch adds a kernel set-up parameter (audit already has one to
enable/disable it) "audit_backlog_limit=<n>" that overrides the default to
allow the system administrator to set the backlog limit.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Add the "audit=" kernel start-up parameter to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt doesn't contain up-to-date
documentation regarding swiotlb= parameter. Update it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things
in tree (efi-stub).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly
onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option
to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the
BIOS.
The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this,
but that was never ported to the libata layer.
This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force.
Example use:
libata.force=2.0:disable
[v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo]
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk
Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co
Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive
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This new parameter is used to control how to report HW error reporting,
especially for newer Intel platform, like Ivybridge-EX, which contains
an enhanced error decoding functionality in the firmware, i.e. eMCA.
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386310630-12529-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com
[ Boris: massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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In doc, it said that 'Currently supported controllers - "memory"',
but actually we can use cgroup_disable=cpu,cpuset and all other
controllers, so this is confusing for cgroup users without much
cgroup knowledge. We need to make it clear.
[some comments copied from Paul Menage's original patch 8bab8dded]
Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi
Pull EFI virtual mapping changes from Matt Fleming:
* New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
groundwork for kexec support on EFI. (Borislav Petkov)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this patchset, we finally get an SELinux update, with Paul Moore
taking over as maintainer of that code.
Also a significant update for the Keys subsystem, as well as
maintenance updates to Smack, IMA, TPM, and Apparmor"
and since I wanted to know more about the updates to key handling,
here's the explanation from David Howells on that:
"Okay. There are a number of separate bits. I'll go over the big bits
and the odd important other bit, most of the smaller bits are just
fixes and cleanups. If you want the small bits accounting for, I can
do that too.
(1) Keyring capacity expansion.
KEYS: Consolidate the concept of an 'index key' for key access
KEYS: Introduce a search context structure
KEYS: Search for auth-key by name rather than target key ID
Add a generic associative array implementation.
KEYS: Expand the capacity of a keyring
Several of the patches are providing an expansion of the capacity of a
keyring. Currently, the maximum size of a keyring payload is one page.
Subtract a small header and then divide up into pointers, that only gives
you ~500 pointers on an x86_64 box. However, since the NFS idmapper uses
a keyring to store ID mapping data, that has proven to be insufficient to
the cause.
Whatever data structure I use to handle the keyring payload, it can only
store pointers to keys, not the keys themselves because several keyrings
may point to a single key. This precludes inserting, say, and rb_node
struct into the key struct for this purpose.
I could make an rbtree of records such that each record has an rb_node
and a key pointer, but that would use four words of space per key stored
in the keyring. It would, however, be able to use much existing code.
I selected instead a non-rebalancing radix-tree type approach as that
could have a better space-used/key-pointer ratio. I could have used the
radix tree implementation that we already have and insert keys into it by
their serial numbers, but that means any sort of search must iterate over
the whole radix tree. Further, its nodes are a bit on the capacious side
for what I want - especially given that key serial numbers are randomly
allocated, thus leaving a lot of empty space in the tree.
So what I have is an associative array that internally is a radix-tree
with 16 pointers per node where the index key is constructed from the key
type pointer and the key description. This means that an exact lookup by
type+description is very fast as this tells us how to navigate directly to
the target key.
I made the data structure general in lib/assoc_array.c as far as it is
concerned, its index key is just a sequence of bits that leads to a
pointer. It's possible that someone else will be able to make use of it
also. FS-Cache might, for example.
(2) Mark keys as 'trusted' and keyrings as 'trusted only'.
KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key
KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace
KEYS: Add a 'trusted' flag and a 'trusted only' flag
KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing
These patches allow keys carrying asymmetric public keys to be marked as
being 'trusted' and allow keyrings to be marked as only permitting the
addition or linkage of trusted keys.
Keys loaded from hardware during kernel boot or compiled into the kernel
during build are marked as being trusted automatically. New keys can be
loaded at runtime with add_key(). They are checked against the system
keyring contents and if their signatures can be validated with keys that
are already marked trusted, then they are marked trusted also and can
thus be added into the master keyring.
Patches from Mimi Zohar make this usable with the IMA keyrings also.
(3) Remove the date checks on the key used to validate a module signature.
X.509: Remove certificate date checks
It's not reasonable to reject a signature just because the key that it was
generated with is no longer valid datewise - especially if the kernel
hasn't yet managed to set the system clock when the first module is
loaded - so just remove those checks.
(4) Make it simpler to deal with additional X.509 being loaded into the kernel.
KEYS: Load *.x509 files into kernel keyring
KEYS: Have make canonicalise the paths of the X.509 certs better to deduplicate
The builder of the kernel now just places files with the extension ".x509"
into the kernel source or build trees and they're concatenated by the
kernel build and stuffed into the appropriate section.
(5) Add support for userspace kerberos to use keyrings.
KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches
KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs
Fedora went to, by default, storing kerberos tickets and tokens in tmpfs.
We looked at storing it in keyrings instead as that confers certain
advantages such as tickets being automatically deleted after a certain
amount of time and the ability for the kernel to get at these tokens more
easily.
To make this work, two things were needed:
(a) A way for the tickets to persist beyond the lifetime of all a user's
sessions so that cron-driven processes can still use them.
The problem is that a user's session keyrings are deleted when the
session that spawned them logs out and the user's user keyring is
deleted when the UID is deleted (typically when the last log out
happens), so neither of these places is suitable.
I've added a system keyring into which a 'persistent' keyring is
created for each UID on request. Each time a user requests their
persistent keyring, the expiry time on it is set anew. If the user
doesn't ask for it for, say, three days, the keyring is automatically
expired and garbage collected using the existing gc. All the kerberos
tokens it held are then also gc'd.
(b) A key type that can hold really big tickets (up to 1MB in size).
The problem is that Active Directory can return huge tickets with lots
of auxiliary data attached. We don't, however, want to eat up huge
tracts of unswappable kernel space for this, so if the ticket is
greater than a certain size, we create a swappable shmem file and dump
the contents in there and just live with the fact we then have an
inode and a dentry overhead. If the ticket is smaller than that, we
slap it in a kmalloc()'d buffer"
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (121 commits)
KEYS: Fix keyring content gc scanner
KEYS: Fix error handling in big_key instantiation
KEYS: Fix UID check in keyctl_get_persistent()
KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB
ima: define '_ima' as a builtin 'trusted' keyring
ima: extend the measurement list to include the file signature
kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL()
KEYS: fix error return code in big_key_instantiate()
KEYS: Fix keyring quota misaccounting on key replacement and unlink
KEYS: Fix a race between negating a key and reading the error set
KEYS: Make BIG_KEYS boolean
apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain()
apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging
apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct
apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting
Smack: Ptrace access check mode
ima: provide hash algo info in the xattr
ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms
ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default
ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template
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The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET
registers to userspace. The Kconfig help points out that in some cases
this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the
map such that additional data is exposed to userspace.
This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP
functionality but it comes with a significant security risk. In an effort
to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP
functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that
is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The hot-Pluggable field in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable.
As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it
cannot be hot-removed. So memory hotplug users may want to set all
hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE so that the kernel won't use it.
Memory hotplug users may also set a node as movable node, which has
ZONE_MOVABLE only, so that the whole node can be hot-removed.
But the kernel cannot use memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. By doing this, the
kernel cannot use memory in movable nodes. This will cause NUMA
performance down. And other users may be unhappy.
So we need a way to allow users to enable and disable this functionality.
In this patch, we introduce movable_node boot option to allow users to
choose to not to consume hotpluggable memory at early boot time and later
we can set it as ZONE_MOVABLE.
To achieve this, the movable_node boot option will control the memblock
allocation direction. That said, after memblock is ready, before SRAT is
parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image as we explained in
the previous patches. So if movable_node boot option is set, the kernel
does the following:
1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory bottom up.
2. After SRAT is parsed, make memblock behave as default, allocate memory
top down.
Users can specify "movable_node" in kernel commandline to enable this
functionality. For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want
to lose their NUMA performance, just don't specify anything. The kernel
will work as before.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/intel-mid changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Update the 'intel mid' (mobile internet device) platform code as Intel
is rolling out more SoC designs.
This gets rid of most of the 'MRST' platform code in the process,
mostly by renaming and shuffling code around into their respective
'intel-mid' platform drivers"
* 'x86-intel-mid-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, intel-mid: Do not re-introduce usage of obsolete __cpuinit
intel_mid: Move platform device setups to their own platform_<device>.* files
x86: intel-mid: Add section for sfi device table
intel-mid: sfi: Allow struct devs_id.get_platform_data to be NULL
intel_mid: Moved SFI related code to sfi.c
intel_mid: Added custom handler for ipc devices
intel_mid: Added custom device_handler support
intel_mid: Refactored sfi_parse_devs() function
intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid*
pci: intel_mid: Return true/false in function returning bool
intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid*
mrst: Fixed indentation issues
mrst: Fixed printk/pr_* related issues
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Add support for earlyprintk=efi which uses the EFI framebuffer.
Very useful for debugging boot problems.
- EFI stub support for large memory maps (more than 128 entries)
- EFI ARM support - this was mostly done by generalizing x86 <-> ARM
platform differences, such as by moving x86 EFI code into
drivers/firmware/efi/ and sharing it with ARM.
- Documentation updates
- misc fixes"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support
boot, efi: Remove redundant memset()
x86/efi: Fix config_table_type array termination
x86 efi: bugfix interrupt disabling sequence
x86: EFI stub support for large memory maps
efi: resolve warnings found on ARM compile
efi: Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions.
efi: Renames in handle_cmdline_files() to complete generalization.
efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files().
efi: Allow efi_free() to be called with size of 0
efi: use efi_get_memory_map() to get final map for x86
efi: generalize efi_get_memory_map()
efi: Rename __get_map() to efi_get_memory_map()
efi: Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function.
efi: Generalize relocate_kernel() for use by other architectures.
efi: Move relocate_kernel() to shared file.
efi: Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations.
efi: Rename memory allocation/free functions
efi: Add system table pointer argument to shared functions.
efi: Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location
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We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
them.
Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
the kernel namespace.
Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
options and chicken bits from the command line.
While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
hold up the sarcasm here...).
Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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It's incredibly difficult to diagnose early EFI boot issues without
special hardware because earlyprintk=vga doesn't work on EFI systems.
Add support for writing to the EFI framebuffer, via earlyprintk=efi,
which will actually give users a chance of providing debug output.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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The IMA measurement list contains two hashes - a template data hash
and a filedata hash. The template data hash is committed to the TPM,
which is limited, by the TPM v1.2 specification, to 20 bytes. The
filedata hash is defined as 20 bytes as well.
Now that support for variable length measurement list templates was
added, the filedata hash is not limited to 20 bytes. This patch adds
Kconfig support for defining larger default filedata hash algorithms
and replacing the builtin default with one specified on the kernel
command line.
<uapi/linux/hash_info.h> contains a list of hash algorithms. The
Kconfig default hash algorithm is a subset of this list, but any hash
algorithm included in the list can be specified at boot, using the
'ima_hash=' kernel command line option.
Changelog v2:
- update Kconfig
Changelog:
- support hashes that are configured
- use generic HASH_ALGO_ definitions
- add Kconfig support
- hash_setup must be called only once (Dmitry)
- removed trailing whitespaces (Roberto Sassu)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
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This patch allows users to specify from the kernel command line the
template descriptor, among those defined, that will be used to generate
and display measurement entries. If an user specifies a wrong template,
IMA reverts to the template descriptor set in the kernel configuration.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney.
Major changes:
" 1. Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566994.
2. Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567027.
3. Grace-period-related changes, primarily to aid in debugging,
inspired by a -rt debugging session. These were posted to
LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567076.
4. Idle entry/exit changes, primarily to address issues located
by Tibor Billes. These were posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567096.
5. Code reorganization moving RCU's source files from kernel
to kernel/rcu. This was posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1577344."
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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