16 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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Conflicts:
drivers/mmc/core/core.c
drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
20 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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Add a skip_initramfs option to allow choosing whether to boot using
the initramfs or not at runtime.Change-Id: If30428fa748c1d4d3d7b9d97c1f781de5e4558c3
Signed-off-by: Rom Lemarchand
22 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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commit b064a8fa77dfead647564c46ac8fc5b13bd1ab73 upstream.
Commit 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before
timekeeping_init()" moved the ACPI subsystem initialization,
including the ACPI mode enabling, to an earlier point in the
initialization sequence, to allow the timekeeping subsystem
use ACPI early. Unfortunately, that resulted in boot regressions
on some systems and the early ACPI initialization was moved toward
its original position in the kernel initialization code by commit
c4e1acbb35e4 "ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization later".However, that turns out to be insufficient, as boot is still broken
on the Tyan S8812 mainboard.To fix that issue, split the ACPI early initialization code into
two pieces so the majority of it still located in acpi_early_init()
and the part switching over the platform into the ACPI mode goes into
a new function, acpi_subsystem_init(), executed at the original early
ACPI initialization spot.That fixes the Tyan S8812 boot problem, but still allows ACPI
tables to be loaded earlier which is useful to the EFI code in
efi_enter_virtual_mode().Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97141
Fixes: 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()"
Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Tolzmann
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Toshi Kani
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 May, 2015
1 commit
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Commit 283e7ad02 ("init: stricter checking of major:minor root=
values") was so strict that it exposed the fact that a previously
unknown device format was being used.Distributions like Ubuntu uses klibc (rather than uswsusp) to resume
system from hibernation. klibc expressed the swap partition/file in
the form of major:minor:offset. For example, 8:3:0 represents a swap
partition in klibc, and klibc's resume process in initrd will finally
echo 8:3:0 to /sys/power/resume for manually resuming. However, due
to commit 283e7ad02's stricter checking, 8:3:0 will be treated as an
invalid device format, and manual resuming from hibernation will fail.Fix this by adding support for devices with major:minor:offset format
when resuming from hibernation.Reported-by: Prigent, Christophe
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer
18 Apr, 2015
2 commits
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese
translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of
identical patches to that file"* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix
doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place
Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD
docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink
Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry
README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format
README: Update version number reference
doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI
Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers.
Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers
Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- the most extensive changes this cycle are the DM core improvements to
add full blk-mq support to request-based DM.- disabled by default but user can opt-in with CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT
- depends on some blk-mq changes from Jens' for-4.1/core branch so
that explains why this pull is built on linux-block.git- update DM to use name_to_dev_t() rather than open-coding a less
capable device parser.- includes a couple small improvements to name_to_dev_t() that offer
stricter constraints that DM's code provided.- improvements to the dm-cache "mq" cache replacement policy.
- a DM crypt crypt_ctr() error path fix and an async crypto deadlock
fix- a small efficiency improvement for DM crypt decryption by leveraging
immutable biovecs- add error handling modes for corrupted blocks to DM verity
- a new "log-writes" DM target from Josef Bacik that is meant for file
system developers to test file system integrity at particular points
in the life of a file system- a few DM log userspace cleanups and fixes
- a few Documentation fixes (for thin, cache, crypt and switch)
* tag 'dm-4.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (34 commits)
dm crypt: fix missing error code return from crypt_ctr error path
dm crypt: fix deadlock when async crypto algorithm returns -EBUSY
dm crypt: leverage immutable biovecs when decrypting on read
dm crypt: update URLs to new cryptsetup project page
dm: add log writes target
dm table: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0
dm verity: add error handling modes for corrupted blocks
dm thin: remove stale 'trim' message documentation
dm delay: use msecs_to_jiffies for time conversion
dm log userspace base: fix compile warning
dm log userspace transfer: match wait_for_completion_timeout return type
dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()
init: stricter checking of major:minor root= values
init: export name_to_dev_t and mark name argument as const
dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr
dm: optimize dm_mq_queue_rq to _not_ use kthread if using pure blk-mq
dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM
dm: impose configurable deadline for dm_request_fn's merge heuristic
dm sysfs: introduce ability to add writable attributes
dm: don't start current request if it would've merged with the previous
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17 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the
THREAD_SIZE.E.g. architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096.
This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads.With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function
set_max_threads. The error is not fixed.After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be
reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory.Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is
an exported symbol.The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for
fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar.Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Guenter Roeck
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Apr, 2015
3 commits
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There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
functionality in init, running as root:root. For these systems,
supporting multiple users is not necessary.This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional. It is enabled
under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
and processes always have all capabilities.The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.
In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
adding two ifdef blocks.This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build. The most minimal
kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
low MB. (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.The kernel was booted in Qemu. All the common functionalities work.
Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.Bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In the kernel command-line, previously, root=1:2jakshflaksjdhfa would
be accepted and interpreted just like root=1:2. This patch adds
stricter checking so that additional characters after major:minor are
rejected by root=.The goal of this change is to help in unifying DM's interpretation of
its block device argument by using existing kernel code (name_to_dev_t).
But DM rejects malformed major:minor pairs, it seems reasonable for
root= to reject them as well.Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer -
DM will switch its device lookup code to using name_to_dev_t() so it
must be exported. Also, the @name argument should be marked const.Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer
15 Apr, 2015
5 commits
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Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- arch/sh updates
- ocfs2 updates
- kernel/watchdog feature
- about half of mm/
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (122 commits)
Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
arm: add support for memtest
arm64: add support for memtest
memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
mm: move memtest under mm
mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
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Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when
I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel.ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and
arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time.A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable
the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary.Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Robert Elliott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Core kernel changes:- One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability
to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed
by the kernel) to kprobes.This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image
that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively.
(Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might
allow unprivileged use as well.)(Alexei Starovoitov)
- Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this
allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock
sources for event timestamps traced via perf.This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated
events with external events that were measured with different
clocks:- cluster wide profiling
- for system wide tracing with user-space events,
- JIT profiling events
etc. Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via
the -k, --clockid parameter to perf record et al.(Peter Zijlstra)
Hardware enablement kernel changes:
- x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer
on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs.The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space
ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added
to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the
necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous.This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result.
A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT
driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU.
More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well -
will probably be ready by 4.2.(Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra)
- x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware
feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and
allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads.These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU
driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events. (The
partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged
as a cgroup extension.)(Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P
Waskiewicz Jr)- x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell
feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus
tooling support. To activate this feature you have to enable it
via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option:perf record --call-graph lbr
perf reportor:
perf top --call-graph lbr
This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf
based unwinding, but has some limitations:- It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and
branch record can not be enabled at the same time.- It is only available for user-space callchains.
(Yan, Zheng)
- x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and
event table fixes for earlier models.(Andi Kleen)
- x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds. This is a complex
CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter
value corruption. The mitigation code is automatically enabled and
is transparent.(Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian)
The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so
I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to
the tooling changes outlined above:User visible changes affecting all tools:
- Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa)
- Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song)
- Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa)
- Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song)
- Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)User visible changes in individual tools:
'perf data':
New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially
for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa,
Sebastian Siewior)'perf diff':
Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern)
'perf list':
Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song)
Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song)
'perf kmem':
Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa)
Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim)
Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim)
Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim)
'perf probe':
Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu)
Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu)
Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu)
'perf record':
Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra)
Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen)
'perf sched':
Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song)
'perf report' and 'perf top':
Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the
TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern)
Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one
cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT
events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)'perf stat':
Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose)
Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen)
'perf trace':
Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it
be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take
place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it.
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the
split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes -
see the shortlog and changelog for details"* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits)
perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init()
perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail
perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option
perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries
perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits
perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis
perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads
perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread
perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit
perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL.
perf tests: Fix attr tests
perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error
perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions
perf record: Add clockid parameter
perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10
perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership
perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files
perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task
perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads
perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations
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Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:- changes permitting use of call_rcu() and friends very early in
boot, for example, before rcu_init() is invoked.- add in-kernel API to enable and disable expediting of normal RCU
grace periods.- improve RCU's handling of (hotplug-) outgoing CPUs.
- NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes.
- tiny-RCU updates to make it more tiny.
- documentation updates.
- miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well
cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler
rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
rcutorture: Default to grace-period-initialization delays
rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise
rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling
rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
rcutorture: Enable slow grace-period initializations
rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef
rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init()
rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
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Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual trivial tree updates. Nothing outstanding -- mostly printk()
and comment fixes and unused identifier removals"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
goldfish: goldfish_tty_probe() is not using 'i' any more
powerpc: Fix comment in smu.h
qla2xxx: Fix printks in ql_log message
lib: correct link to the original source for div64_u64
si2168, tda10071, m88ds3103: Fix firmware wording
usb: storage: Fix printk in isd200_log_config()
qla2xxx: Fix printk in qla25xx_setup_mode
init/main: fix reset_device comment
ipwireless: missing assignment
goldfish: remove unreachable line of code
coredump: Fix do_coredump() comment
stacktrace.h: remove duplicate declaration task_struct
smpboot.h: Remove unused function prototype
treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
mod_devicetable: fix comment for match_flags
13 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Currently, smpboot_unpark_threads() is invoked before the incoming CPU
has been added to the scheduler's runqueue structures. This might
potentially cause the unparked kthread to run on the wrong CPU, since the
correct CPU isn't fully set up yet.That causes a sporadic, hard to debug boot crash triggering on some
systems, reported by Borislav Petkov, and bisected down to:2a442c9c6453 ("x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code")
This patch places smpboot_unpark_threads() in a CPU hotplug
notifier with priority set so that these kthreads are unparked just after
the CPU has been added to the runqueues.Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
11 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Memcg/kmem reclaim support has been finally merged. Reflect this in the
documentation.Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
02 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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So bpf_tracing.o depends on CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL - but that's not its only
dependency, it also depends on the tracing infrastructure and on kprobes,
without which it will fail to build with:In file included from kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:14:0:
kernel/trace/trace.h: In function ‘trace_test_and_set_recursion’:
kernel/trace/trace.h:491:28: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘trace_recursion’
unsigned int val = current->trace_recursion;
[...]It took quite some time to trigger this build failure, because right now
BPF_SYSCALL is very obscure, depends on CONFIG_EXPERT. So also make BPF_SYSCALL
more configurable, not just under CONFIG_EXPERT.If BPF_SYSCALL, tracing and kprobes are enabled then enable the bpf_tracing
gateway as well.We might want to make this an interactive option later on, although
I'd not complicate it unnecessarily: enabling BPF_SYSCALL is enough of
an indicator that the user wants BPF support.Cc: Alexei Starovoitov
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Daniel Borkmann
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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Fix incorrect spelling of situation.
Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
05 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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Now we call ss->bind() in cgroup_init(), so cgroup_init() will
call cpuset_bind() and then the latter will access top_cpuset's
cpumask, which is NULL, because cpuset_init() is called after
cgroup_init()The simplest fix is to swap cgroup_init() and cpuset_init().
Cc: Vladimir Davydov
Fixes: 295458e67284 ("cgroup: call cgroup_subsys->bind on cgroup subsys initialization")
Reported by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov
27 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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This commit adds a CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig parameter
that emulates a very early boot rcu_expedite_gp(). A late-boot
call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot() will provide the corresponding
rcu_unexpedite_gp(). The late-boot call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot()
should be made just before init is spawned.According to Arjan:
> To show the boot time, I'm using the timestamp of the "Write protecting"
> line, that's pretty much the last thing we print prior to ring 3 execution.
>
> A kernel with default RCU behavior (inside KVM, only virtual devices)
> looks like this:
>
> [ 0.038724] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
>
> a kernel with expedited RCU (using the command line option, so that I
> don't have to recompile between measurements and thus am completely
> oranges-to-oranges)
>
> [ 0.031768] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
>
> which, in percentage, is an 18% improvement.Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Tested-by: Arjan van de Ven
20 Feb, 2015
2 commits
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
"Yann E Morin was supposed to take over kconfig maintainership, but
this hasn't happened. So I'm sending a few kconfig patches that I
collected:- Fix for missing va_end in kconfig
- merge_config.sh displays used if given too few arguments
- s/boolean/bool/ in Kconfig files for consistency, with the plan to
only support bool in the future"* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kconfig: use va_end to match corresponding va_start
merge_config.sh: Display usage if given too few arguments
kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes -
Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
"Just a few non-critical kbuild changes:- builddeb adds the actual distribution name in the changelog
- documentation fixes"* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: trivial - fix the help doc of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
kbuild: Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs
builddeb: Try to determine distribution
builddeb: Update year and git repository URL in debian/copyright
14 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK adds config bloat without an obvious use case that
makes it worth keeping around. Delete it.Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Chuck Ebbert
Cc: Frank Rowand
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Rob Landley
Cc: Shuah Khan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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Pull x86 APIC updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Continued fallout of the conversion of the x86 IRQ code to the
hierarchical irqdomain framework: more cleanups, simplifications,
memory allocation behavior enhancements, mainly in the interrupt
remapping and APIC code"* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
x86, init: Fix UP boot regression on x86_64
iommu/amd: Fix irq remapping detection logic
x86/acpi: Make acpi_[un]register_gsi_ioapic() depend on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
x86: Consolidate boot cpu timer setup
x86/apic: Reuse apic_bsp_setup() for UP APIC setup
x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init
x86/smpboot: Move apic init code to apic.c
init: Get rid of x86isms
x86/apic: Move apic_init_uniprocessor code
x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling
x86/apic: Sanitize ioapic handling
x86/ioapic: Add proper checks to setp/enable_IO_APIC()
x86/ioapic: Provide stub functions for IOAPIC%3Dn
x86/smpboot: Move smpboot inlines to code
x86/x2apic: Use state information for disable
x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function
x86/x2apic: Disable x2apic from nox2apic setup
x86/x2apic: Add proper state tracking
x86/x2apic: Clarify remapping mode for x2apic enablement
x86/x2apic: Move code in conditional region
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22 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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The UP local API support can be set up from an early initcall. No need
for horrible hackery in the init code.Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jiang Liu
Cc: Joerg Roedel
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115211703.827943883@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
16 Jan, 2015
2 commits
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…rcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD
doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes. -
Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings. However,
most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
by default. The realtime priority may be specified at build time
via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
rcutree.kthread_prio parameter. Either way, 0 says to continue the
default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
of SCHED_FIFO behavior. Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
08 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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Other than GCC, we have another choice, Clang for building the kernel
these days. It seems better to say "compiler" rather than "gcc".Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
07 Jan, 2015
3 commits
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Support for keyword 'boolean' will be dropped later on.
No functional change.
Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
use of SRCU are selected.If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.
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Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar
CC: Paul E. McKenney
CC: Josh Triplett
CC: Lai Jiangshan
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
[ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ] -
The 48a7639ce80c ("rcu: Make callers awaken grace-period kthread")
removed the irq_work_queue(), so the TREE_RCU doesn't need
irq work any more. This commit therefore updates RCU's Kconfig andSigned-off-by: Lai Jiangshan
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
17 Dec, 2014
3 commits
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If mount flags don't have MS_RDONLY, iso9660 returns EACCES without actually
checking if it's an iso image.This tricks mount_block_root() into retrying with MS_RDONLY. This results
in a read-only root despite the "rw" boot parameter if the actual
filesystem was checked after iso9660.I believe the behavior of iso9660 is okay, while that of mount_block_root()
is not. It should rather try all types without MS_RDONLY and only then
retry with MS_RDONLY.This change also makes the code more robust against the case when EACCES is
returned despite MS_RDONLY, which would've resulted in a lockup.Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Pull vfs pile #2 from Al Viro:
"Next pile (and there'll be one or two more).The large piece in this one is getting rid of /proc/*/ns/* weirdness;
among other things, it allows to (finally) make nameidata completely
opaque outside of fs/namei.c, making for easier further cleanups in
there"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
coda_venus_readdir(): use file_inode()
fs/namei.c: fold link_path_walk() call into path_init()
path_init(): don't bother with LOOKUP_PARENT in argument
fs/namei.c: new helper (path_cleanup())
path_init(): store the "base" pointer to file in nameidata itself
make default ->i_fop have ->open() fail with ENXIO
make nameidata completely opaque outside of fs/namei.c
kill proc_ns completely
take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs
bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc
copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common
new helpers: ns_alloc_inum/ns_free_inum
make proc_ns_operations work with struct ns_common * instead of void *
switch the rest of proc_ns_operations to working with &...->ns
netns: switch ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() to working with &net->ns
make mntns ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() work with &mnt_ns->ns
common object embedded into various struct ....ns -
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as
I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now.This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.
This adds two new features:
1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init().
By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter,
tracepoints can be enabled at boot up. For debugging things like
the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints
enabled very early. People have asked about this before and this
has been on my todo list. As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug
his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now. This way he can
add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when
things go wrong.2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
are triggered.If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint
output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging.
But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option
along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
early lock up or reboot problems.This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas
tried them out too and it works for his needs.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org"
* tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()
tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
15 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
right after rcu_init().This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214164104.307127356@goodmis.orgReviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
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Pull security layer updates from James Morris:
"In terms of changes, there's general maintenance to the Smack,
SELinux, and integrity code.The IMA code adds a new kconfig option, IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT,
which allows IMA appraisal to require signatures. Support for reading
keys from rootfs before init is call is also added"* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
selinux: Remove security_ops extern
security: smack: fix out-of-bounds access in smk_parse_smack()
VFS: refactor vfs_read()
ima: require signature based appraisal
integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready
ima: load x509 certificate from the kernel
integrity: provide a function to load x509 certificate from the kernel
integrity: define a new function integrity_read_file()
Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack
Smack: Lock mode for the floor and hat labels
ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt
ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields()
ima: don't allocate a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()
ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is zero
ima: added error messages to template-related functions
ima: use atomic bit operations to protect policy update interface
ima: ignore empty and with whitespaces policy lines
ima: no need to allocate entry for comment
ima: report policy load status
ima: use path names cache
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14 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
page. For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself. But,
this has drawbacks. First, it requires re-compile. This makes us
hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
slowed down. And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
kernel due to third party module dependency. At third, system behaviour
would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
kernel. Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
situation.This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This
feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
rather than the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the
accessor functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it
checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If
not, it avoids allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can
include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
solve related problems.Until now, memcg uses this technique. But, now, memcg decides to embed
their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
has been removed. I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
this patch resurrect it.To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
clients. One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init
callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
allocated. Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
code comment. Please refer it.Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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New pseudo-filesystem: nsfs. Targets of /proc/*/ns/* live there now.
It's not mountable (not even registered, so it's not in /proc/filesystems,
etc.). Files on it *are* bindable - we explicitly permit that in do_loopback().This stuff lives in fs/nsfs.c now; proc_ns_fget() moved there as well.
get_proc_ns() is a macro now (it's simply returning ->i_private; would
have been an inline, if not for header ordering headache).
proc_ns_inode() is an ex-parrot. The interface used in procfs is
ns_get_path(path, task, ops) and ns_get_name(buf, size, task, ops).Dentries and inodes are never hashed; a non-counting reference to dentry
is stashed in ns_common (removed by ->d_prune()) and reused by ns_get_path()
if present. See ns_get_path()/ns_prune_dentry/nsfs_evict() for details
of that mechanism.As the result, proc_ns_follow_link() has stopped poking in nd->path.mnt;
it does nd_jump_link() on a consistent pair it gets
from ns_get_path().Signed-off-by: Al Viro
