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"Resource Control" is a very broad term for this CPU feature, and a term
that is also associated with containers, cgroups etc. This can easily
cause confusion.
Make the user prompt more specific. Match the config symbol name.
[ bp: In the future, the corresponding ARM arch-specific code will be
under ARM_CPU_RESCTRL and the arch-agnostic bits will be carved out
under the CPU_RESCTRL umbrella symbol. ]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130195621.GA30653@cmpxchg.org
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CONFIG_RESCTRL is too generic. The final goal is to have a generic
option called like this which is selected by the arch-specific ones
CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL and CONFIG_ARM64_RESCTRL. The generic one will
cover the resctrl filesystem and other generic and shared bits of
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190108171401.GC12235@zn.tnic
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Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document
on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the
memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup
documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes.
As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of
Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments"
* tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits)
docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure
configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation
docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section
slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc
doc:process: add links where missing
docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured
x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup
Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting
doc:it: add some process/* translations
doc:it: fixes in process/1.Intro
Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text
Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file
scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing
Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst
Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation
Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior
Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation
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Pull DMA mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
"A huge update this time, but a lot of that is just consolidating or
removing code:
- provide a common DMA_MAPPING_ERROR definition and avoid indirect
calls for dma_map_* error checking
- use direct calls for the DMA direct mapping case, avoiding huge
retpoline overhead for high performance workloads
- merge the swiotlb dma_map_ops into dma-direct
- provide a generic remapping DMA consistent allocator for
architectures that have devices that perform DMA that is not cache
coherent. Based on the existing arm64 implementation and also used
for csky now.
- improve the dma-debug infrastructure, including dynamic allocation
of entries (Robin Murphy)
- default to providing chaining scatterlist everywhere, with opt-outs
for the few architectures (alpha, parisc, most arm32 variants) that
can't cope with it
- misc sparc32 dma-related cleanups
- remove the dma_mark_clean arch hook used by swiotlb on ia64 and
replace it with the generic noncoherent infrastructure
- fix the return type of dma_set_max_seg_size (Niklas Söderlund)
- move the dummy dma ops for not DMA capable devices from arm64 to
common code (Robin Murphy)
- ensure dma_alloc_coherent returns zeroed memory to avoid kernel
data leaks through userspace. We already did this for most common
architectures, but this ensures we do it everywhere.
dma_zalloc_coherent has been deprecated and can hopefully be
removed after -rc1 with a coccinelle script"
* tag 'dma-mapping-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (73 commits)
dma-mapping: fix inverted logic in dma_supported
dma-mapping: deprecate dma_zalloc_coherent
dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*
sparc/iommu: fix ->map_sg return value
sparc/io-unit: fix ->map_sg return value
arm64: default to the direct mapping in get_arch_dma_ops
PCI: Remove unused attr variable in pci_dma_configure
ia64: only select ARCH_HAS_DMA_COHERENT_TO_PFN if swiotlb is enabled
dma-mapping: bypass indirect calls for dma-direct
vmd: use the proper dma_* APIs instead of direct methods calls
dma-direct: merge swiotlb_dma_ops into the dma_direct code
dma-direct: use dma_direct_map_page to implement dma_direct_map_sg
dma-direct: improve addressability error reporting
swiotlb: remove dma_mark_clean
swiotlb: remove SWIOTLB_MAP_ERROR
ACPI / scan: Refactor _CCA enforcement
dma-mapping: factor out dummy DMA ops
dma-mapping: always build the direct mapping code
dma-mapping: move dma_cache_sync out of line
dma-mapping: move various slow path functions out of line
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cache control updates from Borislav Petkov:
- The generalization of the RDT code to accommodate the addition of
AMD's very similar implementation of the cache monitoring feature.
This entails a subsystem move into a separate and generic
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ directory along with adding
vendor-specific initialization and feature detection helpers.
Ontop of that is the unification of user-visible strings, both in the
resctrl filesystem error handling and Kconfig.
Provided by Babu Moger and Sherry Hurwitz.
- Code simplifications and error handling improvements by Reinette
Chatre.
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Fix rdt_find_domain() return value and checks
x86/resctrl: Remove unnecessary check for cbm_validate()
x86/resctrl: Use rdt_last_cmd_puts() where possible
MAINTAINERS: Update resctrl filename patterns
Documentation: Rename and update intel_rdt_ui.txt to resctrl_ui.txt
x86/resctrl: Introduce AMD QOS feature
x86/resctrl: Fixup the user-visible strings
x86/resctrl: Add AMD's X86_FEATURE_MBA to the scattered CPUID features
x86/resctrl: Rename the config option INTEL_RDT to RESCTRL
x86/resctrl: Add vendor check for the MBA software controller
x86/resctrl: Bring cbm_validate() into the resource structure
x86/resctrl: Initialize the vendor-specific resource functions
x86/resctrl: Move all the macros to resctrl/internal.h
x86/resctrl: Re-arrange the RDT init code
x86/resctrl: Rename the RDT functions and definitions
x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to a separate directory
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dma-debug is now capable of adding new entries to its pool on-demand if
the initial preallocation was insufficient, so the IOMMU_LEAK logic no
longer needs to explicitly change the pool size. This does lose it the
ability to save a couple of megabytes of RAM by reducing the pool size
below its default, but it seems unlikely that that is a realistic
concern these days (or indeed that anyone is actively debugging AGP
drivers' DMA usage any more). Getting rid of dma_debug_resize_entries()
will make room for further streamlining in the dma-debug code itself.
Removing the call reveals quite a lot of cruft which has been useless
for nearly a decade since commit 19c1a6f5764d ("x86 gart: reimplement
IOMMU_LEAK feature by using DMA_API_DEBUG"), including the entire
'iommu=leak' parameter, which controlled nothing except whether
dma_debug_resize_entries() was called or not.
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Fix an extra space that sneaked in with commit 09c205afd "(x86, boot:
Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol").
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Rename intel_rdt_ui.txt to generic resctrl_ui.txt and update the
documentation for AMD.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Cc: <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Rian Hunter <rian@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181121202811.4492-13-babu.moger@amd.com
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setup_header")
Peter Anvin pointed out that commit:
ae7e1238e68f2a ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")
should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the
legacy BIOS.
So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit
of:
e7b66d16fe4172 ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available")
just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by
a boot_params in a followup patch.
Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On 5-level paging the LDT remap area is placed in the middle of the KASLR
randomization region and it can overlap with the direct mapping, the
vmalloc or the vmap area.
The LDT mapping is per mm, so it cannot be moved into the P4D page table
next to the CPU_ENTRY_AREA without complicating PGD table allocation for
5-level paging.
The 4 PGD slot gap just before the direct mapping is reserved for
hypervisors, so it cannot be used.
Move the direct mapping one slot deeper and use the resulting gap for the
LDT remap area. The resulting layout is the same for 4 and 5 level paging.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Fixes: f55f0501cbf6 ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026122856.66224-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f259b21b-1f2b-f215-00d2-23388bed2530@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook:
"Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin
was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient
stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense
against at least two classes of flaws:
- Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the
compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was
proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too).
- Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid
stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown
cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This
complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but
provides the coverage for stacks.
The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by
Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already
been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and
reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon).
With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for
alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin"
* tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca()
stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature
fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system
lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK
gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack
x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls
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Documentation and comments.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828145728.11873-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
LICENSES: Add ISC license text
LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
docs: fix some broken documentation references
iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of changes in this cycle:
- Lots of CPA (change page attribute) optimizations and related
cleanups (Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijstra)
- Make lazy TLB mode even lazier (Rik van Riel)
- Fault handler cleanups and improvements (Dave Hansen)
- kdump, vmcore: Enable kdumping encrypted memory with AMD SME
enabled (Lianbo Jiang)
- Clean up VM layout documentation (Baoquan He, Ingo Molnar)
- ... plus misc other fixes and enhancements"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
x86/stackprotector: Remove the call to boot_init_stack_canary() from cpu_startup_entry()
x86/mm: Kill stray kernel fault handling comment
x86/mm: Do not warn about PCI BIOS W+X mappings
resource: Clean it up a bit
resource: Fix find_next_iomem_res() iteration issue
resource: Include resource end in walk_*() interfaces
x86/kexec: Correct KEXEC_BACKUP_SRC_END off-by-one error
x86/mm: Remove spurious fault pkey check
x86/mm/vsyscall: Consider vsyscall page part of user address space
x86/mm: Add vsyscall address helper
x86/mm: Fix exception table comments
x86/mm: Add clarifying comments for user addr space
x86/mm: Break out user address space handling
x86/mm: Break out kernel address space handling
x86/mm: Clarify hardware vs. software "error_code"
x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier
x86/mm/tlb: Add freed_tables element to flush_tlb_info
x86/mm/tlb: Add freed_tables argument to flush_tlb_mm_range
smp,cpumask: introduce on_each_cpu_cond_mask
smp: use __cpumask_set_cpu in on_each_cpu_cond
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 grub2 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This extends the x86 boot protocol to include an address for the RSDP
table - utilized by Xen currently.
Matching Grub2 patches are pending as well. (Juergen Gross)"
* 'x86-grub2-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available
x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header
x86/xen: Fix boot loader version reported for PVH guests
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Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.
For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).
While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.
There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch
violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header.
This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel
to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with
garbage by such a broken Grub2.
From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting
(but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel)
ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables
the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information
to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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After the cleanups from Baoquan He, make it even more readable:
- Remove the 'bits' area size column: it's pretty pointless and was even
wrong for some of the entries. Given that MB, GB, TB, PT are 10, 20,
30 and 40 bits, a "8 TB" size description makes it obvious that it's
43 bits.
- Introduce an "offset" column:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
start addr | offset | end addr | size | VM area description
-----------------|------------|------------------|---------|--------------------
...
ffff880000000000 | -120 TB | ffffc7ffffffffff | 64 TB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base),
this is what limits max physical memory supported.
The -120 TB notation makes it obvious where this particular virtual memory
region starts: 120 TB down from the top of the 64-bit virtual memory space.
Especially the layout of the kernel mappings is a *lot* more obvious when
written this way, plus it's much easier to compare it with the size column
and understand/check/validate and modify the kernel's layout in the future.
- Mark the part from where the 47-bit and 56-bit kernel layouts are 100% identical,
this starts at the -512 GB offset and the EFI region.
- Re-shuffle the size desciptions to be continous blocks of sizes, instead of the
often mixed size. I.e. write "0.5 TB" instead of "512 GB" if we are still in
the TB-granular region of the map.
- Make the 47-bit and 56-bit descriptions use the *exact* same layout and wording,
and only differ where there's a material difference. This makes it easy to compare
the two tables side by side by switching between two terminal tabs.
- Plus enhance a lot of other stylistic/typographical details: make the tables
explicitly tabular, add headers, enhance certain entries, etc. etc.
Note that there are some apparent errors in the tables as well, but I'll fix
them in a separate patch to make it easier to review/validate.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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In Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt, the description of the x86-64 virtual
memory layout has become a confusing hodgepodge of inconsistencies:
- there's a hard to read mixture of 'TB' and 'bits' notation
- the entries sometimes mention a size in the description and sometimes not
- sometimes they list holes by address, sometimes only as an 'unused hole' line
So make it all a coherent, readable, well organized description.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: thgarnie@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181006084327.27467-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The success of a cache pseudo-locked region is measured using
performance monitoring events that are programmed directly at the time
the user requests a measurement.
Modifying the performance event registers directly is not appropriate
since it circumvents the in-kernel perf infrastructure that exists to
manage these resources and provide resource arbitration to the
performance monitoring hardware.
The cache pseudo-locking measurements are modified to use the in-kernel
perf infrastructure. Performance events are created and validated with
the appropriate perf API. The performance counters are still read as
directly as possible to avoid the additional cache hits. This is
done safely by first ensuring with the perf API that the counters have
been programmed correctly and only accessing the counters in an
interrupt disabled section where they are not able to be moved.
As part of the transition to the in-kernel perf infrastructure the L2
and L3 measurements are split into two separate measurements that can
be triggered independently. This separation prevents additional cache
misses incurred during the extra testing code used to decide if a
L2 and/or L3 measurement should be made.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fc24e728b446404f42c78573c506e98cd0599873.1537468643.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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Fix a few issues in Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt:
- correct typos, punctuation, missing word, wrong word
- change product name from Netchip to NetChip
- expand where to add "earlyprintk=dbg"
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d0c40ac3-7659-6374-dbda-23d3d2577f30@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The STACKLEAK feature (initially developed by PaX Team) has the following
benefits:
1. Reduces the information that can be revealed through kernel stack leak
bugs. The idea of erasing the thread stack at the end of syscalls is
similar to CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and memzero_explicit() in kernel
crypto, which all comply with FDP_RIP.2 (Full Residual Information
Protection) of the Common Criteria standard.
2. Blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks (e.g. CVE-2017-17712,
CVE-2010-2963). That kind of bugs should be killed by improving C
compilers in future, which might take a long time.
This commit introduces the code filling the used part of the kernel
stack with a poison value before returning to userspace. Full
STACKLEAK feature also contains the gcc plugin which comes in a
separate commit.
The STACKLEAK feature is ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
https://grsecurity.net/
https://pax.grsecurity.net/
This code is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last
public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on our understanding of the code.
Changes or omissions from the original code are ours and don't reflect
the original grsecurity/PaX code.
Performance impact:
Hardware: Intel Core i7-4770, 16 GB RAM
Test #1: building the Linux kernel on a single core
0.91% slowdown
Test #2: hackbench -s 4096 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P
4.2% slowdown
So the STACKLEAK description in Kconfig includes: "The tradeoff is the
performance impact: on a single CPU system kernel compilation sees a 1%
slowdown, other systems and workloads may vary and you are advised to
test this feature on your expected workload before deploying it".
Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Early TSC based time stamping to allow better boot time analysis.
This comes with a general cleanup of the TSC calibration code which
grew warts and duct taping over the years and removes 250 lines of
code. Initiated and mostly implemented by Pavel with help from various
folks"
* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/kvmclock: Mark kvm_get_preset_lpj() as __init
x86/tsc: Consolidate init code
sched/clock: Disable interrupts when calling generic_sched_clock_init()
timekeeping: Prevent false warning when persistent clock is not available
sched/clock: Close a hole in sched_clock_init()
x86/tsc: Make use of tsc_calibrate_cpu_early()
x86/tsc: Split native_calibrate_cpu() into early and late parts
sched/clock: Use static key for sched_clock_running
sched/clock: Enable sched clock early
sched/clock: Move sched clock initialization and merge with generic clock
x86/tsc: Use TSC as sched clock early
x86/tsc: Initialize cyc2ns when tsc frequency is determined
x86/tsc: Calibrate tsc only once
ARM/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
s390/time: Remove read_boot_clock64()
timekeeping: Default boot time offset to local_clock()
timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
s390/time: Add read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
x86/xen/time: Output xen sched_clock time from 0
x86/xen/time: Initialize pv xen time in init_hypervisor_platform()
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cache QoS (RDT/CAR) updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Add support for pseudo-locked cache regions.
Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) allows on certain CPUs to isolate a
region of cache and 'lock' it. Cache pseudo-locking builds on the fact
that a CPU can still read and write data pre-allocated outside its
current allocated area on cache hit. With cache pseudo-locking data
can be preloaded into a reserved portion of cache that no application
can fill, and from that point on will only serve cache hits. The cache
pseudo-locked memory is made accessible to user space where an
application can map it into its virtual address space and thus have a
region of memory with reduced average read latency.
The locking is not perfect and gets totally screwed by WBINDV and
similar mechanisms, but it provides a reasonable enhancement for
certain types of latency sensitive applications.
The implementation extends the current CAT mechanism and provides a
generally useful exclusive CAT mode on which it builds the extra
pseude-locked regions"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Disable PMU access
x86/intel_rdt: Fix possible circular lock dependency
x86/intel_rdt: Make CPU information accessible for pseudo-locked regions
x86/intel_rdt: Support restoration of subset of permissions
x86/intel_rdt: Fix cleanup of plr structure on error
x86/intel_rdt: Move pseudo_lock_region_clear()
x86/intel_rdt: Limit C-states dynamically when pseudo-locking active
x86/intel_rdt: Support L3 cache performance event of Broadwell
x86/intel_rdt: More precise L2 hit/miss measurements
x86/intel_rdt: Create character device exposing pseudo-locked region
x86/intel_rdt: Create debugfs files for pseudo-locking testing
x86/intel_rdt: Create resctrl debug area
x86/intel_rdt: Ensure RDT cleanup on exit
x86/intel_rdt: Resctrl files reflect pseudo-locked information
x86/intel_rdt: Support creation/removal of pseudo-locked region
x86/intel_rdt: Pseudo-lock region creation/removal core
x86/intel_rdt: Discover supported platforms via prefetch disable bits
x86/intel_rdt: Add utilities to test pseudo-locked region possibility
x86/intel_rdt: Split resource group removal in two
x86/intel_rdt: Enable entering of pseudo-locksetup mode
...
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Currently, the notsc kernel parameter disables the use of the TSC by
sched_clock(). However, this parameter does not prevent the kernel from
accessing tsc in other places.
The only rationale to boot with notsc is to avoid timing discrepancies on
multi-socket systems where TSC are not properly synchronized, and thus
exclude TSC from being used for time keeping. But that prevents using TSC
as sched_clock() as well, which is not necessary as the core sched_clock()
implementation can handle non synchronized TSC based sched clocks just
fine.
However, there is another method to solve the above problem: booting with
tsc=unstable parameter. This parameter allows sched_clock() to use TSC and
just excludes it from timekeeping.
So there is no real reason to keep notsc, but for compatibility reasons the
parameter has to stay. Make it behave like 'tsc=unstable' instead.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: feng.tang@intel.com
Cc: pmladek@suse.com
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-12-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
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The current NUMA emulation capabilities for splitting System RAM by a
fixed size or by a set number of nodes may result in some nodes being
larger than others. The implementation prioritizes establishing a
minimum usable memory size over satisfying the requested number of NUMA
nodes.
Introduce a uniform split capability that evenly partitions each
physical NUMA node into N emulated nodes. For example numa=fake=3U
creates 6 emulated nodes total on a system that has 2 physical nodes.
This capability is useful for debugging and evaluating platform
memory-side-cache capabilities as described by the ACPI HMAT (see
5.2.27.5 Memory Side Cache Information Structure in ACPI 6.2a)
Compare numa=fake=6 that results in only 5 nodes being created against
numa=fake=3U which takes the 2 physical nodes and evenly divides them.
numa=fake=6
available: 5 nodes (0-4)
node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 0 size: 2648 MB
node 0 free: 2443 MB
node 1 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 1 size: 2672 MB
node 1 free: 2442 MB
node 2 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 2 size: 5291 MB
node 2 free: 5278 MB
node 3 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 3 size: 2677 MB
node 3 free: 2665 MB
node 4 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 4 size: 2676 MB
node 4 free: 2663 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4
0: 10 20 10 20 20
1: 20 10 20 10 10
2: 10 20 10 20 20
3: 20 10 20 10 10
4: 20 10 20 10 10
numa=fake=3U
available: 6 nodes (0-5)
node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 0 size: 2900 MB
node 0 free: 2637 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 1 size: 3023 MB
node 1 free: 3012 MB
node 2 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 2 size: 2015 MB
node 2 free: 2004 MB
node 3 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 3 size: 2704 MB
node 3 free: 2522 MB
node 4 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 4 size: 2709 MB
node 4 free: 2698 MB
node 5 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 5 size: 2612 MB
node 5 free: 2601 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4 5
0: 10 10 10 20 20 20
1: 10 10 10 20 20 20
2: 10 10 10 20 20 20
3: 20 20 20 10 10 10
4: 20 20 20 10 10 10
5: 20 20 20 10 10 10
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153089328617.27680.14930758266174305832.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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When a resource group enters pseudo-locksetup mode it reflects that the
platform supports cache pseudo-locking and the resource group is unused,
ready to be used for a pseudo-locked region. Until it is set up as a
pseudo-locked region the resource group is "locked down" such that no new
tasks or cpus can be assigned to it. This is accomplished in a user visible
way by making the cpus, cpus_list, and tasks resctrl files inaccassible
(user cannot read from or write to these files).
When the resource group changes to pseudo-locked mode it represents a cache
pseudo-locked region. While not appropriate to make any changes to the cpus
assigned to this region it is useful to make it easy for the user to see
which cpus are associated with the pseudo-locked region.
Modify the permissions of the cpus/cpus_list file when the resource group
changes to pseudo-locked mode to support reading (not writing). The
information presented to the user when reading the file are the cpus
associated with the pseudo-locked region.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/12756b7963b6abc1bffe8fb560b87b75da827bd1.1530421961.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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Deeper C-states impact cache content through shrinking of the cache or
flushing entire cache to memory before reducing power to the cache.
Deeper C-states will thus negatively impact the pseudo-locked regions.
To avoid impacting pseudo-locked regions C-states are limited on
pseudo-locked region creation so that cores associated with the
pseudo-locked region are prevented from entering deeper C-states.
This is accomplished by requesting a CPU latency target which will
prevent the core from entering C6 across all supported platforms.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ef4f99dd6ba12fa6fb44c5a1141e75f952b9cd9.1529706536.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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Add description of Cache Pseudo-Locking feature, its interface, as well as
an example of its usage.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6e118c15d2c254a27b8891783505cd1bb94a2b10.1529706536.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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By default resource groups allow sharing of their cache allocations. There
is nothing that prevents a resource group from configuring a cache
allocation that overlaps with that of an existing resource group.
To enable resource groups to specify that their cache allocations cannot be
shared a resource group "mode" is introduced to support two possible modes:
"shareable" and "exclusive". A "shareable" resource group allows sharing of
its cache allocations, an "exclusive" resource group does not. A new
resctrl file "mode" associated with each resource group is used to
communicate its (the associated resource group's) mode setting and allow
the mode to be changed. The new "mode" file as well as two other resctrl
files, "bit_usage" and "size", are introduced in this series.
Add documentation for the three new resctrl files as well as one example
demonstrating their use.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
Cc: gavin.hindman@intel.com
Cc: jithu.joseph@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f03a3059ec40ae719be6f3fba9f446bb055e0064.1529706536.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cache resource controller updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"An update for the Intel Resource Director Technolgy (RDT) which adds a
feedback driven software controller to runtime adjust the bandwidth
allocation MSRs.
This makes the allocations more accurate and allows to use bandwidth
values in understandable units (MB/s) instead of using percentage
based allocations as the original, still available, interface.
The software controller can be enabled with a new mount option for the
resctrl filesystem"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Feedback loop to dynamically update mem bandwidth
x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Prepare for feedback loop
x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Add schemata support
x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Add initialization support
x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Enable/disable MBA software controller
x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Documentation for MBA software controller(mba_sc)
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This is something drivers should decide (modulo chipset quirks like
for VIA), which as far as I can tell is how things have been handled
for the last 15 years.
Note that we keep the usedac option for now, as it is used in the wild
to override the too generic VIA quirk.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Limiting the dma mask to avoid PCI (pre-PCIe) DAC cycles while paying
the huge overhead of an IOMMU is rather pointless, and this seriously
gets in the way of dma mapping work.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This is just the minimal workaround. The file is mostly either stale
and/or duplicative of Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt,
but that is much more work than I'm willing to do right now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add documentation about the feedback loop mechanism (MBA software
controller) which lets the user specify the memory bandwidth allocation
in MBps. This includes some changes to "schemata" formati with
examples.
Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524263781-14267-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes and updates for x86:
- Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA
rework and made driver fail because dma_direct_supported() returned
false
- Fix a signedness bug in the APIC ID validation which caused invalid
APIC IDs to be detected as valid thereby bloating the CPU possible
space.
- Fix inconsisten config dependcy/select magic for the MFD_CS5535
driver.
- Fix a corruption of the physical address space bits when encryption
has reduced the address space and late cpuinfo updates overwrite
the reduced bit information with the original value.
- Dominiks syscall rework which consolidates the architecture
specific syscall functions so all syscalls can be wrapped with the
same macros. This allows to switch x86/64 to struct pt_regs based
syscalls. Extend the clearing of user space controlled registers in
the entry patch to the lower registers"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks
x86/cpu: Prevent cpuinfo_x86::x86_phys_bits adjustment corruption
x86/olpc: Fix inconsistent MFD_CS5535 configuration
swiotlb: Use dma_direct_supported() for swiotlb_ops
syscalls/x86: Adapt syscall_wrapper.h to the new syscall stub naming convention
syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()
syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention
syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up syscall stub naming convention
syscalls/x86: Extend register clearing on syscall entry to lower registers
syscalls/x86: Unconditionally enable 'struct pt_regs' based syscalls on x86_64
syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling for IA32_EMULATION and x32
syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls
syscalls/x86: Use 'struct pt_regs' based syscall calling convention for 64-bit syscalls
syscalls/core: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y
x86/syscalls: Don't pointlessly reload the system call number
x86/mm: Fix documentation of module mapping range with 4-level paging
x86/cpuid: Switch to 'static const' specifier
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
kfifo: fix inaccurate comment
tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault
net: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
edd: don't spam log if no EDD information is present
Documentation: Fix early-microcode.txt references after file rename
tracing: Block comments should align the * on each line
treewide: Fix typos in printk
GenWQE: Fix a typo in two comments
treewide: Align function definition open/close braces
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Commit:
f5a40711fa58 ("x86/mm: Set MODULES_END to 0xffffffffff000000")
changed MODULES_END back to a fixed value, but didn't update the documentation
of memory layout for 4-level paging.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: f5a40711fa58 ("x86/mm: Set MODULES_END to 0xffffffffff000000")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180402121025.10244-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The file Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt was renamed to
Documentation/x86/microcode.txt in 0e3258753f81, but it was still
referenced by its old name in a three places:
* Documentation/x86/00-INDEX
* arch/x86/Kconfig
* arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
This commit updates these references accordingly.
Fixes: 0e3258753f81 ("x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods")
Signed-off-by: Jaak Ristioja <jaak@ristioja.ee>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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The text says "Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1", but the sample command writes
to p0/cpus.
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519712271-8802-1-git-send-email-lirongqing@baidu.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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topology_sibling_cpumask() is the correct thread-related topology
function in the kernel:
s/topology_sibling_mask/topology_sibling_cpumask
Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222084812.14497-1-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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All pieces of the puzzle are in place and we can now allow to boot with
CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y on a machine without LA57 support.
Kernel will detect that LA57 is missing and fold p4d at runtime.
Update the documentation and the Kconfig option description to reflect the
change.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214182542.69302-10-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the set of "big" driver core patches for 4.16-rc1.
The majority of the work here is in the firmware subsystem, with
reworks to try to attempt to make the code easier to handle in the
long run, but no functional change. There's also some tree-wide sysfs
attribute fixups with lots of acks from the various subsystem
maintainers, as well as a handful of other normal fixes and changes.
And finally, some license cleanups for the driver core and sysfs code.
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (48 commits)
device property: Define type of PROPERTY_ENRTY_*() macros
device property: Reuse property_entry_free_data()
device property: Move property_entry_free_data() upper
firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option
USB: serial: keyspan: Drop firmware Kconfig options
sysfs: remove DEBUG defines
sysfs: use SPDX identifiers
drivers: base: add coredump driver ops
sysfs: add attribute specification for /sysfs/devices/.../coredump
test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store()
test_firmware: make local symbol test_fw_config static
sysfs: turn WARN() into pr_warn()
firmware: Fix a typo in fallback-mechanisms.rst
treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO
treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW
sysfs.h: Use octal permissions
component: add debugfs support
bus: simple-pm-bus: convert bool SIMPLE_PM_BUS to tristate
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/cache updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of patches which add support for L2 cache partitioning to the
Intel RDT facility"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/intel_rdt: Add command line parameter to control L2_CDP
x86/intel_rdt: Enable L2 CDP in MSR IA32_L2_QOS_CFG
x86/intel_rdt: Add two new resources for L2 Code and Data Prioritization (CDP)
x86/intel_rdt: Enumerate L2 Code and Data Prioritization (CDP) feature
x86/intel_rdt: Add L2CDP support in documentation
x86/intel_rdt: Update documentation
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We've removed the option, so stop talking about it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:
- Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
thunks.
- Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,
- Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid
- Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
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