17 Jul, 2019
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"VM:
- z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool- more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao
- fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
Christoph Hellwig- !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig
- new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
Kairui Song- new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
initialization, by Alexander Potapenko- ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual
- generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual
- device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin
- enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V
- add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy
- unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan
- several misc fixes
core/lib:
- new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan- make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada
- changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan- rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse
- convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes
get_maintainer.pl:
- add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perchesmisc:
- ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface- coda updates
- gdb scripts, various"
[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (100 commits)
fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
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Since commit 2724273e8fd0 ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in
second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to
vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential
issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data
and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel
which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it
will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues.So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable
device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is
using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular
vmcore without device dump data is still available.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song
Acked-by: Dave Young
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy
Cc: "David S . Miller"
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Baoquan He
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jul, 2019
1 commit
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The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
12 Jun, 2019
1 commit
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Exposing architecture specific per process information is useful for
various reasons. An example is the AVX512 usage on x86 which is important
for task placement for power/performance optimizations.Adding this information to the existing /prcc/pid/status file would be the
obvious choise, but it has been agreed on that a explicit arch_status file
is better in separating the generic and architecture specific information.[ tglx: Massage changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: aubrey.li@intel.com
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Tim Chen
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Linux API
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606012236.9391-1-aubrey.li@linux.intel.com
21 May, 2019
1 commit
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
23 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just
for crash dumps. A lot of this information can be determined by other
means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most
to the file.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: James Morse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 May, 2018
1 commit
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The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device
specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows:1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers
register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with
callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for
firmware/hardware log collection.2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds
an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback
function.3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer
and returns control back to vmcore module.Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size
so that it can be mmaped.Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more
generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device
dump.Suggested-by: Eric Biederman .
Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
18 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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The purpose of the option was documented in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt but the help text was missing.Add small help text that also points to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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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
13 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Under Pseudo filesystems, /proc/kcore support has no help.
Fixes a portion of kernel bugzilla #52671:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52671Thanks for David Howells for the help text.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Reported-by:
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Robin Holt
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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We use vmcore in our production kernel for a long time, it is pretty
stable now. So I don't think we need to mark it as experimental any more.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Neil Horman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
26 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds