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For 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel, this requires modifying
stub32_clone to actually swap the appropriate arguments to match
CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS, rather than just leaving the C argument for tls
broken.
Patch co-authored by Josh Triplett and Thiago Macieira.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject says it all. Other architectures may enable on a case-by-case
basis after auditing early_pfn_to_nid and testing.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4 drivers / enabling modules:
NFIT:
Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory devices
(NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware Interface
table). After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers
"region" devices. A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
boundaries of persistent memory media. A region may span multiple
NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller. In
turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block device
(disk) interface to the memory.
PMEM:
Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of persistent
memory address ranges is re-worked to drive PMEM-namespaces emitted by
the libnvdimm-core. In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the
ability to assert that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all
the way through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent
media. See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().
BLK:
This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through "Block
Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT. The primary difference of this
driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent memory is
mapped into system address space at any given point in time. Per-NVDIMM
windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access different
portions of the media. BLK-mode, by definition, does not support DAX.
BTT:
This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss). The
sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do not know
they have a atomic sector dependency. At least today's disk's rarely
ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly gets a CRC error
on access. NVDIMMs will always tear and always silently. Until an
application is audited to be robust in the presence of sector-tearing
the usage of BTT is recommended.
Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
Wysocki, and Bob Moore.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
"The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:
NFIT:
Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
Interface table).
After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
devices. A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
boundaries of persistent memory media. A region may span multiple
NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller. In
turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
device (disk) interface to the memory.
PMEM:
Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.
In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().
BLK:
This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
"Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT. The primary difference
of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
time.
Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
different portions of the media. BLK-mode, by definition, does not
support DAX.
BTT:
This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).
The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
not know they have a atomic sector dependency. At least today's
disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
gets a CRC error on access. NVDIMMs will always tear and always
silently. Until an application is audited to be robust in the
presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.
Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
Wysocki, and Bob Moore"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
libnvdimm: enable iostat
pmem: make_request cleanups
libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
nd_btt: atomic sector updates
libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
libnvdimm: write blk label set
libnvdimm: write pmem label set
libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
...
Here's the big char/misc driver pull request for 4.2-rc1.
Lots of mei, extcon, coresight, uio, mic, and other driver updates in
here. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in
linux-next for some time with no reported problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big char/misc driver pull request for 4.2-rc1.
Lots of mei, extcon, coresight, uio, mic, and other driver updates in
here. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in
linux-next for some time with no reported problems"
* tag 'char-misc-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (176 commits)
mei: me: wait for power gating exit confirmation
mei: reset flow control on the last client disconnection
MAINTAINERS: mei: add mei_cl_bus.h to maintained file list
misc: sram: sort and clean up included headers
misc: sram: move reserved block logic out of probe function
misc: sram: add private struct device and virt_base members
misc: sram: report correct SRAM pool size
misc: sram: bump error message level on unclean driver unbinding
misc: sram: fix device node reference leak on error
misc: sram: fix enabled clock leak on error path
misc: mic: Fix reported static checker warning
misc: mic: Fix randconfig build error by including errno.h
uio: pruss: Drop depends on ARCH_DAVINCI_DA850 from config
uio: pruss: Add CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM dependence
uio: pruss: Include <linux/sizes.h>
extcon: Redefine the unique id of supported external connectors without 'enum extcon' type
char:xilinx_hwicap:buffer_icap - change 1/0 to true/false for bool type variable in function buffer_icap_set_configuration().
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Allocate ring buffer memory in NUMA aware fashion
parport: check exclusive access before register
w1: use correct lock on error in w1_seq_show()
...
Based on an original patch by Ross Zwisler [1].
Writes to persistent memory have the potential to be posted to cpu
cache, cpu write buffers, and platform write buffers (memory controller)
before being committed to persistent media. Provide apis,
memcpy_to_pmem(), wmb_pmem(), and memremap_pmem(), to write data to
pmem and assert that it is durable in PMEM (a persistent linear address
range). A '__pmem' attribute is added so sparse can track proper usage
of pointers to pmem.
This continues the status quo of pmem being x86 only for 4.2, but
reworks to ioremap, and wider implementation of memremap() will enable
other archs in 4.3.
[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-May/000932.html
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
[djbw: various reworks]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* New APM X-Gene SoC EDAC driver (Loc Ho)
* AMD error injection module improvements (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)
* Altera Arria 10 support (Thor Thayer)
* misc fixes and cleanups all over the place
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Merge tag 'edac_for_4.2_2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp
Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:
- New APM X-Gene SoC EDAC driver (Loc Ho)
- AMD error injection module improvements (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)
- Altera Arria 10 support (Thor Thayer)
- misc fixes and cleanups all over the place
* tag 'edac_for_4.2_2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp: (28 commits)
EDAC: Update Documentation/edac.txt
EDAC: Fix typos in Documentation/edac.txt
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Set MISCV on injection
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Move bit preparations before the injection
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Cleanup and simplify README
EDAC, altera: Do not allow suspend when EDAC is enabled
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Make inj_type static
arm: socfpga: dts: Add Arria10 SDRAM EDAC DTS support
EDAC, altera: Add Arria10 EDAC support
EDAC, altera: Refactor for Altera CycloneV SoC
EDAC, altera: Generalize driver to use DT Memory size
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Add README file
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Add individual permissions field to dfs_node
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Modify flags attribute to use string arguments
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Read out number of MCE banks from the hardware
EDAC, mce_amd_inj: Use MCE_INJECT_GET macro for bank node too
EDAC, xgene: Fix cpuid abuse
EDAC, mpc85xx: Extend error address to 64 bit
EDAC, mpc8xxx: Adapt for FSL SoC
EDAC, edac_stub: Drop arch-specific include
...
nd_pmem attaches to persistent memory regions and namespaces emitted by
the libnvdimm subsystem, and, same as the original pmem driver, presents
the system-physical-address range as a block device.
The existing e820-type-12 to pmem setup is converted to an nvdimm_bus
that emits an nd_namespace_io device.
Note that the X in 'pmemX' is now derived from the parent region. This
provides some stability to the pmem devices names from boot-to-boot.
The minor numbers are also more predictable by passing 0 to
alloc_disk().
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
In talking to Aravind recently about making certain AMD topology
attributes available to the MCE injection module, it seemed like
that CONFIG_X86_HT thing is more or less superfluous. It is
def_bool y, depends on SMP and gets enabled in the majority of
.configs - distro and otherwise - out there.
So let's kill it and make code behind it depend directly on SMP.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walter <dwalter@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Peter Zijstra noticed that in arch/x86/Kconfig there are a lot
of X86_{32,64} clauses in the X86 symbol, plus there are a number
of similar selects in the X86_32 and X86_64 config definitions
as well - which all overlap in an inconsistent mess.
So:
- move all select's from X86_32 and X86_64 to the X64 config
option
- sort their names, so that duplications are easier to spot
- align their if clauses, so that they are easier to identify
at a glance - and so that weirdnesses stand out more
No change in functionality:
105 insertions(+)
105 deletions(-)
Originally-from: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150602153027.GU3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So first of all, this atomic_scrub() function's naming is bad. It looks
like an atomic_t helper. Change it to edac_atomic_scrub().
The bigger problem is that this function is arch-specific and every new
arch which doesn't necessarily need that functionality still needs to
define it, otherwise EDAC doesn't compile.
So instead of doing that and including arch-specific headers, have each
arch define an EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB symbol which can be used in edac_mc.c
for ifdeffery. Much cleaner.
And we already are doing this with another symbol - EDAC_SUPPORT. This
is also much cleaner than having CONFIG_EDAC enumerate all the arches
which need/have EDAC support and drivers.
This way I can kill the useless edac.h header in tile too.
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
This patch splits CONFIG_I8K compile option to SENSORS_DELL_SMM and CONFIG_I8K.
Option SENSORS_DELL_SMM is now used to enable compilation of dell-smm-hwmon
driver and old CONFIG_I8K option to enable /proc/i8k interface in driver.
So this change allows to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without legacy /proc/i8k
interface which is needed only for old Dell Inspirion models or for userspace
i8kutils package.
For backward compatibility when CONFIG_I8K is enabled then also SENSORS_DELL_SMM
is enabled and so driver dell-smm-hwmon (with /proc/i8k) is compiled.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To be consistent with the queued spinlocks which use
CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS config parameter, the one for the queued
rwlocks is now renamed to CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431367031-36697-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Valentin Rothberg reported that we use CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c, while the symbol is
called CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCK. (Note the extra 'S')
But the typo was natural: the proper English term for such
a generic object would be 'queued spinlocks' - so rename
this and related symbols accordingly to the plural form.
Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since:
b53b5eda81 ("x86/cpu: Increase max CPU count to 8192")
... the maximum supported NR_CPUS for CPUMASK_OFFSTACK case
is 8192. Let's adjust the description to reflect the change.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431080726-2490-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Default NR_CPUS==8 is not enough to cover high-end desktop
configuration: Haswell-E has upto 16 threads.
Let's increase default NR_CPUS to 64 on 64-bit configuration.
With this value CPU bitmask will still fit into one unsigned long.
Default for 32-bit configuration is still 8: it's unlikely
anybody will run 32-bit kernels on modern hardware.
As an alternative we could bump NR_CPUS to 128 to cover all
dual-processor servers with some margin.
For reference: Debian and Suse build their kernels with
NR_CPUS==512, Fedora -- 1024.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431080745-19792-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We use the regular paravirt call patching to switch between:
native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath() __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath()
native_queued_spin_unlock() __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
We use a callee saved call for the unlock function which reduces the
i-cache footprint and allows 'inlining' of SPIN_UNLOCK functions
again.
We further optimize the unlock path by patching the direct call with a
"movb $0,%arg1" if we are indeed using the native unlock code. This
makes the unlock code almost as fast as the !PARAVIRT case.
This significantly lowers the overhead of having
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS enabled, even for native code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-10-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch makes the necessary changes at the x86 architecture
specific layer to enable the use of queued spinlocks for x86-64. As
x86-32 machines are typically not multi-socket. The benefit of queue
spinlock may not be apparent. So queued spinlocks are not enabled.
Currently, there is some incompatibilities between the para-virtualized
spinlock code (which hard-codes the use of ticket spinlock) and the
queued spinlocks. Therefore, the use of queued spinlocks is disabled
when the para-virtualized spinlock is enabled.
The arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h header file includes some x86
specific optimization which will make the queueds spinlock code
perform better than the generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Recent PCI changes stopped exporting PCI constants if !CONFIG_PCI,
which made the UV build fail:
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c:843:16: error: ‘PCI_VGA_STATE_CHANGE_BRIDGE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c:1023:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_register_set_vga_state’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
As it's unlikely that an UV bootup will get far without PCI
enumeration, make the platform Kconfig switch (CONFIG_X86_UV)
depend on CONFIG_PCI=y.
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are able to use x2APIC mode in the absence of interrupt remapping on
certain hypervisors. So it is fine to disable IRQ_REMAP without having
to give up x2APIC support.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55479709.4030901@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This series introduces preliminary ACPI 5.1 support to the arm64 kernel
using the "hardware reduced" profile. We don't support any peripherals
yet, so it's fairly limited in scope:
- Memory init (UEFI)
- ACPI discovery (RSDP via UEFI)
- CPU init (FADT)
- GIC init (MADT)
- SMP boot (MADT + PSCI)
- ACPI Kconfig options (dependent on EXPERT)
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull initial ACPI support for arm64 from Will Deacon:
"This series introduces preliminary ACPI 5.1 support to the arm64
kernel using the "hardware reduced" profile. We don't support any
peripherals yet, so it's fairly limited in scope:
- MEMORY init (UEFI)
- ACPI discovery (RSDP via UEFI)
- CPU init (FADT)
- GIC init (MADT)
- SMP boot (MADT + PSCI)
- ACPI Kconfig options (dependent on EXPERT)
ACPI for arm64 has been in development for a while now and hardware
has been available that can boot with either FDT or ACPI tables. This
has been made possible by both changes to the ACPI spec to cater for
ARM-based machines (known as "hardware-reduced" in ACPI parlance) but
also a Linaro-driven effort to get this supported on top of the Linux
kernel. This pull request is the result of that work.
These changes allow us to initialise the CPUs, interrupt controller,
and timers via ACPI tables, with memory information and cmdline coming
from EFI. We don't support a hybrid ACPI/FDT scheme. Of course,
there is still plenty of work to do (a serial console would be nice!)
but I expect that to happen on a per-driver basis after this core
series has been merged.
Anyway, the diff stat here is fairly horrible, but splitting this up
and merging it via all the different subsystems would have been
extremely painful. Instead, we've got all the relevant Acks in place
and I've not seen anything other than trivial (Kconfig) conflicts in
-next (for completeness, I've included my resolution below). Nearly
half of the insertions fall under Documentation/.
So, we'll see how this goes. Right now, it all depends on EXPERT and
I fully expect people to use FDT by default for the immediate future"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (31 commits)
ARM64 / ACPI: make acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() as void function
ARM64 / ACPI: Ignore the return error value of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface()
ARM64 / ACPI: fix usage of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface
ARM64: kernel: acpi: honour acpi=force command line parameter
ARM64: kernel: acpi: refactor ACPI tables init and checks
ARM64: kernel: psci: let ACPI probe PSCI version
ARM64: kernel: psci: factor out probe function
ACPI: move arm64 GSI IRQ model to generic GSI IRQ layer
ARM64 / ACPI: Don't unflatten device tree if acpi=force is passed
ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64
Documentation: ACPI for ARM64
ARM64 / ACPI: Enable ARM64 in Kconfig
XEN / ACPI: Make XEN ACPI depend on X86
ARM64 / ACPI: Select ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY if ACPI is enabled on ARM64
clocksource / arch_timer: Parse GTDT to initialize arch timer
irqchip: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support
ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_GIC and register device's gsi
ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU hardware ID via GICC
ACPI / processor: Introduce phys_cpuid_t for CPU hardware ID
ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization
...
There's no user of irq_alloc_hwirqs(), irq_alloc_hwirq(),
irq_free_hwirqs() and irq_free_hwirq() in x86 anymore, so remove
GENERIC_IRQ_LEGACY_ALLOC_HWIRQ and related code.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428978610-28986-8-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Enhance MSI code to support hierarchical irqdomains, it helps to make
the architecture more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428905519-23704-14-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Abstract CPU local APIC as an interrupt controller and create an
irqdomain for it to manage CPU interrupt vectors. It's the base to
enable hierarchical irqdomains on x86 systems.
The final irqdomain hierarchy will look like this:
IOAPIC domain ----|
MSI/MSI-x domain ----> [Interrupt Remapping domain] -> CPU vector domain
HPET_IRQ domain ----| ^
|
DMAR domain ----------------------------------------------|
HT_IRQ domain ----------------------------------------------|
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428905519-23704-3-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull PMEM driver from Ingo Molnar:
"This is the initial support for the pmem block device driver:
persistent non-volatile memory space mapped into the system's physical
memory space as large physical memory regions.
The driver is based on Intel code, written by Ross Zwisler, with fixes
by Boaz Harrosh, integrated with x86 e820 memory resource management
and tidied up by Christoph Hellwig.
Note that there were two other separate pmem driver submissions to
lkml: but apparently all parties (Ross Zwisler, Boaz Harrosh) are
reasonably happy with this initial version.
This version enables minimal support that enables persistent memory
devices out in the wild to work as block devices, identified through a
magic (non-standard) e820 flag and auto-discovered if
CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY=y, or added explicitly through manipulating the
memory maps via the "memmap=..." boot option with the new, special '!'
modifier character.
Limitations: this is a regular block device, and since the pmem areas
are not struct page backed, they are invisible to the rest of the
system (other than the block IO device), so direct IO to/from pmem
areas, direct mmap() or XIP is not possible yet. The page cache will
also shadow and double buffer pmem contents, etc.
Initial support is for x86"
* 'x86-pmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
drivers/block/pmem: Fix 32-bit build warning in pmem_alloc()
drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memory
x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree includes:
- an FPU related crash fix
- a ptrace fix (with matching testcase in tools/testing/selftests/)
- an x86 Kconfig DMA-config defaults tweak to better avoid
non-working drivers"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
config: Enable NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE by default when SWIOTLB is selected
x86/fpu: Load xsave pointer *after* initialization
x86/ptrace: Fix the TIF_FORCED_TF logic in handle_signal()
x86, selftests: Add single_step_syscall test
A huge amount of NIC drivers use the DMA API, however if
compiled under 32-bit an very important part of the DMA API can
be ommitted leading to the drivers not working at all
(especially if used with 'swiotlb=force iommu=soft').
As Prashant Sreedharan explains it: "the driver [tg3] uses
DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_ADDR(), dma_unmap_addr_set() to keep a copy of
the dma "mapping" and dma_unmap_addr() to get the "mapping"
value. On most of the platforms this is a no-op, but ... with
"iommu=soft and swiotlb=force" this house keeping is required,
... otherwise we pass 0 while calling pci_unmap_/pci_dma_sync_
instead of the DMA address."
As such enable this even when using 32-bit kernels.
Reported-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@broadcom.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: sanjeevb@broadcom.com
Cc: siva.kallam@broadcom.com
Cc: vyasevich@gmail.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150417190448.GA9462@l.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Memtest is a simple feature which fills the memory with a given set of
patterns and validates memory contents, if bad memory regions is detected
it reserves them via memblock API. Since memblock API is widely used by
other architectures this feature can be enabled outside of x86 world.
This patch set promotes memtest to live under generic mm umbrella and
enables memtest feature for arm/arm64.
It was reported that this patch set was useful for tracking down an issue
with some errant DMA on an arm64 platform.
This patch (of 6):
There is nothing platform dependent in the core memtest code, so other
platforms might benefit from this feature too.
[linux@roeck-us.net: MEMTEST depends on MEMBLOCK]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes the "offset2lib" weakness in ASLR for arm, arm64, mips,
powerpc, and x86. The problem is that if there is a leak of ASLR from
the executable (ET_DYN), it means a leak of shared library offset as
well (mmap), and vice versa. Further details and a PoC of this attack
is available here:
http://cybersecurity.upv.es/attacks/offset2lib/offset2lib.html
With this patch, a PIE linked executable (ET_DYN) has its own ASLR
region:
$ ./show_mmaps_pie
54859ccd6000-54859ccd7000 r-xp ... /tmp/show_mmaps_pie
54859ced6000-54859ced7000 r--p ... /tmp/show_mmaps_pie
54859ced7000-54859ced8000 rw-p ... /tmp/show_mmaps_pie
7f75be764000-7f75be91f000 r-xp ... /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
7f75be91f000-7f75beb1f000 ---p ... /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
7f75beb1f000-7f75beb23000 r--p ... /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
7f75beb23000-7f75beb25000 rw-p ... /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
7f75beb25000-7f75beb2a000 rw-p ...
7f75beb2a000-7f75beb4d000 r-xp ... /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
7f75bed45000-7f75bed46000 rw-p ...
7f75bed46000-7f75bed47000 r-xp ...
7f75bed47000-7f75bed4c000 rw-p ...
7f75bed4c000-7f75bed4d000 r--p ... /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
7f75bed4d000-7f75bed4e000 rw-p ... /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
7f75bed4e000-7f75bed4f000 rw-p ...
7fffb3741000-7fffb3762000 rw-p ... [stack]
7fffb377b000-7fffb377d000 r--p ... [vvar]
7fffb377d000-7fffb377f000 r-xp ... [vdso]
The change is to add a call the newly created arch_mmap_rnd() into the
ELF loader for handling ET_DYN ASLR in a separate region from mmap ASLR,
as was already done on s390. Removes CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE,
which is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Cc: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Cc: Jan-Simon Mller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When an architecture fully supports randomizing the ELF load location,
a per-arch mmap_rnd() function is used to find a randomized mmap base.
In preparation for randomizing the location of ET_DYN binaries
separately from mmap, this renames and exports these functions as
arch_mmap_rnd(). Additionally introduces CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
for describing this feature on architectures that support it
(which is a superset of ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE, since s390
already supports a separated ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR without the
ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE logic).
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Cc: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Cc: Jan-Simon Mller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement huge KVA mapping interfaces on x86.
On x86, MTRRs can override PAT memory types with a 4KB granularity. When
using a huge page, MTRRs can override the memory type of the huge page,
which may lead a performance penalty. The processor can also behave in an
undefined manner if a huge page is mapped to a memory range that MTRRs
have mapped with multiple different memory types. Therefore, the mapping
code falls back to use a smaller page size toward 4KB when a mapping range
is covered by non-WB type of MTRRs. The WB type of MTRRs has no affect on
the PAT memory types.
pud_set_huge() and pmd_set_huge() call mtrr_type_lookup() to see if a
given range is covered by MTRRs. MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK indicates that the
range is either covered by WB or not covered and the MTRR default value is
set to WB. 0xFF indicates that MTRRs are disabled.
HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP is selected when X86_64 or X86_32 with X86_PAE is set.
X86_32 without X86_PAE is not supported since such config can unlikey be
benefited from this feature, and there was an issue found in testing.
[fengguang.wu@intel.com: ioremap_pud_capable can be static]
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We would want to use number of page table level to define mm_struct.
Let's expose it as CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- reduce the x86/32 PAE per task PGD allocation overhead from 4K to
0.032k (Fenghua Yu)
- early_ioremap/memunmap() usage cleanups (Juergen Gross)
- gbpages support cleanups (Luis R Rodriguez)
- improve AMD Bulldozer (family 0x15) ASLR I$ aliasing workaround to
increase randomization by 3 bits (per bootup) (Hector
Marco-Gisbert)
- misc fixlets"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Improve AMD Bulldozer ASLR workaround
x86/mm/pat: Initialize __cachemode2pte_tbl[] and __pte2cachemode_tbl[] in a bit more readable fashion
init.h: Clean up the __setup()/early_param() macros
x86/mm: Simplify probe_page_size_mask()
x86/mm: Further simplify 1 GB kernel linear mappings handling
x86/mm: Use early_param_on_off() for direct_gbpages
init.h: Add early_param_on_off()
x86/mm: Simplify enabling direct_gbpages
x86/mm: Use IS_ENABLED() for direct_gbpages
x86/mm: Unexport set_memory_ro() and set_memory_rw()
x86/mm, efi: Use early_ioremap() in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
x86/mm: Use early_memunmap() instead of early_iounmap()
x86/mm/pat: Ensure different messages in STRICT_DEVMEM and PAT cases
x86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes
Various recent BIOSes support NVDIMMs or ADR using a
non-standard e820 memory type, and Intel supplied reference
Linux code using this type to various vendors.
Wire this e820 table type up to export platform devices for the
pmem driver so that we can use it in Linux.
Based on earlier work from:
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Includes fixes for NUMA regions from Boaz Harrosh.
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427872339-6688-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
[ Minor cleanups. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
ACPI 5.1 does not currently support S states for ARM64 hardware but
ACPI code will call acpi_target_system_state() and acpi_sleep_init()
for device power management, so introduce
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM_POWER_STATES_SUPPORT and select it for x86 and
ia64 only to make sleep functions available, and also introduce stub
function to allow other drivers to function until S states are defined
for ARM64.
It will be no functional change for x86 and IA64.
Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fix typos and also make it simpler without losing the gist of what it says.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426251877-11415-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'v4.0-rc3' into x86/build, to refresh an older tree before applying new changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The commit 8bbc2a135b ("x86/intel/quark: Add Intel Quark
platform support") introduced a minimal support of Intel Quark
SoC. That allows to use core parts of the SoC. However, the SPI,
I2C, and GPIO drivers can't be selected by kernel configuration
because they depend on COMMON_CLK. The patch adds a COMMON_CLK
selection to the platfrom definition to allow user choose the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ong, Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 8bbc2a135b ("x86/intel/quark: Add Intel Quark platform support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425569044-2867-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It's a bit pointless to allow Kconfig configuration for 1GB kernel
mappings, it's already hidden behind a 'default y' and CONFIG_EXPERT.
Remove this complication and simplify the code by renaming
CONFIG_ENABLE_DIRECT_GBPAGES to CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES and
document the DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC and KMEMCHECK quirks.
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: JBeulich@suse.com
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
direct_gbpages can be force enabled as an early parameter
but not really have taken effect when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
or KMEMCHECK is enabled. You can also enable direct_gbpages
right now if you have an x86_64 architecture but your CPU
doesn't really have support for this feature. In both cases
PG_LEVEL_1G won't actually be enabled but direct_gbpages is used
in other areas under the assumptions that PG_LEVEL_1G
was set. Fix this by putting together all requirements
which make this feature sensible to enable under, and only
enable both finally flipping on PG_LEVEL_1G and leaving
PG_LEVEL_1G set when this is true.
We only enable this feature then to be possible on sensible
builds defined by the new ENABLE_DIRECT_GBPAGES. If the
CPU has support for it you can either enable this by using
the DIRECT_GBPAGES option or using the early kernel parameter.
If a platform had support for this you can always force disable
it as well.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: JBeulich@suse.com
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425518654-3403-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull Intel Quark SoC support from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds support for Intel Quark X1000 SoC boards, used in the low
power 32-bit x86 Intel Galileo microcontroller board intended for the
Arduino space.
There's been some preparatory core x86 patches for Quark CPU quirks
merged already, but this rounds it all up and adds Kconfig enablement.
It's a clean hardware enablement addition tree at this point"
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/intel/quark: Fix simple_return.cocci warnings
x86/intel/quark: Fix ptr_ret.cocci warnings
x86/intel/quark: Add Intel Quark platform support
x86/intel/quark: Add Isolated Memory Regions for Quark X1000
Add Intel Quark platform support. Quark needs to pull down all
unlocked IMRs to ensure agreement with the EFI memory map post
boot.
This patch adds an entry in Kconfig for Quark as a platform and
makes IMR support mandatory if selected.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ong, Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.schevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ong, Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@intel.com>
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422635379-12476-3-git-send-email-pure.logic@nexus-software.ie
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We don't really need a helper symbol for that. For one, it's
pointlessly getting set to Y for all configurations (even 64-bit
ones). And then the purpose can be fulfilled by suitably
adjusting X86_UP_APIC: Hide its prompt when PCI_MSI, and default
it to PCI_MSI.
Tested-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54D39AFC020000780005D684@mail.emea.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since dependencies are transitive, we don't really need to
repeat those of X86_UP_IOAPIC.
Furthermore avoid the symbol getting entered into .config when
it is off by having the default simply Y and the dependencies
solely handled via the intended for that purpose "depends on".
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54D39BC9020000780005D688@mail.emea.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Settings without prompts shouldn't normally have defaults other
than Y, as otherwise they (a) needlessly enlarge the resulting
.config and (b) if they ever get a prompt added later, the
tracked setting of off will prevent the devloper from then being
prompted for his/her choice when doing an incremental update of
the configuration (make oldconfig).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54D39CC6020000780005D6AE@mail.emea.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer.
16TB of virtual addressed used for shadow memory. It's located in range
[ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000] between vmemmap and %esp fixup
stacks.
At early stage we map whole shadow region with zero page. Latter, after
pages mapped to direct mapping address range we unmap zero pages from
corresponding shadow (see kasan_map_shadow()) and allocate and map a real
shadow memory reusing vmemmap_populate() function.
Also replace __pa with __pa_nodebug before shadow initialized. __pa with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y make external function call (__phys_addr)
__phys_addr is instrumented, so __asan_load could be called before shadow
area initialized.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull live patching infrastructure from Jiri Kosina:
"Let me provide a bit of history first, before describing what is in
this pile.
Originally, there was kSplice as a standalone project that implemented
stop_machine()-based patching for the linux kernel. This project got
later acquired, and the current owner is providing live patching as a
proprietary service, without any intentions to have their
implementation merged.
Then, due to rising user/customer demand, both Red Hat and SUSE
started working on their own implementation (not knowing about each
other), and announced first versions roughly at the same time [1] [2].
The principle difference between the two solutions is how they are
making sure that the patching is performed in a consistent way when it
comes to different execution threads with respect to the semantic
nature of the change that is being introduced.
In a nutshell, kPatch is issuing stop_machine(), then looking at
stacks of all existing processess, and if it decides that the system
is in a state that can be patched safely, it proceeds insterting code
redirection machinery to the patched functions.
On the other hand, kGraft provides a per-thread consistency during one
single pass of a process through the kernel and performs a lazy
contignuous migration of threads from "unpatched" universe to the
"patched" one at safe checkpoints.
If interested in a more detailed discussion about the consistency
models and its possible combinations, please see the thread that
evolved around [3].
It pretty quickly became obvious to the interested parties that it's
absolutely impractical in this case to have several isolated solutions
for one task to co-exist in the kernel. During a dedicated Live
Kernel Patching track at LPC in Dusseldorf, all the interested parties
sat together and came up with a joint aproach that would work for both
distro vendors. Steven Rostedt took notes [4] from this meeting.
And the foundation for that aproach is what's present in this pull
request.
It provides a basic infrastructure for function "live patching" (i.e.
code redirection), including API for kernel modules containing the
actual patches, and API/ABI for userspace to be able to operate on the
patches (look up what patches are applied, enable/disable them, etc).
It's relatively simple and minimalistic, as it's making use of
existing kernel infrastructure (namely ftrace) as much as possible.
It's also self-contained, in a sense that it doesn't hook itself in
any other kernel subsystem (it doesn't even touch any other code).
It's now implemented for x86 only as a reference architecture, but
support for powerpc, s390 and arm is already in the works (adding
arch-specific support basically boils down to teaching ftrace about
regs-saving).
Once this common infrastructure gets merged, both Red Hat and SUSE
have agreed to immediately start porting their current solutions on
top of this, abandoning their out-of-tree code. The plan basically is
that each patch will be marked by flag(s) that would indicate which
consistency model it is willing to use (again, the details have been
sketched out already in the thread at [3]).
Before this happens, the current codebase can be used to patch a large
group of secruity/stability problems the patches for which are not too
complex (in a sense that they don't introduce non-trivial change of
function's return value semantics, they don't change layout of data
structures, etc) -- this corresponds to LEAVE_FUNCTION &&
SWITCH_FUNCTION semantics described at [3].
This tree has been in linux-next since December.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/30/477
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/14/857
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/7/354
[4] http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_LivePatching.txt
[ The core code is introduced by the three commits authored by Seth
Jennings, which got a lot of changes incorporated during numerous
respins and reviews of the initial implementation. All the followup
commits have materialized only after public tree has been created,
so they were not folded into initial three commits so that the
public tree doesn't get rebased ]"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
livepatch: add missing newline to error message
livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
livepatch: fix uninitialized return value
livepatch: support for repatching a function
livepatch: enforce patch stacking semantics
livepatch: change ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING to HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING
livepatch: fix deferred module patching order
livepatch: handle ancient compilers with more grace
livepatch: kconfig: use bool instead of boolean
livepatch: samples: fix usage example comments
livepatch: MAINTAINERS: add git tree location
livepatch: use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY
livepatch: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86
livepatch: samples: add sample live patching module
livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching
livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH
