30 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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This enables CONFIG_MODVERSIONS again, but allows for missing symbol CRC
information in order to work around the issue that newer binutils
versions seem to occasionally drop the CRC on the floor. binutils 2.26
seems to work fine, while binutils 2.27 seems to break MODVERSIONS of
symbols that have been defined in assembler files.[ We've had random missing CRC's before - it may be an old problem that
just is now reliably triggered with the weak asm symbols and a new
version of binutils ]Some day I really do want to remove MODVERSIONS entirely. Sadly, today
does not appear to be that day: Debian people apparently do want the
option to enable MODVERSIONS to make it easier to have external modules
across kernel versions, and this seems to be a fairly minimal fix for
the annoying problem.Cc: Ben Hutchings
Acked-by: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has been broken for pretty much the whole 4.9 series,
and quite frankly, nobody has cared very deeply. We absolutely know how
to fix it, and it's not _complicated_, but it's not exactly pretty
either.This oneliner fixes it without the ugliness, and allows for further
future cleanups."We've secretly replaced their regular MODVERSIONS with nothing at
all, let's see if they notice"Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Nov, 2016
1 commit
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Otherwise each individual rotator char would be printed in a new line:
(...)
[ 0.642350] -
[ 0.644374] |
[ 0.646367] -
(...)Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
"This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
15 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.
This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
working on a patch to fix this.Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
change prototypes.- Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
Piggin- fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.
- preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections- CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell
- fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
ia64: move exports to definitions
sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
[sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
sparc: move exports to definitions
ppc: move exports to definitions
arm: move exports to definitions
s390: move exports to definitions
m68k: move exports to definitions
alpha: move exports to actual definitions
x86: move exports to actual definitions
...
12 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of
readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the
context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to
prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is
generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock.The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for
delegating the wakeup to another context.
commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7
Author: Tom Zanussi
Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work
relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers
when a simple timer will do.Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup
causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes
relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the
data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting
filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every
newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub
buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap
between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub
buffers to store the new data.By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked
in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer
tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes
relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use
irq_work for deferred wake up of readers.[arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel
Cc: Tom Zanussi
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
08 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"Changes include:- Fix boot of 32bit SMP kernel (initial kernel mapping was too small)
- Added hardened usercopy checks
- Drop bootmem and switch to memblock and NO_BOOTMEM implementation
- Drop the BROKEN_RODATA config option (and thus remove the relevant
code from the generic headers and files because parisc was the last
architecture which used this config option)- Improve segfault reporting by printing human readable error strings
- Various smaller changes, e.g. dwarf debug support for assembly
code, update comments regarding copy_user_page_asm, switch to
kmalloc_array()"* 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels
parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock
parisc: Add hardened usercopy feature
parisc: Add cfi_startproc and cfi_endproc to assembly code
parisc: Move hpmc stack into page aligned bss section
parisc: Fix self-detected CPU stall warnings on Mako machines
parisc: Report trap type as human readable string
parisc: Update comment regarding implementation of copy_user_page_asm
parisc: Use kmalloc_array() in add_system_map_addresses()
parisc: Check return value of smp_boot_one_cpu()
parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option
21 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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PARISC was the only architecture which selected the BROKEN_RODATA config
option. Drop it and remove the special handling from init.h as well.Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
16 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory
belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task
stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code
paths to pin the stack.Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Gerst
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jann Horn
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
15 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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If an arch opts in by setting CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT,
then thread_info is defined as a single 'u32 flags' and is the first
entry of task_struct. thread_info::task is removed (it serves no
purpose if thread_info is embedded in task_struct), and
thread_info::cpu gets its own slot in task_struct.This is heavily based on a patch written by Linus.
Originally-from: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Gerst
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jann Horn
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0898196f0476195ca02713691a5037a14f2aac5.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to
select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link
with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all
unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build
verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now.On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving,
it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so
these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link.text data bss dec filename
11169741 1180744 1923176 14273661 vmlinux
10445269 1004127 1919707 13369103 vmlinux.dce~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
09 Aug, 2016
1 commit
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Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook:
"Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and
copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and
SLUB"* tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support
mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support
s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy
mm: Hardened usercopy
mm: Implement stack frame object validation
mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page
03 Aug, 2016
6 commits
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It doesn't trim just symbols that are totally unused in-tree - it trims
the symbols unused by any in-tree modules actually built. If you've
done a 'make localmodconfig' and only build a hundred or so modules,
it's pretty likely that your out-of-tree module will come up lacking
something...Hopefully this will save the next guy from a Homer Simpson "D'oh!"
moment.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10177.1469787292@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Doing patches with allmodconfig kernel compiled and committing stuff
into local tree have unfortunate consequence: kernel version changes (as
it should) leading to recompiling and relinking of several files even if
they weren't touched (or interesting at all). This and "git-whatever"
figuring out current version slow down compilation for no good reason.But lets face it, "allmodconfig" kernels don't care about kernel
version, they are simply compile check guinea pigs.Make LOCALVERSION_AUTO depend on !COMPILE_TEST, so it doesn't sneak into
allmodconfig .config.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707214954.GC31678@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
sprint_symbol_no_offset() returns the string "function_name
[module_name]" where [module_name] is not printed for built in kernel
functions. This means that the blacklisting code will fail when
comparing module function names with the extended string.This patch adds the functionality to block a module's module_init()
function by finding the space in the string and truncating the
comparison to that length.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466124387-20446-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Yang Shi
Cc: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Yaowei Bai
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There was only one use of __initdata_refok and __exit_refok
__init_refok was used 46 times against 82 for __ref.
Those definitions are obsolete since commit 312b1485fb50 ("Introduce new
section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst")This patch removes the following compatibility definitions and replaces
them treewide./* compatibility defines */
#define __init_refok __ref
#define __initdata_refok __refdata
#define __exit_refok __refI can also provide separate patches if necessary.
(One patch per tree and check in 1 month or 2 to remove old definitions)[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466796271-3043-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
UML is a bit special since it does not have iomem nor dma. That means a
lot of drivers will not build if they miss a dependency on HAS_IOMEM.
s390 used to have the same issues but since it gained PCI support UML is
the only stranger.We are tired of patching dozens of new drivers after every merge window
just to un-break allmod/yesconfig UML builds. One could argue that a
decent driver has to know on what it depends and therefore a missing
HAS_IOMEM dependency is a clear driver bug. But the dependency not
obvious and not everyone does UML builds with COMPILE_TEST enabled when
developing a device driver.A possible solution to make these builds succeed on UML would be
providing stub functions for ioremap() and friends which fail upon
runtime. Another one is simply disabling COMPILE_TEST for UML. Since
it is the least hassle and does not force use to fake iomem support
let's do the latter.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466152995-28367-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470148443-6509-1-git-send-email-iamyooon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
fat: fix error message for bogus number of directory entries
fat: fix typo s/supeblock/superblock/
ASoC: max9877: Remove unused function declaration
dw2102: don't output spurious blank lines to the kernel log
init: fix Kconfig text
ARM: io: fix comment grammar
ocfs: fix ocfs2_xattr_user_get() argument name
scsi/qla2xxx: Remove erroneous unused macro qla82xx_get_temp_val1()
27 Jul, 2016
3 commits
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Implements freelist randomization for the SLUB allocator. It was
previous implemented for the SLAB allocator. Both use the same
configuration option (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM).The list is randomized during initialization of a new set of pages. The
order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed at boot for
performance. Each kmem_cache has its own randomized freelist.This security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel SLUB
allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks much less stable.For example these attacks exploit the predictability of the heap:
- Linux Kernel CAN SLUB overflow (https://goo.gl/oMNWkU)
- Exploiting Linux Kernel Heap corruptions (http://goo.gl/EXLn95)Performance results:
slab_test impact is between 3% to 4% on average for 100000 attempts
without smp. It is a very focused testing, kernbench show the overall
impact on the system is way lower.Before:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 49 cycles kfree -> 77 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 51 cycles kfree -> 79 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 53 cycles kfree -> 83 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 62 cycles kfree -> 90 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 81 cycles kfree -> 97 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 98 cycles kfree -> 121 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 95 cycles kfree -> 122 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 96 cycles kfree -> 126 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 149 cycles kfree -> 171 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 69 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 70 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 73 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 72 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 71 cyclesAfter:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
100000 times kmalloc(8) -> 57 cycles kfree -> 78 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16) -> 61 cycles kfree -> 81 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32) -> 76 cycles kfree -> 93 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64) -> 83 cycles kfree -> 94 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128) -> 106 cycles kfree -> 107 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 117 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512) -> 114 cycles kfree -> 116 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 115 cycles kfree -> 118 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 147 cycles kfree -> 131 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 214 cycles kfree -> 161 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
100000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 66 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 65 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 67 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 67 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 64 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 67 cycles
100000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 67 cyclesKernbench, before:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 101.873 (1.16069)
User Time 1045.22 (1.60447)
System Time 88.969 (0.559195)
Percent CPU 1112.9 (13.8279)
Context Switches 189140 (2282.15)
Sleeps 99008.6 (768.091)After:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 102.47 (0.562732)
User Time 1045.3 (1.34263)
System Time 88.311 (0.342554)
Percent CPU 1105.8 (6.49444)
Context Switches 189081 (2355.78)
Sleeps 99231.5 (800.358)Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464295031-26375-3-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, this adds object size checking to the
SLUB allocator to catch any copies that may span objects. Includes a
redzone handling fix discovered by Michael Ellerman.Based on code from PaX and grsecurity.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman
Reviwed-by: Laura Abbott -
Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, this adds object size checking to the
SLAB allocator to catch any copies that may span objects.Based on code from PaX and grsecurity.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks
26 Jul, 2016
2 commits
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Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar:
- fix system/idle cputime leaked on cputime accounting (all nohz
configs) (Rik van Riel)- remove the messy, ad-hoc irqtime account on nohz-full and make it
compatible with CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y instead (Rik van Riel)- cleanups (Frederic Weisbecker)
- remove unecessary irq disablement in the irqtime code (Rik van Riel)
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/cputime: Drop local_irq_save/restore from irqtime_account_irq()
sched/cputime: Reorganize vtime native irqtime accounting headers
sched/cputime: Clean up the old vtime gen irqtime accounting completely
sched/cputime: Replace VTIME_GEN irq time code with IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq & softirq time -
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:- documentation updates
- miscellaneous fixes
- minor reorganization of code
- torture-test updates"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
rcu: Correctly handle sparse possible cpus
rcu: sysctl: Panic on RCU Stall
rcu: Fix a typo in a comment
rcu: Make call_rcu_tasks() tolerate first call with irqs disabled
rcu: Disable TASKS_RCU for usermode Linux
rcu: No ordering for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL
rcutorture: Fix error return code in rcu_perf_init()
torture: Inflict default jitter
rcuperf: Don't treat gp_exp mis-setting as a WARN
rcutorture: Drop "-soundhw pcspkr" from x86 boot arguments
rcutorture: Don't specify the cpu type of QEMU on PPC
rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option
rcutorture: Use vmlinux as the fallback kernel image
rcutorture/doc: Create initrd using dracut
torture: Stop onoff task if there is only one cpu
torture: Add starvation events to error summary
torture: Break online and offline functions out of torture_onoff()
torture: Forgive lengthy trace dumps and preemption
torture: Remove CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE, simplify code
torture: Simplify code, eliminate RCU_PERF_TEST_RUNNABLE
...
14 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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The CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN irq time tracking code does not
appear to currently work right.On CPUs without nohz_full=, only tick based irq time sampling is
done, which breaks down when dealing with a nohz_idle CPU.On firewalls and similar systems, no ticks may happen on a CPU for a
while, and the irq time spent may never get accounted properly. This
can cause issues with capacity planning and power saving, which use
the CPU statistics as inputs in decision making.Remove the VTIME_GEN vtime irq time code, and replace it with the
IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code, when selected as a config option by the user.Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paolo Bonzini
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Radim Krcmar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Wanpeng Li
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468421405-20056-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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The "expert" menu was broken (split) such that all entries in it after
KALLSYMS were displayed in the "General setup" area instead of in the
"Expert users" area. Fix this by adding one kconfig dependency.Yes, the Expert users menu is fragile. Problems like this have happened
several times in the past. I will attempt to isolate the Expert users
menu if there is interest in that.Fixes: 4d5d5664c900 ("x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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…k/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- Documentation updates. Just some simple changes, no design-level
additions.- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Torture-test updates.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
25 Jun, 2016
3 commits
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"Two weeks worth of fixes here"* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (41 commits)
init/main.c: fix initcall_blacklisted on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64
autofs: don't get stuck in a loop if vfs_write() returns an error
mm/page_owner: avoid null pointer dereference
tools/vm/slabinfo: fix spelling mistake: "Ocurrences" -> "Occurrences"
fs/nilfs2: fix potential underflow in call to crc32_le
oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable race
ocfs2: disable BUG assertions in reading blocks
mm, compaction: abort free scanner if split fails
mm: prevent KASAN false positives in kmemleak
mm/hugetlb: clear compound_mapcount when freeing gigantic pages
mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival
memcg: css_alloc should return an ERR_PTR value on error
memcg: mem_cgroup_migrate() may be called with irq disabled
hugetlb: fix nr_pmds accounting with shared page tables
Revert "mm: disable fault around on emulated access bit architecture"
Revert "mm: make faultaround produce old ptes"
mailmap: add Boris Brezillon's email
mailmap: add Antoine Tenart's email
mm, sl[au]b: add __GFP_ATOMIC to the GFP reclaim mask
mm: mempool: kasan: don't poot mempool objects in quarantine
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When I replaced kasprintf("%pf") with a direct call to
sprint_symbol_no_offset I must have broken the initcall blacklisting
feature on the arches where dereference_function_descriptor() is
non-trivial.Fixes: c8cdd2be213f (init/main.c: simplify initcall_blacklisted())
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466027283-4065-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes
Cc: Yang Shi
Cc: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Petr Mladek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for
most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off
from the task struct), but that is about to change.But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of
the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and
freeing functions are.Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread
stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical. That
identity then meant that we would have things liketi = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node);
...
tsk->stack = ti;which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same
value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to
the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code
just gets to be entirely bogus.So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the
stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be
about the stack. The fact that the thread_info then shares the
allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the
allocation itself.This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's
just that we clarify what the pointer means.The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of
task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd,
but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity
doesn't matter. It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I
intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and
type change.Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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[jkosina@suse.cz: folded another fix on top on the same line as spotted by
Randy Dunlap]
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
16 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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Usermode Linux currently does not implement arch_irqs_disabled_flags(),
which results in a build failure in TASKS_RCU. Therefore, this commit
disables the TASKS_RCU Kconfig option in usermode Linux builds. The
usermode Linux maintainers expect to merge arch_irqs_disabled_flags()
into 4.8, at which point this commit may be reverted.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Jeff Dike
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger
28 May, 2016
1 commit
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page_ext_init() checks suitable pages with pfn_to_nid(), but
pfn_to_nid() depends on memmap which will not be setup fully until
page_alloc_init_late() is done. Use early_pfn_to_nid() instead of
pfn_to_nid() so that page extension could be still used early even
though CONFIG_ DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled and catch early page
allocation call sites.Suggested by Joonsoo Kim [1], this fix basically undoes the change
introduced by commit b8f1a75d61d840 ("mm: call page_ext_init() after all
struct pages are initialized") and fixes the same problem with a better
approach.[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAAmzW4OUmyPwQjvd7QUfc6W1Aic__TyAuH80MLRZNMxKy0-wPQ@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464198689-23458-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- new option CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS which does a two-pass build and
unexports symbols which are not used in the current config [Nicolas
Pitre]- several kbuild rule cleanups [Masahiro Yamada]
- warning option adjustments for gcov etc [Arnd Bergmann]
- a few more small fixes
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (31 commits)
kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order
kbuild: fix adjust_autoksyms.sh for modules that need only one symbol
kbuild: fix ksym_dep_filter when multiple EXPORT_SYMBOL() on the same line
gcov: disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
gcov: disable tree-loop-im to reduce stack usage
gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST
Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE definition
kbuild: forbid kernel directory to contain spaces and colons
kbuild: adjust ksym_dep_filter for some cmd_* renames
kbuild: Fix dependencies for final vmlinux link
kbuild: better abstract vmlinux sequential prerequisites
kbuild: fix call to adjust_autoksyms.sh when output directory specified
kbuild: Get rid of KBUILD_STR
kbuild: rename cmd_as_s_S to cmd_cpp_s_S
kbuild: rename cmd_cc_i_c to cmd_cpp_i_c
kbuild: drop redundant "PHONY += FORCE"
kbuild: delete unnecessary "@:"
kbuild: mark help target as PHONY
...
21 May, 2016
4 commits
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Using kasprintf to get the function name makes us look up the name
twice, along with all the vsnprintf overhead of parsing the format
string etc. It also means there is an allocation failure case to deal
with. Since symbol_string in vsprintf.c would anyway allocate an array
of size KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN on the stack, that might as well be done up
here.Moreover, since this is a debug feature and the blacklisted_initcalls
list is usually empty, we might as well test that and thus avoid looking
up the symbol name even once in the common case.Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Testing has shown that the backtrace sometimes does not fit into the 4kB
temporary buffer that is used in NMI context. The warnings are gone
when I double the temporary buffer size.This patch doubles the buffer size and makes it configurable.
Note that this problem existed even in the x86-specific implementation
that was added by the commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI
stack trace on all CPUs"). Nobody noticed it because it did not print
any warnings.Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Daniel Thompson
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
printk() takes some locks and could not be used a safe way in NMI
context.The chance of a deadlock is real especially when printing stacks from
all CPUs. This particular problem has been addressed on x86 by the
commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all
CPUs").The patchset brings two big advantages. First, it makes the NMI
backtraces safe on all architectures for free. Second, it makes all NMI
messages almost safe on all architectures (the temporary buffer is
limited. We still should keep the number of messages in NMI context at
minimum).Note that there already are several messages printed in NMI context:
WARN_ON(in_nmi()), BUG_ON(in_nmi()), anything being printed out from MCE
handlers. These are not easy to avoid.This patch reuses most of the code and makes it generic. It is useful
for all messages and architectures that support NMI.The alternative printk_func is set when entering and is reseted when
leaving NMI context. It queues IRQ work to copy the messages into the
main ring buffer in a safe context.__printk_nmi_flush() copies all available messages and reset the buffer.
Then we could use a simple cmpxchg operations to get synchronized with
writers. There is also used a spinlock to get synchronized with other
flushers.We do not longer use seq_buf because it depends on external lock. It
would be hard to make all supported operations safe for a lockless use.
It would be confusing and error prone to make only some operations safe.The code is put into separate printk/nmi.c as suggested by Steven
Rostedt. It needs a per-CPU buffer and is compiled only on
architectures that call nmi_enter(). This is achieved by the new
HAVE_NMI Kconfig flag.The are MN10300 and Xtensa architectures. We need to clean up NMI
handling there first. Let's do it separately.The patch is heavily based on the draft from Peter Zijlstra, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/327
[arnd@arndb.de: printk-nmi: use %zu format string for size_t]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: min_t->min - all types are size_t here]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Russell King [arm part]
Cc: Daniel Thompson
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled, just a subset of memmap at
boot are initialized, then the rest are initialized in parallel by
starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X.If page_ext_init is called before it, some pages will not have valid
extension, this may lead the below kernel oops when booting up kernel:BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in:
CPU: 11 PID: 106 Comm: pgdatinit1 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc5-next-20160427 #26
Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520HC/S5520HC, BIOS S5500.86B.01.10.0025.030220091519 03/02/2009
task: ffff88017c080040 ti: ffff88017c084000 task.ti: ffff88017c084000
RIP: 0010:[] [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0
RSP: 0000:ffff88017c087c48 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000980 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 0000000000660401
RBP: ffff88017c087cd0 R08: 0000000000000401 R09: 0000000000000009
R10: ffff88017c080040 R11: 000000000000000a R12: 0000000000000400
R13: ffffea0019810000 R14: ffffea0019810040 R15: ffff88066cfe6080
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88066cd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002406000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
free_hot_cold_page+0x192/0x1d0
__free_pages+0x5c/0x90
__free_pages_boot_core+0x11a/0x14e
deferred_free_range+0x50/0x62
deferred_init_memmap+0x220/0x3c3
kthread+0xf8/0x110
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
Code: 49 89 d4 48 c1 e0 06 49 01 c5 e9 de fe ff ff 4c 89 f7 44 89 4d b8 4c 89 45 c0 44 89 5d c8 48 89 4d d0 e8 62 c7 07 00 48 8b 4d d0 8b 00 44 8b 5d c8 4c 8b 45 c0 44 8b 4d b8 a8 02 0f 84 05 ff
RIP [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0
RSP
CR2: 0000000000000000Move page_ext_init() after page_alloc_init_late() to make sure page extension
is setup for all pages.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463696006-31360-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 May, 2016
1 commit
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Provides an optional config (CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM) to randomize
the SLAB freelist. The list is randomized during initialization of a
new set of pages. The order on different freelist sizes is pre-computed
at boot for performance. Each kmem_cache has its own randomized
freelist. Before pre-computed lists are available freelists are
generated dynamically. This security feature reduces the predictability
of the kernel SLAB allocator against heap overflows rendering attacks
much less stable.For example this attack against SLUB (also applicable against SLAB)
would be affected:https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/09/10/linux-kernel-can-slub-overflow/
Also, since v4.6 the freelist was moved at the end of the SLAB. It
means a controllable heap is opened to new attacks not yet publicly
discussed. A kernel heap overflow can be transformed to multiple
use-after-free. This feature makes this type of attack harder too.To generate entropy, we use get_random_bytes_arch because 0 bits of
entropy is available in the boot stage. In the worse case this function
will fallback to the get_random_bytes sub API. We also generate a shift
random number to shift pre-computed freelist for each new set of pages.The config option name is not specific to the SLAB as this approach will
be extended to other allocators like SLUB.Performance results highlighted no major changes:
Hackbench (running 90 10 times):
Before average: 0.0698
After average: 0.0663 (-5.01%)slab_test 1 run on boot. Difference only seen on the 2048 size test
being the worse case scenario covered by freelist randomization. New
slab pages are constantly being created on the 10000 allocations.
Variance should be mainly due to getting new pages every few
allocations.Before:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 99 cycles kfree -> 112 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 109 cycles kfree -> 140 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 129 cycles kfree -> 137 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 141 cycles kfree -> 141 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 152 cycles kfree -> 148 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 195 cycles kfree -> 167 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 257 cycles kfree -> 199 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 393 cycles kfree -> 251 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 649 cycles kfree -> 228 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 806 cycles kfree -> 370 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 814 cycles kfree -> 411 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 892 cycles kfree -> 455 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cyclesAfter:
Single thread testing
=====================
1. Kmalloc: Repeatedly allocate then free test
10000 times kmalloc(8) -> 130 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16) -> 118 cycles kfree -> 86 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32) -> 121 cycles kfree -> 85 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64) -> 176 cycles kfree -> 102 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128) -> 178 cycles kfree -> 100 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256) -> 205 cycles kfree -> 109 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512) -> 262 cycles kfree -> 136 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024) -> 342 cycles kfree -> 157 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048) -> 701 cycles kfree -> 238 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096) -> 803 cycles kfree -> 364 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192) -> 835 cycles kfree -> 404 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384) -> 896 cycles kfree -> 441 cycles
2. Kmalloc: alloc/free test
10000 times kmalloc(8)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(32)/kfree -> 123 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(64)/kfree -> 142 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(128)/kfree -> 121 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(256)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(512)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(1024)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(2048)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(4096)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(8192)/kfree -> 119 cycles
10000 times kmalloc(16384)/kfree -> 119 cycles[akpm@linux-foundation.org: propagate gfp_t into cache_random_seq_create()]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Laura Abbott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds