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It happens to work, but it's very very wrong, because our 'current'
macro is magic that is supposedly loading a stable value.
It just happens to be not quite stable enough and the compilers
re-load the value enough for this code to work. But it's wrong.
The whole
struct fpu *prev_fpu = &prev->fpu;
thing in __switch_to() is pretty ugly. There's no reason why we
should look at that 'prev_fpu' pointer there, or pass it down.
And it only generates worse code, in how it loads 'current' when
__switch_to() has the right task pointers.
The attached patch not only cleans this up, it actually
generates better code too:
(a) it removes one push/pop pair at entry/exit because there's one
less register used (no 'current')
(b) it removes that pointless load of 'current' because it just uses
the right argument:
- movq %gs:pcpu_hot(%rip), %r12
- testq $16384, (%r12)
+ testq $16384, (%rdi)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018184227.446318-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
The implementation of 'current' on x86 is very intentionally special: it
is a very common thing to look up, and it uses 'this_cpu_read_stable()'
to get the current thread pointer efficiently from per-cpu storage.
And the keyword in there is 'stable': the current thread pointer never
changes as far as a single thread is concerned. Even if when a thread
is preempted, or moved to another CPU, or even across an explicit call
'schedule()' that thread will still have the same value for 'current'.
It is, after all, the kernel base pointer to thread-local storage.
That's why it's stable to begin with, but it's also why it's important
enough that we have that special 'this_cpu_read_stable()' access for it.
So this is all done very intentionally to allow the compiler to treat
'current' as a value that never visibly changes, so that the compiler
can do CSE and combine multiple different 'current' accesses into one.
However, there is obviously one very special situation when the
currently running thread does actually change: inside the scheduler
itself.
So the scheduler code paths are special, and do not have a 'current'
thread at all. Instead there are _two_ threads: the previous and the
next thread - typically called 'prev' and 'next' (or prev_p/next_p)
internally.
So this is all actually quite straightforward and simple, and not all
that complicated.
Except for when you then have special code that is run in scheduler
context, that code then has to be aware that 'current' isn't really a
valid thing. Did you mean 'prev'? Did you mean 'next'?
In fact, even if then look at the code, and you use 'current' after the
new value has been assigned to the percpu variable, we have explicitly
told the compiler that 'current' is magical and always stable. So the
compiler is quite free to use an older (or newer) value of 'current',
and the actual assignment to the percpu storage is not relevant even if
it might look that way.
Which is exactly what happened in the resctl code, that blithely used
'current' in '__resctrl_sched_in()' when it really wanted the new
process state (as implied by the name: we're scheduling 'into' that new
resctl state). And clang would end up just using the old thread pointer
value at least in some configurations.
This could have happened with gcc too, and purely depends on random
compiler details. Clang just seems to have been more aggressive about
moving the read of the per-cpu current_task pointer around.
The fix is trivial: just make the resctl code adhere to the scheduler
rules of using the prev/next thread pointer explicitly, instead of using
'current' in a situation where it just wasn't valid.
That same code is then also used outside of the scheduler context (when
a thread resctl state is explicitly changed), and then we will just pass
in 'current' as that pointer, of course. There is no ambiguity in that
case.
The fix may be trivial, but noticing and figuring out what went wrong
was not. The credit for that goes to Stephane Eranian.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230303231133.1486085-1-eranian@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LFD.2.01.0908011214330.3304@localhost.localdomain/
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The layout of per-cpu variables is at the mercy of the compiler. This
can lead to random performance fluctuations from build to build.
Create a structure to hold some of the hottest per-cpu variables,
starting with current_task.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111145.179707194@infradead.org
Pull core x86 updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Remove all the code around GS switching on 32-bit now that it is not
needed anymore
- Other misc improvements
* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
bug: Use normal relative pointers in 'struct bug_entry'
x86/nmi: Make register_nmi_handler() more robust
x86/asm: Merge load_gs_index()
x86/32: Remove lazy GS macros
ELF: Remove elf_core_copy_kernel_regs()
x86/32: Simplify ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS
internal.h is a kitchen sink which needs to get out of the way to prepare
for the upcoming changes.
Move the context switch and exit to user inlines into a separate header,
which is all that code needs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211015011539.349132461@linutronix.de
show_trace_log_lvl() provides x86 platform-specific way to unwind
backtrace with a given log level. Unfortunately, registers dump(s) are
not printed with the same log level - instead, KERN_DEFAULT is always
used.
Arista's switches uses quite common setup with rsyslog, where only
urgent messages goes to console (console_log_level=KERN_ERR), everything
else goes into /var/log/ as the console baud-rate often is indecently
slow (9600 bps).
Backtrace dumps without registers printed have proven to be as useful as
morning standups. Furthermore, in order to introduce KERN_UNSUPPRESSED
(which I believe is still the most elegant way to fix raciness of sysrq[1])
the log level should be passed down the stack to register dumping
functions. Besides, there is a potential use-case for printing traces
with KERN_DEBUG level [2] (where registers dump shouldn't appear with
higher log level).
Add log_lvl parameter to __show_regs().
Keep the used log level intact to separate visible change.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20190724170249.9644-1-dima@arista.com/
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629144847.492794-3-dima@arista.com
force_iret() was originally intended to prevent the return to user mode with
the SYSRET or SYSEXIT instructions, in cases where the register state could
have been changed to be incompatible with those instructions. The entry code
has been significantly reworked since then, and register state is validated
before SYSRET or SYSEXIT are used. force_iret() no longer serves its original
purpose and can be eliminated.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219115812.102620-1-brgerst@gmail.com
The IOPL emulation via the I/O bitmap is sufficient. Remove the legacy
cruft dealing with the (e)flags based IOPL mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> (Paravirt and Xen parts)
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
While looking at the TSS io bitmap it turned out that any change in that
area would require identical changes to copy_thread_tls(). The 32 and 64
bit variants share sufficient code to consolidate them into a common
function to avoid duplication of upcoming modifications.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Currently pt_regs on x86_32 has an oddity in that kernel regs
(!user_mode(regs)) are short two entries (esp/ss). This means that any
code trying to use them (typically: regs->sp) needs to jump through
some unfortunate hoops.
Change the entry code to fix this up and create a full pt_regs frame.
This then simplifies various trampolines in ftrace and kprobes, the
stack unwinder, ptrace, kdump and kgdb.
Much thanks to Josh for help with the cleanups!
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 FPU state handling updates from Borislav Petkov:
"This contains work started by Rik van Riel and brought to fruition by
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior with the main goal to optimize when to load
FPU registers: only when returning to userspace and not on every
context switch (while the task remains in the kernel).
In addition, this optimization makes kernel_fpu_begin() cheaper by
requiring registers saving only on the first invocation and skipping
that in following ones.
What is more, this series cleans up and streamlines many aspects of
the already complex FPU code, hopefully making it more palatable for
future improvements and simplifications.
Finally, there's a __user annotations fix from Jann Horn"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
x86/fpu: Fault-in user stack if copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() fails
x86/pkeys: Add PKRU value to init_fpstate
x86/fpu: Restore regs in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() in order to use the fastpath
x86/fpu: Add a fastpath to copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
x86/fpu: Add a fastpath to __fpu__restore_sig()
x86/fpu: Defer FPU state load until return to userspace
x86/fpu: Merge the two code paths in __fpu__restore_sig()
x86/fpu: Restore from kernel memory on the 64-bit path too
x86/fpu: Inline copy_user_to_fpregs_zeroing()
x86/fpu: Update xstate's PKRU value on write_pkru()
x86/fpu: Prepare copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() for TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD
x86/fpu: Always store the registers in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
x86/entry: Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD
x86/fpu: Eager switch PKRU state
x86/pkeys: Don't check if PKRU is zero before writing it
x86/fpu: Only write PKRU if it is different from current
x86/pkeys: Provide *pkru() helpers
x86/fpu: Use a feature number instead of mask in two more helpers
x86/fpu: Make __raw_xsave_addr() use a feature number instead of mask
x86/fpu: Add an __fpregs_load_activate() internal helper
...
Defer loading of FPU state until return to userspace. This gives
the kernel the potential to skip loading FPU state for tasks that
stay in kernel mode, or for tasks that end up with repeated
invocations of kernel_fpu_begin() & kernel_fpu_end().
The fpregs_lock/unlock() section ensures that the registers remain
unchanged. Otherwise a context switch or a bottom half could save the
registers to its FPU context and the processor's FPU registers would
became random if modified at the same time.
KVM swaps the host/guest registers on entry/exit path. This flow has
been kept as is. First it ensures that the registers are loaded and then
saves the current (host) state before it loads the guest's registers. The
swap is done at the very end with disabled interrupts so it should not
change anymore before theg guest is entered. The read/save version seems
to be cheaper compared to memcpy() in a micro benchmark.
Each thread gets TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD set as part of fork() / fpu__copy().
For kernel threads, this flag gets never cleared which avoids saving /
restoring the FPU state for kernel threads and during in-kernel usage of
the FPU registers.
[
bp: Correct and update commit message and fix checkpatch warnings.
s/register/registers/ where it is used in plural.
minor comment corrections.
remove unused trace_x86_fpu_activate_state() TP.
]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>
Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403164156.19645-24-bigeasy@linutronix.de
The struct fpu.initialized member is always set to one for user tasks
and zero for kernel tasks. This avoids saving/restoring the FPU
registers for kernel threads.
The ->initialized = 0 case for user tasks has been removed in previous
changes, for instance, by doing an explicit unconditional init at fork()
time for FPU-less systems which was otherwise delayed until the emulated
opcode.
The context switch code (switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish())
can't unconditionally save/restore registers for kernel threads. Not
only would it slow down the switch but also load a zeroed xcomp_bv for
XSAVES.
For kernel_fpu_begin() (+end) the situation is similar: EFI with runtime
services uses this before alternatives_patched is true. Which means that
this function is used too early and it wasn't the case before.
For those two cases, use current->mm to distinguish between user and
kernel thread. For kernel_fpu_begin() skip save/restore of the FPU
registers.
During the context switch into a kernel thread don't do anything. There
is no reason to save the FPU state of a kernel thread.
The reordering in __switch_to() is important because the current()
pointer needs to be valid before switch_fpu_finish() is invoked so ->mm
is seen of the new task instead the old one.
N.B.: fpu__save() doesn't need to check ->mm because it is called by
user tasks only.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>
Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403164156.19645-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Effectively reverts commit:
2c7577a758 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")
Specifically because SMAP uses FLAGS.AC which invalidates the claim
that the kernel has clean flags.
In particular; while preemption from interrupt return is fine (the
IRET frame on the exception stack contains FLAGS) it breaks any code
that does synchonous scheduling, including preempt_enable().
This has become a significant issue ever since commit:
5b24a7a2aa ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")
provided for means of having 'normal' C code between STAC / CLAC,
exposing the FLAGS.AC state. So far this hasn't led to trouble,
however fix it before it comes apart.
Reported-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 5b24a7a2aa ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc preparatory changes for an upcoming FPU optimization that will
delay the loading of FPU registers to return-to-userspace"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()
x86/fpu: Update comment for __raw_xsave_addr()
x86/fpu: Add might_fault() to user_insn()
x86/pkeys: Make init_pkru_value static
x86/thread_info: Remove _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK
x86/process/32: Remove asm/math_emu.h include
x86/fpu: Use unsigned long long shift in xfeature_uncompacted_offset()
Pull x86 cache control updates from Borislav Petkov:
- The generalization of the RDT code to accommodate the addition of
AMD's very similar implementation of the cache monitoring feature.
This entails a subsystem move into a separate and generic
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ directory along with adding
vendor-specific initialization and feature detection helpers.
Ontop of that is the unification of user-visible strings, both in the
resctrl filesystem error handling and Kconfig.
Provided by Babu Moger and Sherry Hurwitz.
- Code simplifications and error handling improvements by Reinette
Chatre.
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Fix rdt_find_domain() return value and checks
x86/resctrl: Remove unnecessary check for cbm_validate()
x86/resctrl: Use rdt_last_cmd_puts() where possible
MAINTAINERS: Update resctrl filename patterns
Documentation: Rename and update intel_rdt_ui.txt to resctrl_ui.txt
x86/resctrl: Introduce AMD QOS feature
x86/resctrl: Fixup the user-visible strings
x86/resctrl: Add AMD's X86_FEATURE_MBA to the scattered CPUID features
x86/resctrl: Rename the config option INTEL_RDT to RESCTRL
x86/resctrl: Add vendor check for the MBA software controller
x86/resctrl: Bring cbm_validate() into the resource structure
x86/resctrl: Initialize the vendor-specific resource functions
x86/resctrl: Move all the macros to resctrl/internal.h
x86/resctrl: Re-arrange the RDT init code
x86/resctrl: Rename the RDT functions and definitions
x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to a separate directory
Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
Monitoring (CQM) facility.
The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
horrible.
After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.
As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
management facility with a consistent user interface"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
...
We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/task.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 cache allocation interface from Thomas Gleixner:
"This provides support for Intel's Cache Allocation Technology, a cache
partitioning mechanism.
The interface is odd, but the hardware interface of that CAT stuff is
odd as well.
We tried hard to come up with an abstraction, but that only allows
rather simple partitioning, but no way of sharing and dealing with the
per package nature of this mechanism.
In the end we decided to expose the allocation bitmaps directly so all
combinations of the hardware can be utilized.
There are two ways of associating a cache partition:
- Task
A task can be added to a resource group. It uses the cache
partition associated to the group.
- CPU
All tasks which are not member of a resource group use the group to
which the CPU they are running on is associated with.
That allows for simple CPU based partitioning schemes.
The main expected user sare:
- Virtualization so a VM can only trash only the associated part of
the cash w/o disturbing others
- Real-Time systems to seperate RT and general workloads.
- Latency sensitive enterprise workloads
- In theory this also can be used to protect against cache side
channel attacks"
[ Intel RDT is "Resource Director Technology". The interface really is
rather odd and very specific, which delayed this pull request while I
was thinking about it. The pull request itself came in early during
the merge window, I just delayed it until things had calmed down and I
had more time.
But people tell me they'll use this, and the good news is that it is
_so_ specific that it's rather independent of anything else, and no
user is going to depend on the interface since it's pretty rare. So if
push comes to shove, we can just remove the interface and nothing will
break ]
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Implement show_options() for resctrlfs
x86/intel_rdt: Call intel_rdt_sched_in() with preemption disabled
x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount
x86/intel_rdt: Fix setting of closid when adding CPUs to a group
x86/intel_rdt: Update percpu closid immeditately on CPUs affected by changee
x86/intel_rdt: Reset per cpu closids on unmount
x86/intel_rdt: Select KERNFS when enabling INTEL_RDT_A
x86/intel_rdt: Prevent deadlock against hotplug lock
x86/intel_rdt: Protect info directory from removal
x86/intel_rdt: Add info files to Documentation
x86/intel_rdt: Export the minimum number of set mask bits in sysfs
x86/intel_rdt: Propagate error in rdt_mount() properly
x86/intel_rdt: Add a missing #include
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for Intel RDT resource allocation
x86/intel_rdt: Add scheduler hook
x86/intel_rdt: Add schemata file
x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files
x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus file
x86/intel_rdt: Add mkdir to resctrl file system
x86/intel_rdt: Add "info" files to resctrl file system
...
Pull x86 idle updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There were two bigger changes in this development cycle:
- remove idle notifiers:
32 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 803 deletions(-)
These notifiers were of questionable value and the main usecase,
the i7300 driver, was essentially unmaintained and can be removed,
plus modern power management concepts don't need the callback - so
use this golden opportunity and get rid of this opaque and fragile
callback from a latency sensitive code path.
(Len Brown, Thomas Gleixner)
- improve the AMD Erratum 400 workaround that used high overhead MSR
polling in the idle loop (Borisla Petkov, Thomas Gleixner)"
* 'x86-idle-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Remove empty idle.h header
x86/amd: Simplify AMD E400 aware idle routine
x86/amd: Check for the C1E bug post ACPI subsystem init
x86/bugs: Separate AMD E400 erratum and C1E bug
x86/cpufeature: Provide helper to set bugs bits
x86/idle: Remove enter_idle(), exit_idle()
x86: Remove x86_test_and_clear_bit_percpu()
x86/idle: Remove is_idle flag
x86/idle: Remove idle_notifier
i7300_idle: Remove this driver
Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- do a large round of simplifications after all CPUs do 'eager' FPU
context switching in v4.9: remove CR0 twiddling, remove leftover
eager/lazy bts, etc (Andy Lutomirski)
- more FPU code simplifications: remove struct fpu::counter, clarify
nomenclature, remove unnecessary arguments/functions and better
structure the code (Rik van Riel)"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu: Remove clts()
x86/fpu: Remove stts()
x86/fpu: Handle #NM without FPU emulation as an error
x86/fpu, lguest: Remove CR0.TS support
x86/fpu, kvm: Remove host CR0.TS manipulation
x86/fpu: Remove irq_ts_save() and irq_ts_restore()
x86/fpu: Stop saving and restoring CR0.TS in fpu__init_check_bugs()
x86/fpu: Get rid of two redundant clts() calls
x86/fpu: Finish excising 'eagerfpu'
x86/fpu: Split old_fpu & new_fpu handling into separate functions
x86/fpu: Remove 'cpu' argument from __cpu_invalidate_fpregs_state()
x86/fpu: Split old & new FPU code paths
x86/fpu: Remove __fpregs_(de)activate()
x86/fpu: Rename lazy restore functions to "register state valid"
x86/fpu, kvm: Remove KVM vcpu->fpu_counter
x86/fpu: Remove struct fpu::counter
x86/fpu: Remove use_eager_fpu()
x86/fpu: Remove the XFEATURE_MASK_EAGER/LAZY distinction
x86/fpu: Hard-disable lazy FPU mode
x86/crypto, x86/fpu: Remove X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU #ifdef from the crc32c code
