13 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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Currently the full stop_machine() routine is only enabled on SMP if
module unloading is enabled, or if the CPUs are hotpluggable. This
leads to configurations where stop_machine() is broken as it will then
only run the callback on the local CPU with irqs disabled, and not stop
the other CPUs or run the callback on them.For example, this breaks MTRR setup on x86 in certain configs since
ea8596bb2d8d379 ("kprobes/x86: Remove unused text_poke_smp() and
text_poke_smp_batch() functions") as the MTRR is only established on the
boot CPU.This patch removes the Kconfig option for STOP_MACHINE and uses the SMP
and HOTPLUG_CPU config options to compile the correct stop_machine() for
the architecture, removing the false dependency on MODULE_UNLOAD in the
process.Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/124
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84794
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Pranith Kumar
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Iulia Manda
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Chuck Ebbert
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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Here is an implementation of a new system call, sys_membarrier(), which
executes a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. It is
implemented by calling synchronize_sched(). It can be used to
distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by
transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of
sys_membarrier() and a compiler barrier. For synchronization primitives
that distinguish between read-side and write-side (e.g. userspace RCU
[1], rwlocks), the read-side can be accelerated significantly by moving
the bulk of the memory barrier overhead to the write-side.The existing applications of which I am aware that would be improved by
this system call are as follows:* Through Userspace RCU library (http://urcu.so)
- DNS server (Knot DNS) https://www.knot-dns.cz/
- Network sniffer (http://netsniff-ng.org/)
- Distributed object storage (https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/)
- User-space tracing (http://lttng.org)
- Network storage system (https://www.gluster.org/)
- Virtual routers (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/DPDK_RCU_0MQ.pdf)
- Financial software (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/23/189)Those projects use RCU in userspace to increase read-side speed and
scalability compared to locking. Especially in the case of RCU used by
libraries, sys_membarrier can speed up the read-side by moving the bulk of
the memory barrier cost to synchronize_rcu().* Direct users of sys_membarrier
- core dotnet garbage collector (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/198)Microsoft core dotnet GC developers are planning to use the mprotect()
side-effect of issuing memory barriers through IPIs as a way to implement
Windows FlushProcessWriteBuffers() on Linux. They are referring to
sys_membarrier in their github thread, specifically stating that
sys_membarrier() is what they are looking for.To explain the benefit of this scheme, let's introduce two example threads:
Thread A (non-frequent, e.g. executing liburcu synchronize_rcu())
Thread B (frequent, e.g. executing liburcu
rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock())In a scheme where all smp_mb() in thread A are ordering memory accesses
with respect to smp_mb() present in Thread B, we can change each
smp_mb() within Thread A into calls to sys_membarrier() and each
smp_mb() within Thread B into compiler barriers "barrier()".Before the change, we had, for each smp_mb() pairs:
Thread A Thread B
previous mem accesses previous mem accesses
smp_mb() smp_mb()
following mem accesses following mem accessesAfter the change, these pairs become:
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier() barrier()
follow mem accesses follow mem accessesAs we can see, there are two possible scenarios: either Thread B memory
accesses do not happen concurrently with Thread A accesses (1), or they
do (2).1) Non-concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses:
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier()
follow mem accesses
prev mem accesses
barrier()
follow mem accessesIn this case, thread B accesses will be weakly ordered. This is OK,
because at that point, thread A is not particularly interested in
ordering them with respect to its own accesses.2) Concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier() barrier()
follow mem accesses follow mem accessesIn this case, thread B accesses, which are ensured to be in program
order thanks to the compiler barrier, will be "upgraded" to full
smp_mb() by synchronize_sched().* Benchmarks
On Intel Xeon E5405 (8 cores)
(one thread is calling sys_membarrier, the other 7 threads are busy
looping)1000 non-expedited sys_membarrier calls in 33s =3D 33 milliseconds/call.
* User-space user of this system call: Userspace RCU library
Both the signal-based and the sys_membarrier userspace RCU schemes
permit us to remove the memory barrier from the userspace RCU
rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() primitives, thus significantly
accelerating them. These memory barriers are replaced by compiler
barriers on the read-side, and all matching memory barriers on the
write-side are turned into an invocation of a memory barrier on all
active threads in the process. By letting the kernel perform this
synchronization rather than dumbly sending a signal to every process
threads (as we currently do), we diminish the number of unnecessary wake
ups and only issue the memory barriers on active threads. Non-running
threads do not need to execute such barrier anyway, because these are
implied by the scheduler context switches.Results in liburcu:
Operations in 10s, 6 readers, 2 writers:
memory barriers in reader: 1701557485 reads, 2202847 writes
signal-based scheme: 9830061167 reads, 6700 writes
sys_membarrier: 9952759104 reads, 425 writes
sys_membarrier (dyn. check): 7970328887 reads, 425 writesThe dynamic sys_membarrier availability check adds some overhead to
the read-side compared to the signal-based scheme, but besides that,
sys_membarrier slightly outperforms the signal-based scheme. However,
this non-expedited sys_membarrier implementation has a much slower grace
period than signal and memory barrier schemes.Besides diminishing the number of wake-ups, one major advantage of the
membarrier system call over the signal-based scheme is that it does not
need to reserve a signal. This plays much more nicely with libraries,
and with processes injected into for tracing purposes, for which we
cannot expect that signals will be unused by the application.An expedited version of this system call can be added later on to speed
up the grace period. Its implementation will likely depend on reading
the cpu_curr()->mm without holding each CPU's rq lock.This patch adds the system call to x86 and to asm-generic.
[1] http://urcu.so
membarrier(2) man page:
MEMBARRIER(2) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMBARRIER(2)
NAME
membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threadsSYNOPSIS
#includeint membarrier(int cmd, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The cmd argument is one of the following:MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY
Query the set of supported commands. It returns a bitmask of
supported commands.MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED
Execute a memory barrier on all threads running on the system.
Upon return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that
all running threads have passed through a state where all memory
accesses to user-space addresses match program order between
entry to and return from the system call (non-running threads
are de facto in such a state). This covers threads from all pro=E2=80=90
cesses running on the system. This command returns 0.The flags argument needs to be 0. For future extensions.
All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted
thread is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If
we use the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing
memory accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier,
and smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory
ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):
barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
barrier() X X O
smp_mb() X O O
sys_membarrier() O O ORETURN VALUE
On success, these system calls return zero. On error, -1 is returned,
and errno is set appropriately. For a given command, with flags
argument set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the
same value until reboot.ERRORS
ENOSYS System call is not implemented.EINVAL Invalid arguments.
Linux 2015-04-15 MEMBARRIER(2)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Nicholas Miell
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: Stephen Hemminger
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Pranith Kumar
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Shuah Khan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Sep, 2015
2 commits
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There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Cc: Petr Tesarik
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Cc: Josh Boyer
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest
affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has
unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children.Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in:
ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all
we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And
singlethread is a useless limitation as well.The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that
don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs.The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current
CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those
inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules.This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming
that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper
requests.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"Highlights:- PKCS#7 support added to support signed kexec, also utilized for
module signing. See comments in 3f1e1bea.** NOTE: this requires linking against the OpenSSL library, which
must be installed, e.g. the openssl-devel on Fedora **- Smack
- add IPv6 host labeling; ignore labels on kernel threads
- support smack labeling mounts which use binary mount data- SELinux:
- add ioctl whitelisting (see
http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/vanderstoep.pdf)
- fix mprotect PROT_EXEC regression caused by mm change- Seccomp:
- add ptrace options for suspend/resume"* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (57 commits)
PKCS#7: Add OIDs for sha224, sha284 and sha512 hash algos and use them
Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing
scripts: add extract-cert and sign-file to .gitignore
modsign: Handle signing key in source tree
modsign: Use if_changed rule for extracting cert from module signing key
Move certificate handling to its own directory
sign-file: Fix warning about BIO_reset() return value
PKCS#7: Add MODULE_LICENSE() to test module
Smack - Fix build error with bringup unconfigured
sign-file: Document dependency on OpenSSL devel libraries
PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type
KEYS: Add a name for PKEY_ID_PKCS7
PKCS#7: Improve and export the X.509 ASN.1 time object decoder
modsign: Use extract-cert to process CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS
extract-cert: Cope with multiple X.509 certificates in a single file
sign-file: Generate CMS message as signature instead of PKCS#7
PKCS#7: Support CMS messages also [RFC5652]
X.509: Change recorded SKID & AKID to not include Subject or Issuer
PKCS#7: Check content type and versions
MAINTAINERS: The keyrings mailing list has moved
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06 Sep, 2015
2 commits
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"In this one:- d_move fixes (Eric Biederman)
- UFS fixes (me; locking is mostly sane now, a bunch of bugs in error
handling ought to be fixed)- switch of sb_writers to percpu rwsem (Oleg Nesterov)
- superblock scalability (Josef Bacik and Dave Chinner)
- swapon(2) race fix (Hugh Dickins)"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (65 commits)
vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root
dcache: Reduce the scope of i_lock in d_splice_alias
dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path
mm: fix potential data race in SyS_swapon
inode: don't softlockup when evicting inodes
inode: rename i_wb_list to i_io_list
sync: serialise per-superblock sync operations
inode: convert inode_sb_list_lock to per-sb
inode: add hlist_fake to avoid the inode hash lock in evict
writeback: plug writeback at a high level
change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore
shift percpu_counter_destroy() into destroy_super_work()
percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rwsem_release() and percpu_rwsem_acquire()
percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock()
document rwsem_release() in sb_wait_write()
fix the broken lockdep logic in __sb_start_write()
introduce __sb_writers_{acquired,release}() helpers
ufs_inode_get{frag,block}(): get rid of 'phys' argument
ufs_getfrag_block(): tidy up a bit
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Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- Andy's "ambient capabilities"
- fs/nofity updates
- the ocfs2 queue
- kernel/watchdog.c updates and feature work.
- some of MM. Includes Andrea's userfaultfd feature.
[ Hadn't noticed that userfaultfd was 'default y' when applying the
patches, so that got fixed in this merge instead. We do _not_ mark
new features that nobody uses yet 'default y' - Linus ]* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (118 commits)
mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_has_reserves() return bool
mm/madvise.c: make madvise_behaviour_valid() return bool
mm/memory.c: make tlb_next_batch() return bool
mm/dmapool.c: change is_page_busy() return from int to bool
mm: remove struct node_active_region
mremap: simplify the "overlap" check in mremap_to()
mremap: don't do uneccesary checks if new_len == old_len
mremap: don't do mm_populate(new_addr) on failure
mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct
mremap: don't leak new_vma if f_op->mremap() fails
mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_shareable() return bool
mm: make GUP handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested
mm: fix status code which move_pages() returns for zero page
mm: memcontrol: bring back the VM_BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_swapout()
genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device
genalloc: add name arg to gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create()
mm/memblock: WARN_ON when nid differs from overlap region
Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap
mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries
mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages
...
05 Sep, 2015
2 commits
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An IPI is sent to flush remote TLBs when a page is unmapped that was
potentially accesssed by other CPUs. There are many circumstances where
this happens but the obvious one is kswapd reclaiming pages belonging to a
running process as kswapd and the task are likely running on separate
CPUs.On small machines, this is not a significant problem but as machine gets
larger with more cores and more memory, the cost of these IPIs can be
high. This patch uses a simple structure that tracks CPUs that
potentially have TLB entries for pages being unmapped. When the unmapping
is complete, the full TLB is flushed on the assumption that a refill cost
is lower than flushing individual entries.Architectures wishing to do this must give the following guarantee.
If a clean page is unmapped and not immediately flushed, the
architecture must guarantee that a write to that linear address
from a CPU with a cached TLB entry will trap a page fault.This is essentially what the kernel already depends on but the window is
much larger with this patch applied and is worth highlighting. The
architecture should consider whether the cost of the full TLB flush is
higher than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry. An additional
architecture helper called flush_tlb_local is required. It's a trivial
wrapper with some accounting in the x86 case.The impact of this patch depends on the workload as measuring any benefit
requires both mapped pages co-located on the LRU and memory pressure. The
case with the biggest impact is multiple processes reading mapped pages
taken from the vm-scalability test suite. The test case uses NR_CPU
readers of mapped files that consume 10*RAM.Linear mapped reader on a 4-node machine with 64G RAM and 48 CPUs
4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1
vanilla flushfull-v7
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 159.62 ( 0.00%) 120.68 ( 24.40%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 30.59 ( 0.00%) 2.80 ( 90.85%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 6.70 ( 0.00%) 0.64 ( 90.38%)4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1
vanilla flushfull-v7
User 581.00 611.43
System 5804.93 4111.76
Elapsed 161.03 122.12This is showing that the readers completed 24.40% faster with 29% less
system CPU time. From vmstats, it is known that the vanilla kernel was
interrupted roughly 900K times per second during the steady phase of the
test and the patched kernel was interrupts 180K times per second.The impact is lower on a single socket machine.
4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1
vanilla flushfull-v7
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 25.33 ( 0.00%) 20.38 ( 19.54%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 0.91 ( 0.00%) 1.44 (-58.24%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 0.28 ( 0.00%) 0.47 (-65.34%)4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1
vanilla flushfull-v7
User 58.09 57.64
System 111.82 76.56
Elapsed 27.29 22.55It's still a noticeable improvement with vmstat showing interrupts went
from roughly 500K per second to 45K per second.The patch will have no impact on workloads with no memory pressure or have
relatively few mapped pages. It will have an unpredictable impact on the
workload running on the CPU being flushed as it'll depend on how many TLB
entries need to be refilled and how long that takes. Worst case, the TLB
will be completely cleared of active entries when the target PFNs were not
resident at all.[sasha.levin@oracle.com: trace tlb flush after disabling preemption in try_to_unmap_flush]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Dave Hansen
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This allows to select the userfaultfd during configuration to build it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap
Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Paolo Bonzini
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Peter Feiner
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert"
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- a new PIDs controller is added. It turns out that PIDs are actually
an independent resource from kmem due to the limited PID space.- more core preparations for the v2 interface. Once cpu side interface
is settled, it should be ready for lifting the devel mask.
for-4.3-unified-base was temporarily branched so that other trees
(block) can pull cgroup core changes that blkcg changes depend on.- a non-critical idr_preload usage bug fix.
* 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: pids: fix invalid get/put usage
cgroup: introduce cgroup_subsys->legacy_name
cgroup: don't print subsystems for the default hierarchy
cgroup: make cftype->private a unsigned long
cgroup: export cgrp_dfl_root
cgroup: define controller file conventions
cgroup: fix idr_preload usage
cgroup: add documentation for the PIDs controller
cgroup: implement the PIDs subsystem
cgroup: allow a cgroup subsystem to reject a fork
15 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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Remove CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM, the next patch adds the unconditional
user of percpu_rw_semaphore.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
14 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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Move certificate handling out of the kernel/ directory and into a certs/
directory to get all the weird stuff in one place and move the generated
signing keys into this directory.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse
13 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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The revised sign-file program is no longer a script that wraps the openssl
program, but now rather a program that makes use of OpenSSL's crypto
library. This means that to build the sign-file program, the kernel build
process now has a dependency on the OpenSSL development packages in
addition to OpenSSL itself.Document this in Kconfig and in module-signing.txt.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse
12 Aug, 2015
1 commit
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…k/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- The combination of tree geometry-initialization simplifications
and OS-jitter-reduction changes to expedited grace periods.
These two are stacked due to the large number of conflicts
that would otherwise result.[ With one addition, a temporary commit to silence a lockdep false
positive. Additional changes to the expedited grace-period
primitives (queued for 4.4) remove the cause of this false
positive, and therefore include a revert of this temporary commit. ]- Documentation updates.
- Torture-test updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
07 Aug, 2015
7 commits
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Let the user explicitly provide a file containing trusted keys, instead of
just automatically finding files matching *.x509 in the build tree and
trusting whatever we find. This really ought to be an *explicit*
configuration, and the build rules for dealing with the files were
fairly painful too.Fix applied from James Morris that removes an '=' from a macro definition
in kernel/Makefile as this is a feature that only exists from GNU make 3.82
onwards.Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Howells -
The current rule for generating signing_key.priv and signing_key.x509 is
a classic example of a bad rule which has a tendency to break parallel
make. When invoked to create *either* target, it generates the other
target as a side-effect that make didn't predict.So let's switch to using a single file signing_key.pem which contains
both key and certificate. That matches what we do in the case of an
external key specified by CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY anyway, so it's also
slightly cleaner.Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Howells -
Where an external PEM file or PKCS#11 URI is given, we can get the cert
from it for ourselves instead of making the user drop signing_key.x509
in place for us.Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Howells -
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Howells -
Extract the function that drives the PKCS#7 signature verification given a
data blob and a PKCS#7 blob out from the module signing code and lump it with
the system keyring code as it's generic. This makes it independent of module
config options and opens it to use by the firmware loader.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Ming Lei
Cc: Seth Forshee
Cc: Kyle McMartin -
Move to using PKCS#7 messages as module signatures because:
(1) We have to be able to support the use of X.509 certificates that don't
have a subjKeyId set. We're currently relying on this to look up the
X.509 certificate in the trusted keyring list.(2) PKCS#7 message signed information blocks have a field that supplies the
data required to match with the X.509 certificate that signed it.(3) The PKCS#7 certificate carries fields that specify the digest algorithm
used to generate the signature in a standardised way and the X.509
certificates specify the public key algorithm in a standardised way - so
we don't need our own methods of specifying these.(4) We now have PKCS#7 message support in the kernel for signed kexec purposes
and we can make use of this.To make this work, the old sign-file script has been replaced with a program
that needs compiling in a previous patch. The rules to build it are added
here.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal -
Dave Hansen reported the following;
My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log
in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
from applications and see this in my dmesg:VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached
The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reported-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Nicolai Stange
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Alex Ng
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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This commit prevents Kconfig from asking the user about RCU_NOCB_CPU
unless the user really wants to be asked.Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
15 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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Adds a new single-purpose PIDs subsystem to limit the number of
tasks that can be forked inside a cgroup. Essentially this is an
implementation of RLIMIT_NPROC that applies to a cgroup rather than a
process tree.However, it should be noted that organisational operations (adding and
removing tasks from a PIDs hierarchy) will *not* be prevented. Rather,
the number of tasks in the hierarchy cannot exceed the limit through
forking. This is due to the fact that, in the unified hierarchy, attach
cannot fail (and it is not possible for a task to overcome its PIDs
cgroup policy limit by attaching to a child cgroup -- even if migrating
mid-fork it must be able to fork in the parent first).PIDs are fundamentally a global resource, and it is possible to reach
PID exhaustion inside a cgroup without hitting any reasonable kmemcg
policy. Once you've hit PID exhaustion, you're only in a marginally
better state than OOM. This subsystem allows PID exhaustion inside a
cgroup to be prevented.Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
07 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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The RCU_USER_QS Kconfig parameter is now just a synonym for NO_HZ_FULL,
so this commit eliminates RCU_USER_QS, replacing all uses with NO_HZ_FULL.Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker
04 Jul, 2015
3 commits
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Debug info and other statistics fixes and related enhancements"* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/numa: Fix numa balancing stats in /proc/pid/sched
sched/numa: Show numa_group ID in /proc/sched_debug task listings
sched/debug: Move print_cfs_rq() declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h
sched/stat: Expose /proc/pid/schedstat if CONFIG_SCHED_INFO=y
sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency -
Pull max log buf size increase from Ingo Molnar:
"Ran into this limit recently, so increase it by an order of magnitude"* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
printk: Increase maximum CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT from 21 to 25 -
Both CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y and CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y track task
sched_info, which results in ugly #if clauses.Simplify the code by introducing a synthethic CONFIG_SCHED_INFO
switch, selected by both.Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: ricklind@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d19eef800811a94b0f91bcbeb27430a884d7433.1435255405.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
02 Jul, 2015
2 commits
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Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
- scripts/gdb updates
- ipc/ updates
- lib/ updates
- MAINTAINERS updates
- various other misc things
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (67 commits)
genalloc: rename of_get_named_gen_pool() to of_gen_pool_get()
genalloc: rename dev_get_gen_pool() to gen_pool_get()
x86: opt into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, for both 32-bit and 64-bit
MAINTAINERS: add zpool
MAINTAINERS: BCACHE: Kent Overstreet has changed email address
MAINTAINERS: move Jens Osterkamp to CREDITS
MAINTAINERS: remove unused nbd.h pattern
MAINTAINERS: update brcm gpio filename pattern
MAINTAINERS: update brcm dts pattern
MAINTAINERS: update sound soc intel patterns
MAINTAINERS: remove website for paride
MAINTAINERS: update Emulex ocrdma email addresses
bcache: use kvfree() in various places
libcxgbi: use kvfree() in cxgbi_free_big_mem()
target: use kvfree() in session alloc and free
IB/ehca: use kvfree() in ipz_queue_{cd}tor()
drm/nouveau/gem: use kvfree() in u_free()
drm: use kvfree() in drm_free_large()
cxgb4: use kvfree() in t4_free_mem()
cxgb3: use kvfree() in cxgb_free_mem()
... -
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module
lock doing that too.A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual
suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
appended too"* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
module: add per-module param_lock
module: make perm const
params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
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01 Jul, 2015
2 commits
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So I tried to some kernel debugging that produced a ton of kernel messages
on a big box, and wanted to save them all: but CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT maxes
out at 21 (2 MB).Increase it to 25 (32 MB).
This does not affect any existing config or defaults.
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Waiman Long reported that 24TB machines hit OOM during basic setup when
struct page initialisation was deferred. One approach is to initialise
memory on demand but it interferes with page allocator paths. This patch
creates dedicated threads to initialise memory before basic setup. It
then blocks on a rw_semaphore until completion as a wait_queue and counter
is overkill. This may be slower to boot but it's simplier overall and
also gets rid of a section mangling which existed so kswapd could do the
initialisation.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include rwsem.h, use DECLARE_RWSEM, fix comment, remove unneeded cast]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Waiman Long
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Scott Norton
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jun, 2015
3 commits
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- threadgroup_lock got reorganized so that its users can pick the
actual locking mechanism to use. Its only user - cgroups - is
updated to use a percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem.This makes things a bit lighter on hot paths and allows cgroups to
perform and fail multi-task (a process) migrations atomically.
Multi-task migrations are used in several places including the
unified hierarchy.- Delegation rule and documentation added to unified hierarchy. This
will likely be the last interface update from the cgroup core side
for unified hierarchy before lifting the devel mask.- Some groundwork for the pids controller which is scheduled to be
merged in the coming devel cycle.* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: add delegation section to unified hierarchy documentation
cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy
cgroup: separate out cgroup_procs_write_permission() from __cgroup_procs_write()
kernfs: make kernfs_get_inode() public
MAINTAINERS: add a cgroup core co-maintainer
cgroup: fix uninitialised iterator in for_each_subsys_which
cgroup: replace explicit ss_mask checking with for_each_subsys_which
cgroup: use bitmask to filter for_each_subsys
cgroup: add seq_file forward declaration for struct cftype
cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking
sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem
sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking
cgroup: switch to unsigned long for bitmasks
cgroup: reorganize include/linux/cgroup.h
cgroup: separate out include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
cgroup: fix some comment typos -
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
in the firmware subsystem. Nothing really major, full details in the
shortlog. Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
reverted.All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
base/platform: Remove code duplication
of/platform: Use platform_device interface
base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
driver-core: make __device_attach() static
... -
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM
- lots of misc things
- procfs updates
- printk feature work
- updates to get_maintainer, MAINTAINERS, checkpatch
- lib/ updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (96 commits)
exit,stats: /* obey this comment */
coredump: add __printf attribute to cn_*printf functions
coredump: use from_kuid/kgid when formatting corename
fs/reiserfs: remove unneeded cast
NILFS2: support NFSv2 export
fs/befs/btree.c: remove unneeded initializations
fs/minix: remove unneeded cast
init/do_mounts.c: add create_dev() failure log
kasan: remove duplicate definition of the macro KASAN_FREE_PAGE
fs/efs: femove unneeded cast
checkpatch: emit "NOTE: " message only once after multiple files
checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog
checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content
checkpatch: add multi-line handling for PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY
checkpatch: suggest using eth_zero_addr() and eth_broadcast_addr()
checkpatch: fix processing of MEMSET issues
checkpatch: suggest using ether_addr_equal*()
checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files
checkpatch: remove local from codespell path
checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe to show filenames
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26 Jun, 2015
3 commits
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If create_dev() function fails to create the root mount device
(/dev/root), then it goes to panic as root device not found but there is
no printk in this case. So I have added the log in case it fails to
create the root device. It will help in debugging.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify printk(), use pr_emerg(), display errno]
Signed-off-by: Vishnu Pratap Singh
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Mike Snitzer
Cc: Dan Ehrenberg
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit 818411616baf ("fs, proc: introduce /proc//task//children
entry") introduced the children entry for checkpoint restore and the
file is only available on kernels configured with CONFIG_EXPERT and
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.This is available in most distributions (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CoreOS)
because they usually enable CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.
But Arch does not enable CONFIG_EXPERT or CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.However, the children proc file is useful outside of checkpoint restore.
I would like to use it in rkt. The rkt process exec() another program
it does not control, and that other program will fork()+exec() a child
process. I would like to find the pid of the child process from an
external tool without iterating in /proc over all processes to find
which one has a parent pid equal to rkt.This commit introduces CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN and makes
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE select it. This allows enabling
/proc//task//children without needing to enable
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and CONFIG_EXPERT.Alban tested that /proc//task//children is present when the
kernel is configured with CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN=y but without
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORESigned-off-by: Iago López Galeiras
Tested-by: Alban Crequy
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Serge Hallyn
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Djalal Harouni
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
"This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too. This is one
of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"
* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
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24 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The rework of backlight interface selection API from Hans de Goede
stands out from the number of commits and the number of affected
places perspective. The cpufreq core fixes from Viresh Kumar are
quite significant too as far as the number of commits goes and because
they should reduce CPU online/offline overhead quite a bit in the
majority of cases.From the new featues point of view, the ACPICA update (to upstream
revision 20150515) adding support for new ACPI 6 material to ACPICA is
the one that matters the most as some new significant features will be
based on it going forward. Also included is an update of the ACPI
device power management core to follow ACPI 6 (which in turn reflects
the Windows' device PM implementation), a PM core extension to support
wakeup interrupts in a more generic way and support for the ACPI _CCA
device configuration object.The rest is mostly fixes and cleanups all over and some documentation
updates, including new DT bindings for Operating Performance Points.There is one fix for a regression introduced in the 4.1 cycle, but it
adds quite a number of lines of code, it wasn't really ready before
Thursday and you were on vacation, so I refrained from pushing it on
the last minute for 4.1.Specifics:
- ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150515 including basic support
for ACPI 6 features: new ACPI tables introduced by ACPI 6 (STAO,
XENV, WPBT, NFIT, IORT), changes related to the other tables (DTRM,
FADT, LPIT, MADT), new predefined names (_BTH, _CR3, _DSD, _LPI,
_MTL, _PRR, _RDI, _RST, _TFP, _TSN), fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore,
Lv Zheng).- ACPI device power management core code update to follow ACPI 6
which reflects the ACPI device power management implementation in
Windows (Rafael J Wysocki).- rework of the backlight interface selection logic to reduce the
number of kernel command line options and improve the handling of
DMI quirks that may be involved in that and to make the code
generally more straightforward (Hans de Goede).- fixes for the ACPI Embedded Controller (EC) driver related to the
handling of EC transactions (Lv Zheng).- fix for a regression related to the ACPI resources management and
resulting from a recent change of ACPI initialization code ordering
(Rafael J Wysocki).- fix for a system initialization regression related to ACPI
introduced during the 3.14 cycle and caused by running the code
that switches the platform over to the ACPI mode too early in the
initialization sequence (Rafael J Wysocki).- support for the ACPI _CCA device configuration object related to
DMA cache coherence (Suravee Suthikulpanit).- ACPI/APEI fixes and cleanups (Jiri Kosina, Borislav Petkov).
- ACPI battery driver cleanups (Luis Henriques, Mathias Krause).
- ACPI processor driver cleanups (Hanjun Guo).
- cleanups and documentation update related to the ACPI device
properties interface based on _DSD (Rafael J Wysocki).- ACPI device power management fixes (Rafael J Wysocki).
- assorted cleanups related to ACPI (Dominik Brodowski, Fabian
Frederick, Lorenzo Pieralisi, Mathias Krause, Rafael J Wysocki).- fix for a long-standing issue causing General Protection Faults to
be generated occasionally on return to user space after resume from
ACPI-based suspend-to-RAM on 32-bit x86 (Ingo Molnar).- fix to make the suspend core code return -EBUSY consistently in all
cases when system suspend is aborted due to wakeup detection (Ruchi
Kandoi).- support for automated device wakeup IRQ handling allowing drivers
to make their PM support more starightforward (Tony Lindgren).- new tracepoints for suspend-to-idle tracing and rework of the
prepare/complete callbacks tracing in the PM core (Todd E Brandt,
Rafael J Wysocki).- wakeup sources framework enhancements (Jin Qian).
- new macro for noirq system PM callbacks (Grygorii Strashko).
- assorted cleanups related to system suspend (Rafael J Wysocki).
- cpuidle core cleanups to make the code more efficient (Rafael J
Wysocki).- powernv/pseries cpuidle driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).
- cpufreq core fixes related to CPU online/offline that should reduce
the overhead of these operations quite a bit, unless the CPU in
question is physically going away (Viresh Kumar, Saravana Kannan).- serialization of cpufreq governor callbacks to avoid race
conditions in some cases (Viresh Kumar).- intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups (Doug Smythies, Prarit
Bhargava, Joe Konno).- cpufreq driver (arm_big_little, cpufreq-dt, qoriq) updates (Sudeep
Holla, Felipe Balbi, Tang Yuantian).- assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers and core (Shailendra Verma,
Fabian Frederick, Wang Long).- new Device Tree bindings for representing Operating Performance
Points (Viresh Kumar).- updates for the common clock operations support code in the PM core
(Rajendra Nayak, Geert Uytterhoeven).- PM domains core code update (Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Intel Knights Landing support for the RAPL (Running Average Power
Limit) power capping driver (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli).- fixes related to the floor frequency setting on Atom SoCs in the
RAPL power capping driver (Ajay Thomas).- runtime PM framework documentation update (Ben Dooks).
- cpupower tool fix (Herton R Krzesinski)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (194 commits)
cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state
x86: Load __USER_DS into DS/ES after resume
PM / OPP: Add binding for 'opp-suspend'
PM / OPP: Allow multiple OPP tables to be passed via DT
PM / OPP: Add new bindings to address shortcomings of existing bindings
ACPI: Constify ACPI device IDs in documentation
ACPI / enumeration: Document the rules regarding the PRP0001 device ID
ACPI / video: Make acpi_video_unregister_backlight() private
acpi-video-detect: Remove old API
toshiba-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
thinkpad-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
sony-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
samsung-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
msi-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
msi-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
intel-oaktrail: Port to new backlight interface selection API
ideapad-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
fujitsu-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
eeepc-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
dell-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
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23 Jun, 2015
2 commits
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Andreas turned this option on, only to find out Debian (and Ubuntu!)
don't enable support in their kmod builds.Shorten the text, and suggest N at the bottom (at least for now).
Reported-by: Andreas Mohr
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell -
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes mostly consist of work on x86 PMU drivers:- x86 Intel PT (hardware CPU tracer) improvements (Alexander
Shishkin)- x86 Intel CQM (cache quality monitoring) improvements (Thomas
Gleixner)- x86 Intel PEBSv3 support (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86 Intel PEBS interrupt batching support for lower overhead
sampling (Zheng Yan, Kan Liang)- x86 PMU scheduler fixes and improvements (Peter Zijlstra)
There's too many tooling improvements to list them all - here are a
few select highlights:'perf bench':
- Introduce new 'perf bench futex' benchmark: 'wake-parallel', to
measure parallel waker threads generating contention for kernel
locks (hb->lock). (Davidlohr Bueso)'perf top', 'perf report':
- Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicaly in 'perf top':
a 'perf top' session can instantly become a 'perf report'
one, i.e. going from dynamic analysis to a static one,
returning to a dynamic one is possible, to toogle the
modes, just press 'f' to 'freeze/unfreeze' the sampling. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)- Make Ctrl-C stop processing on TUI, allowing interrupting the load of big
perf.data files (Namhyung Kim)'perf probe': (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Support glob wildcards for function name
- Support $params special probe argument: Collect all function arguments
- Make --line checks validate C-style function name.
- Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions
- Greatly speed up 'perf probe --list' by caching debuginfo.
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc.'perf sched':
- Add option in 'perf sched' to merge like comms to lat output (Josef Bacik)
Plus tons of infrastructure work - in particular preparation for
upcoming threaded perf report support, but also lots of other work -
and fixes and other improvements. See (much) more details in the
shortlog and in the git log"* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (305 commits)
perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing
perf report: Fix sort__sym_cmp to also compare end of symbol
perf hists browser: React to unassigned hotkey pressing
perf top: Tell the user how to unfreeze events after pressing 'f'
perf hists browser: Honour the help line provided by builtin-{top,report}.c
perf hists browser: Do not exit when 'f' is pressed in 'report' mode
perf top: Replace CTRL+z with 'f' as hotkey for enable/disable events
perf annotate: Rename source_line_percent to source_line_samples
perf annotate: Display total number of samples with --show-total-period
perf tools: Ensure thread-stack is flushed
perf top: Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicly
perf evlist: Add toggle_enable() method
perf trace: Fix race condition at the end of started workloads
perf probe: Speed up perf probe --list by caching debuginfo
perf probe: Show usage even if the last event is skipped
perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable
perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order
perf tools: Ignore .config-detected in .gitignore
perf probe: Fix to return error if no probe is added
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