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aec24b0963 Documentation: sysctl: align cells in second content column
commit 1faa34672f upstream.

Stephen Rothwell reported htmldocs warning when merging net-next tree:

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst:37: WARNING: Malformed table.
Text in column margin in table line 4.

========= =================== = ========== ==================
Directory Content               Directory  Content
========= =================== = ========== ==================
802       E802 protocol         mptcp     Multipath TCP
appletalk Appletalk protocol    netfilter Network Filter
ax25      AX25                  netrom     NET/ROM
bridge    Bridging              rose      X.25 PLP layer
core      General parameter     tipc      TIPC
ethernet  Ethernet protocol     unix      Unix domain sockets
ipv4      IP version 4          x25       X.25 protocol
ipv6      IP version 6
========= =================== = ========== ==================

The warning above is caused by cells in second "Content" column of
/proc/sys/net subdirectory table which are in column margin.

Align these cells against the column header to fix the warning.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20220823134905.57ed08d5@canb.auug.org.au/
Fixes: 1202cdd665 ("Remove DECnet support from kernel")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220824035804.204322-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-10-25 11:54:18 +02:00
e1aa3fe3e2 mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%
[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started.  This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 935d44acf6 ("memfd: check for non-NULL file_seals in memfd_create() syscall")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-06-28 10:28:09 +02:00
1c004b379b Remove DECnet support from kernel
commit 1202cdd665 upstream.

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.

It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.

Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.

The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-06-21 15:45:38 +02:00
8c99d4c4c1 panic: Introduce warn_limit
commit 9fc9e278a5 upstream.

Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when
panic_on_warn is not set.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: tangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-5-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-01 08:23:21 +01:00
530cdae5c2 exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
commit de92f65719 upstream.

In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit,
have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter.

Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-01 08:23:20 +01:00
de586785b9 exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops
commit d4ccd54d28 upstream.

Many Linux systems are configured to not panic on oops; but allowing an
attacker to oops the system **really** often can make even bugs that look
completely unexploitable exploitable (like NULL dereferences and such) if
each crash elevates a refcount by one or a lock is taken in read mode, and
this causes a counter to eventually overflow.

The most interesting counters for this are 32 bits wide (like open-coded
refcounts that don't use refcount_t). (The ldsem reader count on 32-bit
platforms is just 16 bits, but probably nobody cares about 32-bit platforms
that much nowadays.)

So let's panic the system if the kernel is constantly oopsing.

The speed of oopsing 2^32 times probably depends on several factors, like
how long the stack trace is and which unwinder you're using; an empirically
important one is whether your console is showing a graphical environment or
a text console that oopses will be printed to.
In a quick single-threaded benchmark, it looks like oopsing in a vfork()
child with a very short stack trace only takes ~510 microseconds per run
when a graphical console is active; but switching to a text console that
oopses are printed to slows it down around 87x, to ~45 milliseconds per
run.
(Adding more threads makes this faster, but the actual oops printing
happens under &die_lock on x86, so you can maybe speed this up by a factor
of around 2 and then any further improvement gets eaten up by lock
contention.)

It looks like it would take around 8-12 days to overflow a 32-bit counter
with repeated oopsing on a multi-core X86 system running a graphical
environment; both me (in an X86 VM) and Seth (with a distro kernel on
normal hardware in a standard configuration) got numbers in that ballpark.

12 days aren't *that* short on a desktop system, and you'd likely need much
longer on a typical server system (assuming that people don't run graphical
desktop environments on their servers), and this is a *very* noisy and
violent approach to exploiting the kernel; and it also seems to take orders
of magnitude longer on some machines, probably because stuff like EFI
pstore will slow it down a ton if that's active.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107201317.324457-1-jannh@google.com
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-01 08:23:20 +01:00
3850060352 net: Fix data-races around netdev_max_backlog.
[ Upstream commit 5dcd08cd19 ]

While reading netdev_max_backlog, it can be changed concurrently.
Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.

While at it, we remove the unnecessary spaces in the doc.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 17:15:19 +02:00
ec25e386d3 random: fix sysctl documentation nits
commit 069c4ea687 upstream.

A semicolon was missing, and the almost-alphabetical-but-not ordering
was confusing, so regroup these by category instead.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-30 09:33:40 +02:00
17ad693cd2 random: remove ifdef'd out interrupt bench
commit 95e6060c20 upstream.

With tools like kbench9000 giving more finegrained responses, and this
basically never having been used ever since it was initially added,
let's just get rid of this. There *is* still work to be done on the
interrupt handler, but this really isn't the way it's being developed.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-30 09:33:34 +02:00
32d1d7ce3a random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction
commit 489c7fc44b upstream.

Now that POOL_BITS == POOL_MIN_BITS, we must unconditionally wake up
entropy writers after every extraction. Therefore there's no point of
write_wakeup_threshold, so we can move it to the dustbin of unused
compatibility sysctls. While we're at it, we can fix a small comparison
where we were waking up after <= min rather than < min.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-30 09:33:31 +02:00
415edc68b6 docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print
commit a1ff1de00d upstream.

Patch series "Some improvements on panic_print".

This is a mix of a documentation fix with some additions to the
"panic_print" syscall / parameter.  The goal here is being able to collect
all CPUs backtraces during a panic event and also to enable "panic_print"
in a kdump event - details of the reasoning and design choices in the
patches.

This patch (of 3):

Commit de6da1e8bc ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk
message in buffer") added a new bit to the sysctl/kernel parameter
"panic_print", but the documentation was added only in
kernel-parameters.txt, not in the sysctl guide.

Fix it here by adding bit 5 to sysctl admin-guide documentation.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix table format warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220109055635.6999-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Fixes: de6da1e8bc ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk message in buffer")
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-04-08 14:40:44 +02:00
8c15bfb36a bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default
commit 08389d8882 upstream.

Add a kconfig knob which allows for unprivileged bpf to be disabled by default.
If set, the knob sets /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to value of 2.

This still allows a transition of 2 -> {0,1} through an admin. Similarly,
this also still keeps 1 -> {1} behavior intact, so that once set to permanently
disabled, it cannot be undone aside from a reboot.

We've also added extra2 with max of 2 for the procfs handler, so that an admin
still has a chance to toggle between 0 <-> 2.

Either way, as an additional alternative, applications can make use of CAP_BPF
that we added a while ago.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-01-05 12:40:34 +01:00
54683f81c8 mm/vmscan: restore zone_reclaim_mode ABI
commit 519983645a upstream.

I went to go add a new RECLAIM_* mode for the zone_reclaim_mode sysctl.
Like a good kernel developer, I also went to go update the
documentation.  I noticed that the bits in the documentation didn't
match the bits in the #defines.

The VM never explicitly checks the RECLAIM_ZONE bit.  The bit is,
however implicitly checked when checking 'node_reclaim_mode==0'.  The
RECLAIM_ZONE #define was removed in a cleanup.  That, by itself is fine.

But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also got
changed.  That's not OK because the bit values are documented to mean
one specific thing.  Users surely do not expect the meaning to change
from kernel to kernel.

The end result is that if someone had a script that did:

	sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1

it would have gone from enabling node reclaim for clean unmapped pages
to writing out pages during node reclaim after the commit in question.
That's not great.

Put the bits back the way they were and add a comment so something like
this is a bit harder to do again.  Update the documentation to make it
clear that the first bit is ignored.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219172555.FF0CDF23@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 648b5cf368 ("mm/vmscan: remove unused RECLAIM_OFF/RECLAIM_ZONE")
Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-04 11:38:38 +01:00
2644ccef6f docs: admin-guide: net.rst: add a missing blank line
There's a missing blank line after a literal block, which
causes this warning:

	Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst:303: WARNING: Literal block ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b2545be4a4c71269d10278b5990c3e06c4b65f84.1603791716.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-10-28 11:26:10 -06:00
c80e42a496 Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
  docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes
  docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags
  Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst
  Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst.
  docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry
  docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details
  docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes
  docs/cpu-load: format the example code.
2020-10-23 17:13:53 -07:00
62af696471 docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
Both seem overlooked while adding the section in the main content.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famzheng@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201022065403.3936070-1-fam@euphon.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-10-22 16:11:46 -06:00
9ff9b0d392 Merge tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:

 - Add redirect_neigh() BPF packet redirect helper, allowing to limit
   stack traversal in common container configs and improving TCP
   back-pressure.

   Daniel reports ~10Gbps => ~15Gbps single stream TCP performance gain.

 - Expand netlink policy support and improve policy export to user
   space. (Ge)netlink core performs request validation according to
   declared policies. Expand the expressiveness of those policies
   (min/max length and bitmasks). Allow dumping policies for particular
   commands. This is used for feature discovery by user space (instead
   of kernel version parsing or trial and error).

 - Support IGMPv3/MLDv2 multicast listener discovery protocols in
   bridge.

 - Allow more than 255 IPv4 multicast interfaces.

 - Add support for Type of Service (ToS) reflection in SYN/SYN-ACK
   packets of TCPv6.

 - In Multi-patch TCP (MPTCP) support concurrent transmission of data on
   multiple subflows in a load balancing scenario. Enhance advertising
   addresses via the RM_ADDR/ADD_ADDR options.

 - Support SMC-Dv2 version of SMC, which enables multi-subnet
   deployments.

 - Allow more calls to same peer in RxRPC.

 - Support two new Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols - CAN-FD and
   ISO 15765-2:2016.

 - Add xfrm/IPsec compat layer, solving the 32bit user space on 64bit
   kernel problem.

 - Add TC actions for implementing MPLS L2 VPNs.

 - Improve nexthop code - e.g. handle various corner cases when nexthop
   objects are removed from groups better, skip unnecessary
   notifications and make it easier to offload nexthops into HW by
   converting to a blocking notifier.

 - Support adding and consuming TCP header options by BPF programs,
   opening the doors for easy experimental and deployment-specific TCP
   option use.

 - Reorganize TCP congestion control (CC) initialization to simplify
   life of TCP CC implemented in BPF.

 - Add support for shipping BPF programs with the kernel and loading
   them early on boot via the User Mode Driver mechanism, hence reusing
   all the user space infra we have.

 - Support sleepable BPF programs, initially targeting LSM and tracing.

 - Add bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct
   path'.

 - Make bpf_tail_call compatible with bpf-to-bpf calls.

 - Allow BPF programs to call map_update_elem on sockmaps.

 - Add BPF Type Format (BTF) support for type and enum discovery, as
   well as support for using BTF within the kernel itself (current use
   is for pretty printing structures).

 - Support listing and getting information about bpf_links via the bpf
   syscall.

 - Enhance kernel interfaces around NIC firmware update. Allow
   specifying overwrite mask to control if settings etc. are reset
   during update; report expected max time operation may take to users;
   support firmware activation without machine reboot incl. limits of
   how much impact reset may have (e.g. dropping link or not).

 - Extend ethtool configuration interface to report IEEE-standard
   counters, to limit the need for per-vendor logic in user space.

 - Adopt or extend devlink use for debug, monitoring, fw update in many
   drivers (dsa loop, ice, ionic, sja1105, qed, mlxsw, mv88e6xxx,
   dpaa2-eth).

 - In mlxsw expose critical and emergency SFP module temperature alarms.
   Refactor port buffer handling to make the defaults more suitable and
   support setting these values explicitly via the DCBNL interface.

 - Add XDP support for Intel's igb driver.

 - Support offloading TC flower classification and filtering rules to
   mscc_ocelot switches.

 - Add PTP support for Marvell Octeontx2 and PP2.2 hardware, as well as
   fixed interval period pulse generator and one-step timestamping in
   dpaa-eth.

 - Add support for various auth offloads in WiFi APs, e.g. SAE (WPA3)
   offload.

 - Add Lynx PHY/PCS MDIO module, and convert various drivers which have
   this HW to use it. Convert mvpp2 to split PCS.

 - Support Marvell Prestera 98DX3255 24-port switch ASICs, as well as
   7-port Mediatek MT7531 IP.

 - Add initial support for QCA6390 and IPQ6018 in ath11k WiFi driver,
   and wcn3680 support in wcn36xx.

 - Improve performance for packets which don't require much offloads on
   recent Mellanox NICs by 20% by making multiple packets share a
   descriptor entry.

 - Move chelsio inline crypto drivers (for TLS and IPsec) from the
   crypto subtree to drivers/net. Move MDIO drivers out of the phy
   directory.

 - Clean up a lot of W=1 warnings, reportedly the actively developed
   subsections of networking drivers should now build W=1 warning free.

 - Make sure drivers don't use in_interrupt() to dynamically adapt their
   code. Convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup API (sadly this
   conversion is not yet complete).

* tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2583 commits)
  Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH"
  net, sockmap: Don't call bpf_prog_put() on NULL pointer
  bpf, selftest: Fix flaky tcp_hdr_options test when adding addr to lo
  bpf, sockmap: Add locking annotations to iterator
  netfilter: nftables: allow re-computing sctp CRC-32C in 'payload' statements
  net: fix pos incrementment in ipv6_route_seq_next
  net/smc: fix invalid return code in smcd_new_buf_create()
  net/smc: fix valid DMBE buffer sizes
  net/smc: fix use-after-free of delayed events
  bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH
  cxgb4/ch_ipsec: Replace the module name to ch_ipsec from chcr
  net: sched: Fix suspicious RCU usage while accessing tcf_tunnel_info
  bpf: Fix register equivalence tracking.
  rxrpc: Fix loss of final ack on shutdown
  rxrpc: Fix bundle counting for exclusive connections
  netfilter: restore NF_INET_NUMHOOKS
  ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
  ibmveth: Switch order of ibmveth_helper calls.
  cxgb4: handle 4-tuple PEDIT to NAT mode translation
  selftests: Add VRF route leaking tests
  ...
2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
1013d4d910 docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:

  * the list of files is now the table of contents;
  * links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
  * all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
    them;
  * document vsyscall32.

Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200917072123.8847-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 11:01:44 -06:00
9f35cf8bd7 docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:

  * the list of files is now the table of contents;
  * links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
  * all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
    them;
  * document vsyscall32.

Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911190152.29730-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-16 12:38:31 -06:00
316cdaa115 net: add option to not create fall-back tunnels in root-ns as well
The sysctl that was added  earlier by commit 79134e6ce2 ("net: do
not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces") to create
fall-back only in root-ns. This patch enhances that behavior to provide
option not to create fallback tunnels in root-ns as well. Since modules
that create fallback tunnels could be built-in and setting the sysctl
value after booting is pointless, so added a kernel cmdline options to
change this default. The default setting is preseved for backward
compatibility. The kernel command line option of fb_tunnels=initns will
set the sysctl value to 1 and will create fallback tunnels only in initns
while kernel cmdline fb_tunnels=none will set the sysctl value to 2 and
fallback tunnels are skipped in every netns.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Jian Yang <jianyang@google.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-08-28 06:52:44 -07:00
f38c85f1ba coredump: add %f for executable filename
The document reads "%e" should be "executable filename" while actually it
could be changed by things like pr_ctl PR_SET_NAME.  People who uses "%e"
in core_pattern get surprised when they find out they get thread name
instead of executable filename.

This is either a bug of document or a bug of code.  Since the behavior of
"%e" is there for long time, it could bring another surprise for users if
we "fix" the code.

So we just "fix" the document.  And more, for users who really need the
"executable filename" in core_pattern, we introduce a new "%f" for the
real executable filename.  We already have "%E" for executable path in
kernel, so just reuse most of its code for the new added "%f" format.

Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200701031432.2978761-1-ytht.net@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-12 10:58:01 -07:00
facdaa917c mm: proactive compaction
For some applications, we need to allocate almost all memory as hugepages.
However, on a running system, higher-order allocations can fail if the
memory is fragmented.  Linux kernel currently does on-demand compaction as
we request more hugepages, but this style of compaction incurs very high
latency.  Experiments with one-time full memory compaction (followed by
hugepage allocations) show that kernel is able to restore a highly
fragmented memory state to a fairly compacted memory state within <1 sec
for a 32G system.  Such data suggests that a more proactive compaction can
help us allocate a large fraction of memory as hugepages keeping
allocation latencies low.

For a more proactive compaction, the approach taken here is to define a
new sysctl called 'vm.compaction_proactiveness' which dictates bounds for
external fragmentation which kcompactd tries to maintain.

The tunable takes a value in range [0, 100], with a default of 20.

Note that a previous version of this patch [1] was found to introduce too
many tunables (per-order extfrag{low, high}), but this one reduces them to
just one sysctl.  Also, the new tunable is an opaque value instead of
asking for specific bounds of "external fragmentation", which would have
been difficult to estimate.  The internal interpretation of this opaque
value allows for future fine-tuning.

Currently, we use a simple translation from this tunable to [low, high]
"fragmentation score" thresholds (low=100-proactiveness, high=low+10%).
The score for a node is defined as weighted mean of per-zone external
fragmentation.  A zone's present_pages determines its weight.

To periodically check per-node score, we reuse per-node kcompactd threads,
which are woken up every 500 milliseconds to check the same.  If a node's
score exceeds its high threshold (as derived from user-provided
proactiveness value), proactive compaction is started until its score
reaches its low threshold value.  By default, proactiveness is set to 20,
which implies threshold values of low=80 and high=90.

This patch is largely based on ideas from Michal Hocko [2].  See also the
LWN article [3].

Performance data
================

System: x64_64, 1T RAM, 80 CPU threads.
Kernel: 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch

echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag

Before starting the driver, the system was fragmented from a userspace
program that allocates all memory and then for each 2M aligned section,
frees 3/4 of base pages using munmap.  The workload is mainly anonymous
userspace pages, which are easy to move around.  I intentionally avoided
unmovable pages in this test to see how much latency we incur when
hugepage allocations hit direct compaction.

1. Kernel hugepage allocation latencies

With the system in such a fragmented state, a kernel driver then allocates
as many hugepages as possible and measures allocation latency:

(all latency values are in microseconds)

- With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3

  percentile latency
  –––––––––– –––––––
	   5    7894
	  10    9496
	  25   12561
	  30   15295
	  40   18244
	  50   21229
	  60   27556
	  75   30147
	  80   31047
	  90   32859
	  95   33799

Total 2M hugepages allocated = 383859 (749G worth of hugepages out of 762G
total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages)

- With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20

sysctl -w vm.compaction_proactiveness=20

  percentile latency
  –––––––––– –––––––
	   5       2
	  10       2
	  25       3
	  30       3
	  40       3
	  50       4
	  60       4
	  75       4
	  80       4
	  90       5
	  95     429

Total 2M hugepages allocated = 384105 (750G worth of hugepages out of 762G
total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages)

2. JAVA heap allocation

In this test, we first fragment memory using the same method as for (1).

Then, we start a Java process with a heap size set to 700G and request the
heap to be allocated with THP hugepages.  We also set THP to madvise to
allow hugepage backing of this heap.

/usr/bin/time
 java -Xms700G -Xmx700G -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch

The above command allocates 700G of Java heap using hugepages.

- With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3

17.39user 1666.48system 27:37.89elapsed

- With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20

8.35user 194.58system 3:19.62elapsed

Elapsed time remains around 3:15, as proactiveness is further increased.

Note that proactive compaction happens throughout the runtime of these
workloads.  The situation of one-time compaction, sufficient to supply
hugepages for following allocation stream, can probably happen for more
extreme proactiveness values, like 80 or 90.

In the above Java workload, proactiveness is set to 20.  The test starts
with a node's score of 80 or higher, depending on the delay between the
fragmentation step and starting the benchmark, which gives more-or-less
time for the initial round of compaction.  As t he benchmark consumes
hugepages, node's score quickly rises above the high threshold (90) and
proactive compaction starts again, which brings down the score to the low
threshold level (80).  Repeat.

bpftrace also confirms proactive compaction running 20+ times during the
runtime of this Java benchmark.  kcompactd threads consume 100% of one of
the CPUs while it tries to bring a node's score within thresholds.

Backoff behavior
================

Above workloads produce a memory state which is easy to compact.  However,
if memory is filled with unmovable pages, proactive compaction should
essentially back off.  To test this aspect:

- Created a kernel driver that allocates almost all memory as hugepages
  followed by freeing first 3/4 of each hugepage.
- Set proactiveness=40
- Note that proactive_compact_node() is deferred maximum number of times
  with HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC of wait between each check
  (=> ~30 seconds between retries).

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11098289/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20161230131412.GI13301@dhcp22.suse.cz/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/817905/

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@nitingupta.dev>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616204527.19185-1-nigupta@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-12 10:57:56 -07:00
2324d50d05 Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
1f73d1abe5 Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
Uclamp exposes 3 sysctl knobs:

	* sched_util_clamp_min
	* sched_util_clamp_max
	* sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default

Document them in sysctl/kernel.rst.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-3-qais.yousef@arm.com
2020-07-29 13:51:48 +02:00
6b2484e13a Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/admin-guide
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
          If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
          return 200 OK and serve the same content:
            Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627072935.62652-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:13:00 -06:00
ee74db082a Documentation/admin-guide: sysctl/kernel: drop doubled word
Drop the doubled word "set".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200704032020.21923-12-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:01:49 -06:00
435a774346 Merge branch 'mauro' into docs-next
A big set of fixes and RST conversions from Mauro.  He swears that this is
the last RST conversion set, which is certainly cause for celebration.
2020-06-26 11:35:10 -06:00
800c02f5d0 docs: move nommu-mmap.txt to admin-guide and rename to ReST
The nommu-mmap.txt file provides description of user visible
behaviuour. So, move it to the admin-guide.

As it is already at the ReST, also rename it.

Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3a63d1833b513700755c85bf3bda0a6c4ab56986.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-26 11:33:35 -06:00
0b227076d5 docs: sysctl/kernel: document random
This documents the random directory, based on the behaviour seen in
drivers/char/random.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200623112514.10650-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-26 11:25:14 -06:00
e996919b72 Documentation: fix sysctl/kernel.rst heading format warnings
Fix heading format warnings in admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:339: WARNING: Title underline too short.
hung_task_all_cpu_backtrace:
================

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:650: WARNING: Title underline too short.
oops_all_cpu_backtrace:
================

Fixes: 0ec9dc9bcb ("kernel/hung_task.c: introduce sysctl to print all traces when a hung task is detected")
Fixes: 60c958d8df ("panic: add sysctl to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops event")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8af1cb77-4b5a-64b9-da5d-f6a95e537f99@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-19 13:24:57 -06:00
60c958d8df panic: add sysctl to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops event
Usually when the kernel reaches an oops condition, it's a point of no
return; in case not enough debug information is available in the kernel
splat, one of the last resorts would be to collect a kernel crash dump
and analyze it.  The problem with this approach is that in order to
collect the dump, a panic is required (to kexec-load the crash kernel).
When in an environment of multiple virtual machines, users may prefer to
try living with the oops, at least until being able to properly shutdown
their VMs / finish their important tasks.

This patch implements a way to collect a bit more debug details when an
oops event is reached, by printing all the CPUs backtraces through the
usage of NMIs (on architectures that support that).  The sysctl added
(and documented) here was called "oops_all_cpu_backtrace", and when set
will (as the name suggests) dump all CPUs backtraces.

Far from ideal, this may be the last option though for users that for
some reason cannot panic on oops.  Most of times oopses are clear enough
to indicate the kernel portion that must be investigated, but in virtual
environments it's possible to observe hypervisor/KVM issues that could
lead to oopses shown in other guests CPUs (like virtual APIC crashes).
This patch hence aims to help debug such complex issues without
resorting to kdump.

Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327224116.21030-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
0ec9dc9bcb kernel/hung_task.c: introduce sysctl to print all traces when a hung task is detected
Commit 401c636a0e ("kernel/hung_task.c: show all hung tasks before
panic") introduced a change in that we started to show all CPUs
backtraces when a hung task is detected _and_ the sysctl/kernel
parameter "hung_task_panic" is set.  The idea is good, because usually
when observing deadlocks (that may lead to hung tasks), the culprit is
another task holding a lock and not necessarily the task detected as
hung.

The problem with this approach is that dumping backtraces is a slightly
expensive task, specially printing that on console (and specially in
many CPU machines, as servers commonly found nowadays).  So, users that
plan to collect a kdump to investigate the hung tasks and narrow down
the deadlock definitely don't need the CPUs backtrace on dmesg/console,
which will delay the panic and pollute the log (crash tool would easily
grab all CPUs traces with 'bt -a' command).

Also, there's the reciprocal scenario: some users may be interested in
seeing the CPUs backtraces but not have the system panic when a hung
task is detected.  The current approach hence is almost as embedding a
policy in the kernel, by forcing the CPUs backtraces' dump (only) on
hung_task_panic.

This patch decouples the panic event on hung task from the CPUs
backtraces dump, by creating (and documenting) a new sysctl called
"hung_task_all_cpu_backtrace", analog to the approach taken on soft/hard
lockups, that have both a panic and an "all_cpu_backtrace" sysctl to
allow individual control.  The new mechanism for dumping the CPUs
backtraces on hung task detection respects "hung_task_warnings" by not
dumping the traces in case there's no warnings left.

Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327223646.20779-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
db38d5c106 kernel: add panic_on_taint
Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch introduces
a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to provide a simple and
generic way to stop execution and catch a coredump when the kernel gets
tainted by any given flag.

This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids having to rebuild the
kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() into the code sites that
introduce the taint flags of interest.

For instance, if one is interested in proceeding with a post-mortem
analysis at the point a given code path is hitting a bad page (i.e.
unaccount_page_cache_page(), or slab_bug()), a coredump can be collected
by rebooting the kernel with 'panic_on_taint=0x20' amended to the
command line.

Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be as a means
for assuring a security policy case where only a subset of taints, or no
single taint (in paranoid mode), is allowed for the running system.  The
optional switch 'nousertaint' is handy in this particular scenario, as
it will avoid userspace induced crashes by writes to sysctl interface
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted causing false positive hits for such policies.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt wording]

Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515175502.146720-1-aquini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
ee01c4d72a Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "More mm/ work, plenty more to come

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: slub, memcg, gup, kasan,
  pagealloc, hugetlb, vmscan, tools, mempolicy, memblock, hugetlbfs,
  thp, mmap, kconfig"

* akpm: (131 commits)
  arm64: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  x86: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  riscv: support DEBUG_WX
  mm: add DEBUG_WX support
  drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate lookup
  mm/thp: rename pmd_mknotpresent() as pmd_mkinvalid()
  powerpc/mm: drop platform defined pmd_mknotpresent()
  mm: thp: don't need to drain lru cache when splitting and mlocking THP
  hugetlbfs: get unmapped area below TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE for hugetlbfs
  sparc32: register memory occupied by kernel as memblock.memory
  include/linux/memblock.h: fix minor typo and unclear comment
  mm, mempolicy: fix up gup usage in lookup_node
  tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
  mm: swap: memcg: fix memcg stats for huge pages
  mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge pages
  mm: vmscan: limit the range of LRU type balancing
  mm: vmscan: reclaim writepage is IO cost
  mm: vmscan: determine anon/file pressure balance at the reclaim root
  mm: balance LRU lists based on relative thrashing
  mm: only count actual rotations as LRU reclaim cost
  ...
2020-06-03 20:24:15 -07:00
c843966c55 mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset
With the advent of fast random IO devices (SSDs, PMEM) and in-memory swap
devices such as zswap, it's possible for swap to be much faster than
filesystems, and for swapping to be preferable over thrashing filesystem
caches.

Allow setting swappiness - which defines the rough relative IO cost of
cache misses between page cache and swap-backed pages - to reflect such
situations by making the swap-preferred range configurable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
cb8e59cc87 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
    Augusto von Dentz.

 2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.

 3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.

 4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
    device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.

 5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
    defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.

 6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.

 7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.

 9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
    Horatiu Vultur.

10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.

12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
    Carvalho Chehab.

13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
    from Doug Berger.

14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
    Dmitry Yakunin.

15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
    userspace, from Johannes Berg.

16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
    a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.

19) Correct the return type of the ->ndo_start_xmit() method in several
    drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
    'int'. From Yunjian Wang.

20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
    Rempel.

21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.

22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
    Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
    facility.

23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.

24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
    Dangaard Brouer.

25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.

27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.

29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.

30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
    eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
  selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
  net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
  vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
  hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
  selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
  tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
  bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
  s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
  s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
  selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
  selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
  bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
  bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
  bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
  sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
  crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
  ...
2020-06-03 16:27:18 -07:00
b23c4771ff Merge tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
  massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
  *really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
  those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
  around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
  will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.

  Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
  scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
  of fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
  Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
  zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
  tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
  docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
  docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
  Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
  mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
  docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
  Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
  docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
  nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
  Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
  Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
  Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
  docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
  docs: move digsig docs to the security book
  docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
  docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
  docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
  docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
  ...
2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
997c798e14 docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
This documents ignore-unaligned-usertrap, unaligned-dump-stack, and
unaligned-trap, based on arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c,
arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c, and arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c.

While we're at it, integrate unaligned-memory-access.txt into the docs
tree.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515212443.5012-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
17444d9b0b docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
This is a read-only export of NGROUPS_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200518145836.15816-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-25 18:59:58 -06:00
fdb1b5e089 Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
This reverts commit 2f4c33063a.

The changes here were fine, but there's a non-documentation change to
sysctl.c that makes messes elsewhere; those changes should have been done
independently.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-18 06:19:25 -06:00
9efd6a3cec netns: enable to inherit devconf from current netns
The goal is to be able to inherit the initial devconf parameters from the
current netns, ie the netns where this new netns has been created.

This is useful in a containers environment where /proc/sys is read only.
For example, if a pod is created with specifics devconf parameters and has
the capability to create netns, the user expects to get the same parameters
than his 'init_net', which is not the real init_net in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-05-16 13:46:37 -07:00
2f4c33063a docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
This is a read-only export of NGROUPS_MAX, so this patch also changes
the declarations in kernel/sysctl.c to const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515160222.7994-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-15 11:24:25 -06:00
d75829c182 docs: sysctl/kernel: document firmware_config
Based on the firmware fallback mechanisms documentation and the
implementation in drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429205757.8677-2-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-05 09:53:45 -06:00
50cdae76b8 docs: sysctl/kernel: document ftrace entries
Based on the ftrace documentation, the tp_printk boot parameter
documentation, and the implementation in kernel/trace/trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429205757.8677-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-05 09:53:45 -06:00
01478b8331 docs: filesystems: convert devpts.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ac8f3a7edd4d817acf0d173ead7ef74fe010c6c.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-05-05 09:22:21 -06:00
82a07bf33d docs: networking: convert ipvs-sysctl.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- mark lists as such;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-28 14:40:18 -07:00
1cec2cacaa docs: networking: convert ip-sysctl.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark lists as such;
- mark tables as such;
- use footnote markup;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-28 14:40:18 -07:00
6bc47621cb docs: sysctl/kernel: document cad_pid
Based on the implementation in kernel/sysctl.c (the proc_do_cad_pid()
function), kernel/reboot.c, and include/linux/sched/signal.h.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200423183651.15365-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-28 12:39:33 -06:00
87cfeb1920 Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.8-20200420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core fixes and improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

kernel + tools/perf:

  Alexey Budankov:

  - Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space.

callchains:

  Adrian Hunter:

  - Allow using Intel PT to synthesize callchains for regular events.

  Kan Liang:

  - Stitch LBR records from multiple samples to get deeper backtraces,
    there are caveats, see the csets for details.

perf script:

  Andreas Gerstmayr:

  - Add flamegraph.py script

BPF:

  Jiri Olsa:

  - Synthesize bpf_trampoline/dispatcher ksymbol events.

perf stat:

  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  - Honour --timeout for forked workloads.

  Stephane Eranian:

  - Force error in fallback on :k events, to avoid counting nothing when
    the user asks for kernel events but is not allowed to.

perf bench:

  Ian Rogers:

  - Add event synthesis benchmark.

tools api fs:

  Stephane Eranian:

 - Make xxx__mountpoint() more scalable

libtraceevent:

  He Zhe:

  - Handle return value of asprintf.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-04-22 14:08:28 +02:00
5d8e5aee0e docs: sysctl/kernel: document BPF entries
Based on the implementation in kernel/bpf/syscall.c,
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c, include/linux/filter.h, and the documentation
in bpftool-prog.rst.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200315122648.20558-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-20 16:59:23 -06:00