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2013-04-20Merge branch 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull kdump fixes from Peter Anvin: "The kexec/kdump people have found several problems with the support for loading over 4 GiB that was introduced in this merge cycle. This is partly due to a number of design problems inherent in the way the various pieces of kdump fit together (it is pretty horrifically manual in many places.) After a *lot* of iterations this is the patchset that was agreed upon, but of course it is now very late in the cycle. However, because it changes both the syntax and semantics of the crashkernel option, it would be desirable to avoid a stable release with the broken interfaces." I'm not happy with the timing, since originally the plan was to release the final 3.9 tomorrow. But apparently I'm doing an -rc8 instead... * 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/low x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically
2013-04-17x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/lowYinghai Lu
Per hpa, use crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=Y,low instead of crashkernel_hign=X crashkernel_low=Y. As that could be extensible. -v2: according to Vivek, change delimiter to ; -v3: let hign and low only handle simple form and it conforms to description in kernel-parameters.txt still keep crashkernel=X override any crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=Y,low -v4: update get_last_crashkernel returning and add more strict checking in parse_crashkernel_simple() found by HATAYAMA. -v5: Change delimiter back to , according to HPA. also separate parse_suffix from parse_simper according to vivek. so we can avoid @pos in that path. -v6: Tight the checking about crashkernel=X,highblahblah,high found by HTYAYAMA. Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-5-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-17x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896MYinghai Lu
Vivek found old kexec-tools does not work new kernel anymore. So change back crashkernel= back to old behavoir, and add crashkernel_high= to let user decide if buffer could be above 4G, and also new kexec-tools will be needed. -v2: let crashkernel=X override crashkernel_high= update description about _high will be ignored by crashkernel=X -v3: update description about kernel-parameters.txt according to Vivek. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-4-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-17x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automaticallyYinghai Lu
Chao said that kdump does does work well on his system on 3.8 without extra parameter, even iommu does not work with kdump. And now have to append crashkernel_low=Y in first kernel to make kdump work. We have now modified crashkernel=X to allocate memory beyong 4G (if available) and do not allocate low range for crashkernel if the user does not specify that with crashkernel_low=Y. This causes regression if iommu is not enabled. Without iommu, swiotlb needs to be setup in first 4G and there is no low memory available to second kernel. Set crashkernel_low automatically if the user does not specify that. For system that does support IOMMU with kdump properly, user could specify crashkernel_low=0 to save that 72M low ram. -v3: add swiotlb_size() according to Konrad. -v4: add comments what 8M is for according to hpa. also update more crashkernel_low= in kernel-parameters.txt -v5: update changelog according to Vivek. -v6: Change description about swiotlb referring according to HATAYAMA. Reported-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-2-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-04-17x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameterRichard Weinberger
Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec. This parameter is useful if a devices uses more than 50% of the storage by default. The Intel DQSW67 desktop board is such a sucker for exmaple. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-03-03Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan: "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and fixes which I kept separate to ease review: - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes - A few privilege protection fixes - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of metag_ksyms.c) - Fix some missing exports - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area() - Copy device tree to non-init memory - Provide dma_get_sgtable()" * tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits) metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable() metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve() metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area() metag: export clear_page and copy_page metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe() ...
2013-03-02metag: Basic documentationJames Hogan
Add basic metag documentation. This includes an outline description of the ABIs (including syscall ABI) and calling conventions, similar to the one in Documentation/frv/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2013-03-02x86, ACPI, mm: Revert movablemem_map supportYinghai Lu
Tim found: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80() Hardware name: S2600CP sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency. smpboot: Booting Node 1, Processors #1 Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1 Call Trace: set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449 start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5 Don Morris reproduced on a HP z620 workstation, and bisected it to commit e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is ready") It turns out movable_map has some problems, and it breaks several things 1. numa_init is called several times, NOT just for srat. so those nodes_clear(numa_nodes_parsed) memset(&numa_meminfo, 0, sizeof(numa_meminfo)) can not be just removed. Need to consider sequence is: numaq, srat, amd, dummy. and make fall back path working. 2. simply split acpi_numa_init to early_parse_srat. a. that early_parse_srat is NOT called for ia64, so you break ia64. b. for (i = 0; i < MAX_LOCAL_APIC; i++) set_apicid_to_node(i, NUMA_NO_NODE) still left in numa_init. So it will just clear result from early_parse_srat. it should be moved before that.... c. it breaks ACPI_TABLE_OVERIDE...as the acpi table scan is moved early before override from INITRD is settled. 3. that patch TITLE is total misleading, there is NO x86 in the title, but it changes critical x86 code. It caused x86 guys did not pay attention to find the problem early. Those patches really should be routed via tip/x86/mm. 4. after that commit, following range can not use movable ram: a. real_mode code.... well..funny, legacy Node0 [0,1M) could be hot-removed? b. initrd... it will be freed after booting, so it could be on movable... c. crashkernel for kdump...: looks like we can not put kdump kernel above 4G anymore. d. init_mem_mapping: can not put page table high anymore. e. initmem_init: vmemmap can not be high local node anymore. That is not good. If node is hotplugable, the mem related range like page table and vmemmap could be on the that node without problem and should be on that node. We have workaround patch that could fix some problems, but some can not be fixed. So just remove that offending commit and related ones including: f7210e6c4ac7 ("mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().") 01a178a94e8e ("acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRAT") 27168d38fa20 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to the end of node") e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is ready") fb06bc8e5f42 ("page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map") 42f47e27e761 ("page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority") 6981ec31146c ("page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep movable limit for nodes") 34b71f1e04fc ("page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter") 4d59a75125d5 ("x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node") Later we should have patches that will make sure kernel put page table and vmemmap on local node ram instead of push them down to node0. Also need to find way to put other kernel used ram to local node ram. Reported-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Reported-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com> Bisected-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com> Tested-by: Don Morris <don.morris@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull more x86 fixes from Peter Anvin: "Additional x86 fixes. Three of these patches are pure documentation, two are pretty trivial; the remaining one fixes boot problems on some non-BIOS machines." * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Make sure we can boot in the case the BDA contains pure garbage x86, efi: Mark disable_runtime as __initdata x86, doc: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation. ACPI: Overriding ACPI tables via initrd only works with an initrd and on X86
2013-02-25Merge tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas: "Host bridge hotplug - Major overhaul of ACPI host bridge add/start (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu) - Major overhaul of PCI/ACPI binding (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu) - Split out ACPI host bridge and ACPI PCI device hotplug (Yinghai Lu) - Stop caching _PRT and make independent of bus numbers (Yinghai Lu) PCI device hotplug - Clean up cpqphp dead code (Sasha Levin) - Disable ARI unless device and upstream bridge support it (Yijing Wang) - Initialize all hot-added devices (not functions 0-7) (Yijing Wang) Power management - Don't touch ASPM if disabled (Joe Lawrence) - Fix ASPM link state management (Myron Stowe) Miscellaneous - Fix PCI_EXP_FLAGS accessor (Alex Williamson) - Disable Bus Master in pci_device_shutdown (Konstantin Khlebnikov) - Document hotplug resource and MPS parameters (Yijing Wang) - Add accessor for PCIe capabilities (Myron Stowe) - Drop pciehp suspend/resume messages (Paul Bolle) - Make pci_slot built-in only (not a module) (Jiang Liu) - Remove unused PCI/ACPI bind ops (Jiang Liu) - Removed used pci_root_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)" * tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (51 commits) PCI/ACPI: Don't cache _PRT, and don't associate them with bus numbers PCI: Fix PCI Express Capability accessors for PCI_EXP_FLAGS ACPI / PCI: Make pci_slot built-in only, not a module PCI/PM: Clear state_saved during suspend PCI: Use atomic_inc_return() rather than atomic_add_return() PCI: Catch attempts to disable already-disabled devices PCI: Disable Bus Master unconditionally in pci_device_shutdown() PCI: acpiphp: Remove dead code for PCI host bridge hotplug PCI: acpiphp: Create companion ACPI devices before creating PCI devices PCI: Remove unused "rc" in virtfn_add_bus() PCI: pciehp: Drop suspend/resume ENTRY messages PCI/ASPM: Don't touch ASPM if forcibly disabled PCI/ASPM: Deallocate upstream link state even if device is not PCIe PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etc PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parameters PCI: Use PCI Express Capability accessor PCI: Introduce accessor to retrieve PCIe Capabilities Register PCI: Put pci_dev in device tree as early as possible PCI: Skip attaching driver in device_add() PCI: acpiphp: Keep driver loaded even if no slots found ...
2013-02-25doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>'Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-02-25doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall (console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console. Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all' to output said information. Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-02-23acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRATTang Chen
We now provide an option for users who don't want to specify physical memory address in kernel commandline. /* * For movablemem_map=acpi: * * SRAT: |_____| |_____| |_________| |_________| ...... * node id: 0 1 1 2 * hotpluggable: n y y n * movablemem_map: |_____| |_________| * * Using movablemem_map, we can prevent memblock from allocating memory * on ZONE_MOVABLE at boot time. */ So user just specify movablemem_map=acpi, and the kernel will use hotpluggable info in SRAT to determine which memory ranges should be set as ZONE_MOVABLE. If all the memory ranges in SRAT is hotpluggable, then no memory can be used by kernel. But before parsing SRAT, memblock has already reserve some memory ranges for other purposes, such as for kernel image, and so on. We cannot prevent kernel from using these memory. So we need to exclude these ranges even if these memory is hotpluggable. Furthermore, there could be several memory ranges in the single node which the kernel resides in. We may skip one range that have memory reserved by memblock, but if the rest of memory is too small, then the kernel will fail to boot. So, make the whole node which the kernel resides in un-hotpluggable. Then the kernel has enough memory to use. NOTE: Using this way will cause NUMA performance down because the whole node will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and kernel cannot use memory on it. If users don't want to lose NUMA performance, just don't use it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use strcmp()] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameterTang Chen
Add functions to parse movablemem_map boot option. Since the option could be specified more then once, all the maps will be stored in the global variable movablemem_map.map array. And also, we keep the array in monotonic increasing order by start_pfn. And merge all overlapped ranges. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded parens] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.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>
2013-02-21Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin: "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than one would like. The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we create initial page tables. In particular, rather than estimating how much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" -- a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand. This has several advantages: 1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way early in the kernel startup). 2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked from above the 4 GB limit. This allows kdump to work on very large systems. 3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks. The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X. Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa()." * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits) x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time() x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva() x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic() x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit memblock: Add memblock_mem_size() x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data ...
2013-02-18Merge branch 'release' of ↵Rafael J. Wysocki
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux: (35 commits) PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment openrisc idle: delete pm_idle mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle microblaze idle: delete pm_idle m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code ia64 idle: delete pm_idle cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle ARM idle: delete pm_idle blackfin idle: delete pm_idle sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E cpuidle: remove vestage definition of cpuidle_state_usage.driver_data x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flag x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param ... Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/process.c (with PM / tracing commit 43720bd) drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c (with ACPICA commit 4f84291)
2013-02-17Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpufreq: cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate. cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
2013-02-15cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.Dirk Brandewie
When intel_pstate is configured into the kernel it will become the preferred scaling driver for processors that it supports. Allow the user to override this by adding: intel_pstate=disable on the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-10x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flagLen Brown
Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt", and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets. If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll" is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so. Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places. First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes" would be printed if and only if the user booted the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code to set that flag. Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt" were on the cmdline. Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() -- all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset. The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend. Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations indicating that it would be removed in 2012. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
2013-02-10x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline paramLen Brown
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient than HLT, starting on Pentium-4 HT-enabled processors. But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states. ACPI processor_idle and intel_idle use only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and no longer use mwait_idle(). Here we simplify the x86 native idle code by removing mwait_idle(), and the "idle=mwait" bootparam used to invoke it. Since Linux 3.0 there has been a boot-time warning when "idle=mwait" was invoked saying it would be removed in 2012. This removal was also noted in the (now removed:-) feature-removal-schedule.txt. After this change, kernels configured with (CONFIG_ACPI=n && CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware that supports MWAIT will simply use HLT. If MWAIT is desired on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above can be enabled. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
2013-01-31PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etcYijing Wang
Document PCIe bus MPS parameters pcie_bus_tune_off, pcie_bus_safe, pcie_bus_peer2peer, pcie_bus_perf. These parameters were introduced by Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> at commit 5f39e6705 and commit b03e7495a8. [bhelgaas: mention hot-add for pcie_bus_peer2peer] Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2013-01-31PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parametersYijing Wang
Document PCI hotplug resource reservation parameters hpiosize and hpmemsize. These parameters override default hotplug I/O size (256 bytes) and default mem size (2M). Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
2013-01-29x86: Add Crash kernel low reservationYinghai Lu
During kdump kernel's booting stage, it need to find low ram for swiotlb buffer when system does not support intel iommu/dmar remapping. kexed-tools is appending memmap=exactmap and range from /proc/iomem with "Crash kernel", and that range is above 4G for 64bit after boot protocol 2.12. We need to add another range in /proc/iomem like "Crash kernel low", so kexec-tools could find that info and append to kdump kernel command line. Try to reserve some under 4G if the normal "Crash kernel" is above 4G. User could specify the size with crashkernel_low=XX[KMG]. -v2: fix warning that is found by Fengguang's test robot. -v3: move out get_mem_size change to another patch, to solve compiling warning that is found by Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> -v4: user must specify crashkernel_low if system does not support intel or amd iommu. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-31-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-08rcu: Make rcu_nocb_poll an early_param instead of module_paramPaul Gortmaker
The as-documented rcu_nocb_poll will fail to enable this feature for two reasons. (1) there is an extra "s" in the documented name which is not in the code, and (2) since it uses module_param, it really is expecting a prefix, akin to "rcutree.fanout_leaf" and the prefix isn't documented. However, there are several reasons why we might not want to simply fix the typo and add the prefix: 1) we'd end up with rcutree.rcu_nocb_poll, and rather probably make a change to rcutree.nocb_poll 2) if we did #1, then the prefix wouldn't be consistent with the rcu_nocbs=<cpumap> parameter (i.e. one with, one without prefix) 3) the use of module_param in a header file is less than desired, since it isn't immediately obvious that it will get processed via rcutree.c and get the prefix from that (although use of module_param_named() could clarify that.) 4) the implied export of /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_nocb_poll data to userspace via module_param() doesn't really buy us anything, as it is read-only and we can tell if it is enabled already without it, since there is a printk at early boot telling us so. In light of all that, just change it from a module_param() to an early_setup() call, and worry about adding it to /sys later on if we decide to allow a dynamic setting of it. Also change the variable to be tagged as read_mostly, since it will only ever be fiddled with at most, once at boot. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-12-20Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt remove capability.disableJosh Boyer
Remove the documentation for capability.disable. The code supporting this parameter was removed with commit 5915eb53861c ("security: remove dummy module") Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update mem= option's spec according to ↵Wen Congyang
its implementation Current mem= implementation seems buggy because the specification and implementation don't match. The current mem= has been working for many years and it's not buggy - it works as expected. So we should update the specification. Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-16Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman: "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and autonuma which is in aa.git. In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9. The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108 mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331 tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437 srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397 The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas' results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a large machine with imbalanced node sizes. My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally. We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of migration even when it shows that overall performance is better. There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration. These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks." * tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits) mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy ...
2012-12-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking changes from David Miller: 1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database using netlink. From Cong Wang. 2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman. 4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang. 5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically, tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW). From Joseph Gasparakis. 6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel Borkmann. 7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support from Stephen Hemminger. 8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging socket layout, from Eric Dumazet. 9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and Jon Maloy. 10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day realities. The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse. 12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens. 13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang. 14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial namespace. From John Fastabend. 15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson. 16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin. 17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele Baldessari. And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements. Too numerous to mention individually. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits) net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions. net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb(). uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode bnx2: Fix accidental reversions. bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1 bna: Firmware update bna: Add RX State bna: Rx Page Based Allocation bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame ...
2012-12-11Merge branch 'x86-timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 timer update from Ingo Molnar: "This tree includes HPET fixes and also implements a calibration-free, TSC match driven APIC timer interrupt mode: 'TSC deadline mode' supported in SandyBridge and later CPUs." * 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: hpet: Fix inverted return value check in arch_setup_hpet_msi() x86: hpet: Fix masking of MSI interrupts x86: apic: Use tsc deadline for oneshot when available
2012-12-11Merge branch 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 BSP hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar: "This tree enables CPU#0 (the boot processor) to be onlined/offlined on x86, just like any other CPU. Enabled on Intel CPUs for now. Allowing this required the identification and fixing of latent CPU#0 assumptions (such as CPU#0 initializations, etc.) in the x86 architecture code, plus the identification of barriers to BSP-offlining, such as active PIC interrupts which can only be serviced on the BSP. It's behind a default-off option, and there's a debug option that allows the automatic testing of this feature. The motivation of this feature is to allow and prepare for true CPU-hotplug hardware support: recent changes to MCE support enable us to detect a deteriorating but not yet hard-failing L1/L2 cache on a CPU that could be soft-unplugged - or a failing L3 cache on a multi-socket system. Note that true hardware hot-plug is not yet fully enabled by this, because that requires a special platform wakeup sequence to be sent to the freshly powered up CPU#0. Future patches for this are planned, once such a platform exists. Chicken and egg" * 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, topology: Debug CPU0 hotplug x86/i387.c: Initialize thread xstate only on CPU0 only once x86, hotplug: Handle retrigger irq by the first available CPU x86, hotplug: The first online processor saves the MTRR state x86, hotplug: During CPU0 online, enable x2apic, set_numa_node. x86, hotplug: Wake up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI x86-32, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_32.S x86-64, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_64.S kernel/cpu.c: Add comment for priority in cpu_hotplug_pm_callback x86, hotplug, suspend: Online CPU0 for suspend or hibernate x86, hotplug: Support functions for CPU0 online/offline x86, topology: Don't offline CPU0 if any PIC irq can not be migrated out of it x86, Kconfig: Add config switch for CPU0 hotplug doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline feature
2012-12-11Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lots of activity: 211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 deletions(-) most of it on the tooling side. Main changes: * ftrace enhancements and fixes from Steve Rostedt. * uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg Nesterov. * UAPI fixes, from David Howels - prepares the arch/x86 UAPI transition * Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri Olsa. * Make hardware event translations available in sysfs, from Jiri Olsa. * Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data maps, from Namhyung Kim * Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim * Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify that the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected, from Jiri Olsa * Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with buckets for all the entries in all the hists. This new method is now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the 'baseline' column be 100%, eliminating blind spots. * libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it build on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings really pointed to real bugs. * Add a browser for 'perf script' and make it available from the report and annotate browsers. It does filtering to find the scripts that handle events found in the perf.data file used. From Feng Tang * perf inject changes to allow showing where a task sleeps, from Andrew Vagin. * Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim. * Add --pre and --post command hooks in 'stat', from Peter Zijlstra. * Don't stop synthesizing threads when one vanishes, this is for the existing threads when we start a tool like trace. * Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary, this produces the same output as the 'trace summary' subcommand of tglx's original "trace" tool. * Support interrupted syscalls in 'trace' * Add an event duration column and filter in 'trace'. * There are references to the man pages in some tools, so try to build Documentation when installing, warning the user if that is not possible, from Borislav Petkov. * Give user better message if precise is not supported, from David Ahern. * Try to find cross-built objdump path by using the session environment information in the perf.data file header, from Irina Tirdea, original patch and idea by Namhyung Kim. * Diplays more output on features check for make V=1, so that one can figure out what is happening by looking at gcc output, etc. From Jiri Olsa. * Add on_exit implementation for systems without one, e.g. Android, from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer. * Only process events for vcpus of interest, helps handling large number of events, from David Ahern. * Cross compilation fixes for Android, from Irina Tirdea. * Add documentation on compiling for Android, from Irina Tirdea. * perf diff improvements from Jiri Olsa. * Target (task/user/cpu/syswide) handling improvements, from Namhyung Kim. * Add support in 'trace' for tracing workload given by command line, from Namhyung Kim. * ... and much more." * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (194 commits) uprobes: Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method perf powerpc: Use uapi/unistd.h to fix build error tools: Pass the target in descend tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing perf ui: Always compile browser setup code perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish() perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/tui directory perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps perf tools: Add gtk.<command> config option for launching GTK browser perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build perf hists: Initialize all of he->stat with zeroes ...
2012-12-11mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancingMel Gorman
This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for automatic NUMA placement. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
2012-11-16rcu: Add callback-free CPUsPaul E. McKenney
RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors, energy efficiency. This commit therefore adds the ability for selected CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded to kthreads. If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified, these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded CPUs to do wakeups. At least one CPU must be doing normal callback processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU. In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail. This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's kbuild test robot. [ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-11-15can: grcan: Add device driver for GRCAN and GRHCAN coresAndreas Larsson
This driver supports GRCAN and CRHCAN CAN controllers available in the GRLIB VHDL IP core library. Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2012-11-14doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline featureFenghua Yu
If CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is turned on, CPU0 is hotpluggable. Otherwise, by default CPU0 is not hotpluggable and kernel parameter cpu0_hotplug enables CPU0 online/offline feature. The documentations point out two known CPU0 dependencies. First, resume from hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. So hibernate and suspend are prevented if CPU0 is offline. Another dependency is PIC interrupts always go to CPU0. It's said that some machines may depend on CPU0 to poweroff/reboot. But I haven't seen such dependency on a few tested machines. Please let me know if you see any CPU0 dependencies on your machine. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352835171-3958-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-11-02tracing: Add trace_options kernel command line parameterSteven Rostedt
Add trace_options to the kernel command line parameter to be able to set options at early boot. For example, to enable stack dumps of events, add the following: trace_options=stacktrace This along with the trace_event option, you can get not only traces of the events but also the stack dumps with them. Requested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02x86: apic: Use tsc deadline for oneshot when availableSuresh Siddha
If the TSC deadline mode is supported, LAPIC timer one-shot mode can be implemented using IA32_TSC_DEADLINE MSR. An interrupt will be generated when the TSC value equals or exceeds the value in the IA32_TSC_DEADLINE MSR. This enables us to skip the APIC calibration during boot. Also, in xapic mode, this enables us to skip the uncached apic access to re-arm the APIC timer. As this timer ticks at the high frequency TSC rate, we use the TSC_DIVISOR (32) to work with the 32-bit restrictions in the clockevent API's to avoid 64-bit divides etc (frequency is u32 and "unsigned long" in the set_next_event(), max_delta limits the next event to 32-bit for 32-bit kernel). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: venki@google.com Cc: len.brown@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350941878.6017.31.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-10-14Merge branch 'modules-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell: "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..." Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG. * 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits) X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files. MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy module: signature checking hook X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler ...
2012-10-10Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Features include: - Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency from NFSv4.1 Aside from the issues discussed at the LKS, distros are shipping NFSv4.1 with all the trimmings. - Fix fdatasync()/fsync() for the corner case of a server reboot. - NFSv4 OPEN access fix: finally distinguish correctly between open-for-read and open-for-execute permissions in all situations. - Ensure that the TCP socket is closed when we're in CLOSE_WAIT - More idmapper bugfixes - Lots of pNFS bugfixes and cleanups to remove unnecessary state and make the code easier to read. - In cases where a pNFS read or write fails, allow the client to resume trying layoutgets after two minutes of read/write- through-mds. - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv4 callback code. - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv3 locking code. - More NFSv4 migration preparatory patches. Including patches to detect network trunking in both NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 - pNFS block updates to optimise LAYOUTGET calls." * tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (113 commits) pnfsblock: cleanup nfs4_blkdev_get NFS41: send real read size in layoutget NFS41: send real write size in layoutget NFS: track direct IO left bytes NFSv4.1: Cleanup ugliness in pnfs_layoutgets_blocked() NFSv4.1: Ensure that the layout sequence id stays 'close' to the current NFSv4.1: Deal with seqid wraparound in the pNFS return-on-close code NFSv4 set open access operation call flag in nfs4_init_opendata_res NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL NFSv4 reduce attribute requests for open reclaim NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound when updating the layout "barrier" seqid NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound issues when updating the layout stateid NFSv4.1: Always set the layout stateid if this is the first layoutget NFSv4.1: Fix another refcount issue in pnfs_find_alloc_layout NFSv4: don't put ACCESS in OPEN compound if O_EXCL NFSv4: don't check MAY_WRITE access bit in OPEN NFS: Set key construction data for the legacy upcall NFSv4.1: don't do two EXCHANGE_IDs on mount NFS: nfs41_walk_client_list(): re-lock before iterating ...
2012-10-10module: signature checking hookRusty Russell
We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module (which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway). There's both a config option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key. If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the key. (Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-10-02Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "Highlights: - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline attacks - Integrity: add digital signature verification - Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions) - IBM vTPM support on ppc64 - Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM - Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels" Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits) Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools ima: change flags container data type Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label Smack: remove task_wait() hook. ima: audit log hashes ima: generic IMA action flag handling ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure audit: export audit_log_task_info tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390 ima: digital signature verification support ima: add support for different security.ima data types ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls ima: add inode_post_setattr call ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock ima: allocating iint improvements ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules ima: integrity appraisal extension vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file ...
2012-10-02Merge tag 'scsi-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is a large set of updates, mostly for drivers (qla2xxx [including support for new 83xx based card], qla4xxx, mpt2sas, bfa, zfcp, hpsa, be2iscsi, isci, lpfc, ipr, ibmvfc, ibmvscsi, megaraid_sas). There's also a rework for tape adding virtually unlimited numbers of tape drives plus a set of dif fixes for sd and a fix for a live lock on hot remove of SCSI devices. This round includes a signed tag pull of isci-for-3.6 Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>" Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c due to new PCI helper function use in a function that was removed by this pull. * tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (198 commits) [SCSI] st: remove st_mutex [SCSI] sd: Ensure we correctly disable devices with unknown protection type [SCSI] hpsa: gen8plus Smart Array IDs [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.03.00-k1 [SCSI] qla4xxx: Disable generating pause frames for ISP83XX [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double clearing of risc_intr for ISP83XX [SCSI] qla4xxx: IDC implementation for Loopback [SCSI] qla4xxx: update copyrights in LICENSE.qla4xxx [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix panic while rmmod [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fail probe_adapter if IRQ allocation fails [SCSI] qla4xxx: Prevent MSI/MSI-X falling back to INTx for ISP82XX [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update idc reg in case of PCI AER [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double IDC locking in qla4_8xxx_error_recovery [SCSI] qla4xxx: Clear interrupt while unloading driver for ISP83XX [SCSI] qla4xxx: Print correct IDC version [SCSI] qla4xxx: Added new mbox cmd to pass driver version to FW [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Enable STPG for unavailable ports [SCSI] scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Fix host config length field overflow [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction ...
2012-10-01NFS: Add nfs4_unique_id boot parameterChuck Lever
An optional boot parameter is introduced to allow client administrators to specify a string that the Linux NFS client can insert into its nfs_client_id4 id string, to make it both more globally unique, and to ensure that it doesn't change even if the client's nodename changes. If this boot parameter is not specified, the client's nodename is used, as before. Client installation procedures can create a unique string (typically, a UUID) which remains unchanged during the lifetime of that client instance. This works just like creating a UUID for the label of the system's root and boot volumes. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-10-01Merge branch 'x86-smap-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/smap support from Ingo Molnar: "This adds support for the SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) CPU feature on Intel CPUs: a hardware feature that prevents unintended user-space data access from kernel privileged code. It's turned on automatically when possible. This, in combination with SMEP, makes it even harder to exploit kernel bugs such as NULL pointer dereferences." Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S due to newly added includes right next to each other. * 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/alternative-asm.h> x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page
2012-10-01Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/fpu update from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change is the addition of the non-lazy (eager) FPU saving support model and enabling it on CPUs with optimized xsaveopt/xrstor FPU state saving instructions. There are also various Sparse fixes" Fix up trivial add-add conflict in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c * 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, kvm: fix kvm's usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end() x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit() x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu() x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig() x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu state x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32
2012-10-01Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar: "The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP: this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug. Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements." * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Unspaghettize do_trap() x86_64: Work around old GAS bug x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64() x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
2012-09-23rcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfsPaul E. McKenney
Although almost everyone is well-served by the defaults, some uses of RCU benefit from shorter grace periods, while others benefit more from the greater efficiency provided by longer grace periods. Situations requiring a large number of grace periods to elapse (and wireshark startup has been called out as an example of this) are helped by lower-latency grace periods. Furthermore, in some embedded applications, people are willing to accept a small degradation in update efficiency (due to there being more of the shorter grace-period operations) in order to gain the lower latency. In contrast, those few systems with thousands of CPUs need longer grace periods because the CPU overhead of a grace period rises roughly linearly with the number of CPUs. Such systems normally do not make much use of facilities that require large numbers of grace periods to elapse, so this is a good tradeoff. Therefore, this commit allows the durations to be controlled from sysfs. There are two sysfs parameters, one named "jiffies_till_first_fqs" that specifies the delay in jiffies from the end of grace-period initialization until the first attempt to force quiescent states, and the other named "jiffies_till_next_fqs" that specifies the delay (again in jiffies) between subsequent attempts to force quiescent states. They both default to three jiffies, which is compatible with the old hard-coded behavior. At some future time, it may be possible to automatically increase the grace-period length with the number of CPUs, but we do not yet have sufficient data to do a good job. Preliminary data indicates that we should add an addiitonal jiffy to each of the delays for every 200 CPUs in the system, but more experimentation is needed. For now, the number of systems with more than 1,000 CPUs is small enough that this can be relegated to boot-time hand tuning. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-21Merge branch 'x86/fpu' into x86/smapH. Peter Anvin
Reason for merge: x86/fpu changed the structure of some of the code that x86/smap changes; mostly fpu-internal.h but also minor changes to the signal code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Resolved Conflicts: arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
2012-09-21x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access PreventionH. Peter Anvin
If Supervisor Mode Access Prevention is available and not disabled by the user, turn it on. Also fix the expansion of SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention.) Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-10-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
2012-09-18x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-stateSuresh Siddha
Add the "eagerfpu=auto" (that selects the default scheme in enabling eagerfpu) which can override compiled-in boot parameters like "eagerfpu=on/off" (that force enable/disable eagerfpu). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>